Ana woke up two nights later sweating from a dream she was having.  It was slightly raining outside and hearing the water up against her little hut was somewhat comforting.  She cursed those bloody pirates for leaving her on his spit of land.  She didn't want to be here!  She needed to be on the ocean!  She never had nightmares when she was out on open seas.

          She sighed and laid back down, trying to forget about her memory, rather than a nightmare.  In it she was a little girl, playing out in the front yard with Dinah and with Dinah's father.  The game they were playing was somewhat ridiculous when Ana thought about it now, but when she was a child, it made perfect since.

          It was late November and Thanksgiving had past.  Ana's parent's had grown quite ill and Beatrice had taken them off their daily jobs.  Ana had not been too frightened of their sudden illness, knowing that they were both tough and strong and that they have both over come worse things, even though Ana wasn't sure what illness they had now.

          That day Dinah had been asking all sorts of questions concerning Ana's parents.  "Aren't you scared?"

          "Why would I be scared?"

          "Because you're parents are ill!"

          "So?  They've been sick before and nothing's ever happened.  Why would this be different?"

          Dinah shrugged and said nothing, but even when Ana was seven and had been living with Dinah for about five years, she could tell when she was hiding something.

          "What'd yer mum tell you?"

          "She didn't tell me anything!"

          "Then what'd you over hear?"

          Dinah paused, looking into Ana's eyes, somehow trying to decide if she should tell her this or not.  "The doctor came yesterday to check on your parents…"

          "Yea?  What about it?"

          "I heard them talking about something called knee-monia."

          "Don't you mean pneumonia?" Ana asked, using the 'p' in the word.

          "No…It didn't start with a p…"

          "Well never mind what it started with!  What is it?"

          Dinah shrugged, "I'd thought you'd know."  The girls had given up trying to figure it out so they had asked Dinah's father.  He had eyed the two girls and then took Ana away to tell her the truth about her parents: that they only had about a week to live.

          At the funeral Ana was surprised to find that everyone was crying except for her.  She didn't know what was wrong with her.  But her parent's weren't really around all that much anyway.  They had their job to keep up with so Ana had complete freedom. After that day Beatrice had kept a sharp eye looking out for her and had always guarded her like she guarded her own daughter.  

          That was when the nightmares started happening.  She had dreams about her parents, dead but still working hard to please Dinah's parents, totally ignoring the fact that they had a daughter.  She had dreams about Dinah's parent's killing her parents, saying that their work wasn't good enough. 

          Ana had hated being so confided.  The only way she saw herself having any freedom at all was if she either killed herself to join her parents, or she became a pirate.  The nightmares had also grown much worse.  The one repeating dream she had had was her, ending up working for the Milton's.  The thought sickened her, so she ran away from the only home she had ever known.

          Ana had woken up when the dream ended and had tried to push the memory deeper down.  Two years ago when she and Jack had gone to Dinah's house to get her, Ana had spent many nights there, each time dreaming the repeating dream of her working for Dinah's family.

          The ear-piercing squeal from Beatrice when she heard about Dinah's pregnancy was enough to make any pirate shoot himself.  Jack rolled his eyes as tears formed in her eyes as she thought about Dinah and Jack having a child.  But what really irritated him was when she said, "Wait, you're not going to raise this child on a pirate ship, are you?"

          Jack sneered and Dinah held his hand, trying to keep him from saying anything.  "Mother, it's too early to decide."

          She smiled and said, "Jack, what were you thinking about raising your child?"

          He paused and said, "Beatrice, I was actually thinking about having Dinah stay here when she starts showing until she has the babe."

          Dinah smiled, "See mother, he's not-" She stopped short and the smile went off her face and she turned to face her husband, "You're thinking about doing what?"

          He half laughed, "Luv, you weren't honestly considering going on aboard looking like you swallowed a canon ball."

          "Jack!  Don't refer to me as if I'm a ship!  Why can't I go with you?"

          "Dinah…" Jack started, still smiling, "It's already been proven that you're a target for people who want to get even with me…and with a babe it'll be an even bigger risk…no.  It's not gunna happen."

          "You expect me to stay here while you're off on the open seas, and then when I do start having the baby, then what?  There's no way I'm going to be able to get a hold of you relatively quickly!  I want to be with you…"

          Jack's smile went off his face as he remembered they were arguing in front of her parents, one of them strongly suggesting that the child never set foot on the Pearl. He looked at Dinah and shook his head, "No.  I'm sorry.  We'll work something out but I can't have you on board.  And you might be sea sick!  I don't want you to be anymore uncomfortable than you're already going to be."

          Dinah realized his reasoning's and let it at that for the moment.  She wasn't done talking to him, but they were in front of their parents.  She nodded and turned back to her mom.  "Well I may not be on the ship during the pregnancy, but once the child gets a certain age, we'll have to take it on board.

          Beatrice gasped.  "Dinah Eileen!  I cannot believe you just said that!"

          "Mother, Jack needs to be with his child."

          "My grandchild may be killed!"

          "Jack wouldn't let that happen."

          "There's always the risk, darling."

          "With all due respect, Beatrice, I defend my ship and my wife good."

          Beatrice sighed, "Its well, Jack, WELL.  You defend your ship and wife WELL."

          Dinah turned pink, her mother had never corrected Jack so rudely before.  She had never really correct Jack on his grammar anyway.  She suddenly felt sorry for Jack and tried to get the focus off him, "Mother the point is that your grandchild and our child will be perfectly safe."

          "Nothing's perfect on a pirate ship darling." Her mother responded.

          Jack growled quietly.  Not only was this woman insulting Jack's social status, she was also insulting his ship and way of life.

          "Mother, you know what I mean.  And the child will learn to defend it's self and will also learn how to be proper.  The best of both worlds mother."

          Just when Beatrice was about to object to that comment, Dinah's father stood up and offered his hand out to Jack, whom he had grown to love.  "Jack, Dinah, I am so happy for both of you." Jack smiled, happy to be getting some positive support.  He stood up and shook the man's hand.

          "Thanks Stan…" Jack said.

          Dinah stood up and hugged her dad, "Thank you daddy." 

          They pulled apart and he said, "My little girl is growing up…Have you told your brother?"  She shook her head, "Well get down there.  He and Hannah are having a party but its fine."  She smiled and grabbed Jack's hand and left without saying good-bye to her mother.

          When they arrived at James' house she knocked on the door and Jack turned to face her, "Are you sure you want to tell them?"

          "Why wouldn't I?"

          "Don't you think he's going to react the same way your mum did?"

          She shrugged, thinking about when they were at Katherine's house when Jack was sleeping.  I mean I honestly didn't think you'd go this long living with Jack…after all he is a pirate. James talking in her mind was coming back to her, and then Hannah's words came to her, I'm not quite used to him being a pirate and part of the family…I mean he's around our kids…  She hoped that they wouldn't take it like her mother had taken it.  So far the only people happy for them were Dinah's father and Jack's mom.

          The door opened and there stood Hannah.  She smiled and screamed.  "Oh my goodness!  What are you two doing here?" She said hugging them both and then drawing them inside.  But inside brought no comfort to the fears Dinah was keeping, in fact, it made them larger.  Everywhere she looked she saw people from her childhood that were now grown up and respectable, proper people. 

          The quiet music playing in the background grew louder as the people around the doorway stopped talking and looked to see Dinah, dressed in a blue dress, hair done perfectly and looking prim and proper –holding the hand of a pirate with a gun and a knife strapped to his side.  Dinah laughed nervously as she looked around the room once more, rubbing her cheek to keep the embarrassment unnoticeable.

          Then the couple heard two squeals for pure delight and then two little bodies come breaking through the crowd of people.  It was Ben and Beth running to meet their aunt and uncle.  The both jumped into Jack's arms, which he had waiting for them and they giggled and talked about thing incomprehensible to the rest of the world.

          James followed his children and smiled when he saw his baby sister and brother-in-law. "Dinah!  What brings you here?" He asked, hugging her, and then when they broke apart he said, "We're having a little party as you can see…but still, what's the good news? It is good news right?"  He asked looking from Jack to Dinah.

          "Well who's the party for?  Surely you're not having another child," She asked, looking at Hannah.

          Hannah laughed and shook her head, "No, nothing like that…but one of our good friends has been moved up to Commodore."  Jack smiled at the memory of Norrington and wondered who this bloat was and if he was going to send Jack to the gallows.

          "Oh?  Who?" Dinah said looking over the crowd, then her eyes fell upon a man who was standing up to greet her, he had a wig and a red coat on, full of buttons and medallions.

          "Hello Dinah."

          As Ana bathed in the oasis that she had found on the island the morning, Evan sat back and watched her.  Why did I cheat on her?  I mean I've never been this faithful to one woman ever.  And it's never given me this much trouble if I've cheated on one before.  Why is it so different with Ana?

          And if I was so mad and angry with her for not showing up, then why did I even go after her?  I usually don't do that!  I just had to talk to her.  She just gets to me.  I had to know if she was okay or if she just had forgotten.  Not like Ana is the kind of person to forget something that important.  After I blew up at Katherine's and she ran after me…I would've thought that she would've at least tried harder to convince Jack to turn around.

          But Jack had other things on his mind…his wife was kidnapped after all.  His wife… Evan thought about what Ana had said the other day about having kids after she got hitched.  One more thing he knew about Dinah. 

          The fact that he had been with Ana long enough to know almost everything about her, including the little things, bugged him.  It bugged him that he had grown to laugh with Dinah and admire her.  It bugged him that with one look of those dark brown eyes he would do anything she wanted.  It bugged him most however, that he had fallen in love with her.