(A/N) Sorry everyone! I haven't updated inso long! I am ashamed ofmyself! Well, here I hope to make it up to you...Enjoy!

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN POTC!

Elizabeth sat in her bedroom, finishing off drying her hair. She was incredibly tired for the first time in her life, she had never felt this way. Everything was wearing on her mind, Robert, Will, her children, Adam, Jack, how they would escape the Navy. Elizabeth sighed and got up and sat in her armchair, it was her favorite, it was plush and comfortable. She leaned to one side her head leaning on her hand. Robert was downstairs in a cabin, nursing his injury, and her children were still asleep, unaware their mother had returned, and Elizabeth wanted it that way, she didn't want to look disheveled in front of her children, she didn't want them to be afraid. The door creaked open, and Elizabeth so far into her trance didn't notice Will walk in.

"Elizabeth?" Will said as he saw her, but she didn't answer.

"Elizabeth?" He tried again, this time Elizabeth looked at him and noticed he was there, but still did not say a word.

"Aren't you going to talk to me?" Will said.

"What for?" Elizabeth said, she was not happy with him.

"Because I am your husband, and I was worried about you." Elizabeth stood up and looked at him straight into his eyes.

"You would have left him…" Elizabeth growled.

"Yes, I would have." Will said.

"Why? He is my brother."

"He also kidnapped you, killed your father, as well as the commodore. He is not a safe man, and I don't think he would hesitate to hurt you either." Will shot back.

"He is a pirate…you have done the same, how many men have you killed? How many sons, fathers, brothers have you killed?" Elizabeth said.

"It's different."

"How's that?"

"Because he decided to do this to you, my wife, and I don't take kindly to the person who kidnapped my wife, whom I love, I don't care who he is."

"But he is my brother! How can you just cast that aside!" Elizabeth was yelling at the top of her lungs.

"Because I love you!" Will shouted back. Both turned for a while and did not speak.

"Will, he is my brother, I care about him. If you could only understand." Elizabeth spoke quietly. "His mother died when he was young, and my father abandoned him."

"I grew up without parents." Will said smartly, "…and I am not hell bent like he is."

"But you had me to love, and I loved you in return, he had no one. He has spent his entire life looking for me, to tell me everything, to tell me he existed, and all he want is just that, to feel as though he exists. He is my brother Will, it is a bond we have, and that's it, you can either accept it or not, that's entirely up to you." Elizabeth said.

"I don't accept it. Why can't you see that he is a danger? That he is no good for you, or for any of us. We have got the Royal Navy hunting us because of him!" Will said as he pointed the door.

"Well, where do we go from here?" Elizabeth asked. "I won't give him up."

"I am Captain of this ship, and what I say goes." Will said, he didn't want to be this way, but he also didn't want Robert in their lives.

"Will, you can't possible mean that?" Elizabeth could not believe the power struggle he was about to play.

"I am serious, I don't want him near you, my children, and this ship."

"Our children, he is their uncle."

"No Elizabeth, I will not subject them to him." Elizabeth's eyes went cold and uncaring.

"Your acting just like my father, he used to do this to my mother, he was nothing but a controlling bastard…I won't let you do it to me…" Elizabeth then slammed the door behind her as she left. Elizabeth walked down the plank and into Tortuga, she went right by Jack, and Adam, who were surprised to see her so angry.

"Elizabeth!" Adam called after her. "What was that about?" He asked Jack.

"Don't know…I'll catch up with her, see what's the matter." Jack then followed Elizabeth.

"Elizabeth, wait, give me a chance to catch up!" Jack called after her. She stopped and turned around.

"I am not in the mood Jack." Elizabeth said annoyed.

"You will be." Jack then grabbed her by the arm and dragged her into the nearest Tavern and sat her down at a table. "Now, what's going on?"

"I won't let him be my father Jack!" Jack sat back confused.

"Who are we talking about?"

"Will! He is going to kick Robert off the ship, he is my brother Jack, he is my blood, and Will can't see that."

"No he can't, do you want to know what he sees?" Jack said with a raised brow. "He sees a man who took his fragile, pregnant, wife, scared her so much, that she resorted to locking her children into a closet for their protection. Did you know Eveie won't talk to Will? Eveie won't talk to anyone, and William, is trying so hard to act like a man, not cry, but he is just a child. That is what Will sees, a man that can destroy his family in an instant."

"I didn't know…"

"Elizabeth it isn't your fault that you have this invisible bond with Robert, but you also have to remember, you have a stronger one with Will. Will would do anything for you, he loves you, and you need to ask yourself just one question. Are you willing to risk it, for a brother you barely know?" Elizabeth looked down at the table, Jack was right, but he was her brother.

"No, I love Will, but Jack, he is my brother."

"I know, but as long as Will sees him as a menace, he won't see it. This is what I am going to do for you. Until your brother can get on his feet again, I will keep him on my ship, so that way you can have contact, but won't be in Will's path."

"You'd do that?"

"Elizabeth, I had a brother once, and I know the type of bond that can carry, if Will had a brother or sister, perhaps he would know where you were coming from. I know Robert is not a terrible person, he is a pirate. Elizabeth you are the wife of my closest friend, and being a close friend of mine myself, entitles you to some of my generous liberties."

"Thank you Jack." Elizabeth then got up from the table. "I have some things to say to Will." Elizabeth then got up and headed for the Sovereignty.

(A/N) What is Elizabeth going to say to Will? Dun Dun Dun...