"Where are you taking me?" Sam asked as the two men continued to drag her alongside Nick as he walked.
Nick smirked down at her. "Your little friends should be here soon. You've been unconscious for a few days, so they've been quite busy in your absence."
Sam swallowed thickly. Days? She'd been unconscious for days? She tried to wrap her mind around it as they walked around a corner, towards a large empty space in the castle that looked like it had been a courtyard years ago. In the distance, towards the entrance to the castle, she could see some of Nick's men standing, guarding. The two men at her sides halted her, and held her up. They stood directly in the middle of the courtyard and Sam looked around curiously. Men stood around the entrance, guns at the ready as the gates began to open.
As the gates opened, she could see a group of men walking in slowly, and as she could make out their forms more, she realized that it was the guys. She instinctively took a step forward towards them, but Nick grabbed a hold of the cuffs behind her back, and held her back. She looked up and met Eduardo's eyes as he stepped further into the castle. He too took a step forward but Nathan grabbed his shoulder and shook his head gently at him.
Nick stepped forward, dragging Sam with him. "It's about time you lot showed up."
"Sam, are you alright?" Eduardo called out, ignoring Nick. Sam smiled weakly and nodded.
Nick rolled his eyes. "You have our Captain?"
Eduardo nodded solemnly, stepping to the side to reveal Daniel, walking behind him. Daniel looked much older than he had the last time Sam had seen him. He was much skinnier, and his face was now rough with a beard, but he stepped forward confidently. Nick smiled as Daniel made his way towards him, walking cockily as he shoved through the pirates.
"It's been a long time Captain." Nick said as Daniel came and stood in front of him and Sam.
Daniel smiled. "It certainly has my friend." Daniel extended his hand, and Nick clasped it firmly with his free hand, shaking it warmly.
Daniel looked over at Sam and smirked eerily at her. "Well, well. What do we have here? It's been a while Sam."
"Not long enough." Sam spat out.
Daniel lifted her chin up to look at him. "How's parenthood treating you, hm?"
Sam felt the color drain from her face. "H-How did you know about that?"
"You think I didn't hear about things while in prison? Please. I know all about your daughter. What is her name again? Oh well."
Sam struggled against Nick's grasp. "Don't you dare touch my daughter you hear me?"
Nick cleared his throat. "Well I'll give this woman here some credit, the boys weren't able to find her daughter when we went to search for her. They settled for her when they couldn't find the kid."
Daniel sighed. "Well, it's such a shame she'll end up an orphan by the end of today."
"Alright you have your Captain," Eduardo called out, not hearing the exchange between the three, "now send Sam over."
Daniel turned around and smiled. "Nah. Think I'll keep her around. Motherhood seems to have suited her figure."
Daniel waved his hand and the men hiding around the castle ran forward and surrounded the group. Eduardo folded his arms across his chest and smirked up at Daniel, as the men surrounded them. Seeing his expression, Daniel took a step towards the group.
"What the hell are you smiling about?" He demanded.
"I just feel bad for you. Thinking ya won so easily."
Daniel took another step forward. "What the hell do you mean? I have won."
Eduardo sighed and shrugged. He looked over at Sam and smirked at her, winking. Sam raised an eyebrow to him. What was he up to?
"So you think."Nathan piped in.
"Now!" Eduardo screamed, and the group quickly ducked.
Everything after that seemed to go by in slow motion. As the group ducked down, they threw themselves into the men surrounding them, tackling them to the ground. Fighting broke out amongst the group as men began appearing from outside the gates. But they didn't appear to be with Nick and Daniel, but with the Sirius. Gun shots echoed all around as Sam could see men appearing from the top of the castle, shooting down at Daniel and Nick's men. Sam looked up at the men, and saw that they were wearing naval uniforms. The navy?! They'd brought the navy with them?!
Nick and Daniel appeared to be stunned by the sudden onslaught. Their men appeared to be as equally unprepared for the attack, as the navy and the Sirius pirates quickly started defeating each person and began arresting people. Daniel looked at Nick and shrugged, then turned on his heel and quickly ran off to escape the navy, abandoning his friend who had worked so hard to break him out of prison. Nick called after his friend, who ignored him as he tried to escape with his own life, leaving Nick behind with Sam.
Eduardo fought off men as he made his way towards Sam, who was still in Nick's grasp. Nick pulled his pistol from its holster and aimed it at Eduardo, as he came charging towards them. With her arms still behind her, Sam quickly tackled him around the middle as he went to pull the trigger, knocking him to the ground. The bullet went whizzing off over Eduardo's shoulder as Nick's pistol went flying from his hand. The two crashed to the ground, Eduardo continuing to make his way towards them as Nick quickly recovered. Sam scrambled to get up quickly and escape, but Nick grabbed the cuffs locking her arms behind her back, and yanked back, pulling her back to the ground with him.
"You all planned this, didn't you!? You ruined everything!" He bellowed as Sam kicked out at him, trying to get him to release her. He managed to catch hold of her leg as she swung out at him, and grabbed it tightly. Lifting her leg up, he threw her into one of the walls. Crying out, her body slammed into the hard stone wall and slid down to the ground below. She struggled to stand back as he made his way towards her. He went to grab her, but was stopped when Eduardo ran forward and tackled him from the side.
Sam winced in pain as she went to get up, watching the two men struggle with one another. Eduardo quickly got the upper hand of the fight, and pinned Nick effectively to the ground. Eduardo then began pummeling Nick's face with his fists. She watched in awe for several moments as Eduardo unleashed his fury onto Nick, showing no mercy as he landed punch after punch into his body.
"You son of a bitch! Don't you ever touch my wife again!" She heard Eduardo shout at Nick as he continued to beat him senseless.
Navy soldiers came running in through the gates, surrounding the other men. It had all happened so fast that Sam reeled as she managed to sit up. Thomas and Russell ran over to help Sam up as some of the navy men ran over to assist Eduardo with Nick. It took several of them to pull Eduardo off of Nick, but they finally managed to separate the two.
"Eduardo…" Sam said quietly, Thomas trying to figure out how to release her wrists from the cuffs. She rubbed her wrists when they were finally released, and Eduardo took two long strides over to her, and gathered her in his arms. He trembled as he held her in his arms, and she clutched his jacket in her hands.
"Lily? Is she alright?" She asked quietly.
Eduardo nodded. "She's alright. She's with Leonardo."
"Thank god…" She whispered.
Eduardo stroked her hair gently. "Her mother hid her very well. It took us a while to find her ourselves."
Sam smiled against Eduardo's shoulder. "I'm so glad you both are alright."
Eduardo tilted her head up and kissed her fiercely for a moment. "God Sam I was so damned scared."
"You? Scared?"
"Yes even I can get scared idiot. We were out fighting on the beach. We had no idea that anyone had managed to sneak past us. Then we heard gun shots coming from the base, and we tried to make it back, but they blocked us. By the time we did get back, and we couldn't find you or Lily…" His voice trailed as he squeezed her to his chest.
"Eduardo…"
"I called for you and Lily, and I heard Lily's voice. We managed to pull her out of the closet, and she told me that the two of you were playing hide and seek?"
Sam laughed despite herself. "She loves playing hide and seek. I thought if I made it into a game, she wouldn't be quite as scared."
Eduardo chuckled. "It worked. She got mad at me when I pulled her out. She said that the two of you were playing and I was ruining it."
Sam smiled. "Sounds like Lily."
"I don't know how long she'd been in there when we finally did find her. But then we couldn't find you, but they'd left a note for us, saying that they had you and I swear to you that my heart damned near stopped beating."
"I'm here now." She said calmly, holding her husband.
Leonardo stepped forward through the crowd of navy officers towards Sam and Eduardo. Sam could see Lily as she came from behind him, and seeing her mother, she went running towards her Sam. Sam released Eduardo and scooped her daughter up into her arms, planting kisses all over her face.
"Oh Lily honey! I'm so glad you're alright!"
Lily hugged her arms around Sam's neck. "I missed you mommy!"
"I missed you too baby!" Sam whispered as Eduardo hugged the two of them to him, kissing Lily's head.
Leonardo smiled at them. "Well, everything's in order now, and we now have Nick and Daniel thanks to you. We are once again in debt to you Sirius pirates." He nodded his head politely at them, and then turned around to deal with all of the prisoners being led out of the castle.
Eduardo leaned forward and pressed his forehead to Sam's. "It's finally all over with now."
"Finally." She repeated, kissing her husband happily.