Author: Vampirerex1
Category: Movies - Pirates Of The Caribbean.
Disclaimer: I do not own POTC, just this OC and this plot (The rest of it belongs to the writers of POTC)
Genre(s): Romance/Suspense
Pairing(s): Maccus/OC
Rating: M
Summary: Emily Francis is alone in the world, living with Hammerhead sharks, she's found she can live both on land and in the sea. But what happens when she meets Maccus again, who is the boy with her, and how will Maccus adapt to family life? Rated M for later chapters
Title: Same Difference: Returning Home
Warning(s): None

TO UNDERSTAND THIS STORY, PLEASE READ SAME DIFFERENCE BEFORE THIS ONE...THANK YOU!

Epilogue: A Mother's Prerogative

Ten more years had passed and now Toby was an adult and my little Scarlet was really growing up. She was also a pain in the backside, always climbing up the rigging and doing things that gave poor Maccus a heart attack at times. Not to mention the crew were often trying to stop her from doing these things because they knew how protective Maccus was of his only daughter. I was sat on the side of the ship, watching the waves as we sped through them a hand on my now scarred stomach. During the ten years after Scarlet was born, The Dutchman got into a gunfight and some of the crew from the other ship had boarded us, I'd taken a sword to the stomach protecting my children and thank the lord or whatever that I healed pretty quickly, but I knew I'd never be able to have children again. Every day I spent as much time with Toby and Scarlet as I could, one day I knew that Scarlet or Toby would want to leave The Dutchman and I knew that one day I'd have to leave them. I sighed as I heard feet coming up behind me.

"Ye be alright mam?" A voice asked.

I smiled slightly as I heard the deep voice of Toby and I turned around to see him stood there, he looked just like his father and I knew that soon enough his head would probably take on the same hammerhead shape as his father's had.

"I'm fine Toby, just...feeling old" I replied.

Toby chuckled and came up to me, wrapping his arms around me.

"Ye nay be old mam, ye don' look a day over one and seven" he said.

I chuckled too and pulled him into a hug shaking my head.

"Toby, you're my son, you don't have to give me compliments" I stated.

The young man pulled back and smiled at me before he pressed a kiss to my head.

"Aye I don't need to, but I be wantin' to" he said.

I felt my lips quirk up a bit and then I jumped down from the edge and looked around.

"Where's your sister?" I asked.

Toby pointed towards the bow of the ship with his lobster encased hand.

"Uncle Niko is watching her" he replied.

I nodded and walked over towards the bow, the wound on my stomach had healed, but it still caused a bit of pain every now and again. Not to mention the fact that I now had barnacles around my body in various places. I really was looking like one of the crew now. As soon as I came to the bow, I smiled as I saw that Koleniko was playing with Scarlet, it seemed he was playing peek-a-boo with her. However, I could see that Koleniko was making sure that he was showing a little bit to help Scarlet to find him, I had to chuckle.

"That's cheating" I said.

The young girl turned towards me and smiled.

"Mommy!" She called.

She ran over to me and I picked her up to give her a cuddle. The girl smiled slightly before she pouted. I always hated it when she pouted, because not only did she look like me anyway, but when she pouted she looked even more like me.

"What's the matter Scar?" I asked.

The little girl pointed to the first mate's cabin and I raised an eyebrow, what could she possibly be saying by pointing at Maccus' cabin?

"What?" I asked again.

Scarlet sighed.

"Daddy hasn't come out of his room today" she replied.

I felt a frown come over my face and I put her down.

"Go play with Uncle Niko" I said.

She nodded and then I walked into the First Mate's cabin, looking at Maccus and Davy who were huddled over a piece of paper. Both of them seemed to be a mixture of angry and worried. It wasn't the anger that worried me, it was the worry etched on their faces that gave me a tingle down my spine and made my heart beat faster in fear.

"What's going on?" I asked.

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A/N: OMG I AM SO SORRY! I know it's been a very, very long time and I'm sorry that this chapter is so short. But...because it's the Epilogue I don't want to give away too much for the next story. I hope you have all enjoyed the two stories that I have posted so far, it's been so long since I've updated this story that it was quite hard to get back into the swing of things here. Anyway...there WILL be a sequel to this story but because of other stories it might not be up until some when in 2016 though it MIGHT be earlier. Again...people still reviewed in my long absence and there is a lot of thanking to do...so on with the thanking and such.

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