Chapter 10

Amelia stayed in her cabin thinking all day long. There was nothing else for her to do, and she did not feel like being out on deck. She was trying to avoid seeing Sparrow until she had to. She was still not sure what had happened between them in his cabin. Maybe she would have found out if they had not been interrupted, but maybe that was for the better. Then again maybe not.

Will visited her a couple times to see how she was doing before he headed back on deck. He seemed to enjoy being out there and he would put himself to work from time to time to help out. It was strange to think that he was a landlubber; if you watched the way he maneuvered around the ship. He made it look as if he sailed his whole life. Maybe not that good, but still pretty close.

His first time visiting her she had him tell his story about Elizabeth and him in detail from his point of view. As you can imagine, that took quite some time, but Amelia thought it was entertaining. She found them lucky that Elizabeth's father was so understanding. That was one story that was all very fortunate for everyone, except the evil pirates.

If she hadn't met the people personally, she would have never believed the story. Even when Swann told it to her it sounded like a child's bedtime story invented for that purpose. She found the curse hard to believe, and what happened even harder. Although, she did admit that their story was a great story to tell their children about how their parents ended up getting married.

She and Nevado sat on her bed, and she pet him as she pondered everything. In her mind she re-lived the past two weeks. What was she to do? What was there she could do? She found herself helpless in the situation, like most women in that time.

Jack had taken over the helm hours ago. Now it was night, the sun had gone down a couple hours ago, and he glanced up at the stars. It was a beautiful site; on the ship you could see the stars clearly and the only light left was coming from the moonlight.

The same time Jack was looking up at the sky, Amelia was lured to her small window by the moonlight entering her cabin. The moonlight reflected over the ocean and she thought the scene was one of the prettiest things she had ever seen.

Jack focused his attention back on steering with one hand and holding his sixth bottle of rum in the other. Or at least he thought it was, Gibbs had started switching the bottles with watered down rum so that Jack would not be drunk when they got to Port Royal. That would be bad, and not help the situation at all. Amelia would probably want Jack coming with her to the governor's mansion before he left, so if he were drunk then he wouldn't be able to function.

"LAND, HO!" a pirate screamed from up in the crow's nest.

"There already, are we?" Jack asked himself, in a particularly glum mood. He finished the bottle in his hand, which he noticed tasted strange, and then threw it overboard. "LET GO THE ANCHOR!"

It was getting late, it was already dark out, and it was quiet in the room. Three reasons of why Amelia was already starting to fall asleep when a knock at her door caused her to wake up. "Yes?" she asked sleepily.

Will popped his head in first and then opened the door fully. "We are here." he said. He seemed more cheerful about it then anyone, most likely because he was going home to his wife, but there was still a part of him that would miss times like that.

FLASHBACK

Will was standing by Jack near the helm. It was sometime around noon, not long after Will had asked Jack to come out. The smell of the sea air mixed with the soft breeze and mist made him feel comfortable and glad to be out. "Jack, can I ask you a question?"

Jack's expression stayed the same, and his eyes stared forward. His hands moved over the wheel and a bottle of rum was on the floor near him. Once someone had come close to knocking it over and he practically bit their head off. So now everyone was careful to avoid walking near there. "Aye."

"Would you let me come out with you and the crew sometime, on a short voyage?" Will asked. He felt like a complete idiot in asking that question, but he really wanted to know. When he got home he was planning to discuss it with Elizabeth and see what she thought.

"I s'uppose so," Jack said, then grew a small grin. He loved to make fun of Will. No matter what situation they were in or how he was feeling, making fun of Will was an amusing pastime. "that is o' course if yer wife would allow it."

Will did not notice his joke and replied, "I was planning on talking to her about it tomorrow."

Jack coughed. "Eunuch."

"Excuse me?" Will asked, being sarcastic. He was used to being called this by his friend, seeing as it was a name he would call him ever since the first time they met.

"Nothing, I just said that yer a Eunuch." he responded.

"Alright, Jack." Will said, ignoring Jack's trite comment and acting as if he was just insane. He did act like it from time to time.

END FLASHBACK

Will then left, with Amelia and Nevado following behind him. Amelia hesitated before she closed the door to the cabin and followed Will. She felt like she was never going to see that ship again, and it would just be a story to entertain visitors at dinner. That thought scared her.

The ship was anchored at the same place that Jack left his ship when he went to visit Will and Elizabeth. He thought back to the day, where he harmlessly went to see some old pals and ended up with more then he bargained for... Amelia. At the time of course they called her Emma, but a rose by any another name still smells as sweet, or in Amelia's case an Amelia by any name still screams as shrill.

Outside Jack, Will, Amelia, and Nevado got into one of the wooden boats similar to the one that Amelia used to row herself to Tortuga. Will rowed them around and over to the shore where they jumped out onto the beach. Amelia carried Nevado in her arms as she trailed behind Will and Jack.

As if her dress wasn't dirty enough, sand was getting all over the bottom of her dress. She knew that she must look awful. She was wearing grimy clothes and her hair was all messed up and grubby. Her dress was dragging, she was tired, and she must have looked as bad as she felt. She was embarrassed at the fact that the governor would be seeing her like that, but she couldn't wait to change into some clean clothes after a nice bath.

Will could not wait to get back to Elizabeth. Even when he was only gone from her for about two days, he still thought about her constantly. Also he had orders to work on and his blacksmith shop to manage.

So the three of them walked on and up the hill that lead to the governor's mansion. It was a long walk, but eventually they found themselves walking up to the gate and finally reaching the front door. The three of them must have looked like definitely did not belong at a mansion and any normal butler would have most likely slammed the door in their faces, but this one knew who Will was and so he let them enter and wait inside by the door for the Governor to come.

The first person to come running down the stairs was Elizabeth. She was not wearing a corset, but instead just a regular dress that was pink and white. She smiled at seeing Will and ran to give him a hug and a kiss on the cheek. "I missed you." she told him.

As they were having their own little reunion, both Amelia and Jack pretended as if they were busy checking out the room. Jack might have well been, since he had never been there before, but Amelia was just doing that to keep her eyes occupied so they did not land on Jack. It was hard not to over hear the couple's conversation as Amelia stared at a grandfather clock that reminded her of the one back at home.

"Will, while you were gone a young man stopped by the shop. He said something about working as an apprentice to you. What was his name..." Elizabeth said, trying to remember the man's name and not quite getting it. "Ron Naylor, no that's not it... Rim Saylor..."

"Ren Taylor." Will corrected, knowing exactly who she was talking about. "Yes, I am taking him on as my apprentice. He will be working in the shop with me as I teach him how to be a blacksmith. He came several days ago when you were out at the market."

"Well, he seemed like a polite young gentleman." Elizabeth remarked, a little taken aback that he did not tell her about it until just now, but shrugged it off. "So, Jack and Amelia, it's nice to see you two again. How did everything go?"

"Good." Jack said at the same time when Amelia said, "Fine."

That was the moment that Governor Swann decided to waltz in the room, coming from his office. He was glad to have Amelia back after worrying about her well being the whole time she was gone. The butler had gone to fetch him and then when he found out he sent out one of the maids to get Commodore Thornton.

The first thing to catch his eye as he entered the room was a site that he had not seen in a year, Captain Jack Sparrow. His eyes widened as he saw him and he was about to send for some soldiers to put him in jail, but it seemed so pointless. The pirate had already escaped them thrice and if Commodore Norrington were there then he would have seen to it that they caught Sparrow. After all, Norrington was still on a relentless pursuit of that particular pirate captain.

"'Ello gov'ner." Jack said to him, amused at the expression of shock on the governor's face. "It's been quite a while, 'asn't it?"

"That it has, Mr. Sparrow." Swann replied, trying to be civil and secretly wishing that Norrington had been there. He turned his attention to his daughter. "What is he doing here?"

Amelia spoke up in Jack's behalf. "After Will found me, Jack let me stay with him until I got my memory back because I did not know where else to go. He has been nothing but kind to me since I met him. Please do not do anything rash."

Swann just now noticed Amelia standing there in the corner of the room as if she didn't belong there. She looked like a mess and he wondered what kind of hell she had to go threw those past few days. It made him feel terrible for letting that happen to her.

He was about to hug her, but didn't because of the fact that she was practically covered in grim, and instead said to her, "I'm glad you are safe. You made me have a scare there. I'm so sorry that this happened, I should have been there with you on your first day here or at least sent Commodore Thornton to stay with you."

"Commodore Thornton?" Amelia said. She had forgotten all about the commodore until just now. She would have to deal with him when the time came.

"Yes. Oh, and he should be along now soon. I knew that he would want to see you right away." Swann replied smiling. He thought that he had done the right thing and he was expecting her to thank him for it, but instead all he got in return was a serious expression.

"I see." Amelia said setting Nevado down on the floor and letting him scamper off into the next room.

Jack had turned his attention to Elizabeth and Will who were discussing him going on a short voyage with Will, which was interesting.

"Will, are you sure that is a good idea?" Elizabeth asked, implying that the answer should be no. She did not seem too happy about his request. At his frown she added touching his cheek with her hand, "I just don't want anything to happen to you."

He still looked like he was not pleased with her opinion of his idea. He did not answer her question, or reply. Then she added in a soft voice, "Especially with a baby coming on the way."

With that said his head shot up and he asked, "You are pregnant?"

She nodded in response. She wanted to surprise him the next day, but she changed her mind when she saw the look of disappointment in his eyes. She could not stand for her love to be upset, so she had to spill the news.

Will was immediately pleased. A large smile took over his face and he shouted out, without even realizing that he was shouting, "WE ARE HAVING A BABY!" Then he gave Elizabeth a big bear hug.

At his outburst everyone turned to look at him and Swann did not look surprised. Will noticed Swann's expression and was suddenly upset again. Jack could hear him whisper to his wife, "You told him before me?"

Jack kept his attention on the married couple, finding their bickering amusing. He thought the whelp never stood up to Elizabeth, he was half wrong. He found himself casually leaning in closer so he could hear them better.

Amelia, on the other hand, was still talking to the governor. "You will let Jack leave safely, won't you?" She did not notice that she was calling the captain by his first name. She had always called him Captain Sparrow and only referred to him as Jack in her own mind.

"Seeing as he helped you, only this time, but if he returns to this town and Commodore Norrington or any soldiers find him, then there is nothing I can do for him." the governor replied sharply. What was it with people and befriending this pirate? He should have known his son-in-law was keeping in contact with him, but he knew his daughter would be sore with him if he personally saw to it that the pirate got hanged.

"Thank you." she responded, knowing that even that was a stretch for a governor such as himself. She was not sure if even her own uncle would have let Jack off the hook for coming, if he helped her or not. She had a strict uncle and considered Elizabeth lucky.

"Where did you get that dress?" Swann asked her, finding it somewhat familiar to him.

"Elizabeth." Amelia answered.

Governor Swann had a confused expression over his face, with his brows pointed down as if he was thinking.

"Long story." she added, turning her attention to the noise at the front door.

The governor decided to open the door himself, to save the time, and it was exactly who he expected it to be. "There you are, she is in here."

She heard a familiar voice reply "Thank you Governor." The man stepped in wearing a black suit. He turned and she saw the face of Commodore Charles Thornton. His curly blonde hair was ruffled and his blue eyes looked tense. He noticed her right away and stepped through the crowd to get to her. "Amelia! Thank god you are alright. Can we talk?"

"Yes." she said, wondering what he wanted from her.

He pulled her into the next room for some privacy. She felt kind of awkward standing in there alone with him, as if they had just met; only they hadn't. Why did this feel so wrong?

"I was so worried about you." Charles said, slowly moving closer to her until he was only about six inches away.

"Well, why didn't you come looking for me?" she asked. Let's see if he has a good excuse for this one, she thought to herself. If he seriously cared about her that much then he would have gone looking for her. That's what Will did for Elizabeth. Granted the situation was a little different, but still.

He had a somewhat dumbfounded expression on his face, like that idea had never occurred to him before. So, in order to save himself, he changed the subject. "Have you thought about my proposal?"

She did not know what to say. The honest answer would be no, she did not have the time or the memory to think about that. So, she thought about his proposal right then. It seemed like something a girl of her position in society would do. After all, he was nice and handsome, and a commodore. Mostly everyone in her life wanted her to say yes to him.

But the question was not whether they wanted her to marry him, it was whether she did or not. She would be the one living with the consequences of her actions. Her gut told her that he was not the man for her and she would only be hurting herself by saying yes and her heart told her that she loved someone else. She had made up her mind. She was going to say...

Charles must have been impatient waiting for her answer, because within the next couple seconds, without waiting for her answer, he pulled her close to him and kissed her.

Amelia did not see that coming. She found it wrong and sloppy. She had to find out the hard way that Charles was a bad kisser.

Right at that moment Jack happened to enter the room. He wanted to say good-bye to Amelia, but instead he walled in as Charles was forcing the kiss upon her and she pulled away from him and looked at Jack. She understood that this looked a lot different then what it actually was.

And so Jack mumbled something like "Just came to say good-bye. I hope you two are happy together." And left the room swiftly.

"Jack! Wait!" Amelia yelled, but he had already gone.

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A/N: What will happen next? Keep reading and you shall find out! (Oh, and review too while you are at it)

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