A/N (2/19): I have hit writer's block… I need a way out!

A/N (2/24): Oh boy…

A/N (3/1): Hi. ((Waves)) I am so sorry everyone! I hit some writer's block until I found a way out, thankfully. To show people how sorry I am I will give you each, ((looks in Johnny bin)), Jack Sparrow shirt! It is quite lovely if I do say so myself. Well, ladies you know how it works. (:


"I think I'll sleep now," Elizabeth said. She showed no emotion to the news she was just told. Will smiled.

"Good night then." Adellaide's robe swept the floor as she walked out.

Octavia was sleepy herself. Therefore, she turned over and muttered, "Ye'll keep the monsters away, I'll wager." She said to Will. He smirked.

"Yes." He said, tapping his sword by his side.

Anamaria walked down to the steps to the brig. Damn these orders... she thought. I hate seein' the prisoners... Give 'em food! She mocked Jack her head. She held water and bread in her hand. She reached his cell. He was breathing she could see, but if he was asleep there was no way Anamaria would risk waking a navy commodore; especially one that almost caught them. Anamaria set the bread in the cell and the water next to it. Praying he did not hear her, she tiptoed out of the brig.

Norrington laughed in the dark.


Elizabeth lay in the dark, twirling her wedding ring around her finger. She lay on her right side, towards the wall. She told herself she was lying that way so she would not see Octavia; but really, she was afraid of facing Will. She tried to keep quiet, knowing that if she moved that Will would wake up. She smiled at the moon. She knew how peaceful he looked when he slept. Although, most the time she watched him, he was looking back at her as well. This time, however, she did not want to see the look in his eyes. She didn't want the influence on her, whether it was good or bad. Elizabeth knew she would have to deal with most of this by herself, as her own mother didn't make it threw childbirth. Deep down, she knew she was terrified. This baby, her baby, was growing inside of her. Elizabeth knew she could only do the bare minimum of what she knew about children. She did not know any tricks to getting children to eat their food, or clean up after themselves. It was mind boggling how much she would need ot learn in the next few monthes. She did not even know who to ask for help, if anyone. Asking for advice about bearing children was not the sort of thing you brought up in a normal conversation. It was her baby, and she would learn.

She sighed and rolled over, now feeling safe to look at Will. To her surprise, he was not there. She sighed. She was worried about nothing.

"Nervous?" Octavia asked in the dark. She heard Elizabeth jump. Octavia smirked.

"What do I have to be nervous about?"

"You do know yer havin' a child, right?" Octavia said, sarcastically. She rolled over facing Elizabeth, and propped herself up on her right elbow.

Elizabeth did not reply. "It is your first, isn't it?"

"Yes," Elizabeth admitted, staring up at the rough ceiling.

"You're no' nervous?" Octavia asked skeptically.

"It's not as though I know anyone who has had a child," Elizabeth snapped. "I can't ask for advice."

"I see…" Octavia replied.

"Should I be nervous?" Elizabeth asked after a minute.

"Are ye?"

Elizabeth sighed. She stopped twirling the ring.

"Wha' does William think of this?"

"I haven't really had the chance to ask," Elizabeth said.

"Well, sugges' ye do before ye 'av the child," Octavia suggested. She did not know why she was even asking, really.

"I have quite a few months…" Elizabeth said.

"Aye. They'll go fas' though," Octavia chided.

"How do you know?" Elizabeth asked.

Octavia was partly surprised that Elizabeth even asked these sorts of questions. She would have figured that Elizabeth was all about propriety. She had heard that all high-class women were that way. She did not know though, for she had never bee accepted as a high-class woman.

"I've 'eard stories," Octavia said simply. "I migh' suggest ye get some sleep. Pirates always wake at dawn; hung-over or not."

Elizabeth heeded her warning, knowing that she was true. She had read enough pirates books, and heard enough stories that she knew it must be true. She turned over again and fell into a light sleep. Octavia sighed when she heard the easy breathing of Elizabeth. Tha' was too close fer me liking, Octavia thought.

Will was sitting at the stern. He was watching the ocean, and the glimmer of the moon bounce off the water. It was beautiful, despite how tired he was. His eagerness was taunting him to stay awake. He felt as though Elizabeth might give birth tonight. He lay back putting his hands behind his head, watching the stars. He might not be on the night watch but he could not fall asleep. Especially in that chair.

He wondered what time it might be. It was either late, or very early. It just depended on how you look at it. He heard footsteps but figured it was just one of the crew, but they were too uneven. He tilted his head back to see Jack.

"Jus' as I suspected…" Jack muttered.

"What did you expect?"

"Octavia to throw you out," Jack said. Will sat up and turned around. He stood up and leaned against the starboard side of the ship.

"Always right aren't you, Captain?" Will asked.

"Nothin' gets passed me, mate," Jack grinned. Will returned the grin and rolled his eyes.

"It's almos' dawn, ye better get down to the crew's quarters. There'll be a spare hammock down there for ye," Jack said. He turned around and went to relieve Anamaria of the helm. She glared at him and headed down to the crew's deck, where she insisted on staying.

Jack merely smiled in return as she head down below. Will watched the ocean for a minute longer before he too, began to head below.

"Wait'!" Jack called.

"What, cap'n?"

"Ye better get those cots out before midday. Ye know how the crew will taunt ye," Jack said, before he drew out his compass and opened it. He just turned the wheel a bit and stared out in front of him.

"Listen, Jack. I don't want any special treatment…" Will began. Jack cut him off.

"If ye insist'. Now get to bed," Jack said.

"Well, Elizabeth would like it I suppose. Her own room I mean," Will started again.

"Here 'ow about this? Ye accept the offer, and get the cot and put it in the first mate's room," Jack shrugged. He was not good at proposing any proposition.

"That would mean I was first mate," Will clued in.

"I s'ppose." Jack said simply. He refused to look at him.

"I'm no sailor," Will said.

"Apparently yer no pirate either," Jack said looking at him. "Pirates take the first promotion their cap'n suggests."

Will stayed quiet.

Jack sighed. "If ye get the 'ang of it in a few weeks, then I'll offer ye again. If ye accept then, yer apart of me crew. Elizabeth coul' stay too, she's good at getting' outta bad situations I hear."

"I wouldn't want her aboard," Will said, shaking his head.

"Why do ye disagree at everthin' I say!" Jack complained.

"Elizabeth's with child!" Will cut Jack off.

"Wha'?" Jack said, amused.

"Don't make me repeat it twice. She'll not want special treatment for it."

"So, that's what's wrong with her?" Jack smirked, he had known so many hours before Will. He knew since he looked in Elizabeth's bearu.

"Aye. Adellaide's confirmed it," Will looked down.

"Well, Adellaide knows best…"

"Yeah, she's smart for a girl her age…" Will said, nodding.

"And what would tha' be?"

"Ah… I do not know. I assume her twenties… perhaps younger," Will muttered.

Jack snorted. He turned his attention back to his compass for a moment, and then turned back to Will.

"Congratulations mate," Jack smiled. He would make a good father, he assumed.

A/N: I have a few chapters to upload tonight. ( :. Sorry again that I haven't been very faithful. I have decided though, to upload a new chapter or two or more… every week.

A bit Closer, Johnny: Thank you. Weren't the Oscars just awesome:evil grin:

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