So sorry for the wait, it's been crazy at home for awhile, but I've started the next chapter, I think there'll be two more after this one, maybe three.
I hope you like it. :)
Elizabeth took a deep breath "There's something we need to discuse, and I felt we should do that, as soon as possible."
Jack nodded "Alright, g'head."
Elizabeth thought for a moment, trying to think of how she wanted to say this.
"Alright, well the thing is..."She let out a breath, and shook her head "You know what, it's nothing, we can just talk about this later."
She started to get up, but Jack stopped her, by placing his hand ontop of the one she had resting on the table.
"Lizzie, sit down."
She sat down, and looked at him "What is it?"
Then, he said the one word she'd been hoping he would say for awhile now "Stay."
"What do you mean, stay?"
Jack sat back in his chair, and smirked "Stay 'ere, on the Pearl, yer not ment for land Lizzie, no more than I am, and look at Jackie, she loves it 'ere, and the crew loves 'er as well.
Besides, Tortuga is no place to raise a wee-one, and I know this is just a pirate ship, but if ya want it ta be, it's also yer home."
Then, after finishing what he needed to say, Jack got up, and left the cabin, leaving her to think over what he had said.
Elizabeth sat in stuned silence for a moment, then went to find Jaquelin.
She found her, standing beside Gibbs, who was at the wheele.
"Jaquelin, come here for a moment."
Jackie walked over to her "What's going on mum, did you and Jack talk?"
Elizabeth smiled, and nodded "Yes, and you won't believe what he just told me."
Jackie smiled "He told you?"
Elizabeth frowned slightly "You knew?"
Jackie nodded "Yes, he told me yesterday, I was just waiting for him to tell you. So did you say it back?"
Elizabeth looked confused, and pulled Jaquelin into the cabin and closed the door.
"Did I say what back?"
Jackie looked at Elizabeth, like she had lost her mind "When Jack told you he loved you, did you say it back?"
Elizabeths face froze at hearing Jaquelins words "When he told me what?"
"That he loved you. We had talked about it yesterday, when I was up in the crows nest with him, but he told me not to say anything to you."
Elizabeth took a deeo breath, and slowly let it out, then looked Jaquelin in the eye "He told you he loved me?" Jackie nodded "And is that why you were saying I should tell him, when we talked lastnight?"
Again, Jackie nodded "But if he told you first, you don't need to know."
Elizabeth turned to the door "I need to go find him."
Jackie grabed her hand "Mum, what's wrong, why are you acting odd?"
Elizabeth turned back to Jaquelin "He didn't tell me he loved me sweetheart, he told me that, you and I, should stay here, on the Pearl."
Jackie's eyes grew wide "Oh."
Elizabeth nodded "Exactly, I need to talk to him."
...
Jack was standing at the wheele, thinking about his conversation with Elizabeth, when Gibbs walked up to him.
"Jack?"
Jack turned to him "Aye Mr. Gibbs, what is it?"
Gibbs leaned against the rail, at Jacks side "Did you have the talk with Miss Lizbeth?"
Jack looked out over the rolling waves of the ocean, and nodded "Aye, I did, they'll stay."
Gibbs nodded "So it went well then?"
Jack frowned slightly, and shook his head, as a thought came to him "No, it didn't, take the wheele Gibbs."
Gibbs chuckled "Go on, go tell her then."
Jack looked at Gibbs, then with a nod, he turned and headed back for his cabin.
Jack was only a few feet away from the cabin door, when it opened and Elizabeth came out.
Not seeing Jack standing there, she ran into him, knocking him back a step.
Elizabeth looked at him, and opened her mouth, but no words would come, so Jack, seeing this, grabbed her hand, and pulled her back into the cabin.
When the door was closed, they faced each other.
"Jack..."
"I love you Lizzie."
He waited, as she looked at him, then slowly smiled "I love you to Jack, I have for a long time."
He gave her that smirk she loved so much, as he leaned down and claimed her lips with his own.
When the kiss ended, Elizabeth chuckled, and Jack frowned "What?"
Elizabeth smiled "For an eight year old, that kid sure is smart."
That was the first time Jack thought about how this would effect Jackie "Did you tell 'er, about the two of ya stayin'?"
Elizabeth nodded "Yes, I told her you asked, that's actually a funny story. See, when I went to tell her, she thought that...
...
That night, after Jackie was asleep, and the crew had gone down to their quarters, Jack and Elizabeth were alone on deck.
Jackie had been more than thrilled, about them staying, and about Jack and Elizabeth finely reaveiling the truth to on another, that she went to bed without a fuss.
Now Jack stood at the helm, watching as Elizabeth walked around the deck, looking anywhere but at him.
He finely tied off the wheele, and went to her. She shyly watched, as he came to stand beside her, and Jack found that quite amusing, he would never have thought of Lizzie as shy.
They were standing at the rail, watching the moonlight play over the water, and he slipped an arm around her, and pulled her against his side.
He looked down, and saw her smile, then she looked to him "Does this seem weird, in a natural sort of way, to you?"
Jack smirked, and nodded "That it does Lizzie, that it does."
It made her feel better, that he felt the same way she did, and she looked back to the water.
Jack watched as calm look over took her features, and frowned slightly. Elizabeth glanced at him, and saw the frown, so she asked him about it.
He kept his eyes on the water "Do you ever wish..."
When he didn't go on, Elizabeth turned to face him "Wish what Jack, you can ask me, you can tell me anything you know."
Jack looked at her "Do you ever wish he was able ta be 'ere with ya?"
Elizabeth didn't have to ask who he was talking about, she nodded slightly "I use to, but...when I'm with you, no one else is even worth thinking about."
Elizabeth smiled "I was thinking, that after all we've been through together, Will and I weren't right for each other, maybe...maybe we were ment for each other. Because, for once in my life, I don't have to try to be happy, with you, it just happens."
Jack smiled, but didn't say anything, until Elizabeth asked him, what he was thinking.
"That I'm dying to kiss you again."
Elizabeth smiled "Alright, go ahead."
Jack smirked again, as he lowered his head.
...
A little later that night, as they went their separate ways for bed, Elizabeth needing to go with Jackie, they kissed once more, and Elizabeth smiled again, and looked Jack in the eye "I want you to remember something, Alright?"
"Alrigh'."
Elizabeth grabbed his face in both of her hands, and pulled him down to eye level "I love you. Don't forget that. Ever, alright?"
Jack nodded, and she turned around, and went into the cabin, closing the door behind her.
...
Elizabeth awoke the next morning, and when she opened her eyes, the first thing she saw, was the sleeping face of her child.
The next thing she saw, was a shadow under the door, leading out to Jacks office area, and she smiled, knowing he was out there.
She lay in bed for a little while longer, thinking about what had happened yesterday. Could it really have happened? Did Jack really say he loved her? Her, of all people?
But yes, he did, and now the could be happy together.
She frowned slightly, thinking "But what if he changes his mind, what if he doesn't want to settle down yet? What happens then?"
She tried to push these thought from her head as she got ready for the day ahead, but they wouldn't stay away for long.
...
Jack was sitting at his desk, looking over some charts.
He heard movement from the next room, and smiled. He still couldn't believe it, she was really his.
He started thinking about the things he couldn do to make the ship a better place for Jackie to grow up on.
She would have to have a room, and nice things of her own, as will Lizzie.
He looked back to the charts, and made a not in his head, to ask Lizzie where she would like to go, to get things for herself and Jackie.
And it was as he was thinking about this, that the door opened, and out walked Elizabeth, looking just as beautiful in his shirt, and a pair of trousers, as she did in a ball gown.
...
As soon as she opened the door, and looked into his face, Elizabeth knew she worries where for nothing.
And if she had had any left, they would have been put to rest with Jacks next words.
"Jackie needs 'er own space, don't ya think?"
Elizabeth smiled, and nodded for him to go on, wondering how she could have ever doubted this wonderful man.
So there you go, they finely told each other, 'bout time huh? LOL!! Thanks for reading, please review and let me know how it was.