"Do you know why I did what I did?"

Skye stiffened. "I'm not interested in hearing your explanations, Miss Swann."

"I want you to hear them," said Elizabeth. "Since the moment we met, you've looked at me with such hate…I can barely explain myself. But I have to try."

Skye turned. She was dressed completely in black today and her hair was hanging free. Her green eyes where narrowed until they where thin slits. "Fine. Make your sorry explanation and make me hate you more than I did before."

"I left Jack there for love."

Skye's eyes lit up with a burning fire. "For love?" she hissed. "You don't even know the meaning of love."

Elizabeth's face flushed angrily. "How dare you!" she snapped.

Skye jerked out her sword and leveled it in Elizabeth's face. "No. How dare you!" she said calmly. Her green eyes where stormy as they burned into Elizabeth like hot irons. "You are a fool. A fool whom I should like to kill very much."

With an angry cry, Elizabeth drew her own sword.

Skye's eyes lit up. "At last!" She smiled as she tapped Elizabeth's sword lightly. And then she ran her blade down the length of Elizabeth tauntingly.

Elizabeth swung the sword upwards in a high arc that should have taken Skye's head off. But Skye stepped back and then she dove forward.

The sounds of the fight drew attention and Will bounded up the stairs. He gaped at the sight that greeted.

"You fool!" hissed Skye. "I've been waiting to kill you since we met!" Her sword took a chuck of the mast out right next to Elizabeth's ear. She swung and barely missed Elizabeth's hair. She let out a cry of rage.

Elizabeth rolled and jumped to her feet, whirling around and swinging her sword at Skye's stomach.

Shaun came down the stairs from the upper deck only to have Will grab his arm. "Stop them!"

"No," Shaun said grimly. "This has been brewing for days now."

Skye kicked a barrel at Elizabeth and stabbed her sword forward. "I should carve out your cold heart and throw it into the sea!"

Elizabeth sent the barrel flying back at Skye who flipped over it. Elizabeth turned and ran up the steps toward the wheel. Skye darted after her, grabbing her ankle and bring her sword down hard. Elizabeth's head slammed into the deck but she twisted out of the way barely in time with a gasp. She swung and brought her other foot around, kicking Skye in the face.

Skye snarled and wiped blood away from her mouth. "Bitch!" She dashed after Elizabeth, swinging her sword wildly and abandoning the finesse of swordplay.

Elizabeth met her heavy strokes, then slipped and fell on the wet deck.

Skye raised her sword and stabbed downward, gouging a hole in the deck. She cursed vehemently as Elizabeth wiggled away and slid down the stairs. She jumped over the rail, landing in front of Elizabeth with a light thud. She smiled viscously. "Where to now, Miss Swann?"

Elizabeth swung her sword at Skye's head but Skye's blade met it and sent the sword spinning away with a quick twist.

Skye looked at her for a long moment, blood dripping from her mouth where Elizabeth had kicked her. She calmly leveled her sword in Elizabeth's face.

"No!" Will stepped forward.

Skye's eyes darted towards him and pulled a pistol out of the back of her belt and pointed at him. "Don't move, Will Turner." She looked at Elizabeth. "Perhaps I shall do you the same justice you did me." She cocked the pistol.

Elizabeth's eyes darted to Will. "No!" she cried. "Not him."

"Why not him?" asked Skye. "Did you think of that when you chained Jack to that mast? Did you think of that as you lied to his crew and his friends? Did you think of that at nights when you couldn't sleep because his death was on your black soul?"

"No," said Elizabeth. "I didn't think of it. I was wrong. I did a terrible thing. I…I…did it, I thought, for the right reasons…"

Skye cut the air in front of Elizabeth quickly with the sword, narrowly missing Elizabeth's face.

Elizabeth flinched and Will stepped forward.

"Right reasons!" Skye snapped. "Give me one right reason."

"For Will and the crew to live."

Skye laughed and shook her head. "That…is not a right reason."

Elizabeth and the rest of those gathered all jumped when the gun boomed.

"Will!" screamed Elizabeth.

Skye lowered the smoking pistol and her eyes glittered coldly.