"Jack," Luna whispered into the darkness of his cabin. "Jack, are you up?"
A soft rustling came from the bed. "'Srong, love?" Jack asked groggily.
"I-I couldn't sleep." It wasn't a total lie.
He sighed and sat up. "It was that dream again, wonnit?"He ran a hand over his face.
She smirked. "Maybe. How do you always know?"
"Come 'ere," he gestured for her to sit next to him on his bed. "What kind of friend would I be if I didn't?"
She sat down and rested her head on his shoulder as he laid his arm around her shoulders. "Not a very good one."
He kissed my hair and inhaled deeply. "Luna, is that all we are, love? Friends?"
Luna chuckled. "You're my best friend, if that's what you mean."
He sighed. "You know it's not." Jack walked over to his desk and lit a lantern.
"Jack, we've had this conversation. I can't, dragoste. We can't."
"You know I don't believe in the stupid bloody curse."
She shook my head. "Jack, I came to you because I had a tantibus; a nightmare. I wanted my best friend to comfort me, I didn't want him to patronize me into letting him bed me."
He was taken aback by that comment. "Luna, you know I would never-"
"Oh, yes, the great Captain Jack Sparrow, the man who has a whore in every port, is going to settle down with his so called best friend." Luna rolled my eyes. "I'll believe that when I see it!"
"You know it's not like that."
"I seem to know a lot of things tonight, don't I? Like how I know that you have your own room at the Faithful Bride. And how I know that you stole the plague stating it so I wouldn't see. I know that if I did let you bed me I would just get hurt in the end and lose my best friend. And I know I couldn't handle it, Jack." Luna sighed. The entire time she was rambling, the chocolate eyed captain walked closer to her.
"Jack, I love you. And I'd love for us to give us a shot but-"Jack grabbed her roughly and pressed his soft lips to hers, gently kissing her.
He pulled away and smiled that smirk that always made her heart flutter. "That's all I needed to hear, love."
She frowned. "Jack, that was-"
"I know. I just wanted to know what that felt like."
Luna smiled at his slight discomfort. "I was going to say that was my first kiss."
Luna eyes fluttered open and for a moment she had no clue as to where she was. The arm snaked around her waist tightened and she took in her surroundings. She was in Jack's cabin… in his bed.
Jack pressed his lips on the top of her back. Her bare back.
"When did you get that, love?" he asked her as he took in her tattoo. It was a heart with a black ribbon around it. There were a few pink flowers and a large rainbow colored butterfly. "It's a bit too colorful for a pirate."
Luna smiled at the memory and drew a deep breath and turned to him. "I was eighteen, not much of a pirate at the time. I had a particularly delightful experience in the back room of a tavern with my best friend and decided that he was going to be the love of my life. The ribbon was originally not black and had his name in it but I got it filled in when I married the first time."
Jack raised an eyebrow. "Is that so?"
"Yep." She snuggled into his embrace even further.
Jack pressed open-mouthed kisses to her neck. "You know… love… we've a… war… to fight."
"And a husband to kill," Luna giggled.
"I love you, my Gypsy Lu."
Luna froze at the use of her childhood nickname, but only briefly. It had been forever since he'd said it so... gently. "I love you, too, Jackie."
They laid there together for a long while until Gibbs knocked on the door alerting them to the fact that Luna was still missing and that everyone else was ready for battle.
The couple dressed quickly, Jack briefly noting the heart scar and cherry blossom branch tattooed on his Gypsy Lu's stomach.
Luna, dressed in her captaining outfit, rested her hand on the handle of the door. "Ready?" she asked him.
He held up his finger and swaggered over to her. He placed a chaste kiss to her lips as he tied something into her hair. "So Barbossa doesn't get it," he whispered.
Luna reached her hand up and felt the strand of beads. "Your piece of eight?"
He nodded and walked around her. "I know in the end you'll do whatever needs to be done, Sati-Sara."
They left the cabin together, just in time to watch as the Endeavor appeared on the horizon.
"The enemy is here!" Marty screamed. "Let's take them!"
Luna stood next to her father who just looked around a strange look on his face. Luna herself had a blank look on her face.
"There's more. This fight is uneven. But we shall win."
Her father looked at her curiously.
Everyone quieted down as the rest of the armada appeared through the fog. There were hundreds of ships ready to battle.
Cotton's parrot squawked and flew off saying; "Abandon ship. Abandon ship."
The crew all turned to Jack who had a fearful smirk on his face. "Parley?"