"Captain?"

I looked behind me to see Jemmerson and Gibbs grinning like fools, but there was also a cloudy look looming in their eyes that I caught immediately.

"Yes?" I turned me full attention to the two of em, so I could assess everything in their eyes and faces.

"We be comin' around on ye port sir. Not too long we think." Gibbs said with a slight bow of his head.

The words brought a smile to me face, the same smile I wore a few days ago when I married the lass of my dreams.

"Good, did you inform my wife?" the smile never left me face as I turned back to the wheel, looking over the entire ship. Watching as the men did their respective jobs, my eyes searched but never found purchase.

"I hadn' seen her all mornin' cap'n'. May still be in the quarters."

This was odd, she was always up before the sun, sometimes even before myself.

"That is odd, let me go and check on her then mates, Jemmerson take hold."

"Aye cap'n'."

He swiftly took my place as I headed down to the main deck and into our shared quarters.

"Love?" I asked as I entered the room, not seeing her right away when I entered.

She was not lying in the bed, nor was she at the desk. My heart rate began to pick up instantly, where could she be?

"Isabella?" I called frantically.

"Would you be a little quieter? I have a blistering headache."

She mumbled from the seat by the bow, where the windows looked out to the sea that we were leaving in our wake. How had I not seen her?

"Do not ever scare me like that again understand? I could not find you love."

"I was sitting right here, you just did not look hard enough." she said while looking at me with a humorous glint in her eyes.

"Are you alright my love?"

"I am, just not feeling all too well this morning. I will be fine, where are we?" I sat down with her, encasing her in my arms and holding her tightly.

"We are closer to our port, soon enough we will be alone and on our official honeymoon. No interruptions, no ship, no crew. Sounds lovely doesn't it?"

"Mm, it sure does." She said with a smile, snuggling into my embrace.

"Soon enough my love."

"Not soon enough though." She whispered back playfully as I kissed her neck lovingly, making her giggle.

Our moment was then shattered when there was a loud crash upon deck and then the ship shook so violently that we were thrown to the floor.

"What was that?" My angel yelled from above me.

"I don-"

"Cap'n'! Black Pearl approachin'!" Jemmerson yelled from outside the quarter doors.

Bella and I exchanged a look before we jumped to our feet and ran for the door just in time to see the Black Pearl sail up beside us, looking like they were ready for a fight so I drew my sword and as did the rest of me crew.

Barbosa was the first I saw, standing there proud and tall as if he were at the top of the world. Not here, this is my world right here.

"Ahoy Cap'n Baur, nice day to be sailin' aye?"

"What do ye want Barbosa?" I yelled back, not in the mood for his word games.

"Well let's just cut to the chase then shall we? We be lookin' for a lad, a lad that I think to be on ye ship."

"And who might this be pray tell?"

"A Turner, son of Boot strap Bill Turner. Speculations be that he be on yer ship."

Bella tensed beside me, probably because Will is on this ship but she wouldn't tense only for that purpose, she see's something I do not.

"Well Barbosa it seems that I cannot help ye. I do not know a Turner, any of you lads know a Turner whose father be boot strap Bills?" I addressed me crew, knowing none would say anything lest they be looking for a death sentence.

"Nay." They all complied in unison.

"Alright then, now that that is settled I guess you must be on yer way. Unless there was something else ye were in need of?"

I heard Bella's hiss before I ever registered what was happening. Without even a word from Barbosa his men began boarding the ship, it's a fight they want.

"Find em!" I heard Barbosa himself yell above the commotion.

Metal upon metal, canons firing, boards clanging against the masts, men yelling, falling to sea, it was madness. Something that I once would have welcomed with a smile, but now I shied away as I looked to Bella who had her sword drawn.

I do not want her in the middle of this, nor does she need to be. Had we not just married and not come out to the crew I would be bothered, but not as fear stricken as I am at this moment. What if something happens to her?

She may not be able to die, but if everyone sees her sustain a life ending injury and yet she were to live, that would not be good. She would never be able to re-board this ship, ne'er would I.

"Bella." I whispered almost breathlessly as I watched as the men around us began to mingle and mix and become not only my men, but Barbosa's men as well as they flooded my ship like the sea.

"Don't. Not now." She hissed back as two men came at each of us.

"Find em men! Tear em limb from limb if ye have to, but don't return til ye find em!"

My sword sliced right through him, but I knew it would not kill him for they were cursed, so, having enough I yelled out to my men angrily.

"PUSH THEM BACK! DON'T HOLD BACK! SHOW NO MERCY!" and then everyone of my men began pushing back, boarding the Pearl the same way Barbosa's crew boarded, along with swinging from the ropes.

"BELLA! NO!" I yelled as I watched the love of my life swing from the Swan to the Pearl.

"Jemmerson! Hold her mate, I'm going after her!"

"No cap'n!"

Just as Jemmerson yelled to me I saw it, just as Bella landed on the ship she came face to face with Barbosa himself. Holding her own very well of course, as she always does, but even she didn't see what I saw.

The biggest man on the ship came up behind her and grabbed her around the waist, hoisting her up off the deck, thrashing violently she dropped her sword to the deck with a clatter.

"Hold ye fire!" Barbosa and I seemed to yell at the same time. Everything stopped.

"Let go of me!" Bella screamed as she thrashed desperately against the beast of a man holding her off the ground.

"Let her go Barbosa!" I yelled angrily, sheathing my sword at my side, showing cooperation. Not surrender, cooperation. Big difference.

"Not until ye hand over the lad Baur."

"She has nothing to do with this!"

"And ye'd be right. But she chose to get in the way, so how about we make ourselves a little bargain shall we? We pirates do love a good bargain."

My nostrils flared as I glared at his evil form, I was once like him, and then looked to Bella to see her breathing deeply, eyes crinkled as she pursed her lips tightly.

She mouthed 'don't' as I was about to speak.

"What do you want?" I spoke through clenched teeth, unwilling for a deal.

"The boy for ye wife. I think that would be a fair trade now wouldn't it?"

I took a moment, I don't like the idea of trading an innocent man's life, but she is my wife, my life, my love. I looked to her, seeing the resignation plainly in her eyes as they practically screamed at me not to take this deal and that she would be fine. I hate this.

"No?" Barbosa asked as I gave no response.

"I do not have a Turner on my ship."

"Well then, I guess we will just have to keep this lovely lass. Unless you can bring yourself to find the lad by the time we reach ship wreck cove then instead of his blood it will be the blood of your boney lass that is spilt. See ye then Captain, take her below."

"NO!"

"LET GO OF ME! ALISTAIR!"

"BARBOSA YOU BASTARD LET HER GO!"

"ALISTAIR!"

And then she was out of sight and below deck, I could still hear her screams as it was the only sound besides Barbosa's men moving about. I was struck motionless, unsure of what to do and before my brain could function I was face first on deck.

"Hit the deck!"

There was a crash, wood splintering and crashing about as a cannon fired, I looked up from the deck to see the Pearl pulling away quickly.

"Hoist the sails!" I heard someone yell from my ship, it wasn't me as I was still watching the pearl with a heavy heart. No.

"We can't go nowhere! Ships damaged, there's a great leak below deck. We need a fix it before we move her!"

"Captain! What are we to do?" Jemmerson asked while pulling me up, I looked around at the faces of my men.

Jack and Gibbs were among them and in all honesty, for the first time I was at a loss at what to do. My whole world was just stripped from me within an instant and there was nothing that I could do.

Actually.

"Set to repair the ship immediately, we are to go nowhere until it's fixed. Set to it!" I yelled, getting back to my stone self, from before my love.

They all set to work, running around one another to get to their places to begin the repairs. Jemmerson, Gibbs and Jack stayed with me as I looked over the mast, after the man who took my life from me.

"We will get her back sir."

"I know, even if it kills me."