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Lily went with Jack to tell the crew their plans.
Jack had already told them that Lily was pregnant, so they had just been waiting for the orders to leave.

With or without their captain they were about to find out..

Jack helped Lily onto the ship.

She was even more unsteady with the new weight of the baby.
The crew gathered around when they saw Jack and Lily step onto the deck.

"Gibbs!" Jack yelled.

Mr. Gibbs showed up through the mass of pirates.
"Aye Captain?" He asked

"Mr. Gibbs, I will be subsiding here for a while, I want ye to take care of the Pearl until I send for ye to come back and get me and Lily , Savvy"
Jack couldn't help smiling when he saw his first mates face.

"Y-ye want me to captain the Pearl?" Gibbs stuttered.

"Only temporarily." Jack laughed

"Aye!" Gibbs said

After a few hours with the crew and saying goodbye , Lily and Jack waved the ship off.

They waited until the ship was merely a dot on the horizon before turning around and heading home.
Lily watched Jack as they strode back to the house.

He had given up all he had ever had for her.
Even if it was only temporarily.

Jack noticed her looking at him.
"Can't take yer eyes off me can ye?" Jack asked arrogantly.

Lily giggled and stoped walking , making Jack turn to look at her.
"Thank you Jack."She said looking him straight in the eye.

"I should thank ye luv." He said honestly.

"Why do you say that?" She asked

"Me whole life all I had was my ship and me crew, and that's all I thought I needed, but when I met ye, I realized what my life was missing, and ye let me love ye. Ye're havin my child for goodness sakes , no one has ever done anything close to that, and I wouldn't want anyone else to."

Lily didn't realize she was crying until Jack wiped a tear from her cheek.

"God Jack, how do you always know just what to say?" She asked laughing through her tears

"Because... Im Captain Jack Sparrow!" He said opening his arms wide to show his point.

Lily laughed again and wrapped her arms around his middle below his outstretched arms.

Jack wrapped his arms around her shoulders and kissed her forehead.
Life couldn't get much better that this.

No it just got funnier.

Elizabeth had taken the liberty of teaching Lily how to cook.
Lily was horrible at cooking.
She never measured right.

She never used the right ingredients and when she did, she ended up burning it.
The two girls found out that they enjoyed the time alone more than anything else, so even when there was no hope in sight of Lily being able to cook, they still continued with the "lessons".

One day about 2 weeks later, Elizabeth came home to inform everyone that Commodore Norrington would be joining them for dinner that evening.

There weren't any happy faces, but Lily and Elizabeth went into the kitchen to prepare Dinner.

Elizabeth put a soup on the stove and left , asking Lily to keep an eye on it and preferably don't touch it until she got back.

Lily laughed knowing Elizabeth had just been joking.

Lily settled into a chair to wait until Elizabeth got back.

She began picking her nails absentmindedly when she heard a loud "Whoosh" sound.
She looked up and the entire stove was on fire.

"AHH!" She screamed jumping up, and falling back into the chair, when the weight of her stomach threw her off.

Lily finally gained her composure and began batting at the fire with a towel.

Elizabeth came in and screamed too at the site of her kitchen on fire.
She grabbed a towel as well and began batting at the fire.

Jack who had been sitting in the parlor heard a scream, followed by another scream, so he made the educated assumption that something was wrong.

He walked into the kitchen were he knew the girls were cooking.

When he walked in he almost laughed.

Lily and Elizabeth were batting crazily at the fire with hand towels and not doing anything to put it out.

Jack just calmly walked over behind them, grabbed the lid to the pot the soup was in, and put it on, instantly putting the fire out.

Both Lily and Elizabeth stopped and looked at each other, breathing heavily.

Jack looked at both of them, shook his head and left.

After he was gone the girls busted into laughter.
Lily went to take a nap while Elizabeth finished cooking.

Around 6:00 everyone started to get ready.
Lily put on a gorgeous light blue dress with silver leaf patterns.

Jack wore what he always wore.
Will did the same.

Elizabeth put on a dark green dress, with white lace along the hem

They were all sitting in the parlor talking and waiting for the Commodore to arrive.

Elizabeth and Will were sitting glued to the hip on the sofa.

Lily and Jack were sitting in the larger lazy chair , Lily was sitting in front of Jack between his legs , Jack had his hands covering her stomach, and her smaller hands covering his.

Lily loved it when Jack did this.

It was the closest thing that he ever did to showing affection to their unborn child.
When there was a knock at the door, the butler let Norrington in.

Will stood up and shook hands with him.
"So nice to have you at our home Commodore." Will said plastering a fake smile on his face.

"It's very nice to be here." He returned.
Elizabeth stood and held her hand out, the Commodore quickly kissed her hand.

Lily stood with Jack's help and got a kiss of her own on the top of her hand.
Jack shook his hand also, before all 5 walked into the kitchen for dinner.

The whole time they ate Lily felt an uncomfortable sense that the Commodore was staring at her.

Occasionally she would look up and see him quickly shift his gaze from her.

After they ate and bid Norrington goodbye.

Lily felt such relief come over her that she felt like she had been holding her breath throughout dinner.

Something about that man unnerved her, and Jack noticed.

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