Santo Domingo

Oh the dreaded place of doom. Wonder if Jack will leave Madison here again…HA!! Not bloody likely!

"So…what's so bad about this place again?" Andrew asked.

"I have no clue." Lily said. "My parents just don't like it. I don't see why." She smiled as she watched, what seemed to be a huge party, going on.

"This place is notorious for it's parties." Madison said, walking over to them. Lily looked at her mother when she heard the bitterness. "You could probably steal just about anything right now."

"Let's test that theory." Lily said. "Everyone! Break into groups and get what we need. Be back in three hours." The crew all split up. Jaden, Jarrett, Isabelle, Roselyn and Tara all stood with Lily, Andrew and Madison. Lily crossed her arms as she tried to keep herself from dancing. There was something about the noise and the people that just made her want to forget about everything and get lost in the party.

"Ok, we're all here." Jack said, walking over with Will, Elizabeth and Tomas.

"Umm…ok." Lily said, trying to clear her head. "Issy why don't you go with them?"

"Alright." Isabelle said.

"Three hours, Lily." Madison said.

"Yeah I know." Lily said. Isabelle and Tomas followed after the parents while Jaden, Tara, Andrew, Roselyn, Jarrett and Lily all headed a different direction.

"Well…since everyone else is gathering supplies…I think we should have some fun." Roselyn said.

"Absolutely." Lily said, somewhat breathlessly.

"Are you alright?" Jarrett asked, quietly.

"I'm fine." Lily said. Her eyes seemed somewhat glazed as she looked around. "Let's dance." She took Jarrett's hands and, before her brother, cousin or friends could say anything, they blended into the crowd of dancing people.

"Are you sure you're alright?" Jarrett asked.

"Absolutely perfect." Lily said, draping her arms around Jarrett's neck as they joined the dancing. It was then that he felt it…whatever had effected Lily was working it's way into his system. It was like some drug, coursing through him and leaving him with a dazed feeling. But he began to fight it. Both of them couldn't be stuck like this if it was dangerous. But…why was he able to fight it and Lily wasn't?

"Something's going on here." Jarrett said.

"Hmm…" Lily said, not even really paying attention. She was awfully close now.

"Lily…" Jarrett said, stepping back and grabbing her shoulders. "You have to think clearly."

"Hazy…" Lily said.

"Hazy?" Jarrett asked, frowning.

"This place…it's all…" Lily didn't finish. If it wasn't for the fact that she was swaying slightly, Jarrett would have thought she had froze.

"Isabelle? Are you alright?" Elizabeth asked.

"I don't know." Isabelle said. "There's something about this place." She looked very sleepy but other then that she seemed just about fine. "Someone's done something. Someone…that man!" Isabelle's arm shot up as she pointed at a man who looked as if he was trying to sneak away. Madison's eyes narrowed before she ran forward. The man started to run but Madison caught him quickly and tackled him down to the ground. Everyone else caught up as Madison sat on the man's stomach and held her knife to his throat.

"Kennedy…" She said.

"Bloody hell, does no one die unless you kill them?" Jack asked.

"You ass." Madison said, Punching Kennedy in the face hard.

"Hey now!" Kennedy said, covering his face.

"You sold us out!" Madison said. "Did you really think that sixteen years would make me forget? If it wasn't for you…"

"Easy, luv." Jack said.

"Easy? It's his fault that Norrington and Beckett were able to kidnap me." Madison said.

"Yes, but for all we know, we need him alive." Jack said.

"What for?" Madison asked.

"Well if whatever he's doing affects Issy…it might very well affect our daughter as well." Jack said.

"Oh bugger." Kennedy said. Madison punched him again before getting up. "You two have a kid?"

"Two actually." Madison said. She yanked Kennedy to his feet.

"Isabelle!" Will said. Madison had a firm grip on Kennedy as she turned to see Will grabbing his daughter and pulling her back over to them.

"Why is it only affecting her?" Elizabeth asked.

"It's a thing that doesn't affect married women." Kennedy said.

"Clever." Jack said.

"Jack!" Madison said.

"I mean…not clever…wrong." Jack said. "Very, very wrong." Kennedy chuckled.

"I knew you were smitten by the girl but I didn't think it was this strong." He said. Madison rolled her eyes and hit him in the head again, knocking him unconscious.

"What did you do that for?" Jack asked.

"You said alive…you didn't say anything about conscious." Madison said. "Grab him and let's see if we can find the kids."

"Just…stay put, please." Jarrett said.

"I can't help it!" Lily said, standing up. Jarrett pushed her back down onto the chair. She huffed and pouted. Her cheeks were flushed and she squirmed in her seat.

(((A/N: I hope by now you're figuring out exactly what's going on. I really don't want to go into farther detail.)))

"Lily, please just…don't move." Jarrett said. He held his hands up and slowly backed away. "I'm gonna try and find one of the others."

"You can't just leave me here!" Lily said. "Not like this…I could…ew, I could turn into my mother."

"What?" Jarrett asked, stopping.

"My mom used to be a whore." Lily said. "And…that's kinda how I'm feeling right now." She stood up and crossed the distance between herself and Jarrett. "You're not allowed to leave."

"You're…" Jarrett started. Lily wouldn't listen to him anymore. Carefully, and quietly, she began to hum. He might have been able to fight against…whatever was in the air…but there was no way he could fight against her. Any and all thoughts of leaving flew right out of his head as he pulled her closer and kissed her hard. It wasn't long before Lily found herself backed into a wall. One of Jarrett's arms was, somehow, trapped behind her neck but neither of them seemed to care. His other hand was on her hip, bringing her lower half as close to him as possible.

"Bloody hell." Jaden said, sitting up. Tara, Andrew and Roselyn all looked at him. He had been out cold for the last few minutes and none of them could figure out why. Tara and Roselyn shifted uncomfortably.

"You alright?" Andrew asked.

"Something's wrong with Lily." Jaden said. He looked at the girls. "You two can feel it can't you."

"There's something about this place." Tara said.

"It's…hazy." Roselyn said. "Someone's done something."

"Whatever it is, it's affected Lily a lot more then it's affected anyone else." Jaden said, nodding. He stood up and Andrew kept his hand on his cousin's shoulder. "We have to find her and Jarrett before they do something."

"I think they're already doing something." Isabelle said. Everyone turned to see Andrew's younger siblings, along with the parents, approaching them. Jack and Will were half carrying, half dragging and unconscious man who had blood running from his nose.

"Isabelle…it's best to stay quiet about something like that." Madison said. "We don't need Jack going crazy."

"What's going on…and who is he?" Jaden asked.

"He's the reason you didn't have you father for the first few years." Madison said.

"He's the reason you hated dad?" Jaden said.

"At that time…yes." Madison said. Andrew grip on Jaden increased as his cousin started for the unconscious man.

"Let me go, Andrew!" Jaden said.

"We have to find Lily!" Andrew said.

"Jaden!" Tara said. Jaden stopped struggling and sighed.

"Well let's go find my sister then…again." He said.

Jarrett was very glad he had trapped Lily. She couldn't move and therefore she couldn't get him away to somewhere that might have less people. He didn't know what was going on with her but he knew that he was already pushing the boundaries. He had gotten to the point that he could tell she was about to start humming again and so he increased whatever it was he was doing. He had kissed her until she was breathless, he had pushed the personal space boundaries straight out the window, allowing his free hand to travel anywhere and everywhere over her body that it could reach, he had even left a few marks on her throat. For the most part he tried to keep her mouth covered because he had learned that if it was free for too long, she would start humming and god knew what he would do next. She hummed the haunting siren tunes to get what she wanted and right now, what she wanted, was more of him.

"I'm gonna run both of us into exhaustion without even getting very far." Jarrett muttered. Lily nodded slightly, breathing heavily. Jarrett's eyes fell down to watch as each breath caused her chest to brush against his.

"Jarrett…" Lily said. His eyes snapped up. For the first time in the last…half an hour to an hour, Lily's voice sounded more pained then seductive. She whimpered suddenly and slid down the wall a bit as her knees seemed to give way. Jarrett got his arm free and both of them went around her waist quickly to keep her up. Lily's breathing had changed to a quicker, shallower pace, as if it hurt to inhale the air. Her eyes were squeezed shut as she grasped Jarrett's shoulders. "Everything's spinning."

"Ok just…just relax." Jarrett said. "Stay calm and try to keep breathing alright?" He got a whimper as an answer. "Lily…whatever you do, do not lose consciousness." He helped her stand properly. "You have to walk ok? I can't carry you with the crowd pressing this close." Lily just nodded and opened her eyes. Everything seemed blurred to her. Jarrett started moving and she quickly made herself keep up with him. He shoved everyone out of his way.

They made their way out into an open area that was less crowded. Jarrett sat Lily on a crate and she put her hands on her head, closing her eyes and lowering her head down until it was almost right between her knees. Jarrett crouched in front of her and shook her by the shoulder. Lily lifted her head. She had tears streaming down her face and, Jarrett noticed then, her hands were buried in her hair and seemed just about ready to yank it all out.

"Why is everything hurting?" Lily muttered.

"I don't know but until everyone else finds us you cannot faint alright?" Jarrett said. "Just stay awake for a little bit longer."

"I can't." Lily said.

"Look at me, alright?" Jarrett said, putting his hands over hers and trying to ease her hair out of them. "Keep your attention on me. Deep breathes, Lil. I know it hurts but you have to calm down." Lily released her hair and her hands dropped to her lap with Jarrett's hands still covering them. Her breathes were long and shaky. He felt a shiver run through her.

"There! Lily, Jarrett!" Isabelle's voice called over to them. Jarrett turned his head to look at the group that was now running towards them. Well…Jack and Will were still dragging Kennedy so they couldn't go all that fast. Isabelle dropped and slid on the ground next to Jarrett. She took Lily's hands from Jarrett. "Lily? Lil, can you hear me?" Lily turned her head to look at her cousin.

"What's happening?" She asked. Isabelle looked at her before half standing and wrapping her arms around Lily. Jarrett could see that Isabelle's little slide had ripped her pants over the knees and now one of them was bleeding. Everyone else finally reached them, just as Lily fainted and slumped against her cousin.

"Daddy, Uncle Jack, Jaden, Andrew and Roselyn…" Isabelle said, turning slightly to face the group as Jarrett stood up. "Go and try to find the crew. Get them all back to the ships as quick as possible. Lily can't stay here." Will, Jack, Jaden, Andrew and Roselyn all nodded before Jack and Will dropped Kennedy and the five of them quickly left to do as the youngest said. "Aunt Maddie, wake him up. You seem to know him best. Find out as much as you can about what he did."

"Alright." Madison said.

"Mummy, you help." Isabelle said. Elizabeth nodded. If anyone seemed to find it weird that the youngest in the group was giving orders, none of them said anything about it. "Jarrett can you carry Lily back to the ship?"

"Yeah." Jarrett said. Isabelle let go of Lily and Jarrett quickly grabbed her before she fell over. He lifted her into his arms.

"Tara…you and Tomas run ahead of us to the ship. Have Tomas help you get anything you might need to help Lily recover from this." Isabelle said. Tara and Tomas nodded and ran off to the docks. Isabelle looked at her mother and aunt to see her aunt already kicking Kennedy to try and wake him. "Get back to the docks as soon as possible ok?"

"Don't worry, honey." Elizabeth said. Isabelle and Jarrett headed off to the docks.

"What's going on?" Jarrett asked, once they were out of ear range of the moms.

"Lily's weak." Isabelle said. "Whatever that man did to this town, it's affected her the most because she's just coming into all her powers. She's vulnerable to just about anything at this point."

"How do you know this?" Jarrett asked, staring incredibly at the young girl.

"It's part of who I am I guess." Isabelle said, shrugging. "Something like this, which just seemed to have a mild affect on other women, has a big affect on Lily because her whole being is basically adjusting…it's changing from what she was to what she really is."

"Why hasn't it affected you much, if at all?" Jarrett asked.

"I guess because I'm still so young." Isabelle said. "I haven't really reached any peaks in my life yet."

"You seem a lot smarter then someone your age." Jarrett said. Isabelle smiled slightly.

"What I don't get is why Tara and Roselyn didn't seem too affected." Isabelle said, frowning now. "That man said it was meant to affect unmarried women, which meant my mum and aunt were free of it. Tara and Roselyn seemed just barely more affected then them."

"I don't know." Jarrett said. They were quiet for the rest of the walk onto the ship.

I know why they weren't that affected. This chapter kinda really had no point apart from making it clear that Lily has no real control over anything at that moment and she's pretty vulnerable, like Isabelle said.

In case you're wondering, Tara and Roselyn weren't really affected because they both really, really, really like Jaden and Andrew and it's just one of those things that I really can't explain but hopefully you get what I'm talking about.