Summary: "She needed to apologize to him. And, even if she did not know how to, she would." After an argument with Jack, Elizabeth convinces herself to apologize to him. One-shot. Set during AWE.

Prompt 1: Things you said in the spur of the moment.

Prompt 2: It's 2 AM and you've been tossing and turning trying to get some sleep. Finally, you sit up. You know what you need to do.

A/N: Written for another event I orchestrated on Reddit. It's actually loads of fun.

A Need To Apologize

"Ye shouldn't have come back for me." He informed her coolly, his eyes seething as hot as fire and as cold as ice. "Ye should've left me to rot."

The look on his face, the anger in his eyes, the depth of his words. They haunted her. Guilt ate away at her stomach, a guilt almost worse than the one she'd felt when she'd left him behind to begin with. She should have known that he wouldn't have been his bright and cheery self after that she had done, that he would hold some semblance of resentment towards her.

Even now, hours after the conversation, she found that it bothered her horribly. She was tired, but she could not sleep. Her mind was restless, refusing to grant her peace long enough to get a moment of rest.

She knew that she would have to apologize.

But she did not know how to, not to him.

She had never seen him like this.

She wished to believe that he had said it on the spur of the moment, that he hadn't meant the words. She wished they'd merely slipped from his lips without his permission. But she doubted that her wishes were true.

Jack Sparrow had never said something and not meant it, even if his words were never entirely truthful.

She needed to apologize to him. And, even if she did not know how to, she would.

So, she sat up in the bed she occupied, in the ship's spare cabin, and slipped out from beneath the covers. She would see this through. She may not have been able to salvage her relationship with Will, but she would make right her wrongs with Jack. She owed him that much, after all she had done.

Perhaps she was a pirate, yes, but she had more heart than most.