Chapter 14

"Take that an' put it in the room near mine and me wife's." Jack said to two men who were carrying a box of stuff to build a crib. "An' if ye can start workin' on it."

Anamaria came down the stairs just as the two men were heading up. "Wha's going on?" she asked Jack raising an eyebrow.

"Well I figured instead o' gettin' the crib from Gwen an' the whelp I'd just get a new one." he told her.

"We aren' going to be here long enough ta need it." she said recalling their conversation from the other night.

"I don' know how long it's gonna be 'fore I finish up me business 'ere."

"Wha' business?"

"Findin' Gibbs an' the person who freed 'em." Jack said sounding like he was talking to a two year old. She couldn't have forgotten about that.

"Why? Ye can' tell me ye honestly wan' to see Gibbs hang."

Jack sighed and put his hand on her shoulder. "'e's a pirate,luv, and the person who freed 'im committed treason. I can' just let tha' go."

"Well tha's somethin' I never thought I'd hear. Jack Sparrow wantin' to hang a pirate." Bill said coming in from the kitchen and shaking his head.

"Wha' 're ye still doin' 'ere? Can' ye go annoy yer son an' I told ye, William, Jack Sparrow is dead." Jack said turning to his old friend and forgetting about Ana for a minute. She glared at the back of his head and walked out of the door.

Bill glared at the man who had been like his second child. "If tha's what you want to believe Jonathon go ahead. The sea's in yer blood, boy an' the part of ye tha's still Jack is always goin' to hate it 'ere." With that Bill stormed up the stairs to grab what little of his belongings he had brought with him.

Ana walked through town with no destination in mind. She was biting back tears as she thought back to what Jack had said just before she had left. "Jack Sparrow is dead."

The fact that he had done away with anything connecting him to the pirate that he had been just a few short months ago bothered her. If he didn't want to be the man that Jack Sparrow was then he was no longer the man she had fallen for.

When she looked up she realized she had stopped outside of Will and Gwen's house. She looked out towards the docks that weren't far from the house and spotted The Black Pearl. It was then she made her decision.

A minute after she knocked on the door Will answered. "What's wrong?" he asked when he seen the look on her face and let her in.

"I jus' came to tell you goodbye." Ana said as her and Will walked into the parlor.

"You and Jack are leaving?" Gwen asked her frowning slightly.

"I's jus' me tha's leavin'. Jack's stayin' here." Anamaria told the couple sadly.

"Why are you leaving?" Will asked her.

Ana looked down at the ground for a minute to hold back the tears. "'e's no' the man I lo..care 'bout anymore. 'e's changed a lot since we came 'ere an' I can' take it anymore." With that she turned and walked out of their house from the last time.

When she walked out of the door she was Bootstrap carrying a bag of his things and heading towards the dock. "Bill wait!" she called to him and caught up to him when he stopped walking. "Where 're ye going?" she asked him.

"Goin' to get a ship." She noticed his eyes drifting to the black ship that was docked just a little ways off shore.

"If ye'll give me fifteen minutes I'll go wit' ye." she told him. Bill nodded and went to say goodbye to his son while she headed back to the mansion.

Jack walked into the room he shared with Ana to find her pulling something out of his wardrobe and gathered up her stuff that was on the bed.

"Wha's going on?" he asked her and realized that what she had pulled out was his hat. he tried to take it out of her bag but she slapped his hand away.

"'m leavin'." she said facening the bag and slinging it over her shoulder.

"Wha'? Why?" he asked sounding both angry and hurt.

"'cause the man I married is dead." When she tried to walk past him he grabbed her left arm.

"Ye ain' going anywhere." Ana glared at him and used her right hand to slap him hard across his cheek. As soon as he let go she ran out of the room.

Jack rubbed his sore cheek and walked over to the window that over looked the town and the dock. A few minutes later he saw the Black Pearl slowly making it's way out into the ocean.

Slowly a small tear slipped unnoticed out of the corner of his eye.

TBC...