"The glass is empty and the wine

Is bitter on your tongue.

People don't seem wild and fine

Like when you were young"

Blood spilled on deck as Jack felt his stomach turn inside him. In horror he watched the red liquid pool around his feet. However it was not his own but Reagan's life that now flowed across the rough planks of the Pearl. It took only a moment for reality to set in as a cry was heard and a man fell next to the girl. Jack looked at Gibbs, who was holding a stained knife, before kneeling and putting pressure on his daughter's wound. Around him his crew continued to fight what remnant was left of their attackers. On his knees, back turned to the commotion, he knew he was an easy target but that didn't matter at the moment. Besides, his men, and Annamaria, would protect him. His attention was drawn from his thoughts as Reagan gasped at the pain the burned in her body.

"Come on Blackbird, it's only a shoulder wound. If I survived two shots you can pull through one."

"Quit talking, Jack, it bloody hurts!" her voice was a whisper.

"I know, we'll get it fixed soon enough."

"Not if we don't stop the blood," Annamaria stated coolly as ran over, lifted Reagan from the deck, and made her way to Jack's cabin. As much as he wanted to follow the captain stood and looked at the man who had threatened Reagan, he was still alive, though just barely. As he towered over the fallen man he growled, "Really mate, did your crew forget? I'm Captain Jack Sparrow."

"I didn't shoot the girl."

"No, but you touched her none-the-less, and no one gets away with that on or off my ship." With that Jack made swift work of putting the other pirate out of his misery. It wasn't until he was done that he noticed Gibbs and Cotton dragging the only two of the surviving assailants down to the brig. He let out the breath he had been holding, relaxing a little, only to remember that this battle was far from over. Turning on his heel he made a mad dash for his cabin. When he reached the door he flung it open so hard it hit the wall behind it, however he stopped short at Reagan's pale face.

Anna looked up at him, perceiving his thought, "I got the bleeding to stop, she'll be fine in a few days."

"She's white as a ghost," he commented.

"She's also awake," Reagan said opening her eyes, "So stop referring to her in the third person."

Jack laughed, "Well, Anna, I think you're right. She will be just fine."

"What did I just say?" Reagan retorted.

Annamaria looked at Reagan and stood to leave, "Oh stop it, girl, no one's insulting you."

The younger woman only shrugged as best she could before she and Jack were left alone.

Slowly he walked over to the bed where she was laying and sat by her feet, nearly tripping over her discarded boots as he did so. "I guess I should say I'm sorry or something like that."

"I guess," was all he could get out of her. This was the first time they had spoken in three weeks, seeing as they rarely spoke without fighting. The night he had told her about her mother was the last they had actually gotten along.

"You're impossible, Reagan!"

"Like someone else I know," the statement was accompanied with a withering glare.

"It's not like a I meant to shoot you,"

"Use what little, rum filled, mind you have left, Jack!"

"Reagan Renee Sparrow, I'm still your father!"

"I don't care what you are any more, I should have let Maxi shoot you in Tortuga, it's all you ever disserved."

Jack stood, "You're looking at a one way ride back to Port Royal. You're twenty-five years old and you act about fifteen. When will you grow up and realize that life happens, people are stupid, and you don't know everything!" Really it was more of a demand than a question he decided as he left the cabin. Had it been a mistake to try and shoot the man holding a knife to her throat? It seemed so. But there had been no other option; no one else could have reached her. "And besides," he mumbled, "Better a bullet wound you'll live to tell about than a slit throat you won't."

A/N: Once again I don't own "Cry to Me", it belongs to Heart. (The verse at the begining is from that song, just like in the other chapter) Also, I don't own or have anything to do with any of Disney's characters, K? So please don't me. I'm just a poor college student. :)