Disclaimer: As all disclaimers, I don't own any of the characters in
Pirates of the Caribbean. Though I wish I had a monkey ^_^.
Summary: As Will and Jack fight off Barbossa on the Interceptor, the ship wanders off into the Cursed Mist. The curse: Will, Jack and Barbossa end up switching bodies.Can Elizabeth cope up with Will being in the body of another?!
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WHOOO!!! Thank you so much to ALL my GREAT reviewers ^o^!!!! Lord Lanceahlot, ErinRichards, Sida, Keeper of the Dreams, MrsAlexisSparrow, Allie, Ermine aka Tree, oyoy (??? Lol), Vienna and ladymorgan8 ^o^!!! GOD, I LOVE YOU PEOPLE!!!
Thank you for the great reviews and words of encouragement!!! You keep this fanfic alive and kickin!!! See you in the Caribbean ^_~!
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The Cursed Mist : Marooned in Another's Body
By Cmdr. Gabe E.
PART 15 : Finally, some time alone
*This story takes place within the story of the PotC movie.*
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Before them was a narrow hall with a number of doors on both sides. On the far side of the hall is a window. Fortunately, no moonlight was shining through it.
Unlike the pub downstairs, the second floor was rather pleasant. It was quiet, clean and didn't smell of rum and smoke.
"Looks like this place isn't that bad after all." Will said, keeping his voice down.
"Maybe we should have gotten a room as soon as Jack brought us here." Said Elizabeth as she smiled at Will. He still held her hand. He became rather protective of her after she was abducted by Norrington's men.
"And speaking of that room, I believe it's about time we occupy it so that we could fetch our friend Jack. I don't even want to imagine what he's doing downstairs in MY body! And drunk too!!! Drunk! I've never even been drunk in my life!" He said in a rather joking way.
Will gently pulled Elizabeth after him as they made their way in front of the last door on the left side of the hall. "Well, here it is. The barkeep did say the last door on the left."
He was about to open the door, when the room behind them suddenly opened. Will and Elizabeth looked around and jumped back in surprise as they saw a half naked man walk out of the room. The man's hair was wet and ruffled as if it was hastily dried with a towel.
"Whadd're you two lookin' at?!!!" Said the man as he saw Will and Elizabeth looking at him. He suddenly noticed Will's form and his eyes opened wide with terror.
"Captain Barbossa!!!! I --- I didn't know you were going to stay here for the night too!!! Um --- um. Here --- the bathroom is all yours, dear Captain!" A fearful smile spread on the man's lips as he motioned his hand towards the room behind him.
He looked at Will and Elizabeth for the last time and quickly made his way to his own room.
Will and Elizabeth just stood there unmoving. Everything happened rather quickly.
"You know what?" Will said. "Perhaps I should start wearing a bag over my head. How can I expect an intelligent conversation in this body? It's either they run away or stutter in terror before I can say anything to them!"
Elizabeth smiled and placed a hand on Will's shoulder. "Well I'm not scared of YOU, William Turner." She said in a rather mocking way.
Will tilted an eyebrow and looked back at Elizabeth. "Oh really?". He leaned close to her and narrowed his eyes. "ARRR!" He said in his best pirate voice with his best pirate face.
Elizabeth rolled her eyes. "Oh Will!" She playfully pushed him away. "You can never be a pirate even if you wanted to. You will always be the young gentleman William Turner to me."
"Then I believe that's a good thing. I never wanted to be a pirate after all." He said with smile.
Elizabeth pressed her back against the door to their room and reached for the knob. "You know what? Perhaps we should already go inside before you scare more of the tenants."
Will raised a finger. "Agreed." He said.
The young woman opened the door behind her and they both stepped into the room.
The room was a simple one. It had one large bed, and right beside the bed was a small table with an oil lamp on it. On the far side of the room was a closet, a table, and some wooden chairs. The serenity and peacefulness Will found in that room was exactly what they needed after such a hard day of running around the Caribbean.
The large window on the wall parallel to the bed suddenly caught Will's eyes. A slight chill was about to climb up his spine when he noticed the absence of moonlight shining through its opening.
"Looks like the moon doesn't shine brightly in this part of Tortuga. I'll have to thank the clouds for that." He said in a whisper. He wasn't sure of Elizabeth heard him or not. He really didn't want to burden her with his troubled thoughts.
"This really is a nice room." Elizabeth said as she walked towards the bed. Her eyes wandered around the room as she looked at every corner and every furniture.
She then made her way towards the large window and smiled as she sat on the bed in front of it. "It's quite funny, isn't it?". Her eyes were focused on the world outside.
Will saw her face gleaming as the brightness of the moon touched it. Oh how beautiful she was as she sat there looking out the window with a smile on her face. Despite all they've been through, he couldn't see a hint of regret or sadness in her eyes and in her smile. Maybe that's why he fell in love with her --- Because of the strength of her spirit --- Because she never gave up --- Because she was always there for him.
He then remembered the question she just asked him a second ago. "Um --- What's quite funny, Elizabeth?". He asked, taking a step towards her.
Elizabeth placed her hands right beside her on the bed as she held her gaze outside the window. Her eyes glittered as the moon hit them. "Tortuga actually seems more peaceful at night." She turned her head towards Will's direction and smiled. "In fact, it's quite beautiful, really. Come here, Will."
A gentle laugh escaped her lips as she pulled Will beside her. Before Will could react, he felt himself land beside Elizabeth on the bed. If it wasn't for his good sense of balance, the force of her pull could have caused him to land on her instead.
Will suddenly noticed the window in front of him. The curse of the Aztec gold had made him scared of the moon. Just the sight of it brought shivers up his spine. Still, he couldn't take his gaze away from the window. Elizabeth was right. Tortuga did look peaceful at night.
"Don't worry, Will. It's just the moon. Nothing else. No moonlight, see?" Elizabeth said.
She laughed and gently landed a kiss on his cheek.
Will's eyes suddenly shot wide open. "You didn't have to do that, you know." He said as he rubbed his cheek and pouted his lips. "You're treating me as if I'm a child that needs pampering. And as you can see, Ms. Swann, I don't look like a child at all --- especially in my current body."
"But you're acting like such a baby! Come on, Will! What's there to be scared of?!" She said as she playfully pushed him. Elizabeth stood up and walked right next to the window. "Okay. So you turn undead whenever the moonlight hits you. But that doesn't change who you are, Will."
Will stood up and walked right next to her. He reached out and gently ran a hand down her cheek.
"Thank you, Elizabeth. For everything." A faint smile formed on his lips as he looked into her eyes. "I --- I know that what I'm about to say is wrong, but I'm glad that you're with me right now. Here in Tortuga. Without you, I may have already lost myself out there. Without you, I---"
Elizabeth suddenly placed a finger on Will's lips, stopping his trail of words. "Shhh." She said softly. " There is no need to thank me, Will Turner. I'm here because I want to be with you. And if I weren't here right now, if I was in a far off place, I'd still search for you as you searched for me."
Will stepped away from Elizabeth and leaned against the windowsill. He stared out the window towards the world outside. Elizabeth was right. Tortuga did seem more beautiful at night. It was still the same old pirate island that they've docked into that morning, but something about its empty streets, bright lampposts, quiet houses and starry sky made it seem more --- acceptable.
"You know what?" He asked. He looked back at Elizabeth and smiled. "You're right. Tortuga does seem more beautiful at night.
He suddenly saw a bright line of light flash through the sky. It was a shooting star. Will had never seen one before. And it was odd enough that he had seen such rare beauty at a time when he was at his worst.
"Did you see that, Will?!!" Asked Elizabeth excitedly.
Will turned towards her and saw her face radiating with happiness under the night of the moonlight. Perhaps it was her first time to see a shooting star too.
Will smiled back at her. His blue eyes stared into her hazel ones. "It was beautiful, wasn't it?" He stared back at the sky. Probably hoping to see another one flash before his eyes. But there was none. The shooting star had come and gone like a second of one's life.
Elizabeth stared at the sky too. A soft smile still lingered on her lips. "Do you remember when we used to go to the docks at night to stare at the stars?"
Will was still looking at the starlit sky. "Of course I remember.". His smile widened as he remembered their younger selves doing the same thing as they were doing at that moment.Staring at the stars. It looks like nothing had truly changed between them.
"We'd sit on the edge of the dock for hours, looking at the starlit sky. Sometimes we'd even draw the constellations." He added.
"And that one night, we were supposed to see a shooting star." Elizabeth said as she continued to look at the sky above them. It was like she could stare at it forever. "My teacher told me that there was going to be a shooting star that one night, but ---"
Will looked at Elizabeth. "--- but your father caught as sneaking out." He chuckled, trying to hide the sadness brought about by a distant memory. "That was the last time we ever gazed at the stars. I'd go to the docks myself and stare at them alone. But they didn't seem as beautiful without you, so I stopped looking."
Elizabeth turned away from the sky and met Will's gaze. "But now we're here again, Will. Just you and me, staring at the stars, like 8 years ago." She smiled at him, but her eyes looked like as if they were about to break into tears. "I can't believe it took us this long to finally see that shooting star."
She suddenly gave out a small laugh and wiped a tear from her eye.
"Are you okay, Elizabeth?" Will asked as he gently placed a hand on her upper arm.
"Don't worry, Will. I'm fine." She said. Despite the fact that she had shed a tear, her eyes and smile showed the happiness in her. It's been a while since Will had seen her this happy. Perhaps the freedom they had at that moment had released her somehow.
When they were in Port Royale, Elizabeth always had to worry about pleasing her father and Commodore Norrington. Back there, she had no choice but to follow what they wanted and be what they wanted her to be. But now that they were in Tortuga, she just wanted to be Elizabeth --- Not the governor's daughter nor the fiancée of the Commodore. She just wanted to be herself. She just wanted to be free.
Elizabeth raised her eyebrows and looked at Will in an inquisitive way. "They say you can wish upon a shooting star and your wish will come true. I bet I know what you wished for, Mr. Turner." She said.
Will arched a brow and smiled in a sly way. "Oh really? And what shall you bet, Ms. Swann?"
"Hmmm." The way Elizabeth's eyes rolled showed that she was deep in thought. "Okay. If I guess your wish right, then I owe you a kiss ----" She gently ran her finger down Will's lips. "---right here."
"Oh." Said Will. He was quite startled with what Elizabeth had placed as a bet. She was definitely acting more liberated now that her father and Norrington weren't around. "Well, uhm. Then if you don't guess my wish, then I too shall kiss you, Ms. Swann.". Will smiled and pointed at Elizabeth's cheek. "Right there."
"Then a deal's a deal, Mr. Turner!" She said with a proud smile. She extended her hand towards Will and they shook on an agreement.
"So, what did I wish for?" He said in a taunting tone.
Elizabeth crossed her arms on her chest and looked at him curiously. "It's quite easy actually." She said. "I bet you wished to ---". Elizabeth paused for a while, confirming her thoughts. "--- to --- to get your body back as soon as possible!"
Will suddenly gave out a hearty laugh.
"What?!" Elizabeth asked with furrowed eyebrows. "I did get it right, didn't I? You've been wanting to get your body back ever since the mist placed its curse on you!"
Will leaned forward towards Elizabeth and waved a finger at her. "Well, that is true. But that wasn't what I wished for, Ms. Swann."
"Then --- what did you wish for?" She asked curiously.
The young man took a step towards her and gently ran a finger down her cheek. "I --- I wished for you to love me unconditionally --- to be with you forever. That's what I wished for. I wished for you."
Elizabeth stared into his cold, blue eyes. In those eyes he saw Will Turner. The Will Turner she had grown to love ever since she had laid eyes on him 8 years ago. People say that the eyes are the doors to one's soul. And Elizabeth had just entered into Will's.
"I see you have come to claim your prize." She said as she stared at him.
"It's just going to be a friendly kiss. A prize in a game I fairly won." He said with a smile.
He then moved his lips close to her cheek, ready to land a kiss there. But before he could kiss her, Elizabeth suddenly moved her lips towards Will's lips, causing him to kiss her lips instead.
Will's eyes suddenly opened wide with surprise as he felt his lips touch Elizabeth's. But he couldn't pull away anymore. Her kiss held him like a magnet. He loved her, and nothing could compare to what he was feeling at that moment. He wanted to hold her closer and kiss her more passionately, but he knew it wasn't the right time to do such things.
Elizabeth wrapped her arms around Will's neck, and he knew she wanted to do the same.
But then, a thought entered his mind and he remembered something.
Without warning, he pulled away from her. The terrified look on his face showed that there was something wrong.
"MY BODY!!!" He shouted. "JACK!!!"
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The men in the bar were gathered around a table. "GO GO GO GO GO GO GO!!!!" They rooted as they raised their fists in the air.
In the middle of the crowd was a table filled with rum bottles. And on the edge of that table sat a young man who looked like Will Turner (whose body was now owned by the pirate CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow.)
The men continued to root as Jack drank more of the rum. He finished one rum bottle after another, stopping only to breathe and wipe his lips.
"That young lad has been drinking the entire night!!!" Shouted one of the men. "I dunno when he's gonner stop!"
"I've never seen a young man drink like that!" Said another man.
As Jack finished off some of the rum, the waitresses in the bar brought even more bottles to the table.
"Astounding! He even beat the record of ol' Jack Sparrow."
Jack suddenly stopped drinking and slammed the rum bottle on the table. He turned towards the man who just spoke and pointed a finger at him. "That's CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow to you!"
He then turned back towards the table and drank more of the rum.
Loud footsteps filled with the bar as Will quickly made his way down the stairs.
"WILL TURNER!!!" He shouted as he ran down. He still found it awkward whenever he had to call Jack by his name.
All the people in the bar suddenly fell silent as they saw the furious image of Captain Barbossa by the stairs. It was as if everyone had frozen in their places. They all knew how ruthless Barbossa was. And with how he looked at that moment, everyone was just scared to death of him.
Will marched towards Jack, pushing away everyone in his path.
He finally reached the table filled with rum and saw a very drunk and woozy Jack Sparrow right next to it. Jack still had a bottle of rum in his hand.
"YOU!!!" Shouted Will. "Enough of this!!!"
He stomped his way to Jack and grabbed him by the collar.
Jack looked at him angrily. "I don't like the tone in your voice, boy." He said through gritted teeth. "You know the rules. We do things my way.". Jack smiled and drunk another bottle right in front of Will's face.
"You're drunk, Ja---I mean Will!!!" He shouted as he pulled the bottle away from Jack's hand.
"Heh." Scoffed Jack. "Starting to get a little cocky, eh? You think you can push me around just because you're in that body?" Jack poked Will on the chest.
"Come on, Jack. You're drunk. How can we lift the curse when you're like this?!!" Will said. He didn't like how Jack was acting, but he couldn't completely blame Jack because he was under the influence of rum.
"Drunk? Me? I Nevur get drunk." Said Jack. He could hardly keep himself from falling down. "You know what? Maybe you should give it a try yourself, boy."
The drunken pirate grabbed one of the rum bottles on the table and clumsily pushed it against Will's chest. Jack's hand wavered, causing the rum to pour all over Will's clothes.
The young man suddenly got an angry look on his face as he felt the rum pouring down his clothes. "JACK!!! Now look what you DID!!!". He looked down and saw his shirt and pants all wet with rum, and smelling like it too.
The people in the bar suddenly gasped in horror. If they knew one thing, it was to never ever irritate Captain Barbossa. Some of them even ran out of the bar in fear.
"Oops. Sorry, boy." Jack said as he pulled himself away from Will. He smiled and waved a finger at him. "Better luck next time, eh?". He gave Will a salute and sat back down on the chair by the table. "More RUM!!!" He shouted.
Will felt furious. They were in the middle of a quest to lift TWO curses, and Jack was drinking his way to eternity.
"You know what?!!! I've had enough of you!!!" Shouted Will. He wanted to strangle Jack right then and there, but he didn't want to hurt HIS body. He didn't know if he should just leave Jack alone with his rum, or drag him up the stairs to their room.
But then, the thought of having a very drunk Jack Sparrow with Elizabeth made him feel very uncomfortable. He knew Jack would never harm Elizabeth, but the pirate was already very drunk and Will didn't want to risk anything.
"FINE!!!!" Shouted Will. "If you want to drink all the rum you want, then do so!!! But when it's already time to get down to business, you better have your mind working right!!!". He already wanted to explode. He looked at the drunken Jack was one last time, and then walked away from the table.
Everyone he passed through quickly moved away from him. They looked at him with eyes filled with terror and fear. Whenever Will met the eyes of someone, that someone either ran away or turned away quickly.
Will made his way up the stairs and disappeared from the site of everyone in the bar. For a few seconds, everyone maintained their silence, and not one moved. But after a while, everyone loosened up and went back to what they were doing. The bar was once again filled with noise and music.
A man placed a hand on Jack's shoulder. "Wow, boy! You stood up to Cap'n Barbossa and survived."
Jack looked up at the man. "That's because he's my uncle."
"Oh." Said the man. "No wonder."
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TO BE CONTINUED ^_^!
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Summary: As Will and Jack fight off Barbossa on the Interceptor, the ship wanders off into the Cursed Mist. The curse: Will, Jack and Barbossa end up switching bodies.Can Elizabeth cope up with Will being in the body of another?!
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WHOOO!!! Thank you so much to ALL my GREAT reviewers ^o^!!!! Lord Lanceahlot, ErinRichards, Sida, Keeper of the Dreams, MrsAlexisSparrow, Allie, Ermine aka Tree, oyoy (??? Lol), Vienna and ladymorgan8 ^o^!!! GOD, I LOVE YOU PEOPLE!!!
Thank you for the great reviews and words of encouragement!!! You keep this fanfic alive and kickin!!! See you in the Caribbean ^_~!
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The Cursed Mist : Marooned in Another's Body
By Cmdr. Gabe E.
PART 15 : Finally, some time alone
*This story takes place within the story of the PotC movie.*
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Before them was a narrow hall with a number of doors on both sides. On the far side of the hall is a window. Fortunately, no moonlight was shining through it.
Unlike the pub downstairs, the second floor was rather pleasant. It was quiet, clean and didn't smell of rum and smoke.
"Looks like this place isn't that bad after all." Will said, keeping his voice down.
"Maybe we should have gotten a room as soon as Jack brought us here." Said Elizabeth as she smiled at Will. He still held her hand. He became rather protective of her after she was abducted by Norrington's men.
"And speaking of that room, I believe it's about time we occupy it so that we could fetch our friend Jack. I don't even want to imagine what he's doing downstairs in MY body! And drunk too!!! Drunk! I've never even been drunk in my life!" He said in a rather joking way.
Will gently pulled Elizabeth after him as they made their way in front of the last door on the left side of the hall. "Well, here it is. The barkeep did say the last door on the left."
He was about to open the door, when the room behind them suddenly opened. Will and Elizabeth looked around and jumped back in surprise as they saw a half naked man walk out of the room. The man's hair was wet and ruffled as if it was hastily dried with a towel.
"Whadd're you two lookin' at?!!!" Said the man as he saw Will and Elizabeth looking at him. He suddenly noticed Will's form and his eyes opened wide with terror.
"Captain Barbossa!!!! I --- I didn't know you were going to stay here for the night too!!! Um --- um. Here --- the bathroom is all yours, dear Captain!" A fearful smile spread on the man's lips as he motioned his hand towards the room behind him.
He looked at Will and Elizabeth for the last time and quickly made his way to his own room.
Will and Elizabeth just stood there unmoving. Everything happened rather quickly.
"You know what?" Will said. "Perhaps I should start wearing a bag over my head. How can I expect an intelligent conversation in this body? It's either they run away or stutter in terror before I can say anything to them!"
Elizabeth smiled and placed a hand on Will's shoulder. "Well I'm not scared of YOU, William Turner." She said in a rather mocking way.
Will tilted an eyebrow and looked back at Elizabeth. "Oh really?". He leaned close to her and narrowed his eyes. "ARRR!" He said in his best pirate voice with his best pirate face.
Elizabeth rolled her eyes. "Oh Will!" She playfully pushed him away. "You can never be a pirate even if you wanted to. You will always be the young gentleman William Turner to me."
"Then I believe that's a good thing. I never wanted to be a pirate after all." He said with smile.
Elizabeth pressed her back against the door to their room and reached for the knob. "You know what? Perhaps we should already go inside before you scare more of the tenants."
Will raised a finger. "Agreed." He said.
The young woman opened the door behind her and they both stepped into the room.
The room was a simple one. It had one large bed, and right beside the bed was a small table with an oil lamp on it. On the far side of the room was a closet, a table, and some wooden chairs. The serenity and peacefulness Will found in that room was exactly what they needed after such a hard day of running around the Caribbean.
The large window on the wall parallel to the bed suddenly caught Will's eyes. A slight chill was about to climb up his spine when he noticed the absence of moonlight shining through its opening.
"Looks like the moon doesn't shine brightly in this part of Tortuga. I'll have to thank the clouds for that." He said in a whisper. He wasn't sure of Elizabeth heard him or not. He really didn't want to burden her with his troubled thoughts.
"This really is a nice room." Elizabeth said as she walked towards the bed. Her eyes wandered around the room as she looked at every corner and every furniture.
She then made her way towards the large window and smiled as she sat on the bed in front of it. "It's quite funny, isn't it?". Her eyes were focused on the world outside.
Will saw her face gleaming as the brightness of the moon touched it. Oh how beautiful she was as she sat there looking out the window with a smile on her face. Despite all they've been through, he couldn't see a hint of regret or sadness in her eyes and in her smile. Maybe that's why he fell in love with her --- Because of the strength of her spirit --- Because she never gave up --- Because she was always there for him.
He then remembered the question she just asked him a second ago. "Um --- What's quite funny, Elizabeth?". He asked, taking a step towards her.
Elizabeth placed her hands right beside her on the bed as she held her gaze outside the window. Her eyes glittered as the moon hit them. "Tortuga actually seems more peaceful at night." She turned her head towards Will's direction and smiled. "In fact, it's quite beautiful, really. Come here, Will."
A gentle laugh escaped her lips as she pulled Will beside her. Before Will could react, he felt himself land beside Elizabeth on the bed. If it wasn't for his good sense of balance, the force of her pull could have caused him to land on her instead.
Will suddenly noticed the window in front of him. The curse of the Aztec gold had made him scared of the moon. Just the sight of it brought shivers up his spine. Still, he couldn't take his gaze away from the window. Elizabeth was right. Tortuga did look peaceful at night.
"Don't worry, Will. It's just the moon. Nothing else. No moonlight, see?" Elizabeth said.
She laughed and gently landed a kiss on his cheek.
Will's eyes suddenly shot wide open. "You didn't have to do that, you know." He said as he rubbed his cheek and pouted his lips. "You're treating me as if I'm a child that needs pampering. And as you can see, Ms. Swann, I don't look like a child at all --- especially in my current body."
"But you're acting like such a baby! Come on, Will! What's there to be scared of?!" She said as she playfully pushed him. Elizabeth stood up and walked right next to the window. "Okay. So you turn undead whenever the moonlight hits you. But that doesn't change who you are, Will."
Will stood up and walked right next to her. He reached out and gently ran a hand down her cheek.
"Thank you, Elizabeth. For everything." A faint smile formed on his lips as he looked into her eyes. "I --- I know that what I'm about to say is wrong, but I'm glad that you're with me right now. Here in Tortuga. Without you, I may have already lost myself out there. Without you, I---"
Elizabeth suddenly placed a finger on Will's lips, stopping his trail of words. "Shhh." She said softly. " There is no need to thank me, Will Turner. I'm here because I want to be with you. And if I weren't here right now, if I was in a far off place, I'd still search for you as you searched for me."
Will stepped away from Elizabeth and leaned against the windowsill. He stared out the window towards the world outside. Elizabeth was right. Tortuga did seem more beautiful at night. It was still the same old pirate island that they've docked into that morning, but something about its empty streets, bright lampposts, quiet houses and starry sky made it seem more --- acceptable.
"You know what?" He asked. He looked back at Elizabeth and smiled. "You're right. Tortuga does seem more beautiful at night.
He suddenly saw a bright line of light flash through the sky. It was a shooting star. Will had never seen one before. And it was odd enough that he had seen such rare beauty at a time when he was at his worst.
"Did you see that, Will?!!" Asked Elizabeth excitedly.
Will turned towards her and saw her face radiating with happiness under the night of the moonlight. Perhaps it was her first time to see a shooting star too.
Will smiled back at her. His blue eyes stared into her hazel ones. "It was beautiful, wasn't it?" He stared back at the sky. Probably hoping to see another one flash before his eyes. But there was none. The shooting star had come and gone like a second of one's life.
Elizabeth stared at the sky too. A soft smile still lingered on her lips. "Do you remember when we used to go to the docks at night to stare at the stars?"
Will was still looking at the starlit sky. "Of course I remember.". His smile widened as he remembered their younger selves doing the same thing as they were doing at that moment.Staring at the stars. It looks like nothing had truly changed between them.
"We'd sit on the edge of the dock for hours, looking at the starlit sky. Sometimes we'd even draw the constellations." He added.
"And that one night, we were supposed to see a shooting star." Elizabeth said as she continued to look at the sky above them. It was like she could stare at it forever. "My teacher told me that there was going to be a shooting star that one night, but ---"
Will looked at Elizabeth. "--- but your father caught as sneaking out." He chuckled, trying to hide the sadness brought about by a distant memory. "That was the last time we ever gazed at the stars. I'd go to the docks myself and stare at them alone. But they didn't seem as beautiful without you, so I stopped looking."
Elizabeth turned away from the sky and met Will's gaze. "But now we're here again, Will. Just you and me, staring at the stars, like 8 years ago." She smiled at him, but her eyes looked like as if they were about to break into tears. "I can't believe it took us this long to finally see that shooting star."
She suddenly gave out a small laugh and wiped a tear from her eye.
"Are you okay, Elizabeth?" Will asked as he gently placed a hand on her upper arm.
"Don't worry, Will. I'm fine." She said. Despite the fact that she had shed a tear, her eyes and smile showed the happiness in her. It's been a while since Will had seen her this happy. Perhaps the freedom they had at that moment had released her somehow.
When they were in Port Royale, Elizabeth always had to worry about pleasing her father and Commodore Norrington. Back there, she had no choice but to follow what they wanted and be what they wanted her to be. But now that they were in Tortuga, she just wanted to be Elizabeth --- Not the governor's daughter nor the fiancée of the Commodore. She just wanted to be herself. She just wanted to be free.
Elizabeth raised her eyebrows and looked at Will in an inquisitive way. "They say you can wish upon a shooting star and your wish will come true. I bet I know what you wished for, Mr. Turner." She said.
Will arched a brow and smiled in a sly way. "Oh really? And what shall you bet, Ms. Swann?"
"Hmmm." The way Elizabeth's eyes rolled showed that she was deep in thought. "Okay. If I guess your wish right, then I owe you a kiss ----" She gently ran her finger down Will's lips. "---right here."
"Oh." Said Will. He was quite startled with what Elizabeth had placed as a bet. She was definitely acting more liberated now that her father and Norrington weren't around. "Well, uhm. Then if you don't guess my wish, then I too shall kiss you, Ms. Swann.". Will smiled and pointed at Elizabeth's cheek. "Right there."
"Then a deal's a deal, Mr. Turner!" She said with a proud smile. She extended her hand towards Will and they shook on an agreement.
"So, what did I wish for?" He said in a taunting tone.
Elizabeth crossed her arms on her chest and looked at him curiously. "It's quite easy actually." She said. "I bet you wished to ---". Elizabeth paused for a while, confirming her thoughts. "--- to --- to get your body back as soon as possible!"
Will suddenly gave out a hearty laugh.
"What?!" Elizabeth asked with furrowed eyebrows. "I did get it right, didn't I? You've been wanting to get your body back ever since the mist placed its curse on you!"
Will leaned forward towards Elizabeth and waved a finger at her. "Well, that is true. But that wasn't what I wished for, Ms. Swann."
"Then --- what did you wish for?" She asked curiously.
The young man took a step towards her and gently ran a finger down her cheek. "I --- I wished for you to love me unconditionally --- to be with you forever. That's what I wished for. I wished for you."
Elizabeth stared into his cold, blue eyes. In those eyes he saw Will Turner. The Will Turner she had grown to love ever since she had laid eyes on him 8 years ago. People say that the eyes are the doors to one's soul. And Elizabeth had just entered into Will's.
"I see you have come to claim your prize." She said as she stared at him.
"It's just going to be a friendly kiss. A prize in a game I fairly won." He said with a smile.
He then moved his lips close to her cheek, ready to land a kiss there. But before he could kiss her, Elizabeth suddenly moved her lips towards Will's lips, causing him to kiss her lips instead.
Will's eyes suddenly opened wide with surprise as he felt his lips touch Elizabeth's. But he couldn't pull away anymore. Her kiss held him like a magnet. He loved her, and nothing could compare to what he was feeling at that moment. He wanted to hold her closer and kiss her more passionately, but he knew it wasn't the right time to do such things.
Elizabeth wrapped her arms around Will's neck, and he knew she wanted to do the same.
But then, a thought entered his mind and he remembered something.
Without warning, he pulled away from her. The terrified look on his face showed that there was something wrong.
"MY BODY!!!" He shouted. "JACK!!!"
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The men in the bar were gathered around a table. "GO GO GO GO GO GO GO!!!!" They rooted as they raised their fists in the air.
In the middle of the crowd was a table filled with rum bottles. And on the edge of that table sat a young man who looked like Will Turner (whose body was now owned by the pirate CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow.)
The men continued to root as Jack drank more of the rum. He finished one rum bottle after another, stopping only to breathe and wipe his lips.
"That young lad has been drinking the entire night!!!" Shouted one of the men. "I dunno when he's gonner stop!"
"I've never seen a young man drink like that!" Said another man.
As Jack finished off some of the rum, the waitresses in the bar brought even more bottles to the table.
"Astounding! He even beat the record of ol' Jack Sparrow."
Jack suddenly stopped drinking and slammed the rum bottle on the table. He turned towards the man who just spoke and pointed a finger at him. "That's CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow to you!"
He then turned back towards the table and drank more of the rum.
Loud footsteps filled with the bar as Will quickly made his way down the stairs.
"WILL TURNER!!!" He shouted as he ran down. He still found it awkward whenever he had to call Jack by his name.
All the people in the bar suddenly fell silent as they saw the furious image of Captain Barbossa by the stairs. It was as if everyone had frozen in their places. They all knew how ruthless Barbossa was. And with how he looked at that moment, everyone was just scared to death of him.
Will marched towards Jack, pushing away everyone in his path.
He finally reached the table filled with rum and saw a very drunk and woozy Jack Sparrow right next to it. Jack still had a bottle of rum in his hand.
"YOU!!!" Shouted Will. "Enough of this!!!"
He stomped his way to Jack and grabbed him by the collar.
Jack looked at him angrily. "I don't like the tone in your voice, boy." He said through gritted teeth. "You know the rules. We do things my way.". Jack smiled and drunk another bottle right in front of Will's face.
"You're drunk, Ja---I mean Will!!!" He shouted as he pulled the bottle away from Jack's hand.
"Heh." Scoffed Jack. "Starting to get a little cocky, eh? You think you can push me around just because you're in that body?" Jack poked Will on the chest.
"Come on, Jack. You're drunk. How can we lift the curse when you're like this?!!" Will said. He didn't like how Jack was acting, but he couldn't completely blame Jack because he was under the influence of rum.
"Drunk? Me? I Nevur get drunk." Said Jack. He could hardly keep himself from falling down. "You know what? Maybe you should give it a try yourself, boy."
The drunken pirate grabbed one of the rum bottles on the table and clumsily pushed it against Will's chest. Jack's hand wavered, causing the rum to pour all over Will's clothes.
The young man suddenly got an angry look on his face as he felt the rum pouring down his clothes. "JACK!!! Now look what you DID!!!". He looked down and saw his shirt and pants all wet with rum, and smelling like it too.
The people in the bar suddenly gasped in horror. If they knew one thing, it was to never ever irritate Captain Barbossa. Some of them even ran out of the bar in fear.
"Oops. Sorry, boy." Jack said as he pulled himself away from Will. He smiled and waved a finger at him. "Better luck next time, eh?". He gave Will a salute and sat back down on the chair by the table. "More RUM!!!" He shouted.
Will felt furious. They were in the middle of a quest to lift TWO curses, and Jack was drinking his way to eternity.
"You know what?!!! I've had enough of you!!!" Shouted Will. He wanted to strangle Jack right then and there, but he didn't want to hurt HIS body. He didn't know if he should just leave Jack alone with his rum, or drag him up the stairs to their room.
But then, the thought of having a very drunk Jack Sparrow with Elizabeth made him feel very uncomfortable. He knew Jack would never harm Elizabeth, but the pirate was already very drunk and Will didn't want to risk anything.
"FINE!!!!" Shouted Will. "If you want to drink all the rum you want, then do so!!! But when it's already time to get down to business, you better have your mind working right!!!". He already wanted to explode. He looked at the drunken Jack was one last time, and then walked away from the table.
Everyone he passed through quickly moved away from him. They looked at him with eyes filled with terror and fear. Whenever Will met the eyes of someone, that someone either ran away or turned away quickly.
Will made his way up the stairs and disappeared from the site of everyone in the bar. For a few seconds, everyone maintained their silence, and not one moved. But after a while, everyone loosened up and went back to what they were doing. The bar was once again filled with noise and music.
A man placed a hand on Jack's shoulder. "Wow, boy! You stood up to Cap'n Barbossa and survived."
Jack looked up at the man. "That's because he's my uncle."
"Oh." Said the man. "No wonder."
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TO BE CONTINUED ^_^!
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