Pirates of the Caribbean: More from Beyond the World

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Good News

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Jack, Elizabeth, Gibbs, Ana Maria, and the small ragtag crew they managed to pick up got on the almost-ship, not-quite boat, that Jack, excessively grandly, decided to name Golden Opal.

"What is it with your ships and mismatched jewels?" Ana Maria grumbled.

"Makes the names sound more grand, love" Jack said.

"I see no need to make this dingy sound grand," she commented.

"Jack!" came Elizabeth voice.

Both Jack and Ana Maria turned around. Elizabeth was dashing towards them, her face slightly flushed, her eyes shining with such radiant happiness, that Jack was alarmed. In fact, she was actually glowing.

"What's the matter, love?" Jack asked.

"Jack, I – I'm pregnant!"

Jack stood looking at her for a stunned second. It seemed impossible to think of Elizabeth being pregnant. Elizabeth, who he still thought of as the eighteen-year-old girl he had saved from death by corset. To him, she hadn't changed. Even her marriage to Will could not change her in Jack's eyes. But her being pregnant changed it. To see Elizabeth standing with eyes shining with rapturous joy at carrying Will's child was slightly disconcerting.

But Jack, as was his habit, laughed it off, "So you accused me of trying to poisoning you with the fish, and all the time you were just pregnant."

Elizabeth was so happy; she hugged Jack, instead of slapping him.

"It's been two months since… well…" she trailed off, remembering her night with Will. "I should have realized it ages ago, I just didn't think of it. And now I'm so happy – "

Jack looked at Elizabeth's upturned, radiant, face was she chattered joyfully on about how happy Will would be when he found out that he had a child. Suddenly, Jack noticed that Ana Maria was looking at Elizabeth very strangely, and slightly puzzled, almost envious look. When Elizabeth, still glowing, went below deck, Jack saw Ana Maria follow her with her dark eyes.

"Ana?" Jack asked. She started slightly. "What's wrong, love?"

"Nothing," she snapped back roughly. "Why should anything be wrong?"

"You just – oh, never mind," Jack said, turning away.

"I was just wondering how we'll find that filthy thief,"

"Oh, Barbossa?" Jack asked, grateful for a change of subject, even though he knew Ana was lying.

"Of course. That bloke in Tortuga said he was there a month ago, but God knows where he is now,"

"Well, wherever he is, he's looking for me, because I have the charts he needs for the Fountain of Youth. And we're looking for him. So if he's looking for us, and we're looking for him, we should find each other soon enough."

"It's not very good logic," Ana Maria commented.

"It's Captain Jack Sparrow logic," Jack responded. "And that means it's right."

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It took Captain Jack Sparrow's famous (or infamous) logic, a month be right. They wondered around the Caribbean for a month, looking for Barbossa, Elizabeth very happy and optimistic about the world in general, so much so that Jack and Ana Maria found it slightly irritating. Ana Maria seemed to always want to be by Elizabeth's side, sharing her joy. Jack thought this strange, as Ana seemed always to be slightly resentful towards Elizabeth.

They finally came across the Black Pearl floating at anchor in a little cove near an island. As Jack watched through a spyglass, he saw the crew, headed by Barbossa disembark and row towards the shore. His chance had come.

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