OK, so I was going to ask this. Does anyone want me to write a prequel to this story? There's a lot of history with Will/Lila/Jack, so I was thinking of doing a prequel as opposed to a sequel. Tell me what you think!

"WHAT THE HELL?!!" Rupert screamed when Jack and Will lundged at him. Will fell back when he realized who it was, but Jack didn't. Jack wasn't paying attention what so ever. Jack tackled Rupert to the ground and held his sword at his throat, "I'm sorry, mate. But you want the Princess, you're goin' to have to go thru-" Jack blinked and asked, "Reginald?"

Jack rolled off of the poor man when Will poked him in the back with his sword. Will helped pull Rupert up, who was breathing rather heavily, as he said, "Bloody hell, Jack! What were you trying to do? Kill me?" Rupert was panting as Will allowed to lean on him for support. Will glanced down at Rupert's now swollen leg, and said, "Well, I think your leg's broken-"

Jack smirked as he put his sword back in his belt and walked back into the inn. Will wrapped his arm around Rupert's waist so that he could limp in to the inn. When he got inside, Jack pushed the desk back against the door and stood with his arms crossed, leaning against it. Will took Rupert to one of the chairs, and he looked around at the three of them. Lila blushed scarlet when she realized what this all looked like. Will and Jack shirtless, her on the ground...

"Did I...interrupt anything?" He asked, his voice raising a few octaves. Jack smirked again as he glanced down at Lila who gave him a warning look before he said anything he would regret later. Jack just laughed to himself as Lila cleared her throat, and walked over to sit in the corner of the room. Away from them...

"What are you doing here, Rupert? I thought that you left with Grant." Will said as he came to sit beside Rupert who was now wrapping his swollen leg up. Rupert stopped for a moment, before he looked up at Will and said, "I did. I got seperated by the swamp lands just a little ways down from here. A battle broke out...a lot of your men were killed..." He added, looking at Jack and Will both. That wiped the smirk clean off of Jack's face as he walked over to them and asked, "How many?"

"I don't know. I couldn't see anything. Clouds of smoke...it was awful...Neptune's here though. I saw him." All three of the men glanced over at Lila when Rupert said that. Lila looked up from the curl that she had been examining, and said, "What?" Will shook his head and turned back to Rupert, "What about Beckett?"

"Yeah." Rupert said with a groan as he rested his leg on the coffee table. "He is. The whole bloody lot of them. I swear to you, it was like a Beckett family reuinon or something." Jack came to sit on the coffee table, bumping into Rupert's leg as he did so. Rupert let out a cry of pain, causing Jack to smirk and say, "Sorry, Ronald."

"Wait-" Lila said, making the clearly annoyed Rupert tear his eyes off of Jack and look over at her. Jack looked behind him in surprise as if he had just remembered that she was in here. "-you said a lot of the men were killed...what about the girls?"

Rupert's face fell when she asked that. Seeing this, Will got up and walked over to Lila because he had a pretty good idea as to what was going to be said. "Lila, Bella was taken by Beckett. I don't know if she was...I think she's-" He didn't have to finish that sentencee, because Lila had already broken in to tears. Will assumed the role he knew he was going to have to assume, and brought her into his arms.

"Bella?" Jack whispered, in shock as he glanced over at Rupert. "I told her to stay on the ship!"

"She didn't." Rupert said, quietly stating the obvious. The room was silent for a minute. The only sound was Lila quietly crying in the corner. Will brought her down on his lap, and let her cry on his shoulder as he asked Rupert, "What about the others?"

"I don't know. Last I saw of Grant, he and Bill were in the middle of it all-" Jack and Will exchanged glances at that one. Jack had an unreadable look on her face as he and Will just stared at each other for a minute. Jack looked down after a while, and said to Rupert, "Which way did those buggers go?"

"Beckett's men went east. I don't what's there, but after they saw that they were clearly outnumbered by both us and Neptune's army, they retreated with a few captives from both sides. I don't where Neptune's men are. The lot of us were only fighting to run away." Jack gave a small laugh at that statement, only to look up at Will again. A silent question was passed between them. Taking his eyes off of Jack, Will turned to Rupert and asked it, "How safe is..." Will trailed off and nodded down to Lila. Jack turned to Rupert and waited for him to answer.

"Will, being honest?" Rupert asked, in a worried voice as he pushed a strand of his red hair out of his face. "Not very much..." He stopped when Lila's head came up from Will's shoulder. Lila looked up at Rupert with her sparkling green eyes as tears continued to fall freely down her cheeks she said, "I can hear it."

"Lila-"

"Will, I can bloody hear it, alright?" All three of them were taken back by her tone of voice. Sure, Jack had heard her use it on him quiet often, but she never raised her voice to Will. Sighing, she said in a softer tone, "My best friend is probably dead or dying in the hands of Satan and I'm probably the most hunted person in the Caribbeans. I can handle it."

Rupert looked up at Will as if asking him if he could go on. Will just nodded and kept his arms tightly around Lila as Rupert started, "Beckett wants nothing more than to kill her. I heard them while they were taking Bella...that's why she was ...taken... he got her and asked her where Lila was. She wouldn't answer so he..." Lila closed her eyes as he trailed off, and rested her head against Will's chest.

"...he's planning to kill your father." Rupert said, quietly, only to which Lila nodded all knowing. Will rubbed her back in a soothing manner, which scarily reminded her of the way Jack did it, and asked him, "How much time do we have?"

"Before they find us?" Will nodded, and Rupert said, "Dunno. Not very long I'd say."

"Why are we waiting then?" Lila asked, wiping her tears. "I'm a so bloody tired of us waiting for them to come to us. We need to go out and find them-"

"Lila-"

"-no, Will. Don't, alright. Don't. I don't want to hear you giving me 30 million damn reasons why I shouldn't be out there fighting. I can handle it. Stop acting like my father." Will got up from his seat and stood up so that Will and Lila were almost nose to nose. Jack clicked his tongue, and leaned back with a sigh, knowing what was about to happen.

"I'm not acting like your father, Lila. I'm doing what's best for you-"

"-what? Sitting here like a bloody sitting duck waiting to be shot?" Lila laughed bitterly as she said, "Sorry, Captain. That's not exactly my cup of tea-"

"-oh, I am so sorry. I guess your cup of tea is walking on to death's doorstep? Wonderful idea, darling. Just brilliant-"

"-why do you do this to me? Everything I do never pleases you-"

"-I never bloody said that, Lila. When it's not completely stupid, it does please me. But most of the time it's stupid-"

"-what the hell are you afraid of, Will-"

"-I'm afraid of losing you." The whole room went silent. Lila's face fell, and all of the anger flooded from her face as she just stared at him. Unable to speak, she just stared into the face of the man she had loved since she was just a child. "I'm not going thru that again, Lila. Don't you ever make me go thru losing someone again-" Lila felt a tear roll down her cheek. For once, Will didn't go to her. He just stood there as more tears rolled down her tanned cheeks. It was like Jack and Rupert weren't there...only them. Only them and everything thier pasts...both good and bad.

Lila wordlessly left the room and ran up the stairs. Will sighed and closed his eyes as he fell back into the chair. Jack and Rupert exchanged glances, and for once in his life, Jack realized that this was one of those times his father had always told him to come. One of those times to hold his tongue and resist the urge to say something stupid and worthless. Jack clicked his tongue again, much to Rupert's annoyance, and said, "Well..."

Will took his head out of his hands to look at Jack who was just staring at him with a look he hadn't seen in a while. "I think you handled that quite nicely actually, Will..." He made a face, then said in a different tone of voice, "You want me to go talk to her?"

"Jack, what are you going to say to her?" Will asked, in a toneless voice. Jack figured that that was another time to hold his tongue, and not literally like he did when he was a little boy. He just played with one of his trinkets, and said, "Well, we've all 'ad a bit o' a rough night, aye? What say we turn in?" Jack nodded slightly at Rupert, never having apologized to him for his leg. He smiled at Will and gave his shoulder a pat before walking back up the stairs.

Will glanced over at Rupert, who read his expression, and said, "I'll be fine down here, Will. 'Night." Will forced a smile, before walking up the stairs himself. For it being so deserted for a long time, it was actually very nice. He walked down the hall, and stopped when he came to a room with the door closed, and a light seeping thru the bottom of the closed door. He closed his eyes, and took a deep breath before he moved to go open it. But he stopped when he realized someone had gotten there first.

"Darlin', you've got to take it easy..." He heard Jack say in a soothing, calming voice that Will knew if Jack knew someone was hearing him use it, their head wouldn't be on their head much longer. "...he's been thru a lot, is all. 'S just hard for him is all."

"I know that-" He heard Lila's shaky voice call out a minute later. She was silent for a minute, as Jack made 'shh' noises, but in a comforting way. "-I just...I'm not her-"

Inside her room, Jack laughed as he pushed away one of her golden-brown curls and said, "Darlin', why on earth would that matter to him? You're not Lizzie-" She looked up at him as he said that, he smiled, "-and tha' doesn't matter to him at all-"

Lila stared at the candle, watching the flames dance, before she looked back into the eyes of the infamous captain. She was quiet proud of him. He had been sober for the past few days. Quite a feat for Jack Sparrow, "I just think it does."

"Love, the past is the past-" He said, somewhat stating the obvious as he pulled her to him. She laid against him as he said, "-there be no reason in goin' back to somethin' in the past that's already passed ye. What's the sense in that? You can't go back, so don't try to-"

"-I'm not trying to-"

"Lila, darlin'. I know you well. And the thing tha' I know well enough about you is tha' you're a liar." She smiled at that, giving Jack the reaction that he wanted. "And I know when you're lyin', and you're lyin' now. Don't try and go back. I've done tha', love. It's madness. It'll be the death of you-"

"-before a Kraken."

"Funny." Jack said, shooting her a glare causing her to smile again. "Really funny." He gently pushed her back against the bed, and pulled the covers up over her, before saying, "Don't even compare youself to her 'gain, alright? There's no reason to." She smiled faintly as he leaned down and kissed her forhead. He smiled as he blew out the candle, and walked to the door. He turned around to see that she was already asleep. As he opened the door, he said with a smirk, "Fancy seeing you here, William."

His smirk turned into a golden-toothed smile when he saw Will's shocked expression. Will was already across the hall, but he knew with one look over at Jack that he wasn't getting out of this one. He rolled his eyes and made his way back over to Jack who was waiting patiently for him. "What 'ave I told you?" Will just stared at Jack like he had gotten even crazier. Jack, on the other hand, was staring at him like he had forgotten to say 'Captain' Jack Sparrow, "About ye heart-"

"-not to give it to Barbosa-"

"Well, why would you?" Jack asked in an annoyed voice. He moved his hands in a weird fashion as he swatting a fly, and said, "The other thing tha' I told you, mate. The other thing." Will just stood there for a moment, trying to figure it out. Jack sighed and gave him a look that Lila gave him on a regular basis, "If you chose to lock it up-"

"-you'll lose it for certain." Jack clicked his tongue again as Will finished that sentence for him. The tongue clicking was getting annoying, but Will chose not to say anything about it. Jack leaned closer to him, surprisingly not smelling of rum, and said, "What are you doin'?"

"Locking it up."

"Where has that gotten you before?" Will just stared down at Jack, being a good inch or two shorter than the older captain. He had always found that funny, in a way. Jack gave him a slight nod and said, "I know where it got me...'night, William." And before he got a chance to ask Jack what he had been talking about, though he felt he knew, Jack was already shutting the door to the room beside him.

Will closed his eyes and put a hand against Lila's door, before walking in the other direction.

He couldn't get to bed that night. Not right away, because when all he heard was her...it was hard to...

-Will's Dream-
-Sometime in 1721-

"Lila!" Will whined as he followed her down the beach. She turned around and flashed him a smile that he melted at everytime he saw it. She turned back around, and continued walking down the shorelines. Realizing he wasn't going to win, he smiled and ran to catch up with her. "Might I ask what has put you in such a fine mood, Princess?"

She whirled around so that she was looking him in the eye and said with a playful smirk, "No, you may not." He looked confused, causing her to laugh as she leaned up and kissed him softly. Somehow or another, they ended up laying on the beach, Lila in Will's arms, and Will playing with one of her curls like he usually did as a sort of habit, almost.

She smiled up at him, causing him to as well and ask, "What?"

"You promise to love me forever, right?" Will gave a slight chuckle at her answer and said, "Of course. Until I die...and then I'll take my love for you down to the grave, how about that?" She smiled at him as she said, "What if you never die?"

Will looked puzzled at her question, slighty taken back that she would ask such a ridiculous question as that one. But after he got over it, he smiled down at her, laying a kiss on her forhead and said, "Then, I'll still love you forever..."

Neptunes War
Day Two

Coming soon!