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He tipped the bottle and one drop of the purple-red liquid fell through the air to the waves below. There was an immediate flash of red and the Pearl jolted forwards and down. My head spun as everything went out of focus for a second. The sea swirled in different shades of purple for a moment before dissolving into a rich blue. The horizon around us was empty; both ships that had been heading towards us had evaporated.

"Jack," I fumed. "What the hell did you do that for?"

He widened is eyes in an attempt to look as innocent as possible. There were many things my husband was, but innocent was seldom one of them. "To get away from them. Which is what we wanted was it not?"

"Can they follow us?" Marty asked, looking terrified. Jack shrugged.

"Possibly, if they have some of this stuff from Indigo," he shook the bottle at us. I relaxed.

"Well, surely Indigo wouldn't give any to them after giving it to us… she's on our side, isn't she?" I doubted myself after studying Jack's expression.

"Indigo doesn't have a side. Indigo just… is," he said as if that was any kind of explanation.

"Is what?" I asked.

"Is Indigo."

This was making no sense. I shook my head, "So… she could have given them some?"

He nodded, "Yes, if they came looking for it."

"Then what did you do? You know they'll only follow us in," I took a step towards him and I could see him physically trying to stop himself from taking one backwards. "Or if they don't have any they'll just wait for us to come out."

"Well… if they do come in we'll be much further ahead of them, love, and by the time they do catch up we'll have found the Fountain and they won't be able to stop us."

"Um… Captain… "Gibbs cut in. We both looked at him. It was the first time I had noticed how odd the lighting was here. The lights twist and shimmered on Gibbs's face. He kept glancing upwards. High above our heads was a layer of sea water about three feet thick. Dark shapes swam above us, but they were too far above for me to work out what they were. There was a moment of silence. Everyone was looking up. I could almost taste the uncertainty and apprehension.

"What the…" I breathed.

"Where are we?" Ragetti asked in a small voice. "What's… up there?"

"That up there is the New World, our world, "Jack muttered with distaste. "That's what's up there. The world that sees things the way they appear and seldom looks at the magic beneath the surface."

"That still doesn't answer the question of where we actually are," said Gibbs tentatively.

"Beneath the surface," Jack replied simply.

"What if it… falls down on us?" Pintel asked. It was a fair point and I felt the panic rise.

Jack rolled his eyes, "Impossible."

"And where are we headed?" Gibbs pressed, as the rest of us exchanged nervous glances. Jack shrugged. I almost hit him. I probably should have. He saw the look I was giving him.

"I'll check the Charts," he said, pulling them out. The crew were still looking terrified and glanced upwards at the layer of sea which was miles above us and stretched out to the edge of the horizon, much like the sky did normally. I watched Jack twist the Charts. He frowned and looked up. "According to this, we have to sail into The Abyss."

The word sent a shiver up my spine. Gibbs paled. "We can't do that, Cap'n… that's….impossible..."

"I wish you lot would stop using that word," Jack huffed. "We're in a place where anything impossible in the New World is possible, but some things that are possible up there are impossible down here, except from those things that are possible in both places… savvy?"

"No… no, not really…" Pintel frowned. I rolled my eyes.

"Hang on," I said and went and got the copy of 'The Legends of a Lost People'. "This might have a better explanation."

"Doubt it," Jack huffed. I shot him a deadly look as I flicked through.

"There are two types of Laws in the world- the Laws of Science and the Laws of Magic," I read aloud. "The two often conflict and can rarely co-exist, with the Laws of Magic being far more complex and changing than those of Science. Science limits Magic, but in the Triangle- where Magic rules- the Laws of Science are completely redundant and things that according to Science cannot exist or happen will be prevalent. Things created by the Laws of Science will cease to function properly in the Triangle, so that the Magic will be kept safe. The Triangle of Bermuda protects the Magic to such an extent that often things from the New World will disappear when sailing through it. In order to reduce the threat of Science things or people that enter from the New World will age more quickly and-"

I stopped and looked up. I felt ill. Jack frowned at me, "What? What's wrong?"

I stared back down at the page willing it to be some kind of joke, perhaps something I had imagined. But no, there it was, plain as day. I picked up from where I'd left off, "-and one day inside the Triangle will be the equivalent to one month outside of it and things from the New World will age accordingly."

I stopped again and looked at Jack. He still hadn't got it. He still didn't understand. "So what? The Fountain of Youth will make us immortal. What difference does losing a few months make?"

"Jack… I'm pregnant."

"I know this."

"I'm three months pregnant."

"I know this too."

"Our baby is due in six months." I said. He nodded, not quite seeing where I was going with this. "For every day I'm down here my body will age a month."

"Yes…?"

How the hell had he not got this yet?

"Jack… Down here… our baby is due in six days."

"Fuck."


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