Chapter 23

After Will was sure that Elizabeth, Liam, and everyone was asleep he got up and crept downstairs to get Jack, who he found already outside waiting for him.

"I was beginning to think you'd forgotten," Jack said as Will came out closing the door behind him.

"Ha-ha funny. What do we do now?"

"We wait…"

"Wait? For what? Shouldn't we go down and take matters into our own hands?"

"No William," Jack said with a smirk appearing on his face, "We must wait for the opportune moment."

"I see," Will laughed but then became serious again, "And when will this opportune moment arrive?"

"At the height of the storm, which is coming quite quickly."

Back at the restaurant, Mat was preparing for the storm.

"Marshall!" Mat hollered.

"Yes, sir." Marshall said running over.

"Any news on the whereabouts?"

"The whereabouts of what sir?"

"Our… visitors."

"Meaning who sir."

Mat rolled his eyes, "Turner and Sparrow you idiot!"

"Oh, oh yes indeed. They are staying at Mrs. Turners home on the hill and—"

"I know that! Now how about Lyle?"

"He's at his home sir, preparing as we are."

"Alright now if anything new happens come and tell me immediately! I'll be in my office, where's Chloe? Chloe!"

"She's upstairs sir."

"Coming!" Chloe yelled running down the stairs and over to Mat.

"Come to my office, we need to 'talk'"

"Ohhhh, talk," she laughed.

"No really, we just need to talk about… you know," he sad gesturing to his bruise on his face Will had left.

"Oh, well alright then," she said disappointed and followed him to the office.

After they went in Mat closed and locked the door.

Chloe sat down, "Good god, it's getting worse."

"I know, I think we're in for a big one," Mat said looking outside.

"Not the storm… you're face. I mean, gosh how hard did the man hit you?" she laughed, "I thought you said you were the best fighter on the whole island and that no one could ever—"

"He got lucky okay. Now back to business," he said sitting down, "I wont let this storm slow us down, we said we would do it tomorrow so we're going to do it tomorrow."

"But how the heck are you going to get to them when we can't even go outside?"

"I've got my ways, besides, I'm determined to whatever it takes to get rid of them. If that means risking lives… then so be it."

"Ohhh I love you when you get determined…" Chloe giggled.

"I love me too when I get determined…" he laughed slyly.

The Dutchman on the other hand was loving the newfound change in weather.

"Is it time yet?" James asked while sitting in the captain's cabin.

"Don't get excited, like I said earlier it's just getting started," Calypso answered.

"Fine then. How do we tell when it's time?"

"At the height of the storm, we go in. We take care of them and maybe a few others in the process and—"

"I thought you said you were the Goddess of the Sea, and that you controlled it. Now why can't you just speed this storm up a bit, you are the one who conjured it anyway."

"I have been, this is no ordinary 'hurricane', it is one of unspeakable force in which yes, I do control, but we do not want to anger it…"

"Well 'it' is a storm, who can we anger it?"

"There are ways James, ways that not even I fully understand."

"But can you do it?"

"I can try," she said while a devilish smile.

Jack and Will knew that the storm was the workings of the goddess so they had an idea of when the height would be.

"It's worsening… again," Will said confused.

"She knows we're waiting. She wants to trick us into going out too soon, but we wont. We learned from our mistakes last time, did we not? This time we now what she is capable of."

"Good point. Maybe we should go back inside and—"

"No, we wouldn't want any tag-a-longs when we do leave, if ya know what I mean."

"William is a smart boy, he knows how dangerous this is and—"

"I wasn't talking about William…"

"Oh, I forgot about that…"

"Yes Elizabeth may be older, but she is still the same free-willing girl she was say, ten, thirteen years ago."

"She is. And I love her for that."

"And to think I was rooting for Norrington, well… I see now how much you love her and I—"

"Are you admitting that you were wrong?"

"No, I only said that—"

"The infamous, captain of the Black Pearl, Captain Jack Sparrow, just admitted that he was wrong after all," Will joked.

"Maybe, but most likely not. And if I am, which I'm not, it must be the rum talking."

They both laughed when the sky lit up once more with lightning and then the sudden crack of thunder.

"Time to go," Jack said determined.

"Go? Where I thought the plan was t—"

"William, listen to me, I know exactly what 'she'," he said pointing up t the sky, "is doing, and if we're smart we'll get as far away as 'them'," he said pointing at the house, "as possible."

"Why?"

"Just trust me! For once in your life William, just listen and don't try to be the hero, besides, unless Izzy in there wakes up, she wont be needed saving," jack said smirking.

Will nodded and followed Jack down the hill.

Elizabeth had no idea of what was going on outside and was fast asleep in her bed. Dreaming, again, about her future life with her family…

"Wi—ll! Put me down!" Elizabeth laughed as Will swung her around.

Liam was laughing as he ran around.

"Should I put her down Liam?" Will joked.

"I don't know Papa!" Liam laughed.

"Alright, alright!" Will laughed putting her down but still hugging her.

"Whoa, that was…," she laughed.

"You okay?" he laughed.

"Just dizzy! But you have to be careful with me," she laughed sweetly.

"Of course! I would never want to hurt you! I love you too much! I always, always guard you and Liam with my life," Will said kissing her.

"I know, that's one of the oh so many things I love about you," she replied sweetly, "Will… there's actually something I've been meaning to tell you," she smiled.

"And what would that be…"

"We—ll, I've been thinking… how about we turn the extra room upstairs into a bedroom."

"A bedroom? I don't see why not, but why do we need another bedroom?"

Elizabeth laughed, he was absolutely oblivious. "Ha-ha, well we're gonna need it in say seven or eight months…"

Will suddenly realized what she was implying, his face lit up with joy. "Elizabeth, are saying what I think you're saying?"

"Yes—"

"You mean you're—"

"Yes!"

"I… I can't believe it! Well, I mean I can," he said smiling uncontrollably, "but I… oh I love you so much!" Will picked her up into his arms again and twirled her around.

"I love you!" she sad back as he kissed her again.

"Liam! Come here!" Will said as he put Elizabeth down.

"What is it Papa?" Liam hollered running to them.

Elizabeth and Will shared a look and then Will looked down to Liam as he ran to him.

"Liam, guess what?" Elizabeth said happily.

"What?" he asked.

"You're going to be a big brother!" Will said picking Liam up.

"Really?" Liam asked overjoyed.

"Uh-huh," Elizabeth answered.

"Yaahhhh!" Liam said hugging Will.

Will then brought Elizabeth into the big family hug…

Elizabeth woke startled, it was still dark, the wind was howling outside, she looked over to find that Will was gone. She got up put on her rope and went to check on Liam, he was fine. She went downstairs, they were all asleep, but one infamous pirate was unaccounted for, not including her husband.

She laughed as she realized it, "Here we go again…," she whispered to herself going back upstairs and to her room.