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Chapter 36:
Reuniting
The last she remembers is falling over an enormous waterfall and crashing down into the ocean flawlessly. Elizabeth pushed herself up with her hands on the bed of the ocean. Her fingers swiftly moved through the sand and the mud that covered the entire floor beneath her. Once her feet stood on the mud steadily, she put her hand to her throat while trying to clear it.
She then let out a few coughs and a few others around her did also. She looked around to see Captain Morgan rearranging his hat, and her newly discovered mother Helena trying to fix her clothes into place. The rest of the crew were still trying to gasp harshly for air. Elizabeth noticed James Norrington. James was slowly trying to push himself onto his feet and Elizabeth couldn't understand what was taking him so long.
Captain Morgan called out "Are all ye thieves and candy-grabbers alright"? Elizabeth smiled at him as the others nodded. Norrington finally got up onto his feet, held his left side and asked, "This is it? This is a beach! I thought it would be something more terrifying".
Helena looked at Norrington and stated, "Do not under estimate Davy Jones". Norrington crossed his eyebrows and chuckled for a bit. Elizabeth covered herself up with her jacket because it had suddenly become cold. She looked up at the sun and wondered about how ironic it was for it to be cold with the sun was blistering up in the sky.
She walked onto the shore and looked around and whispered sadly "I don't see him". Captain Morgan looked up at the sand hill in front of them and whispered "He is behind there". Helena walked up to her husband and asked, "How do you know that"? Captain Morgan smiled at her and said plainly "I'm Captain Frank Morgan".
Elizabeth smiled for a second at the resemblance between him and Jack. But then painful memories of Jack filled up her mind. Elizabeth shouted out "Then what are we waiting here for? Let's go get him"! Norrington held onto his left side while sitting down on the shore, he then said frustrated "You all go. I'll wait here". Elizabeth looked at him astonished and Helena whispered, "I'll stay with him. You and Morgan find him. Good luck darlin'". Elizabeth nodded while Captain Frank drank a sip of rum for good luck and they started to make their way up the sandy hill while Helena, Norrington and the rest of the crew sat on the beach.
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About a half hour later Elizabeth and Frank made it over the hill exhausted. Elizabeth whispered "The Black Pearl". Captain Frank let out a small smirk and whispered "She sure is a beauty, eh darlin'?" Elizabeth nodded and whispered smiling "She is...freedom". Captain Frank looked at her smiling and whispered "I believe we be getting' close". Elizabeth nodded as they started to walk towards the ship.
She then gasped and yelled out "Jack"! Elizabeth dropped the bottle of rum that Frank made her hold and began running towards him. Captain Morgan looked in the area to where she was running to and then he looked where the spilled rum soaked into the sand and whispered sarcastically "Brilliant. Me rum be gone again". He then sighed and began to follow Elizabeth.
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"Jack…. Jack" The words, echoed in my head a numerous amount of times. My eyes remained closed as I was lying down on the soft sand. Once again I heard "Jack…Jack…Jack" echo within me but I closed my eyes tighter and tried to concentrate on me heart beating. Thump, thump, thump… "Jack"! I heard once again.
So, I opened my eyes quickly and screamed out "Bugger! What? What"! And then I saw who it was. It was Elizabeth who sat beside me on the sand, and she was smiling. I rolled my eyes and shouted out while getting up "I thought I told ye and yer ugly complexion to leave me alone"! I then started to walk away from the hallucination, but she then followed me and shouted out "Jack, it's me Elizabeth".
I sighed in deeply and rolled me eyes while looking back at the hallucination "I know that ye bloody wench"! I then looked to my right and saw…. "Captain Morgan"? He nodded while smiling and whispered "At yer service… Captain Sparrow". I looked at him and asked confused "…. are ye real"? Captain Morgan nodded and then I reached out and poked him.
I jumped back scared as I realized that he wasn't a hallucination. I looked back at Elizabeth and shouted out worried "Are ye real"? Elizabeth nodded and walked towards me and whispered while grabbing my hand "Of course Jack". I gulped and then took my hand away from hers and shouted "Don't ye ever touch me again Miss. Swann". Elizabeth looked at me in the eyes and asked sadly "Jack, what's wrong"?
I began to walk in the other direction because I was trying to ignore her question. Elizabeth ran after me and asked scared "Jack, you are frightening me! What's wrong? I came to rescue you…. We all did, Frank, James, my mother and I. They are all waiting…." I interrupted her by asking confused "Yer mother"? I then turned around to face her and asked "Yer mother? Ye know about yer mother and Frank"?
Elizabeth's eyes widened as she walked towards me and asked, "Did you know"? I bit my lip and looked at her crossly and shouted at her "Why does it matter anyway? The only reason ye be here is to rescue me so you can have a life of freedom along side of me, eh? That's it! Freedom, freedom, and bloody freedom! Now tell me, luv, is there something else that ye desire other then freedom"?
Elizabeth looked at me shocked as I continued, "Nay, I don't believe there be somethin' else that ye want"! Elizabeth's eyes started to swell up and she whispered, "Jack, I love you". I closed my eyes frustrated and reached into my pocket and shouted out "Close yer mouth, luv. Before I decide to cut off those pretty lips of yers"! I then threw the ring at her and it landed right onto her feet. Elizabeth bent down and picked up the ring heart broken.
Elizabeth looked over at Captain Morgan as tears started to roll down her cheeks. Captain Morgan cleared his throat and began to yell at me "Jack! That is nay way to be treatin' a lass! She came to save ye, and this is how ye treat her?" I turned around to see Elizabeth sobbing and Captain Morgan looking at me evilly. I rolled my eyes and thought while a smirk appeared on my face 'she deserves worse! How could Morgan be brain washed by her also?'
I then watched as Morgan pulled Elizabeth in for a hug. He then stated, "He'll come around". Elizabeth held the ring in her hand and whispered "No…. he won't. He doesn't love me". I chuckled as I heard Elizabeth's last statement. I made my way to her and asked rhetorically "Ye think I don't love ye Miss. Swann"? Elizabeth nodded frightened as I continued, "Of course I love ye! It's ye that don't love me! All ye want is freedom"!
Elizabeth let go of Morgan and walked towards me while crying out hysterically "Is that what you think Jack"? I nodded and she pushed me and started shouting out "First of all…I do love you! Why else would I come rescue you?" Elizabeth paused for a second to push me backwards once again.
She then continued shouting at me "For freedom? Are you bloody serious Jack? Yes, I want freedom and yes you can give it to me. But, I want to marry you and spent the rest of my life with you. Even if that means that we are locked up in a prison cell in Port Royal"!
I looked at her sadly and then she grabbed my hand and whispered gloomy "I don't know what happened to you here. But I do love you". I looked down at the sand sadly and whispered half angry and half nervous "Give me the ring back".
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In the meantime, back in Tortuga. Will sat in a pub drinking his sorrows away. When Scarlet walked up to him and whispered "Mr. Turner. I need to speak to you". Will looked at her sadly and asked "About"? Scarlet bit her lip and whispered, "It is about Elizabeth, and well….who she went to go find".
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