Ok people!! This is my first story EVER!!! I REALLY HOPE YOU ALL LIKE THIS! My friend is an author on this site (Le suze), and I decided to become one too. This will be an oc/will oc/jack story. Sad how I just found out what an o.c. was…. But YES! THIS IS A STORY FOR THE GIRLS WHO CANNOT DECIDE ON WHICH ONE THEY LIKE BETTER! I found it very hard writing in second pov…with "you" as the main character…but you can always pretend you're Natalie. Any way, don't flame, but you can give me friendly advice and criticism. And if anyone knows the name of elizabeth's dad...that'd be helpful… I just found the one I used from some other story.

Chapter One- A new home

Stepping from the ship, going down the gangplank and up the docks was a very nerve racking experience. Of course, for anyone not seeing his or her new home for the first time, it was no big deal. However, for Natalie, it was a magical, horrifying, wonderful and scary experience.

"What do you think Natalie darling?" Glancing around the town seeing a lot of women in frilly dresses and well dressed men, Natalie suddenly thought she would never belong here, and should get back on the ship and sail away.

"It does look… rather…exciting, but honestly, I don't think I'll fit in here." She said glancing back at the women in dresses compared to her in pants and a shirt. She had been brought up as a tomboy.

"Nonsense. I'm sure everyone will love you." Walking slowly behind Joseph Carter, her foster father of twelve years, Natalie was ready to explore the new town that would be her home.

Walking into the town was even more nerve racking than stepping off the ship. All the stares and whispers from the town members made her twice as nervous as she already was. Natalie, trying to be brave, blinked back tears as she remembered the day her father had left her.

FLASHBACK

"Where are we going?" the small girl asked, only four years of age. Getting no response from the man she called her father, Natalie tried again. "Papa, where are you taking me?"

"Oh, Natalie. My precious child," Her father said kneeling beside her. "I'm sorry sweetie, but I have to go far away, on a um…business trip. I'm taking you to a special place where you will be taken care of." Not knowing what her father meant by "business trip", Natalie decided everything would be ok as long as she was with her papa. Natalie at the time was not informed that her father was being hunted by several men for large amounts of debt. Realizing what was best for his daughter, Natalie's father, Wetherby Swan, was leaving his child in the care of his friend Joseph Carter, so she would be brought up well without him.

"Ok daddy! Whatever you say!" Natalie said cheerfully, now happily going along with her father.

As they reached the small house where Natalie would now be living, her father pulled out a beautiful bracelet. It was silver, with aqua stones all the way around. On the back, it had the engraving of "love you forever and always W.S." Natalie's father had given it to his wife as an engagement present, and he had kept it after the tragic accident of his wife being stabbed late one night, when little Natalie was naught but a year old.

"Natalie darling, I want to give you this. It belonged to your mother." He said putting the bracelet on his daughters small wrist.

After knocking loudly, the door opened to reveal a young, clean-shaven looking man.

"Mr. Swan, how good to see you again. Do come in," the man said opening the door wider. "And who do we have here?!" he said picking Natalie up and tickling her.

"It's good to see you too Joseph. That would be my darling little Natalie." Natalie, with her small self, immediately liked the man for he knew how to make her laugh.

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"When she is old enough, you will bring her to me. I'm sailing to a new colony in a place called Port Royal. I hope this is best for my little darling" Wetherby said looking fondly at his daughter.

"I will take very good care of her I assure you." Kissing his daughters head one last time, Wetherby Swan walked out the door, leaving Natalie in Joseph Carter's care.

"PAPA!! WHERE ARE YOU GOING?" the small girl yelled trying to run out the door to catch her papa, only to be held back by her new "father".

"PAPA!!!" she screamed again, furiously crying and trying to get out of the man's grasp. Sinking to the floor, with a puddle of tears around her, Natalie began to realize she would never see her papa again. And, until the day when Joseph thought she was ready, Natalie never would.

END O' FLASHBACK