Author's Note: HAPPY (late) BIRTHDAY SAVVYSPARROW! And- to everyone who thinks this story is coming to a close…I thought it was, but my characters have gotten carried away.  But surely this story will be done within 40 chapters…right?  Hopefully?  I'm not sure, but keep reading!

"I'm sorry Douglas." Dinah's father said after Dinah had run off.  Douglas had walked slowly back to the broken wedding scene.  Most of the guests were gone and Dinah's dad was fanning Beatrice, she had fainted. 

          "You're sorry?  Why?"

          "Because your fiancée left you at the alter."

          "Yet, your daughter is gone."

          "Douglas, let me tell you something about Dinah," he said picking up his wife and going into the house.  He put her on the couch and shut the doors behind him.  He took Douglas into another room and sat door by him.  "Dinah left when she was nineteen, with this Captain fellow, but came back.  Her mother had a fit!  She didn't want Dinah with a man, let alone a pirate, that she wasn't married to.  She accused Dinah of doing more than she was telling us and forbid Dinah from ever seeing the man again.  Now I wasn't really worried.  I knew that it would pass, that this was a crush and she wouldn't do anything foolish…but she did."

          Douglas' eyes widened.  Dinah's dad laughed and shook his head, "Not that son, but she had fallen in love.  After he left, she sulked around the house and refused to eat or do anything.  Now when you started to grow interested in her, I wasn't worried.  I thought that you might help her get over this Captain fellow, but today proved me wrong.  Now, when he was here, I knew that he had fallen for her like she had for him.  Yes, my daughter's gone, but she's in good hands.  So that's why I'm sorry."  He smiled and got up and left.  Douglas sat there for a minute in shock. 

          He just told me a pirate was better than me…but she loved Jack…that's enough, right?  Douglas dropped his head in his hands and sighed, I hope you're in good hands, Dinah, I really do.

          When Jack and Dinah pulled apart Jack's smile had left his face.  He took his hands off her waist and put them on his hips, "Why the blast are you here?!"

          Dinah's mouth dropped open.  All the women had a compulsive urge to smack him across the arm, and Ana's the one who did.  "You bloody jerk!  She's here for you and all you can do is question her?"  Ana questioned him.  "Unbelievable!  Elizabeth," She said, turning her attention to the woman who she kinda knew.  "This is Dinah Milton, Dinah, this is Elizabeth Turner," Dinah took her eyes off Jack and looked at Elizabeth.  They shook hands and smiled but looked each other up and down.  The thing that struck Dinah was Elizabeth's eyes, and Elizabeth thought the same thing about Dinah's.

          "You're James' sister, right?"

          Dinah nodded.

          "Well I've heard so many good things about you…won't you both come in?"

          "Oh!  I thought you were never going to ask!" Ana said, trying to remember grammars, "I was going to barge into your house and eat everything but then I remembered where I was…"  Elizabeth smiled and led the way. 

          Once inside and seated with food Elizabeth asked some questions trying to break the uncomfortable silence, "So, how did you two meet?"  Dinah and Jack looked at her, "I mean Dinah and Ana…"

          "Oh!" Dinah said, "Well…her mother and father were servants…in my house. But they both died of pneumonia when she was young, so my mother kind of adopted her and but then she ran away when she was like…"

          "Seventeen," Ana filled in, with her mouth full of food.

          "Yea.  And she came back two years ago…well three since it's a new year…but around two years ago but then stayed in Bermuda longer than planned because-"

          "Jack stole her boat!  Right?" Elizabeth said, hoping she remembered everything that Will had told her that Jack had told him.

          "Yea, that's right."  There was another uncomfortable silence for only a few minutes because one of Elizabeth's male servants came up to her and whispered something. 

          "Oh!  Right…um please excuse me, I have an appointment with a physician.  I'll be home in maybe an hour, and there are three spare bedrooms upstairs, Jack or another servant will show you were they are…"  She said as she walked toward the door.  She put on a coat and left the house.

          "How long has she been married to Will?" Dinah asked.

          Ana shrugged and looked to Jack.  "Uhm…Six, seven months…why?"

          Dinah raised an eyebrow, "I have a feeling she's going to be wanting one of those spare bedrooms soon…"

          "What's that supposed to mean?" Jack asked.

          Dinah looked at him, "I dunno Mr.-I-love-you-but-I'm-mad-that-you're-here."

          "I'm not mad; I just want to know why."

          "Well wouldn't you be more interested in the fact that I'm here!  For you?"

          Jack didn't say anything but crossed his arms and looked away.

          "Why are you so bloody stubborn?!"

          "I'm the one who's stubborn?  You're the one who stayed in Bermuda!"

          "You're the one who greeted me with a question!"

          "Well if I knew why you were here then I wouldn't have asked!"

          "Well maybe I wanted to greet you differently instead of a blasted question!"

          "Well if you weren't here then this would be easier!" Jack regretted it as soon as it came out of his mouth, but he didn't correct himself.  Ana looked at Dinah, she had wide eyes and a tight mouth.  Ana, who had been watching the whole conversation, knew one of the them was going to say something they regretted, and she figured it was going to be Jack.  She knew now that he hadn't forgiven Dinah for not going with him.

          "You don't want me here?"

          "That's not what I meant, luv."

          Dinah waited for him to explain what he did mean, but nothing came out of his mouth. "So do you want me to leave now?  Do you want me out of your sight?  Because I can go back and marry Douglas, he'll take me back." Dinah said standing up.

          Oh! Ana thought, Bad form Dinah, bad form!

          "Fine!  Go back to your precious Douglas, but we both know that's not what you want." Jack answered, slowly rising himself.

          "How do you know what I want?"

          "Do I have to spell it out for you, luv?"

          "Oh!  So just because you have strong feelings for me means that you know everything I need and everything I want?!"

          "No!  Because you won't bloody tell me!  I know that you want to be with me, because that you did tell me."

          Dinah didn't respond but started to walk out of the house, but Jack caught her with his words, "Don't be thinking I'm the one in the wrong luv, you're not the only one with 'strong feelin's' in this relationship!"

          She stopped and turned around, "You call this a relationship?  All we do is tell half-truths about our feelings and the run from each other!  This is not a relationship…its….its a…annoyance!"

          "An annoyance, aye?  Hopefully you think better of me than that…" Jack said as he sauntered over to Dinah.  Ana smiled, she knew what was about to happen.  They were slowly breaking down each others walls.  She stayed put so she could watch every bit of it.

          Dinah smirked; even in an argument, he could still make her smile.  "I do…"

          "You do?"

          She nodded, "You're not an annoyance, this whole situation is."

          "Situation?  Do we have a situation?  The only situation I know of is that I don't know exactly how you feel about me…"  Jack had gotten to her and put his hands on her hips; she put her hands on his upper arms and sighed.

          "I would think it was obvious…"

          "Was it you who said, 'if you love me then let me know, if you don't then let me go'?"

          Dinah smiled, she had said that but that saying applied more here than it did on the Pearl.  She had told him no, yet had come after him.  He had the right to know, "Jack, I love you…"

          Jack smiled and said, "That's what I thought," then tilted her chin up and kissed her.

          Two hours later Will walked into the house and found a strange person in his house, looking through the bookcase.  He silently drew his sword and closed the door quietly.  The person didn't hear it and kept along their journey in looking around.  He walked over to the person and poked the back of the person with his knife. 

          "Don't move." He said sharply.  The person obeyed.

          "You know, Will, you shouldn't treat company like this…" Ana turned around and Will's look of shock was priceless.  She smiled, not sure what else to do.  He stuck out his hand, what are you doing here?!"

          "Well I delivered someone to Jack…"

          "Oooh!  Is it this Dinah woman?"

          Ana smiled at his enthusiasm, "Yes, yes it is, I'm guessin' that Jack had told you about her?"  Will nodded just as the two came through the door hand in hand, barefoot and sandy.

          "Will, my boy!  I'd like you to meet Dinah Milton.  Dinah, this is Will Turner."  They smiled and shook hands. 

          "Well!  The whole groups' here, but my wife…"

          "In her room.  She said that she'd like to be left alone," Ana answered.

          "Did she go to the doctors?"

          Ana nodded.  Will's face clouded over and then unclouded.  He seemed to push the matter back, whatever it was.  "So!  Where to from here?" Will asked Jack and Dinah, they looked at each other and smiled and then looked at Will.

          "The Pearl," Jack answered.  Dinah's smile went off her face and looked up at Jack.

          "What?"

          He looked down at her, "To the Pearl, luv, for the weddin'."

          "Well Jack, you haven't purposed!"

          "Purposed?!" He yelled.  They let go of each other's hands and turned to look at each other.  Ana started laughing lightly and said while shaking her head, "Only you two…only you…" and laughed some more.