DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN POTC!

The Dauntless docked in Port Royal two weeks later. Elizabeth had not seen or heard from Jack, and she liked it that way, he had hurt her so badly, she still was hurt.

"Elizabeth are you ready to leave?" James said.

"Yes." Elizabeth then grabbed her hook-sack, which had her sword, pistol, and daggers, and stepped on deck. The sun was shinning and the marines were busy bustling about.

"Do you want me to take you home?" James asked.

"No, I am not ready to go home yet. I will see my father in the morning, I will stay in Will's loft tonight."

"Right, well I guess you will be on your way…" Elizabeth then threw her arms around his neck.

"Thank you James, for everything you have done, you are a true friend." Elizabeth then let go of him and walked onto the docks. 'I want to see him…'. So Elizabeth sat down on a crate and waited for Jack to be brought out. It wasn't five minutes before she saw him, Jack looked worn and tired, their eyes met, and they exchanged glances.

James watched their interaction from a distance, he knew they loved each other, that was plain to see, but he didn't understand why Jack was being so ridiculous.

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'I am such a bloody idiot!' Jack thought to himself as he put his head against the wall of the cell. Jack had to let her go though, he cared about her too much for her to get hurt, because of him. He loved everything about her, her smile, her laugh, the way her nose crinkled when he said something that was foreign to her. Jack felt like a fool, he had lost the greatest treasure.

"Sparrow, I need to have a word with you." Commodore James Norrington said through the bars.

"What?" Jack said annoyed.

"I want to ask you something, did you really use her…? I saw the way you looked at each other today, that look was far from hate."

Jack sighed, "No, I love her, I just can't let her get hurt because of me. If she believes what I told her then she will live, I cannot have her blood on me hands."

"I see, and you thought this up all by yourself?"

"Of course I bloody did!"

"Elizabeth had no say in this?"

"No, and I don't want her to!"

"There is someone here to see you…" James then opened the door and Gibbs walked in.

"Captain! Glad to see yer still breathing!" Gibbs said.

"What is going on?" Jack said to James with a puzzled look on his face.

"I saw the Pearl, when we were sailing in, they we…well…trying to hide in a cove on the other side of the island. I walked over there today and spoke to mister Gibbs. Jack I am allowing you to leave…"

"What's the catch?" Jack asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Take Elizabeth with you…I could not hurt her by seeing you hang. Jack you can't decide her life for her…her father tried to do so and she hates him for it. Will let her free…and by God she loved him. Jack, she looks at you the same way she looked at Will, she loves you. I will not keep her caged here, she does not love me that way, but I love her enough to let her go…even with you."

Jack remained quiet for a while, "Let me out…" Jack said as he got up. James opened the cell door with a smirk on his face.

"Thanks mate." Jack said as he patted James on the back.

"I will make sure you have safe passage to the docks, I will meet you there, the Pearl will be there…Elizabeth is in Will's loft above the blacksmith shop…One more thing Sparrow…take care of her, she deserves it…"

"I will." Then Jack and Gibbs left .

When they reached the streets Jack stopped and turned to Gibbs, "I want to get her meself, Gibbs go make sure the Pearl is ready to sail."

"Aye Captain, good to 'ave ye back." Gibbs than ran off to the docks, and Jack towards Will's loft.

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Elizabeth opened the door to Will's loft. It was modest, there was a bed, nightstand, lantern, chair, and dresser. Elizabeth sat on the bed and put her head in her hands, she was so frustrated, she still loved Jack…even after all of the terrible things he said, and she felt that he loved her too. She got up from the bed and walked around the room, she opened a drawer in the dresser and found the bandana that Will wore around his wrist, she picked it up gently and smelled it, 'God, it still smells like him.' Tears filled her eyes, she still had a place in her heart for Will, but she loved Jack, Jack had taken over her heart, a knock at the door brought her out of her thoughts. Her hand reached for the door and she turned the knob.

"Jack! What are you doing here?" Anger arose from her after the initial shock.

"Elizabeth I …"

"Wait a minute, why the bloody hell are you even here? Come back for a second helping Jack? Well let me just say this, you came to the wrong place! There is a lovely whore house down the alley…because I am not your whore any more!" Elizabeth then went to slam the door, but Jack kept his hand there to keep it from closing, he walked in and shut the door behind him.

"Would you just leave me be? You don't love me, you don't care, so just let me go…"

"Elizabeth, I would not be here if I didn't love you. Elizabeth come with me to the Pearl, she is waiting for us…"

"The Pearl? Do you expect me to believe anything you just told me? I am not a naïve little girl Jack."

"Norrington arranged this, he let me go…for you."

"This keeps getting more and more unbelievable. What did you expect Jack, that I would go with you and be the permanent whore for the Black Pearl?!"

"Elizabeth what I said before…it wasn't true, I just could not allow you to get hurt because of me. I live a dangerous life, and if someone I loved were to get hurt or die because of me then I would never forgive myself." Jack saw the anger in her eyes leave, they were replaced by tears of hurt.

"My life has been decided for me my entire life, you knew that. How could you chose for me? Not even asking me?" She said sobbing.

"I was wrong Elizabeth, I should have never done that or have said those things to you. Elizabeth I love you, you must believe that, even if you believe nothing else, please you must believe that."

"You're a pirate…your words mean nothing…" Elizabeth said as she turned and walked away. Jack was not going to give up on her, he walked up right behind her and grabbed her shoulders and turned her around and look at her right in her eyes.

"My words mean everything, I may be a pirate but I am also a man, a man who is so in love with you Elizabeth, I could not live my life knowing that I left the greatest treasure behind." Elizabeth gazed into his kohl lined eyes, truth filled them. Elizabeth broke from his grasp and sat on the bed. Jack thought that his words did not connect with her, he had lost her.

What will Elizabeth do? Will she follow her head or her heart? Has the bridge been burned? MY MY MY HOW THE PLOT THICKENS!