A/N: Hello again!! And thankyou all soo much for reviewing!! I love to get them soooo much!!! Sorry for the lateness of this chapter but I had real difficult writing it. Jack is a hard character to write when he is in love seeing as we have nothing to go on! So please overlook the terrible character of Jack and feel free to have a moan in the reviews!

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Chapter 19: Goodbye memory

The journey snailed past so slowly that if we had been racing a tortoise we would have come off the worst. We hardly spoke to one another the whole way and it was unbearable. Jack went about his duties as captain as usual but there was a look in his eyes. Jealousy? Anger? Sadness? I couldn't tell.

The boat was too small for him to avoid me the whole day and when we accidentally passed one another his eyes would shift to the sea or to the floor and he would mumble some apology as if I didn't want him there.

The fourth day was coming to an end and I sat dangling my feet over the side of the boat watching the sun setting. Magnificent colours of orange, red and yellow scoured the dusky sky. If I could have taken a photo it would have won a competition. I blinked. A photo? What was that?

"Photo? Where do I know that from?" I muttered to myself. I could not for the life of me remember. In fact the more I looked at my memory the less I could remember. I remembered... Jack finding me a cabin on the Pearl, everything else was just a vast stretch of blackness.

I lifted my hand off the rope which was studying me and held it to my head. I didn't feel ill. So why had I suddenly forgotten my whole life before Jack? I wobbled and my hand snatched straight back to the rope. The sunset really did look beautiful, maybe it didn't matter if I had forgotten. But there was something. Something big in my past which was trying desperately to make it's way to me, not that I could remember.

A tear formed in my eye and before I knew it I was bawling my eyes out clutching desperately to the rope. Why couldn't I remember? The beautiful sunset smeared and blurred as the tears filled my eyes and the sound of the sea became silent to my sobs.

Suddenly a hand appeared on my shoulder, a warm hand.

"Luv?!"

I forgot the silent treatment he'd been giving me. I forgot the look of jealousy in his eyes. Standing up I buried myself in his shoulder and whimpered into his rum scented sleeve.

"I've forgotten. I've forgotten it all!"

"Forgotten what luv?" he sounded concerned but rubbed my back and stroked my hair in a soothing way.

"Everything...everything..."

It was about all he could get out of me for about ten minutes until we just stood there in each other's arms in front of that sunset.

Finally I let go of his arms leaving a snotty wet patch on his clean white shirt. But he didn't seem to mind.

"Hey," he said wiping my eyes with his sleeve, "don't worry luv," he smiled in a comforting way to me and lifted my chin with his finger.

It sent those shivers of an exited school girl down my spine.

"I can't remember...what happened to me before I turned up on the Pearl?" I said looking away to let those shivers calm down.

Jack's face winced slightly, he didn't know the truth. "You wouldn't say," he said simply.

Then I remembered the story I had told him but when I looked up at him startled he shook his head.

"I've been a pirate all me life, I think I know when someone is lying to me," he said with a slight wink in the corner of his left eye. A shot of guilt wiggled its way down my body and I glanced at the floor.

"Not to worry," he smiled, "people's past is something they should be able to keep to themselves."

"Why havn't you been talking to me?" I said abruptly, completely changing the conversation topic. His eyes widened and it was his turn to look guilty. And then there was that look again.

"Jack?"

"Nothin'" he mumbled.

"Come on Jack, don't I have the right to know why you've been ignoring me?"

"No," I made out through the murmur.

"If it's how I killed that man then I don't understand why you should be angry. It didn't make a noise, we got away safely and frankly I gather the man deserved it." Apparently I wasn't getting it. Jack's face fell.

"It's just..." he began but trailed off. My mouth fell open and my eyes widened. Jack Sparrow?? Trail off?? The words should not be in the same sentence!

I took hold of his hands and squeezed them tightly. "Jack?" I asked gently wondering what the hell was going on, "are you ok?"

It was as though everything around us went silent; the sea died down, the breeze settled to nothing and the birds stopped their cry. Jack turned to face me, his beautiful eyes glinting in the dying sun's rays.

"It's just that I..."

Suddenly there was an ear splitting crack and the ground below us juddered violently. We wobbled about springing into action. Jack jumped on the helm and tried desperately to veer off the thing we had just hit. I, meanwhile, ran to the lonely sail pulling it back into the gust of the wind from where it had settled due to me neglecting my duties. Still the boat creaked and juddered.

"We've landed on the shoals!" I yelled to Jack as I peered over the edge to come face to face with an eyeful of coral.

Jack pushed all his weight onto the helm and finally we felt a little of the boat move. But then something terrible happened...

A gust of wind swept out from nowhere and the whole boat crashed sideways into the blue waters. I went flying out into the sea and was so shocked that I swallowed a mouthful of salty water causing me to choke. Jack still clung to the boat and looked rather comical swinging from the broken mast. So, like the idiot I am, I began to laugh. I laughed so hard that Jack actually joined in. Bad idea.

Whenever someone laughs when they are swimming they generally begin to sink which is exactly what started to happen to me. Innocent blue water rushed over my head filling my ears but still I laughed. And the more I laughed the more I sank. The more I sank the more I laughed. It was a vicious circle!

The blue water gushed into my mouth as I sank and my laughter turned into choking but for some reason I still couldn't find my swimming legs. I began to panic. Until I felt a pair of strong hands around my waist pulling me upwards.

I gasped in the oxygenated air as my head broke through the water and coughed aggressively. Jack pulled me out of the water with surprising ease, his strong arms wrapped gently but firmly around my waist.

I was hauled onto the small rim of boat which still hung out of the water and lay choking in Jack's arms. It was only then when I realised the seriousness of what had happened. I could have died!

"Are you alright luv?" came the worried voice of Jack Sparrow.

I sat up and spat up the last few drops of water, "Aye, aye!" I gasped. Then I started laughing, again.

"It's not funny," Jack said, a little worried for my sanity.

"I know..." I gasped between laughs, "I don't know why...I'm laughing!"

Jack smiled, "Well where we are ain't no laughing matter,"

I gazed around myself at the steadily darkening sea. The sun had set and only the light blueness of twilight and the dark blue sea surrounded us. There was no way the boat would ever move again, the gaping hole in its base told us that as much. We were stranded. Stranded in the middle of the ocean with nowhere to hide and no way of getting to Jamaica.

My laughter died abruptly along with my smile.

"No worries luv," Jack grinned, "it'll just be a bit cosy tonight until we can swim in the morning."

"SWIM?!" I exclaimed, "there is NO WAY I am SWIMMING all the way to Jamaica!"

"It's only about an hour swim," Jack laughed standing up.

"An hour?!" I mumbled to myself. Jack was insane!

"Quit your moaning lass," he stood onto the coral which the boat was stranded on and began heaving the boat the right way up. Reluctantly I got up and helped him being careful where I placed my feet. One wrong step and it was bye bye Annie!

Finally the boat was the right way up. The mast had completely been ripped off by the corals when it was lying on it's side and the cabin was full of water. So Jack and I settled on the deck to sleep. The sun was long gone and had toed twilight along like a child and it's drag along toy. The darkness of night pressed itself around us but the soft twinkle of the revealing stars stretched out before us to lull us to sleep.

A gentle breeze caused brushed by and I let out a shiver. Instantly I felt an arm wrap gently around my waist. Jack's arm. I was going to throw it off but when I tried to lift my arm I found it was more than reluctant to do so. Jack's arm was warm and protective. I felt as though I could walk into a whole army of redcoats so long as his arms was wrapped around me. What's more I wanted it to be there.

I drifted to sleep under the twinkling stars nuzzled deep into Jack's shoulder.

The perfect way to fall asleep.