Okay, I'd like to start off by promising to you that this is NOT a fake story. I had this posted when I was a Sparrabether, and I'm just reposting it and finishing it off when I reach that particular point. Regardless of whether you like me or not, please don't hold that against this story. It's JE, I promise you, and it will end as a JE fic.

That being said, please enjoy this as best you can. This is just the prologue, hence the WE implications, but everything else is JE in this fic.

Pirates of the Caribbean belongs to the mouse.

6 YEARS EARLIER

Will Turner was about to leave his 10-year-old son William and his wife Elizabeth for another 10 years. What he was about to say was going to destroy his heart - not literally, as he physically had no heart, but emotionally, this was going to kill him slowly, stabbing harder and harder with each passing day. He took Elizabeth's hand and looked into her eyes.

"Elizabeth," he started.

Elizabeth looked at him lovingly. "Yes?"

"I have something important to tell you... I'm going to... to... I'm going..."

Elizabeth shushed him. "Get your thoughts together, and then tell me."

Will took a breath. "I... I'm..." He pinched himself. "I'm letting you go!" he blurted. "Elizabeth, I'm letting you go – I don't want you to be lonely all your life, and you only see me every 10 years, otherwise you're all alone, and I don't want you to die alone because there's a big chance that you'll die when I'm not here and..."

Elizabeth blinked, not believing what he'd said. "Why? Don't you love me? Don't you want to be with me? Don't you want to live your life with me?"

Will held back his tears, "Of course I love you! Of course I want to be with you! Of course I want to live my life with you! But because of this curse, it's not going to happen! So I want you to find someone else, so you don't live your life waiting for me."

Will kissed her goodbye. He knelt down in front of William, who had overheard and had tears streaming down his face. "I won't let mom marry someone else, Dad, I won't."

Will shook his head. "You have to let her. She needs someone." William shook his head wildly. "She's got you!" Will finally let tears overcome him. "I'm hardly ever here, William! I can't be by her side because of the curse!"

"I hate whoever put the curse on you! If I ever meet him, I'll kill him!"

Elizabeth shared a look with Will. A look that said, He won't have much chance at that, Jack Sparrow was too cunning to kill just like that.

William was sobbing helplessly. He ran back into their little hut. "I"LL KILL 'EM!" he screamed.

Will was going to run after him, but Elizabeth stopped him. "Sunset is here," she whispered softly. Will saw she was right. He had to go - now. "Goodbye, Miss Swann," he said, kissing her.

He left.