A/N: I know it's been forever since I updated, but I have written and re-written this chapter over about a million times trying to decide on the proper way to end it, and I finally got it to the point that I like. I won't tell you anything else, so just read, and enjoy.
While the crew ran around trying to set things up on Will's orders, I searched the entire ship for a spot that I could keep Angelina protected from the large tentacles of the Kraken.
"Jason!"
"Captain?" He came up slowly, his voice quiet and calm.
"You've been on this ship, is there any place I can put Angelina and keep her well protected?" I demanded, ignoring his strange demeanor.
"No ma'am. The only thing you can do for her is to keep her with you."
I grumbled and cursed under my breath quietly so Angelina would not over hear. I held Angelina tightly in my arms as the Kraken's tentacles crept slowly up the sides of the ship.
"Hold!" Will ordered from down below.
"Will!" Elizabeth shouted, her voice beginning to sound impatient and fearful.
I glanced behind me to see Jack climbing into a rowboat, hoping to get out secretly without anyone noticing. I stared at Angelina and the fearful expression that was on her face as she stared at the tentacles. There was only one thing I could do to keep her safe, and it might make me never see her again. As much as I wanted to stay with my daughter, I also wanted everybody on the ship to get out safely as well.
"FIRE!" Will yelled.
I took that moment to dart toward the rowboat and sit Angelina down in it with Jack. He looked up at me, slightly confused.
"If you're going to live the rest of your life being a coward, at least do one more heroic thing."
"Em...please...come with me." Jack begged. "You can't stay on here! You'll be killed."
"No. I'm not going anywhere without everybody else on this ship. Get Angelina to safety."
"NO!"
I stared at Angelina, surprised by her outburst.
"NO! I'M...NOT...LEAVING!" She screamed in a manner completely unlike her.
She started to try and climb out of the rowboat but I pushed her back down and began to help Jack lower it.
"Yes you are. I'll catch up."
Once the boat was in the water, Jack began to paddle away with Angelina screaming and crying after me. I ran after Will who was watching as kegs of gunpowder and rum were being loaded into a large net.
"What can I do to get everyone off this ship alive?" I demanded, casting a downward glance at my crew mates who were helping out as well.
"You should have escaped with your daughter." Will murmured, glancing at the bulge in my stomach.
"Don't tell me that." I stated calmly. "I want everyone off this ship."
As if on cue the ship began to rock and weave as the Kraken began to smash into the wood with it's large tentacles.
"Heave! Heave as if you're getting paid for it!" Gibbs ordered as the crew members began to bring up the net of kegs.
Will climbed on top of the net with a final glance at me before ascending up. I pulled my sword out of it's shealth and started to slash at the tentacles that came whizzing in my direction.
I had to hone in to all the pirate skills I had learned since I was a child to prevent from getting struck down by the massive tentacles. The less lucky pirates were snatched by the tentacles and thrown through the air and off the ship, and if that didn't happen they were smashed by the falling masses of wood. I took another glance at Will to make sure he was ok, just in time to see him hanging from the net by his one foot.
When he finally fell free I looked up Elizabeth who was supposed to be shooting the kegs in order to send the Kraken away, but instead I saw Elizabeth clenching Jack's leg, and the gun in Jack's hand. I stared around wildly and saw Angelina ducking under a large tentacle that came whizzing over her head. I got to my feet and ran over to her, blocking her up against a wall just as the kegs exploded in a bright ball of flame and smoke. The Kraken cried out in pain and it's burnt tentacles slowly retreated back into the ocean.
"What are you doing back here?" I screamed, stepping back and scooping Angelina into my arms.
"Captain Jack said we had to go back." She sniffed, holding back tears and putting her arms around my neck.
"Abandon ship. Into the longboat." Jack was ordering everybody, or at least the surviving people.
"Jack! The Pearl!" Gibbs gasped in horror of Jack's decision.
"She's only a ship, mate." He murmured.
I broke away from the conversation as I noticed a large gash on Angelina's upper arm, the blood trickling down onto her torn and dirtied dress.
"Captain!" Neal called, starting into the longboat. "We have to go!"
I walked over to the longboat and set Angelina down, placing a light kiss on her forehead as well.
"I'll be right there, I just have to get a clean bandage for Angelina's arm." I said before heading for the nearest doorway.
The entire room was destroyed, the windows completely smashed in and some cannons hanging halfway out the gaping holes that Jack would have once thrown a fit over. I knew I didn't have much time, but I suddenly became mesmerizied by the ship, for I knew it would be the last time I would be looking at it unless you counted the bits of wood that would lie at the bottom of the ocean. It made me long for my ship, which I would be able to retrieve once we were back at Tia Dalma's.
I was finally going home.
I walked over toward one of the non destroyed cabinets and began to rummage through it, trying to locate some type of clean cloth with which to stop the blood flow on my daughter's arm.
Suddenly I felt an enormous patch of pain rip through my back bone and tear through my abdomen. I stared down at the blade protruding from my belly, coloured with the crimsion blood from my body. Blood pooled down my legs and suddenly the sword was withdrawn swiftly and I fell to the floor without use of my hands to break my fall.
Jason turned me over with the back of his foot and held the sword at my throat, which was burning as the blood began to trickle up it. I stared in horror and shock at him, and then at the now dead baby that had been growing inside me. I tried to ask why, but I couldn't seem to force it out past the blood build up.
"The ship should have been mine!" Jason said, but his voice trembled. "And you left me for some other man! I loved you so much Emily, so much!"
"He really did." Anthony said from beside him, holding a sword at my chest.
With tears rolling down his face Jason stabbed again, but the sword went through my chest, close to my breasts but slightly beneath it. I cried out in pain, Angelina's scary prediction ringing and taunting me through my ears.
"Don't worry about An-Angelina." Jason stammered as he drove the sword once again through my abdomen. "I'll take real good care of her."
I somehow managed tears that rolled down my face as white dots began to pop in front of my eyes as I struggled to retain focus and cling onto life.
All of a sudden Anthony collapsed on the floor in a large, bloody heap and Jason was pressed up against a wall, with a sword pointed at his throat.
"Emily!"
The voice sounded familar, but I couldn't concentrate on anything. Will's face came slightly into focus as I saw him attempting to get a reaction from me as he tapped the side of my face as gently as he could. Beside me Orpheus had Jason backed up against a wall.
Jason began to stammer and sputter something I didn't understand before there was a loud WOOSHING sound and then a thunk. Jason's disembodied head rolled across the floor and fell out one of the giant gaping openings in the wall. The rest of Jason's body collapsed on the ground, splattering blood everywhere on the deck.
Orpheus knelt down beside me, keeping with eye level while Will clenched tightly onto my hand. Or so it looked, I couldn't feel it. I coughed violently and blood splattered all over the ground in front of me, and I could still taste the iron in my mouth as my throat began to fill up again.
"I was sent to arrest a band of evil...pirates." Orpheus was saying, keeping complete eye contact with me. "But you weren't bad pirates...not all of you at least..."
But I was barely listening to his excuse on his malevolent behavior, I was thinking about Angelina. I was never going to see my little girl again. I had tried so hard to keep the two of us together and now she was being wrenched from my grasp. My precious little daughter and the baby that had been growing inside me, both gone.
And the love of my life...he was gone. I was never going to be able to kiss his lips or feel the warmth of his breath on my neck as he slept soundly beside me. Gone...they were all gone.
With my shaky and bloodied hand I reached up and pulled off the bandana atop my hand and handed it over to Will. At first he looked at it strangely as if he didn't know what he was supposed to do with it, but suddenly realization hit. I coughed again and launched out more blood, but focused the rest of my remaining strength on one final message:
"...t-take...A-a-a-angelina...h-h-home..."
My vision swirled into a black cloud and I lost feeling of my entire body and senses. I was in Death's hands now, and he wasn't being too gentle about it.
Goodbye Angelina my dear...I love you.
A/N: Alright...that's the end of that chapter. There's going to be one last chapter, and no, Emily isn't coming back...unlike all my other stories where I say a character isn't coming back and then they always do.
I had always planned for this to happen to Emily...kinda sad. I've rewritten this chapter over like a million times...so I hope you were all pleased with the way I decided to end it...although I'm pretty sure I'm going to get some really nasty reviews for it.
Peace, Love, and Pie
-16aqua
P.S. Sorry the whole battle scene was a little short, but I wanted to get to the main part of the chapter which was, of course, Emily's death.
