The Little Sparrow's Tale

By: Too Lazy and Datakenobi05

Disclaimer: If I owned I would be filiming right now. If Datakenobi05 owned it well not sure what she would be doing but along the same line, but we don't own it and sadly we never will.

Her hair was tied in a dark brown bun with two decorated sticks holding it in place, a gift from her last lover; her deep brown eyes outlined with a thin line of kohl scanned the ships ahead looking for one in particular. The wind rustles her silk blue kimono shirt and bangs that frame her face, she was a vision of beauty and god help any man or woman who try to keep her all too them selves. For she was a pirate and at eighteen she had left many men and some women weeping at the loss of her while she roamed free as Sparrows are know to do.

Finally her eyes alight as the ship she has been searching for comes into view and she smiles. It had been a year since she had seen the Black Pearl, had felt her rocking under her feet, the feel of the sea spray and wind across her skin. It was a welcomed sight. As soon as the ship docks she runs over to the gangplank and as soon as she feels the Pearl beneath her feet she knows she is home.

Gibbs is the first to greet her. "My Miss Sparrow, look at the woman you have become!"

"Why thank you Mr. Gibbs, at least you can appreciate the view compared to the last man I was involved with." Amberly quips as she hugged the old pirate tightly. "It's so good to see you."

"Aye, you to lass, and your old man should be happy to see you too once he gets up that is." Gibbs said carefully. Ever since she had told her father to leave her in Japan for a year, despite the ban on all foreigners, he had been a bit distant. Not to mention the last talking the father and daughter had did not go very well.

"He should be over it by now. Besides he made you come back." Amberly said helpfully, from the bag she had brought with her, she pulled a new flask from it and handed to the grateful Gibbs. It was small like his last one but this made of silver with a dragon surrounding it. It was worth a pretty penny, not that she paid for it mind you. Gibbs nods his thank you.

"That he did, but he said it was because he needed you to find some shiny bits for us." Gibbs shrugged and Amberly laughed.

"That is Captain Jack Sparrow's way of saying 'I miss my daughter'." Amberly said mocking her father's deep voice and drunken swagger, it is not very convincing but makes them smile anyway. "By the way, if we head back home we should find some shiny bits as you put it." She kisses his cheek and strides past him and there on the deck sees her other two favorite pirates Pintel and Regetti playing liars dice. She jumps on in the middle of the game casing their cups to fall over.

"Hello boys!" She chirps happily and then springs forth a hug on both of them.

"Miss Amberly you're okay, Pintel said you'd be made into Geisha for sure!" Regetti said as she released her from the hug.

"Did he now?" Amberly turned to Pintel looking like a hawk going to slaughter the rabbit, he returned her predatory gaze with a nervous moldy smile.

"I only said it with the nicest of intentions Miss."

"Sure you did." She pulls out a glass eye for Regetti who upon seeing gets a bit weepy and a new dagger for Pintel. The dimwits had been her playmates when she had allowed (or whined until her father said yes) them to come back onboard her father's ship and considered them like untrustworthy family, besides she did get them into a lot of trouble.

"It's wonderful to see you two, but I must inform our Captain I am back." She gets up and leaves the two to argue on who got the better gift. On her way to the cabin she and Ana-Maria lock gazes. Ana-Maria is the first to look away and at the new katana strapped to Amberly's back. What Ana-Maria does not know is this katana was a gift from her sensei, who had taught Amberly all he knew within a year, and Amberly had learned what he taught her very well.

Amberly goes into the Cabin without knocking and sees her father in bed sleeping soundly; clutching a bottle of rum to his chest like a child does its favorite toy. She almost has heart not to wake him up. Almost.

She jumps on the bed causing her father to sit up abruptly and Amberly flops next to him on the bed.

"Hello daddy!" Before Jack can say anything she hugs him and he hugs her back. "Scared you didn't I daddy?"

"My pirate lass, you could never scare me, only make me misplace my equilibrium as it were, my god look how you've grown up in a year." He pulled back from his daughter and noticed she was her mother, same proud chin, perfect teeth, and long hair only darker and placed in a bun with two decorated sticks holding it in place and same fire in her spirit. Quite shocking it was at times. He was going to have to keep a close eye on any sea dogs that looked at his daughter, but her father was very late of that front just didn't know it.

"I have a gift for you." Amberly said going through the bag until she pulled out something green and oddly shaped. "I made it myself."

"Oh goody I love presents." Jack said with childish glee.

It was a Chinese lion carved of green jade, it was very well done. "I made it for your hair." And Amberly went through his hair trying to find some that was still braid-able which was quite a lot but she was looking for the best spot. She quickly braided the lion into his hair where it would rest against the bone already there. "Perfect." proclaimed Amberly with pride. Her father was old by years yet he did not look it and still acted like a man with a thirty years old strength and agility, and she wondered if she would age like he did when she was older.

"Thank you my darlin.'" Jack said then he was silent. He had thought long and hard about what to say to his daughter the night before but he had not come up with anything.

"Daddy, I did not mean to yell at you that night or say what I said, I just wanted to stay on my own and I know it was hard for you to let me go. So, let's just forget it ever happened and move forward or back to the Caribbean." Amberly said and in a moment she did what Jack could not do and cleared the air between her and him.

"Alright sounds like a plan." Jack got up from the bed and took his jacket off the hanger by the door and went to issue orders. However, as always Jack's plans never went the way he wanted him to.

"So you are back, and going to cause a scene like last time little girl." Ana-Maria called from the helm. This was the moment Amberly had trained for once she arrived in the land of the rising sun.

"Ana-Maria I am hardly little or a girl anymore I happen to be more of a woman then you for one and a bit taller for two. And I do believe it was you who stared the last scene between us, just like you are doing now." Amberly climbed up the helm steps lazily until she was on top she did not come any closer then that.

"Now ladies lets not have what happened last time,"

"Quite daddy, I'm speaking now." Amberly ordered but she did not look at her father who was at the bottom of the steps.

"Take off the blade kid and will fight." Ana-Maria said coldly. This was the fight she wanted to finish this time and she would no longer hold back just because Amberly was the younger or because of her father.

Amberly nodded and pulled the gleaming blade from its sheathe and placed it by her feet. She stepped around it and a little closer to Ana.

"Last I remember it was your turn, right Ana-Maria?" Amberly said but before Ana-Maria could answer Amberly flipped forward twice and delivered a drop kicked to the older woman's chin. "No it was my turn." Amberly answered as she dodged the punch Ana-Maria sent her way.

A small crowed of the crew had gathered at the commotion, Jack himself hiding behind a crate as he did not want to get involved like last time and cause another rift between him and his daughter, if he admitted it to himself it had almost killed him then (metaphorically of course).

"Go to hell Ana-Maria it is you god damn fault that my mother left!" Amberly shouted vemomsely only a few of the crew remained on deck to watch the fight others had left for shore leave.

"Amberly, Ana had nothing to do with me and your mother!" Jack yelled just as loud, and he wished he didn't, but Amberly refused to listen to him at clam levels.

"Quite daddy this is between Miss Vargus and me!" She turned back to Ana-Maria who just rested against the mast looking at her coldly.

"Your mom couldn't keep a man like you father happy kid, get over it and get lost like you want to no one will care." Ana-Maria shrugged off-handedly as she used her blade to clean the tar from her brittle nails.

"I guess your right Miss Vargus no one will care if I left but you will care once I come back!" Amberly started to make for the gangplank with great haste, but her father pulled her back by her arm, trying to keep her on the ship, he had no idea how this got so out of hand but he did not want to see his little girl go.

"Let the little bitch go Jack be a damn sight better on this ship with out her." Ana-Maria said and Amberly snapped. Pulling from her father, she pulled her blade from her belt but Ana-Maria, who was a far better swordsman then her at this point, dodged the blade grabbed hold of Amberly's long hair and banged her head against the mast before Jack could stop it from happening.

"Ana what the hell are you doing!" Jack shouted as he went to cradle his daughter. She had a large gash on her head.

"She came at me captain it was self defense." And in fact it was and Jack could not argue with that fact, he turned his attention back to his daughter. Amberly stood up and wiped the blood from her head.

"Come back for me within a year Captain if you can, after all Miss Vargus just might persuade you not to." And Amberly ran off the last thing she heard was her father calling for her.

Amberly grabbed Ana-Maria's wrist and twisted it behind her back before kneeing her in the gut. Ana-Maria got back up, her hand going for her pistol but Amberly was standing next to her and from the bottom of the sheathe on her back pulled a hidden dagger out and had is positioned at Ana-Maria's slender neck.

"I want you off this ship by the time it is ready to set sail Miss Vargus. Fail to do so and I will kill you." Amberly said and pulled the blade away.

Ana-Maria wiped the blood off her nose and forehead. She smiled at Amberly warmly. "You are just like your mother kid, be proud."

Amberly gave Anna-Maria a slight nod of the head and left to the cabin picking up her katana as he did. She did not hear the conversation between Ana or her father but when she returned on deck Ana-Maria was gone.

Her father was steering his ship back in the direction of home that night and Amberly approached him with rum bottle in hand. She had been drinking since thirteen and it was something her and her father both enjoyed. She handed him the bottle after taking a sip. He took a long drink.

"I am sorry daddy. I hope you are not mad at me." Amberly took a seat by the wheel. Her father sat down using his back to hold the wheel in place. He passed her the bottle.

"No my pirate lass, in all honesty Ana-Maria was thinking on leaving anyway."

Translation: you did what you had to no hard feelings my pirate lass.

"Then I am glad I helped her on her way...so where to daddy?" Amberly cuddled close to her father to keep warm and he let her.

"Well, before I started back, I got a letter from your brother requesting to weigh anchor at Port Royal for something, said it was urgent." Jack said and smiled at his daughter who clapped her hands in gleeful surprise. She kissed her father's cheek. After a few more drinks of rum both inhabitations of the father and daughter loosen and here is where Jack Sparrow said something he shouldn't have. "You didn't have to beat Ana-Maria up though."

Amberly turned so fast that a slight wave of nausea hits her and calls forth a memory she thought she had long ago forgotten.

"She needs a doctor Jack, a real one."

Amberly was awake but her head was splitting in two and her stomach was rejecting everything it was offered.

"She will be better off with Tia Dalma. She knows what to do in these kinds of situations. Helped me once she did. I've never got sick again. Now, would you rather Amberly get better then sick again or only be sick this time and never have to worry about it again?" Jack Snapped irritably, he had been up all night with his daughter trying to feed her and telling her stories as sleep was something his daughter could not do in her state.

"We can take her to a doctor now and to Tia Dalma later. Jack she could die!" Elizabeth countered angrily.

Amberly's heart lurched at this. Die? She didn't want to die! A faint pressure on her hand made her look down. Her big brother Ace was staring down at her with her deep brown eyes. He was there by her side like he said he always would be.

"I don't want to die Ace." Amberly whispered, her throat hurt from her hacking cough.

Jack and Elizabeth looked to their daughter before opening the door of the cabin. Ana-Maria was there with some water for the sick girl. Jack looked at her and Ana looked back. Elizabeth pushed her way through the door and walked up the stairs to the deck.

While their parents were above them, Ace and Amberly heard them arguing, and it wasn't about Amberly's sickness anymore.

She sighed, remembering the incident and looked at her father in the eyes holding his gaze. "I think you were lying."

Jack glanced sideways at his daughter. "'Bout what darlin'?"

"Ana-Maria, not being the reason you and mom split up." A cynical smile played on her lips and she stood up.

This time Jack sighed and rubbed his eyes. "Why is this always an issue with you? Ana is gone thanks to you."

"Because daddy, it was our family! If she is the reason then I am sorry I did not do worse to her when I had the chance! She knew my mother loved you." She said slightly disgusted and slightly tearful at the same time. Damn the rum. She watched her father's dark eyes fall briefly. "Ana-Maria knew you loved her too."

"Love is a fickle thing." Jack offered as a way to explain his actions.

Amberly was getting angry. "Don't you dare tell me you felt the same way about that whore! Ana had no right to be with you. It could have been any other girl but her daddy. She watched Ace and I grow up, watched you and mom fall in love." Amberly took a sip of rum before continuing.

"Ana-Maria probably got jealous, wanted what she couldn't have. Then you let her! This is your fault!" Amberly said coming to a sudden epiphany.

"Your mother made it clear that it was over between us." Jack defended.

"Why? Because of you, were you too busy with Ana to take me to see a doctor?" Amberly said frostily, she was all but yelling at her father.

Jack looked confused at this. "What are you talking about?"

"When I was sick and you wanted to take me to Tia Dalma and mother wanted to take me to a real doctor. How did I get better?"

"We took you to see a doctor in Port Royal. You got better." Jack waved it off. He was not sure how the conversation got to this point but took the bottle from his daughter and took a swig, any other women in the world he could figure out but his daughter left him going in circles.

Amberly walked over to the stairs getting ready to leave but she had to know, and she had to make her father feel guilty if only for a moment. "Were you bedding Ana then? I remember the look on my mother's face when ever Ana was around. She knew didn't she!" Tears were falling down her face at this point. "Do you love me daddy?"

Jack looked at his daughter's tear stained face and went soft. "Of course my pirate lass."

"How? I look like my mother, don't I remind you of her every time you look at me? Maybe you love me now but what about tomorrow?"

"I always will." He said calmly.

"Will what daddy? You can't even say it! I loved you when I was younger and I love you now but now I know why my mother left you. You never loved her!" Her sobs were threatening to overcome her. She had needed to get this out of her system for a while and if her father had not said anything about Ana-Maria she would have left this anger bottled up inside her heart and never thought about again. "Ace and I must mean so little to you. But I understand. Love is a fickle thing. Thank you, daddy for that lesson in life." Then she felt it. The feeling she got when treasure was near...

"Daddy head south west." Amberly said, dazed she headed to the railing, wiping at her tears. Jack stood and did as she instructed.

"You feel something darlin'?" Jack asked slightly concerned. His daughter only got the dazed look about her when the treasure she felt near was very worth the trouble getting it.

"Aye daddy I do and it is going to be one hell of a find." She only got a toothy grin in response all words previously spoken to one another forgotten. And they would always be, but Jack would do something to make sure his daughter knew that he did love her and her brother and her mother. He could never say the words but he would show them someday at the opportune moment.

It had been a merchant British ship British full of Chinese and Spanish goods. It had been one hell of a battle. Theses British did not give up till the very last man stood, literally. Several crates of silk, chocolate, rum, gold and silver had been loaded on to the Pearl. So much in fact that she was considerably low in the water and moving a bit slow ever for her. When they had taken the one survivor on board he elected to become a pirate realizing there was more money in it. Plus the girl pirate was really beautiful.

"I can hardly wait until you meet my sister, Victoria." Ace said, running a finger down his wife's cheek. "And my father, he'll love you. I hope."

"Oh Ace, I can't wait to meet him! Father has told all sorts of stories about him, even the first time he came to Port Royal." She smiled and looked down. "I'm sure you know all about it though."

Ace leaned back on the bed and pulled Victoria to his chest. "Aye, I know all about it. Of course the stories my dad used to tell were much nicer then the ones your father tells."

A few months ago Ace Lucas Sparrow and Victoria Lynette Norrington eloped, much to her father's disgust. Admiral James Norrington had chased the young pirate all around Port Royal when he learned of his daughter's marriage. In all honesty it had been a funny sight.

Ace had the sneaking suspicion it was because Norrington hated the fact another Sparrow had taken something from him. Ace had tried to make peace several times but each time was only chased out of town for a bit.

His own grandfather however, was excited, so much he had paid for the whole small wedding including a very nice home for his granddaughter-in-law, so that way she would not lose her reputation.

His only comment was at the expense of the elder Sparrow, saying how this marriage was a generation to late. Ace was quick to point out that if the wedding between the commodore and his mother took place he and his sister wouldn't be alive.

The Governor nodded and didn't continue.

His mother, Elizabeth was present as a witness along with David. David had tried to get the boy to open up to him but Ace kept his ground, no one was going to attempt to take his father's place in his life. His father had taught him how to fight and sail when he was younger, when he grew up his mother was the one who made sure he didn't get rusty. As Far as Ace was concerned Elizabeth Swann and Jack Sparrow were his parents.

"You must miss them terribly." Victoria said leaning her head on his chest Ace ran his nimble fingers through her red curls.

Ace closed his eyes, placing a small kiss on her forehead. "Who?"

"Your father and sister. It's been many years, hasn't it?"

He nodded, trying to remember what they looked like. "It has. I haven't seen them in seven years. My mother says I look just like my dad though. I remember Amberly growing up with mother's nose, chin, mouth. I think the only thing she got from my father was his eyes and hair, well, and his personality, which is not a good thing in the long run, she and father were always getting into trouble." A small smile came upon his lips as he thought of a time his sister and his father got stuck in prison by locking themselves in.

"A woman pirate, how strange. And I thought your mother was the only one." Victoria commented lightly.

"Not as strange as you think. There was a woman on the Black Pearl along with my mother." He stopped as he remembered Amberly's letter about Ana-Maria and their father. It had arrived about year ago telling him of the affair Jack and Ana-Maria had been having since they had split.

"What was it like living on a pirate ship?" Victoria asked shaking Ace from his musing.

Ace shrugged. "It was home." Stopping any other conversation Ace kissed her.

The next day Victoria was hanging out the laundry when a man approached her from behind.

"Victoria?"

She screamed and dropped the bed sheet on the ground. Looking at the man she started laughing and clutched her chest. "Oh, David, you scared me."

"I'm sorry. Is Ace around?" David said scratching his beard.

They soon had their answer as Ace ran out of the house.

"Victoria!" Ace called when he reached the back yard and saw his mother's, friend, for lack of better term, he stopped and openly glared. "David. What can I do for you? And where is my mother?" David would have no reason to come about unless his mother is with him.

The older man looked down and fiddled with his hands. "That's what I'm here for. I don't know."

Victoria looked at her husband. She knew how protective he was of his mother and how much he disliked David. She stood a little closer to her husband knowing that her presence calmed him down, if it didn't her father would have been a lot worse off.

"What do you mean you don't know? You went with her to find Amberly didn't you? My sister specifically said she would be in Japan."

"When we got there the people said she had left on a ship, most likely your father's." David said looking at Ace.

The young Sparrow stood there waiting for the explanation why his mother wasn't there. "And? Where is my mother?"

"She disappeared." David blurted out.

"She disappeared? That's it? Out of thin air you mean? You turned around and she was gone? What the hell happened?" Ace questioned furiously, Victoria put a hand to his chest.

"I don't know." David answered regrettably.

Ace glared at David a while longer before turning and going into the house, he needed to get ready to leave. Getting dressed in his old comfortable pirate grab he returned outside, David was being counseled by Victoria. When she saw him she stopped him.

"You are not going with out me." She ordered.

"Yes I am you can't go with. This I not like," She put up her hand.

"I am going and if you say no I will tell my father about all the cargo you have stolen before our marriage." She was not kidding. Ace sighed and smiled just like his father. "Fine, go and get ready fast." She smiled in response and went to do just that. Victoria had been on two adventures when she and Ace had first met when they were children and once when they were sixteen, Ace had gotten her own pirate garb and pistol. Her father did not know of this and would kill Ace if he ever found out.

When Victoria left Ace turned to David. "Get the Freedom ready were going to find my dad and sister then my mother." He did not tell David why, but David did as told, it was an unwritten rule that if Elizabeth was no where then Ace was in charge of crew and ship.