Chapter 22

It's been wonderful my love, my cigarette...

Alyth lay in the bed in Jack's cabin smoking a cigarette. She had been back for a week and since the moment she had stepped onto the Pearl Jack had carried her to his bed and ordered her not to leave it. So she slept, and smoked, and read, and slept and smoked. She was becoming rather bored, not with the smoking but with the lying around. Jack and Ana Maria had both looked her over and declared her mostly healed, but Jack still wouldn't let her out of bed. She sighed as she took a long soothing drag of her cigarette.

"How're ye feelin luv?" Jack asked as he walked in the room.

"I'm bored, can I please, please come out?" Jack watched her carefully before coming over and sweeping her up in his arms.

"Aye, I spose ye can fer a while luv," he said as they left the cramped quarters. She kissed him softly on the lips and when she pulled back he set her down softly on the deck. The sun was just beginning to rise, and she held Jack's hand and flicked her cigarette butt into the ocean. The sunrise was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen, the bright orange and yellow chasing away the darkness. She smiled and kissed Jack.

"Thank you," she murmured. The crew wouldn't be up for a while, after blowing up the other ship and sailing away for a while they had lowered the anchor and partied, with the exception of the few sad pirates that had drawn watch, Jack would never forget to set up watch again after what had happened last time. He ran his fingers through her hair and held her close.

"I'll neva let ye go again Alyth, I love you," he whispered into her ear.

"I love you too, my pirate Captain," she said.

"Where do ye want te go from here luv?"

"I don't care Jack, as long as I can go there with you."

"Ferever and always me love, ferever and always," he said, pulling her into a deep kiss.

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"Jack?" Alyth asked.

"Yea luv?" Jack asked, caressing her body. It had been six months since her horrendous ordeal, and she had pretty much gotten over it. She still had nightmares every now and then but Jack helped to keep them at bay. It was only when he was steering at night, leaving her alone in their bed, that she had them anymore. They were married now, had been for two months. It had been a pirate wedding, a wedding that would only ever be legal aboard the Pearl, but it was good enough for them.

"I have something to tell you," she said, rolling over onto her side and looking him in the eyes.

"Well if yer gonna say that ye want te leave me and neva see me again I can promise ye now it'll neva happen," Jack said, a glimmer of mirth in his eyes. She could see him well through the full-moonlight shinning through the portholes.

"No, I would never say that Jack."

"Well then what is it? Tell me before I explode luv," he said.

"I'm pregnant." Jack stared at her quietly for a few moments.

"Are ye sure luv?" he whispered. She nodded and lay her head against his bare chest. "Do ye know how long?"

"You mean do I know if it's yours?" She smirked. He nodded slightly, making her laugh. "Yes Jack Sparrow there is no doubt in my mind that the child growing inside me is indeed a little Sparrowling, I'd be huge right now if it weren't." He nodded his head, and placed his hand on her abdomen.

'A baby, Jack Sparrow is gonna be a father,' he thought. "How long?" He asked.

"I'm thinking a little over a month, which means in a little less than eight months we will have a baby boy or girl." She said wistfully.

"Well then in seven months er so we'll have te get ye te a Port where a midwife can take care o ye," Jack murmured.

"But I want to stay here," she said indignantly.

"I know ye do, but we dun' have the capabilities te give birth on a pirate ship. It's bloody dangerous, me own ma died givin birth te me." Jack rarely spoke about his family to her, and she smiled realizing that he had just told her something of his past to help her.

"But your going to be there, right?"

"O course I'll be there, can't have me first born child come into the world without it's pa, now can I?" He asked. She shook her head and kissed him lightly, dreaming of her child.

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"One more push girl and ye'll 'ave it out," the old woman yelled, trying to be heard over the screaming of Alyth. Alyth pushed with all her might, and heard the faint cry of an infant. She looked up slightly and saw a beautiful head of blonde hair. She saw the old woman doing something around the baby's stomach, and then a knife was produced. Alyth became frightened for a moment, and then saw the old woman's helper cut the umbilical cord.

"What is it?" Alyth whispered anxiously.

"It's a beautiful baby girl," the old woman said as she wrapped her in a blanket and laid her in her mother's arms. Alyth looked down into a pair of dark brown, almost black eyes and smiled joyously. She knew that most babies had blue eyes when they were born, this one was special.

"Alyth are ye okay? What is it?" Jack asked, barging into the room.

"I'm fine Jack, come meet your daughter." Jack smiled and walked over to them.

"She's beautiful, just like her mother," Jack said, touching her cheek softly, and leaning down to kiss her mother.

"Actually I thought she looked rather like her father, what with those full lips and dark eyes," Alyth murmured. Jack stared at his daughter for a few moments.

"What should we name her?" He asked quietly.

"I was thinking of Alandra," she said, brushing the top of her daughters head with her lips.

"Alandra," he said as if testing it. "I like it, Alandra Julie Sparrow."

"It's perfect, my little jewel," she said.

"Our lil jewel luv, ours ferever," Jack whispered, watching his wife and daughter with a love he never thought he had in him, a love for something other than his ship, and the sea.

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I hope you all liked this story. There isn't going to be a sequel to this one, but I may have another new one coming out soon! Big thanx to everyone for reading this, and for all of you who bitched at me about smoking and whatnot ye can go te hell! I will be looking this story over and fixing the things you all said needed fixing, such as spelling and commas, thank you for that! And if you would like to read more of my stuff I recommend the slave girl, 58 reviews so far and only 16 chapters, and every review a grand one. So again thanx to all!