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-Captain Autumn

"I'm listening, Master Turner." Resisting the urge to correct him, I walked up to Satan himself and said, "I know where the chest is."

"Yes, I've gathered that much." Blackbeard said in a bored voice. "Would you like to tell me where it's at? Or shall I pry it out of you girl?" Barbossa pushed me into the chair across from him. Only a table was seperating us as I spat, "I told you to leave her out of this."

"Are you going to give me that choice?" Blackbeard smirked, offering me some wine. I just shook my head. Smiling, he set the glass that was to be mine in front of me and said, "Turner, I like you." I looked up from the wine glass, into his yellow eyes as he said, "You're not scared of me. And still, after all I have threatened to do to you, you're still standing up for Miss Swanson-"

"-Jones." Barbossa corrected him and the same time that I said, "Turner."

All three of us looked at each other for a minute, before Blackbeard said, "Well, whatever her damn name is." Barbossa made a sort of snort sound as Blackbeard got up from his chair and walked over to the window. My eyes fell on the chest that was in the corner of the room. God only knows where that key was, because Michelle didn't have it. I closed my eyes momentarily, before opening them and looking at Blackbeard.

"How do I know that you're not lying to me?" He asked me, harshly as he turned around.

"I told Barbossa that if I lead you wrong, you can kill me."

"No." Blackbeard said with a smile. "Let's make this a little more interseting, shall we?"

His smile sent chills down my spine. He casually strolled over to me, and leaned against the table beside me. Not looking at him, I said to him, "Name it." He smiled, letting me know that I had said exactly what he wanted me to say.

Laughing, he said, "If I find that you are lying, I get to kill your girl."

"No." I replied automatically. That smile came back on his face, once again, letting me know this is exactly what he knew was going to happen. I didn't realize then, but I soon did when he said, "Well, Master Turner. That's the only way I can guarantee her safety and know that you aren't lying. If you know you're telling the truth, then why does it matter what we agreed to if you were lying?" He took his gun out and popped the chest open. Putting the gun to my heart, he said, "You agree to it, or I kill you know. Then, there won't be anything you can do to stop-"

"Deal." My words shocked myself, and by the looks of it, Barbossa too. What the hell was I doing? Blackbeard turned to me and smiled as he said, "Fine, Captain Turner." He took a key out and unlocked the chains that my hands were in. When they were uncuffed, he said to me, "Lead the way. And remember, any reason to make me doubt you-"

"I know." I spat at him as I got out of my seat and walked up the stairs to the wheel. Ok, now. Let's put this all together. What things were different this time than the last time? Besides Michelle, everything seemed to go in the way that it did the last time. I made the sword, Norrington was promoted, Jack threatened Elizabeth, I saw Cutler Beckett, Elizabeth was captured, I set sail with Jack-

I saw Cutler Beckett.

Now, when had I seen him the first time? About a year after all of this was suppossed to happen at my ruined wedding with Elizabeth. Before that, I had never laid eyes on that man before. Sure, I had heard about him and knew who he was, but never saw him in Port Royal.

"Because he wasn't suppossed to be there." I said to myself, outloud, when I made it up the stairs. Blackbeard, who was behind me, asked me, "Excuse me?"

"How familar are you with a Lord Cutler Beckett?"

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"I hope you know what you're doing." Elle said to me as I walked down and unlocked her and Jack. Once they were out of their cell, she looked up at me with that intense gaze of hers. Before I could drop my own, she grabbed my hand and said, "What did you tell them?"

I didn't answer. I was trying to think like Jack. I mean ,what would he say in a situation like this? When I opened my mouth, she said to me, "And no lies." Alright, I can never lie to her...ever...just like she can never lie to me. Ever.

"I told them that if I was wrong about this, then they could kill me." Oh, nice one, Will. Really nice. Lie. Big lie. Elle's face fell when I said that. I looked down and gasped. When I did that, Jack came forward when he figured out that I saw it, and said, "The spell of the diamond is let up when the holder knows of its powers. Ellie over here clearly knows, as do we. So, we're going to begin aging. Which means that Elle is-"

"Pregnant." I said, honestly feeling like I was going to die. I just bloody told him that he could...I didn't just put my wife in danger, I put my daughter in danger as well. "Mate, what is it?" I looked up into Jack's eyes to see that he clearly knew me a lot better than I had ever thought. "You want to talk to me about somethin', William?" He raised an eyebrow, keeping an arm around Elle. I nodded slightly as he moved from Elle to walk over to me. "I told them that if I was wrong, they could have Elle."

"Will, are you mad?" Jack asked me in a voice I had never heard him use on me before. Yes, he had gotten pretty mad at me before, but never like this. He honestly looked murderous, "Mate, I don't know if it's registering with you, but she's carryin' your child-"

"-I didn't know that at the time."

"And that makes any difference? What the 'ell is goin' on in your head, Turner? Because I'd love to know." Jack's almost black eyes bore into mine. I sighed. I shouldn't have said anything to him. I mean, this is ridiculous. I was ridiculous. Elle was the girl that Jack would let the Pearl be cast into the depths for. Her safety meant as much to him as it did to me. "I don't know, Jack." I whispered. He obviously felt the pain in my voice, since his features relaxed and he said in a much gentler tone, "You're startin' to act like me, mate."

"No, I'm not, Jack." I said as he put a hand on my shoulder. "Not even Captain Jack Sparrow would do something like that." He smiled at that and said, "William, if I have taugh' ya anythin' in the last century and a half we've known each other-" He paused for a moment, as if he was trying to figure out if that was in fact how long we had known each other, "-'ell that's a long time. But, If I have taugh' ye anythin', you'll figure out somethin', Will." A gleam entered his eyes as he said, "Just think like Jack."

"Yes, but I don't see why I would be needing to strap dead bodies on to barrels." That got a smile from Jack. Elle, who was leaning against the wall, looked up at me disgusted and said, "When the bloody hell did you do that?"

Jack almost reluctantly tore his gaze off of Elle, and turned back to me, "Where are we goin'?"

"Back to our time. Well, since we're technically not in the past, then they're taking us out of this world, I guess." I looked over at Elle and motioned for her to walk over to me. She did so, and stood beside Jack as I said, "They need the diamond."

"You're working for them?" She asked me in an accusing voice. "Will, how-"

"I'm not working for them really, Elle. I doing this for us." I looked down at her stomach that had gotten a tad bit bigger since the last time I had seen it. What the hell have I done? I've put both of them in danger, that's what. "Elle, please give me the diamond."

"No."

"Michelle." I said, sternly. "Darling, please. It's the only way. Beckett has the chest. Our only hope of getting out of this world is if you give me the diamond! We don't have the chest, and that diamond is our only way out. If you won't do it for us, at least do it for Lila-"

"I changed her name." Elle replied cooly, causing Jack and I to turn and stare at her for a moment, "What? I thought Isabella was cute-"

"Arlight, Isabella! In case you change her name in the next five minutes, which could possibly be our last need I remind you that damned Barbossa has a dagger over my heart...if you're not going to do it for you or me, to her for our daughter, Elle."

"I'll do it for our daughter, but I'm not doing it for you." She reached inside the top of her dress, and ripped the chain with the diamond from her neck. After she shoved it at me, I said, "What is your problem-"

"You."

"What did I do?"

"What does it look like, Will?" She asked me, with a look in her green eyes that I haven't seen before. "I know how you are. You say you're doing one thing, and then you use it against someone-" Jack had left the room, I saw. Which was probably a good thing. I walked towards her, cornering her and said, "What? You think I'm betraying you and Jack?"

"That's what it looks like, Will. The only reason I'm bloody cooperating with you is for our daughter." She pushed me away from her and walked past me. "Elle, you can't be mad at me." When she turned, I saw how big she really was. All the anger flooded out of me as I asked, "How far along are you?"

"I don't know for sure." She said, the anger coming out of her as well. "I'm guessing about five months. That diamond has messed a lot up, so I pretty much skipped at least four months." Damn. I fell back against the wall as I whispered, "Isabella?"

"Yeah. I thought it was cuter." She replied as she walked back over to me. "Will, I'm sorry. I really am. I didn't-"

"Darling, you have no reason to be sorry." I replied to her as she took my hands in hers. I raised my gaze to hers to see that it was like she was trying to search me for an answer as to what I was talking about. She would know, I'm sure, as soon as we walked on deck. I was almost certain about Beckett. I truly was. But Elle made a point.

We're bloody pirates. I am one, I'll admit that now. I've not only betrayed my best mate in the past, but I've betrayed my wife. What the hell does that make me? A pirate. A backstabbing, betraying pirate, that's what.

And now, I've pretty much sold Elle and my daughter's soul over to Satan himself.