Chapter 13

"It's Bootstrap Bill Your Majesty." the soldier said and a man who looked exactly like Will except for being a few years older walked through the door and into the dining room.

"'ello Jack." William Turner I said grinning.

Jack just sat there speechless and stared at the man who had been his friend and a father to him after his own had kicked him out. The last time he had seen him had been right before Barbossa had marooned him. Jack had spent the last few years since that thinking that Bill had been killed.

"Bill?" Jack said finally getting his voice back and walked over to where the other man was standing. "Tha' really you?"

"Aye, son." Bill grinned at him. "'ho else would I be?" he asked pulling the ex-captain into a hug.

"I thought Barbossa killed ya." Jack said pulling him over to the table and let him sit down. "Ye remember Ana."

"Ye honestly think that I'd let that no good scaly wag kill me?" Bill asked and then noticed the rings on Jack and Ana's hands.

"'ow did ye find us?" Ana asked him as one of the servants put a plate of food in front of the pirate.

"I 'eard the news that George's son 'ad returned. Since I knew 'e had no other son 'sides Jack I figured 'd come an' see 'im. Didn' know tha' he had gotten married an' became king." Bill said taking a drink out of the mug.

Anamaria yawned and stood up from the table. "'m going to go up to bed. Good seein' ye again Bill." she said and kissed Jack then headed up the stairs.

Bill watched Ana as she walked out of the room then turned back to Jack. "There's only been three times 've ever seen a woman go to bed that early."

"Wha' 're ye talkin' about?" Jack asked raising an eyebrow at his old friend.

"Is it possible Ana coul' be pregnant?" When he said that Jack cracked up laughing.

"No way mate." Jack said still chuckling as he finished the last bit of his food. "She's jus' been actin' weird fer 'bout a couple o'months."

Bill just stared at him. "Even ye can't be that oblivious." he said popping a piece of chicken into his mouth. "Yer goin' to be a father no matter if yer ready or no'."

"Did ye just come to see me?" Jack asked after a few minutes of silence.

"Actually I came ta see if ye an' Will wanted to come with me." Bill said.

"Wha' for?"

"Ye've 'eard of the Holy Grail haven' ye?"

"Tha's just a myth." Jack scoffed.

"So was the Black Pearl." Bill said. "A friend o' mine recently found a map tha' points straight ta where it's buried."

"Why do ye think I'd want ta go after it?"

"Wha' pirate wouldn'?"

"'m not a pirate." Bill stuck his finger into his ear to clean out anything that was in it.

"'m sorry Jack, I don' think I heard you right."

"You heard me William. I'm not a pirate anymore." Jack said as he stood up from the table. "I'm not going with you on any adventures for something that doesn't exist."

"How d'ye know it doesn't exist Jonathon if ye won' go to find it? Wha's happened to the Jack Sparrow who would go off on any adventure no matter the cost? Remember Isla Del Murta?"

"Jack Sparrow no longer exists." With that he stormed out of the dining room.

"Ye can' deny it! Yer still Jack Sparrow! Ye wouldn' 'ave made the Pearl yer flagship if ye weren't!" Bill yelled after him and walked out of the mansion.

"Wha' were ye an' Bill arguing 'bout?" Anamaria asked Jack when he came into their room.

"'e wanted me ta go with 'im somewhere." Jack said looking his wife over. Bill had no clue what he was talking about.

"Wha' did ye tell him?"

"Tol' him I wasn' goin'. I ain' tha' man anymore." Jack said pulling her into his arms.

"Ye can' tell me ye don' feel cooped up 'ere."

Jack sighed. "Aye I do bu' I made a promise to me da' and the people. I can' jus' turn me back on 'em."

"I think 'e'd just like ye ta be 'appy. 'e wanted ye ta take over because he though' that would make ye happy."

"D'ye think I made a mistake?" Jack asked running his hand over her stomach. That's when he noticed a slight bump. He was righ'. he thought.

"Where woul' ye rather be? Here or out at sea on the Pearl?"

"Out on the Pearl I fel' free. 'ere it's like 'm trapped all o'er again. I 'ated tha' feelin' when I was a teenager an' I hate it now." he said carressing her stomach where their child lay. Unless she 'ad jus' picked up some weight.

"We coul' leave. Jus' take the Pearl an' go. We coul' raise the baby there." she told him figuring that would be the easiest way to tell him.

"No' yet. Still have things ta do here." Jack said holding her closer. "Give it a few more months an' then we can leave if we wan'."

"'m gonna hold ye to tha'." Ana said.

"'ow far 'long 're ye?" Jack asked her.

"'bout three months."

"So we stay 'ere for six more months an' if we still wanna leave we can." Jack said kissing her softly on her head.

TBC...

A/N: We are not getting close to the end. This is just the beginning. I ask all of you to please not kill me when you read the up coming chapters. Also I'm think of posting a Jack/OC story that I started working on. If you want a brief summery just review or pm me saying so.

Cap'n Lex