"Liliana, love, wake up."

Lily pulled the covers over her head as the sunlight streamed in from the window.

"What time is it?" she murmured, muffled by the sheets.

"Probably around noon. I could ask someone."

"No, that's fine." Lily emerged from her hideaway, her eyelids a little heavy. She rubbed her eyes and smiled.

"Are you alright?" Jack asked.

"Yes, I'm fine. Why do you ask?"

"No reason." Jack asked.

Lily leaned on his shoulder, content.

"Are you ready to get up?"

"Yes. Getting up seems like the proper thing to do."

Jack stood up and went over to her things. "Do you have anything to wear?"

"I don't know." Liliana said, and then added. "Look for me."

Jack began to search through her things, spreading them out on the floor.

"What's this?"

He held up the quilt that the seamstresses made her.

"That is a quilt." Lily said, laying down and turning on her side to face him.

"I know it's a quilt." Jack said. "But what is it?"

"When I worked for Norrington, I worked in the sewing rooms. The women who worked there made it for me for my thirteenth birthday."

"It's very nice. I see that I'm on it."

"Yes. And the Turners."

"And you at the helm. I'm guessing you were quite interested in piracy?"

Lily got out of bed and sat next to him cross-legged, taking the quilt and laying it in her lap.

"More obsessed really. Ever since I was released from the Mortal Daemon, I've been trying to find a way to get back into the swing of things." She traced over the helm of the ship, her blue-green eyes glittering.

"You seem very at peace with the fact you were a captive. Is there something you're not telling me?"

"No." Lily looked down so she didn't have to look into his eyes. "I'm just....well, I feel the call of the sea, you know? I'm willing to give up everything to be on a ship, at sea, just being a pirate. If you put me on a ship, and you put me on a crew, I would be.....unstoppable. I just love piracy."

"Maybe it's in your blood."

Lily giggled nervously. "I doubt it."

Jack gave her a look. "I'm serious, it's not that impossible."

Lily shook her head, stood up, and stretched. She was still only in her chemise and under-things.

"Love, we don't really have enough time to get you any clothes...you're just going to have to make something work, okay? Though from what I see you have, there's not much you can work with."

Lily nodded. "Do you have any scissors I could borrow?" she asked, and Jack nodded, taking a pair out from his desk drawer.

She nodded, then smiled, and proceded to cut off her chemise just above her knees.

"I guess that works." Jack said with a nod, and offered her his arm.

Lily laid her hand upon it and they walked out onto the deck, Lily smiling at the sea.

"Where are we going exactly?" Lily asked, shading her eyes from the bright sun.

"Where do you want to go?" he asked, smiling.

"The helm."

"Why?"

"I want to guide the ship."

……………………..

"Captain Turner! I can see the Pearl! Looks as if they're about to set off!" Jackel Lock called, pulling down his spyglass.

"Stop them! Hoist our flag! Do anything!" Will ran out on deck. "I need to talk to Jack."

"Is it about that map we've found, sir?"

"It's about the map, yes." Will said, looking out at the Pearl. "And the woman who gave me the map."

"Paris Lovett, Cap'n?" Jackel chuckled. "Right temper, that one."

Will nodded. "She practically killed me when I told her I was in league with Jack. Where is Miss Lovett?"

"I believe she's trying to take over the helm, sir."

Will's eyes widened. "And who's stopping her?"

"Ahm…I believe your wife is, at the moment."

Will turned to find Elizabeth and Paris in a heated argument at the helm. He ran up the steps and stood next to his wife.

"Elizabeth, what's going on?"

"She was going to kill us all! She's insane! I'm going to throw her overboard!" Elizabeth screeched.

"I was NOT going to kill you all! Little Miss Prim and Proper is just worried I'll get her precious room dirty."

"SHUT UP, YOU SELFISH MUTINEER!"

"YOU FIRST, YOU SPOLIED IGNORANT PRINCESS!"

Jackel had run up to the helm with Kill-em-all on his tail.

"Jackel, Kill-em-all, take Miss Lovett to her quarters and…tie her to a chair or something."

"What?" Paris exclaimed as Jackel and Kill-em-all grabbed her arms. "She started it!"

"Liar!" Elizabeth screeched.

They took Paris kicking and screaming, all the way down to her quarters.

"They saw us, Cap'n! We should be able to board the Pearl within minutes!"

Will laughed. "I wonder if he saw that little display."

…………………………………………………

Jack smiled as he watched the Mortal Daemon weigh anchor next to the Pearl.

Lily turned around and stood in shock. "Bloody hell." She whispered under her breath.

"What was that, love?" Jack spun to find Lily running away to his cabin. "Love?"

…………………………………………………

"William!"

"Jack!"

The two embraced as their crews talked with each other, catching up on the months that had passed.

"Hello, Kill-em-all." Jack said with a nod. "How've you been?"

"Well, and yourself?"

"Finally found someone to replace good old Will here. Meet Zachary Breakman. He's young, seventeen, but very honorable, as pirates go."

Zach stepped up and bowed vaguely.

"He bows. You're lucky." Will said. "Kill-em-all never bows."

The four laughed.

"I'm Will Turner." Will said, holding out a hand to Zach and Zach shook it heartily. "Nice to meet you, Zach."

"You, too, Captain Turner."

"Will, please."

Zach nodded. He smiled. "You should tell will and Kill-em-all about your new toy."

"Toy?" Kill-em-all asked. "Of the feminine persuasion?"

They were walking to Jack's "study", as they usually did upon visits.

"She's not a toy, Zach. She's actually a very nice girl. I met her in Tortuga."

"Really? A nice girl in Tortuga?"

Jack nodded. "She said she's wanted to be a pirate since she was a young lass. She's 16."

"Bit young, don't you think?" Kill-em-all asked.

Will stumbled and coughed, his eyes widening as he thought.

"Too young? No…" Jack said. "Here, I'll intoduce her to you." He knocked on the door of his rooms. "Love?"

He heard a crash and a a heated mutter. "Yes?"

"I'd like you to meet some friends of mine."

"Ahm…maybe later, I'm feeling quite ill…"

"Love, what are you talking about..he opened the door, to find Lily anxiously shoving her things into her bag.

Kill-em-all spotted her and his eyes widened, his jaw dropped.

"LILIANA MARIE KAVANAGH, WHAT THE BLAZES ARE YOU DOING ON THE BLACK PEARL?!"