A/N: Story completed! I'm sorry it's been forever and a day since I updated, I'm a lazy bum, but it's here now so I hope you enjoyed it. Also I'd to thank all of my reviewers, except for those who flamed me *hiss* you've been very helpful.
CHAPTER 9: VISITING GOVERNOR SWANN
Elizabeth walked glumly up the front steps of the governor's mansion. This certainly wasn't going to be easy. She tried in vain to block out the memory of her the last time she had visited her father. It had been right after Jackie was born and she had meant to let him meet her, but he had been so angry that she was married to Jack that he never got the chance. She hoped this time would be different.
"Are you sure you don't want me to come with you?" Will asked. Elizabeth smiled and shook her head. For someone whose heart she had broken Will seemed to be getting along awfully well. She gently took Little Will by the hand and left Jackie to Jack as they followed her. She knocked several times before waiting for someone to answer. In the end, a butler came to the door and asked them to state their business.
He looked surprised when she asked to see Governor Swann and asked if she had an appointment. She said no, but she felt certain that he would want to see his own daughter. The man bent closer to her and her squinted a bit. It was only then that she recognized him as the same butler who had worked for them when she lived there. His eyes widened and he gasped, "Miss Elizabeth!" She smiled and nodded and he let all them in right away, but not before glaring harshly at Jack. "I'll run and fetch him," the old butler said.
"Thank you," answered Elizabeth politely.
A few minutes later all eyes fell to Governor Swann as he rapidly descended down the stairs. "Elizabeth," he cried with great joy, apparently having forgotten all the quarrels between them. He ran to embrace her at which point his eyes fell to Captain Sparrow. He nodded in acknowledgement, but said nothing. "Welcome home, my dear," he said and patted his daughter on the back, "How long will you be staying?"
Rather shocked by the question, having expected anything but a warm welcome Elizabeth waited a moment before speaking. "Just one night I think," she answered hesitantly, "We're just making some quick repairs on The Pearl."
The old man nodded and bayed Elizabeth to introduce him to the rest of her family. "Well," she said, once again caught off guard, "You know Jack, my husband. This is our daughter Jacolyn, and out son Will."
"They call me Jacky for short," the little girl said with a grin, "Who are you?" Governor Swann smiled warmly at her and said, "I'm your grandfather, your mother's father."
"Wow! You must be really old then!" said Little Will, still holding on to his father's hand.
"Will!" Elizabeth scolded, "We do not say things like that!"
Jack snorted, but said to the governor, "Oh don't mind him, he just says whatever's on his mind."
"Hmmmm, I wonder where he got that that from," his wife added playfully.
The governor invited them all to spend the night in the Swann mansion, and after much deliberation on Jack's part they accepted.