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Chapter 17

"Be careful Da'" I said as Dad made his way to the rail of the ship with baby Jack.

"I will Lily, don't worry, this'll all be over by the morning one way or another" Dad replied, muttering the latter part quietly. He flashed me a grin, turning around and walking the rest of the way to rail, before stopping at the sound of his best friends' voice.

"don't you dare get yourself killed Jack Sparrow" Will said, he being the only one to voice what we all thought Dad meant by saying 'one way or another' Dad stopped mid-walk, turning around to face us.

"I'll do whatever is necessary to get this over and done with" he said, he looked down to the floor and went on his way, muttering something to Jack as they went down the gangplank and onto the docks. We watched as we saw him walk up the Pearl's gangplank.

I remembered what Father had said to me when I was younger.

'I admire a person who is willing to do whatever is necessary' he had said. He had said this to me after my pet cat, 'Pearl' went overboard during a storm one night, I had tried to go in after it but Father had grabbed me round the waist and dragged me kicking and screaming back into my cabin. He had said those words which made me feel so very proud of myself; I was willing to do whatever was necessary to get my cat to safety, and Dad said he admired me for it, the feeling of being proud quickly left me when Dad added another sentence to those words; 'but Pearl would have been dead before you could reach her' I realised what he said and spent the rest of the night crying my heart out for my poor dead cat, Pearl. I never let Dad buy me a new cat; I didn't want the risk of it being flung overboard again.

I came back to reality when Elizabeth, Oliver and Will started to go towards the gangplank.

"Wait!" I shouted, waiting for the other's to turn around, Will did so first.

"What?" he asked, hesitating on whether or not to turn back.

"What are you all doing? If Clara sees us she'll kill us on the spot, it's not hard to find a bloody pistol on that ship you know" I said, Elizabeth turned to me then, as did Oliver.

"Clara won't kill us when we have the twins Lily, that's the plan" said Oliver, he took a step towards me and grabbed my hand. I looked up at him, seeing trust in his eyes I decided to follow him. We made our way to the Pearl, I was getting all the more uneasy, the closer we got to the ship I call home.

My confidence grew more and more as we stepped onto the Pearl, I felt right again and I knew that Clara would be gone after all this.

"Over here" I heard Will whisper from in front of us all. We stepped behind some crates on the deck and listened to what Dad and Clara were saying in the cabin. I noticed Gillian's blood was still on the deck, I hope no one had noticed it just yet.

We all got into comfortable positions and settled down, not sure how long it would take for Dad to get Clara out of the cabin and for her to reveal what she was meaning to do. I held my expanding stomach, it strangely gave me comfort but I shrugged this thought out of my head and listened to the voices in the cabin.

"Oh look who's come to visit!" Clara said in a high pitched voice. "Little Jack!" she exclaimed.

"Yes" Dad said brightly, keeping up appearances.

"But how did you get him off that Elizabeth woman?" Clara asked, Elizabeth shuffled next to me and muttered something under her breath, Lily seemed amused by it, she was looking up at her mother with a big smile of her face.

"Well I am her godfather Clara" replied Dad.

"Of course" Clara said, I heard shuffling noises coming from the cabin and then the sound of the door being opened.

"Where are you going?" father asked, evidently Clara was the one to open the door. I heard her step outside and walk across the deck to the helm.

"Just here" she replied. I wanted to wipe the smile off her face, but Oliver would never forgive me if I did so while pregnant.

"Would you like to hold Jack?" I heard father ask, Elizabeth looked up immediately at this.

"Don't you dare give my baby to that harlot Jack Sparrow" she said.

As if hearing Elizabeth, Clara refused to hold the baby in father's arms, she had a scheming smile on her face and I couldn't help but thinking she was up to something. Dad stepped towards her and before I knew what was happening, Clara moved the helm and the boom swung forward and hit Dad, causing him to drop Jack and end up swinging helplessly from the boom over the rail of the ship.

Elizabeth practically threw Lily to me and ran to catch Jack, who was now on his way to crashing fatally into the deck below him. Elizabeth dived onto her stomach and slid the rest of the way until she was directly underneath Jack; he landed on her chest thankfully. Seeing that Elizabeth had blown our cover and caused a diversion from Dad, he swung his leg over the boom and began to shuffle towards the ship again.

Will and Oliver immediately ran over to help Elizabeth, who was still lying on her back, checking Jack over. I was left, still hidden behind the crates, with Lily.

"YOU!" shouted Clara in annoyance as she realised what Oliver, Will and Elizabeth were here to do.

"Aye?" asked Oliver, playfully as if he hadn't realised that they had ruined Clara's plans. Will helped Elizabeth to her feet and took her back to where I was, Elizabeth placed Jack into my arms with Lily and her and Will both walked away again, leaving me with both babies. They didn't say a word to me, knowing that if my presence was known, it could potentially ruin whatever plan they had in mind at that particular moment.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Clara shrieked, still not knowing that Dad was on his way over to her.

"Stopping you from killing our friend" Will said. Clara looked like she'd been slapped.

"Well your first shot in killing me went appallingly wrong Clara, so would you mind telling me why you are doing this?" Dad said from directly behind Clara, she froze and turned around slowly to come face to face with father.

"You!" she shouted, looking from the boom back to Dad.

"Yes, me" dad replied smugly "if your going to kill me Clara, you have to keep an eye on me" he sneered. "Now, why exactly are you on this little revenge mission?"

"You left me!" Clara shrieked "you left me in Tortuga, knowing full well what a terrible life I had!" she shouted. "You know as soon as you left me standing on the docks, my husband came back for me! He dragged me by hair back to the house and gave the beating that very nearly killed me!" she shouted.

"Pity it didn't" I said to Lily and Jack, they looked up at me with their usual smiles. I looked back up at what was happening.

"Nearly killed you?" Will asked from the side.

"Yes nearly killed me! If I hadn't of stuck the nearest knife into his chest, I would have been dead long ago!"

"Oh" replied Will.

"So you killed your husband and set after me, is that correct?" Dad asked.

"Yes, I would have gotten to you sooner but the ship's I boarded didn't want to go into battle with the notorious Black Pearl and her captain, so I was forced to sail past you countless times! I ended up settling in Tortuga again, where I knew you would come back to, I met Gillian and she took me in, helping me plan my revenge on you" Clara explained. Her story would explain why it had taken years for her to get to us.

"Who the hell is Gillian?" asked Elizabeth, brows furrowed.

"She is my best friend, and once I have killed you all, we will sail away with your ship, as a reminder that I was the one to defeat the legendary Captain Jack Sparrow, Oliver Watson and Will and Elizabeth Turner" Clara gloated, Oliver looked up at her, his eyes filled with curiosity.

"I'm legendary too?" he asked

"Well of course you are!" Clara exclaimed "you are the man who managed to woo Lily Sparrow, help her and her father defeat Captain Barbossa and come to sail along side the Black Pearl, how could you not be well known?" she explained, I had to admit she had a point, but the point we were on before had been lost, I felt it was time to get back to the subject.

"you'll be doing no such thing with my ship" I said from behind the crates, I settled the twins down on the deck carefully and stepped out, the look on Clara's face when she saw me was priceless.

"It's my ship!" Dad said. He shut up when I glared at him.

"You! I should have known you'd be nearby" Clara spat.

"Yes ye should" I said, smiling. I stepped up to her and continued with my speech.

"But your friend Gillian wouldn't be going with you even if you did manage to defeat us all" I said, Clara had been getting on my nerves about how many of us she wanted to kill, there were after all, five of us and one of her.

"What do you mean?" Clara spat, a worried look coming over her.

"I killed her" I said simply, it wasn't really a big deal to me, I had killed many people in my time and Gillian wouldn't be the last.

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