1Holy hell it's been five hundred years since I updated I feel so bad! BUT it was the Christmas holiday and I had been running around like a mad woman so... does that excuse work for anyone? Lol. I hope so. Alright, here are my undying thanks. Alonefreehearted: hey thanks for the review! Haha about the Jack and Diana fling.. You will soon find out my dear. But thank you again! And stick with me! A-j Sparrow: Thank you! I'm glad you liked the imagery that means a lot to me! I hope you like the next chapter! Tk421beth(y): Sydney was wonderful and Johnny and I always have the most fun with you and Emilio! I actually laughed out loud when you and Emilio were talking and you said you maxed out his credit card. I could just picture him hyperventilating and saying it like that. Holy cow it was so funny. But honestly. Next week Johnny and I are going to his island in the Caribbean, you both are more than welcome to come and we shall see you there! Once again, I know I tell you this all the time, but thank you for being such a punctual reviewer! I love it!

Here is the chapter you have all been waiting patiently for for going on a month now.

Jack wrapped his arms around her waist and picked her up, twirling her around. "Don't ever scare me like that again, understand, Elle?" Jack whispered and Isabelle kissed him softly.

"Never," she whispered into his thick, clean, black hair. Once he put her down, she turned around to see where Diana went. She wasn't far off and Isabelle dragged Jack behind her over to the queen. "Diana, this is my husband, Jack Sparrow," she introduced them. She expected to see a spark in Jack's eye, something lustful and sultry. But no magic ever sparked between them, and Jack's eyes remained impassive. There was nothing left between these two beautiful souls. Just undying friendship and kinship.

"Diana! How wonderful it is to see you again!" Jack shouted, his brooding voice easily heard above the chatter in the dining hall. Diana smiled her sweet smile at Jack and ran over to his arms, hugging him tightly.

"Why, Jack Sparrow! It's been ages!" she shouted and kissed both his cheeks. "Why did you not tell me you have a beautiful wife?" she asked him, side stepping over to Isabelle and taking her hand in hers.

"Well you couldn't very well expect me te call on ye all the way down here," Jack said and Diana laughed.

"Well, you could've sent me a letter so I could give you a wedding present. I've had one picked out for some time now, Captain Sparrow." Jack's brows furrowed and he looked at Diana like he didn't know who she was.

"How did ye have one picked out already. I was never engaged to be married when I saw ye," Jack said, trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together quicker than his brain would allow him to. Diana shook her head and smiled her forgiving, patient smile at the blind pirate captain.

"Jack, you may not have been engaged to be married, but I always knew that someday you would be married. Married with two beautiful children and a fine, dark haired wife. You always had that stubborn quality inside of you. The one that a pirate is supposed to dispose of when he becomes a buccaneer." Jack smiled down at Isabelle and it warmed every inch of her being, even though the temperature was very high to begin with. "I knew, somewhere, somehow that one day..." she paused looking to Isabelle with a simple smile and soft, maternal eyes. "You would marry the most beautiful woman in the entire world. And you did. Do you see how well I know you, Captain?" Diana said and Isabelle smiled brightly at her husband as if to say "what went on between the two of you". Diana squeezed Isabelle's hand tightly and laughed at Jack's still furrowed brow. "Oh, do not look at me like that, Captain. You understand," Diana said and led Isabelle away by her hand. Elizabeth was caught by the hand and also pulled away from Will with a quiet pardon from the queen. Jack came up behind him and rested an arm on his shoulder.

"What is going on here, Jack?" Will asked as he watched Diana pull his wife up to the head of the table, stopping occasionally to talk to some of her guests. "How do you know Diana?" he asked again, not taking his eyes off of Elizabeth. He heard Jack sigh and when he looked up, Jack's dark black eyes were roving over Isabelle's bare back. Will nudged him and Jack finally looked up.

"What, whelp?" Jack asked nonchalantly. Will laughed and leaned into Jack just as Jack leaned into Will's shoulder. They had a very long day and they were both extremely tired. They supposed drowsiness was just a side effect of running through the hot, wet jungle all day.

"She was to be executed in Nassau for betrayal. But this was wrong, William," Jack said intensely, taking his weight off of the former blacksmith and turning his entire body toward him. "She was the one who had been betrayed. The treasure...this is not the only time someone has tried to go after the treasure. It was a mutiny with her older sister at the reigns. The treasure was left to Diana by her parents. She was the favorite out of the two so she automatically received birth rights." Will was watching Jack with his dark chocolate eyes, enthralled, naturally, by another Jack Sparrow story. Jack continued, incorporating some hand motions in now too. "Her older sister had tricked Diana into giving up the bearings..."

"This reminds me of someone else I know," Will said in the most un-patronizing voice he could muster. Jack still curled his lip at the thought of his mutinous crew. Will cleared his throat and motioned for Jack to continue.

"Anyway. Ana Lucia, that was her name, set her baby sister up. She gave her away to the navy in Nassau and once Diana stepped foot on the land of her alleys, she was arrested and beaten. She rotted away in a jail cell for three months and then was finally dragged out to walk the gallows. I happened to be there that day, in town. I couldn't help it, William. She just seemed so...broken, so lifeless. You would have done the same for her." Jack stopped talking and Will waited a moment, thinking maybe Jack would resume his story and tell how it ended. But he just stared at Isabelle and Diana, thinking only of one of them. The angel with the dark mane mirroring his own.

"Jack, how did it go down? I mean how...what happened?" Will pressed and Jack snapped out of his daze, turning about to face his companion. He smiled down at William, his golden teeth shimmering in the dim light of the dining hall.

"Alright, mate, alright," Jack said and chuckled. "She was being shoved into the hangman's noose. No place for a lady, let alone a queen.. She was a queen, William, she was highly looked upon in at least seven countries in the Caribbean, including Port Royal in Jamaica. Her long hair was in knots around her face and her dirty cheeks were lined with tear tracks she had let run. I had never seen something so...so wrong in my life. And I'm a pirate, whelp, I've seen a lot of wrong things." Will nodded and took a sharp breath in, trying to put two and two together.

"Is this the time when you slipped out from under the eyes of six...or seven...or whatever agents..."

"No, this is that time when I sacked Nassau port without firing a single shot," Jack corrected and laughed when Will nodded. "Which isn't true because I really didn't take anything. Except, oh, right, the queen." Will laughed at this and Jack smiled at the lightness he could bring to a dark conversation. Oh well, back to the dark. "I slipped underneath the wooden box she was supposed to fall into when they dropped the floor from under her. And from there, I simply tweaked the rope so it would loosen instead of tighten. You know, I'm a pirate, I do things like that. When the rope loosened enough, I took her down and forced her to run away with me, back to me ship." Will stared in awe.

"Were you alone?" Will asked, shaking his head.

"Oh, no, William, I had seven or eight of me crew members backing me up so when the entire navy started to chase me and the useless queen, I could get her, and me, back to the ship in one piece." Jack said and raised his eyebrows. "She was with us on the Black Pearl for about four months before she could be back at her own palace. When she returned, Ana Lucia was on the throne and running the kingdom." Jack teetered back on his heels, one of the pirates many known signs of boredom and impatience. He wanted to know where his wife went to and where Will's wife went to. He wanted to be with them so he could keep them under his close watch. This was a big city and unknown to almost everyone in his crew. "Right into the ground," Jack hissed and Will laughed. "My crew raided the palace on my order. We suffered minor casualties and the rightful queen was soon returned to her throne." Jack kept teetering but Will ignored it.

"What happened to Ana Lucia?" he asked, curious.

"Well, William, she was a very bad woman, and although I'm not so sorry to say this...we killed her. By way of execution in her own town square. Her sister looked on with this face... this stone face with eyes of steel. And when the floor dropped out from under Ana Lucia, Diana closed her eyes for one minute and then she was alright. It was eerie, almost as if it had never happened in her world. But when you walk past the town square and you see the perfectly round black stone, you know it happened." Will nodded and looked to Diana then back to a very solemn looking Jack. "She was betrayed, and once you've been betrayed, you never get over it. It will always be there somewhere inside of you, resting at the pit of your stomach like a lead weight you can't lift." Will nodded sadly, he knew the pain and agony Jack had gone through those eight months after he met the couple, the death of his former first mate still fresh in his beaten mind. The death bringing back many, many unwanted memories for Jack Sparrow. Even as he slept they came over him like a plague and he shivered and shook all night long from the cold hand of hatred that gripped him. It didn't quite let him die, it let him suffer, and make him think he was about to, but he was a strong man. Stronger than any other man the couple knew. He would always wake up when the sun beckoned for him.

Jack straightened himself and cleared his throat. "Well, I guess we should find them..."

"Gracious guests!" A booming, feminine voice carried over the table and bounced off the golden walls and ceiling, calling the people gathered in the room to attention. "We are here tonight in our finery to honor three very special people!" Diana announced and all at once, her people were captivated by her short words. "One is a woman who thinks logically and saved her friend from very near death by my own hand." A gasp rose in the crowd and Diana raised her tanned arm to silence them. "One is the beautiful and powerful wife of a great sea captain, her grace and her sharp wit able to calm me and capture me with her soothing Spanish accent." Jack smiled at that one. That was his beautiful, powerful, Spanish wife. "And the last is the great sea captain you have all heard about but never laid eyes on. He is the man who I hold dear to my heart, for he is the man who kept it alive and beating to this day." There were muffled murmurs of wonderment and ecstasy. Everyone in the court and the kingdom had heard of such a man, but everyone had thought him dead long ago. "Elizabeth Turner." There was loud applause and cheering from the members of Jack's crew. Jack looked over his shoulder at his now finely dressed crew and smiled brightly. "Isabelle Sparrow," Diana said with extra gentleness in her tone and thanks to this superb woman for allowing her one last time to lay eyes upon her savior. The cheering did not stop by any means. "And Captain Jack Sparrow," she said and the hall exploded with cheering and applause. The great sea captain was back.

Elizabeth and Isabelle smiled when Jack swaggered up to the table where his wife and Elizabeth stood smiling warmly. He kissed Diana on the cheek and wrapped an arm around his wife's waist. Elizabeth and Isabelle looked to each other. They both wrapped their arms around Jack's and forced him down with them as they swept themselves gracefully into a deep bow. When they rose, the applause sky rocketed and the three happy pirates smiled at a very happy Diana.

"And now! We feast!" she shouted and everyone took their seats at the large dining table. Pirates mixed with nobles and sinners mixed with holy men. Isabelle smiled at the togetherness and nodded her head in appreciation of the set up. It was inspiring to say the least. Diana offered gifts to the Sparrows and the Turners, beaming with happiness and radiating with joy and laughter. Her people had never seen their queen this happy in years.

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