Disclaimer: nope, still don't own anything from Pirates of the Caribbean.

Previously:

Lynn goes to the Pearl to tell Jack about the baby, but she...well she chickened out. In stead she tells him that she want's to go after her fathers treasure...the key to Cortez' treasure. They agree to team up to find it. Nathan is ready to follow them.

Chapter twenty: Old relations

"Are you telling me Jack actually wants to be a father for your child?" Will asked surprised. Lynn looked down at her feet to hide the blush creeping across her face.

"I didn't tell him yet." Will looked up at her.

"You didn't? You're planning on going aboard a ship...a pirate ship for God knows how long and your planning on keeping your pregnancy a secret! What if you get sick? You need to be able to visit a doctor."

"I'll visit a doctor whenever I go ashore?"

"And what happens when you start showing? How long do you think Jack'll believe that your just getting fat? Or are you planning on telling him the truth?" Will was close to being furious with Lynn's decision.

"I need to do this Will." She simply stated. He stared at her for a while without speaking.

"I'm comming with you."

"No, I don't want you and Jack fighting all the time."

"I dispised Jack when he and I went to save Elizabeth from Barbossa and his crew and still managed to work with him. I'm comming. Even if it's just to pick up the pieces after Jack tells you he doesn't want no kid." Lynn swallowed a lump in her troath at Will's harsh words. She nodded. If he wanted to come with her there was nothing she could do to keep him from it. He was to stubborn for that. She smiled faintly, glad that she would have a good friend aboard the ship. Will would look out for her. She knew he would.

Jack was allready preparing the ship to set sail when Lynn and Will arrived back at the Pearl. Jack looked up at Lynn with a smile. She had changed for sure. There was something completely diffrent in her appearance. Maybe it was her new hairstyle or clothing. Jack smiled cause he also saw much of his own trades in her. Like the way she used her hands a lot when she was telling a tale. Or the way she grinned. Before he thought her grinn was cute now there was the same michievous glint in her grinn like the one he was famous for. He smiled as he walked over to her. To his surprise Will climbed aboard after her.

"Will? Thought you didn't want anything to do with me anymore mate?"

"I don't...I'm only here for Lynn." He stated as he walked past Jack and dissapeared into the cabin he had once shared with Elizabeth.

"Are ye ready to go luv?" Jack asked as he looked down at Lynn. She looked up at him and nodded. The wind tugged on her short curly locks. How he would love to just wrap his arms around her and kiss her with more passion then ever before. Or simply to run his fingers trough her hair.

"I brougth the map. There are some things that I can't figure out."

"Maybe we should look at them together?" Jack asked. Lynn nodded.

"Just let me know when." Unintentionally she placed her hand over her stomach as she glanced sideways at Jack. She secretly preyed they wouldn't run into many problems during their adventure. The last thing she wanted was for the baby to get hurt.

"When are you going to tell him?" Will asked as Lynn joined him at the railing. He was staring at Port Royal with both sadness and releave in his eyes.

"I don't know. When I'm ready...when I think he's ready."

"When will that be? When the kid's seventeen?" Lynn chuckled.

"I'll tell him before I start showing." She promised. Will nodded.

"My offer still stands. I'll be a good father and I won't expect anything from you." Lynn sighed, thinking how much this seemed like her mothers situation. Pregnant with a pirate and allmost desperate enough to accept Will's offer. But she held Will to dearly. He was her friend and she couldn't tie him down like that. He deserved someone who loved him more then life itself.

"I can't marry you Will, no matter how much I appreciate what your willing to do for me. I can't regret marrying you like mother regretted her marriage to fa...Henry. I'll tell Jack soon enough. If he doesn't want this child I'll just raise it on my own." Will didn't reply. "I think I'll go unpack now." Knowing it was useless to expect a reaction Lynn walked to her old cabin.

She was surprised to find someone sleeping in her bunk.

"Who are you?" she asked surprised shaking the figure. It slightly stirred but didn't wake. Lynn pulled away the covers.

"Curse ye fer breathing ye bloody pirate!" Lynn jumped back when the figure sat up and aimed her dagger at her.

"Who are you?" Lynn asked confused. "I didn't know Jack had any other women aboard." The woman seemed to relax.

"He doesn't...just me. I'm Annamaria." The woman stated offering Lynn her hand. Lynn shook Annamaria's hand and introduced herself.

"So yer the one Jack's been talking about all this time." Annamaria grinned. Lynn couldn't repress a smile.

"He's been talking about me?"

"Can't get him to shut up! You've really gotten to him lass." Lynn smiled.

"Weren't you supposed to be captain of your own ship? You started a shipping compagny didn't you?"

"Ironicly...we were attacked by pirates. I was the only one to survive. Well me and a chicken. Jack picked me up at this deserted spit of land. I was near dead...quiet an adventure." Lynn nodded.

"I'm sure it was...weren't you scared?"

"Aye lass, offcourse I was scared. But my will to live was stronger."

"Well at least your not going around saying you roped a couple of seaturtles." Annamaria and Lynn looked at Will who was standing in the doorway.

"Will lad, good to see ye!" Annamaria greeted as she pulled Will into a hug.

"You met?" Lynn asked surprised.

"Aye, I was part of Jack's crew during the whole Barbossa ordeal." Lynn nodded.

"I didn't know that..." she said softly. "But...what's this about Jack roping a couple of seaturtles."

"If ye really want the story lass, ye should ask Gibbs. He tells it best." Lynn grinned.

"I'll do that."

"I'll bring in another bunk, if Annamaria doesn't mind sharing her cabin." Will offered.

"Nah, allways wanted a roommate." Annamaria grinned.

"I'll just go talk to Jack." Lynn stated as she turned around to leave.

"Who the hell was yer father lass? Can't even make out the handwriting!" Lynn chuckled. Over the last half hour all they had done was stare at the map and complain about how hard it was to figure out.

"Don't you recognize anything?" Lynn asked him. He shook his head.

"How could I? Whoever wrote this probably used his bloody feet!" Lynn laughed. Jack looked up at her leaning over him to look at the map.

"I think this is a B...or possibly an 8." Jack nodded.

"That's not helping."

"Well I'm trying."

"I don't know what else to do. It's not in Latin, Spanish, English, French or Dutch for that matter. I don't think it even is a existing language. We tried reading it with a mirror. We tried finding hidden messages. There's nothing cryptic in the drawings. I don't know what to look for here."

"My father..." Lynn stated.

"What?"

"Well he made the map, he's the only one who can tell us what we're looking for here." Jack nodded she was right.

"It's an awfull big world if your looking for one man."

"Do you have a better idea?" Jack looked up at her for a while in silence.

"Okay...let's find yer old man then."

A/N: Chapter twenty for you all. Had to write it two time because our stupid computer broke down. Like it this way though. Hope you like it two. Thanks to all my great reviewers. Sooo close to a hundred reviews! So keep them comming.