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-Somewhere in Singapore-

"Oh my goodness."

"Lila."

"-bloody, bloody hell!"

"-Lila-"

"-I can't believe you just killed him!"

"Well, believe it, darlin'." Lila tore her eyes off of the, get this, dead body of the man that had just been threatning her, to the form of her cousin, standing over him with a gun still in his hand. Lila's mouth dropped, as if realization really just hit her. And it hit her. And it hit her hard. "OH my goodness." Lila started swaying, causing Will to quickly run behind her and put a hand on the small of her back. Unlike usually, that didn't seem to have a calming affect on her like it usually did.

Saphira seemed to be in a trance as she stared at her fiancee in complete horror. Rupert was mumbling about how he should have done that, and how much more trouble Jack was going to be in now that he was not only wanted for the murder of the Queen but of a member of the Royal Navy. Will slipped his arm around Lila's waist and said, "I guess he doesn't fear death." Lila turned around and smacked Will's arm as Rupert burst into another fit of laughter.

"What?" Will asked his wife, wounded, as she stormed after Jack who was now pulling Saphira down the steamy decks. He rubbed his arm, and glanced at Rupert who was still laughing. Ana rolled her brown eyes, and pulled Rupert down the decks after Will.

"Jack, you can't just leave him there." Lila said, falling in step with the Pirate King once more. A smirk played out on Jack's handsome face, as he said, "On the contrary, love."

"Belay that."

"Don't you tell me to belay that."

"Oh, I'll belay it if I want to." Jack and Lila were standing practically nose to nose, since in her boots, Lila's height was added to by an inch. Something passed between them. What it was? Well, no one present was sure. But it was enough for Saphira and Will to exchange glances. Will noticed that when Lila whirled around on her heels to continue down the deck, that Jack's gaze lingered on her for a second more than it probably should have. Will made a noise, and walked past Jack and Saphira to follow his storming off, quite distressed, wife.

Saphira looked up at Jack, causing him to smile down at her and wrap an arm around her waist. Ana groaned inwardly, thinking Jack was slipping back into his old ways, and allowed Rupert to take her hand as they followed Will and Lila to wherever the bloody hell Lila thought she was going.

Once Will fell in step with Lila, "What was that?" He was taken back by the tone in his voice, since he rarely used it on her. Actually, he never used it on her. That made Lila turn around slightly and stare at him, for a minute before she asked, "What was what?"

"That. You and Jack." Lila made a face that scarily remind Will of his best mate. He glanced back at Jack to see that Jack still was staring at Lila with that look of determination on his face. Neptune had always called it the 'Sparrow Determination'. But what Jack was so determined about, Will wasn't sure. And actually, he wasn't sure he wanted to know. Will's eyes glazed over with something that Lila had never seen before. That made her stop walking, as she took his hands and said, "Querido."

When she called him that, that usually melted him. It had him at her every call. But not this time. He was too lost. Too deep in thought as to what just happened. Lila watched him for a minute, as if she was scared he was about to snap or something. "Will?"

His eyes instantly changed, as if he forced them to. He smiled down at her, and moved his arm around her waist again, before kissing the top of her head. Lila just stared at him, unsure as to what was going through his head. She smiled anyway, and leaned up and kissed him.

"Two more months." She said with a smile. He smiled bigger, and wrapped his arms around her waist. He rested his head on hers and said, "I know..." He leaned down and kissed her, only to be interrupted by Rupert's cries of, "Jack that is disgusting!" Lila broke apart from Will, to see that Jack was dragging the man down to the ocean. Saphira was yelling at him, and eventuallly ran down to him and smacked him upside his head rather hard. Lila laughed, but she looked up to see that that same glazed look appeared in Will's eyes again.

"Querido, what is wrong with you?" Lila asked him, with a slight tone of accusation in her voice. Will shook his head and said in a voice far from sounding like Will's usual good-natured, cheerful voice, "Nothing, love. Nothing at all." Lila turned back to look at Jack who was cursing in Spanish as he dropped the dead man's feet, that he'd been pulling him by, and started walking up the deck again. Anamaria looked slightly amused by this. Rupert looked about as disgusted as Ana was amused, and Saphira of course was extremely upset.

"Jackie, that was absolutley disgusting!" Saphie said, in hot pursuit of Jack. Jack still had his eyes focused seemingly in Lila's direction, causing Lila to shift her gaze back down on the ocean below the deck they were standing on. "I cannot believe you did that. I can't believe that you killed him in the first place, but I can't believe that you did that!"

Jack still had his eyes focused in Lila's direction, causing Saphira to stand in front of him and hiss up at him, "Darling, if you have something you would like to get out, please inform me." Jack rolled his chocolate tinted eyes and said, "Wha' the 'ell are you talkin' 'bout, Saphira-"

"-what is wrong with you, Jack?" That caused Jack to look down at her. Saphira calling him Jack was like Lila calling him Jackie. It never happened. Not anymore. Lila used to call him Jackie all the time, up until a few years ago. And if she had called him that now, well, he would probably have the same exact reaction as he did when Saphira called him Jack.

"I'm sorry, alright?" He wasn't. Saphira knew it. Jack was hiding something. She looked up at him, being a good four or five inches shorter than he was, and looked to see that he was giving a look in Will's direction. When she turned to look into the eyes of Captain Jack Sparrow's best mate, she saw that Will was returning it. Sure, the two of them had their ups and downs. Hell, years ago, they downright hated each other. But since Elizabeth's death, Will and Jack were pretty much inseperable. They had their moments, sure enough.

Jack made a point to mention at every chance he got that he loved those moments when he made William mad, but they only lasted a few minutes. Hours at the most. Elizabeth was the reason for their hating each other, now that she was gone, Jack and Will realized that they shouldn't have ever done half the things they did to each other. But now...Saphira realized that she hadn't seen since...well, since Elizabeth.

"Oh no."

"Wha's wrong, darlin'?" Jack said, looking down at her with his intense gaze. She shook her head, and said, "Nothing." Jack stared at her for a moment, before nodding and taking her hand again. Saphie let him, but was still too deep in her own thoughts to even comprehend where they were going. Will looked up at him when they came. Once again, something passed between Jack and this time Will. No one knew what it was...though Lila glanced over at Saphira to see that she was almost avoiding her gaze. Lila was about to say something, when Jack butted in and said, "Alright, the Empress made port in the east docks? Tha' should be..." He pulled out his compass. But as soon as he pulled it out, he instantly shut it. This caused Lila to jump since she was standing right beside him.

"Tha' way...general direction." Jack said, without another glance at either Will or Saphira. He looked down at Lila once more, before turning on the heel of his boots and walking down the deck. Rupert glanced over at the girls and asked, "What the hell was that?"

"No telling." Will mumbled, keeping a firm grip around Lila. She noticed this, and glanced up at him. He didn't make any notice that he saw her look up at him, only kept his hazel eyes focused on the pirate lord that was walking ahead of them. What was Jack up to?

Rupert fell in step with Ana, and asked, "What's going on between Jack and Lila?" Ana made a noise, and smirked up at him as she said, "Darlin', aren't you 'sposed to be watchin' over Lila yourself?" Rupert fixed the sea blue tie that was holding his long, brown hair back and said, "Well, she tells you more stuff. And I assumed that if something was in fact going on between them, Lila would tell you, not Saphie."

"Darlin', Lila's like my sister." Ana said, linking her arm with his. "And she 'asn't said a word." Rupert nodded, and walked with her down the docks...

"I don't think ye are understandin' wha' I'm sayin', Master Chi-Chan-"

"-It's Wang-"

"-tha's wha' I said." Jack said, leaning back on the back two legs of his chair. "My cousin, the Queen? Perhaps you've 'eard of 'er-"

"-you killed her-"

"-I didn't nothin' of the sort, Chi-Chan." Jack said, ingnoring the look on Wang's face when he said that. Saphira started laughing quietly, as Rupert rolled his eyes and put his arm around the back of Ana's chair.

"I'm quiet alive, actually, love." Came a slightly Spanish-tinted British accent from behind Wang. He instantly recognized the voice, as she came to sit on the table in front of her husband. Will smirked and wrapped an arm around her waist as she said, "The Empress points to you, darling-" Will winced, causing Saphira to laugh again. Will hated the fact that she had a tendency to say 'darling' way too much. "-that's an illegal ship belonging to the late Pirate King-"

"-Queen-"

"-King." Lila said, firmly, causing Rupert to look a bit taken back. Lila focused her flashing emerald eyes back on the young bartender and said, "Mate, don't know if you know this, but...if you're hiding the wherebouts of this ship or who's holding it, I can arrest you here and now." Jack rolled his eyes at the sound of Lila's queen voice. But being Pirate King now, he decided that now was a good time to put on a serious face, causing Rupert to start laughing.

"Wha' the bloody 'ell is wrong with you?" Jack said, in an outraged voice, as if someone had told him to marry the likes of Hector Barbossa.

"You look like you swallowed a cuttlefish, Jack." Rupert said, between laughs, causing Saphira to break out into another fit of laughter. Lila now started laughing, causing Will to have to bite his lip, trying so hard not to give in. Of course, Ana kept her cool and wasn't laughing at all...probably since she didn't care for Jack too much at the moment.

"I don't know where it is-"

"-are you too bloody drunk on grog to bloody tell me that you 'ave no idea in 'ell where the Empress is?" Jack said, allowing his chair to fall back on all fours. Saphira wrinkled her nose and said, "Grog?"

"It's rum diluted with water." Lila explained, causing Will to look at her with a confused expression. She made a face, and said, "What? You try growing up with the infamous Captain Jack Sparrow and telling me you don't know what it is."

"Listen, Master Chi-Chan-"

"-it's Wang-"

"-'Gain, tha's wha' I said." Jack said, clearly getting frustrated. Lila looked over at Saphira, and the two of them started laughing once more, causing Wang to make an annoyed face as he smoothed down his straight, jet black hair. "Where's the Empress?" Jack pulled out his sword as he stood up, and said, "I am not jokin' with you, mate."

Jack glanced over at Lila, who was whispering something to Will, causing him to laugh. Jack groaned, and hit the table, causing her to jump. She glanced at him, no doubt about to yell at him, and saw that his sword was out. She got off the table, and pulled out her own. Then, she looked back over at Jack who made a face as if to say, 'Say something'.

"Oh, um. Well...you best be telling us where it is, darling." Will made a face at how completely like Jack Lila sounded when she said that. "If you don't tell us, we'll have no choice but to either arrest you or send you to the locker, savvy?" Jack glanced over at Lila, temporarily distracted by that sentence before turning back to Wang and saying, "Yeah."

"Fine." He got up from his seat, causing Lila and Jack to take a step forward. One look at Will told him that he was highly amused by this whole situation. "I'll get my crew to lead you to it..." He walked over to the stairs and yelled up, "Oi! Show some leg, mates!" He then walked up the stairs.

"Excuse me?" Saphira said, once again in that same disgusted voice.

Lila smirked and said, "It means 'wake up', love." Saphira looked over at her best friend, and made an 'oh' look. She thought for a moment, before asking, "So, why didn't he just say wake up instead of saying that?"

"Because pirates are idiots." Was Rupert's reply. At that, Jack, Lila and Will all turned around to glare at Rupert. Rupert looked at all three of them, and smiled before putting his head on Ana's shoulder. Ana rolled her eyes, and looked at Saphie, shaking her head.

"Jack?"

"Hmm?" Jack winced when Lila elbowed him in the stomach, but followed her gaze anyway. Wang was outside, talking to the Royal Navy. Jack cautiously made his way over to the window, with Lila closely behind him. Once the two Sparrows made it to the window, they saw that the Navy was carrying the man that Jack had killed on to one of the ships.

"Jack, they'll know it's you-"

"-I don't understand 'ow-"

"-your bullets, Jack. Their not naval bullets." Lila said, looking up at Jack. Jack's chocolate eyes met her emeralds for a heart pounding second. Lila dropped her gaze, as she usually did when Jack looked at her now, since his gaze was so intense.

"Li?"

"Hmm?"

"I think we should go." Will said, getting out of his chair. Saphira, Ana and Rupert followed his action. Lila tugged Jack's arm and said, "He's right. They'll-"

"-alright, my crew is on the way." Wang said, clearly having come from the back door. Jack and Lila exchanged looks. She nodded, understanding, and glanced over at Will. He understood too, and nodded back at them, putting a hand on the top of his sword. "They said that they will be assisting you to find the Empress." Will took a slight step forward, going unnoticed by Wang. Lila stepped in the middle so that the three of them were in a V shape.

"1..."

"-so if you will follow me-"

"...2..."

"-I'll lead you to them-"

"...3!" All three of them lunged at Wang, who knew what they were doing. All at once windows busted, the door was kicked in and people came running down the stairs. Will disarmed Wang almost too quickly, and glanced up the stairs, "What the hell?"

"WILL!" Lila was grabbed by one of the naval men. Will dropped his sword, and pushed past some of the men to grab her, only to be restrained by some himself.

"Let me go!" Will screamed, struggling against the men's hold on him. He momentarily opened his eyes to see that Saphira, Ana, Rupert and Jack were the same as he and Lila. He looked over at Lila, to see her gaze was focused in the direction of the door. The sound of boots pounding against the wooded porch outside. Moments later, what was left of the door swung open to reveal Satan on earth.

His silver eyes were sparkling with something...something...no one could quiet place. The ends of his thin lips curved into a smile. Lila's heart seemed to stop when she came face to face with the man that had been there...had assisted in killing her mother. Saphira seemed to have the same affect Lila did, but that was for completely different reasons. Lila was looking into the face of a murderer. Saphira was looking into the face of the man that she believed to be her father.

He smiled that bone chilling smile, as he hissed, "Your Majesty."