(A/N) Next Installment will be posted on Thursday! It will be called, A New Beginning: Final Conflict. If you can think of a better title, let me know and maybe I'll use it!

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN POTC!

Five Years Later

"Stop the two of you!" Eve ran into the fields after her two oldest children. "If I say it once more, you'll have your father to deal with!"

"We just want to play…" Gabe stopped and looked at his mother with big eyes.

"Not out of my line of sight."

"Mommy we are five now…big boys…" Eve smiled at Jack. Eve extended her arms, and each one of her son's grabbed one hand.

"Yes you are, but your father is due back soon with Uncle William and Aunt Laura…and I still need to dress your brother and sister. Just please…" Eve looked up and saw Jack ahead of her.

"Grandpa Jack!" Both children broke free and tackled Jack to the ground.

"What I say about giving your mother a hard time?"

"Not to unless you say it's ok." Gabe answered.

"Oh really?" Eve said with her arms crossed.

"Kids…" Jack shrugged nervously. "Need help?"

"Yes. Colette still needs to be fed, and maybe if I'm lucky Joshua hasn't wiggled out of his clothes just yet." Eve had just had Colette a few months ago, her only daughter in a herd of boys. Joshua was two, and Eve had definitely has her hands full with four children, all under the age of six.

"Well, I'll keep my eye on these two for you."

"Thank you Jack. Be good." Eve warned her two boys.

"We will." Eve smirked as she walked away. Eve quickly made her way back in the house and stopped when she reached the parlor.

"Thank God!" Eve said relieved. Will and Adam were in the living room keeping Joshua company, and quiet. "I was worried I'd have to put him back in his clothes again." Eve sat down next to her father, as Joshua wiggled out of his hands and onto her lap.

"A bit stressed?" Will asked with a playful smile on his face.

"Yes. I swear they have the worst traits of us all." Eve then got up, holding Joshua with one arm on his back as he clung to her neck. "I have to check on Colette, she still needs to be fed…Do you mind just watching him a bit more?"

"No. Go ahead." Adam said. Eve then handed Joshua down to Adam. Eve went upstairs, and practically ran into the nursery where Elizabeth was cooing over Colette's cradle.

"I still need to feed her…" Eve said out of breath.

"Alright." Elizabeth smiled. "What do you need me to do?"

"Try and wrestle the boys and Jack in the parlor, I'll be down in a few minutes with Colette."

"Sure." Elizabeth then hugged her daughter. "I'm so proud of you." Eve stood back and looked her mother in the eye.

"What?"

"You are a good wife, a loving mother, and one hell of a pirate…even though the pirating theme has gone cold in the world. I just wanted you to know that your father and I are proud of you."

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Eve went downstairs where all her children were waiting. Holding Colette tightly as she went down the stairs she began to think about her life only a few short years ago, it was so empty, now it was so full of love, it was overwhelming, and in just a little while, she would be seeing her brother and sister, whom she hadn't seen in years.

"Mommy Jack took my toy!" Gabe whined as he grabbed her skirt as she walked in.

"Jack, give your brother his toy." Eve said as she looked at him with a stern eye, and handed Colette to her mother.

"No. Tell Gabe to stop his bloody whining!"

"Where did you pick up that type of language?" Eve said as she placed her hands on her hips. Jack said nothing and glanced at Jack. Eve's eyes traveled and locked on Jack.

"I try and watch my language I swear!" Jack said in his own defense.

"Always bloody this and bloody that in front of them…" Adam added.

"What the hell would you bloody know? Your always cursing too! Besides the boys need to know…men talk…" Jack noticed the look on Eve's face, and the laughter that was about to break from Adam.

"Jack, give your brother his toy, and please play nice." Eve said as she rubbed her temples.

"I told you boys to mind your mother, not make her go out of her mind." Gabriel said as he walked into the parlor. Eve quickly turned around and ran to him and hooked her arms around his neck and kissed him.

"I missed you." Eve said as she hugged him tighter.

"I know, me too."

"Where are my…" Eve glanced behind Gabriel's shoulder and saw the rest of her family. William, Emily, and now a ten year old Henry, Laura, Jacob, and their seven year old Adam. Eve walked towards her brother and sister. They all were different, all of them with their own families…

"My Eve, you certainly have been busy…" William said with a certain grin on his face.

"I have…"

"Bloody rabbit you are…" Laura said. The three then embraced…it had been too long, with the stress of pirating, their own lives, the quarrels within their family, their own relationship had suffered, and Eve was so happy, happy to finally have everything the way it should have been.

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"It's amazing to see them all." Gabriel said to Eve as she put Colette and Joshua in bed.

"What do you mean?" Eve whispered as she kissed her son's forehead.

"I mean all of you…even our children." They walked to Gabe and Jack's room.

"You mean the likeness." Eve said as they both peered into the room, and saw both boys were sound asleep.

"Exactly." Gabriel said as he shut the door behind them. They then walked to their bedroom and Gabriel opened the door for Eve. "I mean all of them, and I thank God that Joshua isn't talking much yet, and Colette can't, because they are all loud and opinionated."

"That's my mother's handiwork. She always taught us never to let anything that we thought of go unknown. We all passed it on to our children." Eve then stepped behind the screen and slipped off her dress, and stepped into her nightgown. Eve then thought about her words, and realized that Gabriel had no family, except Damien. "I'm sorry." Eve stepped out of the screen and looked at him as he sat on the edge of the bed.

"You don't have to be." Gabriel looked down at the floor. Eve stepped towards him and knelt down in front of him.

"You were thinking about it though…I should watch what I say a bit more often." Her seemingly soft gaze pierced his heart, he loved her so much.

"No, I don't want you to ever not tell me what you feel, or what your thinking." Gabriel tipped her head upwards and he kissed her. "I have a family now. It is with you, Gabe, Jack, Joshua, and Colette. It is more than I could have ever asked for."

"I love you." Eve got up and sat next to him. "And you are more than what I could have asked for. You gave me four beautiful children, and your heart."

"I love you." Gabriel then titled her head back and kissed her with such passion that it drew Eve's breath away. They realized at that moment that their lives were perfect. Their lives were turbulent, Gabriel losing his entire family, and Eve losing her moral fiber, with three miscarriages, a son she buried, and an unfaithful husband. But now, this moment, this particular time in their lives made up for everything, because they were happy, because they hadn't a care in the world, and because they loved each other with everything in them, and with that they would bring it to their children…they would love their children, and make sure they know the meaning of family, and it's importance. They would live out the rest of their lives in love and harmony, because they had each other.

(a/n) Like? No Like? Well, the next installment takes place another five years from now. Here is a summary: Five years later, everyone's lives are turned upside down with the abduction of Eve and Gabriel's children, Colette the youngest is ill with a heart defect, without her mother and medicine, Colette runs the risk of death. Eve will have to strap on her boots once more to save her children, Gabriel comes to terms with the fact that his wife is a pirate through and through. Betrayal is the name of this game, it will shock you... (WARNING: Major Character Death...)