Enemies and Lovers
"Will?" I asked again backing into a wall behind me.
"Yes that's my name, how do you know it?" Will asked stepping forward and I got a better look at him. He wasn't dressed as he usually was, his hair was up in a ponytail and he was wearing nice, clean clothes, something a pirate…not even Will would be caught in. I breathed in deeply as I looked him over, questions whirling through my mind. Why was he in Tortuga? How was he in Tortuga, he can't walk on land, except once every ten years, and the biggest question was, how come he is acting like he doesn't know me?
"Will…how are you able to stand here?" I asked shakily and he raised an eyebrow and cocked his head to the side.
"Well it's a thing called standing…you're not drunk are you?" He asked looking me over as I quickly shook my head no.
"What I meant was how…I thought you couldn't stand on land." Again he looked at me confused and ran a hand through his hair.
"Looks like someone has had too much to drink, where are you staying, I don't trust you to be on your own in this town."
"The Pearl…I'm staying on the Black Pearl." He stopped of all of a sudden and turned towards me.
"You know my Uncle Jack?" My eyes almost popped out of my head.
"Jack's your Uncle?" I asked rather loudly as we started walking down the street. Will nodded and smiled.
"How in the world Will is Jack your Uncle."
"William."
"Huh?" I asked confused as we headed towards the docks.
"I don't go by Will, just William. My Father was the one who went by Will." Wait a second, his Father went by then name Bootstrap Bill.
"Will, your Father went by the name Bootstrap Bill, you know that."
"No that's my grandfather, my Father went by Will, his full name was William Grant Turner II." I stopped cold, that was Will's full name.
"You're…you're Will's son?" I asked, my voice going quiet as William stopped and looked at me and nodded.
"Yes, do you know him?" I only shook my head, no words coming out of my mouth as we continued to walk towards the Pearl, silently. I am talking to Will's son, someone in the world is laughing at me. We finally made it to the Pearl and walked up the ramp onto the empty deck.
"Well…thank you for escorting me, back here." He nodded and smiled.
"You wouldn't mind if I asked you a few questions would you?" I shook my head no and we walked over to the railing which was facing the sea.
"How do you know my Uncle Jack, and my Father?" I resisted the urge to bang my head on the railing till it killed all my brain cells. I sighed and told him my entire story again; while I was doing it I noticed differences in Will and William. William, looked almost entirely like Will, except he was a little shorter, his voice a tad bit deeper, but the main thing was his eyes. They were brown, but light brown while Will's were dark and deep.
"Wow," He said after I finished my tale, he stared out at the sea. "That's quite a story you have."
I groaned and nodded.
"Great now you think little of me because I was sent out to kill your Father." He shrugged and looked out at the ocean.
"So you have feelings for my Father?" All of the questions he could ask me.
"You know how awkward this conversation is?" He looked confused and asked.
"Explain." I sighed and continued.
"Well I'm talking to you about my feelings for your father who is in fact married to your Mother, and I was also sent out to kill your Father and to make matters worse you look just like your Father…who in appearances is only three years older then you." William laughed loudly causing me to stare at him till he stopped.
"You are right; this is the worst conversation ever. We should stop." I nodded and looked around when I heard a coughing noise I turned towards him and he looked at me pointedly.
"You said we should stop!" He sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Yes well I didn't mean it, now carry on."
"Yes alright…I have feelings for your Father."
"You love him?"
"Yes." I answered immediately without even thinking about it.
"And you miss him?"
"Every minute." I said quietly.
"Well then why don't you go tell him?" I snorted and rolled my eyes.
"Have you not been listening to my story? He thinks I was using him to kill him, he hates me. And anyway how would I find him?" He just shrugged and looked out at sea a smile breaking onto his face.
"You might not have to look far." I raised an eyebrow and opened my mouth to respond when a voice said from behind us.
"Whelp jr.!" We turned around and saw Jack standing there Anamaria on his side scowling up at him.
"Uncle Jack." William said smiled and the two shook hands.
"What are you doing here for lad; this isn't your kind of place?" William shrugged and looked back at me.
"Saving women from having their dignity taken away from them." Jack followed his gaze and smirked at me as I crossed my arms over my chest and pouted.
"Well sorry to tell you this mate, she's your Father's friend." I rolled my eyes and William laughed.
"Oh yes, she's already told me of how she is madly in love with him." I blushed scarlet and spat.
"I'm standing right here you know!" They both turned towards me and laughed. William turned back towards Jack and smiled.
"Well I better get going, before my ship leaves without me, it was nice to see you again Uncle Jack."
"Likewise lad." William turned back towards me and smiled.
"It was nice to meet you Hayden; I hope whatever happens between you and my father…everything works out." I nodded and he shook Jack's hand before scurrying off.
"Is he a pirate?" I asked as he disappeared back into the towns, Jack shrugged.
"It's in his blood, but right now he is a merchant sailor." I nodded in understanding.
"So are we taking off?" I asked noting that the sun was going to be setting soon, Jack nodded.
"Seen enough of this town for now." He started yelling out orders as everyone got the ship ready. I went to the railing at the back of the ship and watched at the pirate town got smaller and smaller till it was nothing more then a speck on the blue.
"Are you alright love?" I turned to see Jack and I nodded.
"I'm fine Jack…just fine." He nodded and smirked and pointed out towards the horizon.
"Do me a favor love; keep an eye out on that ship?" I turned and was confused when I saw no ship.
"Jack there is no…" I turned around and he was gone, I shrugged and looked up at the sky in a moment or two the sun would sink beneath the sea. I looked down as it slid beneath the ocean, just as I was a green flash came and caused me to look up to see the greatest and worst thing of my life…the Flying Dutchman. No, no, no, no…I thought as I quickly turned around and gasped. A hand flew to my mouth as I backed into the railing as I looked into the eyes of.
"Will?" I knew for a fact this was Will, from his outfit, white shirt, dark blue pants, boots, and blue bandana, to his posture, straight with a little hunch as he leaned on one leg, but what ticked me off was his eyes, they were staring intently into my own, as if he was seeing into my soul.
"What…what are you doing here?" I said looking behind me at the ship and then I looked down at the ocean. If this conversation gets ugly, I'll just throw myself to the sea and be done with it.
"Just checking in…on Jack of course." He said quickly and I nodded, my heart sinking, he still hates me.
"Well then, I don't want to keep you from him…so goodbye." I said turning my back from him as my eyes strayed across the ocean, someone in the world is really getting a kick out of my misery.
"I…I also wanted to know how you were doing as well?" I turned back towards him confused.
"How did you know I was here?" he looked down sheepishly and blushed.
"I've been…been following you ever since you left on your Uncles ship." Everything made sense now as I realized why Jack and William had been talking about ships but yet I couldn't see them, and how when I passed out I had seen a ghost ship on the horizon. Wait, he then knew I was with Jack, why would he follow me then?
"If you knew I was with Jack, why would you keep following me?" He again looked embarrassed as he muttered.
"Well I saw you when the ship was being attacked, I saw you collapse into Jack's arm…and I just wanted to make sure you were alright."
"Why would you care?" I asked and he narrowed his eyes, he was angry now. But I was beyond caring, I had gone through too much because of him and I'll de dammed if I don't get some answers, nice Hayden is long dead. Now it's time for pirate Hayden to make her introduction into the world.
"Why would you say that, of course I care." He said darkly and I snorted.
"Yeah sure you do."
"What's that suppose to me?" I could tell his breaking point was coming soon, I was already past mine.
"Well if I remember correctly you uttered this fantastic phrase to my Uncle 'do with her what you like' that was pretty much saying oh go kill her for I care. Hell I'll even watch!" I yelled my voice becoming higher.
"And if you cared so much and were following me, you probably saw that my Uncle was hitting, slapping, kicking, and other forms of abuse to me, but what did you do, you just sat around and watched till I was safely out of harms way and then you decided to make your grand entrance. Well I don't need you here!" I turned away from him and glared out at the sea, angry tears clouding my vision.
"Hayden." It only took one word from him to make me turn around and what I saw scared me. He no longer looked angry, just broken.
"I'm sorry I said that to you, and I'm sorry I let you suffered at the hands of your Uncle. I was just…so confused. I thought you had been using me the entire time."
"Well I wasn't!" My voice came out quietly with quivers to it.
"God Will, I loved you. I was willing to give up my old life for you." We stood in silence and he cautiously walked over and stood in front of me staring into his eyes.
"Will do you think it's possible for you to ever love me?" I asked hesitantly, I just wanted to know his answer, then I'll throw myself to my death.
"No." I nodded and more tears came, my heart felt like it wad dying a thousand times, even worse then when Will accused me of using him.
"I don't think I'll ever love you…I know." I looked up at him surprised and opened my mouth but he held a hand up and continued.
"I know I could, I know I can, and I know I will." He took both of my hands into his and stared intently into my eyes.
"I love you Hayden! Don't you see I have always loved you ever since you came on the ship not knowing a bridge from a brig." I laughed out loud and he continued.
"I loved you when you made a fool of yourself in front of the crew on numerous occasions, I loved you when I saw how you were turning into who you are now, I loved you when we went swimming beneath the sea, and I loved you when you took the time to make my room into what it is today."
"Then why did you let my Uncle take me away?" I asked quietly and he sighed.
"I thought you were using me, I thought it had just been all a setup, I was angry and hurt by your actions. But something inside me, a voice if you will, told me you were in danger and that I needed to protect you. I just came too late, Jack beat me to it." He said gesturing to the Pearl.
"And right now all I want to do is kiss you." I smiled up at him and allowed him to bend down and capture my lips with his own. The kiss was a sweet kiss, both of us throwing all of our emotions into it, passion, hurt, anger, and most of all love. I sighed as he pulled away, breathless. Suddenly a bad thought swept over me and I stepped away from Will.
"This can't work." I said and he looked at me his face showing signs of hurt.
"What…why not?" Anger returning back into his voice and I shook my head.
"You're immortal and I'm no long apart of your crew the only way we could be together is if I…" I suddenly looked up at him and he glared and shook his head and said loudly.
"No! No, no…no I will not kill you!" I rolled my eyes at his stubbornness.
"Will oh come on, don't you see it's the only way we can be together."
"No it isn't!"
"Oh and you know some other way?" He looked down and opened his mouth to say something but quickly shut it again.
"Well either way I am not going to kill you!"
"Fine, I'll ask someone else to do it." He stood in front of me blocking my path.
"No you will not go and ask for someone to kill you." He growled and I sighed and nodded.
"Will this is my choice, and I chose you. I want to be with you and I don't mind dieing to do it." I bent down and pulled a dagger out of my boot and handed it to him.
"Will…please?" I asked pleading and he stared down at the knife for the longest time before looking at me.
"Are you sure this is what you want?" I nodded and he sighed. I closed my eyes and waited for the immense pain that I should be feeling any second. Instead I felt Will's calloused hand on my cheek and then his lips on mine. I opened my eyes in surprise but allowed myself to relax into the kiss; I shut my eyes enjoying the taste of his mouth on mine when all of a sudden I gasped. Pain rippled through out my midriff and I looked down to see the dagger plunged into my stomach. Blood came pouring out as Will took the dagger out. My body started to shake as I lost focus; this was worst then just dying of dehydration. He grasped both of my arms tightly and forced me to look at him.
"Hayden Leeann Beckett do you fear death?" He said the words quickly as if he was afraid I would die before I could say them. I nodded my head as my body continued to shake growing worse and worse by the second. Will shook his head and grasped me tighter.
"You have to tell me Hayden, that's the only way it will work." His voice was urgent and it caused me to concentrate.
"Yes…I f-fear…d-death." Everything went black. The pain disappeared from my side and when I opened my eyes I found myself in Will's arms leaning against his chest, he was holding me tightly and appeared to be crying. I pulled away from him and looked down, all signs of an injury gone. I looked up at Will and smiled gently at him as he stared back down. His face had tear stains on them as I brought one hand up and wiped the remaining tears away from his dark eyes.
"Shh…Will, it's al right, I'm fine. It worked." He threw his arms around me burying his head into my neck.
"I…I thought I lost you." He choked out as I wrapped my arms around his waist stroking his back soothingly, and I realized how hard it must have been for him, having to watch me die and not do a thing about it.
"I made a promise that I would never leave you…I don't intent to break that." I felt him nod and he pulled away and cupped my cheek.
"You didn't have to do that for me." I smiled and shook my head.
"It was for the both of us, and I was more then willing to. I love you." He nodded and leaned his forehead on my own.
"And I love you, my sweet Hayden." He leaned down and kissed my softly and I responded, we were once friends then lovers then enemies, and now soul mates.
THE END…
(Well this is the end…for now. I am thinking about doing a sequel. I hope you guys liked it and I just wanted to say thanks for the reviews. Please R and R! I do not own Pirates.)