They were on their way to White Cap Bay when a huge ship appeared behind them. Lara looked at the ship and she instantly recognized it as being Queen's Anne Revenge.

"Blackbeard." She whispered to herself. She jumped down from the top of the mast and ran to the wheel.

"Jack, Blackbeard is behind us and I have a feeling that he's trying to catch us."

"Aye, I saw him, we need more speed." Jack answered while looking behind him.

He gave the orders to the crew so they could get more speed, but they soon realized that the ship was acting strangely. The rigging started to coil around the men and even though they were struggling against it they weren't able to escape. Soon the other ship was next to them, planks were thrown connecting the two ships and a woman followed by two scary looking men boarded the Pearl.

Lara was tied to the mast next to Jack, who by seeing the woman exclaimed "Angelica!".

"Hello Jack! Have you missed me?" Angelica said to him, smiling and coming near him kissing him on the cheek.

"State your purpose for being here." Lara intervened eyeing the woman named Angelica and instantly disliking her knowing that Jack had a past with her.

"Lara Carter, Blackbeard is going to be very happy for this capture, Jack Sparrow and Lara Carter, the two persons we needed caught in a single blow."

The ropes that were keeping Lara and Jack tied to the mast got loose slowly, the two men that came with Angelica grabbed both of them and dragged them towards the planks connecting the ships. Lara managed to get her sword out and she stabbed the man next to her but he just got the sword out and laughed hitting her hard behind her head making her fall and lose her consciousness.

When Lara woke up she was below deck in a hammock and Jack was looking at her, his eyes were full of sorrow.

"What happened?" Lara asked him trying to get up.

"He snatched the Pearl and somehow he made her disappear.

"Disappear? How?"

"I don't really know."

Their conversation was interrupted by one of Blackbeard's man who came there and grabbed Lara by an arm dragging her with him "The captain wants to see you.".

"Oi, let her go!" Jack tried to stop him but he got a blow in his stomach that made him go back a few steps.

"You'll get your turn." The ugly looking man said to him.


Lara was escorted in Blackbeard's quarters, he was standing at his desk playing with a doll that Lara recognized as being a voodoo doll.

"I thought you died a very long time ago. I was very much surprised to find out that Lara Carter is still alive and more then that she's a very important person in the market of trading and selling information." Blackbeard was the first one to speak.

"I see and what information do you want from me and what makes you think that I will give you this information? After all you did murder my father and his crew, a crew that was my family." Lara said getting closer to the desk, not showing any fear that Blackbeard enjoyed so much to see on the faces of people.

"Your father's death was unfortunate, but he should have known better then mess with me. Your father betrayed me and he paid the price. Now as for the information that I need, I want you to tell me everything you know about mermaids and help me catch one and achieve a tear from said mermaid."

"Again, what makes you think I will help you?"

"My quartermaster informed me that you are with child, Jack's, it would be unfortunate if you would lose your child wouldn't it?"

"I'm not with child. Your quartermaster probably drank one too many bottles of rum." Lara responded, but she started to wonder. She did feel kind of strange the last month, her menstrual cycle was late, but life on a ship was though and sometimes that time of the month didn't made an appearance and she was always careful drinking that awful brew that the witch taught her how to make. And then she remembered that time at Shipwreck Cove, she didn't drink her brew, she had forgotten.

Blackbeard seemed to be able to follow her train of thoughts, he looked at her and he smiled.

"You will help me Lara, I know you will." He motioned with his head to his quartermaster that appeared behind her and dragged her back outside.

Lara headed bellow deck feeling more and more sick, wanting to scream and cry and knowing that it wasn't the best time for her to have a meltdown.

She slowly got down on the stairs when she heard Jack's voice. She slowed down even more and she swiftly hid behind some barrels listening to the conversation Jack was having with Angelica.

"We can do this, Jack. The Fountain of Youth. Like you always wanted." Angelica was saying

"Blackbeard. Edward Teach. The pirate all pirates fear. Resurrector of the dead in his spare time." Jack said thinking at the man who has imprisoned him and Lara on this ship and who somehow made the Pearl and the crew disappear.

"He will listen to me."

"He listens to no one.

"Maybe to his own daughter?"

"Daughter, as in beget by?"

"Long-lost. Recently found. Who loves her dear papá with all her soul."

"He bought that?"

"I sold that."

There was a sound coming from upper deck, Jack suddenly shoved Angelica to a hiding place just as a zombie walked by, really close to Lara's hiding place.

"Then it's the Fountain of Youth for him or him and you, not you and me." Jack continued not being willing to help her out yet.

"No, Jack, that's the best part. He will be dead."

"Ah. You'll be handling that part yourself, then."

"There is a prophecy. Maybe you don't believe in the supernatural."

"No, no, no, I've seen a thing or two."

"The Quartermaster. The man with no eyes. He is known as eleri ipin, witness of fate. He sees things before they happen. He's never wrong." This information made Lara feel even worse, the fact that this zombie was known for not failing in his predictions made her uncomfortable, because it meant he saw in her near future the birth of a child and she was really not ready for it.

"I can do that too, if you don't count women, weather, and other things that are hard to predict." Jack answered making Lara smile for a second until the jealousy started to show her ugly face.

"The prophecy is this: Blackbeard will meet his death, within a fortnight, at the hands of a one-legged man. That's why he needs the Fountain, Jack." Angelica got away from Jack and she headed for the stairs leading to the deck.

"Interesting." Jack said following Angelica with his eyes.

After Lara made sure that Angelica was out of earshot she sneaked behind Jack and she said "So what's the plan then? Kill Blackbeard and live happily ever after with his daughter?"

"Lara! Where did you came from?"

"Hell! Tell me Jack is she the woman that you loved before? The one that had your heart and that never gave it back?"

"No. She's just someone I know. Nothing like that." Jack answered flailing his arms around and trying to get away.

Lara stepped in front of him and stopped him by putting her hand on his chest.

"Jack. What I need to know is this, should I be worried that she will try to kill me or not? I don't care about your past with her, nor about her voyage to the Fountain."

"I doubt she will try to harm you as long as Blackbeard needs your help. Because he does need your help, doesn't he, that's why he wanted to see you, isn't it?"

"Aye. But I'm not sure I'm in a very helping mood." Lara answered and she stepped away from Jack.

She was invaded by too many emotions and she needed time and space to think. There was nothing that she wanted more then to revenge her father, but she knew that she had to make a very good plan, Blackbeard was a very dangerous and very powerful man. In the same time she hated Angelica and her presence there, she hated that Jack flirted with her and even more she hated how the two of them were looking at each other. She was feeling uncertain of herself and of Jack's feelings for her. And on top of all that she just found out that she was pregnant, she didn't feel at all excited about that, she never wanted to be a mother because she felt that that would mean that she would have to change her lifestyle and also she thought that she would be a horrible mother and Jack as a father didn't represent something that you could count on.

They arrived at White Cap Bay in a few days, Lara was once again brought to Blackbeard, it was time for her to give the information he needed.

"You know I thought about the conversation we had and I'm not going to help you out." Lara said to him the moment she was shoved in front of him.

"I had a feeling that you might be hard to convince but I think that I have something that might make you change your mind." Blackbeard said to her while Jack was being shoved next to her.

"Blackbeard! And where is your beloved daughter?"

"Jack, you see here, we have little problem, Lara is not as willing to help us out as you were so I was thinking to show her what will be happening if she doesn't comply." Blackbeard said taking a voodoo doll that looked like Jack and stabbing it with the point of a knife.

Jack keeled over with pain. Lara looked at him and then back at Blackbeard keeping her face blank, no emotion showing.

Blackbeard stopped torturing Jack who was slowly recovering and he looked at Lara smiling.

"So am I to understand that you have no feelings whatsoever for the father of your unborn child?"

"What?" Jack asked and looked at Lara not knowing what to believe.

"Ah so you haven't told him. Well the cat's out of the bag now. I guess we won't need Sparrow anymore, if he's well being doesn't interest you." Blackbeard said and took the knife getting ready to stab the doll and finish what he started.

"Capturing a mermaid won't be the most difficult part, getting a tear from her will." Lara said right before Blackbeard could plant his knife in the doll. He looked back up at her and grinned.

"We'll need light and music, a big net and willingness to lose some of the crew members." Lara continued.

"Perfect. Get ready then." Blackbeard motioned both Lara and Jack to get out.

Jack's face was changing colours and expressions constantly since he found out that Lara was pregnant. He was angry that she didn't tell him, scared of what the whole thing will mean for him and surprisingly he felt a little bit of happiness and joy somewhere deep down.

The moment they arrived below deck and they were alone Jack turned Lara by her arm to face him and he asked her "Why didn't you tell me?"

"It's not important."

"Are you bonkers?"

"Now that you know what? What is going to be differently? We're still trapped in this mess."

"Yes, but you should have told me. I have a right to know."

"I can't do this Jack, I just can't."

"What? Help Blackbeard? You can until the opportune moments arises."

"No Jack, be a mother. I can't have a child, I don't want to. It shouldn't have happened. I was stupid, I forgot the drink and know I'm paying for it."

"Look love, I know you're scared, but you can certainly do this. You'll be a great mother."

"Are you not listening?! I DON"T WANT TO! I'll have to stay on land, I won't be able to travel and to discover new places and …. I'll die inside, I won't be me anymore."

"Lara didn't you grow up on a pirate ship since you were five? And didn't you survive? I'm sure you can raise our child on a ship if this is what you want to. I don't think you'll have to stop being you because of this."

"And what about you Jack? You said I can raise our child, not that we can raise our child, so what about you? You'll just leave me? When my belly will be the size of a watermelon you'll just leave me behind, because I can assure you I won't be able to run anymore, not as fast as now, I won't be able to fight, I'll need someone to take care of me. Where will you be when I'll be the most vulnerable?"

"I… I'm sure we'll.."

"Exactly as I suspected, you'll be anywhere but near me. Probably you'll run off with Angelica."

"You didn't let me finish."

"No need to, I know you well enough Jack, I know what you think just by looking at you. Look I will never tie you to myself, you were and will always be a free man from my point of view, so if leaving is what you want and what makes you happy then do it without ever looking back. Now we should go, we have some mermaids to hunt."