Disclaimer: i do not own POTC
"She's finally asleep…" Jack said as he looked at Elizabeth on the bed.
"How is she?" Jasper asked.
"She'd got some cuts and bruises…but there is something else…I'll have to talk with her…" Jack said. "Thank you…"
"No problem mate…" Jasper then patted his brother on the back and left the cabin.
Jack watched Elizabeth toss and turn, something was plaguing her mind, he wished he could help her, but he knew that when the time came she would open up, but he would talk with her once she woke up. Jack could hardly believe that she was safe in front of him, he had given up, he didn't think he would see Elizabeth alive ever again. What had happened in those six months? She had obviously had the miscarriage, she had suffered through that alone, and this ship she was on…who was it's Captain? Jack was completely in the dark about the last six months…hopefully Elizabeth would enlighten him.
"Nassau, we are only here for the day I wager." Captain Haley then stepped closer to her, Elizabeth winced as she thought she was going to get a slap from her question. He just brushed his hand on her cheek and kissed her neck. "You really are beautiful…" Captain Haley then pushed Elizabeth on the bed and started to kiss her. He then grazed his hand on her thigh.
"Please don't…" Elizabeth pleaded as tears streamed down her face. He then undid her corset revealing her chemise. Elizabeth then realized he wasn't going to stop so she started to struggle. Haley then slapped her in the face and got up and walked out of the cabin. Just as Elizabeth thought she was safe he returned with rope in his hand. She started to run but he caught her by the wrist and tied her hands behind her back and threw her back on the bed.
"Now your not going anywhere…"
Elizabeth screamed. Jack got up and rushed to the bed and stopped her from thrashing back and forth. Elizabeth sat straight up in bed right into Jack's arms, and started crying.
"I'm here luv…nothing can hurt you again…" Jack whispered as he hugged her.
"Jack, where are we?" Elizabeth asked.
"Nassau, why?"
"Can we please leave?"
"Elizabeth, we have to have a doctor look at ye…we can't leave…"
"Please Jack, I want to go…I'm fine, please can we just leave…" Then a loud banging at the door caused her to jump.
"Open up Sparrow!" It was Captain Haley, Elizabeth felt fear spread through her body.
"Jack it's him, oh God…" Jack looked at her then at the door.
Jack then went to the door and stepped outside, "What the hell do you want?" Jasper stood next to Jack.
"The girl…and I am not a patient man so I suggest you hand her over and I'll be on my merry way."
"The girl isn't going anywhere…so get off my ship…"
"Alright Sparrow, I'll let it go for now…" He would get her another way. Haley then walked off the ship without another word. Jack looked at Jasper and then turned his attention back to Elizabeth.
"Is he gone?" Elizabeth asked as Jack and Jasper walked in.
"Yes, Elizabeth who is he?" Elizabeth shifted in bed, she was going to tell Jack everything, the more he knew the more he would understand.
"Jack, I'm going to start from the beginning…"
"Alright…" Jack sat down next to her and Jasper sat in the armchair in the corner of the room.
Elizabeth slept comfortable for the first time in months, no nightmares, no tossing, no turning, she was so sound asleep that she didn't notice someone walk into the cabin.
Will watched Elizabeth sleep, and noticed she was with child, which would make taking her a bit more difficult. As Will's crew rounded up Jack's crew, Will took the time to look around the cabin. As he walked over to the vanity and opened the drawer he found some clothes for the baby and pulled them out, clothes and a blanket. As he went in the drawer again he pulled out a small bundle, it was his bandana he wore when he faced off with Barbossa, but he felt something else. As he undid the cloth he saw the engagement ring he gave to Elizabeth, he clenched the ring in his fist. Will then looked at Elizabeth, it was time.
"Elizabeth…" Will whispered.
"Jack?" Elizabeth said sleepily. When Elizabeth opened her eyes she let out a scream. Will put his hand over her mouth to silence her.
"Listen to me Elizabeth, I am going to remove my hand, if you scream it will be most unbeneficial to you." Will then removed his hand and Elizabeth sat in silence.
"How did you get free?" Elizabeth asked breathing heavily.
"The Commodore let me go, no evidence, and no record. He had no choice, just as you have none." Will then grabbed her arm and pulled her out of bed.
"Where are you taking me?" Elizabeth asked.
"There is a merchant ship which has agreed to take me and the crew out of Port Royal to Tortuga." Elizabeth's mind raced, where was Jack, Jasper, the crew, why could no one save her? So Elizabeth took fate into her own hands, she broke free from Will's grasp and grabbed her sword.
"I am not going anywhere." Elizabeth said. Will took out his sword.
"Elizabeth, rethink this…you are with child…" Elizabeth then slowly put down her sword. Will then quickly rushed her and slammed her against the wall, Elizabeth gasped in pain.
"Walk." Will then grabbed her arm and forced her to walk. Elizabeth struggled as they were walking past the table Elizabeth pulled from his arm and Will lost his grip. Elizabeth fell right onto a chair which fell on the floor. Elizabeth curled into a ball on the floor and cried out in pain, her stomach had directly collided with the chair.
"That's when I think it all began…when I fell on the chair, when I think the baby was killed…" Elizabeth said breaking from her story.
Will yanked her up and pushed her out the door until she fell on the deck. Elizabeth saw her crew bound and being held back by Will's crew. Elizabeth cried in pain, she saw blood pouring from her legs on the deck.
"Keep going…" Will pushed her through the brush and down to the docks.
"Will, I need to see a doctor…" Elizabeth said as he threw her in her cabin. Will looked at her and nodded. When he returned with the ship's physician he stayed in the room with her, yelling. He took the engagement ring he found in the cabin and put it on her finger.
"The bastard didn't realize I was giving birth to a dead child…" Elizabeth began to cry.
"Will left, and it couldn't have been a few minutes later when the doctor handed me a small bundle. I looked at it…it was a little girl, Jack…she was so small no bigger than the size of my hand. The doctor then patched me up as I held her…he asked me what I wanted to do with the body…" Elizabeth started to sob. "I said I wanted to go on deck…when I got on deck it seemed as though Will's crew had taken over the ship…I saw him arguing with his first mate, he was yelling that he killed the Captain without getting the coordinates, so Will was sailing blind. I continued until I got to the helm of the ship. I always pictured holding our baby at the wheel of the ship…she would have been our legacy, she would inherit the Pearl…" Elizabeth wiped tears from her eyes…Jack sat their with his head hung low, and Jasper was still in awe, "Well, Will must have been incredibly angry…he walked up to me…took her from me…" Elizabeth had to stop, "…and threw her over the railing…I started to hit him…we struggled…and we must have moved the wheel because the next thing I knew the ship collided with a group of rocks…I swam away from the wreckage…and I saw a ship…I thought it was you…but it wasn't. They picked me up and left the other's, why I didn't know, I still don't. That man that was here was Captain Henry Haley of the Battalion…I wish I would have just drowned in that water…"
