LAST TIME:  "Dinah Eileen, do you take Douglas to be your lawfully wedding husband, and to stay with him through sickness and in health, through wealth and poverty, as long as you both shall live?"

Dinah paused.  She looked at Douglas, and whispered, "No."  His eyes widened and she picked up her skirts and started running toward the harbor. 

With everyone running after her and screaming her name she could only recognize two voices.  One being Douglas', he was sounding pretty desperate, but Dinah built up respect for him, considering he just got dumped on the alter, but still goes after her.  Two being Ana's, she was screaming about going left.  Dinah looked left, and there was the ship, The Daft Maiden.  She ran to it and ran up the plank to the deck with Ana close on her heels.  In one quick motion, Ana untied the ship and pushed it as hard as she could and ran up the plank before it dropped into the harbor.  Dinah watched as Douglas stopped on the deck and watched her sail away.  She looked away quickly before she started crying and went to the helm and asked Ana, "So, how long 'til we get to Port Royal?"

"…and then she said…?"

" 'Yes, Jack, of course I would like to go with you, but I'm not going to.' Bloody nuisance if you ask me."  Jack said, putting chicken in his mouth.  He was at Will and Elizabeth's and dying to leave. Elizabeth kept the house in an orderly, neat fashion, but when Jack came she always hounded him to make sure he wouldn't leave a mess.  'Jack put a napkin under that glass of water!'  'Jack, don't you dare drink that rum in here!'  'Jack don't sass me!'.  Sure, Jack favored Elizabeth over most women he had met, but she was just so annoying when it came to her house.  But even though she was annoying and a complete neat freak, he was the guest and she was his friend…so he put the napkin under the glass whenever she came into the room, he drank the rum outside and he rolled his eyes instead of sass. 

"Well she loves you." Elizabeth said nonchalantly.  Jack and Will both turned to her and stared.  She looked up from eating and looked at them.  "She said she would go with you."

"Yes, luv, but do you see her sitting next to me?  She stayed and got married!"

"You don't know that." Elizabeth argued.

"Lizzy, obviously you haven't listened to my whole story…the woman got engaged to a respectable man…she's going to get married."

Elizabeth rolled her eyes, "Jack, please, I was engaged to Commodore Norrington and do you see him sitting next to me?"

"Well that's 'cause you were crazy enough to marry Will.  Dinah is not going to reject a man like Douglas for a pirate."

"Then if you know that, why are you whining to us about it?"

"I'm not whinin'!  You're the one arguing with everything I'm saying!"

"I am not!" Elizabeth paused and noticed Will smirking at the sight of these two arguing.  "Will, what do you think about this?"

He shrugged, "It seems to me that Jack already had a chance with her and he blew it.  But he still went back and told her how he felt, hoping that she would break the engagement with the man she deserved for the man she loved…"

"I'm right 'ere, Will.  You don't have to talk like I'm not!"

"Sorry Jack."

"And who made you the bloody King of England?  I blew my chance with her?  She's the one…the one…the one who was really young!"

Will smiled at Jack's poor attempt at making Dinah out like the bad guy, even though he was mad, "Jack, calm down.  I'm just saying, that's how I see it.  Dinah obviously didn't want to be hurt by you again."

"She knew I wouldn't!  I told her I married her!"

"Is that enough?" Elizabeth asked.

"What's more than a proposal?!" Jack boomed, "That's the tightest noose…commitment a man could get himself into and you're asking if it was enough?!"

Elizabeth paused, and got over the shock that Jack just yelled at her, "Jack, a woman knows if it's sincere or not.  That's all I'm saying."

"Look Lizzy, I appreciate everything you trying to do…but it's not helping."

"Jack, did you love her?"

Jack looked her in the eyes as he leaned back in his chair, "I still do."

"Lass, rum is not meant to be sipped…" Ana said to Dinah, it was the next day and they were on their way to Port Royal, but Ana demanded to know what happened during the time they last talked to the time when she said 'no' at the alter. 

"Sorry…but it like…hurts!"

Ana rolled her eyes, "Never mind, just tell me everything."

Dinah shrugged, "There's not much to tell, I just realized that I had said no to Jack for the wrong reasons."

"Why did you say no anyways?"

Dinah paused, "You know, I wasn't even sure I did it in the firs place.  I thought I needed to though…but I don't remember why."

"Well why do you think you did it now? I mean, lookin' back on it." 

Dinah shrugged again, "I dunno.  I wasn't really sure he loved me in the first place.  But the knife and time kind of worked on my brain.  And it was kind of sudden.  Just like bam, bam, bam!  But then when I was at the alter, Katherine's words popped into my head."

"What did she say?"

"She basically said that pirates weren't the kind of men who gave commitments we wanted.  And when Jack gave me a commitment, I can't take too long to figure it out, or I'll loose him."

"Dinah, do you really think you can loose Jack?"

"Ana, you know as well as I do, that man is the most stubborn man that was ever born."

Ana laughed, "Yea…yea I do know that."

The both paused and then Ana looked at Dinah seriously, "Do you think it's too late?"

Dinah swallowed hard.  She had thought about this last night as she lay in bed, wanting to be near Jack.  She had thought, but not answered herself, and now her best friend asked the same question.  "Honestly…I hope not."

"Jack c'mon!"  Elizabeth whined.  Will had left a couple hours ago and Jack was left with Elizabeth for the whole day.  She had made something that resembled beef for lunch, but Jack hadn't tried it to see if it tasted like beef or not.

"Not used to makin' food for yourself, aye?" Jack had said when she first put it in front of him.  She rolled her eyes and ignored the comment.

"I don't exactly want to get into this again Lizzy!" Jack answered.  Elizabeth had asked a stupid question concerning Dinah and he just wanted to forget her altogether.

"Jack, please answer me…"

When Jack looked into her dark eyes he knew it was a mistake.  "What was the question again?  It seemed to have slipped my mind."

"If she came back, would you take her back and offer a wedding again?"

"Yuh know, when it comes to Dinah, there's an awful lot of again's.  She doesn't want to be left by me, again.  She doesn't want to fall in love with me, again.  I didn't want to leave her, again.  And now, would I offer her a weddin' again?  Well-" Jack was about to tell Elizabeth his answer, but there was a tune that floated into the room through the open window. 

Jack got up and went outside, Elizabeth immediately followed, not sure why he just got up and left.  He went into the garden and found someone playing a harmonica, dressed in a wedding dress, and oddly enough, sea boots.  A smile grew on Jack's face as she came near him and stopped playing.  When she got close enough to kiss him, she said, "Hello luv, miss me?"  she smiled and reached up and kissed him.