"...I'd die for her..."

Neptune's War
Day Four

Her eyes popped open at the sound of the loud bang. She laid in bed, not moving until another loud bang rang thru the crisp air of the early morning. She rolled over and saw that Will wasn't beside her like he had been when she fell asleep. That made her sit straight up in her bed as she whispered, "Will? William?" No answer. She silently cursed as she got out of bed and picked up her sword in one hand and a candle in the other hand. Another loud bang rang out as she walked out of the bedroom. She kept her sword out as she walked along the hallway. "Will?" Still no answer, so she continued walking. When she came to the top of the stairs, she heard someone walk behind her, and immediatley turned around. "Will?"

Still no answer. She lowered her sword and pushed the candle out so that she could see clearer. She couldn't see anything, so as she began pulling it back, someone ran into her from behind. Screaming, she dropped the candle and whirled around fast as the other person screamed and did the same. When their swords clashed, realization hit Lila, "Jack? Oh thank heavens." They both lowered their swords, only for Will to come out of seemingly nowhere and tackle Jack, "Get away from my-"

"LILA! GET HIM OFF OF ME!" Jack said, moving his arms frantically as he tried to push Will off of him. will realaxed when he saw Jack's face and said, "Oh, sorry, mate." He smiled as he pulled his sword off of Jack's throat and rolled off of his best friend before helping him to his feet. Jack brushed himself off, and glared at Will before saying sweetly to Lila, "You alright, darlin'?"

"Not really-" She said, taking her sword from Will. She had apparently, unknowingly to her, dropped her sword after she realized it was Jack. Will forced another smile at Jack, but Jack was still mad at him. Lila sighed and looked over to the door downstairs. Bangs were still going off outside, and people were shouting. "-what's going on out there?"

"The war-" Jack screamed at that and whirled around with his sword. Had Saphira not ducked, he probably would have hit her. Since Saphira was in shock, and too sweet, Lila was the one that spoke up and said, "Bloody hell, Jack! Calm down." Saphira was staring at him in a weird way, and took a step back before saying, "-they know you're here Lila. We've got to get you out of here."

Will suddenly got a worried look on his face when they said that 'they know you're here'. A look that scared Lila because she knew that it wasn't out of fear. "What did you?" Lila's question, and the tone of her voice took everyone of them off-guard. "Will! What did you do?" This time she was on the verge of tears.

"Li, what are you talking about?" Will asked her in a tone of voice that Lila had never heard him use before. Hell, Jack had never heard him use it before. "Li, I didn't do anything." Lie. It was just a big lie. Lila knew it too. She just shook her head and said, "Don't. Don't even say that to me, Turner. You're a liar-" When he tried to grab her, se pushed him back and said, "-you turned me in, Pirate." She spat that at him before she walked back into her room and slammed the door. Jack only glared at Will once before following Lila into her room. Not glancing at Bella, Will grabbed his sword and ran down the stairs. Anger was filling up inside him as he opened the door to face Cutler Beckett. "Ah, Mr. Turner. Right on time."

Will followed Beckett down the path in silence. Beckett broke the silence by saying, "Well, Mr. Turner. I see no crown as promised. I wouldn't be wanting to think that you were lying to me-"

"-I wasn't lying to you, Beckett. You'll get the crown in all good time as I promised." Will said, pulling on his jacket. Even though they were in the Caribbeans, it could get quite chilly at night. Will felt sick, in a way. More so and for a different reason than he had just a few hours earlier. The wind caught his dark ringlets as he turned to face the former Lord. "Only if you meet me half way."

Cutler chuckled softly at that, as he continued to walk forxing Will to pick up his pace. "I'll meet you half way when you do your-"

"No. Because then you won't do your part." Will said, cutting him off. He narrowed his hazel eyes and said, "I helped you the last time-"

"-resulting in you helping Jack Sparrow to kill me." Cutler reminded him coldly. The two men continued to walk in silence, before Beckett said, "You and Jack don't hate each other half as much as you let on. In any given case, you and Sparrow are most hated by my people. Do you know why? Where Sparrow is, you are. And where you are, Sparrow is. I can't trust you, until I know that Sparrow isn't behind this as well, Mr, Turner, And until you prove that to me, Miss Parrish is as good as dead. And it will be your fault."

"As it would seem, Mr. Beckett. You would be talking to a future prince." Will smirked as he waited Cutler's reaction to that. Beckett whirled around rather fast and stared at Will before asking, "Would I now? Well, that changes everything, doesn't it?"

"Lala, darlin'. Come on-" Jack and Saphira were practicaly dragging her out of her room, surprised that she had an angry look in her eyes and a gun in hand. Jack and Saph exchanged glances before Jack said in a calm voice, "Love, should a pregnant lass be handlin' a gun-"

"I'll handle whatever I wish to handle, Jack." She rolled her kohl-lined eyes and began down the stairs. Jack and Saphira looked after her for a minute, before Jack smiled over at Saphira and said, "Well, darlin'. Someone has to follow after her? Shall we, angel?" He offered her his arm. Saphira blushed slightly, but smiled as she took his arm and said, "I suppose so."

Jack can't say that he was entirely surprised to walk out and see Lila shooting at nothing when he and Saphira emerged arm in arm out of her cabin. Jack rolled his eyes and staggered over to her, "Lila, honestly. Do ye want to get killed?" He grabbed the gun from her, and put it back in her belt. Lila didn't say anything, only stared at him and began walking down ironically the same path that Will and Beckett walked down moments earlier.

She knew Will was a pirate. She had known that even when they were just children. He was always a pirate, no matter how much he tried to suggest otherwise. He was a liar. He was a backstabber. He was a betrayer. He was her fiancee, and she as in love with him. He was the father of her child for goodness skaes, and at the moment she wanted nothing more that to shove her sword thru him. How could he do this to her? After all they've been thru? After all the, '...you were my first love...' conversations. After everything? She bloody left him so he could be with Elizabeth! She did it for him! She sacrificed her happiness for Will and Elizabeth. And this is how she was repaid?

"Lala? You alright?" Jack said, making her turn around to see him with his arm wrapped around Saphira. She herself had a sad look on her face as Jack and her walked up to her, wrapping his free arm around Lila. It was amazing how Jack had changed remarkably in the last few hours. I mean, he hadn't called Lila 'Lala' since they spent the summer with Saphie in Singapore. "Maybe he has a reason-"

"-for turning in his fiancee? The mother of his child, for Barbossa's sake. Jack, even if that was before he knew all of this, if he really loved me do you think that he would have done this?" Tears welled up in Lila's piercing green eyes as she said this. "I'll kill him-"

"-now, love. Let us not be doin' things that we will be regrettin' later on..." Jack said, stroking his beard causing Saphira to smile. "We're going to the Brethren Court's old meeting place-"

"-why?"

"For a Brethren Court meeting, darlin'." Jack said, in a 'how much rum have you had?' kind of voice. Which was clear, that she couldn't have had any. And he knew that. It was a sight you might have seen in Tortuga. A very handsome pirate captain with his arms around two gorgeous girls. But they were far from Tortuga. Far from that carefree port. Actually, Lila was beginning to think that they were closer to hell than Tortuga. "Those iditots are such buggers, they won' never think o' lookin' in the old Brethren Court hideout."

And somehow, that made sense.

Cannons were shooting off in the distance as they made it into the heart of the small town. Jack walked out first, leaving the two girls safely behind the bushes as he made sure that no one was hiding and could possibly hurt,kill and/or kidnap the girls. After walking around for a moment and seeing it was safe, he motioned for them to follow him. Lila and Saph ran as fast as they could to Jack, nearly colliding with him as they did so.

Lila and Saphira were holding on to Jack as the entered the deserted pub. It was quite a disgusting sight, really. Jack made a face when a snake slid past them, causing Lila to almost scream. She didn't, because Jack knew of her fear of snakes and he had already put his hand over her mouth. He held out his hand again, and Lila took it as he continued to lead the two girls upstairs. He didn't have to offer his hand to Saph, she already had his whole arm. When the three came up to the door, Jack knocked three times. The little slot on the door opened and a voice answered, " What does Code Rule Number 321 state?"

"Son, I'm Captain Jack Sparrow. I don't bloody read that Code even if my father did write it, savvy?" A chuckle came from behind the door. After a few locks were unlocked, the door opened the reveal a younger man about the age of 25 at the most. When he saw Lila, he smiled and said, "Your Majesty." She smiled at him, still holding Jack's hand rather tightly, and only gave a polite nod as she usually did when people addressed her as "Your Majesty".

"Oh damn." Lila whispered, causing Jack to look down at her and asked, "Wha' is it, princess?" She nodded towards Barbossa who was leaning up against the wall, with his foot propped up against an overturned barrel. Jack and Lila exchanged glances before saying, " 'Ow the bloody 'ell are you still alive, mate? Shouldn't you be rotting in Davy Jones's Locker?" Lila resisted the urge to correct him and say that it was Will's locker, but she didn't since the sound of Will's name made her want to cry and shoot something.

"None of your business, Captain Jack Sparrow." Barbossa said in his usual toneless hiss. He kicked the barrel so that in one swift motion, it was turned rightside up again and he made his way over to the table. Bootstrap and Grant appeared a minute later. Bootstrap walked over to Lila and embraced her as he said, "I thought that you were dead, Lila." He looked beside her and noticed who was missing. When Jack saw this, he said to the lot of the present pirate lords, "We seem to have a traitor in our midst. Not among us."

"Where's Willliam?" Boostrap asked Jack, but it was Lila who answered as she said, "Not among us." Boostrap's face fell, before he closed his eyes that matched Will's and sank down into a chair beside Lila. Grant gave Lila a sad smile, before walking over to her and giving her a kiss on the forhead, "Welcome to the Wonderful World of Piracy, love." He gave her a shoulder a pat, before saying, "Alright men...and ladies...the time for war is now. We've waited too long for this, and as you can see that damned Beckett won't rest at all. We neither fighting with the pirates, nor the EITC. We're not fighting with Neptune. We're fighting for our freedom. Not the crown."

Jack looked up at his father and said, "They know she's 'ere-"

"'-well give her to them then!" Yelled the current pirate lord of Singapore. All eyes fell on him, clearly a descendent of Sao Fang. "Isn't she the reason that we're here? She's the reason that this war was taking place-"

"-the war was a hundred years in the makin', Captain Fang. Lila had nothin' to do with Neptune's desicion on war, so if you value your life I do suggest that you close your bloody mouth, savvy?" Jack said in an annoyed voice as she shot a murderous glare over in Captain Fang's direction. Needless to say, Fang was a fast learner when it came to messing with Captain Jack. Simply don't do it.

Jack wrapped an arm around Saphira, before glancing over at Lila and giving her a wink. Bootstrap put a protective arm around Lila, clearly still in shock over his son and waited for Grant's orders. Grant looked down at his niece, before he turned back to the pirate lords and said, "We will fight. I'm going to be honest in saying that we all won't make it back. But that's a price we have to pay for freedom."

That sentence was accompanied by a mix of agreements and disapprovments alike. Grant rolled his eyes and said, "SILENCE!" To say everyone looked rather scared at the sound of Grant's voice was an understatment, "Let's get one thing straight, if any of you so much as thinks about turning my niece in, you might as well shoot yourself because if you don't I will. Understand that?"

"And honestly, if you're not going to do it for yourself, do it for you children. Beckett's no idiot. Neither is my father. Do you honestly want them to live in a damned world like this?" When Lila said that, two things happened at once. The pirates nodded and whispered to themselves, and the other was that Grant and Bootstrap glanced over at her with a confused look to which Lila only looked down.

"There's not going to be a war like this again. Not one that is so important. Not one that is risking so much. If you value life, your family and freedom, the time to fight for all of that is now." Grant said that with a slight smile. He nodded and said, "We attack at dawn." Shouts accompanied his statement as people began scrambling about getting weapons and making plans. Bootstrap looked down at Lila and whispered, "Lila, are you?"

She gave a sad smile, holding back tears and only whispered, "Yes." He smiled too and leaned down and gave her forhead a kiss just like Grant had done earlier. Jack helped Saphira out of her seat, still having his arm around her shoulders, and said, "And after this, rum!" Lila shot him a glare, to which he smiled and, "Or water."

Saphira giggled as Jack led her back down the stairs, no doubt telling her some funny and completely untrue story. Lila got up in time to catch a sword Grant just tossed at her. He gave her a smile and said, "You and Jack are to be accompanying me. And considerin' he's attached at the hip with that girl, then I 'spose she'll be coming with us as well."

Lila tucked away her sword and followed her uncle down the stairs. "Jacob? Let's go." Saphira and Lila started giggling at the sound of Jack's middle name. His first name was Grant, but better Grant than Jacob. Captain Teague smiled at that, knowing that that was the exact reaction that he wanted from Jack. Jack rolled his eyes and began following Bootsrap, his father and the girls down the long dark path...

They looked out on the ship's deck to see hundreds of ships, pirate ships, Neptune's ships, the EITC's ships...the sides of the war coming together. This was it. It was happening now. Will stood on the deck of that ship, watching as the horizon disappeared behind the mass of ships sailing towards them.

Footsteps came closer to him, before Cutler Beckett stopped beside him and watched the ships sail towards them. He laughed quietly and said, "Brings back memories, doesn't it? But this time, I will win this. You're help is appreciated, Mr. Turner." Beckett stared at Will for a moment longer, before walking back down the deck.

Will closed his eyes..."...I'd die for her..."

But just how far was he willing to go?

"...I'd die for her..."