I do not own Pirates, though I wish I did. Sadly, it's not Burger King. We can't have it our way. And I changed the spelling mistake in chapter two.

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Four months later, Elizabeth, Ana, Tai Huang, and the crew of the Empress set sail to Tortuga. She remembered to bring the Dead Man's Chest along with her, and put it away in a secret compartment of the captain's cabin. Ever since she found out she was pregnant, she held the chest by her side, and cried every night thinking about how Will didn't know he was going to be a father. But she didn't know that he already knew.

Jack had sent a letter to her that he and Gibbs were waiting there. She had gotten slightly rounder since the last time Jack and Gibbs came, and was glowing in the way expectant mothers did.

Tortuga was a mess, just as it usually was, with the drunken men fighting, the whores in their very tight corsets, looking for 'customers', and the occasional person thrown into the mud with pigs. They found Jack arguing with the bartender about the fact that he had no rum, while Gibbs was watching on.

"What do'ya mean you have no more rum?!" yelled Jack. "I'm bloody Captain Jack Sparrow and I need my rum." His speech was slightly slurred, which led to the obvious conclusion that he was drunk.

He saw Elizabeth and Ana from the corner of his eye and before turning away from the bartender, he took Gibbs' drink and poured it on his head. He staggered over to where Elizabeth and Ana were standing and said, "Oi Lizzie, that ship of yours better be in the harbour."

"Yes it is, and so is the crew. But keep in mind Jack, this isn't your ship. I'm the captain here," said Elizabeth. Jack looked slightly disappointed, and only had one thing to ask. "Does your ship have rum on it?" he asked eagerly.

Ana rolled her eyes and Elizabeth smirked and said, "Well, I have been meaning to dispose of all of it…" Jack gave her the look that he would give a crazy person. "No! My rum!" he said, flailed his arms around, and turned.

Gibbs chuckled at this typical Jack behaviour and said, "You know Sao Feng always kept rum in his cargo hold." Jack stopped flailing his arms and said, "Oh."

The four made their way to the ship, removed their anchor and set sail. "Gibbs, take the helm!" Gibbs did so. "Ana, Jack, untie the sails!" Ana shot Jack a glare but went to the sails. Jack went, reluctantly, seeing as he was used to giving the orders, and hated being bossed around by anyone else.

"Tai Huang!" Elizabeth called out for her first mate. He came at the sound of his name. "Any sign of the Pearl yet?" He shook his head. "Not yet Captain," he said. "Though I have seen that monkey in Singapore before we set sail to here."

"Monkey?" asked Jack. "Where's that annoying simian? I need something to shoot." He cocked his pistol. "Jack the monkey was in Singapore," she said. "Oh." he sighed and went to the cargo hold in search of rum.

She remembered sadly that she had to settle some things about he father's estate. She was now the governess of Port Royal, but could not take the job. She had other stuff to do. She couldn't have a job as governess while being the Pirate King. Her first cousin, Andrew lived in Port Royal, a short distance from her estate. She had always remembered him looking up to her father, pretending he was Governor.

'And now he shall be,' Elizabeth thought. "Mr Gibbs!" she yelled up at the helm. "Aye?" he said. "Set sail to Port Royal. I have a couple of unfinished business there." Mr Gibbs nodded and turned the wheel.

"Captain, it appears as though we have a problem," Tai Huang said. "If you remember old Hai Chen who used to take the job of crow's nest, well…. he's dying."

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"Captain!" a pirate named Arthur walked up to Will at the helm. "Yes Arthur, what is it?"

"There's another man dying at sea," Arthur told them. "Name?" Will asked. "Hai Chen, crewmember of the Empress. He is currently aboard that ship, Captain."

"The Empress… Elizabeth," Will murmured. He remembered that she was now the ship's captain since Sao Feng had passed on. "Sorry?" Arthur asked. "Nothing, that's fine Arthur." Will said.

"They're setting sail from Tortuga to Port Royal," Arthur said and left. Will was left alone thinking. The Empress was at sea. Did that mean Elizabeth was there? They weren't far from where the Empress currently was, but not close enough so that the two ships could see each other.

It had only been a year since he left Elizabeth, and he missed her strongly. He'd been sad to leave Elizabeth facing a pregnancy alone. His own mother died in childbirth. He was scared by the fact that that could happen to Elizabeth.

He'd been thinking for that for ½ an hour when his father called out, "I see the Empress!"

Will craned his neck higher to see. His father took the helm and he grabbed Jones' old telescope to see if Elizabeth was there. Sure enough, he saw her talking to Anamaria on the deck.

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"Oi Lizzie! Look behind us, because I see a ship you might like," Jack said. "What are you talking about Jack?" she asked. He held out his telescope.

She took his telescope, stretched it out, and looked in the direction of the back of the ship. The Dutchman was sailing behind.

A smile formed on her lips. It was Will! Of course the Dutchman had to come, a sailor was dying at sea! She was going to see Will again. And tell him of their child

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Well I think you know that they're gonna meet in the next chapter! R&R please!