1Chapter Six-The Curse Begins
A/N Ha! I like leaving off at cliffhangers, I'm sorry! Well, Elli has now registered on and so she'll be writing some new stories soon I hope! Promise me you'll go check out her stories, it may take her a while to come up with a story, but go check it out when she has one and be patient with her if she doesn't update quickly, trust me-her stories are worth reading. (I'll tell you as soon as she has a story up)
Will looked down at me in disbelief. How could I have lost my memory again? I sat up and looked around, not seeming to recognize anything. I then looked at Will and started laughing at the shocked look on his face. He looked at me strangely, wondering if I was alright and that made me laugh harder.
"I'm just kidding." I gasped, as I laughed.
"What?" He demanded.
"I was just messing with you, I really didn't lose my memory again." I replied. Will took a deep breath, glad that it was just a joke. He would've still let me stay here, even if I lost my memory again, but he was glad that he didn't have to re-teach me everything I had already learned.
"How did you get knocked out?" Will asked.
"How did you get dirt all over you?" I asked in reply, touching his face with a finger and pulling it away, showing him the brown dirt on his face.
"Oh, I got in a fight with a pirate." Will answered, attempting to quickly wipe the dirt off his face. I stood up, looked around for a cloth, found one and knelt next to him again.
" Here." I said and handed it to him. "What a coincidence, I got knocked out by a pirate." I replied, picking up our conversation again. "Did yours have a red bandana in his hair?" Will nodded. "I wonder what he was doing here. I wonder where he came from." I said softly. Will looked over at me sharply.
"Why are you so interested in pirates?" He snapped, standing up and helping me up to my feet roughly. I looked up at him shocked. Had I offended him somehow?
"What's wrong with being interested in pirates?" I asked him softly.
"They're out laws, they cause nothing but trouble." He replied, looking at me straight in the eyes.
"Well the pirate that was in here didn't seem that bad. He just knocked me out when he could've killed me for getting in his way." I pointed out.
"It could've been worse." Will shot back, looking at me sternly. "He could've..."
"Raped me?" I suggested helpfully.
"Yes." He muttered softly, looking flustered about something. I laughed lightly and laid a hand on his shoulder.
"Will, you don't need to worry about me." I assured him. "I'm twenty two years old.
"I can't help it." He admitted. I smiled brightly, feeling those odd, light feelings in my heart again. I leaned forward and pulled him close to me, catching him in a tight hug.
"And I care about you too, but don't spend all your time worrying about me." I commanded gently. Will remained motionless for a couple seconds, but then I felt him wrap his arms around my waist. He was surprised at my sudden actions. Will had never been touched in such a loving way for a long time. He pulled me closer to him and tightened his hold on me.
I took a deep breath and ended up breathing in his scent. At that, my heart threatened to stop beating and my lungs were closing up. I couldn't breathe standing this close to him.
Will felt me grow stiff as he held me and he wondered why I had become so uncomfortable, I was the one who hugged him after all. But he let go of me and I took a couple steps back, catching my breath and giving him a soft, apologetic smile. Will looked a little confused, but he didn't say anything, he just turned and went back to his work.
I sat down on the crate again and watched him work. I asked him questions, trying to learn more and he answered them all, being patient. But no matter how interesting Will made the art of sword making, I still became bored after awhile and we were just silent now. As if reading my mind, Will looked over his shoulder at me.
"If you're bored, you can go back home. I won't be here much longer." He said softly, although something in his eyes said he wanted me to stay.
"It's alright." I assured him. I stood up, grabbed a sword and began practicing on my own. Will looked at me, still wondering how I became so good so fast, a fact that I was wondering as well. Suddenly I felt something pulling inside me, like something in my heart and soul was pulling me towards something outside. I set the sword back in it's place and walked over to the window and opened it slowly, as if I was afraid of letting something in. Will watched me carefully, noticing that I looked really intent on something.
All I saw was a strange black dog running down the alley way into the thick fog.
"Does it always get this foggy and cold around here?" I called to Will.
"No, why?" He asked, coming to join me at the window. I gestured outside and he furrowed his brow at the gathering gloom. Will said nothing though and neither did I, but that pulling feeling in my heart was growing stronger and the strange thing was that it was the same feeling I had earlier today. What was calling me?
Elli sat in her warm satin bed drawing, when she heard Elizabeth and Linda talking in her room. Elli set down her paper and pencil and climbed out of bed, crouching near the wall that separated her and Elizabeth's room. She leaned close to wall to hear them better. (She was bored and had nothing better to do)
"You've had a very hard day haven't you miss?" Linda murmured as she slid a pan of coals under Elizabeth's bed.
"Well, I knew the Commodore would propose, but I must say I wasn't ready for it." Elizabeth replied.
"I meant being threatened by that pirate-it must've been terrifying." Linda noted, surprised at the bravery of her mistress. Elli snickered lightly to herself. Jack? Terrifying? Hell no.
"Oh yes, I suppose it was." Elizabeth mused. To Elli she seemed to rather enjoy it-after all, Elizabeth had lived a sheltered life and she was much more innocent then Elli, so she wasn't used to threats and outlaws, but Elli was and she was quite sick of it by now.
"But the Commodore proposed." Linda sighed. "Fancy that miss, now that's a smart match if it isn't to bold of me to say."
"It is a smart match." Elizabeth said in a dull voice. "He's a fine man."
"Well that Will Turner-he's a fine man too." Linda murmured softly, as if afraid of being scolded, Elizabeth heard her though.
"That is too bold." She said, looking at Linda sharply.
"Begging your pardon miss, it wasn't my place." Linda apologized and left the room.
Elizabeth laid back against the headboard, fingering a gold medallion around her neck and thinking of Will, while Elli stood up and crawled into bed, thinking of how to get out of this house. Luckily her salvation would come later that night, unlucky for Will and I though.
Will was asleep by now, but I was still awake. I had asked Will if we could stay in the workshop tonight and he had agreed to it, but not without asking for my reasons. I told him that it was already so dark and foggy outside that it would be hard to get home and I was really tired. But I couldn't sleep at all, I couldn't even close my eyes with out opening them five seconds later. The problem was Will and these strange feelings in my heart. One half of my heart felt scared because whatever was causing that weird feeling like I was being pulled to something was growing stronger(that's why I just wanted to stay here to avoid going outside) And the other half was troubled about Will.
I couldn't seem to forget how close he had been to me when I hugged him. I was also surprised because I didn't expect him to hug me back or pull me closer, but he did and that made me wonder about things. Such as-did he not like Elizabeth anymore. A large part of me hoped not and yet another part of me hoped that he did because I was afraid, afraid of my own feelings and afraid of the feelings he might have towards me.
Which lead to another question-did I love Will?
Over the black waters a ship with tattered black sails stealthily to the small Jamaican town of Port Royal. The captain stood out on deck, his cat like yellow eyes gazing at the town greedily, knowing somewhere that the child of Bill Turner slept. One of the crew members came up to his captain.
"Orders captain Barbossa?" He asked gruffly.
"Load the cannons." Barbossa replied, while stroking his pet monkey which was perched on his shoulder.
My soul searching was interrupted by cannon fire from outside. At once I sprang to my feet and went to rouse Will, but he was already up. He rushed to the door and jerked it open. I went and stood next to him, gazing out at the town which was incredibly chaotic. People fled to shelters, but were still not safe from the merciless cannon fire from a ship with black sails that sat off shore. To make matters worse, row boats full of pirates came sailing to the town. The pirates hopped out of the boats and began throwing the town into even more chaos. Women ran away screaming as pirates chased after them, grabbing their nightgowns. Children ran crying for their mothers and the sounds of laughter, shouts, screams, crying, gun shots, breaking glass and cannons filled the air.
I looked at Will. "What are we going to do?" I asked him softly, doubting that there was anything we could do. He ran back into the shop, grabbed a hatchet, two swords and ran back over to me, handing me one.
"Let's just help out the best we can." He replied and ran out of the shop and into the chaos. I followed him, gripping my sword tightly. The first thing I ran into was a pirate of course. He smiled at me in a way that I didn't like very much, so I raised my sword to chop his head clean off his shoulders, but he raised his own sword to challenge me.
Will looked behind him at me and then ran off to meet a pirate who was chasing after some poor little boy. Great, the one time Will isn't worried about me is the one time I need him and want him to be.
I ignored him for now though, knowing that he was just going to end up distracting me and I fought the pirate back with all the strength I had in me. But all my strength wasn't enough, for I was either really weak or this pirate was really strong-it seemed like there was no way of beating it. As I fought my opponent, I felt that weird pulling in my heart again, but now it was the strongest it had even been. I laid a hand on my heart to make it stop-I felt like I was going to be literally dragged towards wherever it was pulling me if it didn't go away.
At last I managed to beat the pirate's sword away, where upon I stabbed it through the heart with my own. It fell onto the ground and I ran on, looking for Will. I caught up with him and we fought back to back while townspeople rushed around us, too frightened to even help us.
Elli woke up suddenly to someone knocking on the door downstairs. She climbed out of bed and walked down to the landing, wondering what exactly was going on. One of the butlers walked towards the door and suddenly Elli had a horrible feeling in the pit of her stomach.
"No!" She shouted, but the butler didn't heed her. He opened the door to be faced with a pirate.
"Hello chum." The pirate said and shot the butler who fell to the floor. At once the pirates looked up and saw Elli on the landing.
"Get her!" The one who shot the butler cried. Elli turned and ran to her room, but tripped and fell. She heard the pirates rushing up the stairs and quickly she picked herself up and ran to her room, locking the door behind her. No sooner had she locked it, the pirates began banging on the door, trying to force it open. Elli looked around, panicking. What was she to do now?
She looked straight ahead of her at the balcony. A wild thought crossed her mind, but Elli had to go for it, the pirates almost had the door open. Elli ran forward, flung open the balcony doors and vaulted over the railing, not caring how far down the drop was or what awaited her at the bottom.
