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Chapter 2: Her Father's Death
Elizabeth was on the deck of the Black Pearl when she noticed some commotion on the port-side rail. Everyone was gathered together and looking out to the sea. She approached and saw little rowboats with some people in them. She looked at them when a familiar face brought a smile to her face. "It's my father! We made it back! Father! Father, here! Look here!" she said jumping up and down. "Elizabeth," Jack said in a much gentler voice than earlier. "We're not back." That shook Elizabeth to the core. How could he say that? Is he implying that my father... "Father!" she screamed. "Elizabeth! Are you dead?" Governor Swann shouted from his boat. "No... no," Elizabeth mumbled. "I think I am," he said. "No you can't be!" she said. "There was this chest you see. And this heart. At the time it seemed so important..." "Come aboard!" "... and the heart. I learned that if you stabbed the heart... yours must take its place... and sail the seas for eternity. The Dutchman must have a captain. Silly thing to die for..."
"Someone cast a line! Come back with us!" she screamed. she turned around to see Marty measuring out the line. She took it from him and threw it out to the boat, holding on to an end. "Take the line," she ordered. "I'm so proud of you, Elizabeth," her father said, tears in his eyes. "Father, the line! Take the line!" she screamed again. She had to get her father no matter what. She started up the stairs to the helm and was about to jump until two arms she knew very well wrapped her up, holding her in place. There, she collapsed with crying. "Is there a way?" Will asked Tia Dalma. She shook her head and said, "Him at peace."
She didn't stop crying until Will laid her down in his cabin. "Do you want me to stay with you?" he asked. She shook her head 'no' and turned away from him. She felt him get up, open the door, then close it. She lay there for a few minutes until she heard the door open again. "I said that I don't want you to stay with me," she said shakily. She felt whoever it was sit at the end of her bed and sigh. "Ya know, Miss Elizabeth, that he has some feelings for you." It was Barbossa. "Who..." she asked.
"Tut tut, Miss Elizabeth. I would've thought you would've known by now."
"Who is it?"
"It's Jack. He just can't get enough of ya."
"No... you must be confusing yourself with someone very different."
"I don't think I would ever get that mixed up. He said so himself. He really does like you."
"But I killed him."
"Yeah, and he does hate you for that, but..."
"He... he hates me?" That made her even more upset. The only man that ever showed her adventure and fun hated her. "Well, let's say that he doesn't entirely appreciate what you did to him, then, but before that happened, he said that he was happy to have you around. He, actually, loved having you around."
"He loved me around him? He loved me..."
"Aye, he did. But now, even Gibbs can't approach him without Jack nearly biting his head off. The truth is, Miss Elizabeth, is that you've changed him because you left him for dead. He isn't at all the infamous Captain Jack Sparrow everyone, including me, likes. You have to make amends. Or else we'll all be here again. Please, Miss Elizabeth, get him back to the right Jack Sparrow. We definitely need him back." Barbossa then got up and walked out the door. Elizabeth thought of what he said and agreed. She had definitely changed him and made him into the low-tempered man he was now. She had to change the man she was falling in love with.
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