If anyone is interested, I replaced Chapter 4 after making a few changes. It's not much different, but the writing quality is slightly more understandable. Thanks to Lady Numenor and Tina who reviewed my last chapter!
Chapter five
"WILL!" Elizabeth saw him further down the beach. She walked over to him and started to hug him, but then stepped back as he bowed.
"Elizabeth, I apologize for my confused words yesterday, I have to say I wasn't entirely prepared for that." He laughed simply, then began walking down the beach silently.
"I know...It was quite surprising." She had thought all night what to say to him, and suddenly she couldn't remember anything. "So, what have you been doing for, well, ten years?" she asked.
"Well, I met up with Jack about a week after I left Port Royal... And you know Jack. We sailed on the seas. We usually would make for the water and return to Tortuga or another sea-side town about a month later. The longest I went without seeing land was 4 months when we sailed far off the coast of South America."
"Wow!" Elizabeth would have given anything to have sailed down the coast of South America. She turned her head to face him. "That must have been amazing!"
"It was!" Will stopped walking momentarily, grabbing her hand. She looked deep into his brown eyes. They really were amazing. "And what have you done over the past ten years?"
"Isn't it obvious!" she said moving her hand in exaggeration. "I sat in the boring old port with nothing to do but act like a proper lady."
"You do have a son." Will said, moving his gaze towards the water.
Oh no, he had brought up Young James. Elizabeth stopped walking again. "Yes, I do have a son."
"And..." Will asked. "Wasn't it entertaining watching him grow?"
"Of course it was." Elizabeth turned back towards him and walked slightly faster so she didn't have to look him in the eye. She wanted to tell him her suspicion so much, but she had to wait, she couldn't tell him now. Changing the subject she smiled. "So how long will you be in Port Royal?"
"It depends on when Jack arrives back. Maybe a week."
Elizabeth wanted so much to be unpredictable like a pirate! How good it must be! But this conversation was beginning to become a bit hard for her to handle without slipping and saying or doing something she would regret. "Well, then we must get together again sometime. As for right now, I really must be going." She began to walk up towards the road. He followed.
"But you just got here..." He began, but she turned around, looking quite pained and uncomfortable.
"Why don't you tell me where you are staying and I'll get a hold of you." She smiled sweetly, trying to keep from looking into his eyes to deeply.
He gave her his inn number and watched her walk away. Why had she left? Did he make her feel uncomfortable, was it something she said.
Will stayed at the beach for a while. He walked up and down it, pondering everything in his mind that he could possibly think of that didn't have to do with Elizabeth, but somehow, his thoughts always came back to her. He was walking towards the dock when he felt a rough hand on his shoulder. "Why Mr. Turner, wonderful to see you have returned to Port Royal." He turned around and came face to face with the Commodore.
"Hello Norrington." He bowed mockingly, trying to be respectfully. "Wonderful of you to notice." He answered. "Changed quite a bit though, hasn't it."
"Why yes it has. The best change was you or any of your pirating friends weren't in it, up until now!"
"Maybe twenty years would have been better than." Will said, "Keep us away for a while longer."
The commodore stared hard and threateningly at him. "Well, I have to be going...home...to my wife." He gave him an arrogant smile, but Will showed no sign of jealousy as he had hoped.
Will scowled instead, "Ahhh, yes. Forcing someone to marry you. Very romantic..."
"At least I am married." The commodore spat and turned around, walking up the beach and onto the dock.
"What a jerk!" Will said under his breath. Will, at least, had tried to be civilized. Hiding the fact he wanted to punch the Commodore dramatically. But he had also hidden his jealousy.
He was envious of the commodore and Elizabeth. He should be married to her with a child. But he tried not to think of it. It was very indecent to envy someone's wife. But he couldn't hide his feelings forever. "Maybe I shouldn't have come to Port Royal." He thought, "What am I here for anyways?"
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Elizabeth was reading in the parlor when Norrington walked in. He looked quite angry. "Anything wrong?" she asked.
"I should be asking you that." He said in reply.
"What do you mean?" she asked, hoping against the worst.
"Would you like to tell me what really happened yesterday, or WILL you force me to explain?" Elizabeth jumped yet again at the word will, but, contained her look of confusion.
"Fine, play dumb with me, but this comes as no surprise to you, William Turner has made his way back to the Fort."
Elizabeth tried to give a look of shock. "Well, dear, it was bound to happen someday..."
"Don't give me that, you knew he was here." The commodore drew closer to Elizabeth.
"Just because he is in town doesn't mean there is anything going on between us." Elizabeth said reading the commodores mind. "He coincidently brought home Young James after when he was injured yesterday."
"Oh, so the truth comes clean." The commodore said. "Why didn't you inform me of this immediately?"
"I saw no need too." Elizabeth said. That was honest. She hadn't really thought he needed to know.
The Commodore's mood suddenly changed. "Why do you feel the need to keep things from me? Remember, we are a team." He looked at her compassionately. She hated when he did this, trying to be romantic.
"Yes, you are right. I'm sorry." She said not wanting to contain the argument any further. She wasn't really that sorry. The Commodore grabbed her into a gruff kiss.
"I'm headed back to work. I'll see you this evening."
She watched him leave. Then fell back down into her chair sighing. She didn't love the Commodore, and she now realized the never had. The past ten years had been a flurry of fog, and now, Will had cleared her a path, but she couldn't take it.
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