Sarah's shock at her father's retaliation lasted no longer than a brief second. Thought Jack stood in place, sword to sword, she proceeded to start the fight.

It was while she danced as her father had danced only moments before that Sarah Sparrow began to cry, spilling her heart to her father.

"I'm dead because of you!" she screamed, fighting remarkably well for someone whose eyes were producing torrential floods. "Half of me is underwater because of you! You gave me to my mother…sent her away…you drover her to the bottom of the ocean!"

"Is that what you think?" Captain Sparrow yelled back, worrying that the girl had unchangeable views. "You think I abandoned her? Abandoned you?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Sarah asked, heaving a dry laugh. "You only come back after she's gone, right? Coward!"

No one called Jack Sparrow a coward.

"No! No, Elizabeth wouldn't let me anywhere near you! No daughter of hers would be known as a bastard, never mind a pirate's child! I loved you, Sarah, from the moment your mother told me you were mine!

Another fake laugh, followed by more of her mother's dry humor. "Wonderful! So not only was my mother a whore, she also lied to my fath-to me my entire life!"

" Elizabeth was not a whore!" Jack defended, furious. No matter what she had done to him, he still loved her. He couldn't help it. "She was hurt, spurned, confused. She was naïveté, as worldly as she might have considered herself to be."

"Even so," Sarah shot back, panting now, "she lied to me. About my father! Wonderful parents I had, really. I'm a cross between two evils. Not much of an enviable lot, is it?"

With that, she held her father's gaze for the longest moment either of them had ever experienced. Then, without warning, Sarah threw down her sword and fled the room. Captain Jack was, again, watching the love of his life run from him.


AN-So, it's not gonna be posted tonight. My apologies forever...you'll have it tomorrow, I promise.