Chapter 13: The First Step to Making Things Right

As Will slowly opened the door he was somewhat surprised at what he saw on the other side.

He'd expected Elizabeth to be upset yes, but not that upset.

Her once beautiful eyes were now bloodshot. Dark circles hang under them from tiredness and lack of sleep. Tear mark stains streamed down her cheeks. They really stood out since her face was so dirty currently from being on such a dirty boat with a bunch of dirty pirates. The tears had washed away the dirt though, and left white lines running down the side of her face.

"Will," Elizabeth spoke in a incredibly sad tone.

Seeing the horrible state she was in Will couldn't let his current anger towards her show. He spoke to her calmly and kindly.

"Come in," he said opening the door fully and moving aside so she could enter.

Elizabeth entered and Will pulled the chair out from the small desk against the wall for her to sit on. She sat on it, but her eyes not once left Will's face.

"What is it?" he asked, noticing that she was starring at him.

"I... I don't know what I could ever say to make you love me again like you use to," she explained, playing with a necklace she wore. It was one Will had given her not so long ago as a birthday present. Will noticed this too and wondered why she still wore this after everything that had happened between them.

"I don't know if things will ever be the way they use to or if you'll ever be able to forgive me," she continued as her stare shifted to the floor beneath her feet.

"I just want everything to be clear," she explained, "I want you to know the entire truth then whether or not you believe it is up to you, I suppose. But believe me when I say I do not love Jack, nor have I ever."

She glanced at Will for a split second to see if he had any comments, but he didn't and so she continued speaking as she once again stared at the ground.

"As I've said," she continued, "I am not in love with Jack. I never have loved him and never will for it is you I love, Will."

"Then why did the compass point to Jack?" Will asked, trying to catch her in a lie.

"It pointed to Jack," Elizabeth sighed, "Because Jack has something I want. It's a characteristic, one that you don't possess."

"What could Jack possibly have that you could ever want?"

A few seconds of silence passed before Elizabeth answered.

"Piracy," she explained.

"What?"

"Yes, piracy. Jack is a pirate who lives a pirate filled lifestyle and although you have all the potential of being one, you William Turner, are not."

Of all the things Will thought Elizabeth would say he did not expect this. She wanted a pirate? That was what was so good about Jack? But why a pirate? Will didn't doubt that he could indeed be that pirate, but did he want to? Was he willing to give up his lifestyle for a life of piracy? Would he do it for Elizabeth?

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Meanwhile up on deck Jack had some awkward problems of his own. A certain monkey would not stop

following him. Wherever Jack went the monkey would go. Jack was beginning to think that the monkey would even follow him if he walked off the edge of the plank.

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As Will stood in his room contemplating whether he was willing to become a pirate he soon realized that Elizabeth was waiting for him to respond to what she'd just said.

"Um," Will spoke, searching for words, "I... I..."

"I know its strange," Elizabeth spoke, "And... and stupid, but I just... I don't know."

"Piracy though?" Will asked making sure he'd heard right. "You want me to be a pirate?"

"Yes. NO! Oh, I don't know, Will. I don't know what I want."

"Piracy though? Why piracy?"

"I don't know," she said, finally able to look at him again. "I don't know why. It's just always been my childhood fantasy. Then I saw Jack and thought it could become a reality--that I could live the life of a pirate, but I never loved him. The thought of piracy astonished me I'll admit, but I did not at any point want to spend my life with Jack!"

"I think I need some time to think things through."

Elizabeth stood up in front of him. "Will please, even if you don't believe anything else, please believe me Will when I say I don't love Jack."

Will looked in her eyes and saw that she was telling the truth. "I believe you, Elizabeth," he said, meaning every word.

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"Blast it you dumb monkey!" Jack yelled. He'd put up with the monkey for so long that he had officially lost his patience, which didn't take much.

The monkey squeaked and ran away. Jack sighed a sigh of relief and continued steering the ship.

Barbossa soon came up from under the deck. Jack, the monkey not the pirate, was with him.

"Jack Sparrow," Barbossa sneered.

"CAPTAIN!" Jack yelled, "It's Captain Jack Sparrow. How many times do I have to say that?"

"I'm the captain now Jack, not you."

"See that's where you're wrong, mate."

"WHAT?"

"True you may be captain of this imparticular ship, but that doesn't mean I am not a captain myself. I'm just not a captain at this particular moment in time."

Barbossa glared at Jack with anger in his eyes. "If your not the captain then what are you bloody doing steering me ship?"

"Helping?" Jack asked.

"Jack Sparrow!"

"CAPTIAN! CAPTIAN JACK SPARROW! Not just Jack, not just Sparrow, not just captain, but..."

"Shut up! Nobody cares to hear of your mumbellings!"

"Aye, aye, CRAP-tin," Jack said, walking away from the steering wheel.

"What did you just call me?"

Jack shrugged. "Really doesn't matter now does it?"

Barbossa frowned and looked at the monkey. "How can you possibly see anything in him?"

The monkey shrugged in response.

"How can he not see anything in me?" Jack asked, "You see the real question should be how could you, Barbossa, possibly see anything in that little slime bag of a monkey there?"

"If you were smart you wouldn't talk about Jack that way, Jack."

"Honestly mate, why did you name the monkey Jack? Just makes this thing a whole lot confusing now doesn't it?"

"You honestly have no idea what Jack did for you do you, Jack?"

"See this is exactly what I was talking about, mate. Perfect example you see, nobody knows if you're talking to me or the monkey."

"JACK!" Barbossa angrily yelled, "You're lucky we didn't leave ya lying at the bottom of the ocean!"

"Aye, too bad Elizabeth's loved me enough to bring me back eh? Now if it was you on the other hand, well you'd still be down there mate."

"It wasn't Elizabeth that brought you back you bloody idiot!"

Jack looked at Barbossa confused. "Then who was it?"

"Jack here brought you back," Barbossa explained looking at the monkey.

"The slime bag?"

"Aye."

"The bloody monkey's in love with me?" he asked then looked at the monkey, "I'm sorry to break it to you mate, but it just wouldn't have worked between us."

"Jack you fool, Jack isn't in love with you. He just cares about you enough to bring you back, like he admires you."

"Oh."

Barbossa shook his head. "A monkey being in love with a human, who ever heard of such nonsense."

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Once Elizabeth left Will's room. Will's mind immediately began wandering. He knew he loved Elizabeth. He knew that despite his best intentions he couldn't stop loving her.

He knew that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her, but he wasn't sure he wanted to spend it as a pirate. He had thought of the possibility once or twice yes, but he'd never really considered it.

He loved her though. He loved her more than anything else. He now was certain that she loved him too. He could tell by the way she'd looked at him earlier. That look in her eyes when he'd opened the door was one he'd never forget.

They were meant to be together. When Will was with Elizabeth everything was better. He no longer felt like he had nothing, but instead felt like he had something.

But piracy? There certainly would be many disadvantages to being a pirate. He'd always have to be running from the law, that was certain. He'd also have to engage in several battles and during these battles he knew he'd be worrying about Elizabeth's safety the entire time.

There were also advantages to being a pirate too though. He had to admit that he somewhat did enjoy piracy. He was also rather fond of treasure, even though he'd never admit it aloud. Elizabeth wanted a life of piracy though and he wanted to please Elizabeth. He never wanted to loose her again and if that meant engaging in piracy, perhaps piracy wasn't such a bad choice after all.

Now all he had to do was tell Elizabeth.

Will then remembered something rather important that he couldn't believe he'd forgotten. He still had to save his father from Davy Jones. Throughout this whole mess with Elizabeth Will had forgotten all about his previous adventures aboard Davy Jone's ship. Not to mention Elizabeth and him still had a way to go before their relationship would be back to the way it once was.

Will had so many things to fix and he didn't know it quite yet, but he didn't have much time to do so, but the first thing he had to do was talk to Elizabeth. It was time to make things right!

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A/N:

Okay so they're finally progressing and yeah this time they won't fall apart again because somebody gets the idea of pulling out a compass. (I'm not really sure if that makes sense, but it doesn't really matter that much if you have no idea what I'm saying in this case.)

Anyway just because their progressing that doesn't mean the story's done with yet though. There's still a few obstacles they have to surpass. So now go and review please.

37 days till World's End hits theaters:):)

And to my reviewers from last chapter:

purplediamond7:

That would have been an interesting plot change, but no rum isn't it. lol Thanks for reviewing!

Phoenix Fanatic:

That kind of was a mean cliffie, but it keeps my readers coming back so I like mean cliffies :) Thanks for reviewing!

Danny Phantom SG-1:

Can't believe Will's only on billboard. What is with all these JE shippers coming along all of a sudden? That's pretty cool that you got to go to NYC though. I've wanted to go forever, but never have had the chance. As far as the words crunched together that was mainly my stubborn computer acting weird again. For some reason when it uploaded that it undid all my formating and every sentence was a new paragraph, but when I went to fix that I probably forgot to hit the space bar a few times and made words crunched together. I probably should have checked for that, but I got really excited that I could finally update so I kind of rushed through the proofreading. And yes there really was only 39 days, less than that now:) I've been counting down forever and been making sure not to plan anything on opening day because I am going to the theatres that night:) According to my mom I'm a little too obsessed, but they are awesome movies and DMC left me wondering what happens next.

Wow, that was kind of long, but anyway Thanks for reviewing once again!

Smithy:

Hope whatever is going on with your family turns out okay. Thanks for reviewing!

krizue:

As you can see things are getting better with Will & Elizabeth finally. I'm planning on making the next chapter a lot more romantic. Thanks for reviewing!