The Old, the New, and the Unexpected
By: Legolas-gurl88
Review- Will leaves Elizabeth and his youngest daughter at Port Royal and he and Jack take Will's oldest daughter and the crew of The Black Pearl on the adventure of a lifetime. While in Tortuga, Will enters a pub and meets someone that he least expected.
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Disney owns it all.
1. Saying Goodbye
Will and Elizabeth shared a kiss one last time. It was two o'clock in the morning and they were standing at the docks with The Black Pearl floating far off in the distance. Will's two daughters peeked out from behind their mother as Will opened his arms to the oldest one, Diann. She walked forward and nestled herself in his arms, tears on her cheeks.
Will's youngest daughter, who was ten at the time, ran forward and hugged her father. He returned her hug and bent down to kiss her tear streaked cheeks.
"Ana," He told the girl, who was named after one of Jack Sparrow's crew mates, Anamaria,
"Diann and I will be back before you know it. Take care of your mother for me."
"Yes, Daddy," She said, and then she buried her face in his chest. He hugged her as Elizabeth hugged Diann, who would be sailing with Will to Tortuga and the Isle de Muerta. As Will had recently found out, the curse was back on due to the escape of a monkey that had been
Barbossa's pet. Will agreed to sail with Jack Sparrow, the crazed captain of The Black Pearl, to find the monkey and restore the coin, or coins (Will hoped that the monkey only took one) to the chest that was delivered to Cortéz.
Will and Elizabeth hugged one last time and their daughters hugged.
Elizabeth had been reluctant to let Diann sail with Will. But Will had promised to take Diann on the very next adventure that he went on and he was a man of his word, even when it resorted to whether Diann lived or not.
"This is all very nice, but can we get a move on?" A voice said behind Will, and he felt a firm hand on his shoulder. He turned to find Jack Sparrow staring at him. Jack hadn't changed much in the past sixteen years.
He still wore his three-corner hat, and the red bandana that kept his messy black, now with a few white strands in it, hair, less messy. Jack's black eyes glinted in the excitement of another voyage. He smiled and his gold teeth glinted in the moonlight. His clothes were ragged and sea-worn, but he didn't seem to mind.
Diann and Ana looked in amazement at Jack, for they had heard so much about him from Will and Elizabeth.
"But who do we have here?" Jack said, moving around Will to get a good look at the girls. "Davy Jones, I must be drunk! There are three Elizabeth's standing in front of me! Well, one of them is a female Will," He said, looking from Diann to Will and back again.
"Jack, this is Diann. She is going to be sailing with us." Will said, "And this is Anamaria, named after your ship mate." But Jack was looking at Diann.
"No dought you have the blood of your father, lass. You even look like him, but with longer hair. Tell me, are you willing to live up to Pirate Standard?"
"Yes," Diann said, her chin that was pointed, like her mother's, lifted into the air. Diann was fifteen and she was a free spirit, just like Will. She had his need for the sea, but Ana was like Elizabeth and wanted to stay home most of the time.
"Which means that you will be treated just like the crew, but with a little more care as I know your father would want me to, I suppose."
"I want to be right in and helping, Captain!" Diann said excitedly. Jack looked at Will as if to ask him whether this was okay.
"The decision is hers, Jack." Will said, hugging Ana one more time as she let out a wail and ran for him.
"Well, we'll need all the help we can get as there's supposed to be a storm later tomorrow." Jack said. Elizabeth's dress rustled as she moved. Will knew her well enough to know that she only did that when she was nervous about something. Certainly, the idea of her oldest daughter on deck in the middle of a fierce and rainy storm, did not comfort her.
"Now, Ann," Jack said, bending down to face Anamaria, "I want to make a deal with you. You promise to keep your mother safe for Will, and I make sure that your sister and father come back in one piece, savvy?"
"Yes sir." Ana said.
"No, no. it's 'aye cap'n!' Savvy?"
Ana giggled.
"Aye, Cap'n!" She said.
"Good! Do we have an accord?" Jack said, holding out his hand and Ana shook it. "Well, Will, I suppose we better be off." With that, he turned around and jumped in the boat that was tied to the dock. Will helped Diann in to the boat and then gave Elizabeth a swift kiss on the cheek and Ana a hug.
"Be good." He told her. She nodded and hugged him back. Will stood up and took his and Diann's cases (Diann's was much heavier with all the dresses Elizabeth had made her pack) and handed them to Jack before jumping in himself. Jack and Will each took an oar and began to float away from a saddened Elizabeth and a sobbing Anamaria.
Diann watched them grow smaller until the fog made them disappear and the outline of a ship ahead of them appeared. She gaped at the mere size of the ship for it was breathtaking. Will, had shown her all the ships of Port Royal, but she had never seen something so eerie, yet, so fascinating.
Will stared at the ship, too. Only the sails had changed. The ripped sails that had once hung from the masts were gone and more black sails had been attached. They were also ripped, but not as badly.
"Gibbs! Ann! Throw down the bloody ladder!" Jack yelled up to the ship as they neared the side. Instantly, a rope ladder flew down and fell with a soft flump at the bottom of the boat in a heap. The other end flew down into the boat, too, meaning they had the entire ladder.
"Very funny, Natalie! Gibbs! Throw down the other one!" Jack yelled. Another rope ladder came down but the other end was attached to the side of the ship. Jack climbed up and disappeared over the edge. Will held the ladder for Diann as she climbed up. Once she had gotten safely on the ship, Will climbed up and when he flipped over the top, he saw Jack with his arm around a girl who looked no older than Diann. Gibbs and Anamaria were standing to the side, grinning.
"Welcome back, Will!" Gibbs said, shaking Will's hand. He pulled Will into a bear-like hug and over Gibbs's shoulder, he waved to Anamaria who smiled. Once Gibbs had let Will go, Will turned to Jack.
"Will, Diann, this is my daughter, Natalie Sparrow."
"Jack, you didn't tell me you were a father!" Will said, staring at the face of Jack's daughter. She looked just like him, but she had darker skin and her hair was tied back into a neat ponytail. She wore a baggy white shirt and black pants.
"Then I didn't tell you that Anamaria and I are married." Jack said casually, stroking his daughter's hair, fondly.
"What?" Will said, "How come I wasn't informed that you two had a wedding?"
"It wasn't a wedding, really. Only a disaster." Jack said.
"Why? What happened?" Will asked. This time, Anamaria who spoke.
"Well, first it rained on us and this is out in the middle of the ocean. On this very ship, mind you. The night before, Jack had his bachelor party and he was still drunk at the vows. When he pulled out the ring, he dropped it and fell overboard, but not before he pulled me in with him." She finished.
"I'm sorry." Will said. Ana and Jack smiled.
"Well now it will be memorable." Ana said.
"Unlike yours which probably had all the rich snobs in the world. Tell me, did the Commodore come?" Said Jack.
"Yes, and he wasn't very happy. Every time I walk past him, he glares. It's just because he didn't find himself a girl after Elizabeth gave him up for me." Will said, with a slight note of happiness in his voice.
"Well, it's very nice to meet you, Natalie." Diann said, holding out her hand to be shaken. Natalie stared at her.
"Just because my dad knows yours, doesn't mean we have to be friends, too, does it?" Natalie asked.
"I suppose not." Diann said, lowering her hand to her side.
"Good, 'cause I'd rather jump off the side of the ship than play dolls and dress up!" Natalie said.
"I don't do that any more!" Diann said, advancing on Natalie, but Will held her back.
"Then what's that you're wearin' hm? Looks like a dress to me!"
"I'm a girl! What am I supposed to do?! Wear horrid men's pants, too!?" Diann shouted, trying to throw her father's grip off her and Jack had to start restraining Natalie.
"You wait! If yer gonna be workin' like the crew, you can't wear a tent!"
"My mother thinks very highly of this dress!"
"Yeah, well, your mother was a fool!"
"Natalie!" Jack said, trying to hold his daughter back. "This is a warning! Stop it right now, or go down to your cabin!" It was amazing how father-like Jack sounded.
"But she's insultin' my clothes, Dad!"
"Oh, and you weren't to me, right?" Diann yelled.
"Diann, stop this. I thought you were better behaved!" Will said.
"Listen to Daddy, Diann!" Natalie yelled, "NEVER insult a Sparrow! It might be the last thing you do!"
"At least I would die happy!" Diann yelled, before Will turned her around and grabbed hold of her shoulders.
"Diann, I don't care what she says. You're supposed to be a lady! If you can't listen to me when I say stop, I'll take you right back to Port Royal and there won't be any more trips! I mean that!"
Diann glared at her father for a long while before a tear ran down her face.
"Er-right. Mr. Cotton!" Jack said, beckoning to the mute pirate who had trained a parrot to talk for him. Mr. Cotton appeared at Anamaria's elbow. "Show Miss. Turner down to her cabin, please!" Mr. Cotton saluted his crazed captain and waved a hand at Diann to follow him. She took her bag from beside her father and stormed after the mute pirate.
"And as for you, young lady!" Jack said, adopting an angry paternal voice, and turning to Natalie who was fuming. "I'm not going to send you to your cabin because you're much too old for that. I told you to stop and you didn't do as I said. That will be one night of lookout duty, for you!"
"But Dad!" Natalie complained.
"Do you want me to make it two?" Jack said and his daughter stomped her foot and turned to the stairs that lead up to the ship's wheel and ran up them. When she settled herself out of view from the crew, Jack spoke.
"That was not a very good way for our daughters to meet." He said and Will nodded.
"No dought Natalie has your spirit. and stubbornness." Will said.
"Yes and it's been a gift at times and a curse at others."
"Speaking of curses, where did you say that monkey went off to?" Will asked.
"The last report of where he was seen was Tortuga, believe it or not."
"And with the storm, how long would it take to get there?"
"'Bout a week." Jack answered, pulling out a bottle of rum and taking a great swig.