Hey guys! Here's 5! I'm sooo sorry it's so very short! I'm aware of it's midget stature but I have so much college homework, this was as long as I could make it if I wanted to update anytime soon. Thanks to reviewers again, hope you enjoy.

Chapter 5: Question of Fate

"I suppose.. one cannot." She whispered before he closed the small space between them, and his lips were upon hers. She wrapped her arms around his neck to pull him closer. They kissed, perhaps for a thousand reasons, maybe only a few. Not even Michelle herself was sure why they had suddenly advanced on one another.

She allowed his tongue entrance to the warm crevasses of her mouth and was instantly addicted to the smell, taste and feel of him. She battled with his tongue playfully, her lips moving softly over his. She could hardly get enough of him.

Breathing had finally became a priority and she ended the kiss, staring up at him with a strong intensity flashing in her emerald eyes. His eyes locked with hers and stopped her in place with their gravity. "Hopefully that can be counted as a good experience aye?" He asked, grazing his lips over hers.

"It very well could be Mr. Sparrow." Michelle replied, she could hardly believe what had just happened, but she liked it.

Jack smiled, it wasn't very often he had any feelings for the women he kissed, or even slept with for that matter. Though he did admit to having feelings for Elizabeth when they shared that kiss on the Black Pearl, it had all changed when he discovered her true intentions. He hid it quite well but deep down it had hurt him.

Michelle's happiness was suddenly clouded with a slight sadness, "Jack... you're really going to leave soon aren't you?"

"Aye, that I am." He said it very straightforward, almost too straightforward... it pained Michelle. Wasn't he the least bit saddened by the idea of leaving her and probably never seeing her again? She didn't want him to leave Curacao... she didn't want him to leave her... She knew she shouldn't see it as any big surprise though. It's not like she didn't know he was going to leave from the very moment she met him.

She looked away from him, his hand still brushing lightly against her cheek, "I see... well Jack I must say it pains me to know that you're so content with leaving... so content with the fact that you'll never even see me again.."

"That's not entirely true love." Jack said, smiling at her misguided understanding of the situation. Her eyes returned to him from the dark ground below her.

"What's not true?"

"Your declaration."

She rolled her eyes at his response and backed away from him, "Yea well, it seems true enough to me."

"It's accurate to say that I'm content with leaving Curacao. There's no doubt about that, but once again you're disregarding the very important fact that I'm a pirate."

"Yes Jack, you are a pirate. So you always have an excuse to run off whenever you see fit right? I suppose it's a very convienent coincidence sort of thing right Jack?" Michelle said sarcastically.

"Actually love there's no such thing as a convienent coincidence since coincidences are already convienent to begin with. Savvy?" He said with his usual flailing hand gestures, "However, your entire statement is not at all what I was talking about in the first place. What I'm saying is, pirates never leave a place empty handed."

She looked at him with question, not understanding what he was getting at, "Yes I know what pirates do Jack... what's your point?"

He took a step closer to her, "The point is, I'm leaving to get the Black Pearl back, and I want you to come with me."

"Go with you? You mean until you get it back?"

He smiled at her ignorance of his statement and shook his head, "No love, this isn't some sort of vacation that I'm asking you to join me on. I'm talking about leaving this place forever, to accompany me on my ship."

Michelle's eyes widened in surprise. He wanted her to go with him? She didn't know what to say. For six years she had run away from the path of becoming a pirate. Six years she hid in fear on the small island of Curacao in hopes that Beckett wouldn't find her. Maybe it was time for her to stop running though.

Her dreams of getting even with the man who had her parents slaughtered would never happen if she hid out on some island her entire life.

Then again, her other dream was to get married and live a peaceful life of solitude on Curacao and start a family. Surely that would never happen if she joined Jack Sparrow. Michelle took a deep breath and looked at him.

Jack just smiled, "Well love, what's your answer?"

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