Betrayal
I don't own PotC or any of its characters. I just play with them and put them back.
AN: This is the nucleus of a story floating around in my head. I don't know if that story will ever be written but you can always keep your fingers crossed.
Her father, Norrington, Jack…Will: The four men in her life. She had betrayed them all.
She had betrayed her father by helping to free Jack, by choosing Will over Norrington, by never being a prim and proper daughter. She had brought the East India Trading Company down on his head, stripping him of his power and authority and pride.
Norrington…James. She had used his feelings for her to reach her own ends; regardless of the pain and damage she inflected to him along the way. She had not only betrayed him, she had stolen his honor, destroyed him. To see a good man brought so low, and by her own hand…it made what she had done to Jack seem almost humane.
Jack. Even after her lecture, his return and his choosing to abandon the Pearl, she hadn't trusted him. She had manipulated him just like she had James, using his feeling for her as a weapon. Perhaps he would have stayed of his own volition, but she had taken that choice from him; betrayed the captain and taken that freedom he'd valued above all else. And yet, in the end, he hadn't seemed surprised; as if he'd know she would do whatever it to survive – like any good pirate.
Will. Even the thought of his name made her heart tighten. The look on his face as they entered the longboat told her that he had seen the kiss. But she could not explain the kiss without admitting to what was basically murder. The look in his eyes when she had the courage to raise her head… through all of the trials he had gone through Will had held onto a certain innocence but she had killed it. She had seen it wither and die in the long boat. She tried to tell herself that the kiss had only a tool to trap Jack but deep inside she knew the truth, she had kissed Jack because she had wanted to, and in that instant of wanting she had betrayed her fiancé.
Elizabeth Swann, betrayer, wept.