Disclaimer: I don't own Pirates of the Caribbean.
Previously
Nathan and Jack's father capture Jack and Lynn.
Chapter 29: Father Father Father
Lynn paced back and forth in the luxurious bedroom Jack's father had asigned to her. She was clutching her stomach as she tried to swallow the painshots that went trough her entire body. She was crying uncontrollably knowing that their was nothing she could do to keep herself from going into labor. Soon enough Jack's father would come check on her and it would be extremely hard to hide the contractions she was having. The time between contractions had become less and less over the last few hours specially after her water broke. Lynn stared at the wet spot on the carpet by the bed and shook her head. She rubbed her stomach and talked to the child within.
"Don't be in such a hurry baby. Please, you don't want your daddy to miss your birth now do you. Please take it slowly. Give mommy some time to find a way to escape." Lynn looked around the room. There was only one door wich was under constand guard and there were bars in front of the window. She wrapped her arms around her stomach when another contractionsend sharp paintrough her body. The pain was worse then before and she couldn't help but scream. Her knees gave in and she collapsed on the floor. The doorswung open and Jack's father entered. He stared at the woman on the floor and grinned.
"Get miss Bower, and have miss Curtis' things packed." George ordered one of the guards that were posted outside her room. Lynn looked up at the grinning commodore as tears stained the carpet. George walked over to Lynn and picked her up. Gently he placed her on the bed and ordered another guard to get some clean towls. Lynn looked up into George's eyes begging him to take pity on her. The look on his face softened, but only for a second.
"And send word to my son that his child will be born this night." Lynn screamed with the next contraction as she pictured Jack as he heard that he would miss the birth of his child.
Jack looked up as he heard footsteps coming down the stairs. His cell wasn't anywhere near the cell's of other inmates. His father had made sure the only person Jack would see for the rest of his life was the soldier that brought him his dirty water and dry bread. Over the last three and a half months visions of Nathan hurting Lynn had plagued him day and night.
"Sparrow! You awake!" Jack looked up at the guard who stood by his prison looking down at the heap that was captain Jack Sparrow.
"Aye." Jack replied, his voice was weak.
"Yer father send me over." The guard explained.
"What for? The old guy ordered you to torture me?" The guard grinned.
"Something like that...He ordered me to let you know that miss Curtis will be giving birth to your child tonight. And since your father found a woman who just lost her child willing to nurture the child, she'll be send to mr mcPherson tomorrow." Suddenly Jack lunged at the bars trying to grap the soldiers troath and squeeze that smug grinn off of his face. But the guard stepped away just in time. Jack growled as he dropped his hands to his side.
Suddenly the man's eyes roled back in his head and his body fell to the ground...he was unconsious.
"I hope you realise now that you were a very bad influence captain Sparrow." Jack looked up in shock as he recognized the voice.
"Elizabeth?" he gasped. Elizabeth grinned as she kneeled by the unconsious soldier and searched his pockets for the keys.
"Yep, James and I just arrived here three days ago. He had some business with a fellow commodore. Imagine my surprise when the man introduced himself as commodore Sparrow. So I snooped a bit. Aren't you glad?" Elizabeth smiled as she unlocked the celldoor and let Jack out.
"Thanks lass, but I have to get to Lynn. She's in labor."
"I know. Her midwife ismarried to our host. Small world isn't it?" Jack followed Elizabeth up the stairs. They went past several unconsious soldiers on the way and had to hide from several others but they made it outside safe.
"Where are you going?" Elizabeth yelled when Jack headed towards his fathers house.
"Lynn's there, I have to get her."
"No!" Elizabeth grabbed Jack's arm and stopped him.
"Like I said...Her midwife is a friend of mine. She'll tell George that your child was dead at birth. She'll pretend to go out and burry it while George can get Lynn ready to go with Nathan." Elizabeth explained her plan.
"No...I won't let Nathan get his hands on her."
"I'm not saying you should! I'm just saying wait to get her untill she's on her way to Nathan. It's easyer to get her from a carriage then your father's house."
"The baby?"
"Rose will bring it to the end of the street where we'll meet her."
Lynn sobbed hystericly as the midwife told her to push. It had been a relieve when the woman had send Jack's father and his guards away to preserve Lynn's modesty, but knowing her child would be raised by a man Jack hated so much wasn't a very comforting thought.
"Not yet." Lynn begged again.
"You have to push now, or it'll harm the baby." Rose said calmly as she got some more towls ready.
Lynn pushed, clenching her teeth and chanting a prayer in herheadwhile screaming at the top of her lungs.
"I can allready see the head." The midwife smiled. "Now when I say so I needyou to scream as loud as possible and when you need to take a breath simply raise your hand and I'll scream for a while. We need to drown out the baby's crying." Lynn looked at the woman confused. "I'll explain later. All you need to know is that Jack will hold his child in his arms tonight."
Lynn didn't have time to reply.
"PUSH!" Rose exclaimed. "Here she comes! SCREAM!"
"It didn't work." Jack stated as he heard Lynn's scream all the way down the street.
"Sssh...it's part of the plan. They need to drown out the sound of the baby's crying."
Jack paced around nervously for what seemed like an eternity. Everything had been silent for a long time. Something must have gone wrong.
"Jack...I'm sorry. I really thought it was going to work." Elizabeth said softly as she to realised there was a small chance that the plan had worked. Suddenly they heard the sound of footsteps hurrying towards them.
"Elizabeth?" Rose whispered. Jack looked up at the woman. "the father I presume?" she smiled as she handed over the baby girl snuggle wrapped in several towls. "Mommy sends her love and asked me to let you know that she's looking forward to seeing you two again." Jack grinned as he looked down at the little girl.
"We thought our plan had failed." Elizabeth said to Rose as the gave Jack and his daughter some privacy.
"It allmost had if it hadn't been for miss Welch."
"What do you mean."
"I mean that when I went down to tell mr Sparrow that the child was born dead, he wanted to see it to make sure. I was about to confess that I had lied when miss Welch, the woman he had asked to nurture the child, showed up with her own stillborn. It was only a few days old, and the burrial actually is tomorrow, so we were lucky someone told her about our situation. She told George that we would prepare the child to be burried in the bathroom where the real baby was sleeping and then I took the real child here."
"Aren't you lucky to be with daddy in stead of that mean old man. Yes you are, yes you are." Jack said in baby-talk to the little girl in his arms. Elizabeth raised an eyebrow seeing Jack like this.
"Who could've told miss Welch?" Elizabeththought.
"Anyway, mrs Welch will be waiting for you back at the hotel, she's volunteered to nurture the baby untill be get Lynn out of there." Jack nodded his thanks and he, Elizabeth and Rose made there way to the hotel. The said goodbye at the corner of the street where Elizabeth and Rose went back to Rose's home so their husbands wouldn't notice they were gone.
Lynn stared out the window. She was tired...exhausted, but she couldn't sleep. She was to relieved that her daughter was with Jack, even if it meant that she would be with Nathan. The door to her room opened and George entered.
"I told Rose to burry the child. I don't want any painfull memories about this house." Lynn turned to the man.
"Why do you hate him so much?" Lynn asked her voice was weak from labor and hoarse from screaming.
"It's none of your business." George stated.
"You're going to send me to a man who will beat and rape me."
"Nathan loves you." George stated dismissing the girls words. "He's come this far to get you back."
"He forced me to marry him. He forced me to sleep with him and he beat me when I didn't do as he pleased. You're hate for Jack is the reason for you sending me back to that life. I think I deserve to know why." George glared daggers at her but she didn't flinch. She returned his glare with equal hatred.
"Jack ruined my life."
"How?"
"He was born!"
"And that's his fault?" Lynn tried to scream but her voice was still weak.
"I spend one night with his mother! I had a girl waiting back home, but Jack's mom, she was so pretty. She was a young girl at seventeen and I was in port for one week still a soldier. A young healthy lad so I made a move. We left after a week. When we returned two months later she was pregnant. I married her the week after that and five months later Jack was born."
"Seven." George looked up. He had forgotten Lynn was actually in the room as he replayed his memories.
"What?" he asked not really interested.
"Seven months. A pregnancy lasts nine months not seven." Lynn stated.
"What are you saying? That I can't count!"
"I'm saying unless you miscounted you can't be..." Lynn stopped talking as she realized what she had just said. George's expression told her he realized the same thing.
"He's not my son...but then who?"
"We made a deal!" Nathan yelled as he slammed his fist down on the table. Captain Morgan didn't flinch.
"Their kid is to be a pirate. I needsomeone to leave my ship towhen Idie, why not to family. If I don't get the kid, I'll make sure you're little document dissapears of the side of the earth." Morgan threathened as he showed Nathan the document proving Lynn and he were married.
"You stole it?"
"Pirate" Morgan explained with a grinn. "Now let me make it clear that when I say 'dissapear' I mean it. Every single copy will dissapear if I don't get what I want." Nathan cursed as he left the cabin.
Captain Morgan turned to his side to look at his reflection in the mirror and grinned.
"I don't look a day over fourty-five. Nobody can tell I'll be a grandfather soon. Hope their kid get's my good looks." He roared with laughter as he grabbed the bottle of rum from his desk and took a sip. "Hope it's a girl...hope she'll struggle like her grandma when she's old enough."
a/n: Well that's it for another chappie. Suspence right. Anyways in the next chapter I'll let you know wich name I chose for the little girl.
Hope the end isn't to confusing. Just in case a little explaination:
Captain Morgan and Jack's mother were brother and sister. When they were younger Morgan used to abuse his sister and she got pregnant with Jack. To spare himself the shame he made her claim the child belonged to George and that's about it. Hope I cleared that up.
