"Not All Treasure is Silver and Gold"
Chapter 4
Jack Sparrow dedicated himself fully to becoming a father. Everyone who knows Jack knows that Jack loves women, now specifically, one woman, Dani. He loves the curves of her body, the shape of her nose, the color of her skin; everything about her. So it was in no way difficult to devote so much of his time towards creating new life with her.
The next morning, Jack was looking bright-eyed, while Dani was exhausted. She wanted a child just as much as Jack did, maybe more so, but was having second thoughts about forcing it to happen. She wanted it to be like Will and Elizabeth, where it was a surprise.
It was their second week out on the water when Dani told them she wanted to turn around.
"Why?" Jack asked.
"Because I have this feeling that Elizabeth is going to have her baby soon, if it already hasn't happened."
"But I think we're close to the Fountain," Jack whined.
"Jack, you haven't even been looking for it. You've been in the cabin with me," Dani said back.
"But we don't have time to go all the way back to Port Royal. And you don't have the dress for Norrington's fiancée yet. We have plans to return for their respective weddings, savvy?" Jack said.
Dani was silent. She didn't like being told that her plan was wrong. Dani turned on her heel and started to walk back to her cabin. Jack went to follow her but she turned back to face him, gun in hand, pointed at his stomach.
"Easy, love, easy," Jack said, hands up. "What's wrong?"
"I want to be alone, savvy?" She said before continuing her walk back to her cabin.
The crew stared in amazement, obviously confused at what they had seen. Jack realized this and walked angrily over to the bow of the ship, obviously wanting to be alone himself now.
Three days later, the crew was still concerned. The captain and his wife hadn't spoken to each other yet. This was bad.
Two weeks later, he told the crew that the island on the left was the island he needed to search. Jack and Dani had finally begun to be civil to one another and acknowledge each other's presence. She had even let Jack sleep in their cabin again.
Jack was getting ready to search an island that morning and had just given orders to lower the longboat.
"I'm coming with you," Dani told him.
"No, you're not," he answered her back, without turning to look at her.
"I wasn't asking. I was telling. I am going with you, whether you like it or not."
"You are absolutely not going. I said so. You cannot go."
This isn't what Dani wanted to hear.
"Jack, you and I need to talk and I think the ride over to the island would be the best place to do it. Away from the others."
"Is there something wrong?" Jack suddenly sounded concerned.
"It's best if we talk on the way to the island," she told him.
Jack relented. He and Dani were in one longboat and some more crewmembers in another.
He took her hand and looked into her eyes, searching for the problem.
"Are you going to tell me that you can't have children? Because that doesn't matter, Dani, it really doesn't."
"Jack, I think I'm pregnant," Dani said.
"That's great!" he shouted.
"Well, I don't know for sure. It's just a feeling. I can't be very far along, if I am."
"We'll see a doctor as soon as we can," Jack said, totally forgetting about the trip to the island that he was currently rowing to.
"I'm sorry, Jack. About getting angry about going back to Port Royal."
"And threatening me with the gun?" he asked, laughing.
"No, not at all. I'd do it again in a minute."
"That isn't funny, Dani."
"Oh," she smiled. "It wasn't meant to be."
At this point, they had all reached the island. Jack helped Dani out into the knee-deep water and they waded to shore.
Jack didn't say anything about the potential baby. He didn't want to jinx anything. Jack did have a past of messing these sorts of things up.
The crew, Jack and Dani ventured into the dense vegetation, searching for the Fountain.
But, at sunset, when they were all rowing back to The Adventurer, there was nothing to be proud of. All they had found in the jungle was more jungle. There were some animals and some flowers, but alas, no Fountain. There wasn't even a spring or waterfall. Jack was disappointed, to say the least.
"So I suppose it was just a rumor," Jack said, crestfallen.
"We'll find it, Jack. Don't worry," Dani said as she patted his back. "It's out there…somewhere." She looked off to the horizon.
"Turn the ship around," Jack ordered Gibbs as they walked past the helm.
"What, sir?" Mr. Gibbs shouted back.
"Set course for Port Royal, savvy?" Jack asked while the man nodded.
Jack was back to not sleeping. He tucked Dani into bed and kissed her forehead, but sat up all night with his maps and compass.
He opened and closed his compass in frustration. Every time he opened it, it pointed to Dani. It wasn't working right. He shut it again and closed his eyes and mumbled something about the fountain. It hurriedly opened it again and cursed loudly, waking Dani.
She yawned and sat up.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
"Nothing. Nothing is wrong. Everything is right."
"Compass not working quite how you want it to?"
"Well, it keeps pointing to you."
"I'm flattered, Jack. I really am."
"Would you mind trying it?" He asked, staring at her bare legs that were folded underneath her in the chair opposite him.
She picked up the compass and opened it. She was concentrating on the fountain, but the needle still pointed to Jack.
"Sorry, mate. It says I desire you the most. What kind of rubbish is that?" She laughed.
"Thank you?" Jack said, not finding what she said funny.
"I'm just kidding. I'm sure there's some sort of underlying meaning to all this, but I am very tired. You look exhausted to, so come on," she said, blowing out the lantern that sat on the table.
He crawled into bed with her and slept well for the first time in days. Secretly, he knew why the needles kept pointing to each other: they were going to keep each other young. They were each other's Fountain of Youth.
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A/N: Okay, that was chapter 4. Please review and I'll send you an imaginary Max and Erma's cookie! I would love to come home from work later and find a bunch of reviews!