Ok. so I got no reviews for the last chapter. I really hope that people are still reading this. Thank you so much to pirateoftheringsfor adding my story to favourites and to snufflesgalfor adding this story to alerts. I'm glad somebody likes this idea of mine.
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They ended up just four in the lifeboat, going ashore last. Anamaria, Will, Elizabeth and Jack. No one spoke as they came closer and closer to the island until Will sat back with a slightly puzzled expression on his face.
"It reminds me of a dream I had once." Will said softly. "I don't remember all of it, and it seems so strange now, but when I was a child, I dreamed that I was on an island just like this one. In this dream, I lived there, on this island with a group of other boys and we… we had - adventures. That's about as well as I can explain it. I think that we could fly, and there were pirates that we fought with all the time. The one that was the leader… I cannot recall his name…"
"Peter Pan." Anamaria said quietly. "Was his name Peter Pan? I had the same dream." Her voice reflected her utter shock. "I must have been ten or eleven then. How is this possible to have the same dream? Do you remember what you called yourself there?"
"Anamaria? There was only one girl there that I remember quite clearly. She looked nothing like you." Will Turner informed the first mate of the Black Pearl who smiled and nodded.
"It was what I wanted myself to look like, how people would have excepted me, liked me. The dream was my fantasy. I kept on going back there night after night and then I had to leave. I knew that I couldn't stay forever." She explained.
"Wendy." Will exclaimed while the other two sat by quietly and watched the two most unlikely people to ever find something in common, excitedly reminisce. "And you brought everyone back with you. That was my last dream. With your aunt… I remember now! I was Slightly. That's who I was." He peered at her suddenly. "You didn't have an aunt did you? At least not her?"
"No I didn't. Most of that world was pretend. And Slightly looked nothing like you." Anamaria remarked with a casual smile, mischief lurking in her eyes. Will had the good grace to look slightly abashed.
"All right. I see what you mean now." He told her, shaking his head. Neither he nor Anamaria or Elizabeth who had so far been sitting with her mouth somewhat open in shock and curiosity as she watched her husband and the first mate talk, saw that Jack Sparrow had gone very still and quiet as soon as the conversation had began. He was too quiet for it to be characteristic of him but the others were too involved in their discovery to let anything distract them for a while. "What about you Elizabeth? Did you have any such strange dreams when you were a child?" Will Turner asked his wife.
"No, no… unfortunately not. What you are describing… it sounds fascinating. I'm sure that not a lot of people can say that they have experienced something like that. Do you remember all of it?" She wondered.
"Oh. I don't know. Now that I remembered, it's all coming back slowly but I thought that dreams were all they were and I spent so much time trying to forget them." Will confessed.
They came upon the island and so all stepped out and took in their surroundings. But no one noticed the way that the trees all seemed to lean towards the travelers or one in particular and follow him as he walked in a small circle, trying to take inventory from a mind that could hardly think.
"We'll camp here tonight." Captain Jack Sparrow announced to his bewildered crew. Pointing to a couple of crewmembers, he ordered them to find wood for the fire and assigned a couple more to the task of finding some edible fruits in the forests. Then he turned to his friends and gestured to the dense forest behind him.
"I'm going to check out the forest. See if I can find anything useful about this place. Stay with the rest of the crew." He ordered and without waiting for an answer, turned and walked swiftly and deliberately into the thick trees as though he knew exactly where it was that he was going.
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He remembered waking in terror, cold and hungry, unable to understand where he was, his last memory having been of another time and another place; another world.
The doctors had called his recovery a miracle. To celebrate, they wanted to cut open his head and to see what it was that had made him tick, made him so lucky. So Jack ran. He had been not much more then a child and yet he had taken to leadership like a crown prince to his thrown. It was then that he ran into and fell deeply in love with the Pearl and made Captain of her not long after that.
He had never had another episode as the doctors had so carefully termed it, these lapses of hours and days at a time where he was elsewhere, in another land. He had long ago decided that it didn't matter if he was crazy. But if he wasn't… if it hadn't been insanity…
With trembling fingers, Jack parted the foliage in front of him, unsure of what he subconsciously wanted himself to find. He had begun recognizing the scenery not long and now there it stood. The great tree. What he had called home.
Inside, it was much the same as he had remembered it. In fact nothing had changed. His bed was still there, as was the flower that held Wendy's 'medicine'. He had refused to even touch it after they had left even though she had left it specifically for him, reminding him to take it each day. The 'cup' was still full. He reached out and touched the bed; his childhood.
"You remember." Someone whispered behind him and Jack closed his eyes at the voice.
"Tink." He turned and saw her standing behind him. "Why…" She was as tall as a normal human, albeit with a shining, yellow glow all around her and she was as beautiful as he remembered. And he did remember. Everything.
"Because you believe, Peter. Because you want to see me as your equal. Sh." She whispered as he opened his mouth to talk. "I know you don't understand. Not yet. But I'll explain everything." She motioned him over to the bed. "Please sit and I will tell you everything. It is a rather long story after all." She smiled at him and Jack sat, even if a little bit suspiciously and Tinkerbell sat down beside him.
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