A/N: I'm extremely sorry for taking so long but seeing as I am part pirate oneself I was on punishment and wasn't allowed computer time unless it was for school. (I snuck a bit in though)

"Teralyn," Ana said at as close as she could get to a loose for words. "But you're supposed to be dead."

"Very much alive aren't I though?" she said with a smirk. Unfortunately yes, Anamaria thought.

"Well Jack," Anamaria said. "Very good to see your former girl is alive and well," she shot a look toward Teralyn and returned back to Jack obviously with the same bullets for pupils. "but I must be off." They both continued to keep their eyes on Ana as she walked out of the tavern just as surely as she kept her eyes on them, tripping over tables and drunken sea urchins to make her way backwards.

"We should go sit down," she said leading the way as his nod went unnoticed.

"You said you've been with her for eight years. Is that right?" He nodded. "No wedding ring, no little Sparrows running around," Teralyn stated. "I know you've taken her to bed Jack. So why none of the above?" Jack was taken aback by her bluntness but managed by any means to answer the questions.

"Ana's not fertile. There was a…incident a while back."

"Oh I'm sorry to hear that," she said with a voice that obviously screamed the opposite.

"Well it's better that way since I'd probably have a coronary or something of the sort if I actually had a little bugger, especially a girl.

"But still no ring?"

He only smirked. "You know I'm not the marrying type ay Teralyn?"

"Do you love her?"

He ignored the question going on to another. "Why didn't you search for me?"

"Why did you avoid my question? Believe me Daniel Jack Sparrow- I'll find out."

"Well I'll leave it up to your hands then seeing as you'll find out."

Teralyn cocked an eyebrow. "Is that so?"

"Why didn't you search for me?" he asked her again.

"I heard you had a lass. I guess I heard right then ay?"

"Still leaves the better half of fifteen years ay?"

"Aye- it does."

"So my question-" urged Jack.

"I didn't want to search for you anymore," she said nonchalantly.

"Anymore? So you searched for me?"

"Aye," the old flame said. "That I did Jack. Right after I left Anse la Raye I chased you for 3 years. I didn't want to anymore, so I stopped and began living in Puerto Rico."

"Tortuga?"

"Last year. I was tired of Puerto Rico. You know the way I get tired and bored of things easily Jack."

"Of course," he said uneasily. They continued with their conversation finding that Teralyn had been working as a waitress at the Green Dragon Tavern for the last year and even despite his frequent visits to Tortuga accompanied by his crew, he and Teralyn never managed to cross paths. Also among their discoveries was Teralyn's escape. The way she did it? Running. Running for her life. Hiding. Desperate hiding. And more running. And finally she made her way to Puerto Rico- as a stowaway.

"You sure have had a… interesting adventure."

"Very interesting Jack, is it not? But what about you, redeemed captain of the Black Pearl?" Jack only looked at her with eyes that told her he wanted not to delve into his own tale.

"Fine Jack," she said taking down the rest of her ale.

"I-"

"I really need to be going Jack. You've taken a good bit of my time already. I should've been working."

"Don't-" he started.

"What do you mean 'don't' Jack? You have a lass. Rightly, a very tough and beautiful one." (As much as she hated to admit it.)

"I thought you were dead Teralyn." Was he pleading?

"Well now you've been proven otherwise ay?" Teralyn said with a smirk.

"Come back to the Pearl with me," he said. Definitely pleading now.

"You-" Teralyn started before catching herself. "Okay, I'll come back with you."

"It's settled then," he said taking down the last gulp of his rum. And so it was. Until …