Hey, I know it's been a while since I've updated and I know this part is really kinda short but I had the time to write a little something today and so I did. Just to let everyone know, however, I am not going to give up writing this story until I finish it so, although it may seem like I gave up on it because I don't update as frequently as I wish I did, I will finish this story and who knows if all turns out well maybe a sequal? Who knows, well her is the next, unfortunatly, short chapter. And thanks for all the reviews guys.
Chapter 6- Familiar Faces
It had been nine months since Will was abducted, and nine months since Julia had been born, and nine months since they left Port Royal. Nine months, and a lot had happened in those nine months. Anna-Maria and Jack were now expecting their first child and Julia grew into a gurgling, bubbly nine-month old without a care in the world, and also without a father. In nine months a lot can change.
Elizabeth stood next to Jack, Julia in her arms, talking to him, asking him if he had any news of the pirate ship that took Will.
"Jack, have you heard anything about the…" Elizabeth began but was cut off by Will.
"No lass I 'aven't. But we be stopping in Tortuga in abou' a week, I'll ask again while there."
Nodding her head in thanks Elizabeth walked off, holding tightly to the only piece of Will she had left, her daughter.
Walking into her room Elizabeth placed Julia on the bed and proceeded to tidy up.
"Mama."
Elizabeth looked up wondering if she heard correctly.
"Mama. Mama! MAMA!"
She had heard correctly, Julia had just said mama for the first time. Turning to her daughter Elizabeth spoke.
"Yeah baby, mama. Can you say it again? Say mama!"
Laughing, Julia complied, "Mama, mama!"
Crying tears of Joy Elizabeth picked her daughter up and hugged her fiercely. It was moments like this when Elizabeth missed Will the most, moments when his daughter showed signs of growing up, and it was times like this when, to feel close to Will, Elizabeth would pick her daughter up and just hold her.
13 years later--
BOOM BOOM BOOM
The cannons where firing from every direction, The Black Pearl was under attack. Meredith Swann ran up from below deck and bumped right into her granddaughter just as the cannon fire began.
"Julia, where's your mother?" Meredith cried out.
"Fighting with Jack and Ana-Maria and everyone! She sent me and Heather (Jack and Ana-Maria's daughter) below deck." Julia pouted as she pointed to Heather.
"Good idea, you two lock yourselves in one of your rooms and don't come out until either I or one of the crew members goes and gets you, understand?" Meredith asked while eyeing her granddaughter. Although Meredith loved her granddaughter to death, she was always getting herself into trouble from the time she was two and she got herself trapped in one of the kitchen cupboards. "Do you understand?" Meredith repeated herself.
"Yes grandma, we understand." Julia answered, although she didn't seem happy.
"Good, now go." Meredith ordered the two of them.
Once inside Julia's room that she shared with her mother Julia turned to Heather and said, "Stay here and do as my grandmother said and only open the door if one of the crew members identifies themselves."
Heather merely nodded. Although she was only a year younger than Julia and although she was the daughter of the infamous Captain Jack Sparrow Heather was much mellower than Julia, in fact she was just a mellow person and Julia always felt as if she had to protect Heather because of it.
"Alright, I'm going." And with that Julia left the room. Upon arriving up on deck Julia was shocked to see that the fighting had ceased and no one was injured, and in the center of it all Julia saw her mother hugging a strange man, sobbing as the man also cried.
Julia felt a hand on her shoulder and looked up to see her grandmother.
"I thought I told you to stay in your room?" Meredith asked.
"I know, and I'm sorry. But what's going on, who is that, that mama is hugging?"
Meredith gave Julia a little nudge forward, "Go and ask her yourself."
Obeying her grandmother Julia walked up to her mother and the strange man.
"Mama?" Julia asked cautiously.
Turning to her daughter Elizabeth, although still crying managed to say, "Oh baby, come here. This is someone you have to meet. This is your father sweetheart. He's been looking for us for thirteen years."
Julia, although in shock, allowed herself to be embraced by her mother and the strange man who was her father. Looking into the man's eyes Julia said one word, "Dad?"