A/N: I am SO sorry for the delay! I blame it on school... And then I'd like to say 'Happy Birthday' to Rosie's sister. Well, I don't know how it happened but somehow I always manage to post on my readers' birthday. I hope you'll enjoy this chapter!

A Spanish Lullaby

Pirates of the Caribbean

Chapter X – A memory of you

Highly up in the air hung Elise upside-down with her ankle tightly in Joe's firm hold. She struggled by twisting and trying to kick herself out of the grip but he held her too far away from his own body. What firstly caught the crew's attention was her infernal girl screams.

Only Angelica wasn't aback taken.

Like a ragdoll, Elise dangled over the sea water dangerously as Joe awaited a response from the captain, who still was speechless.

Firstly when Jack realized what was going on with his widened eyes that looked as if they were about to pop, he moved an accusing frown and turned to Angelica, the guilty one. "What is that?" he inquired and pointed towards Elise as if she was an object.

Not really perceiving what Jack's voice had required, her eyes darkened madly much.

"Let her go!" she demanded with fury echoing between her gritted teeth, pronouncing every single word each very clearly to not get misunderstood. A red fire of rage only a mother would have, burned in her eyes as they stared really dangerously at the guard.

Of all sudden scared of the angered woman, every pirate man stepped back from the drama. They didn't know what was going on, but they did know well enough that woman plus child wasn't anything to come inbetween. That was beyond dangerous territory.

Jack though had no other choice but to join the event. He waved briefly with his hand as if it was nothing in a gesture that told Joe to let go of the lass. He jumped down to the deck and dropped the girl as if he didn't know how to treat a tiny human being. Angelica's breath hitched of the motion and caused her to immediately hurry over to Elise that surprisingly didn't weep. She scooped her up in her arms while comforting the lass which shook of fear, by speaking in a low voice in Spanish.

"Voy a estar aquí, para siempre y por la eternidad."

Jack raised his eyebrows. Well, he had the Pearl and he had planned on celebrating. He spun around to face the nosey crew. "To positions mates! We have a feast this night!"

With that they all hurried to their posts to fix everything that was needed to the celebration. Seeing that, made Jack content. He turned back around to Angelica, ready to fix the current problem. The crew didn't need to witness that conversation.

"I knew ye had a child aboard," he approached her.

She looked up but didn't surprisingly give him a death glare. "This is Elise."

Jack's eyes narrowed. They darted several times between Elise, the blonde haired lass in Angelica's embrace, and then his hazel eyes turned back to Angelica. "What be this?" he demanded upset. He did not precisely want a child aboard – and a woman to top it.

Angelica opened her mouth to answer whilst her hand caressed Elise's head to comfort her. Then her lips turned to a line when she found no response.

"Angelica?" Jack raised his tone a note. "What is this supposed to mean?" he inquired and pointed again at Elise that shyly turned her head to look away over Angelica's shoulder instead. "Where did she come from?" Then his voice pitched a bit. "She be yours?"

The last question caused Angelica to meet Jack's gaze. "No! But... I take care of her."

Jack rounded her and examined the sight. "You take care of her?"

"Mhm."

He stopped somewhere behind her and tilted his head to the side when he and Elise stared at each other. He, glaring at her as if it was a challenge and Elise at him with fear.

"Where did the lass come from? You abducted her?"

Angelica whirled around with he girl in her arms. "No! She lived at the orphanage your crew burned down at that island."

"Blame it on me crew- Wait!" he had begun wandering when he stopped both midsentence and froze at the place he stood at. He turned back around with a forefinger pointing in the air. "How'd ye know we burned down an orphanage among all other houses?"

Angelica swallowed, knowing she had revealed the truth. That wasn't so smart since Jack clearly already was in a very bad mood. She ignored answering him by changing her gaze to Elise. She stroked her hair carefully in the same soothing way even though Elise had calmed down.

"Angelica," still she ignored him. "Angelica!" once again his calmed voice spoke louder. "You. Me. In there," he pointed at his cabin door.

He marched directly to his cabin with Angelica hot on his heels. Carefully, she had put Elise aside and told her that she'd be right back.

Jack awaited her to enter the cabin and then he closed it behind her.

"That El will walk the plank or swim into land accompanied by you. Either way don't matter."

"You can't possibly be serious?" she half burst out. "You'd never do that to a poor girl Jack. I know you."

Jack frowned as he knew she was right. True. He'd never let that girl walk the plank but he also knew that Angelica would never take that risk and therefore swim into the nearest island with her. That way, he'd get rid of both women and begin to impress his crew once more. Old Jack needed to get back. Keeping two woman aboard, including one of them in child shape, didn't exactly gain him a better reputation as an infamous pirate captain.

"I will not keep a child aboard."

Desperate to find a suggestion, Angelica eventually did. "Then let us have Scissor. We'd sail all by ourselves to Nassau," she proposed and Jack did a somewhat look that revealed he partly liked that idea. "And you'll never ever see me again," she then added in the same cheerful tone, not really noticing that Jack's expression fell.

"It sounds reasonable, does it not?" she went on before he had interfered. "You have the Pearl-."

"And what, sweetness, makes you think I'd give up a ship?" he cut her off demandingly.

Angelica sighed and folded her arms. When would he stop nicknaming her? Well, sure she knew the answer too – probably never.

Suddenly suspicious, Jack's eyes narrowed. "And what be this certain important sailing to Nassau. Everybody fears that place. Especially women like you."

Oh, no. Dangerous territory. The last thing she wanted was for Jack to find out about her commission and crash it. She needed to do this, for her and for… well – a person that was taken away from her.

Deciding to change tactics she scanned the room before locating the bed behind her. Alright, time to put on her charming ways. And after noticing in what condition Jack had been in lately, surely it would not be hard getting her way soon enough.

A smirk appeared on her face while her fingers slipped to the knot that tightened the dress over her chest. She loosened it and backed slowly towards the bed where she sat down carefully and then leaned backwards, eyes never tearing from Jack's gaze which they held. He smirked as well, first confused but then when he noticed the opportunity, he grinned wryly.

After examining her recumbent position, he approached the bed from her side and placed himself on the floor right in front of her, her legs dangling over the edge of the bed.

"So what I had in mind," she began in a clear sensual voice and started caressing his leg with her boot. Stroking it up and down the side of his calves as her eyes looked playfully up towards him. "That the sooner I get there with Elise, the sooner perhaps… we can meet again," she said innocently.

If Jack was in heaven. Hence he was! Finally! But still he quite disbelieved what was happening. Did she really say what he thought she did? Or did he simply just analyse her words wrongly again.

But then of all sudden, she sat up and whispered. "For old times sake."

What was the woman trying to do? Push him over the edge? He had already been dealing on that spot ever since she accompanied him, if not even before – and now this. Plain torture!

His voice was hoarse as he managed to get out a word. "Yes?"

"Yes," Angelica repeated in the same seductive way she had used on him so many times before. Carried away in the moment as he was, Jack approached the bed even more and eventually put his hands on each side of her which slowly caused her to lie back down on the broad mattress with that playful smirk. With him slowly and carefully, yet eagerly hovering over her. She had him. Whatever she suggested now would he let her have just like that. Including the Scissor.

Gibbs stood outside on the Pearl's deck, commanding the lost crewmembers once in a while when they seemed to have forgotten their task or finishing it. Every now and then, the first mate would also throw a glance at the little lass sitting on the railing. Her eyes had observed the action on deck for quite some while. He couldn't help but wonder who she was. Surely, she was at least not Jack's daughter. Well, in that case Angelica couldn't possibly at least be that lass's mother.

After clapping a mate on his back, Gibbs crossed the ship to the port side. Immediately, the girl watched him with fear. She began twisting and turning in attempts of hiding behind the ropes from Gibbs.

"Oi," Gibbs greeted her.

Shyly, she got back to her previous position.

"I'm Joshamee Gibbs. And you be?"

Elise looked at him under her long lashes. "Elise," she said quietly.

"Elise?" Gibbs repeated and tried to act as friendly as he could. He knew those minimized people always screamed and began crying hysterically by every single tiny mistake. And to tell the truth, Gibbs had no desire of bringing that rage out of Angelica. For heaven's sake – that side of hers had practically scared the all of them aboard.

The girl nodded. "Elise Bonny."

Gibbs frowned by that. "Bonny ye say. Bonny...," he mumbled musingly as if he tasted the word. "Seems familiar."

"Look! A boy!" she of all sudden shouted and pointed at the other side of the ship where a lad in the teenage years climbed over the railing.

Immediately Gibbs spun around to witness the boy roll exhausted over the railing and fall down to the floor. He hurried over to the young man which was soon surrounded by a handful of crewmen.

Joe penetrated the crowd of people that encircled the lad on the wooden floor. His firm arm gripped the boy's shirt and lifted him up in the air so his feet dangled over the floor.

"Who be you?" he barked into the boy's face that in an instant turned his head away.

Gibbs pushed two men aside and walked between them towards Joe. "Mr Joe! Let the poor lad down."

Joe with the clenched jaw, glanced at Gibbs for confirmation before he opened his hold to let the boy drop to his feet.

"Who are you?" Gibbs inquired.

The boy looked up. "John Lu."

"John Lu?" Gibbs repeated disbelievingly.

"Aye, captain."

Gibbs chuckled. "I be no captain. Sparrow is at his quarters."

"Sparrow?" John had snapped the name. It was very familiar for him.

"Aye. And where did ye come from?"

"Another boat. But I escaped."

Gibbs raised his eyebrows. "Escaped?" he asked. "Why?"

"Maniac for a captain."

Gibbs considered the thought and finally nodded. That was a good reason.

John cleared his throat though. "I wish to exchange a few words with Captain Sparrow."

Shaking his head in disapproval, Joe clenched John's shirt once more and pulled slightly in it to let everybody feel the power he had. "And what be the purpose of that, tell me?"

John gave Joe a weird look, although not disrespectfully. He felt more than any other among the pirates that Joe was for sure very well built with fists anyone would love to avoid.

"Do I need a reasonable explanation? Anyone has the right to speak with the captain," John responded.

Gibbs rolled his eyes. Well, what harm could that little boy do? So right away, he directed his steps towards Jack's cabin door which he opened without knocking. Not expected at all, he found Jack enchanted by Angelica, leaning over her and on his way to kiss her. Of course she wore the smug smirk he had seen so many times before on the Pearl – in the very same cabin, when he had walked in on them. Gibbs himself seemed to know Angelica better than Jack did, or perhaps it was because Gibbs didn't get carried away when she acted. Always when she longed for something and Jack wouldn't let her have her way, she'd tease Jack sensually and within minutes she had what she had wanted from the beginning. Leaving a gullible Jack behind. Gibbs had seen it happen too many times already – and he was the one to pay for it. Always the one to blame for for letting it happen.

"Jack!" he barked and placed himself in the doorway, gaining Jack and Angelica's attention. Obviously very irritated, Jack straightened and glared angrily at Gibbs.

"WHAT?"

"A lad outside named John Poo-,"

"LU!" John called out in correction from behind.

Gibbs glanced over his shoulder and rolled his eyes. "Fair well. A young Mr Lu wishes to speak to you."

Frustrated and ill-tempered, Jack stomped past Gibbs on his way out on deck. He found John Lu's eyes widening slightly when they met Jack's. He was apparently a bit scared of the angered captain.

"Rowdy bloody numskull of a rascal! What'd ye want?" he practically shouted at John.

John straightened his back and looked confidently at Jack. "I'd like to be recruited. I am an excellent pirate."

Jack mimicked him in a mannered voice. "I am an excellent pirate. Ye can't even speak properly lad."

"Well! I-."

"Jack, Jack," Angelica had gotten out of the cabin as well, a bit upset she hadn't had time to continue the chat with Jack about keeping Elise aboard until they reached Nassau and perhaps gaining the Scissor. But after all, maybe it was destiny that young boy had interrupted them. Now Jack would for sure deal with bigger problems than letting Elise stay. A child versus another one that prevented Jack. Let's just say that the child would win easily.

Jack turned to Angelica, letting her go on. Firstly her darted for a brief moment to John, before they switched back to Sparrow.

"Let me sail by myself on the Scissor with Elise."

Jack scoffed. "No."

"But we can bring that annoying boy with us," she burst out and held her arm out in the direction of John. "I need someone for help."

Jack's eyes followed hers as he examined John with squinted eyes. That would truly be a relief if he disappeared, but by walking the plank or disappearing with Angelica – he wouldn't care which way. Although…

As on cue, he was met by Angelica's close presence. Her fingers played with his shirt whilst she looked intently up into his eyes. "So I can return sooner," she said seductively and Jack responded right away. Not quite in words, but by getting enchanted all over again with her charms.

Gibbs sighed and smacked his palm into his face. Would Jack ever learn?

"Aye. So ye can return in the near future, eh?"

Angelica nodded. "Mhm," she instantly took a step back and headed towards Elise that still sat on the railing. Jack snapped back from the trance and looked at Gibbs that shook his head, still in denial his own captain actually in fact had given away a whole well built ship to a woman. Just like that.

"You," the Latina demanded John that followed her moves with his gaze. "Follow me," she picked up Elise and spun around on the railing with the child in her arms.

John had shrugged and joined her over to the Scissor. "Where are you heading?" he questioned Angelica.

"Nassau. And you'll work for me."

Liking the idea, John grinned wryly. "Ay, ay, captain."

Angelica put Elise down on Scissor's deck, urging her to go to their quarters. She also directed John to what his tasks were, obviously under command of her. Then eventually, she whirled to look over to the Pearl where Jack stood. He approached the railing that was right next to hers.

"When will ye be back?" he asked, hiding his excitement for her arrival.

She covered up the sad smile that wanted to appear and instead formed her lips to a glorious, warm one. "Oh, I will die along the way but accomplish what I came back for."

Jack's grin twitched. That woman was so full of it. "Aye, and then I'll find you on deck begging for this," he gestured to himself. "The tremendous and fearless captain of all time."

The smirk remained on Angelica's face as Jack said his goodbye and turned around to rule the helm of the Black Pearl. Only Gibbs had raised his eyebrows and watched Angelica head towards her own helm. Something was wrong with the line she had spoken. He looked to Jack wonderingly as if he would have an explanation.

"Did ye not hear what she said?" he inquired, disbelieving his captain would let that happen.

"No need to worry Gibbs. She's only slightly deceivable."

Gibbs still eyed the Scissor set sail. Then he noticed that his captain had almost made it up the stair to the helm. "But Jack!" he called out and pursued him. "Something's fishy here."

Jack stopped tracks so fast Gibbs bumped into him after he had turned around.

"Isn't that how she works? Telling true lies?"

Jack shook his head amused. "Gibbs. That be the case – there'd also be a chest that can rule the wind and tides, including…," Jack sentence died as he saw Angelica's protective hand rest on the shoulder of Elise and the pictures of the native child back on that island during the celebration popped up in his mind. For a brief moment, he got an insane thought and narrowed his eyes thoughtfully. Soon enough though, he regained sane and shook the idea out of his head. Perhaps he was going mad. There was no mini-sized Jack walking around, was it?

"She'll be fine Gibbs. And soon back here to annoy you before you even know it," he declared cheerfully.

Little did he know that she truly did lie by telling the truth.

A/N: Any opinion? :) I know I maybe give you some questions in this story, but it's supposed to be that way unless you've read between the lines and discovered what Angelica is about to do and the reason why... :/ But hey - otherwise we'll have to read on and find out! ;)