Disclaimer: Must I do this every time? It kills me every time I say it, but I do not own Pirates of the Caribbean or any of its characters. I do however, own Kelly and the plotline. I tried to convince Disney to lend me Captain Jack Sparrow and William Turner, but they just ignored me.

A/N: Okay, the last time we were here, we saw Kelly told Jack who she really was, last name and all. Jack cannot seem to quite process the fact he has a daughter, and quickly calls in Jack and Elizabeth. Before we left, we saw Kelly admit who she was to Will and Elizabeth leaving them dumbfounded.

A Secret Surprise

Chapter 4

Elizabeth and Will stood in the doorway mouths open. Will's sword lay on the ground forgotten, and Elizabeth just stared. Neither she nor he could get their brains to form words. Elizabeth's mind was racing. 'Jack has a daughter?' she asked herself. 'How could he? He never mentioned it to me, and by the looks of it, he didn't mention it to Will either.' Shaking her head, she became the first to speak. "Jack, you have a daughter?" she asked shell-shocked. "You never told me that."

Jack smiled grimly. "Actually luv, I didn't know meself." he told her. "This is the first I am hearing that I had a daughter." He looked over at her and saw her staring down at her hands. He wanted to say something; he knew he had to say something, but he couldn't think of anything to say. Glancing up for a mere moment, he saw her gaze lock within his, and he knew that she was telling the truth. He could see part of himself looking back at him.

"B… But how?" asked Will finally coming to his senses. Bending down, he grabbed his sword and sheathed into its holder on his side. Walking over to Jack's desk, he set down his dagger and pulled two other chairs. Sitting down in one, he motioned for Elizabeth to come join him. She came over as well and sat down next to him. She reached behind her and the set the sword on the table next to Will's dagger.

Jack noticed all this and smiled as he saw they had come running with swords and daggers. 'Faithful crew.' he thought to himself. 'Coming running to help without a moment's notice not even thinking about their own safety.' This thought lightened up his mode slightly. "Well, ye see eunuch, it all starts when a man and a woman –

"I don't think that's what he meant Jack!" Elizabeth exclaimed, but she still couldn't help but she couldn't suppress her smile. Jack grinned slyly and winked and her while it was Will's turn to look exasperated. Although no on knew it, a small smile had broken onto Kelly's face. "But back to the question Jack, how did you not know you had a daughter?"

Kelly's head rose up slightly for she wanted to hear this answer for herself as well. Now it was Jack's turn to look at his hands. Absentmindedly, he played with one of the many rings on his fingers. 'She's right.' he thought. 'How did I not know that I had meself a daughter?' Guiltily, he looked at Kelly, then to Elizabeth. For once, Captain Jack Sparrow was at a loss for words. He shrugged before speaking. "I really don't know." he said quietly.

Everyone sat in silence contemplating on what had just been said. Will and Elizabeth both could not believe this was Jack's daughter, but somehow they both knew it was the truth. She did have the same smirk and looked quite a bit like him. The air was filled with tension since every person in that room felt quite uncomfortable. Surprisingly enough, it was Kelly who was the first to speak again. "So," she began quietly. "You really had no idea about me?" She didn't know whether to be upset that he didn't or relieved since that would be the reason for his absence all of these years.

Jack brought his head up slowly and looked into her eyes. He saw the confusion in them and felt terrible. It was beginning to hit him about how much damage he could have and most likely inflicted on them. "Not a clue." he said barely above a whisper. "As ashamed as I am to admit, I don't even know who your mother is. What was 'er name?"

At this question, Kelly's eyes clouded over in anger. One person she could be more angry with than her non-existent father, was her good for nothing mother. "Giselle." she said flatly. Without even meaning to, she continued on in a rant about the whole story. "A Tortuga girl, whore if you prefer. A good for nothing woman. Never did see much of her. She only told me a little about you. When I was only 11, Giselle ran off with some other guy to some port. Didn't even tell me. I woke up one morning only to hear from so pirates around Tortuga what had happened. From there on, I had nowhere to go. No one to turn to. That's when I became a pirate. I needed to steal just to live and get food. I was constantly struggling and soon discovered I needed to find a better way to work. I started searching for a captain to take me on, but it was near impossible. Talking to other pirates, I learned more about ships. They allowed me to help them out at the port, but no one wanted to take me with them. All said 'Bad luck to have a woman aboard'. I finally found one however, but I soon discovered he didn't take me on for my sailing abilities."

Shuddering at that thought, Kelly stopped speaking. Bringing her knees up to her chest, she buried her head into them. Her body shook softly with what could be recognized as soft sobs. Not needing to hear anymore, the three others in the room figured enough from what she had said. Jack was extremely uncomfortable and extremely guilty from the story. He had been the cause for a huge part of this pain. In the short time that he had known her, he had come to love her as his daughter. He had no clue how, but something just took him over.

Reaching his arm around her shoulders, he brought her near him. She buried her head into his chest now as her sobs came harder and louder. "Shh…" he said to her. "It's okay now. It'll all be okay." Jack rubbed her back trying to be as soothing as he could be, but it was not one of his strong points. He continued to whisper calming things to her until her sobs became quieter. Soon enough, her sobs stopped, and only a few sniffles could be heard.

A moment or so later, Kelly pulled herself out of her little ball and wiped her eyes. She mentally kicked herself for crying. She had learned not to cry. Pirates didn't cry. Looking up at her dad, she gave him a small smile. What he had said was true though. She now did have someone to go and someone to turn to. Jack returned her smile, but his was just as sad as hers. This time, the other female was the first to talk. "Kelly, did he…" her voice was strained as she tried to figure out to say it, but eventually gave up let her sentence trail off.

At this, Kelly could smile slightly. "No." she answered with a stronger voice before. Jack looked on interested as well. He had been angered by it before, but had been overcome by her sadness. His anger was now slowly returning. "Never let him."

"Who was it?" Jack asked his voice shaking slightly. He tried to keep his anger under control and was doing a pretty good job. "And what do you mean, you never let him?"

Kelly smiled again. "I guess I was too fiery for him. See, he tried a fair amount of times, but every time he tried, I fought back. Guess you could say I've got the Sparrow spunk." she said. At this, everyone smiled. "Every time he came near, I fought, kicked, punched, bit, and threw things. Normally got him too angered for him to want to do anything and would get myself locked down in the brig. I was better off down there than I was with him." She clasped her hands around her knees as she thought back to her memories. "There was one crew member, named Eric, that always brought me down food and drinks from the galley. He wasn't cold-hearted as the rest of the crew was and took a liking to me for some reason. Eric always made sure that I was as happy and healthy as I possibly could be in the brig. He was the one who convinced the captain that I was more trouble that I was worth. Because of him, the captain dropped me off at Tortuga, and that was the last I head of either of them."

Jack nodded, happy that at least she hadn't been harmed horribly. "You definitely have Sparrow blood in you." he said grinning at her. "It seems as if you took good care of yourself quite well. And by hearing about Eric, it seems as if you have the Sparrow charm too. But ye never did tell me who the captain was."

Kelly nodded, forgetting she hadn't told him. "Aye, I forgot to mention that." she said. "It was Mike Griffins. Captain of the White Knight."

Jack thought for a second. "The name rings a bell in me head." he said. "I know I've heard of him, I just can't place exactly where." Jack racked his brain trying to think of where he had heard that name before. "Oh." he said remembering. "Wasn't he the one who sunk the other Royal Navy ship?"

Will piped in next. "Yeah. I think it was." he said. "Wasn't it the Bombard?" Next to him, Elizabeth nodded her head in agreement. She had heard her father talking about it before a couple of years back. "So, where are we heading Jack?"

Jack thought for a moment. He hadn't even began to think about that with the excitement of the last night and this morning. "Isla del Muerto." he told them. Kelly's attention perked up with that bit of information. She had heard all the stories of the infamous Captain Jack Sparrow, but didn't really know how much she could believe. "We'll be needin' some more gold to buy supplies, food, and rum." Upon receiving a glare from Elizabeth, he quickly corrected himself. "Drinks, I mean. Drinks!" he said before adding on quietly. "Bloody rum burner."

"I heard that!" Elizabeth snapped at Jack. He merely just smiled at her. He hadn't really cared if she heard him. She knew how he felt about the whole rum burning incident. Especially after she was proven right as he quickly discovered a Royal Navy ship heading towards his island.

"So, it's really true then?" piped up a small voice. All three of them turned to Kelly who had spoken up once more. She looked to be in awe. "You really own everything in Isla del Muerto?"

Jack smiled broadly at her question. This he was proud of. "Aye." he said. "Everything in Isla del Muerto is mine. Of course Lizzie and Will here get a share as well as some of me crew. Especially considering I wouldn't have it without all of them." He looked towards Elizabeth and Will who were smiling and nodding as they thought back to their memories. "You can believe everything you've heard about me, luv." he said to her. "Well, nearly everything." he muttered under his breath as quietly as he could so that no one could hear him.

Although Kelly hadn't heard him, she knew he had said something cheeky or important. She smirked as she decided to have a little fun. "So dad," she began saying dad in a teasing but loving way. "It's also true that you tried to seduce Elizabeth here on that island when you were marooned with her?"

Elizabeth gasped and her face turned slightly red. She had nearly given in that night, but luckily had come to her senses. She had tricked Jack to drink himself into an unconsciousness. Jack sputtered at a loss of words, while Wills voice pierced through the air. "Jack, you what?!?!" His voice squeaked slightly as he seemingly was freaking out.

"I was drunk." Jack said dismissing it with a wave of his hand, now recovered. "I had a little bit too much rum that night. What would you expect me to do?" Jack smiled cheekily. "I mean, Elizabeth wanted me to, but I had to pry her off of-"

Jack never did get to finish his sentence as a hand firmly slapped him across the face. Turning back rubbing his right cheek, he found the owner of the hand was Elizabeth. He smiled sheepishly. "Actually, it was all me fault Will. I did try to seduce her, but I swear I didn't do anything to your bonnie lass."

Will just smiled and nodded now recovered as well. Although Jack hadn't been his friend then, he had been and was a good man as well as the fact that Jack was his friend now. He wasn't going to let some small thing hurt their friendship now. "It's alright Jack." he told him. "I trust you."

Jack smiled relieve and stood up. Elizabeth and Will followed his actions. Stretching, he remembered he hadn't really stood up since last night. "Now, we set sail to Isla del Muerto." Reaching down to his bed where Kelly sat, he helped her up. She swayed for a moment, and he held on to her careful not to let her fall. When she finally regained her footing, he let go of her shoulders and merely just held onto her arm lightly. Together, the group walked out of the room. Will and Elizabeth first, hand in hand, followed by Jack and Kelly, with Jack still supporting her slightly in case she became dizzy.

They walked out onto the deck and all headed up to the helm of the ship. Standing near the wheel, Jack called out. "All hands to the deck!" he shouted and soon enough, a crew came out on the deck. "We're setting sail for Isla del Muerto! Everyone knows their jobs so get to work!" Around them, the crew busied themselves with their tasks of setting the sails and raising the anchor. Soon enough, the Black Pearl was beginning to move out of the port with a new, but very important member.

A/N: And there is another chapter for you guys. I know the excitement/action level isn't quite high right now, but I need to build up information and stuff for you guys. I can assure you that adventure will follow soon enough. Oh, by the way, I was upset that I only got 1 review for the last chapter. I know I was gone a while, but I was really hoping people would return to the story, so please review because I am not going to have a whole lot of incentive to finish if only one person is into the story enough to review.

Shaz1: Thanks for reviewing and your offer on BETA reading my stuff! I am a huge fan of your stories, so it was really cool to get a review from you. Thanks again!

By the way, did you all take my advice and buy Permission to Land yet? I hope you did. He he he.