Disclaimer: (Jack) This unfortunate tale will now begin….she doesn't own me anymore) …and she never did. –shifty eyes-

Chapter 21 – Dinner

A/N: (Jack) –sniffs- Here is the next sad tale written by Jo….

"Do you want me to come with you?" Will asked.

"No thank you Will. If you could finish putting those flowers in their vases I'd be delighted."

"Consider it done." Elizabeth said already filling a vase up.

"Thank you…" I looked at Will. "Get ta work ye mangy cad." I said in my best pirate voice. Which surprisingly, was good.

"Aye aye captain." He gave me a mock salute and walked over to Lizzie. I heard Elizabeth giggle, so I turned around and Will had his arms wrapped around her and he was showering her with feather kisses. I smiled.

You're a goner.

"Oh, not you." I frowned.

Your dad is going to kill you.

"What did I do now?"

He knows you were in the cells, visiting Jack.

"No, you're lying to me. Oh god, I am arguing with my mind." I shook my head.

Ta. I looked up and saw my fathers door. I knocked twice.

"Intrude." My father shouted. I giggled. I slowly opened the doors and closed them as quietly as possible. It wasn't quiet enough.

"Sam…sit." He said not looking at me. I nodded my head and sat in the arm chair facing the fire. I heard my father sigh. His chair scraped on the wooden floor as he got up and walked over to me.

"I have decided…" My father began as he sat down on the chair next to me. "…that we will have an engagement ball tomorrow night." I looked at him but he didn't look at me.

"Ok." I said.

"Splendid." He said still not looking at me.

"How can you honestly do this to your daughter?" I asked angrily.

"Do what?" He said continuing to look at the fire.

"Do I shame you that much that you cannot even look at me?"

"It is not like that." My father stated getting up from the chair and walking over to his desk again. I followed him.

"Then what on earth is your problem?"

"Nothing is my problem." He muttered flipping through some pages in his book.

"Then what have I done to make you hate me?" I said sadly. My father looked at me, got up and hugged me.

"Sambella, I do not hate you." I hugged him back and smiled.

"You act like it."

"My darling, you are the best thing that has ever happened to me. Don't you ever forget that." He commanded. "I was just so angry that your grandmamma was right."

"What?" I asked.

"She knew you'd fall for a pirate. I told her it would never happen but deep inside, I had a feeling you'd be the one to love someone…not in your league." I frowned.

"It's alright papa. Because, I do not love him anymore."

"Pardon?"

"You heard me. Those feelings are long gone." I said confidently.

"Oh,…that is wonderful." My father said. I closed my eyes to hold back the tears. "Go sleep my darling, you look tired. I'll have one of the maids wake you up." I nodded.

"Goodnight papa." I said kissing him on the cheek. He kissed me back.

"Goodnight." He watched me walk out of the room. I made my way to my room and got in bed with my dress on. I was too tired to change them, besides, it was only a nap.

Down in Gianni's study… (Gianni's P.O.V)

I watched her walk away and I could tell by the look in her eyes she wanted to believe she did not love that pirate. That vermin, that scallywag. I sighed. I knew she couldn't help it, but it angered me so. It killed me to not mention that I knew she had been in the cells today. Hordes told me he had heard everything. How she went down there to talk to him, how she told him she hated him and he broke me baby's heart. I slammed my fist down on the table, got up and slammed the door of my study shut.

"MARIA!" She ran into the entrance hall and looked at me.

"Si sir?" She quivered. I sighed.

"Get me my coat dear. I am sorry I frightened you."

"Si sir." The only words that woman knew. She wasn't very well educated but she was a wonderful woman. She came back with my coat and hat in her hands.

"Thank you darling, but I do not want this." I handed her back the hat and she nodded.

"Si sir." I was also lucky she understood English. I put my coat on and walked out of the door and down to the cells.

"A good talk will do it." I said to myself. Yes, a nice long talk. Oh, who was I kidding. I might be talking to him but what are the odds of him listening? Slim.

"Good afternoon sir." Hordes greeted me.

"Good afternoon Captain. How are you?"

"I cannot…how you say, complain." He replied.

"Wonderful, I need to have a word with a special pirate if you don't mind."

"By all means…" I smiled and walked down the stairs into the dark, pitiful jail. "Sparrow?" I called.

"Tha' be me." Someone replied coolly from the corner cell. I walked over there and faced him.

"Good afternoon Sparrow." He didn't bother to look at me. He continued sitting in the corner with his hat strategically dipped below one eye.

"Wha' is so good about it mate…ah, tha king." He smirked finally looking up. He saluted me and continued sitting down. "Wha brings ye down 'ere?"

"I know about you and my daughter." He smiled.

"Beautiful lass…but, ye don't have ta worry about tha anymore. She hates me, and I hate her. So, we can all live happily ever after. Well, she can because in three days I shall be visiting me ol' friend Barbossa in hell."

"No, you won't." I muttered. I can't believe I was about to do this.

"I won't?" He asked looking at me suspiciously.

"I am letting you free…in three days."

"Ah, tha day of tha wedding. I understand mate. Yer a good old man."

"Is that a compliment?" I asked in amusement.

"Not sure but, if ye want ta take it as one...be me guest." I chuckled. He wasn't at all like the other pirates. No wonder Sam took a fancy to him.

"Then I shall. In three days time, you shall be a free man but, if you ever come near my daughter, I will have you hung faster then you can say 'drink up me hearties yo ho." He looked up at me in a confused and startled manner.

"How do ye know tha' song?"

"Samantha. She used to sing it when she was six." I saw Jack smiled and I smirked. "You still like her don't you?"

"No. Pirates don't love mate. We have some here and there but commitment ain't good for us. It's like being in this prison…we 'ate it here and we'd rather be somewhere else."

"Ah, well, I must be going." I said bidding him farewell.

"Goodbye yer honour."

"Goodbye Captain Jack Sparrow."

"Ye…ye called me Captain."

"Good observation." I said walking up the stairs.

"Even tha king can call me Captain but ye mangy cads can't?" I heard him yell to his crew. I laughed.

"Shut yer big trap captain." A female voice mocked.

"All done sir?" Hordes asked. "And may I ask why you are laughing?"

"He is not a bad man Hordes. Not bad at all." I chuckled walking away. "Oh and he is to be set free, along with his crew in three days." I said over my shoulder.

"I beg your pardon?" Hordes called back.

"Just do as you are told."

Back to Sam…

"Mmmm….Jack." I giggled. I opened my eyes and saw Will shaking me.

"I am not Jack and I don't wish to be." He said. I smiled.

"How long did I sleep for?"

"Well, it's seven at night…"

"Seven?" I screeched. "Then why did you wake me up?"

"Dinner." He smiled.

"Oh, thank you because I am starving. I will be down in a minute ok?" I asked going over to the basin of water.

"Alright." He said closing the door as he walked out of the room. I washed my face, brushed my hair and got dressed. I looked at myself in the mirror and frowned. How I longed to be back on the Pearl in a pair of shirts and breeches. To have the wind blow through my hair and feel the spray of the ocean. Then, my thoughts wandered back to Jack. I missed him and I still loved him but he was gone. I let him go.

"Can I come in?" Came Lizzie's voice from outside the door.

"Sure." I muttered. She walked in and came over to me.

"How are you?"

"Crappy." I sighed. "I don't hate him Liz."

"I know you big goof."

"Oh, now we are calling each other names. Do you remember this one…Lizard breath?" She growled.

"I always hated that one."

"I know you big goof." I mocked her.

"Feeling any better?"

"A bit. It's just it amazes me that he broke my heart but I still love him to pieces."

"Love works in mysterious ways." She laughed. "Come, there is a wonderful feast going on downstairs. Your fiancée is here." I groaned.

"I have to face that oaf." Elizabeth glared at me. "Lizzie, I love Norrington to pieces also, but in a friend way. I am not attracted to him."

"I know." She smiled pulling me out of the room. "Come on, I am starving."

"How many months is it now?" I asked as we walked down the hallway.

"Only two months." She said rubbing her stomach. "I never thought I'd be having a baby so soon."

"Neither did I." I snorted. She glared at me again. "Hey! You were always just as childish as me Elizabeth Annette Swann."

"True." She giggled. "You were more, and you still are!"

"I will always be a child at heart." I said opening the doors to the dining room.

(Jack) Listen to me… Jo? –goes white- (Spirit Me) BASTARD! –uses spirit control and the force to choke him- (Jack) –chokes but, all of a sudden I return to human- (Me) –smiles and kisses Jack- YESSSSSSSSSSS! THE BITCH IS BACK! -Carmen falls to floor crying-REVIEW DAMMIT! –continues to kiss Jack-