"What's the matter?" Tia Damala asked Elizabeth when she found her sulking a bit on the stairs. She held her favorite book in her hand, something she carried with her everywhere, but it was closed, and she was looking out to the sea. She was the only one that was on the deck on the cloudy day. It had started to sprinkle, just a bit, so water droplets where gathering on her nose, dropping off onto her pants.

"Nothing," she said, looking down. The rain started to come down harder onto the deck. She felt like she was getting a cold, but she didn't care.

"Somtin is wrong," she said, taking rum from her pocket and handing it to Elizabeth.

Elizabeth sighed.

"Why am I still wearing this?" she asked, as she tried to take off the ring. But she couldn't, she didn't want to. She wanted to keep it on.

"It's not like I'm going to become Mrs. Turner anytime soon, so why am I? He hates me, so why am I keeping something given to me by someone who hates me? I shouldn't be, I'm in denial, like he said. But I can't take it off, it reminds me of everything before this crap. It's never going to be like that again."

Tia Damla rolled her eyes.

"Child, every relationship has to go through things, despite what fairy tales write, there's no perfect happy ending. You get reality, you get tears, you get tragedy. And if your luckeh, you get true love thrown in somewhere, don't be complainin' about it, true love always come around."

With that she got up and left, leaving Elizabeth alone with her thoughts.

Tia Damla walked down the wet staircase into the dining room and into the kitchen. Will was sitting, seeing to be lost in his thoughts, as she arproched him.

"What's biting you?"

"Nothing," he said.

"What's the matter?"

Will looked up at her.

"Why would she do this??" he asked in a harsh tone. "Why?? She knew it would hurt her, so why? That's all I want to know."

"That's all?"

He nodded.

She sighed and sat down on the counter.

"Mr. Turner, she did it to save you," she said. "and the rest of the idiots onn board but 'hat don' matter, there's no logic, and unless Elizabeth had lost her brain, then I think there's a reson for taking a drastic measure." she left him alone then.

"Will," avoice said, who was standing at the door. Tia and will turned their heads and Tia smiled.

"Will I'm sorry-" she said.

But it was too late, he had takken her into his arms and kissed her.

Tia smield, her work was done.