Chapter Six

Along the Way

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When the sun rose the following day Will decided he needed to know why Harry had followed them onto the Dauntless. Not only why but how. It hadn't been an easy feat for Jack and him so how had Harry gotten onto the ship not long after they had? William sought out the green eyed man first thing finding him in the crows nest.

"Hello William. I'm guessing that you want to talk about yesterday right?" Harry asked his voice tinged with amusement.

"Yes I do. How and why did you follow us onto the ship?" Will questioned while making sure that Captain Jack was busy.

"Alright I'll tell you on the condition that you never under any circumstances tell another soul about this." At Will's hesitant nod Harry proceeded to explain what he could without mentioning the future.

~XOX~

Jack knew that there was something going on between the two of his partners in crime. But he wasn't too worried as long as it had nothing to do with his position as Captain or the venture they were undergoing it was fine. And he hoped that it didn't come back to bite him in the rear.

~XOX~

Harry was positive that he would need to explain to his ancestor how he had ended up on the Dauntless; he just hadn't counted on it being the next morning.

Harry didn't know how much of what he would tell William his relative would believe but he knew that a lot of what was going to be said would sound unbelievable to the young blacksmith.

After he got William's oath to not reveal what he was about to say Harry let loose.

"First things first, do you believe in magic?" Harry was going to find out how Will felt about it first.

"I'm not sure I never thought about magic before. What kind of magic?"

Harry sighed at William's obvious thoughts on the subject. But non-the-less showed him a bit of transfiguration by turning his cup into a snake and back after seeing Will's eyes widen beyond their normal points.

"That kind of magic Will. Wand magic. And just to clarify there is no black or white magic, magic just is. And it is up to the caster whether the magic turns out to be good or bad. Are you okay with this?" Harry explained a little fearful of Will's reaction. But he needn't have been afraid of that.

Will recalled his grandmother doing things like Harry had shown him. His mother had played it off to him having a vivid imagination every time he brought the subject up. So after a while he just didn't think of it anymore. But this explained everything, his grandmother had been a witch and he could care less.

When she was alive his grandmother had been one of the few adults he truly respected and admired. She had been a fierce tasks mistress but a very loving mother and grandmother.

Coming out of his memories of his grandmother Will chanced a look at Harry and smiled. To which he received a small smile in return.

"I'm okay with it I just need a little time to completely accept that you're a witch, okay?" He asked and was puzzled when Harry seemed to choke on air.

"The term is wizard. I'm a wizard and females are referred to as witches. Alright?" Harry explained and Will just nodded at the slightly pink wit...wizard.

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Harry decided to see how Jack was doing so he moved to talk to him when he noticed that the man in question was standing next to him. He hadn't even noticed the man was there! Harry shook off the thought that the man had done that on purpose and the thoughts of how exactly he did it in the first place. Of course the likely hood of the thought of the pirate sneaking up on him being right was probably completely correct.

The man gave off an aura of being trustworthy, completely mad and in most instances unbelievably cunning. Of course the cunningness might have just been a figment of Harry's imagination it had played tricks on his before, after all.

"So lad, why are you tagging along behind young mister Turner? It seems to me that you didn't want to be left behind. A bit odd if you ask me." Jack said smiling at the wizard he was questioning.

'Hell the lad's a lot better looking then I gave him credit for earlier. Lucky for me.' The smile on Jack's face just got bigger with his thoughts and almost didn't hear Harry's answer. Almost.

"Well I couldn't let Will have all the fun and besides the guy still owes me a set of daggers. So I decided he needed looking after so I could make sure he came back in one piece. Does it bother you that I tagged along, Mr. Sparrow?" Harry asked shifting his position so he could see the other mans face clearly.

"No it doesn't bother me none." And that was that, Jack got up and left the young wizard to his thoughts about everything that had happened the past two days. Some thoughts straying to what was to come in this crazy little expedition that he had signed up for.

Harry sighed, 'This probably wasn't a good idea. But at least I can do magic without the Ministry on my case.'

At the thought Harry laughed out loud. Here he was in the past on an adventure most teens would kill for and all he could think about was doing magic freely. Of course it was a good thing he'd just have to watch exactly where he performed his magic. He supposed it wouldn't be too hard.

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They had been out at sea for five days when Tortuga came into view. That had the whelp's head turning to him and his mouth open to ask a most obvious question, which Jack would answer once they were on land.

Provided of course said whelp didn't piss him off, in which case the aforementioned obvious question shall indeed not be answered. Then again the question would, most likely, be answered by the time they left the island unto which they would be staying for three days.

TBC

Changes!

~Grimm.