Chapter 12

Jack and Ana woke up the next morning to someone knocking on their bedroom door. Jack groaned and rolled over to try to go back to sleep. Ana yawned and walked over to the door.

"Wha'?" she asked when she opened it to reveal their butler.

"The prison guards who were guarding those pirates are here to see His Majesty." he said keeping his voice low to not wake the sleeping king.

Ana looked back at Jack who was now back to sleeping. "Tell 'em to come back in a few hours." she told him.

"They say it's important." Ana sighed.

"Tell them 'e'll be down in a few minutes." she said closing the door. She walked over to the bed and shook Jack to try to wake him up.

"I didn' do it Mum. It was Gwen." he said opening his eyes. "Oh Ana."he said when he realized who was next to him.

"The prison guard 're here ta see ye." Ana said getting up and throwing him his clothes.

"Can' they come back later?" he whined laying back down.

"Apparently somethin's 'appened with Gibbs an' the crew." Jack sighed and got dressed. He yawned as he walked down the stairs where he saw the two nervous guards sitting on the sofa.

"You were wanting to see me." he said walking into the room.

They both stood up. "Y.y.yes Your Majesty. The prisoners that were to be hung this morning escaped last night." one of them told Jack.

"You were supposed to be guarding them. How were they able to escape?" Jack asked trying to stay calm.

"Someone came in and broke them out." the other guard said.

"Do you know who it was?" he asked pacing.

"N.no sir. We were grabbing a bite to eat. No one ever goes down there then."

Jack turned and glared at them. "You keep watch from now on. If you don' do yer job properly ye'll be swimmin' at the bottom o' Davy Jone's locker. Savvy!"

Both of them quickly nodded and almost ran out of the mansion.

"Don' ye think ye were a bit 'ard on 'em?" Ana asked him coming to sit by him.

"They need ta learn ta do their job. They can' let stuff like tha' happen." Jack said throwing his arm over his eyes.

"Ye can' treat them like they're one o' the crew." she told him.

"Tha's wha' they 're. Jus' one big crew." Jack said yawning as he stood up and headed for the door.

"Where 're ye goin'?" Ana called to him.

"Got ta send 'em out looking for Gibbs." he said grabbing his hat off the coat rack.

"Ye don' 'ave to." she told him.

Jack looked at her and sighed. "They 'ave an appointment wit' the gallows. It's me job to see that that happens." With that he walked out of the door towards the fort.

She shook her head. "Yer da's gonna work 'imself ta death." she muttered placing her hand on her stomach for a minute before walked out of the mansion.

Gwen opened the door when she heard someone knocking. "Ana come on in." she said when she saw that it was her brother's wife. "Jack working again?"

"Aye." Ana said sitting down in one of the chairs. "The prison guards came o'er this mornin' an' told him Gibbs 'ad escaped."

"They didn't tell him who did it did they?" Gwen asked pouring them both some tea.

"Jack asked 'em an' they said they didn' see how they got out." Ana told her taking the cup from the other woman.

They sat quietly for a moment. "Have you told him yet?" Gwen asked.

"No' yet. 'e's really stressed ou' right now." Ana said staring into her cup. "'e went ta send the marines out to hunt 'em down."

"He's really changed a lot since you both came here. Maybe I shouldn't have asked him to come home."

"'e needed to see 'is father one last time. 'sides if you hadn't England wouldn' have a king." Ana said grabbing a biscuit from a tray that was on the table.

Hours later Jack and Ana were sitting at the table enjoying dinner. When he was at the fort he had given the two guards a two week suspension and have ordered the Navy to find all of the crew and to alert him when they found Mr. Gibbs.

Ana was pushing the food on her plate around and was trying to figure out how to tell him the news she had received a few weeks after his coronation.

"If ye wan' somethin' else, luv, I can 'ave the cook fix ye somethin'." Jack told her after a few minutes of watching her push the food around.

Ana looked up at him and smiled slightly. "I's fine Jack." she told them.

"Are ye ok?" he asked her.

"'m fine." she said and decided to go ahead and tell him. "Jack 'm.." her sentence was interrupted by a knock on the door.

Jack sighed as a soldier appeared in the dining room. "Your Highness someone just docked that we thought you should know about." the soldier told him.

"Who is it an' why couldn' ye wait 'til mornin'?" Jack asked sounding irritated.

"It's Bootstrap Bill Your Majesty." Jack stared at the soldier.

TBC...

A/N: Once again I am slowly falling back into the dreaded pit we call writer's block. Thank all of you who are still reading this and please keep the ideas coming in I could really use them.

Cap'n Lex