Sooooo, here's chapter 2 of Waiting On Life... I'm hoping to get alot more reviews on this one. And by the way, in your review vote what the story's name should be of these four:

Escaping Inescapable

(credit goes to Florencia7

Go check out her stories!)

Never Far Enough

(credit also to Florencia7

And once again, go check out her stories!)

Waiting On Life

(As it's called now. Credit goes to my best friend, Peyton

-he's not a member on here-)

oooooor...

Forever Hunted

(credit goes to me!!!

I finally thought of my own name for it!!)

Well, I hope you enjoy this chapter. I know I enjoyed writing it!!!

Chapter 2

She hates me. She tried to kill me. Being noble was her excuse, but she hates me. She called me a coward and she hates me. But she also called me a good man. Does she really--

"She called me a coward." Jack sighed to no one in particular.

Will, who had been there the whole time, sat down beside him. "Elizabeth?"

Jack nodded his head slowly. "Well, I can't say I entirely disagree with that accusation..." He looked down. "You did try to wriggle your way out of your debt with Jones."

Jack didn't respond.

"Look, I'm sorry for the part I played in the fight for the key. We could've compromised. You could've made Jones call off the Kraken, then I could've freed my father. We should've allied against Norrington. He was the real threat. Now, because we were too worried about fighting each other, Norrington, and probably now Beckett, has the heart!"

Jack finally looked up. "And...I guess I'm sorry for knocking you out with an oar." he mumbled.

"Hey, well, it was payback for what I did to you..." He looked at Jack's baffled face. "...At Isla de Muerta..."

"Ah! That! You know, William, that wasn't very nice..."

Will patted his own leg, then stood up. "Neither were you." he said and walked away. He looked back at the depressed captain. I won't play by the rules of engagement this time, Jack. he thought. He smirked. I'll get the Pearl and free my father. And I swear I'll find a way to pay you back...

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An hour later, Jack was back to his normal self. He swaggered by everyone who were making themselves comfortable on the island. He paid no attention to any of them, except a certain Elizabeth Swann.

"Oi! What are you doing?" he slurred.

Elizabeth stopped what she was doing and looked up. "Jack!" she fussed. "Where did you get rum?"

"Who said...I said...That I said...about rum?" he answered slowly.

"Yep." ELizabeth threw her hands up. "You're drunk!"

He swayed back and forth.

"Just how many bottles did you have?"

"Three...four...nine?...I lost track..."

"And to think I said you were a good man..." Elizabeth sighed.

"Hide the rum." Will whispered to her.

" 'Ey! That sounds familiar!" Jack said before he fell over.

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While the Kraken was taking down the Pearl...

"Ha! The captain goes down with his ship." the urchin-like crewmember said.

"Turns out not even Jack Sparrow can best the devil!" a hammer-head shark-headed one agreed.

"Jack Sparrow..." Davy Jones started. "our debt is---" He whipped his head around and his eyes locked on a longboat. "He got away-ah!" Davy yelled at his crew, his face twinging in fury.

"What do we do, Cap'n?" a coral-like crewmember asked in his low, mysterious voice.

"The Kraken is still taking down the Pearl-ah! By the time it's done, they be long gone-ah! Plus," Davy Jones turned to him and grinned. "I want Sparra' to suffer..." He paused then his smile faded. "Wait, open the chest." he ordered. They just stood there. "Open the chest-ah! I need to see it!" he shouted. He pushed through his slow crew and got to the chest. He slammed it open and staggered back at what he saw.

Nothing. There was nothing in the chest.

He unleashed his fury and screamed at the sky, "Curse you, Jack Sparrow!!!" He whipped his head around to the crew. "Death be owed to any man who disturbs me in my Captain's Quarters!" Then he turned on his heel and hobbled down below...

"Remind me never to drink that much rum again..." Jack mumbled to Elizabeth.

It was a few minutes after he'd woken up. He was sitting by Elizbabeth on the beach. Everyone else had gone to get supplies in the jungle, so it was only them there.

"And, why, if I may ask, were you drinking that much rum?" Elizabeth asked him.

"Do you really want to know, dear?" Jack narrowed his eyes at her and moved his face closer to hers.

"Of course!" she answered like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Well, then..." He flashed her a sly grin. "The reason I drank so much is because of what you called me..."

Elizabeth's face froze in anger, shock, and offense in an expression that said, "you've got to be kidding me!" "So," she finally replied. "the whole reason you were drunk out of your senses with over 5 bottles of rum is because I called you a coward?!"

"Which I'm not!" Jack yelled, standing up.

Elizabeth stood up and narrowed her eyes, getting in his face. "Oh, I think you are..."

"You do know I have a pistol in my belt, love?" Jack told her. And he meant it. He wasn't afraid to use that pistol on her. After all, she had tried to kill him. Why shouldn't he get revenge?

"Go ahead." she spat at him. "Shoot me." she challenged. She had a smirk on her face the whole time.

Jack cocked the pistol and aimed it right at her heart. There wasn't the least bit of fear in her eyes, which scared Jack. Didn't she think he could really shoot her? He put pressure on the trigger, but at the last second stopped, and threw the gun to the side.

"Ha! You ran away from the Kraken and now you can't even kill someone who tried to kill you..." She laughed. "You really are a coward..." she whispered and walked away.

Jack wasn't daunted. He pursued her. "That's because I'm not heroic, love. Doesn't make me a coward..." It also doesn't make me a good man... He pushed the thought away quickly. "I'm not a hero." He grabbed her arm and spun her around to face him. "I'm a pirate!"

She rolled her eyes and kept on walking.

"And, we, as pirates, aren't s'posed to be heroic. We're supposed to rifle and pillage and loot and embezzle...and whatever bloody else that song says! ...Burn up the city... Stuff like that, love. Eh?"

She stopped walking and turned around. The sudden stop made Jack have to step back and wave his arms around to keep balance. "So, no heroes amongst thieves, then?"

"You know, your precious Will asked me the same exact thing before! And do you know what I tol' 'im?" He took a step closer to Elizabeth with every word he said. Elizabeth shook her head slowly and backed up a step every time he took one. "I tol' 'im..." He got inches away from her face and grinned. "...he was well on his way to becoming one." He raised his eyebrows. "Eh?"

Elizabeth's jaw dropped. "Will's not---" she started to exclaimed. Jack "shh"-ed her.

"Will is a pirate..." He grinned widely.

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"Now that we have the heart, maybe we can finally end this pirate threat and the world will be safe again." Beckett told Mercer.

"But what of this James Norrington? Should we trust him? He knows of the heart...and the chest." Mercer asked.

"For right now," Cutler Beckett stood up from his desk and walked around the front of it. "He could be a very valuable assett..." He walked toward Mercer slowly. "But if he shows any signs that he's a traitor or even thinking about getting near the heart..." Beckett trailed off.

"I know what to do." Mercer assured him.

"Good. Now let's stop this threat for the last time..." Lord Beckett walked out of his room and quickly across town to the gallows. He stopped at the fort and turned to see thousands of pirates -men, women and children- already ready to hang. "Very good."

He then sat down to watch as the biggest threat in the Carribean died...

One person at a time.