(A/N) Another Chapter! I know I am too kind, too very kind! Only three days till CATCF!
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOW OWN POTC!
"Look at the whelp and his bonnie lass! What are you doing here in this fine establishment!" Jack slurred.
"He's drunk." Elizabeth whispered to Will.
"I know." Will whispered back. Both then sat across from Jack. "Jack we are here to ask you something."
"Shoot." Jack braced himself.
"We wanted to invite you to the wedding." Elizabeth asked suddenly. Will shot her a look. "It's in three weeks, in Port Royal, I am sure we can sneak you in." Elizabeth said with a forced smile. She wasn't going to confront him, not like this.
"Sure! I love weddings! I told you that right!" Jack almost fell out of his chair. Will reached his hand across the table and held him up. "But that's not why you're here…" Jack then looked at Elizabeth. "Isn't that right Elizabeth?"
Elizabeth looked away, surely she wasn't that transparent. "No that was it."
"Peas in a Pod, love, remember that." Jack then got up and sauntered out the door. Elizabeth blew out a heavy breath of air and got up with Will and followed him out.
"Jack, would you wait!" Will shouted.
"Captain to you whelp!" Jack then walked further, until he fell over some crates.
"Jack! Let us help you…" Elizabeth said gently as she grasped Jack's arm. For the first time their eyes locked. Her eyes…that's what she saw in him. "Let's take you to the Pearl, you're drunk."
"No! I am perfectly…" Jack then tried to stand up, and fell over again. "Maybe just a little…" Will and Elizabeth then helped Jack up and walked him to the Pearl.
Will and Elizabeth both flopped Jack on his bed. "Where's my bottle?"
"Jack isn't that enough of the drink?" Elizabeth said as she sat down on the bed.
"Who the hell are you? My bloody mother!" Jack then snuggled against the blankets. Elizabeth looked up at Will. Will could see the hurt in her eyes. Then a moan was heard from the blankets. "Maybe I over did it a bit…" Jack moaned.
"I think so." Elizabeth then flipped Jack over to his back. "I'll be back." Elizabeth then rushed out on deck. Will ran after her.
"What's wrong?" Will asked as he grasped her shoulders.
"He's my father. I could see it in his eyes. I see myself in his eyes." Elizabeth then leaned into his shoulder and began to cry. "I can't bring myself to look at him." Will just held her until she stopped crying. When she looked up she rubbed her eyes. "I can't leave him like that either."
"So what do you want to do?" Will asked.
"Stay with him." Elizabeth then walked back into the cabin and looked at Jack's sleeping form…and his snoring sound. Will shut the door behind them and sat down in a chair and watched Elizabeth sit on the bed.
"He looks like me…the eyes…the cheekbones…" Elizabeth then picked up Jack's hand. "Will…what if he doesn't want a daughter?"
"I think he might." Will then watched as Elizabeth took the blankets and covered Jack up. She crossed the room and Will opened his arms, Elizabeth then sat on Will's lap and hung her legs off the arm of the chair, and soon the two fell asleep.
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Jack woke with a pounding headache. Sitting up in bed he grabbed his head in agony. As he looked around his cabin, he saw it had been cleaned and straightened up. "Damn it…"
Jack swung his legs over the bed and cursed himself for drinking so much.
"I thought you might like some." Jack quickly turned around to see Elizabeth sitting in a chair in a corner, holding what looked like coffee.
"Is that coffee?"
"Yes." Elizabeth got up and handed him the cup. Jack drank it down, ignoring the pain of the scorching liquid.
"Were you here all night?" Jack asked.
"Yes, Will was too…It's nearly late afternoon, Will is making sure things are running smoothly." Jack then went wide eyed and quickly got up.
"Whelp isn't going to run my bloody ship!" Jack stormed out of the cabin and ran right into Will.
"Glad to see your up and of sound mind…" Will said with a smile.
"Do not touch my ship!" Jack then staggered to the helm.
"Jack you drank too much you should take it easy." Elizabeth said as she followed him up the stairs, Will right behind her.
"I don't need you to bloody hold my hand!" Jack was being impossible.
"Your acting like a child!" Elizabeth shouted back.
"Your acting like you care!" Jack spat back and began to walk away.
"This was a mistake!" Elizabeth shouted.
"What was a mistake?" Jack whipped around and stared at her.
"This." Elizabeth took out her birth certificate and threw it at him. "You bastard!" Elizabeth picked up her skirts and ran off.
"You better read that!" Will looked at him and ran after Elizabeth. Jack slowly bent down and picked up the paper. After reading it he rubbed his forehead. She knew…she had been trying to take care of her father…
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"We should just go back to Port Royal…" Elizabeth said as she paced the room at their inn. "This was wrong. We go home, I apologize to my father…and wish I never looked at Jack Sparrow."
"Elizabeth is that what you want?"
"Do you know what I wanted Will? I wanted him to acknowledge me…and he didn't…"
"Well he knows now…" Will then stopped her and pulled her in his arms.
"It isn't fair."
"Life usually isn't." Will petted her hair and she leaned into him.
"I know." Elizabeth wanted the fairytale type reveal. That Jack would suddenly understand…but she now realized she was dealing with Jack Sparrow…the pirate…
"I am going to check us out okay…" Will said as he let her go.
"Okay." Will let go of her hands and shut the door behind him. A knock at the door a few minutes later sent Elizabeth to open it.
Jack was standing at the door. "What do you want?" Elizabeth growled.
"You know why I'm here Elizabeth. I would like to explain things…"
"Explain what Jack? You have nothing to explain. I am going home, and I never want to see you again."
"Home Elizabeth? In Port Royal? It never felt like home to you…you felt it, you knew it!" Jack then stepped in the room and took her by her shoulders. "You felt at home on the sea…you told me you loved the pirate stories…you told me of your love of the sea. You have the blood of a pirate in you…for Christ sake you want to marry one!"
"Let go of me…" Jack let her shoulders go. "You know what's funny? I expected more from you…" Elizabeth then pushed past him and started to rush down the stairs. Jack ran after her and grabbed her arm.
"You aren't going anywhere unless you hear my side of the story." Elizabeth tugged at him.
"Jack, I don't want to know!" Elizabeth then broke free and walked towards Will. "I'm ready to go."
"You think you'll be able to forget…" Jack taunted her. "Letting you go has haunted me every single day of my life. Try living with that."
"Try living with the fact that my entire life has been a lie."
"Will, you know she has to know the truth! Tell her because her thick skull won't bloody listen to me!" Will kept quiet this had nothing to do with him.
"Jack, you are nothing but a low life pirate…disgusting excuse for a man…" Elizabeth then turned on her heel and walked away. Elizabeth looked up as she heard a whirling noise.
"Get down!" The whole building turned into splinters as cannon fire ripped through the building.
(A/N) I am not making Elizabeth out to be the exact replica of Jack, just some features, to me they have the same eyes.