Chapter Twenty-four: To See her Again

Jack got to Port Royal the next day, still brokenhearted over the loss

of Beth, but he had one of his crazy ideas. All he could do now was check up on Will and Lissie and make sure they got the 411.

"Will? WILL!" yelled Jack once he got to the blacksmith shop.

"Jack?" asked Will, surprised. "I thought you and Beth were going on an early honeymoon!"

"Plans changed. Beth was shot," said Jack.

"Oh god! Is she okay?"

Jack's face showed no expression, but the memory still haunted him. "She died. How's Lissie?" asked Jack, changing the subject, but immediately regretting it.

Will dropped his head. "She… Elizabeth murdered her."

"WHAT?!" yelled Jack. "God, mate! I'm terribly sorry!"

"Same here. We… we weren't even officially married yet."

"I know the feeling," said Jack as he put his hand on the boy's shoulder.

They sat in silence for a moment until Jack broke it.

"Where are we going?" asked Will as Jack pulled him out of the room.

"We're going to see Mrs. Commodore."

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"Can I ask you something?" asked Jack once they reached the jail.

"All right," said Elizabeth.

"When you shot Lissie, did you ever find the body?"

Will stiffened. He couldn't look at Elizabeth without wanting to strangle her, make her know what it felt like to lose a life. Without Lissie, he was without a heart.

"No, when the guards were leading me away, and I looked at her body, then at Will, then when I looked back where her body was supposed to be, it was gone. I think the blood was gone too, but it was too dark to tell."

"Uh huh."

Jack ran out of the jail, Will at his heels.

"What was that about?" asked Will.

"Look, we both know that they were from the future, right?"

"Right…" said Will slowly.

"Get packing," said Jack once they were again in the blacksmith shop.

"Why?"

"We've got places to go," Jack replied. "If their bodies were gone, they could have gone back to where they came from originally, savvy?"

Will's eyes widened. He knew exactly what Jack meant. He ran upstairs to the place where he lived, shoving things into his pack. He paused suddenly as he saw Lissie's good luck charm lying on the nightstand. He put it in his pocket, and shoved the stuff he would need into his bag. Looking around, he could still see Lissie sleeping in the bed, her hair all over the place, and eyes glimmering. He wiped the tears from his eyes as he walked out of his shop with Jack and back onto the Black Pearl.