(A/N) I am too nice…

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN POTC!

"I was in Tortuga. A woman approached me, one I had 'business' dealings with, claiming you were my daughter…"

"She's yours Jack!"

"Well, what am I supposed to do with her?"

"I don't care, in my line of work, she'll only be in the way!" She then shoved the pink bundle into Jack's arms. The bundle then began to cry.

"Christ…" Jack mumbled as he began to rock the tiny pile of blankets. "Please don't cry…how about I sing you a song?" Jack lifted the blanket to reveal a rosy cheeked baby. "We pilfer we plunder…we don't give a hoot, drink up me hearties yo ho! Yo ho, yo ho a pirate's life for me!" Jack sang softly. "What am I going to do with you?"

The baby quieted. "What am I going to feed you? What am I going to call you?" Jack thought about that question. She needed a name, couldn't just call her, 'her'. "Name…Anabelle? No, too snobby…Emma…Emily…Evelyn…Elizabeth…That sounds about right, you look like an Elizabeth. My mother's name was Elizabeth." Jack began to walk to his room at the inn in Tortuga. "She was a darling lady…you need to eat."

Jack stopped at a small shop. "What do they eat?" Jack asked the lady behind the counter.

"Why she's a beauty!" The woman then rushed off to the back. "Milk, babies drink milk. Are you a sailor?"

"You could say that." Jack said, keeping a firm grasp on Elizabeth.

"Then you'll need this too." She pulled out a container. "All you do is mix it with water. But she'll need her milk."

"Right." Jack looked nervous.

"She eats every four hours, and sleeps in between."

"Right."

"What's her name?"

"Elizabeth."

"Elizabeth will also need some clothes and diapers." The lady then rushed around the store a bit and placed everything in a bag.

"My assumption is she doesn't have a bed, so just have her sleep between some pillows on the bed, face up, so she doesn't roll around."

"The first night I spent in that room with you was tiring. I had no idea what I was doing." Jack saw Elizabeth smile. "Eventually, I came across a passing merchant ship, that was willing to take on a baby. It was headed for London, and there would be a ship waiting for me, one that I bought, one that I bought with my own hard work…pillaging and plundering of course."

"The Black Pearl."

"Exactly, but I hadn't made the name for myself yet. So when in London I picked up the Pearl and a small crew. It went well, but I was always worried about you. It was my second time in London…that everything went wrong."

"Mister Sparrow, you have broken all the laws I can possible think of." A young judge said to Jack as he was brought before him.

"Captain Sparrow, if you will."

"I won't. Tell me how I may show you any mercy on sentencing." Jack shifted his feet.

"I have a daughter, she is only a few months old…she needs me…I won't have her grow up with anyone. I don't beg sir, never have I in my life, but I beg for the life of my daughter."

"If I allow you to leave, your daughter will be a pirate. That is not rewarding the system…but there is something we may be able to work out."

"Okay…" Jack said unsure of himself.

"My wife and I cannot have children. If you allow us to legally adopt your daughter, I shall let you go. The life of your daughter for your own." Jack looked outraged.

"That's my daughter…my little girl…I love her."

"Think of the life you could give her, none. She will probably be raped by some scum you allow on your ship, or die in a battle…what life is that for a young girl?" Jack thought about his words…thought about his Elizabeth…he made sense, but Jack would pine for his daughter for the rest of his life.

"If I agree…would you do something for me?"

"Besides letting you go free?" The judge nearly choked on his words.

"Keep her name. Her name is Elizabeth, it was my mother's name."

"She keeps her name. She will never know of you, you understand that…"

"I do." Jack gritted his teeth, he was giving up the one thing he loved.

"Then you are free to go…bring the child here, I will have marines escort you."

"It was the longest walk in my life."

Jack handed Elizabeth over to the judge. Jack felt his heart literally break into a thousand pieces as Elizabeth cried as she left his arms. "Please take care of her…love her…" Jack said sadly. Jack then touched her forehead and kissed it one last time, before he turned around and walked away…as tears streamed down his face.

"Elizabeth, I have done many things in my life, but that was the hardest thing I have ever done. I thought at the time, it was no good for you to live on a pirate ship, no good for me to die, and you sent off to some orphanage. I did what I could, because I loved you." Jack looked up to see Elizabeth crying.

"Jack, the judge…was my father?" Elizabeth asked.

"Yes."

"And he showed no mercy on you."

"No."

"Did you ever try and look for me?"

"No. The reason why I didn't tell you a year ago was because, regardless of how your father acted, he knew who I was back then, and he knows now. Why do you think he was so willing to kill the man who had just saved his daughter's life? He knew Elizabeth, and he tried to keep you from anything that was your livelihood. You are of pirates blood Elizabeth, it is who you are, who you were born to be."

"Alright."

"Pardon?" Jack said stumbling on his words.

"Then teach me."

"Teach you what?"

"To be a pirate. What you had thought of all those years ago."

"Elizabeth, I wanted you to be a pirate, but now, I don't know."

"Jack, I want to follow what has been in my heart for years. Now I have an excuse…I am a pirate." Jack looked into her eyes…his eyes…and stared at her, thinking that this may be a mistake, but knowing he wouldn't regret it.

"Alright." Jack said quietly.

"Good." Elizabeth said with a sigh.

"First, do me a favor and change into some sea worthy clothes, that dress is pitiful."

(A/N) Alrighty, Elizabeth the pirate, may work out, we'll see. You'll get the character Danielson that I hinted at, he is an interesting character, one you will learn to…oops ink ran out..hehe