While Jack and Dinah stood there looking at each other Will wondered if he should go tend to his wife. Knowing why she was up there, he wanted to make Jack and Dinah hurry up and discuss this so he could go. But he stayed; making sure no one started a sword fight in his living room.
"I thought I already purposed and you coming here was you saying yes." Jack said finally, trying to stay calm.
"I never said that!"
"Yes, but that's what it implied!"
"It implied that I wanted to be with you!" Dinah yelled.
"If I already purposed, told you how I feel, and you told me how you feel, wouldn't it make sense just to get married?!"
"No!"
Jack growled and threw his hands up in the air, he ran up the stairs and slammed the door. Dinah crossed her arms and started pacing. Will imagined her as a teapot that was bright red and there was steam coming out.
"Uh, Dinah, you kinda have…that…vein…popping out…"Ana said trying to touch her friends' forehead and Dinah whacking her hand away. Dinah's distraught face slowly moved to a smile as Ana persisted on touching the vein that was now gone.
"If you both will excuse me," Will said to the women, they nodded and he took the stairs two at a time and disappeared into his room.
When Elizabeth resurfaced from her room with Will, they went down the stairs to the living room, but heard voices in there talking, they looked in and listened. They were laying on the floor, Jack on his back and Dinah on her side. She was leaning against Jack with her head on his shoulder and had her hand on his chest, he was holding it and had his other arm around her.
"Jack why is this so difficult…?"
Jack 'shh'ed her and said, "Let's just lay here and…"
"Be quiet?" Dinah asked.
Jack nodded, "Let's just think…we probably haven't done that in a while." Dinah smiled and obeyed. Will and Elizabeth smiled at each other and walked out into the yard. "Well she's nice." Will commented.
"Pretty too! That hair of hers' is beautiful," Elizabeth paused before saying, "I think she's good for him."
"You've only known her for a couple of hours."
"So?"
"How could you know that this fast?"
"It's just the way he acts around her. He's changed since he left our wedding. Now he's got an actual purpose to his life."
"Well, Elizabeth, he's always had a purpose."
"Will, how is being a pirate a purpose?"
"It's meaningful to him! That's what a purpose is, right?"
Elizabeth didn't answer.
"I get what you mean though…" Will said wrapping his arms around his wife in a hug. When he felt her shaking his heart went out to her. She had had a tough day. "Come on, Liz, Let's get you to bed…" He said guiding her inside.
At dinner Elizabeth's hands kept shaking, and when Ana saw this, she was less than…tactful.
"What's wrong with you?"
"Nothing Ana,"
Jack eyed Will, "Is there somethin' you two aren't tellin' us? Is somethin' gunna pop out on us or somethin'?"
Will smirked, "No Jack, nothing like that…"
"Then what is it?" Jack asked with complete concern. Will and Elizabeth recognized it and looked at each other.
"Well I went to the doctors today and well…" Elizabeth started off, "I was hoping…we were hoping that I was pregnant…"
Ana suddenly realized her mistake in asking what was wrong and Jack realized his mistake on lighting the mood. By the look on Elizabeth's face she didn't really want to be cheered up. Nobody said anything until Dinah spoke up.
"I am so sorry Elizabeth, but don't worry! It can still happen…" That caused a shrug from Elizabeth and Dinah got a determined look on her face, Jack was about to object but Dinah spoke, "Well I'm sure all you need is Chocolate and a bubble bath…" Elizabeth's eyes immediately darted to Dinah's.
"You have chocolate?"
"It's amazing how many thing you can fit in a corset…" She said smiling.
Dinah shut the door to Will and Elizabeth's room and was greeted by a light kiss by Jack. They pulled apart and she asked, "What was that for?"
"What else do you have in that corset?" He asked, smiling.
She laughed and shook her head, "Nothing that you're going to see for a while, Jack."
"A while?"
"We still have to get married,"
"Oh right, that."
"But there is something I'd like to show you…" Jack's eyes widened but when she bent down he was a little confused. She came up and had a knife in her hand. Jack tried not to panic.
"What's this, luv?" She handed it to him and he recognized it right away. He looked at Dinah, who had a piercing look on her face and then at the knife again. He looked up and tried to mask what he knew, "Where'd you get this?"
"I found it!" She said, walking down the stairs, figuring it would be better to carry on this conversation in over places other than in front of Will and Elizabeth's door. Once they were in the living room she went on, "It was in a trunk you loaned me."
"I see…"
"Jack, tell me the truth-"
Jack paused, "About what, luv?"
Dinah sighed and took the knife out of his hands and held it up to his face. He smiled and lowered her arm.
"The knife…well…I got it a while ago…and I made it for my…mum."
"Your mother? YOUR MOTHER?!"
He nodded.
"I told you to tell me the truth!"
"Why do I need to tell you when I know that you know that I got it for someone other than my mum?"
"Why can't you just come out and say it?"
"Why do you have to have every bloody thing told to you?"
"Because I'm never sure with you! You'll say one thing and 'lie' about another thing!"
"What have I lied to you about?" Jack asked, but then immediately regretted it.
"On the Pearl! When I asked you if you loved me!"
"Okay, so I may have lied about that…but that was for a good reason!"
"I don't care! You still lied!"
Jack paused, trying to remember the reason they were arguing in the first place. "Luv, you already know who that knife was for, so why are you asking me about it?"
"How do you know I know?"
"'Cause you wouldn't've have had that look on yer face!"
Dinah crossed her arms across her chest. He had a point. Why she had even brought it up she wasn't sure. "Okay, so can you tell me something I don't know?"
"Like what, luv?"
"Why did you do this?"
Jack looked at the knife, sighed and looked at Dinah, "I wanted to get you something nice…that wouldn't exactly put me in a commitment…"
"You mean like a ring?" Jack paused and nodded.
"But I was a diff'rent person back then! I thought that marriages tied people down and that women did too…" Dinah was about to walk right out the room and go get on Ana's boat. This is getting worse and worse…She thought, but Jack went on, "But Dinah, what I found in you is complete freedom."
In a minute Dinah's heart went from broken to soaring. That was possibly sweeter than telling her he loved her. She threw her arms around his neck, "Thank you." He smiled and held her tighter. When they finally let go she asked, "So can I have the knife?"
"Of course! It was meant for you, so yes."
She smiled, "Thanks…not like I'll ever use it. Mother would faint if she knew I had a knife."
"Your mother would faint if she knew you were here with me," Jack said drawing her in for another hug. He sighed contently but the thought of her mother knowing she was here brought nightmares to her head.
"Jack, when are we going to tell our parents?"
"About what?"
"Well your mother wouldn't care, but my mother and papa…"
"About what, luv?"
"Us…about a wedding…"
"Are we getting married?"
Dinah shrugged, "I guess that's up to you."
"Why is it up to me?"
"Because you're the one who has to initiate it…you're the one who has to want it…"
"Well I want to be with you, luv, you know that."
"Well then are we going to get married?"
"Sure, but then where would you have it?" came a voice. Dinah and Jack drew apart from each other and looked in the direction from where the voice was. There they saw Danielle, Milton, James and someone Dinah didn't recognize. "You could have it here…but what would be the point of that? You could have it on Bermuda, but mom would faint…again. Or you could have it on Barbados…so many choices."
"What in the bloody he-" Dinah put her hand on Jack's stomach before he could continue.
"He means…well, why are you here, and how'd you know I was here?"
James shrugged, "Will mentioned that he was friends with Jack, Ana had mentioned that she was going somewhere to meet Jack and you had to go after Jack…my first guess was Tortuga, but Danielle can't be subjected to such places…"
Hearing voices from downstairs, Ana, Will and Elizabeth all came down stairs. Will and Elizabeth recognizing James, greeted him when they reached him and Ana shrieked when she saw who was here and ran down the stairs and jumped into the arms of the unrecognizable man. She kissed him a long kiss and when they broke apart and she got over her excitement, she introduced the man.
"Everyone, this is Captain Evan Miller." She said with a huge smile on her face. Dinah figured this was the captain from Tortuga. She hoped she hadn't looked like this when she and Jack were together, a huge silly grin plastered on her face.
Jack looked at the man, "You look familiar, have I tormented and or threatened you before?"
Evan smiled and he said in a low voice, "No…but you've probably seen me around Tortuga." Jack's eyes widened and Dinah figured that he remembered where he came from. But out of no where Jack's fist tightened and he punched Evan square in the jaw.