Sorry for shortness but it's short because it's only the prologue!
Prologue
Elizabeth ran after Will as he rose from the sand and down to the shore. She kissed him, knowing that she would not be able to for the next ten years. It was filled with a rebuilding desire for something she had only experienced today underneath him. The kiss was over all too soon for her and he disappeared, a green light shooting up in the sea, signaling his leaving. She stood their for a moment, making sure that this wasn't all fake, that he would come back and live with her forever.
But when she still stood there an hour later, she knew it was real. That's when the tears came, dripping down her cheeks as she covered her face in her hands. She cried for her temporary loss for Will, the death of James, and for her father. There had been no real time to mourn it until now, and now she could not stop. The darkness in which it came attached to the painful losses. She sunk to her knees, almost screaming with the sobs that could not all escape as fast as they wished.
Now was when she needed Will the most, and he could not be there. Davy Jones, the most horrible man in the world, along with Lord Cutler Beckett, had stolen her joys. She could hear the crickets chirping softly in the night that had lowered itself into the valley. She did not understand what she had done to deserve the fates to curse her this way. She had been a pirate, and maybe that was a bad thing, but she knew she did not deserve all this.
When she finally rose from the sand it was late in the night, the moon high over head and half shaped. She walked on a dark path for a while, wondering where it lead. She finally saw lights and started at a run, walking into a small town which she learned later to be called St. Petersburg. She walked over to an Inn, going inside and searching her pockets. She pulled out her coin purse, something she had always kept on her. She noticed there was a fair amount more, causing her to realize it must have been filled by Will.
She rented a room and they sent her up dinner as she walked in the small yet cozy room. She took her meal and gave thanks, giving them a flash of her usually bright smile. She ate, focusing fully on the meal, trying not to think of anything else possible. She took a bath, the water jug cold but it soothed her in some odd way. She took her clothes and washed them in a tub they had sent up for washing, the owner's wife letting her borrow one of their daughter's night gown.
As she hung up her clothes to dry she stared out into the night, wondering what would come next in her life.
Somewhere in Singapore...
Jack Sparrow was surrounded by four whores, telling sea tales to them as they swooned. He drank his rum deeply, wanting to be as drunk as possible for tonight. He hadn't laid with a woman in a while... Since before Elizabeth attached him to the ship, actually, since she saved him from the gallows with Will's help.
He gave a mental sigh, not paying attention to what the giggling sluts were saying to each other. He didn't know why he couldn't shake her off, Elizabeth that is. He knew that she was married now, and that kiss meant nothing, or at least, he wanted to think that. But ever since then she would not leave his head, no matter how hard he tried. He had tried to sleep with another woman but couldn't do it, he supposed he just wasn't drunk enough. Tonight he knew he would do it, whether he wanted to or not, in an attempt to get her out of his head.
Three hours later he rose from the bed, getting dressed and feeling furious. It didn't help at all, though the two girls enjoyed themselves. He only felt deprived, and ashamed of himself, something that never happened. As he dressed he put on his hat, looking in the cracked mirror as the girls slept on the bed. He looked ill, paler, sadder, than he could remember looking, which was odd. He knew though as he walked from the room and down to the port as the sun rose that he had to do what he had been dreading. He had to find Elizabeth.
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