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Here is Chapter 8! It's a long chapter. There will be mostly a long flashback of the night before and...A decision will be taken...
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Chapter 8: Once in a Blue Moon...
Elizabeth asked Calypso to free Will but she wants something in return...
"I want your child." Her words sounded like a death sentence.
"My...my child...Willy?" I stuttered.
"No. Not your son. I want your daughter."
"I have no daughter." I replied feeling relieved because she did not want Willy.
But I was anxious and felt completely lost.
"That's right." She giggled, probably enjoying playing with my nerves. "But you will."
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Elizabeth:
Her words resounding in my head, it took me a while to realize.
"Am I...Am I pregnant?" I asked stuttering again.
"Yes, you are. In nine months, you'll have a beautiful little girl."
I smiled. Even if it may not have been the 'opportune moment', I put my hand on my stomach and closed my eyes thinking of her. My daughter. I imagined her face and-
"It's her I want in return. If you want Captain Turner back, you'll have to give her to me." Her loud voice took my wonderful dreams away.
What she asked me to do was simply inhuman. I couldn't choice between my husband and my daughter. I felt Willy squeezing my hand and realized he was still here. He had heard everything. I didn't know if he had understood but I could see he was afraid.
Suddenly, a question popped in my mind and it was like a stone in my lungs. I had to beg this question to free them and be able to breathe again.
"Why?" I asked her with anger as well as sobs in my voice.
"Because I'm not human anymore. The nine Pirates Lords, you as well, freed me four years ago. I'm a very powerful goddess and I have the seven seas under control. However, I used to also control pirates and sailors while I was Tia Dalma because I could seduce them and get their hearts. I'm the ocean. Every pirate is in love with the ocean and I was its embodiment...
The thing is, now, I can't do this anymore. That's why I need a human young woman, a beautiful one, like yours will be, to do it for me."
I was supposed to take a decision.
I was supposed to choose between my husband and my future daughter.
And I was supposed to do it right now.
As I felt my heart burning in pain, I closed my eyes and tried to imagine Will's face in order to focus. Then, I remembered last night. The night I spent with him. The night we made our future daughter.
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Flashback
Elizabeth:
The trip to World's End had been peaceful, I mean most peaceful as it could be.
It really did reassure me because I feared for my son's safety. Fortunately, we had not met any troubles… yet…
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Elizabeth Turner was lost in her thoughts when Jack's voice surprised her.
"Where's the kid?" He asked.
"He's in your cabin, asleep. I didn't want him to see all these dead people in boats." She answered sadness in her voice.
"At least, there's no dead body floating in the water like last time...
It proves that your dear Captain Turner does a great work!"
She lowered her head. Then, she took a swallow of rum.
"Hey, I'm trying to cheer you up, work with me!" He exclaimed.
He rolled his eyes and suddenly opened them wide:
"Wait, is it a dream? Elizabeth Swann, sorry Turner, you, milady, you are drinking rum?"
"I am. Last time I said drinking rum was a bad thing, I was actually a lady. But now, I've become a Pirate Captain, and so a Pirate Lord, and then the Pirate King...
So, I guess I've changed my mind." She explained.
"Really? Is that possible?" He asked doubtful. She smirked and answered:
"No, it's not. You're right. I only say this tonight because I need a good excuse for drinking to not feel sorrow."
"What do you need to be sad for, my dove?"
"My father. I saw him here for the last time. And Will..."
"What about him?"
"I haven't seen him for almost four years and now that I'm here, I mean on the other side, I still can't see him, even if we're very close...because we are, I can feel it!"
She abruptly seemed to have an idea and opened her mouth to speak again: "Unless..."
"Unless what? Elizabeth, be a wise woman and just wait. Wait the opportune moment. Even if you success to see him tonight, you two will have to split again tomorrow morning and you'll be hurt once again. Why not wait a little and ask Calypso to free him?
Then, he will be back, you three will be a family and you'll live happily ever after..."
Jack was always like that, so unpredictable. But she had learned how to shut him up these past few years.
"First, I'm not a wise woman, I'm a pirate. Second, why should I wait if I can see him tonight? If I do so, I know I will regret it, you see, because maybe now is the opportune moment, who knows? Finally, I don't believe in fairytales anymore... Life doesn't work like that."
Jack sighed and wrested the bottle of rum from her hands.
"Do whatever you want, but leave me the rum." He mumbled, irked.
Elizabeth smiled and said: "Take care of Willy. I'll be back before the sunrise."
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The Flying Dutchman had stopped for a few moments. The crew had actually finished working for the night. All dead sailors' souls had been carried to the other side.
Captain William Turner was trying to get some sleep in his cabin when her father knocked at the door.
"Son, come on deck with me. There's something you need to see."
Will:
I was surprised because my father usually always called me 'Captain' but I didn't say anything about that.
"Is it really important? I'm very exhausted." I sighed.
"It's more than important." Bootstrap Bill simply answered.
Noticing my father's serious tone, I got up and followed him without telling a word.
As we were on deck, Father leaned against the guardrail and whispered: "Look."
I did the same and saw boats. There were boats with dead people carrying a lantern inside. But it was a normal situation in this world. I wondered why my father seemed so worried when I saw her.
I gasped in horror. Elizabeth! She was in one of these boats. I couldn't feel my body anymore. I couldn't feel anything except the sorrow. No, it was impossible... I was hallucinating.
She couldn't be dead, I couldn't lose her.
"Elizabeth!!" I yelled.
She turned her head and her eyes met mine. She smiled at me. Her boat was still floating along the side of my ship.
"Will!" She screamed happily. "Throw me a line!"
He remembered the day she did this for her father but it didn't work because he was dead. There was no way to save him. I felt a huge pain in his chest, in the place where my heart should be as I pronounced these words:
"Elizabeth, you're dead-" my voice was shaking so that nobody could tell if it was an affirmation or a question.
"No...No..." She shook her head. "I'm not dead, Will." I wanted to believe her so much but...
If she wasn't, why was she here, in this boat?
I wanted to ask her, I wanted to tell her so many things, but the boat was sailing away second by second and I had to act fast.
Seeing the doubt in my eyes, she spoke again:
"Will, please, believe me. I'm not dead. I came to see you. Jump and you'll see."
I wondered what she meant by 'I came to see you' but I had no time for this.
I chose to listen to my heart, but I had no heart anymore, she had it. That was my answer.
I climbed the guardrail and jumped in the water. Then, I swam to her boat and got on it.
As soon as I did, I sat in front of her looking into her eyes. She smiled shyly and put her hand on mine. The feeling of my hand touching hers was just fantastic.
At this moment, I knew it: she was alive and she was here with me.
I sighed in relief closing my eyes to make the most of this instant.
The next second, we were in each other's arms, kissing until the end of time...
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The two lovers were once again reunited. Just for one night but reunited anyway.
As the boat was still floating away, they laid into it, not stopping hugging each other and not tearing their gaze away from one another either.
Elizabeth explained him how she came with Jack and their son on the Pearl and why she was at world's end. Actually, she told him it was for Willy's birthday. She hated lying to him but she couldn't tell him the truth without risking hurting him if she didn't success to free him.
On the horizon, nothing could be seen except the darkness of the water a bit lit by the moon.
While they were watching the stars silently, their fingers became entangled.
"I love watching the stars because they remind me of you. You are as beautiful as a star, as beautiful as an angel. You're my angel." Will whispered in her ear.
She blushed a little and whispered back:
"I love watching the stars because they see the entire world and I know that wherever my soulmate is, they can see him."
"I don't know who your soulmate is but I'm jealous of him."
"You should be because he's the most amazing man in the world." They both laughed.
Their eyes met and they kissed eternally under the moonlight. The kiss finally ended.
"I miss you everyday" She whispered to him. "And Willy misses you, too."
"He can't remember me, can he?"
"No. But he keeps asking about you. I've always told him that you love him very much. Besides, he's already a real little pirate! Every night he asks me to tell him a pirate story!
He wants to become a Pirate Captain like you. That's why sailing with Jack on the Pearl is a dream coming true for him..."
"It's so good to hear that... I miss him, too and you as well. When I miss you too much, I close my eyes and I imagine your face. It helps me to focus and not to break."
She stroked his cheek and stared at him.
"Stop talking about all this, we both know how painful it is to be far away from each other, just let's talk about happy things! Have you something happy to tell me?"
He didn't hesitate and said:
"I love you." He smiled.
"I love you, too." She laughed. "That's it?"
"Umm... We went through almost five years. So, we waited half of ten years."
"Yes. You're right. It was like an eternity without you but I promised you, I will be waiting for you on this beach for this one day, in five years, and I will."
He kissed her tenderly, stroked her arm affectionately and put his forehead against hers.
"I guess you can't stay."
"No, I can't. I'll have to go before sunrise." A wry smile appeared on her face as she added:
"But, I'm yours for the rest of the night, Captain Turner..."
End of the Flashback
Elizabeth:
When this memory swept over my mind, I felt safer. This one night I had spent with him, this one night in almost four years, we had made love and he had offered me a gift, another child.
I opened my eyes again as I heard Calypso's loud voice.
"So, what's your decision?" She urged me.
I realized that Jack was still next to me, Willy was still squeezing my hand and all the crewmembers were still right behind. And they were all waiting for me to answer.
"I-I don't know yet." I didn't know what to say.
"Listen, I know it's not an easy choice to make but think about it: your child is not even here yet while your husband is alive and in pain. I offer you a chance to free him forever.
If you save your daughter, she will suffer for living without a father, as her brother does.
Besides, Mr Turner and you will have all the rest of your lifetime to make other children..."
I needed to listen to my heart. I saw Will's face appear in my mind once again and said:
"All right. Give me Will back."
I gathered all my strength to continue: "And I'll give you my daughter."
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