The Atlantisians had split us up into groups and given us rooms to sleep in, but they had made it clear that we were to leave as soon as possible. I think they took pity on me and Jack because of the baby. For that I was grateful, but I couldn't help feeling uneasy. Why were there so many children here and hardly any adults? What had happened to them all?

The door shut behind Isaacio and I let out a deep breath. Without realising it, I had been holding in a lot of tension. I felt sick. Jack immediately wrapped his arms around me. I held him tight. He kissed the part of my neck that his face was buried in to. I relaxed into him. He lifted his head from my shoulder and kissed me, running his hand along my jawline. Jack pulled me over to the small bed in one corner of the room and we sat down. I felt him smile through our kiss.

He was comforting, but I still felt unsettled. I pulled back and looked at him. "Jack, what are we going to do?" I sighed.

"It's okay, love," he whispered. "It's okay. We'll get to the Fountain and then we'll get out of here. Quick as we can."

He moved in to kiss me again, but I pulled away from him. "Are you joking?"

His eyes widened. "Er… no." I stared at him in disbelief. "We've come so far. I've seen the Fountain. You don't think we can just turn back now."

"Jack, they've told us, explicitly, to stay away from the Fountain. They obviously don't want us here."

"Belle," he smiled, sensing my frustration and trying to charm his way out of it. "We're pirates, love, We'll do what we do best. Who cares what they say?"

His hand slipped behind my head in an effort to pull my lips back to his, but I pushed him off. "I care, Jack. They're the ones letting us stay here. If we're not welcome here, I'm not pushing our luck."

"Will you relax?" he was getting a little irritable.

"No."

"Why are you being so…"

"So what?" I challenged. "Hmm? Concerned for our safety? We're having a baby in a matter of days, in case you'd forgotten!"

"Of course I hadn't forgotten! Why do you think that I'm doing all this?" he snapped. "I want us to be forever. You, me and the baby. I can't lose either of you. I won't."

"And if they kill us for trying to reach the Fountain? What then? Surely, it's safest to do what they want us to," I was almost pleading with him. "I just want us to be safe."

"So do I! I'm just thinking about our long-term safety. There's not much that's safer than Immortality, love." I wasn't convinced and that was clearly written all over my face. He was reaching the end of his tether. "I am doing this for us."

It was increasingly beginning to feel as if I were talking to a brick wall. "Are you?"

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"I'm not sure this has ever been about us, Jack. Not completely," I stood up. There was an outraged silence. I felt myself tear up. I didn't want to have this argument, I was sick of it. But I was also tired, irritable, uncomfortable and fed up of not being listened to. "How many times have I told you I've thought this was a bad idea? And you just carried on regardless!"

"Well why didn't you just leave then?" he snapped. We stared at each other in shock. I could see immediately that he regretted what he'd said. I knew him well enough to know that his pride in a heated argument would prevent him from apologising. Still, I waited. Nothing.

"Fine," I said curtly. I turned my back on him and stormed out of the room, slamming the door behind me. I heard a crash from inside as Jack threw something in anger. I exhaled and shut my eyes, feeling hot, angry tears burning behind my eyelids. I wiped them away.

"Is the room not to your liking?" Isaacio's pleasant tones made me jump. I opened my eyes again. He had a wide smile fixed on his face. I felt like it was supposed to be friendly, but something about it… wasn't. I shuddered involuntarily. My smile back was shaky.

"No… no, it's lovely…" I stammered, sure that he had heard our whole argument. "It's just…"

"Your husband?" his smile became a knowing one, confirming that he had been listening this whole time. I nodded.

"Erm… yeah… something like that."

"I understand," he nodded. "Come with me, we'll get you another room, just for tonight." I hesitated. He put his hand between my shoulder blades. "We'll look after you, come on."

I went with him, slightly reluctantly, to a smaller room on the floor above the room that had been intended for Jack and I. It was a little shabbier, but looked comfortable enough. "Thank you." I smiled.

"That's alright. Goodnight."

"Goodnight," I nodded as he shut the door behind him. Silence. I sat down for a moment on a strange bed in a strange room hidden away in a small room in a Lost City, feeling a bit alone. I still felt sick with worry and decided that sleep was probably the best thing for me. Even if it would bring tomorrow closer, at least sleep would give me a moment's peace.

I stood up and blew out the candles around the room. I climbed in to the small single bed and lay there. It was only half-dark because the curtains in my room were worn and some faint light from outside seeped in. Everything around me was silent and still. I missed my bed on the Pearl. I missed the sea rocking me to sleep and I missed the lullaby of the waves. Above all, I missed Jack. It was cold in a bed without him.

It took me a long time to fall asleep. When I eventually managed to sleep, I felt like my eyes had only been shut for a minute before I was stirred by raised voices in the hallway outside. I opened my eyes briefly, but felt too tired and heavy to move or sustain a great level of awareness. I didn't even hear my door open, but I felt someone pull the covers. This pulled me slightly further away from the edge of sleep. I stirred as I felt someone crawl in beside me. I raised my head from the pillow.

"It's only me, love," Jack's voice whispered.

"Jack," I said groggily as he wrapped his arms around me. I rested my head on his chest as we squished up in a single bed.

"I couldn't sleep," he murmured. "Not without you."

"Love you," I said, feeling sleep wash over me again.

"I love you too," he said. I felt his lips on my forehead before I dropped off to sleep again.

When we awoke it was to the sound of absolute chaos. A bell tolled somewhere deep in the city. I thought I could hear gunfire. Shouts and screams came from all around us and footsteps thundered outside our room. Jack sprang out of bed. I sat up. My heart raced. "What's going on?"

At that moment Marty burst through the door, his eyes were wild and wide. "Capt'n, come quick!"

"Marty! What is it?" I asked as Jack grabbed his pistol.

"George," he said. "And he's got Barbossa with him."