Let it all Begin

Ok so thanks to everyone who reviewed. There's gonna be a bit more history stuff in here and some sibling interactions and stuff like that.

I also like the recent idea I was given. So…it's gonna be used. I can't have a Pirates of the Caribbean story where there's only one love interest thing going on. I'm just gonna make it a bit more interesting and bringing back an old friend and the child of another old friend.

Well…since I have time now before Jaden or Andrew yells at me to get up on deck, I guess I could tell more about my life. So where did I leave off before…oh yes…Grandpas Bill and Grant.

Well they both lasted until three years ago when Jaden, Andrew and I were twelve. That was the first time since the whole Davy Jones thing that we actually had any problems. That was when all of the original crew died as well.

I guess I should tell who was included in that crew because I'll keep mentioning them as that. Well, of course there was Grandpa Bill, along with the two idiots known as Ragetti and Pintel. There was the midget named Marty. Actually…now that I think about it…they were the only ones in that original crew that I knew. There was a bunch more according to Uncle Will.

Well anyways…it was pretty weird. Some old enemy of dad's was at the place we were at. I really don't wanna go into details but mum almost died. What was really amazing was that the idiots protected Isabelle and me (both of us were told to stay out of the way and we somehow wound up in the way). That's how they died. Marty…I don't really know but I saw his body so I know he's dead.

Grandpa Bill and Grant…they died protecting mum. Actually…Grandpa Bill was killed first and after mum got stabbed, Grandpa Grant fought and actually managed to kill the guy but wound up dying as well.

That was why dad started teaching me, Jaden and Andrew all the tricks of steering the ship and keepings things going well. He did that so that he could take care of mum. He really, really loves her. It's amazing. The stories I heard about him from before Jaden and I were born (before he 're-met' mum)…I never would have believed it to be the same man.

"Right about…now." I muttered, watching the sun pour in from the window and landing on my stomach. At that moment there was a banging on my cabin door (of course it used to be mum and dad's).

"Lil! You've gotten to sleep long enough!" Andrew shouted through the door. I slowly got out of bed and moved around, finding my clothes and pulling them on. Yes, I'm a naked sleeper. So what? It's boiling in this cabin at night. Even with my window open. "Lily! Goddamnit, why do you have to be a girl?"

"Because I'm better than you." I said, finally dressing completely and flinging open the door. "If I weren't…then I would be a man."

"You wish." Andrew said. I grinned at him.

"You just wish you were a girl because then you'd manage to do anything you want." I said, walking past him and closing (and locking of course) my cabin door. I heard him grumble something but I ignored it. He went to the cabin that was once his parents'. He had done the nighttime steering and so he was getting some sleep. I walked up to where Jaden was standing by the wheel. Actually…he was sitting on a barrel, a rope holding the wheel steady, and his eyes were glued on whatever it was he was writing. I smirked and started to sneak up on him.

"Don't even think about it." Jaden said. My jaw dropped. What the heck?

"How…what…huh?" I asked.

"You and mum aren't the only ones with power remember." Jaden said. "Besides…you haven't successfully snuck up on me in years."

'I haven't tried in a while so I forgot!" I said, going over to the wheel and flicking the rope off it. "What are you writing?"

"Starting off the letter to gramma." Jaden said. Unlike our grandfathers, our grandmother, mum's mum, was still alive, living in Santiago while mum, dad, Aunt Elizabeth and Uncle Will settled with being in Port Royal. We were stopping at Tortuga before going to Santiago, our original home.

"Good idea. Warn her that we're coming." I said. We normally stayed at each port for about three or four days. Unless the weather was bad then it would be longer or shorter if it was coming towards us. We'd send the letter off once we got to Tortuga so it would arrive in Santiago before we did.

After quite a few years of watching dad, mum or someone else steering, I know how to get places pretty well. Dad's compass helps too, of course.

We arrived in Tortuga the next morning. Like always, Andrew, Jaden and I stayed together. Surprisingly enough, we had a reputation all by ourselves, not much help from our parents.

Should have seen it coming though…but none of us did. We had been walking around for about ten minutes before I noticed that one of our crew had been following us from the beginning.

"I seriously think our parents don't think we can take care of ourselves." I said. All three of us spun around before our crewmate could hide. "Alright Gibson, who put you up to it?"

"It was your father, lass." Gibson said. He was an old man with a white-grey, very short beard. His hair was dark and, even though I knew he could be a hard-ass and one of the meanest pirates in the seven seas, he always looked like a nice old man…to me at least. As soon as mum, dad, Uncle Will and Aunt Elizabeth saw him when they were recruiting for the new crew, they took him right on the spot. I don't really know why but there have been a few times where dad had been talking to him and he'd act as if Gibson was an old friend.

"Of course." I said. "Daddy is so overprotective."

"Don't blame him, lass." Gibson said. "From what I've been told, I'm surprised it's just me he's told to trail you lot."

"Well…no need to be so secretive about it." Andrew said. "You could join us."

"Yeah. Makes me feel less paranoid." I said.

"You're too kind." Gibson said, somewhat sarcastically. He walked next to us. We weren't walking long before his attention was caught by one of the many taverns. I exchanged looks with my brother and cousin before we all sighed and pushed him into it before following.

We didn't stay long. Once a fight broke out, we left (I had to drag Jaden out because he LOVED fighting). We walked around more, occasionally pointing out some new things that weren't there the last time we were here.

"Does it hurt now?" I threw my arms out to stop the boys and Gibson. A voice had reached my ears, feminine but rough.

"Come on." I said, following the yells that had erupted. I pushed my way through a crowd to find a girl who looked about my own age fighting a man who looked about mum's age!

"How about now?" She asked, twisting his arm even more then it was. The man howled in pain and I was shocked and impressed. She pushed the man towards a few others who were obviously his friends. "Now…take a good look at me." I looked at her, taking notice that she wasn't wearing a dress but was dressed similarly to myself. She had dark hair that was tangled. "Do I look like a bloody wench?"

"No." Came a reply.

"Good. Now don't you dare touch me again!" She said.

"Come on!" I said again as I watched the girl walking away from us. I ran after her, aware that my cousin, brother and crewmate were right behind me. "Oy, 'ello!" The girl turned around.

"What?" She asked.

"Alright first…I'm Lily Sparrow, Captain of the Black Pearl." I said. I looked at Jaden. "This is my brother, Jaden, and next to him is my cousin, Andrew Turner."

"I'm Roselyn Gibbs." The girl said. I shook her hand. "What can I do for you, Captain Sparrow?"

"I am VERY impressed by what you did back there." I said.

"Thanks." Roselyn said. "I've heard of you lot." She motioned to Jaden and Andrew. I looked at them to see them beaming with pride. I narrowed my eyes slightly as Jaden looked at her with a somewhat flirtatious look. I'm glad dad isn't around, he might actually be proud of my brother.

"I was wondering if you'd be willing to consider joining us." I said. "There's already two other women but they're older then my mother so they're not much fun to talk to."

"Well I'd have to check with my own mother but I think she'll be thrilled." Roselyn said. "Why don't you come with me?"

"Alright. Boys…behave." I said.

"Oh come on, Lil…" Andrew said. I gave him a look. "Alright, alright." I checked to see that Gibson was still with us before we followed Roselyn. I walked next to her and talked to her.

She was almost a year older then us. Even though her birthday was the month after ours (Andrew was actually born the same month Jaden and myself were born in) she would be turning seventeen instead of sixteen. I looked at Jaden again. He was smiling. I rolled my eyes and didn't even bother to look at Andrew.

"Here we are. It's not much." Roselyn said. The house we stopped in front of looked to be the size of Jaden and mine's old house (where Grandma still lives) but it was only one level. "It's just me and my mum."

"Oh." Jaden said. We followed her inside where there was a bunch of instructions (Roselyn's mum stared at me and Jaden when Roselyn introduced us. It was almost as if she was remembering something). We were there for quite sometime before Roselyn brought up my offer. After a while her mother agreed so long as we made sure to add her to our 'who to write to' list for each docking.

As I lay in my cabin with my hands under my head and staring at the ceiling, I thought about Santiago. I smiled…that would mean, not only visiting Grandma, but also visiting Tara. We haven't seen her in a while. The last time we were there, she was off visiting her own grandmother.

I miss her a lot. I started thinking about how I might persuade Samantha to let Tara join us as well. I don't think it'll take much effort. When Tara was four, Samantha had another child. Two years after there, she had another. Now that Tara is fifteen (she's a month younger then Jaden and myself) she has seven younger siblings! I think Samantha might actually be happy to let her join us, seeing as how, according to the last letter, Tara won't stop talking about how exciting it was when Dad allowed her to come aboard for a while three years ago.

If I get my wish, then I'll have gone from no other girls to talk to, to having two other ones to talk to. In the back of my mind I thought about how Jaden and Andrew were acting around Roselyn. I didn't think about it much because I fell asleep after a while.

Alright…the next chapter won't be in Lily's P.O.V. From now on, it's basically just gonna swap around between P.O.Vs.