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"Kathryn, are you alright?" Will asks looking worriedly in my direction, "Your eyes are glazed over, you look odd, are you getting ill?"

"What?" I asked looking up at him. "Oh. Yes Will I am fine, I was just remembering back when I was ten, you remember? When we first met? I would give anything to go back to that time." I replied.

His eyes glazed a little and he smiled. "Remember how I used to swing you around in my arms?" he asked.

"Of course I do! But alas, I fear I am far to grown up to play those children's games now." I answer with a smile.

"Oh really?" he asks, "Well then if you don't want me to anymore…."

He tried to look hurt, but did a bad job of it. "But, there are rare occasions where the child in us all needs to come out and play." Was my response.

"Yes that is what I thought," Will said as he picked me up around the waist and swung me around. I thanked the lord that I had kept my small frame and only grown taller over the years, because it allowed me to experience things from my youth that I treasured so much.

"You better go and give your sword to Governor Swann, if you start getting ready now you might still make it on time!" I say as he sets me down.

"Yes! Today I see Elizabeth!" he replied, Smiling and looking rather exited

"Ahh yes, we wouldn't want to keep the elegant Ms. Swann waiting would we?" I say halfheartedly. "You do know that she is the governors daughter right?"

"Yes of course I do, but you know that just makes it even more challenging, and you know me I do love a challenge." He replies.

"Yes of course." I say rolling my eyes.

He disappeared up the stairs only to reemerge seconds later. "That was quick." I say as he walks past me and picks up the sword for the governor.

"I only changed my shirt." He replied, kissing me on the cheek as he walks out the door. Just before he walks out he turned and said to me, "Be careful Kathryn."

I put my hands on my hips as I replied, "You know you always say that and nothing ever happens.''

"Yes and the one time I don't say it, something really bad is going to happen and then you will see." He yelled going out the door.

I shook my head and smiled as the door slammed behind him.

I spent the rest of the afternoon doing my best to clean up. But what can I say? A Blacksmith's room is never a clean one. So after about an hour I abandoned it to instead go upstairs and read.

I ended up falling asleep though, on my bed after about three minutes.

I open my eyes an hour later to a sound downstairs. I thought it was Will so I crept down the stairs in an effort to startle him, usually I couldn't but I knew that one day I would catch him off guard. However the person downstairs wasn't Will.

"Who are you?" I ask the odd looking man, who was trying to break the shackles from his wrist. He turned quickly and stood up straight. I looked at him and noticed his hat, his clothes, his boots, and most predominately, his kohl lined eyes. I knew instantly who he was.

"I" he replies with a low bow, "am Captain Jack Sparrow"

"I know that name Sparrow, you are a pirate," I say reaching for a sword behind my back, "We don't appreciate the company of pirates here." I knew that even though I had practiced with Will, that I probably wouldn't be able to win a sword fight against a pirate. I was hoping though, that it wouldn't come to that.

"Yes, I believe I have discovered that the hard way," he replied holding up his wrists and shaking them, causing the shackles to jingle. Before I could inquire about them though, he pulls out his own sword and pointed it to my chest. I froze.

"Now if you would excuse me'' he says as he starts to walk past me.

I did not want to fight this man, but I did not want him to get away. I knew that there was probably a very good explanation why he had the shackles around his wrist.

"No, I am afraid I cannot excuse you Mr. Sparrow.'' I say raising my sword and blocking his way.

"Ah," he says with a fraudulent air of surprise. "The lady thinks she can fight?"

"No" I reply. "She knows she can." Maybe I could scare him off?

"Well maybe I will go easy on you." He retorts smiling. I notice several gold teeth in his mouth as he does.

"There is no need, just regard me as though I were a man that way we can make it a little fairer for each other." I reply, wishing that I wasn't saying this.

"Well I hate to tell you this but it's going to be a little hard to do that." He replies pointing his sword to my chest. "You see, you don't exactly have the look of a man." He smirked.

I raise my sword to his neck and whisper menacingly, "Now that is not how you treat a lady."

"Yes but if you remember not one minute ago you told me to regard you as a man, am I right?" he replied cheekily.

This was for me the last straw. Even though I was apprehensive about fighting this Pirate, I made the first move and stuck him on the arm with the dull side of the sword.

"Ouch love, " he said pouting. "That hurt." He retaliated by striking at me. I easily blocked it.

We went on like that for a while. Back and forth we fought, swords thrashing.

"You know, you fight pretty well," he says as he pinned me against wall his face inches from mine. "For a girl"

I pulled up my knee rammed it between his legs.

"Ooh" he groans cross-eyed "That was cheating."

I take the moment I have as he grabs himself and falls to the floor and race into the kitchen. By the time I reach the other side of the table, Jack races in with his sword held high. "That one deserves an unwomanly stab in the heart,"

Before he could strike though, there was the sound of the door in the other room opening. Both our heads turned. "Kathryn I am home! And you will never believe what the governor did!"

I suddenly felt cold steel against the skin of my neck. "If you move, I will slice your head off." Jack seethed in my ear as he took my moment of distraction to get the upper hand.

Thinking quickly and boldly I elbowed him in the ribs and raced out of the kitchen door.

"There you are!" Will said with a smile that quickly fades as he sees the look on my face.

"Will! Help! It's a Pirate!" I screech running up next to him. I quickly turn around as Jack slams through the kitchen door. Aiming for his head, I throw the sword at him. However the hilt of the sword hit the doorframe inches from his head, and fell to the ground with a clang.

Jack looks down at it for a moment. "It was a nice try." He said looking back up at me. He noticed Will, and his eyes narrowed. "You look kind of familiar."

"Go Kathryn" Will said to me with a stern voice.

I looked up at him, then back at Jack, who had started to advance.

"GO! Get an officer!" I jump as he yelled. Quickly I turn and race out the front door.

Looking up and down the street I notice no one is around. Usually there was an officer at every corner, but of course now there wasn't. I hitched up my skirt and raced to the next corner, luckily there are three officers talking.

"Please! Help!' I gasp out of breath. "There is a pirate, blacksmiths! Sparrow!" At the name the three officers motion to six other officers and race down the street with me hot on their heels. We reach the shop only to find the door is stuck fast.

"Will!" I scream pounding on the door. I could hear muffled voices and the occasional crash of a chair inside. I was worried that Will was getting hurt. I knew that he practiced three hours a day, but whether he was good enough to fight a pirate, I did not know.

A burley looking officer quickly pushed me aside, "Please miss, this is no place for a lady."

"If you please I am quite fine where I am, Will!" I yell again pounding on the door. Finally the lock slides open and Will, looking very sweaty and out of breath comes out. The officers rush in to arrest Jack.

I threw my arms around Will and asked, "Are you alright?"

"Yes I am fine." He says and pushes me off of him. I look at his back as he walks back into the room; his cold attitude towards me makes me upset. He didn't even say anything about me fighting. The officers rush past me carrying Jack between them. I watch them for a moment as they made their way down the street towards the jails. I then turn and slowly walk back inside, just as Will made his way up the stairs.

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WOO! I feel so much better after fixing these!