Chapter 2 – Facing The Past

The next morning all of Jack's crew could tell something was wrong with him. All day he had been angry for some reason and none of his crew dared to say anything about it. The only one who did dare was Anamaria. She approached him just before dusk.

"Wha's wrong wit' ye Jack?" she came out and asked him.

"Nothin's wrong wit' me. Get back ta work." He told her coldly.

"Aye there is. Wha's wrong?"

"Nothin' is wrong. Now get back ta work 'fore I drop ye off in Tortuga." Jack practically growled that time. That was when she finally decided to back off. For now at least.

That night Jack went into his cabin after making sure the look out was on watch. He made himself ready for bed and slipped in beside Ana. Just as the night before he didn't rest peacefully. Only thing different was the nightmare.

He was looking around at the fires and all the wreckage. This he was used to but this wasn't caused by pirates.

"Look what you've done." He heard someone say behind him.

"I didn' do this." He protested just as Gwen stepped in front of him. At the sight of her he gasped. Her left eye was almost swollen shut and she was bleeding from a gun shot in her arm and about five cuts.

"All I asked was for you to come home. Look what you've done Jack. Our family, the kingdom, everything is destroyed because of you!" Gwen yelled at him clutching her arm.

"Yer wrong! It' no' my fault!" he screamed over the cries of pain coming from all around them.

"Yes it is! All you had to do was take the throne and become the king of England. Now it's your fault this place is the way it is!"

"NO!" Jack screamed and woke up to Anamaria shaking him. Jack still being somewhat still caught up in the nightmare grabbed her and held on as if his life depended on it.

"Jack wha's wrong wit' ye? This is the second time ye've woken up after a nightmare." She asked him hoping she would get a better response from him than the last time.

"I 'ave ta go back." He told her. "I 'ave ta go 'ome."

"I though' yer ship was yer 'ome."

"Me little sis needs me an' 'm no' gonna let 'er down. No' this time." Jack said and the next morning the Black Pearl and her crew were all sailing back to England.

"Jack, wha' did you do 'fore you left England?" Anamaria asked while they were down in the galley eating.

"I killed me mum." Jack said softly.

"Wha'?" she asked surprised.

Jack sighed and started telling her the tale.

Flashback/Memory

A fourteen year old Jonathan Walker listened to the sounds of explosions and watched as his father got ready to join the officers at the fort. Being the king he had to be there to defend his country.

"Listen to me Jonathan. You must watch after your mother and your little sister. Until I get back it is your responsibility." His father told him.

"Yes sir." He replied respectfully and watched as his father left.

"Johnny where's Daddy going?" he heard his five year old sister ask.

"He went to help fight the bad men. Now come on Gwen let's get you in bed." He said picking her up and taking her up to her room.

About ten minutes later Jonathon was back downstairs and heard glass break and his sister scream. He grabbed a sword out of the umbrella rack and ran upstairs. He rushed into Gwen's room and seen a man standing over her with a knife. Using the moves that his father had taught him when he started his sword training to disarm the man and hurt him instead of kill. He laid the sword on her bed and held her tight as she quit crying.

Then he heard his mother yell and then grabbed the sword back up. He rushed to his parent's room. On the way he ran into two more pirates. He finally got to his parent's room and seen the door broken down. He walked in and got the shock of his life. Lying in a pool of her own blood was his mother. He had gotten there to late.

End Flashback/Memory

"Jack that wasn' yer fault." Ana told him after he got done telling her the tale.

Jack laughed bitterly. "Tell tha' ta me da'."

Flashback/Memory

Jonathon was still in his parent's room when his father got home and that was where he found him crying over his mother's body.

"What did you do?" he heard his father ask him.

"I tried to protect her. I'm sorry. I didn't get to her in time." He told him quietly sobbing.

"Look what you've done Jonathan. You almost got your sister killed and your mother's dead." The man said pulling him away from the body.

"It wasn't me. I tried to protect them."

"Those pirates should have never gotten in here! How did they get in and where were you when they got in?"

"They came in through Gwen's window. I was in the kitchen getting a snack."

His father turned away from him for a second then turned back to him.

"Look what you've done!" The older man shouted at him.

"I'm sorry Father I didn't mean to." Jonathon said sobbing.

"All I did was ask you to look after your mother and your sister while I was gone. Now your mother's dead and you almost got your little sister killed!"

"I'm sorry!"

"Sorry will not bring your mother back!" The older man continued shouting and this time he hit him.

"I'm so sorry Father please!" He begged his father.

"You are no longer my son! Get out of my sight!"

End Flashback/Memory

"Then why are ye goin' back?" she asked him even though she probably knew the answer.

"Me sis needs me. After what I did I can' turn me back on her now." Jack said. He then got up from the table and went back on deck.

TBC...

A/N: Thanks to all reviewers.

Cap'n Lex