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Chapter 5 Welcome Back to the Caribbean

"Elizabeth!" Will yelled, shaking her.

"Shh..." Jack insisted. "She's only fainted."

"What do we do?" Will asked, struggling to hold Elizabeth up.

"I'll hold her up, you check to see if the docks are cleared. We have to get back to the Pearl. It's hidden behind that rock." He pointed to the large rock at the edge of the bay that the Black Pearl had emerged from a year ago to rescue Jack from the water after his close escape from the noose.

"How are we going to swim there with Elizabeth and not be seen?" Will huffed, spitting water from his mouth as he and Elizabeth bobbed up and down with the tide.

"Use yer head boy," Jack exclaimed. "We're not swimmin'!"

"We're not?"

Jack rolled his eyes. "Just do as I tell ye and check the docks." Jack took Elizabeth from him and Will lifted himself out of the water to check the docks; they were empty. When he lowered himself back down to tell Jack, Jack was gone. A moment later Jack surfaced with Elizabeth, andWill noticed thatshe was still unconscious.

"What were you doing?" He exclaimed.

"Making 'er lighter," Jack answered deadpan and passed Elizabeth to Will. She was lighter, but that was because she was only wearing a chemise.

"You took her dress off?" Will yelled.

"Desperate times call fer desperate measures mate!"

"There's no sign of 'er in the water, sir." The Bo'sun yelled to his captain, running down the beach towards him.

"Ye're sure." Barbossa asked.

"Aye, cap'n. She could 'ave gotten out and gone to 'er house, sir." The Bo'sun suggested.

Barbossa turned his piercing black eyes to the Bo'sun. "There's only one way ter find out then." His dirty and chapped lips split into a toothy smile of rotting teeth.

Will struggled to hold Elizabeth up under the row boat that he and Jack had trapped air into. They were now walking under the boat on the ocean floor. He, of course, had given himself the task of carrying Elizabeth.

"Why did she faint, Jack, do you think," Will asked the back of Jack's head. "It– it didn't have anything to do with the curse, did it?"

"Possibly," Jack answered. "But– I think she used too much energy swimming and then she was trying ter fight ye off of 'er. And the lassis pregnant and perhaps she wasshocked by the explosion... Probably all of it added up and caught up with 'er."

He'd have to be more careful about what he allowed Elizabeth to do.

Jack seemed to read his mind.

"We'll just hafta watch what she does, is all mate. Too much stress and she could be triggered into an early labor... Not good for she or the child."

Will looked down at Elizabeth, she certainly looked pale.

Elizabeth awoke later that night in a cabin. She recognized it when she glanced around. It was the cabin that she had first learned of the curse in. No one was in it with her and when she looked down she saw that she was only in her chemise. There was a green gown laid out on the chair next to the bedand she knew that Jack had put it there for her. 'What happened?' she wondered.

Anxious to find out she stepped from the bed to the wooded floor and slipped the gown over her head. Once she had finished trying the laces she looked at herself in the cracked mirror on the wall. She looked slightly older and pale. She swept her hair up into a fancy knot before leaving the cabin. The first thing that she noticed was that it was very dark. Second, she saw Will and Jack talking at the helm. They instantly cut off their conversation when they saw her approaching.

" 'Ello, luv." Jack greeted her.

"Jack?" She asked him.

"Er– yes."

She turned from him to Will. "Will?"

"Yes, Elizabeth."

"How do I know that you're not... posing as my friend an husband?" She asked them quizzically.

They both stared at her blankly.

"There is no possible way that you could have swam from the wreckage of the naval vessel to the docks as quickly as I jumped into the bay," she stated doubtfully. "Unless... you knew that the ship was going to explode." She sighed. "But how could you? Or maybe you blew it up yourselves."

She still received perplexed and slightly confused looks. She decided to test them.

"Will, what did I tell you about myself yesterday?"

"That you're pregnant." He answered.

"And Jack," she said turning to him. "When did we first meet?"

"Er– When I rescued you from the water in the bay after ye fainted from a too tight corset."

"It is you!" She confirmed and her eyes widened in delight. She hugged Jack and then Will. "I thought you were dead!"

"Why wouldn't it be us?" Jack asked.

"I'm sorry," she apologized. "I just panicked and over-reacted a little."

"A little?" Jack excliamed.

Will shot him a glare and Jack raised his hands in the air as though he were surrendering.

Jack cleared his throat as though he was about to say something important. Will pulled Elizabeth into his lap and she lay her head on his shoulder. "We got on the ship and Gibbs was down in the cargo finding a place to hide the medallion." Jack began. "Apparently Barbossa hadn't planned on the medallion being with us. Gibbs saw the trail of gunpowder that was already lit and, naturally, he told us. Will and I jumped off at the bow and swam under the boat to the docks. Then the ship set sail and the crew jumped off once they were a distance away from the docks and couldn't be seen. They then swam to the Pearl, and the ship exploded. Sorry ter startle ye."

"What about Barbossa?" she asked. "Was that him on the docks?"

"It was him." Jack nodded, a grim expression on his face.

"But– why didn't he kill you two in person if he wanted revenge?"

"Probably was afraid that we'd beat 'im. Probably can't take more'n three on and 'e'd 'ave me whole crew ter deal with."

"Coward." Will growled.

"What are we doing now?" She asked Jack.

"Port Royal will be attacked tonight. 'E thinks we're dead, ye're the next 'e wants ter kill."

She felt Will absent-mindedly tighten his arms around her.

"So he thinks I'm still in Port Royal?"

Jack nodded. "When 'e finds out ye're not all Hell will break loose and the search will begin."

Jack followed his speech with wild hand gestures.

"What are we going to do about that when it comes." Came Will's voice.

"Fer the present, the seas aren't safe." Jack confirmed. "We 'ave ter hide... but we can't hide in the Isla de Muerta... England is too long a journey and the New World will not except pirates."

"So where?" Will asked.

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