Four days later, Angelica and Gibbs found themselves carefully walking behind Jack. The Pearl was docked, and they were now walking around the Cove. It was late in the afternoon when they had arrived there.

Jack, as stubborn as he was, had refrained from navigating the ship. He had Angelica had had several discussion about it, but it was only when he saw the Cove that he finally gave up and took over. After all, he was the only one who could sail the Pearl through the Cove.

Jack had allowed most of his crew to go to the Town of Shipwreck, while the remaining men were to stay at the Pearl.

Angelica was amazed. Her eyes could barely take it all in. All of the lights, the ships, the wrecks. In some way, it was calming but scary at the same time.

When they reached a certain door, Jack suddenly stopped his tracks and turned around.

"Keep yer guns ready, if she still lives, don't look Grandmama in the eyes, aye. Questions?"

Angelica and Gibbs just frowned. The fact that they had to be prepared for a fight when meeting Jack's family was beyond crazy, even for Angelica.

"Oh, and this…." Jack pointed to Angelica before he continued.

"…stays between us. I go in first."

Angelica and Gibbs just nodded. Jack took a deep breath, placed his hand on the doorknob, and slowly opened the door. There were met with loud noise, people yelling, guitar music, laughing, even something that appeared to be a gun shot.

"'ello Jackie!" His father put his guitar away and started walking toward him.

"'ello dad." Jack smiled. He quickly scanned the room. His two uncles were there, but he did not see any other family members, fortunately.

"Jackie, there ye be!" Uncle Jack yelled at him. He was surprised to see him alive; he had heard he was hanged in Jamaica.

"How was the Fountain? Where is she?" His father said in a low voice when he stood in front of him.

Jack pretended to not know who his father was talking about. "Who is she?"

"Don't try to fool me, Jackie. Heard ye were spotted out on the streets in Tortuga, with a Spanish woman."

Jack frowned. He had literally left the day after he and Angelica had their conversation out on the streets. How could his father know?

When Edward noticed the door was still open and started to walk toward his, Jack tried to stop him – but he was too late. This all did not go according to plan.

"Joshamee, how ye do, aye?" He first saw Gibbs, who was already standing in the doorway to enter the room upon having heard Edward speak.

"Aye, good. Where be rum?"

Gibbs walked in as if he was home. He had known the Teagues for decades. He sat down next to Ace – Jack's other uncle – and uncle Jack, who were happy to see him, and immediately started talking and drinking with them.

"Angelica, see, I knew it was you!"

Edward kissed her cheek and placed his hands on her shoulders. Jack carefully watched them, but soon saw that both his father and Angelica were happy to see each other.

Angelica had met Edward years ago when they were together. He had loved her like she was his own daughter. To be fair, he treated her better than her own father had done. Jack would say his father even treated her better than he had treated him.

"We will talk later. She's just my… navigator, aye."

Jack quickly interfered when he spotted his grandmother. She was sitting in the corner of the room with a gun in her hand, as always.

Jack was aware that his father knew that something was going on between them, but his other relatives did not need to know, especially not her. The fact that she was over a hundred years old did not make her any less terrifying.

Angelica followed Edward to the table, where he offered her something to drink. Deciding it was better if he distanced himself from her in order to not raise any suspicions, Jack walked toward the other end of the table.

But as he was nearing the table, he suddenly heard that one voice he did not wish to hear.

"Jackie…" He chose to act like he did not hear her and sat down next to one of his nieces. But he should have known that only angered her more.

He suddenly heard a gunshot firing through the room, just inches away from his head.

Angelica's eyes almost popped out of her face, shocked at the situation. It was not just the gun shot that shocked her, but also the fact that all of the other people in the room did not even seem to notice – it was normal to them.

Jack looked at her for a few seconds before he slowly got up and walked toward the woman that he had feared most in his life.

"How dare ye ignore me, ye stupid lad!" Grandmama started yelling at him.

Jack apologetically threw his hands in the air. "Don't shoot me, aye."

Grandmama then placed her gun on the table next to her and started to examine him carefully, making him feel extremely uncomfortable.

"What have ye been up to?" She asked him. It was not that she cared about his wellbeing, no, she just wanted to know what had happened in the pirate world. What she had missed.

Jack sat down on a chair next to her and shrugged. "Dad must have told ye about the Brethren Court, aye."

"Aye. What else?"

Her dark eyes stared at him. It was almost as if she was looking through him. Even though he was now a grown man – a pirate legend, his grandmother still made him feel like he was five years old.

"Fountain of Youth, killed Blackbeard, I did." Jack squinted his eyes, awaiting her reaction.

"Blackbeard? I remember him, he was a handsome man…"

Jack rolled his eyes at this. "And most violent." He quickly added.

"Hm. What about Barbossa?"

Again, Jack rolled his eyes. He did not know why, but there was something about Barrbossa that his grandmother found attractive, apparently. The man was hideous. And she was way older than him. Gross.

"Helped me kill Blackbeard, actually. He has The Revenge now."

He saw how her eyes lighted up slightly. He decided that this conversation had already been too long and slowly got up. However, his grandmother waved her hand, telling him to stay. And so, he did.

"I see ye brought Gibbs and a woman…" Grandmama spoke, suspiciously.

Not sure where this was going, Jack decided to just give a simple response. "Aye."

"Who is she?" Grandmama came closer, almost falling out of her chair. Jack immediately leaned back, trying to stay as far away as possible.

"My navigator." Jack simply said. The woman did not need to know, or rather, he did not want her to know.

Grandmama sat back in her chair, smiling amusingly at him. "A woman?"

"Aye. What be wrong with that?"

Jack pretended to be confused as to why she questioned the sex of his navigator. Grandmama, one of the greatest pirates of all time, was herself a woman after all. He was now using it against her.

"Bring her over here." Grandmama ordered him. Jack's eyes immediately widened. This was not going according to plan.

"What?! No." Jack immediately regretted how those words slipped his mouth.

Grandmama grinned, obviously enjoying every moment of this. "Lass!" She started yelling. Jack just looked down with his hands in his hair. He couldn't stand it.

After yelling "lass!" for three times, Angelica made her way over to Grandmama and Jack. The former examining every inch of her, the latter too embarrassed to even look at her.

Angelica sat down in front of Grandmama, next to Jack.

"What be ye name, lass?"

Jack finally sat up again and their eyes met. Angelica saw the annoyed in his eyes. He nodded to her, letting her know that she should say it.

"Angelica Teach. Nice to meet you." Angelica said.

Upon hearing her say her name, something changed in Grandmama's expression. Suddenly, she became more interested in Jack and the woman he had brought along with him. Jack could even detect some sort of happiness in her eyes, a little spark, which he had maybe seen two times in her eyes in his whole life.

"What is the daughter of late Blackbeard doing with you, Jackie boy?"

Her old hands touched Angelica's shoulders, as if she was this warm and welcoming woman. She never behaved this way and it confused Jack immensely. Angelica meanwhile did not know what was happening either, yet she decided top play along.

"Pardon? But no, she be my navigator only…"

Jack frowned upon the blunt question of his grandmother, who was implying that first of all, they were an item, and second of all, that Jack did not deserve to be with Angelica. Wait, was she also saying that being the daughter of late pirate Blackbeard was better than being in a relationship with the legendary Jack captain Sparrow?

"Don't try to fool me yer bloody liar!" She suddenly turned aggressive again and slapped Jack's left cheek. There she was again, just how he remembered her.

"It's time to go, aye."

Jack tried to get up but was stopped his tracks when he saw it again: a gun pointing at him. He slowly sat down again, smiling nervously. When he looked to his left, he saw Angelica holding a grin.

"Mabeltrude!" Grandmama yelled through the room. It caused another woman, around the same age as Edward, to stand up and walked toward them.

"What?! She be living still? How come they just never die?"

Jack just blurted out. Angelica immediately looked at him with warning eyes. He was only making things worse.

"A word on this, please." Grandmama spoke to her niece Mabeltrude, also known as the Violent Visionary.

She placed each of her hands on Angelica's and Jack's head and started humming what appeared to be a song. Jack did not know what scared him more: whatever Mabeltrude was going to predict, or the fact that Angelica would kill him for this mess afterwards.

Mabeltrude once predicted that Jack would set Grandmama's ship on fire and for that he was locked up by Grandmama and Teague for a few days. Funny thing was – like with many of her predictions – she was only partially right, for it was not Jack who set Grandmama's ship on fire, but one of his nephews.

Jack rolled his eyes when he saw his father and Gibbs suddenly standing next to Grandmama, who were too curious to see what all of this was about.

"I see…"

Jack could barely hear what Mabeltrude was saying. The room was noisy, loud. His other relatives – his uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, and some other people he still had no idea how they were related to him – continued with their drinking, fighting, and laughing as if nothing was happening.

"I see… heirs."

"Wait, is that what this all be about? Are ye dying?" Jack turned to his father, who just rolled his eyes at him.

Since Grandmama had gotten too old for her pirate activities, Edward Teague had taken over the role of patriarch of the family.

"Shut up!" Grandmama looked at him for a few seconds before she turned to Mabeltrude again, who was still humming her strange song. "How many? When?"

"Hmm… in a few years the first… four total." Mabeltrude answered.

"Ha, that's better than your one child!" Grandmama yelled at Edward.

From the day Jack was born, everyone feared for his life. Everyone in his family was sure he wouldn't stay long on this earth with his ludicrous behavior, meaning Edward wouldn't have an heir. Yet, here he was. Looking as good as ever.

"Come again?!" Jack's eyes almost fell out of his head. Four? Four?!

"Ay díos mio…" Angelica sighed, not fond of the idea either.

However, she also noticed Mabeltrude's fault: in a few years the first. Apparently, no one in this room suspected her to be pregnant with Jack's child at this very moment.

At least that was something she was relieved about. But she feared her growing belly would give it away soon or later. She felt Edward's eyes on her, but was too scared to look back. Did he already suspect something? She was not sure.

"She's just me navigator, aye. This is all folly. Can I go now?"

Jack got up but was stopped by his aunt yelling that one bloody word that would make it impossible to leave anytime soon.

"Dinner!"

Hope you enjoyed this Teague reunion! See you next time :)