Chapter 14

Elizabeth stood there, forgetting that it was pouring down rain, and just stared at where Joey had just left. It all happened so fast, she didn't know what to think or say.

"Izzy?... Elizabeth? Are you alright love?" Jack said in front of her as he walked closer.

"Yes, yes… I'm fine… Never been better!" she said trying to hide the fact that she was confused out of her mind.

"Well then… let's go inside… it's hotter than he—" Jack stopped as Will ran outside.

"Uncle Jack!" Will said running and hugging Jack.

"Whoa, ello there William. You're getting stronger, ye almost took me down!" Jack joked as he balanced; between the rum and Will's hug he was getting a little dizzy, if you know what I mean.

The three of them headed inside and into the living room.

"So why did you come Uncle Jack?" Will asked happily.

Jack looked over at Elizabeth, "Ummmmm," he couldn't just come out and say, I came here so that I could see your half-dead, pirate captain of the Flying Dutchman, Father when he arrived… that's all.

Elizabeth looked back at Elizabeth, she had no idea what to say either so she gave jack a look that pretty much said, I know you can lie… so lie… please.

"I needed to get supplies so I thought to myself, kill two birds with one stone! Stock up on supplies, and visit my favorite couple of people."

Elizabeth smiled in relief, Jack smiled back half-drunkenly.

"So jack… how long do you plan to stay?" Elizabeth asked.

"I was thinking a few days, two maybe three. It all matters on this storm we're having," Jack said winking to Elizabeth without young Will noticing. Jack and Elizabeth used the storms as code for Will and the Flying Dutchman. "I'll stay as long as it allows me."

Elizabeth suddenly felt that she was freezing; she looked at herself to find that she was drenched from being outside. "I'm going to go change upstairs. Jack, help yourself in the kitchen. Will why don't you show him the new sword you got a few weeks ago," Elizabeth said going up the stairs.

Jack nodded his head and Will answered, "Okay Momma!" Will said running over to the corner and picking up a medium sized sword, "Look Uncle Jack! I can fight see!" Will started pretending to fight with it. "I can fight really good! I've been practicing a lot!"

"Just like you father!" Jack laughed.

"Uh huh! I'm gonna be a captain just like him and you! I'm gonna fight off skeleton and fish people too!" Will said with a huge grin of his face.

"Skeletons? Fish people? I see your mother has told you of our adventures," Jack laughed as he sat down in the kitchen.

"Every week! Can you tell me a story Uncle Jack? Pl—ease?" Will said looking over at jack.

"Well… I… maybe later," jack had something else on his mind. The real reason for his visit. Which was that Will would be returning, and Jack didn't want to miss out on anything. Jack had heard rumors brewing while at sea about the captain and the Flying Dutchman. He had heard everything from, "Yeah, I heard he went crazy and gave up delivering souls because his obsession with his love, just like Jones," to "Oh I heard he found a new guy for the job and is going back to land." Jack didn't know what to belief so he decided that the best thing to do was to see it for himself when Will arrived back.

Jack also had heard the most peculiar thing two days before, the day he really arrived on the island but no one noticed because he arrived by long boat. He went into the oldest tavern in the town late at night to get a drink and listen to see if he could clear up any of the suspicions. He overheard two old sailors talking about an old ship, which was thought to be only a myth being spotting off Jamaica. Jack thought to himself, Could it be? If it was then they were ahead of schedule, which meant that they would be arriving sooner than Elizabeth expected.

"You must be starving Jack!" Elizabeth said she came into the kitchen. Will darted into the living room past her pretending to sword fight.

"I'm alright I just—"

"I believe we still have some Rum from the last time you visited," Elizabeth said heading to the cupboard.

"But I never turn down Rum," Jack smiled.

Elizabeth got out the old bottle and a glass. She then took a seat at the table with Jack, giving him the glass and bottle.

"Thank you love," Jack said talking the glass and bottle.

Elizabeth checked to make sure Will wasn't paying attention and then looked back to Jack.

Jack was drinking from the bottle, "Ja—ck!" Elizabeth laughed.

He looked down at the glass on the table, "Oh… sorry," he smirked and poured some of it into the cup and pushed it towards Elizabeth.

"Jack," she said more seriously trying not to laugh.

"Okay, okay," he drank the glass and then continued to use it instead of just the bottle.

"Now, Jack. I know you… you don't just pop in here for no reason at all… what did you hear?" Elizabeth said leaning in towards Jack.

"I didn't hear anything… I just knew that it was about that time."

"Uh-huh, so that's the only reason why you came?"

"Yes, that and to stock up on rum," he smirked as he refilled the glass again.

"Of course," Elizabeth laughed.

"Ya nervous?"

"About?"

"About 'em coming back."

"…A little. Why do you ask?"

"I can see it in your face, you look… worried, confused and as you know I know from my tremendous intuitive sense of the female creature informs me that you are troubled."

"How could I forget?.." Elizabeth laughed rolling her eyes.

"Seriously Izzy, you like you need a good drink, how 'bout we go down to the restaurant and have a drink. Beside I wanted to say ello to that friend of yours—"

"Chloe?"

"Yes, that 'er name. We can go there for dinner later—"

"First off, Chloe's not really a friend anymore, and second off I don't think that'd be the best place to go."

"Not friends anymore? Huh, well why isn't it a good place to go?"

"I… I'll explain… later. Right now let's enjoy the fact that almost everyone is here together!" Elizabeth said trying to change the subject.

"Uh-huh, you wouldn't be changing the subject on me then?"

"The people down there changed Jack, or more specifically they showed their true colors."

"So I guess you ain't workin' there anymore…"

"Nope, I quit this mourning but my boss insisted on me giving it a week to think over my decision, so I said I would talk to him next week."

"You mean dear William will talk to Mat next week, and maybe finally that scum will get some sense knocked into him."

"Do I sense that someone doesn't like Mat?" Elizabeth joked.

"Yes, you do. I've hated the bloody bloke ever since I first saw him, he treats women horribly and for that I dislike every bit of that slimy, uptight, son of a –"

"Uncle Jack! Uncle Jack! Uncle Jack! Look what I can do!" Will sat darting into the kitchen and doing a funny yet skillful move with the sword.

"Nicely done!" Jack said.

"Very good job Will!" Elizabeth said as Will came over and hugged her.

"Momma? Can we go to the restaurant today? Clara said that her and her mom were gonna be there for lunch with her dad."

"I'm sorry darling… but we can't."

"But Momma, I—"

"William," Jack said sternly, "If your mother says no, she means no… believe me I learned it the hard way," Jack laughed.

"Very funny," Elizabeth joked, "Maybe next week Will, in fact yes. Next week I'll set up a day for Clara and her mother to meet us for lunch, okay?"

"Okay momma! Thank you!" Will said hugging her again.

"Will would you mind letting me talk to your mother for a second?"

"Sure, I'm gonna go play!" Will said running off.

"Izzy you need to go down there and speak to Mat, tell him you want to quit and that your decision's final—"

"I can't. He's been to –"

"Are you still being paid for when you aren't there?"

"What? No, I—"

"Then there is nothing stopping ya. Come on I'll go with you, and if he doesn't agree I'll have a little talk with 'em, Savvy?"

"I—, But—, Alright. But Will has to come with us, there's no one to watch him. Everyone's either sick from the storm or not available."

"Good, so tonight then, right after it gets dark, we'll go to see him."

"Why right after it gets dark?" Elizabeth wondered.

"Because… he'll be so busy with the drunks that he'll have to say okay to get us out of his hair," Jack joked. He used this explanation for a cover to his real reason for wanting Elizabeth and Will to go the restaurant that night at that exact time and place. Let's just say he and an old friend had a little surprise in store for the two of them…