Jack looked at Adam after Will and Elizabeth left. "Well?"

"Well what?"

"Well how in the 'ell are you going to get Sidi to agree to spend months on a ship with me? Please do tell me Adam. This will be a wonderful fairytale I'll be sure to tell Jackie. Oh yes, do include the part where Sidi agrees to leave her daughter behind as well. This ought to be very good!"

Adam wrinkled his face. "You think you just know everything don't you. For your information Sidi has already agreed to let Mum and Dad take Jackie on holiday to Paris and Madrid. Dad asked her."

Jack was stunned. "Blimey! Such an accord be made is

Adam smiled. "I don't know. Sidi respects Dad. She'll do anything he asks her to do when it comes to Jackie. She trusts him."

"Aint no better man fer sher." Jack agreed. "All right there Matey 'ow ye gonna get 'er ta go?"

Adam looked annoyed. "Speak English, save the pirate rubbish for your mates. We are going to ask her..in English."

Jack laughed. Adam hated his pirate persona at home.

"Not me mate, you. This is your show. If I open my mouth she'll rip my tongue out. " Jack wasn't sure that Adam's participation would actually reduce the chance of his tongue being ripped out but at least shed have to get through him first. They climbed the stairs to her rooms.

Jack suddenly stopped. "Wait a minute. Nobody asked me if Jackie could go to Spain!"

Adam turned. "Give it up Jack. This isn't the time to start marking your territory."

Jack thought a minute. "Adam, Mate. I changed me mind. I need to do this myself." He paused waiting for Adam's inevitable argument and tantrum about being excluded.

"Come get me when you're done." He zipped off to his bedroom.

"Coward!" Jack laughed and yelled down the hall.

He reached Sidi's rooms and knocked on the door. She opened it and scowled.

"Save it." He snapped and pushed his way in. She tried to stop him but couldn't.

"I didn't ask you into my rooms." She yelled.

He sat on her bed. "You gave me Mum an Dad permission to take Jackie out of the country without tellin' me."

She smirked at him. Obviously loving that he had been left in the dark so long. "Are you afraid your parents are going to kidnap our daughter and possibly demand a randsom? "

He glared. "No. I just thought we should make the decision together.

Sidi put her hands on her hips. "Oh, we should really? Tell me, when was the last time we ever agreed on anything. They both know we'll say yes if we don't know what the other says first."

"I need your help."

She smiled sarcastically. "I know you do. The answer is no."

"You don't even know what I need help with!" He stood up offended.

"I don't need to know. If its you asking it means its selfish and self - serving and the answer is no!"

"Bill Turner is alive and I need you to help us find him."

Sidi was all revved up to insult him and call him an egotistical pig but was stopped cold by the selfless request. She dropped into a chair by the fire. "Adam."

Jack offered her a "yes-I'm-trapped-too" smile. "Yes. Adam."

"No. I can't"

He was surprised. "No? Why no? How can you say no? For God's sake Sidi the man is trapped under the ocean!"

"I'm not spending months trapped on a boat with you as Captain."

"Oh now look who's selfish and egomaniacal." Jack was gleeful that this time it truly was she that was being selfish and he was the selfless one. "You'll let him die because you're mad at me?'

"NO!" She yelled, angry that she had to be the bad guy. "I, I just can't."

She started to cry. "I can't just leave me alone! I barely know Bill Turner."

The more she spoke the more unlike herself she sounded. Jack was confused. She wasn't angry and refusing his request to spite him. She wasn't playing games to get him angry. What the hell was wrong with her?

He tried to touch her and easily caught her fist when she tried to hit him. She started to cry harder. He held her.

"I don't want him to die Jack." She sobbed. "But I can't."

"Yes you can." He spoke gently to her. "You can Sidi. I won't let anything happen to you. I promise."

She let him hold her but didn't meet his eyes. "You can't promise that."

Sidi never left the house. It was a major event for her to leave their house in the woods and walk the short distance to the main house. Since the attack in Port Royal she had protected herself from imagined danger by cutting herself off from the outside. Nothing got past these four walls. Their home was a virtual fortress.

"I can promise that." He spoke with confidence. "I will never let anything happen to either you or Jackie. Bill Turner will die Sidi. You know that. I'll wager that by now you already know when and how."

She started to cry again. "Jack please. I can't. I want to but I just can't."

"I can't force ya love." He said matter-of-factly. "But if he dies you know you'll not be able to live with yourself."

Sidi freed herself from him and slapped him. "How dare you blame me! How dare you! It was you who got him tied to a cannon to begin with not me! It was your pathetic marooned arse he defended. They send him into the ocean because he was defending you! You can't blame this on me! It's not my fault!!"

"Sidi," Jack kept his voice even and kind. "You can blame me all you like. Bill went to the Isle de Muerta freely. We both went because we wanted to. We both ended up betrayed. I understand why you feel as you do luv. I really do. It's your decision. I'm not going to mention it again. The Pearl sails in a week. He walked out of the room.

"Adam?" Jack whispered into his room. "You sleepin' mate?"

Adams voice was groggy. "What did she say?"

Jack sat on his bed. "She didn't. We just gotta wait. You ok?"

"No. I don't feel good. I'm just going to sleep ok?"

"Sure. 'course its ok." Jack went to play with his daughter.