(A/N) OMG you guys are so great! 112 REVIEWS! That is the highest ever!Ok Cyber Hug for everyone! Anyways, I hope you enjoy the conclusion of this fic, I do, I think it wraps it up and pushed it forward into the next fic, named...ta da! A New Beginning: The Promise...ooo sounds interesting doesn't it...I'll give you all a litte sneak peak at the end of chapter 31. ENJOY!
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN POTC!
"Surprised to see me?" Jon asked Eve.
"Very…" Eve tried to stay calm.
"Good." He bent down in front of her. "Now what is this nonsense about you and him?"
"It isn't nonsense…"
"Love? Eve it isn't love you feel for him…it's called lust. What we have that's love."
"Had…"
"So I lost my temper…so I locked you in a room…I flipped over a table…"
"I waited for you to come back you coward! And you didn't! You went crazy Jon! You became an angry person when you came back! Everyone saw it…I was just blinded…"
"Blinded?" He said with a laugh.
"Yes, because I loved you so much…I even loved you when you…" Eve had to get him to do something besides stand in her way. "Killed our son…" If it be anger…so be it…she knew which buttons to press and knew exactly when to press them.
"I did not kill…"
"Yes you did! You left your pregnant wife alone in the house…you shoved me…and you know what it looked like you would have hurt me…the same ugly look you have on now…"
"You bitch!" Jon then slapped her hard across her face. Eve then took that as her chance to make a move. She jerked her knee upward into his chin and sent him flying back. She raced off the chair and ran for the door. Jon caught up with her and grabbed her throwing her on the bed. "Why couldn't you just break to pieces…"
"What?" Eve looked at him.
"Break…you took his death in stride…you moved on…"
"Give it a break Jon! You came back this angry…you had no clue I was with child! Something happened before that…while you were gone…and you know what…" Eve was on the other side of the bed, he was on the other. Eve knew what he had done, the animal that was now snarling in front of her.
"What?" He growled.
"I could smell her on your clothes!" Eve then threw a book at him.
"I'm going to kill you!" Jon jumped on the bed and tackled her to the ground. Pinning her arms down with his knees, he spoke slowly to her. "How did you know?"
"What would make a man that crazed…I have had a long time to think about you…about our son…and the only thing that would make a man that angry…would be if he fathered a child with another woman…that you couldn't father a child with your wife…it was in your voice, I heard it, you came back, not to tell me you were alive…but to tell me you were dead…and that you weren't staying…then when you saw me and my expanded stomach, you had a change of heart…you pig! What did you think I wouldn't find out? That the rumors wouldn't swirl…that Jonathan Sparrow fathered a bastard!" His body was boiling with anger…
"You couldn't handle a wife in shambles…and your bloody mistress, with your son…" Eve noticed his reaction. "What you think I didn't know his name? You took my son's name…and gave it to that bastard! Your disgusting!" Eve then shifted her weight. "What I want to know is why did you stay that entire year? Why did you help look for me? Why did you pretend to go crazy?"
"To make it easier for you…so I could leave you in a whole piece…what can of man would have I been if I left you the way you were…and then my father…you…the only way I could leave, without the chance of you following…" He wasn't making much sense. But Eve knew the truth would keep him in check.
"So why kill Gabriel's sister? Why go after me?" Eve somehow knew the answer that was coming.
"Because you wench…you told my father…everything…" He then got off her and threw the letter at her…Jack had written him. "He disowned me…never wanted to see me again…because of you…you aren't even his daughter!" Eve remembered the night she told Jack, it was a few days before they left with Gabriel. "Gabriel's sister was a bonus…"
"Your disgusting…" Eve then looked at him directly in the eyes. "I used to think you were like Jack, the Sparrow Charm, ways with the ladies. I thought I was wrong...but I guess not...I could say you are just like Jack, but no, you are nothing like Jack, you'll never be half the man your father is you cowardly pig! In a moment of vulnerability and pain you let heat and passion ruin everything you had, and that included your son. If he had been born would you have stayed?"
"I don't know..." His glare was murderous.
"Did you ever love me?"
"Yes, I loved you...it is more like...I fell out of love with you...it was just too hard to love you, too hard to love within all that pain." Eve then looked at him, and finally saw what he really was, a coward, a man that just couldn't care for the woman he loved...
"Let me ask you this...was she worth it?"
"Apparently Eve, she was easy, there was no pain, and she gave me a son with no problems...with you, there were problems, all I wanted was a boy to carry out my name...And you couldn't give it to me..." He then grabbed her by the blouse and threw her on the bed. "How about one for old times' sake? Wouldn't that be fun…" Eve began to fight him back, kicking and clawing at him.
She began to scream. Jon then wrapped his hands around her neck and began taking the life from her. Eve then started to reach for something, anything that she could hit him, reaching a candelabra, she picked it up held it firmly in her hand and took it to the side of his head. Eve flipped him off her and ran to the door and opened it and ran right into Gabriel.
"He's in there!" Eve screamed.
"What?"
"Jon!" Gabriel reached for the handle and opened the door. When they stepped in the door, he wasn't there. "He was here! I hit him!" Eve stepped into the room farther than Gabriel.
"Wait!" Gabriel shouted. Jon emerged from the shadows and ran with a dagger in his hand after Eve. Gabriel quickly took out his pistol and shot Jon dead. Gabriel stood over his body, the pistol still smoking in his hand. Eve bent down to Jon and felt his pulse and put her head down. Taking her hand she placed them over his face, closing his eyes, the same eyes she fell in love with, the same eyes that had suffered in grief, the same eyes that had betrayed her.
"Evelyn..." Gabriel placed his hand on her shoulder. Eve got up and wrapped her arms around him and cried.
Gabriel held her tightly, held her as she fell to pieces, he imagined that she never thought her life would be this way, imagined that things perhaps would have been different, if he hadn't shown up and taken a chance on from what he could see a terrified woman, running from something. Gabriel loved her so much and it pained him to see that he had been close to losing her...never again would he want to feel that. So he held her, held her until the room filled with marines...when Jack walked in...bending down to touch his son...looking over at Eve and breathing a sigh of relief...Jack walked over to Eve and took her from Gabriel's arms and took over, hugging her tightly, letting her know that everything was going to get better. Gabriel watched Jack for a moment, as a single tear fell from his eyes, just one, for his lost son.
Everything happened slowly...so slowly...
