A/N: Here's Chapter 17, I thought I had it, so why not post it? Read and review as always. And thanks to all my very, very loyal reviewers, you all know who you are. Chapter 18, and hopefully 19, will be up tomorrow.

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At World's End: Chapter 17

Jack stepped back from her and looked at her again. She was thinner than he remembered, but her skin was just as fair and her eyes just as blue. She always used to refer to herself as average, but he thought she was beautiful but couldn't recall if he ever told her.

"Jack, it's going to get dark soon," Will interrupted. "We should get back to the ship."

"Lovely for you to visit. Come back anytime," Jack finished and walked away.

"Jack, that isn't funny and it is certainly not like you."

"The sea isn't safe for me anymore. Too many beasties."

"Get in the damn boat!" She cried, looking extremely close to drawing her sword. Dani was throwing a temper-tantrum and she didn't care who saw it.

Jack never, ever listened to anyone else but himself. Never. So why did he then look to her, then Will and Elizabeth and walk to the boat?

"It's Cap'n Jack, hisself! We thought yous was dead," Ragetti smiled, his wooden eye rolling in the socket.

"Have a seat, Cap'n!" Pintel yelled and cleared a seat for him.

Jack adjusted his coat and took a seat.

"I don't know why that worked," Dani told Will and Elizabeth.

"Jack has never done that before."

"No one has ever talked to him that way before."

"That's because that right is solely reserved for me."

The three walked to the long boat and climbed in. They balanced themselves and Pintel and Ragetti began to row. Jack sat in silence as the ship got bigger and bigger in front of them. And all her looked at was Dani.

"You're making me nervous."

"I'm sorry, Dani, it's just I haven't seen you in a while." He said, which was a lie. He saw her in his dreams, when he did dream.

"Jack Sparrow, something is wrong. And I expect you to talk to me."

"Nothing is wrong, Danielle. So how have you been, Mr. Turner, Miss Swann? Or are you an unhappily married couple now?"

They reached the ship and Mr. Gibbs helped Elizabeth up out of the long boat. One by one, the rest climbed over the railing. A small smile crossed Jack's lips as he looked around the deck. This ship was from the bayou. Tia Dalma must have helped them.

"There's something I ought –…" Dani started.

"Jack Sparrow." Barbossa snarled. "Still alive?"

"So are you, so it seems." Jack said before turning to Dani. "You married Barbossa?" He looked furious. "I thought I knew you."

She slapped him again, hard this time. His head shot to the side and his hand immediately went to his cheek, which was currently throbbing. Dani appeared to growl and she stomped off to her cabin, slamming the door, shattering glass and making them all jump.

"I thought you had a 'tremendous intuitive sense of the female creature,'" Elizabeth said, looking at him with extreme disgust.