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Buffy had gone below deck to see what was on the ship. She hadn't wanted to admit it but her head was killing her. She laid down on one of the beds for several seconds. Above deck, Will was telling Jack about his and Buffy's life.

"When Buffy and I were but children living in England, my mother raised us by herself. After she died, we came out here, looking for our father."

"Is that so?" Jack replied slyly.

"My father, Will Turner. It was only after you learnt our name you agreed to help. Since that's what we wanted, I didn't press the matter. I'm not a simpleton, Jack. You knew our father."

"Yes I knew him, but it was actually listening to your sister that convinced me. She can be very persuasive."

"My father!" Will demanded as Jack got this dreamy look in his eyes. He shook his head to clear it of his daydream.

"Probably one of the few who knew him as William Turner. Everyone else called him

Bootstrap or Bootstrap Bill." Jack walked toward the helm.

"Bootstrap?"

"Good man. Good pirate. I swear you look just like him."

"It's not true. He was a merchant sailor. A respectable man who obeyed the law."

"He was a bloody pirate. A scallywag."

"My father was not a pirate." Will says as he draws his sword.

"Put it away, son. It's not worth you getting beat again."

"You didn't beat me. You ignored the rules of engagement. In a fair fight, I'd kill you."

"Then that's much incentive for me to fight fair than is it?"

Jack swung the wheel hard sending the boom at Will. Will could not move in time and was carried with the boom. His body dangled over the water.

"Now, as long as you're just hanging there, pay attention. The only rules that matter are these. What a man can do and what a man can't do. For instance, you can accept that your father was a pirate and a good man or you can't. Pirate is in your blood boy, so you'll have to square with that someday. Now me for example, I can let you drown…"

Jack felt the edge of a blade in his back.

"What you can do is bring him over here before I gut you and feed you to the fish." Buffy hissed in his ear.

"Whatever you say luv."

Jack turned the wheel so that Will's feet would be on the ship once again. When Will was safe Buffy lowers the knife and Jack turns to face her. With reflexes faster than the eye could follow, Buffy decks him across the face. Jack falls to the floor.

"Don't ever put my brother in unnecessary danger again, or I won't be so nice next time. Will we need to talk."

With that, she turned and went back the way she had come. Jack was just staring at her dumbfounded. Will was smiling.

"Hell of a right hook your sister has." Jack said as he got up.

"That's nothing compared to what she did to the last guy who called her Elizabeth. I'm all she has and she'll find away to move the ocean itself to keep me from harm. As I would for her. Do not cross her Jack for she always follows up on her promises."

Will left to find his sister. It hadn't taken him long to find her. She was laying on one of the beds with her eyes closed. He instantly became concerned.

"Buffy? What wrong?"

"It's just a headache." She sat up and took his hands. "Will, I have never lied to you, and I'm not going to start now. What Jack said about our father is the truth. On her deathbed, our mother told me the truth. She swore me not to tell you."

"All these years you would have me believe that our father was respectable merchant who was killed by pirates. He's a pirate. He's the one thing that I have come to despise. How could you keep this from me? Were you ever going to tell me?" He asked angrily.

Buffy shook her head.

"I'm sorry Will. I know I should have told you, but time never seemed right. I truly believe with every breath I take that our father was a good man despite his occupation."

Buffy began to feel a bit dizzy and grabbed Will's arm while putting the other to her head. Will saw the pain contorted on his sister's face. He was still mad but his concern for her was greater.

"Rest now sister and I will bring you a damp cloth for your head." She simply laid back and shut her eyes.

It was night when they arrived in Tortuga. Will had checked on his sister. She claimed that her headache was feeling better but she was awfully tired. He kissed her forehead before departing with Jack. Buffy had only been a sleep a few minutes when a dripping wet hand clamped down over her mouth and another restrained her arms. Her eyes flew open and she began to struggle.

"Settle down Elizabeth. I didn't mean to startle you." Buffy's eyes flew to the face of the voice. It was an older man who looked familiar with his salt and pepper hair. "I'm going to let you go now."

He took his hand from her mouth and let her arms go. She moved to sit up.

"Who are you?"

"It's no surprise you don't remember. You never saw me much. Maybe this will help."

The man before her reached underneath his shirt to the gold chain. He pulled out the gold chain to reveal half of a gold ring. Buffy looked at it before pulling out a similar gold chain. She touched her half to his to make a complete ring.

"Father? Is it really you? What are you doing here? Where have you been? Why…"

"I wanted to come home Elizabeth, but I've been chained to a cannon on the ocean floor for the past ten years."

"How?"

"I've been cursed along with Barbossa and his men. The coin I sent to your brother cursed me along with the others. I'm being punished for eternity to walk the earth as a skeleton when the moon shines. Food turns to ash in my mouth and nothing except ending the curse will do that. When they mutinied and put Jack on that Island Barbossa knew it didn't settle well with me, and soon tied me to a cannon and left me to Davy Jones's locker. It took ten long years for the chain to rust enough for me to break free. My first thoughts were of your mother, Will and you. I found out that Barbossa is trying to break the curse. They need my blood to break the curse, so I feared for you and your brother. Tell me what has happened in my absence."

Buffy quickly related everything that has happen in the time her father has been gone. He wept for the passing of his beloved wife. They talked a bit more before Buffy told him of her plan and what his part was in it if things didn't go their way.

The next day Buffy, Will, Jack, and Mr. Gibb were checking out the crew. Buffy, noticed a pirate about the same age as her with dark black hair and an eye patch over one eye.

"Feast your eyes, Captain. All of them faithful hands before the mast. Every man worth his salt and crazy to boot."

"So this is your able-bodied crew?" Will asked Jack. They all began to walk assessing each one before stopping at a man with a parrot on his shoulder.

"You, sailor!"

"Cotton, sir." Gibbs told Jack.

"Mr. Cotton, do you have the courage and fortitude to follow orders and stay true in the face of danger and almost certain death?" There was a pause. "Mr. Cotton! Answer, man!"

"He's a mute. Poor devil had his tongue cut out. We trained the parrot to talk for him. No one's yet figured how." Gibbs said as the man showed he had no tongue. Buffy turned away at that.

"Mr. Cotton's parrot. Same question."

"Squawk! Wind in the sails! Wind in the sails!"

"Most we figure that means yes." Gibb translated.

"Of course it does. Satisfied?" Jack asked Will and Buffy.

"Well, you've proved they're mad." Will said.

"And what's the benefit for us?"

The voice of a woman made Buffy's head perk up. They moved toward the voice. Jack recognizing it instantly. Buffy noticed the look on his face as he lifts the hat.

"Anamaria." She smacks him hard and Buffy had to smile at that.

"I suppose you didn't deserve that one either." Will asked.

"No, that one I deserved."

"You stole my boat!" Anamaria reminded him.

"Actually…" Anamaria slaps him across the face again.

"You have such a way with woman Sparrow." Buffy said still chuckling.

"Borrowed. Borrowed without permission. But with every intention of bringing it back."

"But you didn't!"

"You'll get another one." She looked as if she was about to hit him again.

"I will."

"A better one." Will said.

"A better one!" Jack repeated.

"That one." Will pointed.

"What one?" Both Buffy and Jack asked.

"That one?" Jack asked. A silent message passed between them. "Aye that one. What say you?"

"Aye!" The whole crew said together. Buffy pulled Will aside.

"You get to explain to Norrington why he doesn't get the Interceptor back."

"No, no, it's frightful bad luck to bring women aboard, sir." Gibbs told Jack.

"If you want to be the one to tell Miss Turner here she can't go, let me get aboard the ship first."

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