A/N: Hey everyone here is another chapter that I had fun writing but also felt like crap to because I really got into Sparrow and Reaver's conflicted feelings about each other and for Sparrow much more. I see Sparrow and Reaver kind of having a love/hate relationship that is fueled by fire, passion, lust, love though they don't know it yet, and many other factors. I think of they're relationship definitely not being a box of chocolate lol but a beautifully painful and twisted incredible explosion that pulls them together later. I just wanted to explain and if you have more question or comments please leave them! I love your feedback also that was to warn that this chapter is more T+ rated lol not M but it's very much like the "Love When You Lie" music video. Also there will be minor language so prepare lol. Without further ado here's the next chapter. Please Review and let me know what you guys think and the next chapter will probably be up tomorrow if not later today. ^_^

Surrounded by a white light, Reaver could feel his mind drifting, but not his body.

"Gods is death this bright?"

"Hmmmm I would hope it wouldn't sound so bad."

Slowly the white light began to fade and the room around and Sparrow came into focus.

Reaver turned his head to look at her.

"It's so bloody worse."

Sparrow smiled. "I'm sorry."

"Don't be."

"Oh Reaver… ha I don't know what I'm going to do with you…"

"I can think of an assortment!"

Sparrow beamed. "Oh I'll bet!"

Sparrow's smile faded though rather quickly. Reaver took this into account and began to feel worried.

"What's wrong love the good old Reaver jokes not cutting it today?"

"I think they cut it every day but….. I just don't know anymore, about anything. About being queen, defeating the Hand, my friends, us… I mean my friends."

"And what about us?" A coy smile spread over Reaver's mouth. "Oww! That hurts a little."

"Good it should! Gods you'd think all I did was make a slip up."

"Oh come on are we still on this shit why don't you just kiss me already I've saved your life how many times now?"

Reaver sat up with much effort and looked Sparrow in the eye. Sparrow slipped back into the chair seated next to the bed but left a hand on the bed and ran her fingers over the sheets.

"Reaver… you and I… we just can't be. Were too different, I mean look at our mind sets one is a sane and pure being and one a is an egomaniac with a impossible shot! Not to mention quite the pervert, and and disguising…. Ass!"

Reaver reached over and put his hand on Sparrow's with a smile on his lips.

When his hand touched her, Sparrow twitched and snatched her hand away.

"Don't touch me!"

She skidded back in her chair.

Reaver features twisted into a darker manner that Sparrow had rarely seen in the years they had known one another and she felt cold and then completely remorseful for her action.

"Reaver…. I'm so… sorry…. I.."

"What the hell is wrong with you, what I can't touch you now, I disgust you that much?"

Reaver looked into Sparrow's eyes and saw her fear and as he began to realize it he could almost smell it.

"What was your nightmare?"

Sparrow immediately looked away and raised herself to leave. Reaver snatched her arm and pulled. Sparrow began to struggle.

"No Reaver please stop please!"

"Come here just here!"

Reaver yanked and Sparrow landed on top of him in the bed.

"OWWWWWW!"

Reaver could feel his chest light on fire when Sparrow hit the recovering hole in his chest.

In a panic Sparrow struggled to get out of Reaver's grasps, images of her terrifying nightmare slamming into her mind with horrifying ferocity.

"Reaver no please I don't want to hurt you please please stop!"

Sparrow swung her hand back and backhanded Reaver.

She quickly retreated off the bed. Tears rolling down her face, and puffing air as she glared at Reaver.

"Ask me again why we could never be!"

"Tell me! Damnit you tell me your nightmare now!"

Sparrow shivered by an the anger and pain Reaver's voice held.

Reaver was gulping in his own air supply and burned his eyes into Sparrow, through her skin as if peering into her soul. Shaking his head Reaver looked down.

"You would damn me for wanting you so badly yet you tease me so. You know exactly what you're doing and how to get what you want. To use people, and then when you're finish leave them. Who's the cruel one now huh?"

A dark smile spread over his mouth. "Looks like I'm not the only one with a dark soul huh?"

Sparrow was now looking at the ground. Her eyes were distant as if she her body was in the room, but her mind was somewhere else, somewhere far away watching the scene like a play.

"You raped me…. Over and over again."

Her voice was hollow unchanging except for the cracking in it, the emotion so bitter, so dead it was heart retching, yet beautiful in a twisted way.

Sparrow breathed in and then continued.

"I begged you to stop, but you wouldn't. You just ripped through me like a hurricane, and I could feel everything!"

Sparrow looked up to Reaver as if she was not herself.

"How could you do that to me? You of all people. I trusted you."

"Stop it!"

"I let you in! before everyone else and looked what you did to me!"

"I said STOP IT!"

"NO YOU STOP IT! DAMN YOU!" Sparrow breathed heavily.

She appeared more animalistic in nature yet scarily retained her remarkable beauty, creating a truly insidious image of menace and exquisiteness.

"You let her get in your head like that? Are you that weak?"

"Stop blaming me! I'm sorry alright! I'm sorry I'm an imperfect angel for you… for everyone."

The lasted part Sparrow whispered to herself more than Reaver. She slipped backwards and landed on the wall. Reaver looked on as if he was dreaming again.

Wait am I?

"What's wrong with you?"

Reaver spoke so softly that it broke Sparrow out of her trance a bit.

"I can't do this I can't do this…." Sparrow tried to regain her posture as she felt nauseous.

"Did you even think about anyone else? About what your friends saw? What I saw?" Sparrow didn't respond she was holding her head with her eyes closed and shaking.

"I saw… I saw you and me in your pretty little castle. Ha we were dancing believe it or not."

Sparrow slowly opened her eyes and looked at Reaver. Without looking at her he went on.

"We were in a room full of people, but it was only the two of us. We danced forever and you asked me if we could stay that way forevermore and I bloody said yes. Then of course you began to arouse me with a fantastic cat and mouse chase!"

"Ha!" Sparrow laughed and formed a small smile.

Reaver licked his lips and persisted.

"And then we chased down the hall till I found you on those steps in such an alluring and magical form! And of course being the tease you are you made me chase you more. And so I followed and when I opened the door I found my prize. A gorgeously naked Sparrow inside waiting for me!"

"Gods!" Sparrow shook her head.

"And then your sodding "friends" rushed me. They held me down. And they made we watch as the Hand killed you, over and over again, and there wasn't a damn thing I could do." Reaver turned his head to look at Sparrow his eyes dark with anger, lust, hate, disgust? Sparrow couldn't tell.

"If you can't trust me love how can you learn to trust anyone including the little gang?"

"Because they never betrayed me, because they never tried to use me. Reaver you don't want me you want an ideal. This is just a game to you. A chase. You been with beautiful people since before even I was born. You want that which you can't have, you're tempted by the forbidden. You can't love, never not fully because your soul is black as hell. For me to say I want you, to just take it… it would make me no different than you, this is what separates us beloved. In a perfect world in the old kingdom a corrupted time we could have been in a decadent love but a love. But in this world everything is not perfect, not easy… I see that now."

Sparrow looked up at Reaver her eyes fulln od sadness. "What I want… what I want is small in comparison to the world. What I want from you I can never have."

Reaver's features were still dark but set on Sparrow.

"Get out!"

"Reaver…"

"GET OUT!"

Reaver reached over to the stool next to the bed and picked up the glass of water in it. Sparrow gasped and moved quickly to get out of the room. As soon as she was out Reaver hurled the glass at the door. The shattering sound causing a deep wound in Sparrow who once again felt unsure of herself and her actions. Sparrow could feel tears filling up in her eyes as she caught her breath.

"Sparrow?"

Hammer and Dante stood next to the doorway. Sparrow opened her mouth but couldn't speak. She wiped her tears and ran away.

She ran from her friends, from Reaver, from the world, even from herself.

Reaver turned over in his bed and cursed himself and then cursed Sparrow. Why do I want you so badly? He looked out the window.

Sparrow swung her legs over the ledge at the highest point of the tower, in the light from the setting sun she truly looked like an angel or some other kind of magical creature, ready to take flight at the first sign of something spotting her. She looked off into the distance thinking.

"What a beautiful sight!"

Sparrow turned her head to Alex moving towards her. He stopped next to her and looked off into the distance as well.

"It is truly something isn't it? So much beauty in a time of so much darkness."

He put his hand on Sparrow's shoulder and she reached up for ait and gripped it.

"You are that light, it's your light that keeps this beauty possible Sparrow. You are the light in this infernal darkness, a beacon."

"It gets so hard Alex. I never wanted to be queen. I would have rather stay out in the open, in nature."

"Oh I know. It breaks my heart to see you caged like this. The people will never know what you gave up, what you sacrificed for them. But I know, and I worship you for it. You try so hard, even when things seem impossible, you just keep trying. You never need to doubt yourself Sparrow. If you find you can't trust me or anyone else ever, never doubt yourself. And you have to stop hating yourself for bringing your sister back."

Sparrow lowered her head.

"What you and Rose went through it's something no kids should have to. Other people at least had a chance to love those that died and live years with them, but you two, I'm still sorry about it. And who's to say it was rigth to bring all those people back, there are limits to beings liek us, were not gods and acting like it only spells deatha nd pain, as Lucien proved."

Sparrow turned her head back with tears in her eyes.

"Evil never worries about being Good, and Corruption sure as hell doesn't care about being Pure."

The two laughed.

"Sparrow I would follow you to the ends of the world and beyond because I believe in you, because I love you, always have."

"Alex I love you."

Sparrow leaned forward and kissed Alex.

Alex gripped Sparrow's shoulders and broke their kiss. Sparrow looked flustered.

"Alex I'm so sorry I don't know what came over me!"

"It's alright Sparrow but I'm sorry I can't be that for you. I love Belle. I will always love you and always be at your side but we can't be lovers not in this life."

Sparrow smiled. "Maybe the next."

"Maybe."

Alex patted Sparrow's back and then made his way back down.

Sparrow turned back around and watched the sunset.

I guess I should apologize to Reaver. Gods why am I so nice?

On a lower level of the Tower Reaver had made his way out of his room and was in search of Sparrow to apologize, curse her, ravish her, he wasn't sure yet.

The sun was setting off in the distance and he covered his eyes as some of the light flooded them. When he put his hand over his eye they caught something. Sparrow's golden hair.

He started towards her when he saw Alex approach her from behind. His mood suddenly turned sourer. He saw Alex put his hand on Sparrow shoulder and felt a sting in his gut but didn't know why. He watched as Alex spoke to Sparrow and then Sparrow turned and kissed Alex!

Reaver felt himself go hot and his anger rise to levels he had never known. He quickly turned around and stormed off.

As night had fallen around the Tower, Sparrow made her way through the halls she had been calling home when Garth left for Samarkand. She finally made her way to Reaver's room. She stood outside the door for a few minutes and played with her fingers.

She finally sighed and knocked on the door. "Reaver…"

When she hit the door it opened on its own. The door swung slowly open revealing a dark room. Sparrow face grew serious.

"Reaver?"

She stepped into the room and quickly summoned a fireball. She gasped.

The room was completely empty. Reaver was nowhere to be found. Feeling panicked and having a sense of dread Sparrow ran out of the room.

"Reaver? REAVER?"

Sparrow ran down the hall She continued yelling for Reaver till everyone was had emerged from their rooms.

"What's wrong?" Garth appeared ready for anything.

"Where's Reaver?" Hammer asked.

"Slippery bastard." Alex pointed to an open door.

"Dad we don't know..." Dante started.

"Oh I bloody well do."

Sparrow turned to Alex. "What are you talking about?"

Alex looked at Sparrow his face red and visible in the dim firelight.

"Our maps are gone! Of all our locations and meeting places! Every place on our glorious army path." Alex flipped over a table. The sound shocked everyone.

"Hold on now we don't know if Reaver did that or if he was taken." Sparrow said defending Reaver.

"Sparrow is right." Hammer agreed.

"Agreed. Now quickly spread into the forest and look for something anything." Garth commanded.

Sparrow was the first to move she practically flew out of the open door.

"Sparrow wait!"

She heard Alex call her but her mind was on Reaver. If he was hurt of captured after what she said to him, she wouldn't be able to live with herself. She was moving with remarkable speed as she slowed time. The only sounds were the cracking of branches and Sparrow gasps for breath.

The sound of a gun stopped her.

She dodged a bullet.

Gasping she turned and saw Reaver standing in a clearing. Her eyes wide she looked on at Reaver in the moonlight, at his eternally handsome features.

"Reaver?"

"Do you love him?" Sparrow shook her head confused.

"What? Who?"

"Alex?" Reaver face twisted at saying the very name.

"Yes."

Sparrow could see Reaver gripping his gun extremely hard, and shaking. She also saw the maps in his hand. Sparrow gasped.

"Reaver what are doing?" He looked up at her smiling.

"Looking out for my interest."

"What does that mean?"

Sparrow suddenly felt a powerful force coming her way. She flipped forward as a giant hand smashed into where she was standing.

She skidded as she landed and her eyes widened with what she saw.

A commandant and a big one at that. A pale man with no hair on his head. He had an impossibly muscular frame from head to toe. His eyes glowed, the same icy blue as Nocturna's had. Sparrow looked at his ripped almost highwayman outfit in all black and gasped when she saw a number on his shoulder. Five.

"Who are you?"

The pale giant looked at Sparrow his face emotionless.

"Mortalitas."

Sparrow instantly remembered the man. The one that had attacked them at sea. The one who had almost killed her.

In a instant the man was behind her.

He's fast!

Sparrow moved quickly herself to the side. The earth shook with his fist making contact. Sparrow quickly threw her arm back and swung. Her fist mad full contact with Mortalitas's face.

He didn't make a sound as he flew to the side. Sparrow gripped her hand a bit.

His skin it's like metal!

His hands hit the ground and he swung his lower body to his side and lifted his hands up and quickly threw two daggers at Sparrow.

Sparrow bent back almost all the way as she dodged them.

Mortalitas appeared in front of her and her eyes went wide.

He slammed his arm over her stomach and forced her down the ground so hard she bounced back up. Spit flew from Sparrow's mouth, but she remained conscious this time. Mortalitas grabbed a hand full of her hair. He swung his hand back and backhanded Sparrow with a thunderous hit. Pulling her by the hair he swung her and threw her at a tree.

"Ughhhh!" Sparrow hit the tree and landed on the ground next to it.

Bright blood began to trickle down from her mouth.

Her vision started blurring but Sparrow started to raise herself. She her silent footsteps approaching her and tried to crawl away.

Mortalitas pulled her up by her hair and raised he fist behind his head.

"Enough!" Reaver screamed.

Mortalitas dropped her instantly.

"Time to leave." He stated simply and Sparrow could hear as a Shard came down into the clearing.

"SPARROW!"

She could hear her friends in the distant.

She raised her head from the ground and looked up. Reaver was staring at her and she saw the pain in his eyes. She reached her hand in his direction.

"Re…Reave…Reaver." Sparrow felt her eye site go dark and felt herself slip into sleep.