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-Captain Autumn

"Sir?" Neptune tore his eyes off of the sun as it was making its appearance above the horizon to look at the very worried Rupert at his door. When he saw the king look at him, he immediately straightened up. Neptune smiled a small smile as he made his way back to his chair behind his desk and said, "Rupert, lad. Do come in and sit."

Rupert was hesitant at first, but he soon walked over to the desk and sat down in front of the tired king. Rupert waited for a moment before speaking, to see if Neptune was going to say anything. When he didn't, Rupert said, "I've talked to a servant who saw Lila, erm, the Princess last night, Sir." He was silently cursing himself for calling her Lila, while Neptune skimmed over that and asked, "And?"

"She told me that Jack Sparrow led her to the balcony last night-"

He was cut off by Neptune saying, "Well, why in the hell did she not alert me?" Rupert didn't answer, a little taken back by Neptune's outburst. Though he could get mean, Neptune was a generally calm and nice man. Taking a deep breath, he sat back down and motioned for him to continue. Rupert, a little scared by his outburst, said in a hesitant voice, "I don't know, Sir. I shall ask-" He paused for a moment, but continued, "-Sir, your daughter left on the Dutchman."

Neptune shuddered at the name of his late brother's ship. Yes, his brother was dead and no longer captain of that damned ghost ship, but he still hated the sound of it. "Jack Sparrow?" Neptune asked, raising his head off of his hands. Rupert only nodded as Neptune said, "I'd rather see her in his damned locker than in the hands of Jack Sparrow." He glanced up at the young man sitting before him and said, "Alert my army to board ships. Prepare for war."

"Aye, Sir." Rupert said, getting up out of his seat and walking over the huge oak doors. Just before the guards open the doors for him, Neptune stopped and said, "And Rupert?"

He turned to face the king and stood in attention once more. Neptune walked over to him and said, "Do tell the Admiral that I'd like a word with him." Rupert nodded, and exited the room. When he was gone, Neptune turned to see the huge painting hanging above the fireplace. He smiled to himself as the six year old Lila smiled back at him. Even in the painting, her green eyes were shining bright. Closing his own green eyes, he whispered to himself, "Darling, what have you done?"

Glancing at the sword resting against the door, he walked over to it, shoved it in his belt and walked out into the hallway. A startled Beckett had been standing by the door, but when he saw the king burst from his room, he followed him down the hall. "Sir?"

"I want you to pass a message on for me." Neptune said once the two men had exited the palace completely. The wind was blowing rather hard, causing Neptune's long blonde hair to fall in his face. Pushing it away, he glanced around the island that is palace sat on. Then, he looked over at the sun rise.

Beckett was waiting patiently to hear Neptune finish his statement, but came to stand beside him. He followed Neptune's gaze down at the reflection of the sun rise. In the reflection, it was clearly showing the sun setting, while when they looked up the sun was rising. Beckett made a disapproving, confused grunt before saying, "That's odd."

Neptune straightened and stared at the sun. Moments later, a green flash shot thru the morning sky. He closed his eyes as the men loading the ships began talking and asking questions about the green flash.

"What the bloody hell was that?" Beckett asked, but was cut off by Neptune turning to face him as he finished his sentence, "Tell the men to prepare for war. My daughter was kidnapped, and I'm taking down every damned pirate in these sevens seas to get her back." At this time, two things happened. Another green flash shot thru the sky, and Rupert came to stand beside Beckett. "Tell them to turn east and to prepare for battle."

Neptune pushed past the two men, leaving them to glance at each other. Beckett stared at Rupert before saying, "What? Didn't you hear him?" And with that, Beckett turned to follow Neptune as Rupert yelled to the army, "TURN THEM EAST, MEN! IT'S-"

"-war." The captain laughed bitterly as he came to sit beside the two young ladies sitting at the table. One drinking water, the other drinking rum. Another figure was vaguely seen in the shadows of the back corner of the bar. He leaned up against the wall, arms crossed, waiting for the captain to continue.

Jack laughed again as he continued to read from the paper, "-King Neptune has declared war against the pirates. Since his daughter, Princess Lila, was kidnapped at the ball this past week, he is taking this as a sign that the pirates are begging for war. Thus, the war has begun-"

Jack rolled his eyes as he walked to the table, placing the paper above the candle letting it burn. When it shot up in flames, he threw it down on the table and took Bella's water, pouring it on it. Ignoring her face, he put the not almost empty glass back in front of her, and stared up at Lila.

"Well, Jack. What do we do?" Jack reluctantly tore his eyes off of the princess to stare into the eyes of his former first mate. Will pushed himself off of the wall, and came to stand behind Lila.

Jack smiled up at him and asked, "Well, my dear William. What do we do?"

Lila laughed when she saw the look on Will's face. Though he made no sign that he was affected by the fact that Lila had laughed at him, he came to sit beside her as he said, "Jack, that's what I just asked you."

"Will-" Jack sighed as he rested his boots on the table, crossing them, "-I know. I was asking you for…dramatic purposes." Will rolled his eyes at that, but allowed Jack to continue. "What we're going to do is sail to this place where dear Beckett is holding this meeting, and stopping it at all costs. Hopefully, avoiding Neptune in the process…"

"What meeting?" Lila asked, raising her rum glass to her lips.

"The meeting Beckett's holding for the new members of the EITC." Will said, even though she had been asking Jack. She was surprised by two things. That he was actually talking to her, and that he was also looking at her. Their gazes lingered on each other for a moment, but was interrupted by Jack saying, "-damned man think he can do whatever that bloody 'ell he wants…"

Jack sent Lila over a smile that made her blush. Bella looked over at Jack and asked, "Well, what are we waiting for? Let's just go-"

"-we can't." Will said, eventually taking his gaze off of Lila. "Beckett's no idiot. His great-grandfather certainly wasn't. He's probably got loads of men guarding the place."

"Where are they having this meeting, exactly, Jack?" Lila asked. Jack turned his gaze back on her as a smile spread across his handsome face. Not knowing why, she just waited for him to answer.

" London." Jack finally answered.

"Why are we here?"

"No reason." Jack said, smirking. "But does one need a reason to come to Tortuga?" Lila stuck a finger in her rum glass and flicked it on Jack. Making a mock wounded face, Jack smirked and said, "Actually, love. We did have a purpose to come here."

Will made a sound as Jack's eyes went down to Lila's neck. Startled at first, Lila then took her hands and unhooked the locket, handing it to Jack. Jack smiled at her, and said "Thank you, darlin'."

Following Jack down the dark path, Lila soon found herself behind Bella and Jack and walking beside Will. "What exactly are we doing?"

"Long story." Lila managed to say. She could feel Will's lingering gaze on her as the continued to follow the clearly drunk Captain Jack Sparrow down the path. She heard the rocks crunching beneath her boots as Will asked, "How are you? I haven't seen you since-"

He broke off. Lila knew what he was about to say, so she quickly said, "Good. You?"

"Same." Was Will's even quicker than Lila's response was. Lila took her eyes off of Will, but she knew even without looking at him that he wasn't taking his eyes off of her. Sighing, she opened her mouth, and was about to say something, but she soon found herself colliding against Jack. Which, might have been good, she thought. No telling what would have come out of her mouth...

"Easy, love." Jack said, laughing as he steadied her, not seeing Will's gaze as he kept his arms around Lila. Lila groaned inwardly when she looked in front of them and saw the inn. Jack looked back at the three and said, "Well, what are we waiting for?" The four of them walked into the inn. The innkeeper smiled when he saw Jack and Lila, "Ah, the two lovebir-"

"Easy, Larry." Jack said, keeping his gaze intense. Will was following Jack and Lila rather closely while Bella kept her distance from all three of them. Larry, the innkeeper, was behind the desk. He was missing part of his left eye, and both of his arms. He would have been missing all of his arm had he not had two hooks at the end of his stubs."The usual room." Jack replied, ignoring Will's shocked expression. Lila rolled her green eyes, but continued to stare at Larry who was now finding the keys. "Larry!" Lila cried, causing everyone in the room to stare at her. "That's Larry?" She glanced up at Jack.

"Of course it is." Jack said, flipping a shilling to Larry, taking the key and wrapping an arm around Lila's waist. "Well, then. We'll be on our way then…" He took Lila and basically pushed her up the stairs, unaware that Will was following closely behind him.

Larry was watching them, confused, as to the fact that he only gave Jack one key. "All four of ye?" Jack, who was now on the stairs, turned to look at Larry. Looking behind him at the two others that were trailing behind him and Lila, he said, "Yes. All of us. Goodnight, Larry." He smiled, causing Larry to look even more confused, but not wanting to ask, he gave them a wave as they disappeared up the stairs.

Once they were in the room, Jack shut the door and took out his gun. "AHH! WHAT IS HE-" Bella screamed, running behind Lila. This caused Jack to almost fall backwards since he was scared by her shriek, and Will to laugh. "He's not going to shoot you, Bels!" Lila said, moving closer to Will. Bella relaxed a little, but kept her position between Will and Lila, who were both watching Jack with amusement as he banged away at the floorboard. "What the bloody hell is he doing?" Will mumbled, staring at him in a mixture of amazement and horror.

After the floorboard was gone, Jack pulled out a chest with a heart shaped lock. He smiled up at Lila who reached into her pocket and pulled out her locket. She handed it to Jack, and watched him as he unlocked the chest.

"What's in the-" Will broke off when Jack opened the chest. Will moved closer to Jack as he lifted the chest up to him. Will looked at Jack in shock as Jack smirked up at the young captain and said, "Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate."

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