Speaking of the Past

Chapter 15: Girls Talk

Rose Noire le Mort

A/N: OMFG! I never expected to get this many chapters done. It's like I' realizing for the first time that I have written 15 chapters! I usually write a chapter or two and loose interest. But that was that Trigun and Dragonball Z stuff. I never really had as much of an obsession for either of them but Pirates of the Caribbean has my full obsession. Johnny, Orlando, Keira, Lee, Mackenzie and especially Zoë all have my obsession. So I think that if I keep up with the creative juices I could be writing this bull-shit for while.

Thanks to Freak and Proud, Everywhere Yet Nowhere and Kungfuchick

Freak and Proud: Yes, Claudia is leaving very very soon. Actually within the next three chapters. (Which I haven't figured out yet)

Everywhere Yet Nowhere: More niceness on the way just for you! Okay not just for you but- I had you in mind.

kungfuchick: Yes, he did! I was excited myself when I wrote that! I had planned this whole elaborate scene with Will in the kitchen with rum and Will inquiring his love for Ana but that can wait for another fic or it might never happen. Whichever one comes first.

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And in the morning she didn't feel that way.

Jack hadn't slept that night supporting the both of them on his own two feet. While she had been sleep he had put a hand on her stomach. It was no longer as flat and toned as it was only a few weeks ago. Could she be…? No! But it had happened before.

Just think about it! His own little Sparrow! Something from him and Ana, their own story. He couldn't get too excited though there was still that .01 chance that she was just letting herself go. It would be very ironic if that .01 was the reality and there was no little Sparrow for him and Ana. But he was reassured when she woke up.

Ana woke up to the smell of the sea and a calm Caribbean breeze. The sun rose out of the sea creating a pink and purple illusion in the sky. She could feel his arms that still encircled her stomach. She turned her head to relax into his chest taking in his scent of rum and musk.

"Good morning love."

"Very good morning," she said into his chest. "I like waking up like--" She broke away from his embrace quickly making her way to the railing to empty out what was in her stomach. There was a horrible sound erupted from her throat as she emptied her hollow insides. Jack, being the supportive man he was, walked to her pulling her hair from her face as he had done many times before but with different reasons and rubbing her back with the other hand. She was finally finished not soon after, wiping her mouth with the back of her hand.

"Thank you Jack."

"No problem love," he said still rubbing her back. "Anything you'd like t' tell your captain?" Ana turned around to him smiling. Both of them already knew what she was going to say, he only waited for the words to come from her mouth.

"We're going to have a baby Jack." That 99.9 proved correct. They were to have their own little Sparrow soon. Jack grinned picking up his lady and spinning her around in his joy. She wrapped her arms around his neck squealing as she was turned round and round.

"I love you Ana." He bent down to kiss her but then remembering the events of only a few moments ago pulled back with almost a frown on his face. "I can't kiss you."

She dropped her arms from around his neck. "What?"

"You just vomited. I don't really think kissin' you at the moment would be very pleasant."

She rolled her eyes wrapping her arms around his waist and leaning into his chest. "Daft bastard."

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Claudia looked at the pair on deck in shock, it confused her. White people couldn't love Negroes. It just didn't happen. She knew he had meant what he said but some part of her wanted to think like a slave. That part of her wanted to believe that Jack only wanted Ana for her company, that he just used her whenever he needed a good fuck.

They didn't love each other she tried to convince herself. Why was she so worried about it? She didn't have to wake up to his pores that sweat rum or his skin of tan or his trinket laden hair. But she was a friend and he was using her! Charming her to lure her to his bed. But if that was all he wanted why hadn't he left her already, sent her away in a rowboat. Why did he tell her he loved her why was he so happy about this new child?

A child. Anamaria was still a whore to Claudia. Only difference was now she was sleeping with the captain and not the master. Here she was having another one to run off without for some crazy half-baked notions. Anamaria shouldn't be a mother. She didn't know how to raise a child. She couldn't raise a child on a bloody pirate ship. She couldn't do it on land how could she do it on water with a bunch of smelly, dirty, trifling white men? She stormed off to their temporary room to rant at Hattie. She burst through the door slamming it behind her.

"Hattie! Hattie ya hoe negra get up!" Hattie sat up in the bed rubbing her eyes and looking out the small porthole. She could see the sun rising in the distance.

"What is it?"

"Ya wont believe it Hattie. She's havin' another one."

"They say I gossip too much. You do," Hattie said pointing an accusing finger at the younger girl.

"I heard it wit' my own ears Hattie. I swear. She's having another babe."

"So I'm guessin' it's by that Captain Sparrow."

"Exactly."

"Why can't you quit meddlin' in their business?"

"I was on my way up to watch the sunrise, I couldn't get back to sleep. It was mere coincidence."

"So tell me what happened."

"Gladly," Claudia said with a smirk before continuing with her tale happy to get some gossip even if it was just between the two of them.

A/N: Yes I know it's short but I have school in the morning and I have to go.