"I need to remember to breathe," Malaya reminded herself as she ran through the crowded streets with drunks singing 'A Pirates Life for Me'. She pushed past the chorus and ran out to find anywhere to sit and be alone with her thoughts. She looked to her left and saw a dock. She ran to the end, her feet clunking against the creaking wood.

Elizabeth Swann ran alongside the boy.

"where do you think she went?"

"She's your daughter, ma'am, she could be holding a gun to a captain right now."

Elizabeth sent a glare to him.

"I only told you that story because-"

"Elizabeth!" Will yelled. Elizabeth ran up to him and hugged him tightly and then pulled away, his hand in hers.

"Our daughter's here,"

"What?"

"Malaya!" she said.

"Where?"

"That's the problem," the boy spoke up.

"What do you mean?" Will asked.

"It's your daughter."

"Oh bloody hell, we're not going to find her," Elizabeth worried.

The boy turned to look around for the girl. He brushed the hair out of his eyes and looked to the dock. There was a small outline of a hunched over human sitting on the edge.

"There!" he yelled. The couple started to walk but he stopped them.

"No, I'll go."

"But-"

"But you're her parents who she thinks abandoned her, I'll talk to her,"

He started toward her, at the last step she turned around and looked back down at the water.

"Why'd they leave me?" she asked, her voice calm.

"They didn't," he said. "They where kidnapped."

"That's a load of crap," she said. He blushed, even though living in Tortuga, he wasn't used to hearing it from a younger girl to often.

"You don't get it," she said. "when you lose your parents at an early age, it's hard. The captain-"

"The captain's a drunk, he may be a good storyteller but you shouldn't trust him," the boy said, frowning.

"What are you talking about?"

"I'm saying that I trusted him once, but it just led to me being stuck her alone being an apprentice."

She turned to him, tears streaming down her face.

"What are you talking about?"

"I'm saying he promised me that he'd find my parents and he never followed through," he said, a bit mad.

"What did he do?" she asked, calmer now.

"My mother was a pirate," he said. "My dad was a servant in a household. They got married secrectly and had me. He promised he'd find my parents. He never did." He said.

"That's-"

They were interrupted by a loud crashing noise from the ship they where next to. A man flew through the window as a loud rumbling sound came from behind. An army of pirates was charging toward the one ship. Malaya looked up to see the Captain sticking his head out.

"I hate to ruin the moment but I have just shot a man and have seized control of a ship, so if you'll be so kind as to-" he noticed the boy.

"Aaron."

"Captain."

The boys locked in a gaze before Malaya grabbed the boy's hand and pulled him up the thrown rope. Elizabeth started to charge, Will after her. They grabbed onto the rope and started to climb as the ship pushed away.

"'ello my old friend!" he said smiling down at Will. Will started to climb back down before Jack pulled him back over.

"You aren't going to leave me now, are you? I heard a rather nice story about this rum storage unit from the brothers who made the rum…"

Will thought started to think about jumping off the ship.

Elizabeth climbed on deck, kicking off the barnacles and throwing her hands over and grabbing onto the deck. She threw her leg over and looked across as the thirteen year old staring at her with deep chocolate brown eyes. Elizabeth tried to smile, but the girl's eyes remained cold and her mouth up-turned.

"I'm-"

"I know who you are," she said.

Elizabeth's smile faded.

"You have a lot of explaining to do,"

A/N: Hello, I hate to tell u guys this but, ur left with a cliffhanger!!! Agg!! I get irritating, I know, maybe if u leave a review I'll update tommorrow...hmm...