A/N: Ok! Is there something called updating too fast?! But I really had wanted to get this part of the story out so I can drown myself in the plot again.
As you may have noticed I tend to have spelling/grammer mistakes. All as a result of lacking a beta and the patience to edit the chapters myself. But I've decided to update slower and take my time and edit the chapter from now on.
So forgive the mistaked in this chapter and the previouse ones (which I'll also edit once I get the chance) but will be better if not perfect from now on.
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Sorry for the long A/N! Thanks to those who bothered to read it. Now R&R...please?!
"Hmmm. This feels rather familiar. Although..."
"The company is better and the scenery has improved?"
"That too but I actually wanted to say that this island is mighty larger than the other one." Jack grinned.
"It certainly is." She said taking a sip of rum. She looked over to the fire burning and the waves rolling softly on the sand and couldn't help but agree with him.It was all coming back now...it was all too familiar to her.
"The only thing we're missin' is I believe...a song! Care to teach me a new one?!" he grinned.
"What was wrong with the old one?" she teased.
"Well every occassion needs a different song...let's hear one than." he commanded.
She looked up at the night sky, the stars looking down on them like gaurdian angels and the moon...it was one of those nights where the moon was looking a bit bleak. It had a yellow tinge to it, it was lower in the sky than usual and it certainly looked larger. They'd decided to wait until morning to search for the chest and now the rest of the crew were celebrating on the Pearl.
She scanned her brain for a song.
"Mother, mother ocean I've heard you call. Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall. You've seen it all, you've seen it all!" she sang almost in a whisper. Almost like a cry or a desperate plea. Almost like she was singing the story of her life.
"Watched the men who rode you switch from sails to steam, and in your belly you hold the treasures few have ever seen, most of 'em dream, most of 'em dream!" he continued.
She was surprised to hear him continue the next verse. He didn't sing it though. It sounded like he was talking. Like he was stating a fact. He was telling her something. She looked at him in surprise.
"What?! I've been around all these years too! For your information I'm a Jimmy Buffet fan and the song fits my state perfectly." he grinned.
"Yes, I am a pirate,two hundred years too late. The canons don't thunder, there's nothin' to plunder. I'm an over- forty victim of fate. Arriving too late, arriving too late." they both sang together.So they sang and sang together in a drunken slur. Singing a song but also singing about what they felt. About their life.
"Mother, mother ocean, after all these years I've found.My occupational hazard being...my occupassion's just not around. I feel like I've drowned, gonna head uptown." they finished with a clink of their bottles together. Elizabeth sensed a hint of sadness in Jack's voice when they sang the bit about their "occupassion not being around". She rested a head on his shoulder and took hold of his arm. The move made her wound hurt but she didn't care! They were both pirates against the world.
"Jack! You ended up being the last pirate left afterall." she purred in a deep velvety voice.
"No I'm not."
"Well if you count those cowards who still sail the seas and call themselves pirates than-"
"I wasn't talking abou' those modern pirates. I was talkin' about you and...Hector too." he added.
"Ah yes! Forgot about him."
"And yourself luv?"
"No hadn't forgotten about myself ...didn't know if you still counted me as one."
"One what?! Oh pirate! Of course I still count ye as one. Not just a pirate...the king of all pirates."
"King am I? Than why don't you ever do as I command!"
"You're the king of pirates! Don't expect pirates to obey you." he said as he placed a hand under her chin and lifted her head. She finally looked into his brown mischeviouse eyes and smiled.
"Can't blame a girl for trying." she said.
"Ah no, of course not! You can take a girl out of piracy but you can't take piracy out of the girl." he grinned as he tilted his head forward. Their lips were so close that they brushed against eachother softly.
"Yes and I'm not keen of getting rid of that piracy within me either." she smiled against his lips.
"Couldn't if you wanted to luv!" he grinned against her lips. He turned the not so innocent touch of their lips into a kiss. A rather demanding and heated kiss. He lay a hand on her back and pulled her close to him, closing the space between them as the kiss continued. Their bodies pressed against eachother, the heat passed from his body to hers and from hers to his, she didn't even feel the cut in her stomach anymore. He slipped his hands under her shirt and stroked her back, his fingers were barely touching her skin but the tease made a trembling sensation shoot through her body, through every fibre of her being and even her lips.
Her hands and feet were burning hot and yet at the same time they were freezing cold.Her skin was melting against his. She felt safe and yet entirely insecure. She was happy and yet she was so sad she could cry.How could he do this to her? How could he make her feel this way?
In all her bloody long life she hadn't been kissed like this. He was kissing her as if he was robbing her of everything she had and yet giving her much more. He was kissing her as if he was begging for her heart and yet taking it without premission. She had to stop this crazy trembling heated craziness!!
"Jack...stop!" she pleaded softly as she lay a finger on his lips and looked down at the ground. Jack grinned devilishly and pulled her even closer as he kissed her again. He'd pulled her so close that she was now clinging on him. Clinging for life.
Once again she felt that if she didn't stop him she would surely faint. "Jack! Please stop." she pulled away with any will power she had left. Her heart was still beating strong against her chest. She smiled weakly. "As pirate king I command you to stop." she teased with a seriouse note in her voice.
"Never expect a pirate to obey your orders."Jack grinned again. "Not that I'm accusing you of deception luv...even though I am because that's exactly what you're commiting.But seeing as I felt your heart beating against my chest only moments ago I can safely say that you don't mean it."
"I don't care if I mean it or not. You should stop." she said without looking into his eyes.
"Luv! Look at me." he commanded in his captain voice. She did. "Calypso curse me if I were to ever force a lovely young wench such as yourself into anything she didn't want...but you want this Lizzie. Better yet...you need this. You, miss Swann are in desperate need of some professional help. Help here having the meaning of kissing ."
He pulled her close again, so close her breasts were pushing against his chest. "Maybe I do want this...maybe I do need it but...I'm scared." she confessed.
Well that was a new one on Jack! The mighty miss Swann confessing she was scared. And of what?! A little ol' harmless innocent fella like Captain Jack Sparrow! Pshhhht!
"Told you you shouldn't kiss her Jack!" the voice reminded but Jack ignored it.
"Of what luv?!" he asked with his usual rougish grin.
"Of the way you make me feel." she confessed. "I feel like I'm cheating on Will."
Jack understood completely. "Ah! So such feelings didn't come to you with the 15 whelps you married because you in fact didn't have much feelings for them hence you didn't feel like you were betraying your ol' dearly beloved but the minute you start feeling something that may surpass the feelings you had for William you feel guilty, correct?!"
She nodded. "Yup that's about it."
"Maybe you even feel guilty because...you've been having these feelings for a certain pirate captain even when Will was alive?" he asked knowingly as his lips brushed hers...yet again.
"I don't know what you're talking about." she insisted stubbornly as she lifted her chin high.
"Oh I think you do." he said with a slight crack in his voice as he pulled her on top of him. Sinking on the ground and dragging her with him.
Ok! Maybe she did know what he was talking about but she didn't have to admit it out loud. They both knew. And he knew that she knew that he knew and she knew that he knew that she knew that he knew and he knew...oh screw it! Let's just say they both knew.
She needed to slake her lust. Period. After that she would get the chest...get her mortality back and be off on her merry way. With her lust slaked she would marry the man she loved...Dex. She might not have loved him as much as Will but she still loved Dex. She would marry Dex and never think of Jack again and...why did this all seem so damn familiar?! Oh right! She'd said all the same things to herself all those years ago when she'd kissed Jack and left him for dead. She'd thought she could slake her lust and leave forever.
This time would be different though...this time would be the last time. Then she would get away from him. He was bad for her. Bad for her health and sanity...he was like a poison.
They were both breathing heavily and before Jack pulled her into another embrace he asked her one single question. "Luv...on this single occassion I must ask you to trust me. Do you?!"
The answer surprised even herself. "Yes...yes I do."
She kept on kissing him...with hunger that surprised even herself.. She kissed his lips, his neck and his chest. She traced every scar and every tattoo and he kissed every accessable inch of her skin. He would have kissed the none accessable parts of her flesh too but they both fell asleep before things went there.
She woke up the next morning wrapped in Jack's arms.
" Nice of you to join me miss Swann!" he greeted without taking his arms off her.
"Mmmm. How long have you been awake?!"
"Long enough. I was just figuring out how to get up without waking you."
Elizabeth seemed to just notice that she was sprawled on top of Jack. She sprang to her feet and dusted her clothes off.
"Oh god! Did we-no we didn't! Did we?"
"Unfortunately not luv but we did a series of other things that are almost equally shameful."
She rested her hands on both sides of her head and drove her hands in her hair...an act of frustration no doubt. "I hope you realize I was drunk Jack!"
"Drunk as a monkey's uncle luv." he grinned as he positioned his elbow on the sand and rested his head on his hand.
"I would never have kissed you if I were sober!" she explained as she marched back and forth in front of him.
"Of course you wouldn't have luv." he agreed loyally.
"I regret it deeply." she said in a panicky voice as she kept marching.
"Sure ye do your highness!" he nodded with a grin.
"If I could go back I would take it back. Let's just forget this ever happened!"
"Certainly darling."
"Now that we got that cleared get off you bum and let's find that bloody chest so I can get away from you as fast as possible." she commanded as she pointed a finger at him.
He stood up dutifully and saluted her like you would the president. "Aye aye! Your...murderessness!"
He took out his famous -or infamous- compass and opened it. His expression darkened for a second as he sighed.
"Here luv...you take it! See if it shows ye the chest." he tossed her the small black box as he walked passed her.
"Where does it point to for you?!" Elizabeth asked curiosly.
Jack considered his answer for a second. "Erm...variouse locations!"
"One of which being?" she asked as she hurried after him.
"For example the Pearl and my other love too..." he trailed off mysteriousely. "But mostly just points to my one and only love...one of the things I never stopped loving all these years."
"Ah! The sea." she nodded.
"Aye luv...the sea." he agreed.
But Elizabeth never saw his expression falter. She never heard his voice crack either.
Waddaya think?! Yes it was a hasty chapter...wrote the whole thing in 20 mins or so. I've been thinkin about this chapter a lot so I just had to post it soon. Reviews make me work harder so leave me some love...
Note: Jack says "For example the Pearl and my other love too..." by his other love he actually means the sea...
No! I know what you're thinking! When says "But mostly just points to my one and only love...one of the things I never stopped loving all these years." he DOES NOT mean Elizabeth...although Elizabeth is tied into it too. Tied very deeply into it but what Jack is talking about it a bigger picture. A category all the things he loves fall in to.
You've probably guessed it by now but for those who haven't...keep reading to find out.
