My final chapter! Okay okay so it Isn't so long, but I don't think it needed to be, it just needed to end right and I think its ended properly :D Sorry for the wait guys, been on holiday! hopefully it was worth it though! ignore the spelling and grammar mistakes and don't forget to review. Peace out! Until next time. (Thinking of writing another Sparrabeth fic, but that won't materialize until after I come back from holiday,(Yess another, but this time its Wales.))

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Jack sat perfectly still staring at the compass.

"Cap'n? Do we have a headin'?" Jack tilted the compass this way and that. "Cap'n?" Jack put away the compass and collapsed with his head in his hands. Gibbs stopped rowing. "Ya know, Jack… aint no use in runnin' away from something to can't fight off." Jack didn't move.

"I know." He sighed with a tone of irritation, he had never particularly liked it when Gibbs was right and he was wrong. "Well, should I?" Jack asked, raising his head and glancing at Gibbs.

"It be your call Jack, but never have I seen a man once resist love once he's fallen." Jack could feel something nagging and pulling at his heart.

"Oh bugger it all, turn about."

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Elizabeth had stopped crying. She told herself she was stupid for crying over such things and that she was stronger than any weeping lady any day. She sat in deep concentration figuring out her best coarse of action. It was a fishing port, which meant all the fishermen would come back in the morning and hopefully free her, then, from the port she would run to an island in the Caribbean and start a new life of sorts.

"At least I know he wouldn't run off and leave me." She admitted. Elizabeth looked back at the Pearl, waiting for it to drift off to the horizon and out of sight. She huffed loudly. "Bloody pirates." She murmured and stared down at the ground. A shadow cast over where she was looking.

"You are just as much a pirate as me love." Elizabeth sat up straight at watched his expression.

"You came back." She said, quite innocently. Jack studied her face, trying to predict her reaction to his return, but as ever she was unpredictable.

"If…" Jacks eyes began to wonder around the scene, avoiding her completely. "If… I unlock the shakes will you promise me three things."

"Depends what they are? Name your terms."

"You don't slap me, you accept an honest apology from an dishonest man, and comebackwithme."

"What, I didn't get the last bit?"

"I said, come back with…me?"

"No." Jack wasn't expecting that answer. "I don't see what's left for me aboard your ship, I can have a completely new life else where. Why do you want me back on the Pearl Jack? I might murder you again.

"You might not and have a relationship of sorts with me."

"And be known as the Captain's wench?" Elizabeth gasped in disbelief.

"Well you could, you know."

"What?"

"You know…"

"What!?"

"Become me ball and chain, if ye will."

"I don't see what you are getting at?"

"My dearly beloved, to love 'n' to cherish, in sickness and 'n' health, for richer or poorer. Lizzie, just get the right end of the stick and I'll stop making up stupid ways of sayin' that we can get hitched." Elizabeth didn't saying anything, making Jack feel quite awkward. She stood up and folded her arms. Jack suddenly found his shoes interesting.

"Jack?" He looked up at her with an expression that could only be described at puppy-ish. "I'll marry you if you can prove to me that you can be loyal to me and love me truly. If I come back with you I will be giving myself to you…" Jack grinned at her in a suggestive way. "Just not in that way…yet. If you can go a month without visiting a whorehouse, I will marry you." She smiled. Elizabeth had never planned out her marriage as a child, like many of her friends, but she knew if she were ever to marry for love, no reputation, she knew wanted a marriage which was a little unconventional for her social standing, and marrying a pirate just about ticked the box. Before she could say anymore Jack moved forward and kissed her. This time, it felt so much better as she knew it meant something. "Jack?"

"Mmm?" He replied, not wanting to break away.

"Undo the shackles now please."

"Or we could leave them on?" He asked quite inappropriately.

"I don't think so." Jack obliged and freed her. He took her hand and led her to where Gibbs had tied up the dingy.

"Gibbs!"

"Aye cap'n?" Jack took out his compass and let the needle spin freely.

"Set sail in that direction!" Jack pointed north and smiled. Now that he had Elizabeth, the needle was free to point to Jack's next want. They both climbed into the dingy before Gibbs started to row back to the ship.

"It's just like a story." Elizabeth thought. "Only my prince is a little rougher around the edges." She glanced at her new found love and smiled inside.

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Thank you for reading :) Much love Beth xxx