Bed Time Stories

Like the title says…there's gonna be stories told.

(Lily's POV)

"My…my father?" Roselyn asked.

"Yeah…Joshamee Gibbs." Mum said. I looked between my mother and close friend. The name sounded familiar to me but since I had never met this person then I didn't know anything about him. Andrew would have known him, surely. But he was at the docks getting Gibson like Mum had asked.

"You knew him?" Roselyn asked.

"We all did." Dad said, coming into the room and handed mum a steaming cup before sitting next to her and wrapping his arms around her. I don't think that he still couldn't get over the fact of almost losing her yet again. Elizabeth and Will had followed him into the room and were sitting on another couch.

"Are you all going to start telling stories?" I asked.

"Mostly your mother will." Elizabeth said.

"But we'll fill in every so often." Will said.

"Do you want to know about when I first met him?" Mum asked, looking at Roselyn with a smile.

"Yes." Roselyn said.

"It was…sixteen years ago I think." Mum said. "Possibly a month or so longer. You see…Jack had been swallowed by the Kraken because of a debt he had with Davy Jones and he tried to outrun it." She gave Jack a sharp look before returning her eyes to Roselyn. "Well your father along with two idiots, Regitta and Pintel, as well as Elizabeth, Will and another pirate on Jack's crew known as Cotton all went to see a soothsayer named Tia Dalma."

"There was no where else we could think to go." Will said. "We got there and everyone had candles lit. It was nighttime so the candles were the only light. It was as if they all know that Jack was, supposedly, dead."

"I don't die much easier then Maddie here does, apparently." Dad said.

"I'm telling the story." Mum said. "Well…I had been…working…in Santo Domingo for years before that and so when a person from Tia Dalma came to get me, saying that I was needed on some grand adventure to rescue Jack Sparrow…I jumped at the opportunity." She smiled softly and took a sip from her cup. "Well I nearly knocked your father over with the door when I came barging into Tia Dalma's hut to tell everyone that the ship that had been stolen for the voyage was ready." I had heard the story before. No one trusted mum when they first met her because she was steering them away from they're main destination.

Now I remembered why the Gibbs name sounded familiar. He was dad's first mate until Will joined the crew permanently. That's all I really knew about him so I paid a bit of attention to this version of the story.

I had only met Tia Dalma a grand total of five times in my life time. The last time was last year when Isabelle had gotten really sick and mum had figured out that Tia Dalma was the only person that we knew of that could help her. I was the only one on the present crew that actually liked visiting her. Jaden, the lucky jerk, had been there six times. He was there when I was kidnapped by Davy Jones twelve years ago. He didn't like visiting because of that time…she had scared him slightly even though he would never admit it. He didn't fancy seeing her and decided the less time he spent there, the better.

The locals there also didn't like the Kraken very much so it wasn't as if I could let my brother or cousin control the ship while I got the Kraken to swim me over there.

I heard the front door open and I stood up to go see who it was, even though I already knew. Andrew and Gibson. I smiled at them.

"Heard your mother died." Gibson said.

"Aye." I said.

"And now she's alive again." Gibson said.

"Aye again." I said, laughing slightly at the absurdity of it all. Gibson shook his head.

"So what do you think I should expect the reason to be for your mother summoning me to the grand Sparrow house?" He asked.

"I think they're going to explain why my father acts so odd around you." I said. At that moment I felt a hand on my shoulder and jumped slightly before looking up to see my dad standing behind me. I was surprised that he had let go of mum. I could feel how much they loved each other and it was amazingly painful when we all thought mum was dead. The amount of relief, love and fear (he didn't think it possible to happen a second time) that I felt flowing off my father when he saw mum sitting up on the beach…nothing could compare to that.

"Aye…that's why we wanted you here." Dad said. "Come and listen to Maddie's story and then maybe you'll see." Gibson raised an eyebrow but followed dad back into the room.

"So what's going on?" Andrew asked me.

"Mum is telling Roselyn about Gibbs." I said.

"Oh." Andrew said.

"You knew him." I said.

"For all of two years…barely that." Andrew said. "All I really know is that he saved my life but it cost him his own." I put my hand on my cousin's shoulder.

"Do you want to go hear the stories?" I asked.

"I've heard them, many a times." Andrew said. "I think I'll go see how my brother and sister are." I nodded and watched him go off in the direction I had pointed in. Jaden, who didn't feel any need in hearing the stories, along with Tara, Isabelle and Tomas were probably in either the study or the room that had been transformed into what mum calls the 'kid's room' because it had been the room where things for Jaden and myself (toys, books, maps and other things that were of interest to us) were put so that whenever we were docked in Port Royal, we had a place that we could go to once mum and dad had purchased the house, knowing that eventually they'd have to stop sailing.

I returned to the den where Will had caused a fire in the fireplace and now there was an awfully comforting glow on everyone. I gave Roselyn's shoulder a squeeze before joining my parents on the couch and curling up with them. Gibson was sitting in a chair next to Roselyn anyways so it wasn't like I was leaving her alone to face my family.

I vaguely listened to Will and Elizabeth's retelling of how Gibbs died saving Andrew's life. My mind seemed to be full of the realization that my grandmother was now dead. It never really sank it. I never really thought of it once she had said that she wouldn't be far. Although, it wasn't sad. Oh I was upset that she was gone, of course I was, I was never able to see her again. But I wasn't really sad. It didn't really seem as if she had died. It just seemed as though…as though she had moved very far and, even though there was little chance of ever seeing her again, she was still there. We could still feel her, and that was a comforting thought.

"I never knew." Roselyn said. "I didn't…I didn't know any of this." I noticed she was crying.

"I don't suppose your mum knew any of it either." Mum said. "But he did love her."

"How do you know?" Roselyn asked.

"When I was younger…when we first met…I asked him if he had ever loved someone." Mum said. "He told me that he did…but she left. He lived with it for a few years but then he died saving my nephew. I wasn't there when he did and I still feel bad for it."

"He was a good man." Dad said.

"A hero amongst thieves" Will said. I smiled slightly and shifted closer to mum who put an arm around my shoulders and squeezed lightly. I sighed and looked out the window.

"It's late." Elizabeth said, looking at the clock against the wall next to the door. I frowned, looking at it as well. Didn't I break it before I left?

"We got a new one." Mum said. I looked at her and smiled.

"Lily…why don't you and Roselyn go tell everyone else that it's time for all of you to head to bed?" Elizabeth said. I raised an eyebrow but nodded. I gave everyone hugs before leaving the den with Roselyn. Once I closed the door, I pulled her to a stop and we stayed by the door, pressing our ears to it.

(Third Person POV)

Madison waited until the door was closed before letting her curiousity get the better of her.

"Who the bloody hell did Norrington have sex with?" She asked.

"WHAT?" The other four in the room asked.

"That other new crew member." Madison said. "He's Norrington's son. It just…radiated from him."

"I'm killing him…" Jack said.

"No!" Madison said, grabbing the front of his shirt. "He's not getting killed. He's a good kid. I'm just trying to figure out who on earth…" There was silence for a while.

"How old did he seem?" Elizabeth asked.

"Eighteen…maybe nineteen." Madison said.

"He would have been about two or three when we first met Jack." Will said, pointing between Elizabeth and himself.

"And when Norrington was intending on marrying me." Elizabeth said, shivering slightly at the thought. "Do you think Norrington knew about him?"

"Not then I don't think." Madison said, shaking her head. Elizabeth and Will looked as if they were thinking.

"Monique!" Elizabeth said, snapping her fingers.

"Who?" Madison and Jack asked.

"It's this woman that Norrington fancied before his attention turned to me." Elizabeth said. "I think she harbored secret feelings for him but, because of who he was, she did nothing about it."

"We'll have to talk with this young man tomorrow." Madison said. She looked at the door. "Good night, Lily!"

"Umm…night mum." Lily's voice called back through the door before there was the sound of giggling and then the sound of someone being hit. "Shush up!"

"Gibson?" Madison asked, looking at the old man sitting in the room who had yet to speak since Jack entered with him during the original stories.

"I'm just thinking." Gibson said.

"Least now you know why I act the way I do." Jack said. "Roselyn's father and I were pretty good mates and you look, and act, a lot like he did."

"So that's why I hired me right on the spot then, huh?" Gibson asked, smiling slightly.

"Aye." Jack said. "And I was right to. You've proven to be loyal and willing to keep my children safe."

"Just remember that they are allowed to leave." Madison said. "And you don't have to hold them back and we won't have to tie you up to keep you from somehow keeping yourself on the ship…right?"

Jack muttered something incoherent.

"Jack Sparrow…" Madison said.

"Bloody hell, fine." Jack said. "You don't have to worry about me doing anything…cept maybe trying to keep Lily away from that boy…"

"Unbelievable." Madison said, shaking her head. "You are too much of a father for her own good."

"You seem to be relaxing your motherly habits." Jack said. "As I recall you barely let her out of your sight when they were younger."

"You're point being?" Madison asked. Will, Elizabeth and Gibson had all left the room as soon as the inevitable argument started.

"My point is that when it was me saying you were too protective of them, you wouldn't listen." Jack said. "And now when you're saying I'm the one being too protective, you expect me to listen?"

"I also do the opposite." Madison said.

"I've noticed." Jack said.

"You can't complain, Jack." Madison said. "Because you love me." She had adapted a sing-song tone of voice. "You love me…you want me…you want to…" Madison gasped as Jack suddenly grabbed her and pulled her even more against him then she originally was before kissing her.

"My parents are so gross." Lily muttered quietly to Roselyn as the two of them actually remained to listen to everything else said in the room. She now regretted it. Roselyn covered her mouth as she giggled softly and the two of them headed off to deliver the message to Jaden, Andrew, Isabelle, Tomas and Tara that they were supposed to do about twenty minutes ago.

Heehee so what do you people think of this chapter? I really didn't feel like putting the stories in…I'm too lazy to do it.