Rupert's heart was pounding as he looked into the face of their queen. He was half right. That was in fact their queen, but their late queen. Neptune took the candle out of Rupert's hand and put it in the direction of what he thought to be his dead daughter.

"Anne?" Neptune found that he barely had a voice when he came face to face with his wife. His wife who was killed all those years ago. She stared up at him with her emerald eyes, ones that mirrored his daughters. A silent tear rolled down Anne's, or rather known as Amphitrite, tanned cheek as she said, "I'm sorry."

Neptune opened his mouth to ask what, but then he realized what when he looked beside the rain covered window to see a man stepping out from the shadows with a gun pointed in his direction. Mercer smiled an eerie smile as more tears rolled down Anne's cheeks and said, "Evenin', Your Majesty."

Neptune looked over at his wife, then looked back into Mercer's eyes as he said, "What do you want? I banished you from this kingdom years ago. You're not welcome-"

"Ah, yes. But you cannot banish me without the queen's say." Something in the way that Mercer said that turned Neptune's blood to ice. He pushed Anne to the side, before taking a step towards Neptune and Rupert. He put the gun to Neptune's head and hissed at him, "I want my daughter back. You're going to give her to me..."

"Leave Lila out of this and-"

"-No deals. The queen is mine. That's said and done. I keep your daugter until you hand me mine. But by then it won't matter, her powers will be drained. She'll be less of a queen then Calypso herself." Neptune closed his eyes as he heard Mercer cock the gun and spit at him, "You have until next week. After that, Her Royal Highness mine." With a warning look at Rupert, Mercer left the room. Neptune collapsed in his chair. Anne was still silently crying, and Rupert was in complete and utter shock in the corner where Mercer had just been.

"Annie, what...what happened?" Neptune asked in a shaky voice as he put his head in his hands. Anne walked over to Rupert and put an arm around him, before turning her tear-filled emerald eyes up to her husband and whispering, "He told me... Neptune...he drained me. Part of me is in the Jewel, that part is with Lila. I'm powerless, and it's affecting Lila as well. She's dying, Neptune."

"The baby." He said, with a sinking feeling in his stomach as realization hit him.

"The what?"

"Anne, Lila's pregnant." Neptune said in a toneless voice as Anne held on to Rupert. Neptune's eyes locked with Anne's for a moment, before she closed them, allowing more tears to fall freely down her cheeks, some hitting Rupert's shirt. "It'll kill it too..."

"Triton...he's our only chance of saving Saphira and Lila and our grandchild, Neptune. I told Bill already, I couldn't find Grant anywhere...it's..I'm scared...it's been raining for days..." The spirit of Anne, released from her human form, stood before him. She was his wife, she was his former queen. Once a goddess dies, her soul (unless trapped by an evil force as Anne's was with Beckett) roams the earth or part in which she ruled forever. In Anne's case, being queen over the seven seas, since's Beckett's death, she was released from her prison and allowed to roam free as she should have done when she died. "Atlantis-"

"Annie, after Lila sank it when she was 6...I don't want to show my face back there." Neptune said with a long sigh, before looking back up at his smiling wife. She was somewhat relieved that he had made a joke about the situation. She gave Rupert's back a comforting rub, before saying to her husband, "We have to, darling. William can't protect her this time."

Neptune closed his blue eyes and nodded, hoping that wherever she was, she was alright. And hoping that the rain falling, wasn't because of her.

"Darling? Lila, please wake up." Saphira looked tearfully over at Will who was holding on to Lila's hand. He closed his eyes as her godmother rested a hand on his shoulder. Calypso's dark eyes were filled with almost a tint of anger as she looked down into what seemed to be the dying form of the Queen of the Seas. Saph looked over by the window to see that Jack was still silent, watching the rain fall for it's queen. Scarily reminding him of how it rained when his aunt died.

"...how does this involve my father?" Saphira asked, quietly as Calypso managed to tear her eyes off of Lila. Saph looked back to see Will whispering something. She closed her eyes momentarily, before looking back up into Calypso's tired face. The sea goddess sat down on the edge of the chair and said, "Darlin', your fatha be an awful man...he be wantin' the crown and you too. I cannot tell you why-"

"-Calypso-"

"I cannot." The old sea goddess replied in a harsh voice. That made Jack, who had been silent since Lila collapsed the previous day, turned around to look at Calypso as she said, "It's not my place. But he be drainin' 'er. You, he wants alive. He 'as no use for 'er."

Saph looked over into Jack's murderous eyes. Will had always teased him that when it came to Lila and Saphira, Jack had a weakness. No one messed with them and got away with it, that much was for sure. And that's what was worrying Saphie at that moment. That Jack would get too carried away, and do something stupid. She couldn't lose him. She didn't want him to get hurt, and even though she couldn't ask her at the moment, she knew Lila would feel the same way.

Late that night, Will found himself sitting by the window staring out at the rain as Jack had done earlier. He remembered when Anne died. The rains and seas mourning over the death of their queen. He glanced back over at Lila who was laying there with an almost other-wordly look about her. His wife and child were dying. Why? He didn't know. Apparently Calypso couldn't tell them.

All he knew was that Mercer wasn't happy. Mercer wanted control. Mercer wanted power. That was where, Will thought, Lila came in. He wanted power, and what better way to get it than by getting the girl that rules over it all. And Saphira? Well, Will simply thought that that was just because of her being his daughter. He didn't know then how wrong he really was.

"Will?" Will immediatley turned around to see Lila opening her eyes. He smiled, and kneeled down beside her, kissing her burning hot forhead, and pushing her curls back. "Darling..." He whispered against her curls. She smiled faintly as he moved beside her, and rested a hand on her stomach as he tended to do so more often. "Li, you scared me."

"So sorry, querido." She said, with a tint of sarcasm lacing her quiet voice.
That made him smile as he rested his forhead against hers and said, "Get some rest, love. I'll stay right here until you wake up alright?" When she nodded, he kissed her softly and whispered, "I love you, Li."

"I love you too, Turner." When Will looked up from Lila, he saw Jack standing in the doorway. He nodded, and Jack walked in. Much to Will's surprise, Saphira wasn't following him like she usually was. Will leaned back on the bed, and watched Jack walk over to the window, staring out like he had been earlier.

"Wha' the 'ell is goin' on, Will?" Jack spoke for the first time in over a day. He glanced down at the table where Calypso had put the map to the Lost City of Atlantis. Why was it the Lost City? Well, that was a result of a tantrum Lila had had when she was just a little girl. Now, it was there duty to find it. Why? They weren't exactly sure. But they knew that it would hold their answers and keep Lila and Saphira safe.

After kissing Lila's forhead, Jack walked back down the hall to where he thought Saphira would be, but he soon found her to be on the deck since the rain had temorarily stopped. Jack quietly walked behind her and wrapped his arms around her, "Don't worry, love."

"Jackie...look at what he's done to Lila. And me...I...he won't stop..." She started crying. Jack sighed and brought his finacee into his arms, kissing the top of her head as she cried into his chest. They stayed like that for a moment, before Jack said, "He won't hurt you-"

"-Jack-"

"Saph. I'm not goin' to let 'im get you or Lila, alright? Me and the eunuch aren't tha' dumb." She smiled up at him, though tears still fell down her rosy cheeks. He kissed her forhead, as he had just done Lila's, as she asked him, "Jack, how can you be so sure we'll be alright."

"Love-" He started with that trademark smirk, "-you forget one very important thing."

Saph smiled up at him as she wiped her eyes and said, "And what woud that be, Jackie?"

His smirk turned into a golden-tooth smile as he said, "I'm Captain Jack Sparrow, savvy?"