Elizabeth Swann was standing near the railing of Captain Jack Sparrow's ship, The Sea's Mystery, with her hands on the railing; trying very hard not to let the tears that were brimming in the back of her throat, escape. She had asked Jack to bring her back to the island that she had last seen Will on, so that she could see him again, for his first day on land in ten years. The same island that Will expected she'd stayed on all those years that they'd been apart. Little did he know that Elizabeth just couldn't do it. She couldn't stay on an island for ten years; she wasn't that type of person. She was a pirate. A no good, dirty rotten Pirate. She longed for freedom, and she knew there was only one man that could give it to her.
It wasn't even that she had wanted to be with Jack… it was just that she didn't want to pretend that she was with Will, just because his heart was in her possession. It was making her mad. She couldn't stand having no human interaction. She craved it. All she had done, every day, was cling onto the chest that held her fiancé's heart and look out onto the horizon. It had been very boring, and Elizabeth soon lost all of her confidence that Will was ever coming back. She lost all hope and all joy. She felt as though she was dying and Jack was just the only person that she knew would take her. He was her best friend. So she had buried Will's heart deep in the middle of the island, and went to look for Jack.
She hadn't known where she could have possibly found him, so she had travelled to Tortuga on a ship that had passed by the island, luckily heading in that direction at the time. Once arriving there, she remembered just how horrible the place was. She had been disgusted by the amount of drunks that covered it like a thick layer of moss. She couldn't find Jack anywhere.
It took her another couple of days to bring herself to leave Tortuga. She'd kept hoping that Jack would make port there at some point, as long as she stayed. She'd stayed in a hotel, and every morning when she woke up, she'd jumped out of bed and looked out at the horizon… only to be disappointed. She eventually had to leave. She couldn't handle having drunk pirates ask her 'How she was doin'' every second of the day. So she walked along to take a quick look at every ship, before stopping at the Black Pearl. She had been so happy to see that old ship again, after about six months without it. She had waited there for hours, until she heard a familiar voice coming towards her. It wasn't the charming voice of Captain Sparrow, but the slightly drunk and rambling voice of Hector Barbossa. Elizabeth raised an eyebrow as he came closer and she saw that he was with everyone she remembered being on the Black Pearl, except for Jack and Joshamee Gibbs. She was quickly jumping to the conclusion that they had stolen the Pearl from Jack before she knew it.
As they came toward her, she walked toward them twice as quickly. "Where's Jack?" she asked in a slightly annoyed tone. Barbossa smiled.
"Ah Elizabeth Swann… how nice to see ye." He said.
"Where's Jack?" Elizabeth repeated with the same tone of annoyance.
"Ah, unfortunately he's no longer with us." Barbossa didn't let the smile leave his face. Elizabeth's face held a look of horror, however, and that made Barbossa stop smiling. "He be not aboard the Pearl." He corrected. And Elizabeth sighed happily, before raising an eyebrow again.
"Why?" she demanded.
"As pirates, Miss Swann, we be wantin' to do what's best for ourselves at the time." Barbossa said, smile coming back.
"Where is he, then?" Elizabeth asked, looking from Barbossa to Pintel and Ragetti, who were the only ones that hadn't escaped this conversation to board the Pearl. They laughed before Barbossa smacked their heads together.
"Miss Swann… Dear old Jack has had what most of us want… An' that's a fresh start." Barbossa smiled a crooked, evil smile and Elizabeth frowned.
"You stole the Pearl from him." She hissed, "You stole the Pearl from Jack!"
Barbossa laughed this time. Elizabeth stood her ground, however, and he stopped abruptly. "Borrowed, dear Elizabeth…" he corrected, "We borrowed the Pearl."
Elizabeth sighed angrily, "Take me to Jack." She ordered, rather than requested.
"An' why would I be wanting to do that?" Barbossa asked, still keeping his smile plastered on his face.
"Because if you don't," Elizabeth whispered, frowning, "I'll stay with you. And if I stay with you, whatever you're searching for, treasure and such, I will take my share."
Barbossa laughed. "My ship, Miss Swann." He reminded her.
"Aye, it's your ship." She agreed, "But I'm leaving Tortuga. I'm leaving on your ship, and if you don't want a woman…"
"Well, Miss Swann, you make a fine argument." Barbossa smiled, leading her toward the ship with a small wink at Pintel, who grinned evilly. Elizabeth tried to ignore it, thinking it was probably her imagination. "You're in."
Elizabeth smiled. This was all going as she had planned. She was going to find Jack, and then she would sail with him for ten years, before going back to that awful island and seeing Will. She got onto deck to see everyone scurrying around to untie the ship from the docks so that they could set sail. She turned to Barbossa, who had started walking toward the helm.
"Barbossa? Aren't you going to tell the crew we're going to go and find Jack so they--" she started saying before Barbossa laughed a cruel, hard laugh, and they started sailing away.
"Welcome to the crew once again, Miss Swann." He said, smiling widely as the whole crew cackled around the fuming Elizabeth.
"Bloody Pirates." She spat.