Trying to Forget You

This is the second and last part to How You Remind Me.

A/N: Thank you to those people who reviewed to the first part of it. I appreciate you. Please read my other stories! I need more feedback!

He laughed. It had been this way for so many nights. Coming to Port Royal to visit his daughter, he was reminded too many times that his little girl looked just like her mother. He could never stop thinking about her. He wished that he had never had this daughter. She looked so much like the woman he was trying to forget. But he hadn't forgotten in 14 years. Why would he forget now?

He had only seen his girl a few times since she had come to her 10th year. She had grown up to be so much like her mother. It was almost unbearable. He had stood far, far away from the house, his keen but drunken eyes watching her. She was so happy with the Turners. She had a little brother, a mother and father that loved her as their own. Why would he come in and fuck it all up now? Why, he didn't know but he did it anyway.

Today was her 14th birthday. He was scared as hell but he was going to do this for all of their sakes. He made way to the house that the Turners shared. He cautiously knocked at the door, looking at the ground the entire time. He was just about to leave, almost happy that he wouldn't have to see the girl that he loved so much, but the door opened to show a very surprised Will Turner.

"Jack! Where have you been? It's been four years," Will said greeting the man with a hug.

"I've been around," Jack said calmly.

"Elizabeth, Maria, Joseph! Come down here," he said excitedly. Joseph made his way down first. The boy had grown considerably since the last time Jack had seen him. He was 12 now and the spitting image of his father.

"Uncle Jack!" The boy said now running down the stairs. Elizabeth followed down the steps as he embraced his uncle in a light hug.

"How've ye been lad?" Jack asked with a smile.

"Captain Jack Sparrow! Where have you been for 4 years? We've missed you terribly.--" If Elizabeth said anything after that Jack hadn't noticed as he saw his daughter descending down the steps carefully but quickly.

"Father!" she said quickening her pace to come and embrace her father in a tight hug.

"Happy birthday love," he said softly as she cried into his shoulder, so happy to see him again after 4 years of wondering where he had been, if he had been okay. He pulled something out of his pocket. It was a necklace, a beautiful one at that. It was gold and had a diamond encrusted heart in the middle. He turned her around pulling the necklace to clasp the cold metal around at the back of her neck. She reached her hand down to pick up the heart and examine it between her eyes.

"It's beautiful father," she said turning back around to fling her arms around his neck. "Please father! Take me with you!" Jack pulled away from her, holding the girl at an arm's length. She looked so much like her mother. The light brown skin, hazel eyes, everything. It was a double image of her mother.

"You don't like it here?"

"I love it and I love Will and Elizabeth and even Joseph but I want to be with you you're my father. I know you're alive and I want to stay with you. Teach me how to shoot, Will's already taught me how to use a sword." Jack shook his head. "Why? Father please! Let me go with you!"

"I can't take you with me Victoria."

"Why?" she yelled frustrated at her father.

"Because I can't! You remind me too much of yer mother and I been tryin' for yer whole life to forget 'er! Tha's why I ain't been 'ere in 4 years, tryin' t' ferget ye!"

The whole room was silenced at his outburst, shocked at his words. Jack quickly regretted the words, seeing the reaction from his daughter. Tears sprung to her eyes and she covered her mouth with an unsteady hand, choking back a sob. He could see the emotions on her face. The ones of hurt, sadness, disappointment and grief.

"Victoria--" the captain started. "I'm sorry I didn't mean it. I jes--" but it was too late for apologies she had already made her way up the stairs.

"Congratulations Jack Sparrow you just managed to ruin your daughter's birthday," Will seethed following his 'daughter' up the steps.

"I think it's best if you would leave Jack," Elizabeth said uneasily before making her way up the steps with Joseph by her side.

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Will came to sit beside his daughter who had planted herself at the vanity mirror in her room. She stared at her reflection as the tears rolled down her brown cheeks.

"Why doesn't he want me Will?" she asked. Will was shocked that she had actually acknowledged him. She sat there so still, unmoving. Will brought up a hand to rub her hair. "It's my fault isn't it? Something I did."

"No Maria," he assured. "This is about Jack. He doesn't have the heart to be reminded of her constantly. He still loves your mother and he can't let her go. He--"

"Every woman in the Caribbean swoons over my father. He can have almost any woman here. Why is he still so attached? Why is it so bad to remember Will?" The dark skinned girl asked falling into the blacksmith's embrace.

"Because he loved her. He knew your mother for years. She was the First Mate of his ship, his best friend and his love. Try to understand this Maria. He still loves you but it hurts him, you look so much like the woman that he spent all those years with on that ship."

Maria laughed uneasily. "My father doesn't want to see me because I look like my mother and I hate him for it." She took the jewelry on the desk and threw it at the mirror, making it crash to thousands of pieces.

She ran down the steps pushing past her 'mother' who was making her way up the steps. She ran half blindly to the door pushing past a very sullen looking Jack Sparrow. "Leave me alone father." She said spitting out the last word as if it were a disease. She made her way down the streets of the port town before a lone figure caught up with her, putting a hand on her shoulder.

"Victoria. Listen to me. I'm sorry.--"

Maria pulled her shoulder from the pirate spitting on the ground before him. "No I'm sorry. I'm sorry for thinking that you loved me. What the bloody hell do you come back for? You're so damned depressed because she died that you don't even care enough about me to come visit regularly,"

"Victoria--"

"Why can't you say my name?! My name is Maria! Everyone calls me Maria, why can't you?" Her father stood there stunned knowing that if he said her name that eh would break down, in front of everyone in these streets who were already watching the pair bewildered.

"Victoria!"

"Maria!"

"What's the point in having a middle name if you don't use it?" The girl only crossed her arms and snorted in response.

"Do you still want to come with me?" He asked in a childlike manner. Her expression from anger to shock immediately.

"You're going to take me?"

"Aye," she said opening his arms for her to jump in, which she did throwing her arms around his neck.

"Thank you daddy," he closed his arms around her, smiling in spite of himself.

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"Will, Elizabeth I thank you for letting me take her but we really must be going." Jack and Maria stood in front of the couple and Joseph prepared to leave back to the Black Pearl together. Elizabeth stepped up to give her daughter one final hug before she left.

"I"ll miss you Elizabeth, and you to Will," she said stepping up to him to give him a final hug also.

"I'm going to miss you so much Maria. I love you," said Will kissing her on the cheek as Elizabeth sobbed even more.

"What about me?" spoke Joseph the little boy who had been her brother for the past 12 years.

"I'll miss you too you little bastard," she said with a light smile.

"I promise that I'll bring her back to visit. Pirates honor," Jack announced putting a strong hand on Maria's shoulder. "Time to go luv." Maria nodded taking a sad glance back at the family she had known to love for 14 years.

Will embraced Elizabeth, who was sobbing into his chest, as he watched his only daughter jump into the life of piracy with her real father.

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Jack sat at the window of his cabin watching the stars and the moon. Suddenly he heard the squeaking of a dolphin, looking down he saw a beautiful blue dolphin riding alongside the Black Pearl. He smiled at the sight knowing it was from her.

"Thank you, for giving me my daughter back."

Maria stood unnoticed at the door watching him talk to himself or another person that didn't seem to be there. He looked crazy but she had to admit it was sweet though, talking to his long lost love, her mother. Maria walked just in front of the door closing it behind her, catching the attention of her father.

"You should be sleep, you know," he said turning around to face her. It was her first night on the ship and she was supposed to be sleeping in the cabin that had once been Anamaria's.

Maria fumbled looking between the wood on the floor and Jack's face. "I know but I…I couldn't…I couldn't get to sleep in there." Jack sat on the edge of the bed patting the side where Anamaria used to sleep on for to lay. Maria smiled coming to lay her head on his shoulder as he lay back letting her fall into a deep sleep minutes later.

"Happy birthday Maria," he said kissing his sleeping daughter's forehead. He could finally say the name he hadn't been able to say in 14 years. "Thank you Ana."

A/N: OMG! I finished it finally! Constructive criticism welcomed. But I so excited because I'm putting it up at a normal hour of the day. I usually post at like 2:00,3:00, 4:00 A.M. but right now it's almost 7 P.M. and I feel almost normal.

Review please! I deserve it!