Authors Note:

Thank you to all you of you, who read my fanfic, but a special thanks goes out to all of you who review.

To anonymous:

For the last chapter I got a review that said "so this is going to be Willabeth now is it? Well consider yourself one reader less", and this comment really hurt me.

To this person, if you are reading, I wish to inform you that I have no intention to completely turn this fanfic into a Willabeth, after all I am a huge Sparrabeth fan! The only reason I need to add some Willabeth is because I need to make the story more interesting. I am sorry that you feel that way about my fiction, and I hope that you will continue to read my story, because I promise you that Jack and Elizabeth will be together for the reason that they are meant to be.

Thank you, and enjoy my story!

Chapter 25:
Surprise

I took a few steps towards her and asked, "Is something wrong luv?" Elizabeth sighed and looked at the ring on her finger while whispering, "We could have been married. I am so ready to be married." I nodded and took her hand and said to her "Aye, I know luv. But we can't get married now…" Elizabeth nodded and opened the compass and I looked at it, but she didn't. It pointed towards her left and I looked to her left and I saw Will there. My eyes went wide and I said angrily as I stormed off "…and we never will!"

Elizabeth's mouth dropped as she put the compass back into her pocket and walked towards me. I now had my hands gripping the sides of the ship firmly. I had a look of anger on my face even though my insides were screaming out in pain and sorrow. I stared out into the ocean and licked my lips as I heard Lizzie's voice scream out "What do you mean… we never will?"

I rolled my eyes and stared out into the ocean while responding quietly, a bit too quietly "We never will." Elizabeth grabbed my hand and spun me around and asked as she stared into my eyes "Why not?" I tried to look away, because I no longer wanted to look at her. Well, actually I did, but at that time I felt as if I was betrayed, as if, if I looked at her my whole world would crash down on me.

Elizabeth grabbed my hand and asked once again yelling at me "Why not? Don't you love me anymore?" I felt a sudden urge to curse at her but I couldn't, something inside me wouldn't let me. So I pushed her away and yelled back mockingly "Do ye love me anymore 'Lizabeth?"

Elizabeth took a few seconds to get over the shock of me pushing her away, but then all of a sudden she took a deep breath and asked confused "Of course I do. What posses you to think that I don't?" My cracked my knuckles while contemplating if I should tell her about the compass incident. I closed my eyes, took a deep breath and decided not to.

Elizabeth repeated "What is it Jack, that posses you to think that I don't want you anymore?" Once I heard that my eyes flew open and I whispered rhetorically "Interesting choice of words, luv." I turned my back to her and put out my hands on the ledge and gripped it firmly once again while continuing "To want is something, but to want more is something else. Now tell me, Miss. Swann…" I turned back around and asked, "What do you want most?"

Elizabeth gave me a small grin and grabbed my hands while saying softly "You, of course Jack." When she did this, I felt my heart no longer filled with anger but with desire. Elizabeth grabbed my head and whispered, "It's you that I want most, Jack. Only you". She then leaned in and kissed me and I questionably kissed her back. But after a few seconds I repeated her last statement in my head 'only you'. I shook my head and pushed her away while shouting "Nay! No! I can't…I just can't."

Elizabeth had a look of anger on her face as she asked, "What is it Jack? What's wrong?" I was about to answer when a voice behind us said, "I'm sorry t' be interruptin' Captain, but we've got an isle, arrr up ahead an' Mister Turner suggested that we check wi' th' compass t' be seein' if 't's th' starboard one." I turned to look at Gibbs and nodded while saying "Of course he did. Well, "lizabeth would ye do th' honours?"

Elizabeth bit her lip and then took out the compass and once again it pointed to her left and Will stood there once again. Elizabeth closed it and smiled at Gibbs while he said, "Excellent, we've made very good time. I'll take us t' th' isle". I began to get curious at what Gibbs meant by that, so I looked towards Elizabeth's left and saw the island behind Will.

My eyes squinted so I shouted out "Turner, ye bloody whelp, come here!" Will shrugged and walked over to Elizabeth and I. Will asked confused "What do you want?" I looked at Elizabeth and then back at him and said, "Will, move to Elizabeth's right." Will shrugged and so I ordered him "Do it you scabbers dog! Move!"

Will shrugged once again but this time moved towards her right. I took Elizabeth's hand and whispered, "Could you stay in the middle between Will and the isle?" Elizabeth shrugged and walked towards the middle. I then said to her "Now, take out the compass luv. And open it." Elizabeth took out her compass and was about to open it when Will yelled out confused "Jack, do you mind telling me what I am participating in?"

I sighed and moved my head slowly towards my right and said while grinning "Oh, I'm sorry. Did I forget to inform you? Well, you are participating in…" I then began to raise my voice and I stopped smiling "…whatever I say ye will do, with no questions, savvy?" Will's eyes went wide and he gulped while I turned back around to face Elizabeth.

I pointed to her and she asked, "What do you want me to think of? Because the last time I thought of saving you." My mouth dropped a bit and I asked confused and happily "Ye did?" Elizabeth nodded and opened the compass and it pointed to her left, which was where the island was.

Elizabeth then closed it and I asked her "Could you not think of anything, luv? Just open it." Elizabeth shrugged and opened it and it pointed directly at me. At that moment I began to smile confidently but then I realized that the whole compass to Will thing was just a misunderstanding. I grabbed my head with my hand and whispered "Oh" sadly. I wasn't sad that it pointed at me, I was sad because I had accused Lizzie of such a stupid thing.

I looked at Will who was about to ask a question when another voice was heard "Land ho!" I turned to look at Gibbs who shouted that and then I rolled my eyes disappointed. I walked over to Will and said softly "Sorry about that eunuch…." I turned around and shouted out "On wards you scabbers dog, get the ol' long boat onto the waters!" Elizabeth then grabbed my arm and I opened my mouth and whispered "Oh. Ye and I will be married… never mind about what I said before". I then left to help take care of the long boat while Elizabeth stood there confused and motionless.

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A few moments later we had arrived on shore and I took out a shovel from the long boat and said to Gibbs "Man the boat, watch the tide…don't touch my coat". I then threw my coat down into the long boat as Elizabeth, Will, Norrington and I made our way through the island.

About 2 minutes later Norrington was digging in the sand and I sat in a lotus position beside Elizabeth and Will and I explained to them the misunderstanding. While Norrington was digging I heard the shovel hit something hard. So Elizabeth, Will and I got up, grabbed the chest and brushed it off. I bent down and put my ear to it and heard a heart beat. Will looked at me and said, "It's real." Elizabeth hits Will on the shoulder and says, "Of course it is. Jack said it was".

Norrington then looks at me and says, "You were telling the truth." I roll my eyes and say back "I do that quite a lot actually, yet people are often surprised." Elizabeth then looks at me happily and says, "Jack this means your saved!" I smile and say back unwillingly "Not necessarily." Norrington looks at us confused while Will asks, "What do you mean?"

I look at the three of them and reply, "You see, we have the chest but we can't open it. Because…" Elizabeth asks "Because?" I gave her a small grin and replied, "…Because we need a key… a key to open the chest to get to the thump thump". Elizabeth grabbed my hand and asked sadly "Now where do we get this key?"

I got up, scratched my head and whispered, "We've got to visit someone who might know, luv". Will and Norrington both asked in unison "Who?" I licked my lips and whispered "Tia Dalma."

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