Hello :P It is Wednesday and I am back with a new chapter this week! After rewatching the latest Pirates of The Caribbean the other day, I remembered I wrote this story. This introduces a relatively new character. I'll reveal more at the end but I have a soft spot for him and he is based off David, Phoebe's scientist boyfriend in Friends. He is also called David. I hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: I own Jordan, Lynne and David with AAML-TAML. I do not own Pirates of the Caribbean or The Little Mermaid or any of the characters which inspire Jordan and James' sailor pirate game :P

I smirked amusedly from the sofa as I watched the newest member of our little group adjust his glasses, his fingers tapping against his knee as he watched an entirely different scene. It was a typical day in the Morgan Mansion but not really typical for most groups of people. But that didn't matter. It was play time for the adults and everyone was in costume. It amused me but made my heart feel youthful and warm to see grown-ups full of such excitement.

As James swaggered across the room with his hands moving as he walked and his bandana tied firmly over his loose hanging locks, the intrigued David seemed to blush innocently and push his glasses further up his nose. He was at the edge of his seat and his fingers were now moving as if he was jotting down notes.

"Please explain to me again what exactly you are all doing?" he asked with excited curiosity as he moved even further on the edge of his seat if possible and gestured to James first. He then proceeded to move his hands away from the direction of the man who was dressed up as a pirate and gestured to the second man who was dressed up as a sailor. And finally, he pointed to where the only female of the game was dressed up as an interesting nautical combination. I giggled as after that, once again, his fingers resumed looking like they were jotting down notes. He sure was an intrigued and intriguing sort of fellow.

James stopped in his mock confident step and pretended to take a swig out of his rum bottle before rolling his eyes at David but not in an annoyed way. He broke character as he spoke to the male who had almost entered our group for good after they met him from being taken in by James' Grandparents, Noah and Josie.

"We're playing sailor pirate." He mumbled simply and with a shrug before entering character once again to engage in a play sword fight with Jordan. After they were done smirking and fooling around, James spoke to the ginger haired male again. "It's fun, me and Jordan invented it almost as soon as we became friends."

David nodded and smiled at the two inseparable almost brothers before running a hand through his curtain like hair.

"So what exactly is sailor pirate, if I might ask again?"

And so as James explained the game truthfully with Jordan's excited and ecstatic bursts of input, I thought to myself in my head what exactly it was.

It had appeared strange to me at first when these grown men started dressing up together and playing with one and other but then after a while, it just became the norm. And then it became quite plausible to me. James had always dressed up in Team Rocket. Jordan had been in the navy and had a horrible time of it so no wonder he wanted to make a game version and make it go how exactly he had dreamed it would. They had such fun on their own. And it became even more fun for them when their life partners and their children joined in. I giggled to myself as James finished talking. It was fun - except when Ash and Misty had a little too much fun with it and got too excited and headed off to a private room to make their game much more adult and intimate.

My brain went back to the present and saw James' nose scrunched up slightly and this led me to believe he was thinking the same as me. Neither of us had too much time to dwell on it because David had some more impressed questions. He stood up as he pondered.

"This is just so fascinating." He breathed out, taking off his glasses briefly to breathe hot air on them and clean them with the edge of his t shirt before putting them back on. "As a scientist, I can't help but wonder why exactly you enjoy this so much."

I nodded in agreement and as the ginger haired male sat back down, I hopped onto the back of the sofa to give him a shy nuzzle. I understood where he was coming from. He was a scientist and intrigued by almost every question of the world but especially what made people do and think the things they did. That wasn't even his job. Just a personal curiosity. But I knew that David's brain would think of those questions and answers from an academic perspective. I just wanted to know and understand and relate because I loved them. And if I was honest, I loved having David around too. He almost felt like home as well.

After breaking character once again (or not so much) and openly playfully flirting with Lynne who was dressed up along with the boys, James smirked very much his own smirk and put his sword away. He laughed to himself as he walked in his boots to stand in front of David as he sat on the sofa.

"I'm not really sure if a scientist is the one who could dig into why me and Jordan enjoy dressing up and playing sailor pirate so much." He mumbled to himself as he stroked his chin before letting out another laugh. "Maybe a psychiatrist could though. It almost definitely comes from childhood issues."

I couldn't help but smirk to myself at the many mixed reactions to James' words. David nodded his head sympathetically and stopped pestering for a moment. Lynne sniffed sadly to herself, knowing their unpleasant childhoods. Meanwhile, Jordan laughed heartily and shrugged. He definitely had one of the worst upbringings I had heard of but he remained so soft and giving. I admired my best friend's father in law deeply.

After the two boys poked each other with their sword props and made jokes and light about their hardships growing up and after Lynne did a fair amount of sniffing, the usually shy Jordan turned to the other shy male and beamed at him. He grinned at David.

"Sailor pirate isn't something to be understood. It's something to be experienced." He uttered, causing David's eyes to grow wider behind his glasses before pointing the tip of his sword at him. "You must join us."

David's eyes had been wide behind his glasses before but now they were blinking with surprise. He had been getting involved in the group for a while after they found out he was in the area searching for a potential long lost daughter but hadn't expected to be so welcomed. The lavender haired male blinked at his male best friend's surprisingly bold actions but mainly smiled with pride at him. Lynne's eyes filled with slight tears and I had to say that I wasn't really surprised.

She had known him since he was just eighteen years old. She had witnessed every single rise and every single painful fall of his. She had witnessed his cold family. She had escaped their lives in Johto to head to Kanto with him. They started a life together from scratch. They became parents together. They had done everything together since they first met. And it melted her heart that he had done even more growing since he came to earth and became a parent again and met his best friend in James.

The orange haired female nodded in agreement at her fiancé's words and sat almost shyly down next to the other ginger person in the room. If I wasn't mistaken, David seemed to pause and hesitate and even fluster at his answer when Lynne sat down next to him. But I pushed it aside as the spectacled male couldn't resist Jordan and James' charming grins.

Soon enough, he was decked up in nautical themed gear like the rest of them and like Ash and Misty had been before they got engaged (or entwined) in a game of their own. I couldn't take my eyes off David. Looking at him before, I could only imagine him as only a little dorky pirate or sailor and one used for comical effect. But with the help of Jordan and James and of course Lynne, he had been transformed. He looked highly realistic and even quite menacing. It didn't take even a second for the other three's characters to react to him as if he had always been a part of their crew.

James in character smirked at David and adjusted his bandana before getting up close to him so their noses were almost touching. He normally would've blushed but Pirate David sure didn't.

"So who be you, Mr Sir?" he asked for comical effect and exaggerated his usual pirate effect to try and test David's skills and make him laugh. It didn't work. In fact, it was everyone else who reacted when he got highly into the game and developed his character.

He pretended to stroke the parrot on his shoulder and feed it a peanut before scrunching his nose up and smirking at James' character.

"Hello matey." He uttered, copying the stereotypical pirate accent before giving something else a try and causing everyone including myself to get really into the game. "It is I. Pirate David. At your service."

Lynne clapped her hands together and beamed as the spectacled Pirate spoke in a very good French accent and pretended to bow at everybody. He continued talking in his act.

"The standards aboard your vessel seem lax. With a sophisticated French man on board, things will have to change."

You could tell by James' eyes that he was highly impressed by David diving right into things but he remained in the game. He narrowed his eyes and reached for his pirate hat to place over his bandana.

"My ship is just fine, thank you." He retorted with a curl of the lip before taking a step back to look at him up and down. "Captain Morgan here and I will not hesitate you toss you to the sharks."

Jordan broke character for just a second to giggle at his best friends words before clearing his throat and joining in the game effortlessly himself.

"That's my dear friend and almost brother you're talking to. And this is Captain Williams speaking of the Kanto Navy. The ship is indeed ship shape."

I got so absorbed in the game that I just watched, not glancing at the clock once. After introductions and mock pirate stand offs, the game resumed. David broke out of his magnificent character as they were all pretending to sail along a waterfall. It was quite a shock to hear his normal accent again.

"So why exactly are they at the edge of a waterfall risking their lives?" he asked, his real life hesitant side taking over, causing to James to be the one to break his own character to explain to him.

"We're trying to break a curse so we're breaking into King Triton's cavern to steal his trident."

Jordan hummed a sailor song in concentration as he pretended to row their cardboard boat, not breaking character while David and James did. The orange haired male blinked all the more.

"What curse are they breaking exactly?"

Lynne was pretending to swim on the floor next to the boat and didn't have the heart to break character and sigh at him but Jordan did. I smirked. He always was the blunt one, after all. James half nodded in agreement but still felt happy to explain their little story to him.

"The curse which has separated Captain William's daughter also known as Princess Misty, and her Prince Ash, of course. Long ago she was a mermaid who fell in love with a human. She sold her voice to be able to share both sea and land with her only love. But since, the deal has gone wrong. And she has been confined to land and he is lost at sea. A dreadful thing seeing as he is always drowning."

I couldn't help but smirk slightly with fondness that Ash and Misty's favourite movie and the real life issue of my best friend's constant drowning at been entwined. David just breathed out in awe at the group's creative skills and was about to get back into character when Jordan did first.

He pretended to gasp and raise his telescope to his eye before dropped it and using his hand to protect his eyes from the sun. He squinted.

"Look at where the sunset is touching the water. We are near." He mumbled matter of factly before absentmindedly dipping his hand into the water (carpet).

James – or Captain Morgan – furrowed his brow curiously before picking up the telescope that his brother had just dropped. He gasped after scanning it around and moved to climb onto the back of the sofa. He pointed down.

"Look down the edge, my friend!" he gasped again, his hand moving to clutch onto Jordan's bulging arm in his sailor uniform. He nodded his head in agreement. "We indeed are here. But no doubt the cavern is way below there. We could lose everything trying to search for it."

Jordan looked at his real life and pretend best friend with very real emotion filled eyes as he held onto him back.

"Are you saying it's not worth it? Is my daughter not worth it?" he pondered aloud, causing James to give him a soft and equally real smile.

"Daughters are always worth it." He mumbled with truth in his voice and I wondered to myself whether he had given his character offspring too. He had to have done. There was a softness in his eyes that couldn't be faked. James was about to speak again but he didn't. I looked at David and noticed he had gone slightly quiet but flustered at the conversation of daughters being worthy. He went in and out of characters as he spoke in an almost nervous tone.

He peeked over from the back of the sofa where the three boys were crouching on and clutching onto one and other, pretending to be at the top of a waterfall. David's brow furrowed as he looked at Lynne swimming on the floor.

"Hey… Thingy…" he trailed off, half mumbling when he realised he didn't know the name that the orange haired female had given her character. He blushed slightly as he looked at her but continued. "What are you doing down there?"

She almost broke character to respond when she thought she might be getting asked for real but she couldn't help but answer in character. She gave him a determined but graceful smile.

"I often swim alongside their boat when they're searching for wonderful things. I enjoy it and so do they. I'm the instinct that led them to locating Triton's cavern at this very moment."

David nodded his head but didn't smile back, going back into character and pretended to briefly peek under the water. When he went back to crouching, he went back to being Scientist David.

"Are you a mermaid?" he asked curiously, adjusting his glasses and proving that he was very much his real self. He stopped doing that when he was Pirate David. Weird. But adorable.

"Both." She uttered back with a smirk before realising how that sounded, stopping her little swimming motions and almost breaking character herself. "I'm exactly half and half. I fell in love with a pirate and a sailor and I am a mermaid and a pirate. They wouldn't have gotten out of half their messes without me. I use my senses well in the water and fight pretty great on land. All round winner, me."

She spoke playfully but I saw something change behind his eyes. It wouldn't have surprised me if he agreed with her words. She really was a winner, in every single way. But it was more than that. His eyes seemed to soften just like how Captain Morgan and Williams' did when they spoke of their daughters.

I didn't have time to ponder. The two Captains spoke. James and Jordan were very much in their game.

James gritted his teeth, pretending to break away from the steering wheel to peek further over the edge. He looked genuinely concerned.

"We're so close, mate, I can see it. But there's sharks everywhere. We need a distraction."

Jordan was about to open his mouth when Lynne didn't hesitate to go back into character. She pretended to be a decoy and swim around the beautiful and clear ocean to distract the sharks and protect her boys. They worked so well together that I forgot it was one human and two angels.

Jordan blew a very real kiss to the even realer love of his life before getting a plan at the same exact time as his Captain buddy. They nodded their heads and smirked. They began to pretend to lower the giant anchor, hoping to use it as almost a pulley to fetch the trident while the sharks were distracted. I smirked too. It made me wonder if they or their kids enjoyed those youthful movies more. So many elements and storylines made their way into their games. I was sad Ash and Misty were missing it.

David briefly went back into character and ordered his parrot to assist with the boys and their anchor in a perfect French accent before his eyes went back to Lynne. He went from exotic David to thoughtful David so very fast. He watched as Lynne's characters pirate side took over and she brutally stabbed the sharks for the benefit of her boys and more importantly, her daughter.

As she moved to man the boat while the two other men pretended to lower themselves down to the sea bed on the giant anchor, David's eyes softened all the more. I didn't work out why. And I would kick myself for it years later.

"So what is your name?" he asked softly, starting off in a French accent but trailing off to his normal one and causing Lynne to wrinkle her nose shyly and laugh. She broke character.

"How long have you been in this group?" she pondered with gentle amusement, absentmindedly plaiting her hair. "You know my name is Lynne."

David blushed slightly at the confusion of his words before giving her a smile back. His was wistful as he corrected himself. He corrected the situation by going back to being Pirate David.

"But what is your name?" he asked again, showing he was asking her in character with his accent and not pushing his glasses further up his nose.

Lynne went back to character but she continued plaiting her hair and scrunched her nose up once again.

"Lynne. My name is Lynne."

I heard David breathe her name out quietly to himself and nod, breaking his character by pushing his glasses further up his nose before getting back into it. It was becoming his armour.

"Lynne means waterfall." He mumbled softly, continuing to nod his head as if he was running a few things by and fitting things together. Looking back, that was definitely him being his true self. "And David is a star."

The orange haired female nodded her head this time and continued playing with her hair, her own expression changing and matching the same wistful one as David's. She continued nodding.

"I always thought of my dad as a bit of a star." She mumbled quietly, his cheeks suddenly flushing at the mention of fatherhood. I should have put it together then. "I never knew him, but I've felt his presence. The life he would have wanted to have. The life he would have wanted me to have. Maybe he was called David."

I glanced over at Jordan and James and I saw that they were busy in their game. I didn't have time to smirk as, when I glanced back, David had clumsily fallen onto the bottom of the sofa. I wasn't sure whether it was real or in the game. Neither did Lynne. But she quickly linked her hand to his to pull him up. She tried pulling him up from the sofa cushions. In the game, she tried pulling him up from falling over the edge of the waterfall.

It was in that moment that I suddenly saw the scene from Jordan and James' eyes and not how I had been watching it before. I was in the game.

I saw the boat on the edge of the crashing water. I saw the cavern and clear deep water below. I saw the massive anchor that Jordan and James were holding onto. I saw Lynne's face become wet with tears and David's face become wet with water as he did his best to hold on.

Jordan and James gasped, hoping the parrot would be somehow strong enough to tug the anchor back to the ship and for them to grab Lynne and David on the way. That was unrealistic, even for their game. But something very real was going on.

Lynne and David were almost in a game of their own as she gripped onto his hand and looked over him. It was almost as though she was seeing him for the first time. His soft and introverted face. His curtain like hair. His brown glasses. His hair the exact shade as hers. Her breath hitched in her throat. She tried to pull him up with all of her strength and the wind from the waves caused his sleeve to roll up to his bicep.

The orange haired female stopped looking at David's face. She was looking into his eyes but not even paying attention to what colour they were. She was looking at the truth in them. She felt unsure. But she felt home. She licked her lips to speak before her eyes dropped to looking at his sleeve. She let out a loud gasp, causing James and Jordan to look over what they were doing from on the opposite sofa. They soon went back to playing. Lynne didn't. I didn't.

Her head jerked as she saw his arm. He had a tattoo as plain as plain could be. He had a name tattooed. Not just any name. It was her name. I shook my head as hard as I could but I still couldn't get the waterfall and the imaginary scenery out of my head. I looked again at the same time as Lynne but I was still seeing the tattoo. We both shut our eyes and opened them again. When our orbs adjusted to the light, it was still there. But what was there even more was the truthful glow in David's eyes and the look deep inside them.

Lynne shook her head in disbelief and her eyes filled with tears. The sea floor transformed to one filled with every treasure on the planet as Jordan and James cried out that word as they imagined it. Lynne didn't even bother to imagine it. She was staring down at David as she gripped onto his hand tighter than ever. After her mouth hung open and her eyes filled with tears, she shook her head. She whispered with disbelief but a feeling of understanding already.

"What… What am I to you?" she asked, her orbs moving from the orange haired male's face to back down at her name on his arm before focusing on his eyes.

David offered her a smile and she felt home. She felt that star that she believed was up above right in front of her face. He looked at her with softness and honesty.

"Treasure." He whispered emotionally and instead of letting go of her hand, he held it tighter than ever before uttering with even more truth. "You're everything."

And that was that. That was the moment that Lynne discovered that David did indeed have a long lost daughter. It was her. She had spent so long feeling like a part of her was missing and that got filled in when she fell in love with Jordan and later when she became one with James. She didn't realise there was something else. She thought she was complete. And she was. But then David came into her life. And she was home. Her star had been found. Father and daughter had been reunited. His treasure was in his hands. And he wasn't going to ever let it go.

The End.

There you go! Thanks so much for reading and I hope you enjoyed! So yeah, David is Lynne's father. I didn't write any specific ages for this one because I'm unsure whether I want Lynne to meet him and he's alive and his real age or if he is an angel like her and able to go back to whichever age he likes. I'm also unsure how they meet. I wrote another one where James meets David because he's in town and came to one of his clothing line events and gets to know he's looking for his long lost daughter that way. In this one, he's been taken in by James' Grandparents because they're so hospitable and take in people and Pokemon. So that's how he gets introduced to the group :P David is a character I love but he's still a little underdeveloped. What we do know, however, is that he's very clever and smart and fascinated by people. He has a little soft spot for James and Jordan because they are so charming, and ends up with Cameron's father who I haven't written about yet. I'm sure you'll get to know more about all this in the future :P Thanks again and I'll be back some Wednesday so see you then!

AmyBieberKetchum signing out :3