Chapter Seven: Do, Don't!

Aphrodite quickly lowered her hat to cover her face, something that Elizabeth found suspicious.

Gee, wonder why?

"Injured... uh, no, I wasn't injured!"

"Excellent liar," Will commented, arching an eyebrow.

"What do we do?" Elizabeth hissed out of the corner of her mouth.

"Well, I could smite him, but then Daddy would fire me!"

"Daddy?"

"Zeus, remember? Weren't you paying ANY attention to me while I gave you my sick and twisted life story? And anyway, it's your fault!"

"How is my fault?"

" 'Oh, we need to follow them, they've been taking sooo long' " Aphrodite wailed in a mocking voice.

As the two argued, Jack and Will were taking care of important business.

"Five shillings on the new girl," Will decided. Jack looked defeated. He had been about to bet on her! Guess Will wasn't as innocent as he thought..

You see, the two were betting on who would win if it came to a catfight. Jack had thought that Will, being Will, would bet on Liz, but sadly, he had been wrong. Still... he had to look smart.

"Not so loyal, are we?" He grinned.

Will looked guilty.

"I've seen Elizabeth fight! She can't take a punch!

"What about that time-"

"I helped."

Of course, they hadn't noticed that for the last thirty seconds, Aphrodite and Liz had been watching them. Jack, knowing the wrath of females first hand, changed the subject.

"You seem familar," He commented, looking at Aphrodite.

"Don't!" She cried.

"Do!" Jack yelled back.

"Don't!"

"Do!"

"Don't!"

"Do!

"Don't!"

Jack got a sly look on his face.

"Don't!"

"D-" Aphrodite stopped herself. "I know that one!"
Jack cursed under his breath.

"Look," Will said, "Obviously, this girl has some deep psychological problems with Jack, so I think that we shouldn't explore her issues."

Crickets chirped until Aphrodite interrupted.

"Thank you, Dr. Phil."

Long silence.

"Who is this 'Dr. Phil' you speak of?" Jack asked.

"Oh... Sorry, you don't have Dr. Phil yet. Or... do you? I mean, the guy's pretty old..." Aphrodite pondered this for a moment before continuing. "He's a know-it-all bald guy."

"Like Father!" Elizabeth exclaimed.

"I think we should cut to the chase," Will sighed, "Do you two know each other?"

"No!"

"Yes!"

Jack and Aphrodite said at the same time.

"I just... I just don't know who she is..." Jack muttered. Before the woman could run, he walked up to her and sweeped the hat off. His eyes widened.

"Aphrodite!"
She blushed and giggled nervously. "Jack! Long time... no see..."

Elizabeth tried to piece things together...

"Wait! Is Jack your long lost love?"

Jack and Aphrodite stared.

And both started laughing.

"So, 'Dite-" Jack began to change the subject, but was cut off.

" 'DITE?"

"Nickname," 'Dite responded(AN: that's so much easier to write!)

"As I was saying," Jack said, "How's life been for ya?"

"Aaah..." She seemed undecided, "Hephaestus caught me with Adonis again, yelled at me, passed out, the usual."

"Same here," Jack sighed, "Barbossa stole the ship, I got it back-"

"Jack. Goddess, remember?"

"Oh. Yeah."

"Goddess?" Will croaked.

"Yep," Jack shrugged.

"That's... nice. And Elizabeth? You knew and didn't tell us?"

"Well..." Elizabeth was struggling, so Aphrodite cut in for her.

"Elizabeth needs help with her wedding, and Hera was busy-you know, goddess of women and marriage?- so I filled in for her."

"All right."

For some odd reason, the guys took this rather nicely.

"So. A goddess."

"Uh-huh!"
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R and R! So, do you think I should put in a bit of Jack/'Dite? Maybe not permanently, but for fun?