Sorry for that suckalicious chapter! LOL! I had to end it fast because I was leaving, and that so wasn't where I wanted to end it! Here's the next update! Hope it will be better! Expect an update for Distressin' Damsel this weekend! Aren't you excited?
This is another flashback. I know, I know. I do a lot of them.
I was thinking of doing a complete prequel after I'm finished with this story,
since Will/Lila/Jack have a lot of history together in the past.
I'm not sure yet though.
Flashback time!

Love you, darlings.
-Captain Autumn

-November 2, 1724-
-London, England-

He wasn't dead...he wasn't dead! He hadn't died in the war. He wasn't dead...

That's what Lila kept saying to herself as she paced back and forth on the dock. She pulled her coat tighter around her as snow began to fall softly. She looked out a minute later at the snowy horizon to see a ship sailing towards them. She squinted, but then she sighed out of when she saw those familiar black sails sailing to her. It seemed like it took years for the ship to finally reach the dock. When it did, he smiled as he took a rope and jumped down to the dock.

She felt a tear, cold down her cheeks since it was freezing, fall from her eyes as he stood in front of her. He smiled, as he pulled his own coat closer together, and said, "You don't know how happy I am to see you-" He never finished, because at that moment, Lila ran up to him and hugged him tightly as she cried. Jack smiled as he wrapped his arms around her and kissed the top of the head. Since their 'courting' the summer before, you would have thought that things would have been awkward, but they weren't. The two of them would always be close.

"Jack, they were saying that you were killed in the maelstrom-" Lila said, pulling back to look at him as tears rolled down her pretty face. He smiled down at her, as he took a thumb and wiped a few away as he said, "No. I'm alive and kickin', darlin'. Quite immortal, actually." Lila made a face, so Jack said with a smirk, "Fountain of Youth does wonders, doesn't it? Sent Barbossa on a wild goose chase, so I could take the Pearl and the Fountain...think he would have learned by now..." Jack paused for a thoughtful second, before saying, "Well, let's not wallow in Hector's stupidity-" He wrapped an arm around her shoulders as they walked down the icy docks.

"I don't know if you heard or not-" Jack started as they stopped in front of her mother's mansion that she had left to Lila. "-Davy...died." Lila stopped in her tracks, and whirled around to look at him. Jack was trying to find the words to speak, but not wanting to lie to her, he said, "I hate to be the one to tell you this, love, but I...did it-"

"You what?" Lila asked, pulling back to stare at him in disbelief. When he tried to reach out to her, she shook her head and pulled out of his reach. "Love, I had to-"

"-you didn't have to-"

"He killed Will." Jack said quickly, before Lila had a chance to speak. Lila's features softened. She never knew that Jack knew about Will. She certainly knew that Jack knew Will, but not that Jack knew about Will and herself. He knew that they grew up together...but judging from the way that Jack had just said that, she knew that Jack knew a lot more about the 'growing up' part.

"Will's dead?" Lila asked, feeling like she was about to collapse. Jack, instantly realizing what he had said, shook his head and said, "No, no. Darlin', I'm sorry. Bad choice of words..." Jack rolled his chocolate eyes, but softened his features as he walked over to Lila and put a hand on her back for support. She didn't push him away this time. "I had to kill him, because Davy stabbed Will. I led Will's hand to the heart and stabbed it for him-"

"Jack." Lila said, with a faint smile. Jack smiled back down at her, and said, "Darlin', I'm not as heartless as everyone makes dear ol' Jackie out to be, now am I?" He saw Lila's expression, and knew what she was wanting to ask. "He's married."

"To?"

"Elizabeth." Lila closed her eyes, wondering how Elizabeth could possibly live with herself. Lila knew it was coming, but Elizabeth had been like her sister...she knew that Lila was in love with Will. But that's why she left so that Will and Elizabeth could be together. She had done the right thing, but that didn't make it any easier. And then, for the third time, she started crying again.

"I thought that would happen." Jack said, really to himself more than Lila as he pulled her into his arms again. Jack rubbed her back, soothingly, as he began silently blowing snow flakes out of her curls. He sighed again as he said, "Let's go in 'fore we freeze, love." She nodded, still crying, but followed Jack in anyway.

"Lila-" Jack whispered to her that night, "-I didn't mean to upset you about Will. I just-"

"No, no, Jack." Lila said, bringing her eyes away from the fireplace to look up at Jack. He smiled slightly as he came to sit beside her. He allowed her to lean up against him when she did that. They were silent for a minute, before Lila said, "I thought you and Elizabeth-"

"No." Jack said, cutting her off. "No. We weren't anythin'. Never meant to be anythin'. It was good to stay like that." She could here the hurt in his voice as he said that. He was playing with one of her curls as she asked, "It was because of Will, wasn't it?" Jack didn't say anything, only sighed as she said with a smile, "You're not as heartless as everyone makes you out to be, Jackie."

"Alright, so the eunuch grew on me-" He smiled when he saw the look on Lila's face, and said, "Sorry."

"You weren't." Lila said to him with a smile before he said, "You look so much like your mother." She smiled as she rested her head against Jack again. And for once in a long time, she felt safe again...

But she would always feel safe in Jack's arms...

-Present Day-
-Somewhere Between Spain and Ship Wreck Cove-

"I will never feel safe with you ever again!" Lila panted as she looked angrily over at Jack. The tree of them made their way into a deserted inn. Will pushed a desk up against the door as Lila said in a perfect imitation of Jack, even getting his stagger down, "Oh, darlin'. These nasty little buggers are just like Cuttlefish-" Will started laughing as he looked over and saw the look on Jack's face.

Jack wrinkled his nose as he hopped up and sat on the front desk and said, "I never said that." Lila watched him in a mixture of amusement and anger as he twirled a feathered pen around in the air, but immediatley dropping it when he saw a rather large spider on it. He squished it as Lila screamed, "That's not the bloody point, Jack! The point is-"

"You don't have a point." Jack said, smirking as Will came to lean against the desk he was sitting on. "You don't have a-"

"Oh, heavens. Shoot me now." Lila said, dramatically as she collapsed on to a chair. Not seeing, or simply not caring about the enormous cloud of dust that came out of it when she did that. Will made a face when she said 'shoot me' and Jack bounced off of the desk and began closing the curtains on the windows. "I can't deal being locked up in a room with you-" Lila said, leaning up on her elbows.

"Well, darling. Until they leave, I think we're stuck in here." Lila looked up at Will and stared at him with a dreamy look on her face, causing Jack to make a disgusted grunt and say, "Bloody 'ell, if you two start-"

"Jack!"

"Lila!" He said, in a stubborn voice as he sat down on a tattered couch and propped his legs up on the coffee table in front of them, crossing them. Lila just stared at him, unable to find words to express what she really wanted to say to Jack. Will sighed as he walked over to the chair Lila was sitting in, and sat on the arm of it. That distracted Lila momentarily, before she said, "So, we're stuck in an inn while a bloody war is going on?" Jack nodded and she said, "This should be fun."

"Oh, it shall be." Jack said as he reached inside his jacket and pulled out Norrington's wig and placed it on his head. Lila began massaging her temples when he did that, and Will whispered to her, "I thought you threw that overboard?"

"I did. He jumped over at got it." Lila said, glancing up at Will. Will sighed and glanced back over at Jack who now placed the wig on his lap, and was examining it. After moments of staring at it, he said, "It needs a bath-"

"Jack! Get that dead animal out of my site before I burn it!" Lila spat at him when Jack walked over to her and started dangling it in her face. He made wounded face as he pulled it away and said, stroking it, "She didn't mean that Norrie."

"You named it?" Will asked. When Jack nodded, he asked, "Norrie?" Jack nodded again, causing Will to shut his mouth and glance over at Lila who was looking pretty murderous to say the least. But, instead of talking, she just took a deep breath and leaned back on the couch. When she closed her eyes, Jack sent Will a smile that let Will know Jack was doing all of this to annoy her.

"Norrie? Jack, honestly." Will said with a snort as Jack made his way back to the couch. Jack jumped on it extra hard so that more dust flew out of it and said, "Aye? Got a better name?"

Will smirked and offered, "Becky?"

"Speaking of which-" Lila said, opening her eyes again and leaning up out of her chair, "-what happened to him?"

"After you broke off your enagement you mean?" Will sighed when Jack said that. He knew that Jack was going to keep pushing it and pushing it until Lila snapped. And Will knew that Lila was getting ready to snap. Will's hand seemed to have a calming affect on her, since she froze when Will's hand appeared on her knee. Lila sighed, and leaned back in to Will who began twirling one of her curls around his finger...

It was about midnight. Will was still awake, and for some reason the army wasn't attacking them. Though they probably could sneak out of the inn, Jack and Will made a desicion to keep Lila safe. And that meant sticking it out in the inn for at least until they knew it was safer for them to make a run for it. They knew they couldn't keep her safe during this whole war. She was a pirate after all. But when they were targeting just her, they knew it would be better for her to be inside.

He glanced over at Jack who was asleep on the couch in front of them, clutching that damn wig. Will sighed at that, but looked down at Lila's head that was on his lap. He smiled down at her as he pushed some of her curls out of her face. Yes, he had asked her if she still wanted to get married, but he hadn't properly asked her. He was ready to move on and get married again...

He put his hand over hers, and new that she would be wearing his ring in a few days...he closed his eyes and...

-Will's Dream-
-Elizabeth's Funeral-

"Mate?" Will tore his eyes off of his wife's grave to see Jack walking towards him. Jack did something that took Will completely off guard, and hugged him. Will closed his eyes momentarily, and opened them when Jack pulled back and said, "I'm sorry."

"I am too." Will whispered as Jack gave his shoulder a pat before turning down to look at her grave as well. The grave was right beside William's. That killed him even more. Jack was silent for a minute, before he said, "She's here." The way that Jack said 'she' made him instantly know who she was. Will sighed, and asked, "Lila?"

"Yeah." Jack said, fiddling with one of the many trinkets in his black hair. He let the trinket fall to his shoulders again as he said, "She was upset. She really didn't want to come, but-...Elizabeth would have wanted her to. I knew you would." Will gave a faint smile at that, causing Jack to say, "I don't know if this the opportune moment to be sayin' this, but she's missed you, Will. All she talks 'bout."

Will closed his eyes, remembering Lila's pretty face. "I've missed her too."

He opened his eyes to look at Jack, who opened his mouth and said, "Darling? Will?"

"Jack?" Will asked, in shock...

"Darling! Will?" He opened his eyes to see Lila looking down at him. She smiled and said, "Are you alright?" Will rubbed his eyes, and sat up on the chair. He looked over to see that Jack wasn't on his chair like he had been before. When Lila saw that, she smiled and said, as she sat down beside him, "Jack got smart and remembered that we were inside an inn. Which has beds."

Will smiled over at her when she said that, but stopped when he saw her smile. She was up to something. "Lila? What?"

"Nothing, darling." She said, turning completely around so that she was partly leaning on Will's lap. He stared at her for a momen before saying with a laugh, "Lila Parrish, what is it?"

"Nothing, Will." She said as she laid back so that her head was on Will's lap, and she was looking up at him with that same smile spread across her face. She laughed and said, "Jack? I'm not your darling! My heart lies with Lila!" Will's eyes got wide as she said that, causing her to burst out into laughter.

"What? What was I saying that?" Will asked as Lila laughed harder. She couldn't speak, so she just shook her head and continued laughing. Will gave up and ran his hand down her side until he found a ticklish spot. She started laughing harder and screamed, "WILL!" He laughed too as she rolled over, but stopped when the two of them fell of the chair and landed on the floor with a loud thud.

"OI! SHUT THE 'ELL UP!" Came Jack's angry voice from up the stairs. That made Lila temporarily forget the pain that was in her head after Will and her fell off. She laughed again, but stopped when she heard Jack make mumbling sounds from up the stairs. She smiled over at Will and said, "It was funny."

"I don't think so."

"Well, I do." Lila said, leaning over and kissing him. After about a minute or two, she pulled back and said with a smile. "You know what I was thinking about?" She laid her head on his chest as he asked, "What were you thinking about, Princess?"

She smiled and said, "Remember when you said that you would never cut your heart out for anyone? And that you didn't believe that it could be done?" She rolled over to look into his face as she said that, "Kind of ironic, isn't it?" He smiled as he pushed her curls out of her face and said, "I suppose so." He pulled her ack down and kissed her again...

A loud bang came from the door causing Lila to jump off of Will and hit her head again. "Damn it!" Lila cursed as she put her hands to her head. Will got up and stared at the door for a minute before saying, "I don't think that was Jack."

"What gave you the first clue?" Came a grumpy voice from the stairs. The two of them turned to see Jack walking down the stairs, clearly not being a morning person. His scars were visible, since he had taken his shirt off. His trinkets jingled as he walked to one of the doors and waited for a minute before a loud voice yelled, "Let me in!"

Jack looked back at Will, who was helping Lila off of the ground and said as he pulled out his sword, "Ready?" Will nodded and pulled out his own as Jack said,"1..." Will gently pushed Lila behind him before Jack said:

"...2..."

Jach nodded at Will, and they both cried, "3!" And they opened the door...