Ok, loves.
This is going to get a little bit confusing.
You've got to remember that when Elle and the diamond hit the water, everyone went back in time.
Elle has no memory of Will, and same with Will.
Jack will soon meet him...
If I can do this right, then this story is far, far from over.

If I fail, it may be over withthin the next few chapters.
Hoefully it will be the former and not the latter.

The italics are just random flashbacks.
And what I'm thinking is...
Everthing that you've heard about Jack, Will and Elle's past together...
Forget it.
Someone's going to change the past...

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"There will come a moment when you have the chance to do something courageous.
And when you do, you'll discover something:
That you're a good man." She turned her brown eyed gaze to Jack Sparrow.

A smile appeared on the older Sparrow's face as he said to her in a teasing voice, "All evidence to the contrary, love."

But he did have that moment to do the right thing. When he saw the lifeless body of his former first mate, and his best friend
laying on the deck of the Dutchman, dying in the arms of the fiancee.

He was in love with her. But he had to shake that thought out of his head.
She loved Will. And he loved her enough to let her go.

And Will?
Even though he hated that man sometimes, he had to remember all of the times that he had risked his life for him.

Will and Jack. Those two names always seemed to go together, didn't they?
With a smile as Jack realized this, he took his broken sword and put it in the hands of his dead friend.

"I guess this is my moment, mate..." He whispered down to Will's lifeless body. Jack rememberedseeing Will's eyes
flutter open and give a weak smile to Jack, before his head tilted over to the side...

He guided Will's hand to Jones's heart, and pierced it.
Within moments, Jones was dead.

Within moments, so was his best friend.

"Will. WILL!" Elizabeth cried as he took his final breath. Jack watched in horror as this played out in front of him. As Jack wrapped
his arms around his forbidden love's waist, pulling her away, she cried, "I won't leave you. Don't leave me!"

As they parachuted away, he saw Bootstrap cut Will's heart out. An image that would be in his mind forever...
But, he never smiled as much as he did when he saw Will rise up fom the ocean...

...as captain of the Flying Dutchman.

He loved Elizabeth, he let her go. He gave her what she loved.

Will was his best friend...as much as the two of them denied it, it was true.

Will and Jack's gazes locked, and a smile was exchanged between them as Will uttered a silent thank you
at Jack. Jack saluted the new captain, and disappeared into the horizon.

Jack and Will, two names that would always go together.

Why on earth was I thinking about that blacksmith so much? It was honestly starting to bother me. Here I was, engaged to a very handsome man, and I was thinking about a man whom I have never met. Jack was talking to Arial on the docks. I knew that he thought I was upset with him, but I had been having all sorts of awful dreams the past few nights. They were so real.

I glanced over at Jack...the dreams weren't real. In my dreams, Jack was wearing an odd outfit, his hair was in braids with trinkets in braided in his locks. It wasn't that Jack. The Jack that was sitting on the dock with long, curly black hair and wearing an outfit that many gentlemen in this town wore...though, of course Jack did have to make the opening in his shirt bigger, revealing more of his muscular chest, and had his belt wrapped around his waist...

...other than the few things that made you believe he was a pirate, he didn't look anything like the man in my dreams.

Though, that blacksmith looked a lot like the other man in my dreams. My fiancee.

"Darlin', what's wrong?" I was immediatley brought out of my thoughts to look up at Jack. His dark eyes were filled with concern as he whispered to me in a gentle voice, "You're not sick again are you?" Taking his hand, and allowing me to pull me up, I smiled at him, reassuringly, and said, "No, darling. I'm not."

Jack stared at me for a minute longer, before saying, "Are you sure nothin's wrong, love? You don't look-" I leaned up and kissed him, silencing him. Pulling back after a minute, I said, "I'm fine." He glanced behind him, to make sure that Arial was talking to the girl that had just gotten off of the boat, and smiled over at me.

Before I could open my mouth, I felt Jack's arm go around my waist and push me into the water. "GRANT!" I yelled at him, wiping the water from my eyes. A minute later, there was a second splash, and he appeared beside me, smiling at me. "Why the bloody hell did you-" I broke off when he pulled me close to him and pressed his lips against mine. My hands immediatley went around his neck, into his wet curls as he deepened the kiss. I felt his hand go to the back of my dress...

"Well, well, well...Michelle Swanson and Jack Sparrow. Who would have thought it?" I knew that voice from anywhere. I pulled my lips away from Jack to see Anamaria smiling down at us. I screamed and made and started swimming frantically over to the dock. Jack laughed, somehow managing to get there before me, and took me by my waist, and gently lifted me up on the dock.

I threw my arms around her, and then, remembering that I was dripping wet, I pulled back and said, "Sorry!" She laughed and pulled me back into her arms. "Oh, Mickey! How are ya, darlin'?" She asked against my wet curls, before pulling back and smiling down at me.

Jack hopped up on deck and said, "Ana. How are you, dearie?" Ana and Jack exchanged a weird glance, making me feel immediatley uncomfortable. Sighing, I said to break the awkward silence, "Why are you here?"

She linked an arm with me, and another with Arial as we walked down the dock. Jack, apparently feeling left out, ran up to catch up with me and grabbed my hand. Smiling at that, I turned back to Ana and waited her answer, "Oh, you know. Do I have to have a reason to visit you? How are you? I haven't seen you since that summer in Tortu-" She broke off when she saw the look on Jack's face. Smiling at me, and changing the subject, "I'm going to be here for a few eeks."

"Oh, that's great!" I said, happily as Arial nodded. She smiled over at me and whispered, "You and Jack? How long?"

"Longer than you want to know, love." Jack said to her, clearly having overheard, as he placed a kiss on my cheek. Ana made a smile at him, almost a forced one, which caused me to once again, feel uncomfortable. I guess Jack noticed this, since he whispered in my, "You want me to leave?"

I smiled up at him, seeing an uneasy look on Jack's handsome face. "Not unless you want to, darling. I don't want you to." He kissed my cheek again and said, "Then I won't, princess."

I always wondered why he called me princess. I guessed that it was just a nickname or something..

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"So, what's up with this blacksmith Ari's been telling me so much about?" Ana asked me that night as she spread out across my bed. Smiling at her, I came to sit beside her and said, "No one. I haven't even met the man."

Arial brought a candle into the room, and set it on my dresser. Then, she sat on the stool that went to my vanity, and said, "Yes. But it was someone that Elle couldn't keep her eyes off of." Thank goodness Jack wasn't here. Speaking of which, I wonder where he is...

"I just felt like I knew him is all." I said, playing with the music box that was hanging from my neck. Ana smiled, almost sadly, when she saw me do this and said to me, "You really miss him, don't you?"

"Yes." I said, bringing my legs up on to the bed and allowing Ana to braid my hair like she did when I was a little girl. She was so much like a big sister to me. "I really do." Ari smiled over at me, sadly. Since she was basically my adoptive sister, and Davy (like me) was the only father she had ever known, she missed him too.

"Price you pay for being immortal." Ana said, almost in a sad voice. I never got the chance to ask her what she meant by that, because at that moment, cannons started going off. I ran over to the window to see the Pearl shooting off like mad. "What the hell is Jack doing?" Ari asked, coming to stand behind me, looking over my shoulder. Ana was watching too, as she said, "I don't think that's Jack doing that."

I ran out of my room, down the stairs. As soon as I opened the door, I screamed in surprise when Jack caught me. "Jack, what's going on?" He pushed me inside an shut the door. After he locked it, he looked down into my eyes and said to me in calm voice, surprisingly calm, "Barbossa's found me."

"What?"

"Well, not me exactly. You know, he still thinks I'm dead..." He laughed at that, but then got serious again. "I can't go back on the Pearl, but-"

"Jack, you're not leaving." I said, feeling tears filling up in my eyes as this realization hit me. He smiled sadly and said, "Yes. I have to. Not only would I be putting myself at risk staying here, but I would be putting you at risk as well. Elle, you don't know what I'd do if something happened to you. I can't lose you." He leaned over and kissed me, pulling me close to him and holding me tightly like he never wanted to let me go. When he pulled back, he whispered down to me, "And when I come back- Elle-" He wiped my tears away, holding me close to him as I cried.

After he managed to calm me somewhat, he looked back down into my eyes and said, "And when I come back, I intend to marry you." I smiled up at him sadly as I leaned up and kissed him again, "I love you, Jack."

"I love you too, darlin'. So so much. That's why I have to leave you for now." I was crying again, as he kissed me briefly before whispering in my ear, "Keep a whether eye on the horizon."

And when another kiss to me, he was gone. I ran out of the mansion, watching him follow his father into his ship as the Black Pearl followed. I silently prayed that Jack would be ok, and that Barbossa wouldn't kill Jack. As I looked closer, I could see Barbossa's angry face yelling commands on the Pearl as it disappeared behind a cloud of smoke.

And then I turned to see Jack disappearing over the horizon.

"Damn idiot stole my boat!" I heard Ana cry from upstairs. "He went and bloody stole my boat!" Ana's angry face appeared a minute later as she walked down the stairs and said to me, "Your fiancee just stole my boat.

Smiling, I turned back to the horizon. Promising Jack to keep an eye on it...

"...keep a whether eye on the horizon."

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Part two coming soon!
-Captain Autumn-