A/N: So I just realized I'm an ass. I seriously meant to get this out earlier than I did but once again college decided to plan my days (and subsequently my nights) for me. On the plus side I found out from one of my friends that I'll definitely pass Chem109 at the end of the semester so I won't have to retake it!!! It seems trivial but it seriously made my day ^-^. So here's the last chapter of the Burden of Desires and I'll be taking a short break from Pirates of the Caribbean to work on finishing Sweeney Todd and then I'll get right back to this I promise!

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Now here's the last chapter!

Gibbs, Brandy, Will, Elizabeth, Pintel, Ragetti, Marty, and Cotton – with his parrot of course – solemnly traveled upstream. The villagers of this area were all waded in the water holding flaming candles in sorrow and remembrance. They had already heard the news before the arrival of the crew. As the boat hit the shore of the hut they had journeyed all this way to, each and every one of them was jerked out of their thoughts. Not one face was not frowning and yet every face was void of emotion. Each felt they had lost something dear and important to them.

Gibbs had lost a fine companion, the best damn captain he'd ever had the privilege to sail under. And little Alina, who had always felt like his daughter; she had a lot of love to give, and those who earned it, knew to treasure it.

Brandy had lost an amazing friend. Someone who took her in, saved her life, and fought for her right to stay aboard and have a purpose in life.

Will had lost a father, a sister, and a brother. Though he was loathe to admit it at the time, he realized that Jack had actually become like an older brother. There when you needed him and willing to bully you into doing what would eventually turn out to be right. The concept had always confused Will, but he was willing to accept it none the less. He was afraid however, that he had also lost his fiancé. Elizabeth had to have kissed Jack for a reason, and she seemed to be a bit more down trodden than the rest.

Elizabeth had lost two good friends. She knew she had lost Alina the moment she turned around and saw that awful glare thrown in her direction. Alina would never forgive her for doing such a thing. She knew she had lost Jack by what she had done also, he had Alina to love, and if he saw Elizabeth's actions as trying to separate the two of them, she had no hope of gaining her two friends back. Elizabeth had also lost one more thing though. A sense of morality – the very thing she had scolded Jack for not having. She had killed him. While in actuality it was the Kraken, it was she who sentenced him to death, allowing the rest of them to get away.

Pintel and Ragetti felt they had lost everything. They had sailed first under Captain Jack Sparrow and then mutinied against him to sail under Barbossa. They had fought at Barbossa's side at the Isle de Muerta and yet despite everything, Jack had allowed them back on his ship. Perhaps he hadn't forgiven them, but he was willing to give them another chance. He was willing to trust them to sail under him once more. They were both at a loss as to what to do without him.

Marty and Cotton hadn't really known Jack before the adventure to get the Pearl back almost a year ago, but they had come to love being under his command. It was never a dull day with Captain Sparrow, that was for damn sure. They came to feel a great deal of respect for the eccentric man and even Alina, his fearsome and formidable co-captain/best friend/lover. The two of them made an awesome pair.

Tia Dalma was at a loss. She had three people to mourn. The coming days would not be easy. Terrible things were coming; she could feel the stir in the air, and in the waters. There was a shift in power; a shift in the order of things; a shift that bode well for none. She passed around mugs of rum for the men and woman in her hut, "Against the cold, and the sorrow." She muttered to Elizabeth softly, knowing what the woman was going through. She made her way to Will.

"I know you're thinking that with the Pearl, you could have captured the devil and set free your father's soul."

"It doesn't matter." He replied harshly, unwilling to admit to anyone that his thoughts on saving his father had taken a back seat to everything else for the time being, "The Pearl is gone. Along with its captains." He added softly.

"Aye." Gibbs muttered his voice choked with emotion, "And already the world seems a bit less bright." His voice raised as he spoke to everyone, making sure that everyone understood the true soul that lay within Jack Sparrow, "He fooled us all right till the end! But I guess that honest streak finally won out. And Alina, dear little Alina, faithful and devoted to the end. She stuck by his side and went down with 'im. I don't think I ever saw a love like theirs before. To Jack Sparrow and his real love!"

"Never another like Captain Jack." Ragetti sounded on the verge of tears.

"He was a gentleman of fortune he was!" Pintel added, for he really was the most fortunate of them all, to receive a love so pure.

"They were both the best thing that ever happened to me." Brandy added from her perch near Elizabeth, "I'll never forget either of them for what they did for me."

"He was a good man, and she was a good friend." Elizabeth chimed in as they all took a swig.

"If there were anything could be done to bring them back." Will confessed, "Elizabeth," He sighed in resignation but Tia Dalma wouldn't allow him to continue. The boy would ruin his own life faster than the Kraken ruined Jack's.

"Would you do it?" She asked, "What would you? What would any of you be willing to do?" Her hopes were rising at the thought that these people could right the world once more, "Would you sail to the ends of the Earth and beyond to fetch back witty Jack? Him treasure, and him precious Pearl?"

One by one, each member of the crew – and Cotton's parrot – nodded with a strong-willed "Aye."

"All right! But, if you're going to brave the weird and haunted shores at World's End, then you will need a captain who knows those waters." Boots were heard coming down the steps one by one until inch by inch a man came into view that no one in the room had ever expected to see again. As each crew member that was there for the adventure at Isle de Muerta stepped back in shock, Brandy gasped in shock. The man was bloody gorgeous.

"So tell me," He said, grinning like a fool and clutching a green apple, "what's become of my ship?" He took one crunchy bite, juice dribbling down his chin as he winked at the woman with purple streaks in her hair before throwing his head back in manic laughter.

Hector Barbossa was back.

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