Chapter Six: Long Forgotten

Jack sat silently by his brother's side looking intently at his twin praying that he would be okay.

It had been almost two days since James had opened his eyes.

"Why won't he wake up?" Jack asked aloud as tears began to form in his eyes. He couldn't live without his brother, whatever happened James had always been there, he had to keep being there. "You can't have him, you hear me?" Jack said furiously as the tears spilled down his face. "You will not take him from me!"

Jack Sparrow stood silently outside the door of the room they had acquired on their arrival in Tortuga, listening to his namesake. If someone had told him 26 years ago that he would be involved in the lives of someone else's children he would have given up his title as craziest man alive.

He, captain of the Black Pearl, was not a children person, he couldn't stand them. But with the Turner's it was different. Perhaps their dysfunctional family reminded him of his own. He didn't think about his family often, if at all. He wasn't a person who dwelled on meaningless things like family and love. It didn't ever get him anywhere.

His ears perked up though when he heard a large bang.

"Jesus Christ James!" Jack yelled scrambling up off the floor where he fell.

James blinked a few times and focused on his twin who was standing over him staring intently at him.

"What happened?" James asked hoarsely.

"I don't know, you fell and-" Jack couldn't say anymore, it hurt to think about it so he turned around and tried to find the cup of water he'd had earlier.

"Is Travis Grant gone?" James asked slowly stretching his arms and legs.

"No," Jack said finding the cup and bringing it over to his brother. "Drink it,"

James gratefully took the cup and slowly sipped it as his twin filled him in.

"Grants been up to something, Captain Sparrow's been trailing him around, apparently he's been collecting money from most of the businesses and whore houses. Sparrow thinks it's either debt money or their paying him to keep quiet about something."

"Why would he think that?" James asked.

"Because Sparrow got tipped from a source that Grant had given plans out about the Royal Navy's latest pursuit."

"What's that?"

"I don't know, Sparrow wouldn't say, all he told me was that it wasn't good for us."

"Meaning?"

"Pirates,"

"Oh," James said dully.

"I know, another reason for us to get out of it while we can," Jack said voicing James's exact thoughts.

"But, we can't leave him," James said softly.

"Yes we can,"

"He's the reason we're still alive Jack, do you think dad would've, excuse me COULD have taken care of us?"

"YES."

"Then why did she make us leave? She loved us like her own and she wouldn't have ever-"

"I don't want us to die!" Jack said suddenly. James was silent. "More now then ever do I want us to get the hell out of piracy because this isn't what anyone wants. Alaina would've wanted us to be safe, dad would want us to throw out what he's done and be great people James!"

James lay there staring at his brother in awe. In the past minute it sounded as if their personalities had swapped.

"I just," Jack continued fighting the tears that threatened to come. "I was so sacred you were dying, I don't want us to end like that, and if living our lives that way Alaina and dad wanted means we have to screw over Jack Sparrow then so be it!"

Jack frowned as he heard this. Those two weren't mutinous, they just wanted to fulfill the dreams the people that they loved the most had for them. And Jack Sparrow wasn't going to fault them for that. He listened only for a moment more before shuffling off, his heart heavy.

Damn it if I'm going to let my feelings get in the way of their lives," Jack muttered as he made his way down the stairs. He didn't realize how much they meant to him until that very moment when he knew they planned on leaving. "I need some rum," He said making his way to the bar.

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A/N: Uhh….sorry? I know its not a great chapter and I apologize for the shortness, but you should RE-READ CHAPTER FIVE, I CHANGED IT and its really kinda important to understand how the twins ended up with Jack.

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