Hiya, I'm back...no one's really reading this...or they choose not to review...so I haven't made much effort to post. But here is the next chappie so enjoy while you can!

Disclaimer:holds up right hand: I swear that I do not own anything that belongs to Disney... :mumbles: poo on them. :SMACK: Ow! No! I love Disney...-when they're nice to me-...and when I can go to Disneyland! Ooh, I own Jake though!

Meg looked around on deck for Will. He was talking to a crewmember with a confused scowl on his face. Meg sighed and walked up to him. Will turned to her.

"What happened?" he asked her.

"I've been kicked out of the cabin…Jack said that you knew of a hammock I could commandeer…" Meg replied, glancing around.

"So he really did bring his 'wife' on board?"

Meg nodded.

"Please, Will…I have a hangover and if I don't get back to sleep I swear my brains are going to explode out of my head—,"

"That would be a sight to see!" the cabin boy, Jake, interrupted. Meg sighed and looked with pleading eyes back at Will. He nodded.

"Alright, follow me,"

Meg followed Will down the stairs and outside of his and Elizabeth's cabin. There was an empty hammock. Meg tied her stuff to the pole that the hammock was attached to on one end and stood back up. Will looked at her with his puppy dog brown eyes.

"Is there anything else I can do?" he asked.

Meg shook her head.

"No, I'm good…just some sleep and then something to eat later will do it…I think…"

Then unexpectedly, Will hugged her. It was a very brotherly hug but Meg knew that he only wanted her to feel better.

"If you need anything, Elizabeth and I are right here," he pointed to the door. Meg nodded.

"Thanks," she sat in the hammock, pulled out her cloak and lied down, covering herself in the green fabric.

An hour or two later, Meg was woken up by a small voice calling her.

"Auntie Meggie!" cried Gracie. Meg groaned, waking up, her head pounding.

"What…?"

"Will you play with me?"
Meg groaned again, annoyed. Then she thought about it. It would probably make Jack happy if she helped out with little Grace. So she sat up and sighed, her hangover still present.

"Alright, what shall we play?"

Elizabeth came out of her cabin to a very interesting sight. Meg was sitting on the floor playing something that looked like a game of pretend with Gracie.

"Now you have to come and rescue me from the dragon!" Gracie explained. Meg nodded and pretended to be a prince, riding on a horse to save the princess from the evil dragon. She put on a very talented and dazzling display of a one-woman performance of how the prince slay the evil dragon and saved the beautiful princess and was rewarded the princess's hand in marriage by the king. When Meg was finished she fell back onto the floor. Gracie clapped her hands together and shouted, "Yay!" at the top of her lungs. Then other hands began applauding. Meg looked around from her spot on the floor. Elizabeth and Will were standing on one side of the room, crewmembers at other places, Jake, the cabin boy was near the stairs and sitting on the stairs was Jack and Louise, all her grinning. Meg stared at everyone for a moment, all applauding her and her performance. Finally she stood up and took a bow, also smiling.

"Alright, back to work," said Jack as he helped Louise up. Will and Elizabeth retired to their cabin. Louise approached Gracie and picked her up.

"Come on, bed time," she said. Meg walked back to her hammock and lay down with her hands behind her head. Louise put Gracie to bed in a cot across the room from her. Jack stood to the side and watched. Louise then started back up the stairs.

"Jack? Are you coming to bed?" she asked. Jack nodded.

"In a minute…you go ahead, I'll be there soon," he replied. Louise nodded and went to their cabin. Meg stared at the ceiling for a moment, until Jack's head blocked her view.

"How's your headache, love?" he asked. Meg glanced at him.

"Fine…it's gone…you know, you better stop calling me 'love'." She smirked a little but then a sad look crossed her face. Jack hesitated.

"Aye…I'll see you in the morning,"

"Aye, Captain…goodnight," Meg rolled over a little away from Jack. Then he leaned down and kissed her forehead. Meg closed her eyes and waited for him to leave. His footsteps ascended the stairs and faded away. A tear slid down Meg's cheek and then she fell into a restless sleep.

It was cooler than usual that night. Meg woke up in the middle of the night and pulled the sheet from her old bed out and wrapped that around her. Then she took the blanket/towel and put that over her and then her cloak. Once a decent temperature was reached she fell asleep again. Meg guess that it was only a few minutes later, she woke up again. A dark shape stood over Gracie's cot. Meg guessed it was Louise checking on her but flinched when someone leaned over her again and kissed her forehead.

"Jack?" Meg whispered.

"Shh…go back to sleep," he gently stroked her cheek. Meg's eyes fluttered shut and sleep engulfed her again. Jack walked back to his cabin and back to Louise. He entered and sighed. Louise was lying on her side in bed.

"Jack, are you alright, darling?" she asked. Jack nodded and walked over to the bed and sat on the edge, taking off his boots. He leaned back and used Louise's belly as a pillow. Louise smiled and played with the beads tangled in Jack's mane. Jack closed his eyes and smiled a little. Then he thought of Meg, and a vision of himself leaning on her rather than Louise came into his mind.

"No," Jack thought. "You can't think about her, savvy? Louise is your love…"

Louise kissed his forehead.

"Are you sure you're alright?" she said again bringing Jack out of his tangled thoughts. He smiled again and kissed her.

"Of course…love…" he growled. He turned and began to kiss her slowly. Louise's eyes fluttered shut.

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