Chapter 7- 5 years later
"Yes Julia, I'm your father." Will replied slowly.
Julia still stood there, unsure of what to do. All this time she had thought that her father was dead, and now here he was, standing two feet in front of her. Instead of following her head, for once in her thirteen years of life Julia Turner followed her heart, and she threw herself at the man she never knew.
Will opened his arms as his daughter threw herself at them. He held his daughter for what seemed like forever, but in actuality was only a few moments.
After pulling back from his daughter Will turned back to Elizabeth and pulled her into a family embrace; their first family embrace, ever.
Julia awoke from her slumber, a smile on her face. Sometimes, even though it had been five years since her family was reunited, Julia didn't believe that it had happened. It just seemed so unreal at times. But it was real, her father, after escaping from the pirate ship, had spent thirteen years looking for his family; and he found them.
Julia got up from her bed and walked above deck, but not before bumping into her crying mother.
"Mom, what's wrong, why are you crying?" Julia questioned her mother.
"Oh Julia, grandma just died a few moments ago." Wailed Elizabeth.
Julia looked at her mother like she had grown another head, clearly in shock.
"No she didn't. Don't joke like that mom."
"Julia, I'm not joking," Elizabeth cried to her daughter, "She caught a fever last night and passed away a few moments ago."
Julie ran past her mother into her grandmother's cabin, and sure enough her grandmother lay on her bed, completely still.
Elizabeth appeared in the doorway behind her daughter.
"Mommy," Julia whispered, "Mommy, make her wake up."
Elizabeth grabbed Julia from behind, catching her before she fell to the ground and slid to the ground with her. And that was how they sat for over an hour, with Elizabeth holding her sobbing daughter on the floor.
Elizabeth knew that Julia was hurting a lot, for her grandmother had been like a second mother to Julia.
Will frantically ran into the cabin, "Elizabeth, Julia, we're under attack go, hide!" Will screamed before running out of the cabin again.
Elizabeth looked at her daughter after Will left the cabin, Julia had cried herself to sleep. However, Elizabeth managed to get her eighteen-year old daughter up off the floor and Elizabeth was able to hide both herself and Julia in the closet of her deceased mother's cabin.
For fifteen minutes Elizabeth hid in the cabin with her daughter, hearing the swords clashing on the deck above them.
And then suddenly the closet door swung open and there stood the most sinister looking pirate she'd ever seen. Pushing Julia behind her, Elizabeth stood protectively in front of her sleeping daughter.
"Move aside poppet, we've come for ye girl."
"Never." Elizabeth stood firmly.
"Ye've left me no choice Poppet."
The pirate brought the barrel of his gun down across Elizabeth's head and watched as her body sunk to the ground, unconscious.
Smiling the pirate took Julia and left the cabin.