As soon as they touched land it became clear that leaving the Pearl during a town raid was a very, very, very stupid thing to do. The ruthless pirates that were sacking the town had already started leering at Ana Maria as they got closer. Due to her pregnant state, Jack suddenly understood his father's worries and regretted bringing her along- although he had yet to realize the real danger he had walked his family into.

Stepping onto the hard ground, Anamaria fell between the two men, both of them acting to protect the pregnant woman. Her heightened senses due to her pregnancy were alert and she could tell that what they were doing was seriously wrong.

"Jack- JACK!" Jack swivelled round and stopped in front of his pregnant girlfriend.

"Aye?"

"I want to go back. I don't like it." Jack sighed, and Taylor raised an eyebrow. He hadn't known them for very long- a few weeks at most- but already knew that Anamaria very rarely said anything along those lines. The only problem was, his son was too much of an idiot to take the warning.

"We'll be gone soon luv. It won't take very long, 10 minuets, 30 at the most. Ok?" Anamaria looked upon the pirate captain as if he had gone mad.

"No it's not ok. Something not right, I can feel it. I want to go back!"

"Well you cant, not yet, I'm not leaving Taylor alone to get his things, and I'm not letting him take you back, since I don't know where I'm going. And before you say anything, you're not going alone either, not in that state."

"I'm not ill, I'm pregnant, and ill be fine by myself. I'm not an invalided either."

"I know your not but-" Jack paused, when his father cleared his throat. "What"

"Look, I think we've established that she isn't going by herself, you don't want to take her back, and I can't since you don't know where you're going. Now, let's go, since the sooner we get there the sooner we get back. Alright?" Taylor was met by silence and stony looked. "Alright Anamaria?"

They remained in silence, as they set off again, Anamaria refusing to let either of the men touch her, or even be near her, but stayed close enough for them to help if she got in any trouble.

It was a relatively simple journey there. They went through alleyways, avoiding the main streets, where the pirates were.

As they stepped inside Taylor's house, both Jack and Anamaria were surprised at just how tidy and kept it actually was. Thinking that he had been living alone for most of his life, Ana had assumed she would be stepping into a pit- much like the crews place to sleep!

"So… erm… why is it so tidy?" Taylor just shrugged at the woman's words.

"Not keen on mess, 'ats all." As Jack started to look curiously at all the books upon the bookshelves, and basically at the surrounding environment, Ana began to grow impatient once again. They had been in the house more then 5 minuets before she started complaining and asking if they could leave.

Then something struck her. How much she had changed since she got back from, well, being kidnapped. She had stopped being her usual self, and had become dependent on those around her to well… protect her. Like a woman was supposed to, only… this woman never liked to. Yet there she was, dependent on Jack and his estranged father to get her back home safely. And why? Because she was pregnant. What about after she had had her baby, after that, would she still be dependent on them? Probably. It seemed to her, that she had lost all sense of independence.

This wasn't going to happen for long.

While Jack and his father carried on looking around and gathering stuff, Anamaria silently slipped out the door- and headed towards the Black Pearl.

It took Jack a whole of 10 minuets to realize Anamaria wasn't only not in the room, but the whole tiny house. And as soon as that realization kicked in, so did panic. Panic he hadn't felt since she was 'killed' and Amelia went walk-about. Calling upon his father, they gathered the last of his things before heading out, Jack certain that Ana had been kidnapped again- for in his mind, she wouldn't be stupid enough to go wandering alone in her condition!

It took them 20 minuets to find Anamaria, having stopped off at the tiny rowing boat they had bought along with them, to put things in and make sure she wasn't already there waiting for them. Unfortunately for Anamaria, her plan hadn't gone exactly the way she would have wanted it to.

Anamaria's journey

Stepping out of the house, into the cool air, she looked around, a smile growing broadly on her face. She'd done it. She'd broken the habit of letting others take care of her, and it felt good. With this in mind, she set off, going back the same way she had come, with Jack and Taylor.

She made it to the rowing boat with relative ease. She had gone the back alleys, like before, but now she was at the boat, she realized that she couldn't go anywhere, until Jack was back, otherwise she would be stranding them. Anyway, she didn't think she would have enough energy to get her across the sea back to the ship. Fair enough, all that would have been fine, if the boat wasn't in full view of the other pirates.

They had been leering at her to begin with when she had got off the boat, and now she was alone, being pregnant and tiered, made her an unbelievably easy target. All of a sudden, she remembered exactly why she had stayed close to Jack and his father, and cursed herself and her hormones for making her think she was strong enough to fend for herself in situations like this, in the state she was in.

end of Anamaria's journey

After finding the boat empty and filling it with the things Taylor had decided to bring along with him, they hid the rowing boat around a cliff, so that no one could see it and steal the items inside. While doing this though, they heard very familiar screams.

As they hurried around the corner, into a cave lit by torches, Jack almost keeled over at the site of what was happening. Around 5 leering pirates were gathered round an extremely pissed off Anamaria, her anger covering the fright from within her eyes.

That was when it happened.

Without thinking, Jack charged in, fending 5 pirates off, away from his lover and unborn child. Taking on 5 strong men, to his one self, wasn't a particularly good idea, but after all, he was Captain Jack Sparrow, invincible!

Only this time, it proved harder then expected, with his father helping too. Once they had managed to kill off the 3 weaker men between them, Jack ordered Taylor to get Anamaria and take her away to safety. But the hormones had kicked back in, and although the situation she was in, she refused to leave Jack alone to fight. While she was arguing about this with Taylor, the invincible Captain Jack Sparrow got seriously hurt.

Being slumped on the floor, a massive slash along his left arm and right leg, a position Jack wasn't accustomed to, he was able to kill one of the remaining me.

The fury in Taylor's eyes, warned the other man off straight away, but he wasn't lucky enough to get away, after he had backed himself into a corner. Going in for the kill straight away, Taylor wasted no time, in stabbing the man, enough to kill him, by a long slow death, in which he would be completely paralysed and unable to move, but be able to feel the pain of his life slipping away.

Turning his attention back to his son and the mother to be, his own heart nearly stopped dead.

Ana was crouched over Jacks body, pleading with him not to leave her. It was enough to break anyone's heart. Jack was barley still alive and only just conscious, and was whispering his dying words to Anamaria.

"Be strong."

With one last kiss, his life slipped away, Anamaria's tears splashing on his face.

Taylor himself wanted to cry. He had lost his son for a second time in one lifetime. Now he had nothing left.

As much as he wanted to be able to take his time in that cave, to say goodbye to his only child, he had a sudden suspicion that they were being watched. Looking up he saw yet more pirates headed their way- probably intent on killing them, like they had done Jack, for killing their crew members.

"Anamaria we have to go" Ana shook her head, barley looking up, from stroking the skin on Jacks cheeks. "ANA!"

"We can leave him" her voice was so soft he had to strain to hear the words.

"We have no choice. We'll come back, but right now we have to go, otherwise we'll get killed ourselves." Anamaria was completely exaughsted from the whole ordeal but still couldn't bring herself to go.

"I don't care" Taylor sighed.

"What about Amelia hey? And that child in there" pointing to her stomach. "You die you wont give that one a chance to live, and your daughter will have lost both her parents. Now come on."

Taylor practically dragged Anamaria up from her position, ignoring her pleas, and half walked, half carried her out of the cave. Seconds after reaching the safety of the boat, the cave was ransacked…

That last thing that that town saw of Anamaria and Taylor, was them on the Black Pearl sailing away… forever?

THE END!

A/N

So not quite the happy ending most people would be expecting. I think ill put an epilogue in, but don't hold your breath. Please review, since I love getting them. Sorry it took so long to update. :-) Suzy xxx