The curse of the Black Pearl: Jack and Lily Sparrow , siblings forever

5

CHAPTER 5:)

Lily sighed and started thinking about when she and Jack were young, living in the lap of luxery in, ironically, Port Royal. She was always playing with boys and getting in trouble for it. People thought she had a problem but Lily liked playing with boys because they were tough. Girls were so prissy and snotty, for some reason boys weren't. Maybe it was because they didn't wear flashy dresses and jewelry...

'I could have used a friend like Elizabeth back then. Maybe that's why we clicked instantly...she needed me when she was little and I needed her...' Lily thought curiously. Then she looked down on the deck and decided she calmed down enough to help Jack and the whelp, whom she refused to call by name.

"When I was a lad living in England , my mother raised me by herself. After she died, I came out here, looking for my father." Will was saying. Lily sighed and knew where this was going.

"Is that so?" Jack muttered.

"My father, Will Turner. Lily only agreed to help me because I told her my name, you two knew my father didn't you?" Will asked.

"Yeah we knew him. He went by Bootstrap or Bootstrap Bill most of the time though. He was a good man, very good pirate." Lily smiled.

"I swear you look just like him." Jack added.

"My father wasn't a pirate...he was a merchant sailor. A good, respectable man who obeyed the law." Will snapped.

"Hewas a pirate, a scallywag." Jack replied impatiently.

"My father was NOT a pirate." Will drew his sword and instantly Lily had her swordto his neck.

"Do...not...threaten...my...brother."She growled.

"Put it away luv, you too Turner." Jack said, "It's not worth you getting beat again."

"You didn't win. You ignored the rules of engagement. In a fair fight, I'd killed you." Will replied angrily. He saw Lily put his sword away so she mentally sighed with relief. He didn't want to hurt her nor did he want her to hurt him.

"Then that's not much incentive for me to fight fair, then, is it?"Jack swung around a sail and it hit Will and knocked him overboard but Will grabbed it before he could fall.

"Now that you're just hanging there pay attention," Lily said.

"The only rules out here are these-what a man can do and what a man can't do." Jack added.

"Us for instance, we could let you drown." smirked Lily. The thought kind of enthused her but she pushed it back.

"But we can't sail into Tortuga all by our onesy, savvy?" Jack said swinging the sail back. He put Will's sword on Will's chest and added, "So can you sail under the command of pirates...or can't you?"

Will looked confused for a moment but then took his sword back and said, "Tortuga?"

"Tortuga." Jack mimicked.

"Alright..." Will said. He honestly wasn't paying attention to Jack, he was looking at Lily. Who was tieing up something on the sails. 'Why am I feeling like this? Don't I love Elizabeth?' Will thought confused. In his heart he was wishing and hoping Elizabeth loved him but in his head he was feeling something for this attractive woman pirate. She was everything he wasn't. Firey, wild, unpredictable, untameble like the sea...plus she loved to sail.

Meanwhile Lily was thinking both of Will and of her parents. Will reminded her of Bootstrap who reminded her of her father. When she and Jack were captains of the Black Pearl Bootstrap almost became her second father. He always watched out for her until the mutiny...then he betrayed her. Just like her mother did when she was little.

"Lily, could I talk to ye?" Jack asked coming up to her.

"What?"

"Maybe you could...open up...to Turner." Jack said uncertainly.

"Why!"

"Well he's a good man...good sailor and just like his father. You seemed to enjoy his fathers company." Jack replied knowingly.

"Jack, Bootstrap almost became another father. You know that. I know that. Will is to young to become another father. And I don't want him to be anything." Lily growled. She did not need her brother giving her advice, especially since she always gave advice to him. Which by the way he never took.

"Alright. But sooner or later you'll need to open up to someone sides me." Jack said walking away to take the wheel.

'Does he want me to open up to Will? I thought he didn't like Will very much.' Lily thought confused. Then she sighed and climbed back up the mast. Nightime was coming and she wanted to fall asleep close to the stars and the moon.

"Jack i'm turning in!" She shouted. Jack waved his hand in dismissel so Lily smiled and layed down in the crows nest.

Will watched her climb up the mast and wondered how many times she'd done that before. Then he decided to go say good night to her. He climbed the mast and looked into the crows nest quietly.

"What do you want Will?" Lily asked suddenly, scaring Will out of his wits.

"How did you know it was me?" He asked clutching his chest.

"You make a lot of noise. And besides if you were Jack you would have climbed up and snatched my blanket away." Lily giggled.

"I was just coming up to say good night, so good night." Will said sheepishly. He was about to leave but a nagging question blurted out of his mouth before he could stop it, "What happened to your parents?"

Lily narrowed her eyes and said, "Our father died of a disease from Africa and our mother died of a broken heart."

Will nodded and said, "Was your father a pirate?"

"Yeah, he was a damn good one too." Lily said proudly. "He taught me and Jack everything he knew before he died. But when he died Jack and I decided to take up the family buisness, so to speak." She didn't know why she was blurting out everything about her past but it came so easily.

"Why are you and Jack so proud of pirating? It's stealing, lieing and cheating." Will asked curiously.

"Yes it's all that but it's also freedom." Lily explained. "When you get on a ship you can go wherever you want in the world, do whatever you want and say whatever you want. Wether it be a merchant ship or a pirate ship. Sailors everywhere feel it when they step onto a ship. Freedom. The wind, the sea, the wide open skies."

"I never thought of it like that." Will murmered.

"Most never do. They think ships are just transports from one country to the next. But pirates, and most merchant sailors, feel the same way Jack and I do." Lily sighed.

"You're quite an amazing woman do you know that?" Will chuckled. He bowed as best he could then climbed down the mast.

"I am?..." Lily whispered after he left.