Here's chapter TWO

-Chapter Two-

A few days after Diana had brought James onto the Black Pearl...

"How old is your father?"

"He's about 65. Why?"

"He's dying. I just wanted to know if he was really old or not?" James asked.

"Oh. After trying to find the Fountain of Youth in what they call Florida, he kinda gave up and returned to Tortuga exactly four years later to find that he had a 3-year-old daughter. My mother had already died and he had no choice but to take me along with him. That was 13 years ago. I was a Pirate by birth. You are too." Diana said.

"Di... I don't want to be a Pirate." he said quietly.

Diana stared at him.

"Are you ok?"

"How do you not want to be a Pirate? It's the best gig in the world!" she yelled at him.

"I guess I'd rather be in the Navy. Like the man I was named after."

"Who were you named after?" Diana asked, scooting closer to him. They were out on the deck and it was an overcast day. The wind blew and made it chilly.

"Admiral James Norrington." he said.

"Norrington. Navy man turned Pirate turned Navy man again then died because of your grandfather?" Diana asked.

"Yes." James snapped bitterly.

"Ok! Just sayin." Diana said and scooted away from him.

"Di! Di!" Jack yelled a little drunkly from the doorway.

Diana got up and walked over to her father.

"What is it? You know you arn't feelin up to walkin!" Diana said as she got over to him.

"He seems a bit interested in you!" Jack said quietly.

"What." Diana said flatly and in a monotone.

"Yes! I can see it! He has the same look in his eyes that young Mr. Turner had when I first met him. He had it when he was springin me outa jail!"

"I don't think he's interested in me. He doesn't even want to be a Pirate!" Diana complained, looking at James, who was looking out at the dark sea.

"Sounds familiar." Jack said and walked up to the boy. "You... James. You say you don't want to be a Pirate, ay?" Jack said, leaning on the railing as James did.

"Yes. I just want to stay on land. I don't want anything to do with Pirates!"

"That has already caught up with you. You can't get away from it. You're a Pirate by birth, just like my daughter over there. You're the bloody son of a Pirate Lord and the Captain of the bloody Flying Dutchman!" Jack yelled. "Pirate is in your blood, mate. You're going to have to square with that someday." Jack said.

"Yah? Well, my father was a Blacksmith! A good and honest man who obeyed the law!"

"He's now a bloody Pirate! A scallywag!" Jack said, smiling. This conversation was familiar to him in some way.

"What about my mother?"

"Pirate LORD!"

James let out a breath of frustration and walked into the ship, passing Diana without a glance.

"WHAT DID YOU DO TO HIM!?" Diana yelled at her father. Jack just smiled smugly and drank his rum.

P-P-P

Later that day, a Pirate ship appeared on the horizon.

"What do you say, Captain?" Gibbs asked. He was now old and frail but still the First Mate of the ship.

"Let her come. I think I know who it is." Jack said a little bitterly.

The ship approached the Black Pearl and the crew on the ship were mainly women. Only a few guys.

"Where's your captain!" Diana yelled to the ship.

"She's coming!" a girl with flaming red hair yelled back. She was about 30 and was wearing a black dress with a black shirt.

"I'm here." the captain said and came from behind the crew. She had dark brown hair that hung in curls and bright eyes. She was wearing a brown dress that was sleeveless and she had on a three cornered hat with a feather sticking out of it. A huge purple one. On her shoulder was a little monkey like Jack. But this one had black fur instead of brown. It was wearing exactly was she was wearing.

Her crew put up a gangplank and Jack and Diana and Gibbs went across. Diana grabbed James's wrist and dragged him across too.

"Captain Sparrow." the Captain of the other crew said bitterly as Jack made his way onto her boat.

"Captain Turner!" Jack said in the same tone as she.

"Di." a little girl around six said bitterly.

"Ana." Diana said bitterly.

"Auntie Sam?" James asked, looking at the Captain.

"James? Why do you have James!?" Samantha Turner yelled at Jack.

"We're protecting him." Jack said.

"From what?" Ana yelled.

"Ana, shush." Sam said to her daughter.

"Pirates. He is the son of a Pirate Lord."

"She's the daughter of a Pirate Lord. Why isn't she in danger."

"Because I'm not the daughter of a Pirate Lord." Diana said.

"Jack, what did you do? Get throw into my brother's locker?"

"No. I'm a Pirate Lord." Diana said. Sam's entire crew bowed down to Diana.

"You. YOU PASSED IT ALONG ALREADY!?"

"I'm dying." Jack said, shrugging.

"You look fine to me." Sam said, putting her hands on her hips.

"I'm dying." Jack said again.

"What are you doing here?" Diana asked.

"We're just sailing along. I was having a good day until you came along." Sam said, glaring at Jack.

"Heading somewhere specific?" Jack asked slyly.

"No." Sam snapped as her crew started standing up.

"Oh really. Not going to see an old friend?"

"No." Sam said again.

"But mommy? Arn't we going to see Aunt Elizabeth? And Sammy?" Ana asked, tugging at her mother's dress.

Jack looked satisfied.

"OK! So we are going to go see Elizabeth. What's it to you!?"

"Nothing! Just wanted to make sure you were ok! Not getting into any trouble."

"Please. I'm a Pirate," Sam said. "Now get off my ship." she said, shooing them off her boat.

P-P-P

That night, James was walking around the ship when he heard Jack and Diana talking in the Captain's Quarters.

"There isn't any other leverage?" Diana asked.

"There is, and all three are in Singapore." Jack said.

"Yeah. What do we need again?"

"Just this and that." Jack said.

"What?"

Then James couldn't hear what Jack said after that, he apparently was whispering it to Diana.

"Oh ya. We can't just get that now? We need somebody who's immortal?"

"Yes! It's just a little revenge!"

"You need the ruler of the dead to help us with 'a little revenge'!?" Diana yelled.

"Shhh! He'll know why I need him! Plus, with this leverage, he can't say no."

"I don't know. We can't just do that to him?"

"It's already done. We just need to find the Dutchman." Jack said and James heard footsteps coming towards the door. He ran down to where the crew was playing cards.

"I can't believe it." James whispered.

5-27-07