I'm not sure whether to make this Jack/Lila or Will/Lila...
I'm having fun doing both...

-Captain Autumn

"Jack-" Will started, uncertainly when he felt Lila walk close up behind him. "-what...I don't understand what I'm looking at." Jack was still sitting inside the hole he had made in the floor, beaming into the chest. "What are we looking at?" Lila breathed hotly in Will's ear. Will made no sign whatsoever that it affected him in anyway and said, "No idea-"

"No, I really can't see it." Lila said, smiling at him. He stared at him for a minute, before realizing where he was standing. Smiling at her, more than anything trying to hide his now blushing cheeks, he moved over so that she could see into the chest.

"Thank you- What the bloody hell!" She shrieked when Jack pulled out the skull. She screamed, and would have fallen backwards had Will not caught her. Bella was only nodding in agreement as if to say that she was right, Jack was an insane killer and they were going to be his next victims. "Jack, you're mad!"

"Yes. I know." Jack said, sititng on the edge of the hole, so that his feet were dangling inside it. He beamed up at the young princess and said, "It's wonderful, isn't it?" He dusted off the skull by blowing on it, then raised it up so that it was smiling at Will. Will made a disgusted face and looked away as Jack said, "I told you. Not all treasure is silver and gold-"

"You did tell me that." Will said in agreement as Bella took a step backwards, scared where this was going. Jack made a mock sad face when he saw that, and turned the skull in her direction making her scream and run into the corner. "Jack- JACK. Honestly, stop it." Will said, smacking Jack's hand as he said, "But need I tell you that all treasure is certainly not-" He picked up a powdered wig, his eyes grew wide in realization, "- Cutler Beckett's skull."

"JACK!" Lila shrieked causing Will and Jack to jump. "Honestly! What the bloody hell is wrong with you?" Lila looked down at Jack in complete and utter disgust and horror as Jack smiled at the skull. Jack shrugged and looked back up at the two clearly disgusted people in front of hiim, "I just thought it was funny."

"Funny? He thought it was funny." Will repeated with a disgusted laugh. "Jack, should I even ask how you got that in your possesion?"

"Ah, long story, mate." Jack said, pulling on Lila's arm to get himself out of the hole. She almost fell over with him, but immediatley straightened up when she saw the skull was merely inches from her face. "A few weeks after we killed 'im, we sailed back to that spot. I found his ship and started walkin' on it, you know-" He nodded as he looked up at them, truly thinking they in fact did know. Will and Lila exchanged glances, before silently agreeing to just nod. "-so, I saw this. And thought, 'Why not take it?' "

"Oh heavens, what is wrong with you?" Lila said, taking a deep breath and walking closer to Jack. "That is not only disgusting in so many ways, but it's completely pointless." She shrieked again when Jack made the skull peck her cheek. "That could be diseased!"

"It's not diseased." Jack said, matter-of-factly, sending an evil smirk in Bella's direction. Lila took another step behind Will as Jack darted his gaze back to her and said, "-he died in a firey explosion. Not from disease!"

"Does it matter?" Lila asked him, stepping from behind Will to face Jack once more. "It's still a dead person's head!"

"Yes. It is." Jack said, looking at it as if he was making sure that it was indeed dead. Will smacked his head as Jack said, "It's not alive."

"That is probably why I said it was dead." Lila said in a voice that you would use on infants. When Jack looked up and glared at her, she said in a harser tone, "Why do you have that thing? That's not what you put into the chest all those years ago!"

"I know, love. Who wants to hold Becky?" When no one offered, Jack said, "Pfft. Well, then. He shall come down with me." Jack disappeared into the hole once more and tossed the chest up to Will. Will apparently thought that the chest was a lot more heavy than Jack did, because as soon as the chest appeared in his arms, he nearly dropped it.

Jack and "Becky" appeared yet a moment later and stood next to Will, motioning for him to set it down. "Alright, then, love. This chest is holding the map-" He rested the skull carefully beside Lila. She was trying to fight the fact that she was entirely disgusted by this and remained as calm as she could. "-and that map that this chest is holding will show us in fact what we are looking for."

"You haven't exactly told us that, Jack." Will said, kneeling down beside Lila. Jack's chocolate eyes came back up and focused on Will as he said, "All you've said is that Admiral Beckett wants to take over Neptune's palace and if we don't do something soon, then there will be three sides to this war...that has already begun, need I remind you."

Silence accompanied Will's speech. Recovering, Jack said to Will, "You just like hearing yourself talk, don't you?" When Will opened his mouth to protest, Jack cut him off and said, "What we're doing is this. My dear ol' grandfather was an ex-navy person man, you know, for the king of England."

"Oh goodness." Will mumbled. Ignoring Will, Jack continued, "-as I was saying...when he turned pirate, he smuggled tons of these weapons and things in this cave off of the coast of the now completely sunken Isla de Muerta. As co-founder of the Brethren Court, he left these weapons to us in case we needed them. I kid you not, he's got enough weapons in that cave for two armies let alone pirates alone-"

"-we're fighting?" Lila asked. "In the war?" She tore her eyes off of Will to stare at Jack who was nodding, "Of course, love. What did you think we were going to do? Ask them to tea? I'm calling a meeting of the Brethren Court. We're going to build an army. Not to try and get your crown, love. Don't you be thinkin' that. But to save us from that damned Beckett whose tryin' so hard to bring back the EITC. We get our freedom back, you get your crown. It's a win-win type of deal, love. Savvy?"

He stuck out his hand, but she just smiled at him and said, "You've tiouched that skull, darling. I'm not-" He made a pouty face, so she said, "Fine." She laced her hands in his and said, "We have a deal, Captain Sparrow. I help you destroy the new EITC and you help me get that crown to it's rightful owner." Jack smiled at her, keeping her hand in his, and said, "Alright, Princess. Let us be on our way."

"Leaving so soon?" Larry asked when he saw the four walking down the stairs. Jack immediatley shoved the skull behind Will's back and said good-naturedly to the nearly armless man that was missing part of an eye, "Yes, we got what we wanted. 'Night, Larry." He whispered something in Will's ear and shoved him out the door. Wrapping an arm around Lila's waist, he and the two girls followed Will out of the inn, not looking back at a very confused Larry.

"You don't think he's going to mind when he sees a hole blown into his floor?" Will asked, carrying the chest. Jack hadn't revealed what else was in it, but since he had pulled out Cutler Beckett's skull, he didn't really care to know. One hand on Lila's waist, the other clutching Cutler's skull, Jack replied, "Will, he's missing part of his eye."

"He could still see it, Jack." Will replied, not sure where the captain was getting at this. Jack shrugged at the younger man and said, "Well, mate. The part of his eye missing is the same part of the room that the hole was blown, savvy?" Will stared at Jack, who released Lila and walked ahead to the Pearl.

Will sighed and said, "I'm sure if I really thought about it, that in some way, would make sense." Lila laughed, causing Will to smile. And together, the two of them followed the three (three counting Cutler's skull) to where the Pearl and the Dutchman were waiting for them.

"Did you or did you not see Jack Sparrow and the Princess come into this town?" Andrew hissed at Larry a few days later. They had gotten a lead that someone had seen Jack and Lila in Tortuga. Larry didn't answer, causing Andrew to pull the man up by his collar and put a gun to his head, "If you want, sir. I can make you a whole lot worse than missing arms and an eye. Were they here, or weren't they?"

When Andrew cocked the gun, Larry reluctantly gave in and said in a squeaky tone, "Yes. They were." Neptune, who had been standing by the door, turned so rapidly that his purple cloak nearly tripped Rupert. Walking over to Larry, he said as Andrew held the gun to his head, "Where did he take her?"

"They stayed for a while in their room-" Andrew and Neptune exchanged glances before Larry continued, "-but they left in a hurry just a few minutes later. They were in a rush. I swear to you, I have no idea where they were going. Please don't-" Neptune nodded, and Andrew reluctantly dropped the man as he said, "What room?"

"309."

"What did you mean by 'their' room?" Neptune asked him as his men followed Rupert up the stairs. When Larry didn't answer again, all Andrew did was hold up his gun. Taking a big gulp he said to Neptune, "They've stayed there before is all. Same one everytime."

"There's been other times?"

"Yes. But there were more people with them this time." Larry said, not wanting Andrew to almost kill him again.

"Who?" Andrew said in a way that made him the mirror image of his late great-grandfather. Neptune noted that, before turning back to the scared old man, "A girl. She looked of Spanish decent. I think the princess called her Bel or Belle or something like that. But the other man, I cleary recognized. William Turner-"

"Turner." Was all Neptune said. Andrew glanced over at him, wanting to ask, but Neptune cut him off by smiling down at Larry and saying, "Thank you. You're help was greatly needed. Lower your weapon." Andrew did as he was told, and followed the king up the stairs. Once they were on the stairs, Andrew asked, "Turner? As in-"

"As in Jack Sparrow's former first mate and best friend." Neptune replied in a dry voice. "As in the same Will Turner that my daughter was in love with years ago." When he felt Andrew tense up, he whirled around and said, "When I left her on Port Royal with her aunt during the mutiny hundreds of years ago, she fell in love with him. They were together for years, but she left to set sail with Sparrow. I didn't find this out until last summer when I overheard her and Bella talking about it. I didn't press it because I thought she had changed."

Neptune sighed as they came to room 309 and said in a whisper, "I guess she just got her mother's pirate blood is all." Andrew stared at the old king for a long while. He had never heard the king talk anything about her mother. Neither of them did. That was the first he heard of it. Andrew opened his mouth to speak, but Neptune was already walking in the door.

He stared at the empty hole in the floor as Rupert came over to him, "Sir, there's nothing." He looked down at the young man who was looking up at him with a worried face. Neptune walked over to the window and said, "No. There's something."

"What, sir?" Andrew asked as he and Rupert came to walk behind Neptune, waiting for him to speak. Not turning around, Neptune said in a toneless voice, "Andrew, you said a lot of our men were killed in a battle off the coast of Singapore, correct?"

"Yes, Sir. I did. But I don't see-"

"-where you find lost souls, you find the Dutchman." Neptune said in that same tone of voice. "-where you find the Dutchman, you find Turner. And where you find Turner-"

He whirled around to look at the two men, "-You'll find my daughter."

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