(A/N) Told you I wasn't done!

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN POTC!

"My God!" Elizabeth scrambled to the body of her most trusted servant, Estrella. Elizabeth flipped her body over and saw that her throat had been slashed. Elizabeth quickly stepped away from the body in pure fear. Elizabeth stood up and smelled smoke…the mansion was on fire… Elizabeth was about to run down the hall when she felt cold metal at her back.

"Just step back in the study Elizabeth." Elizabeth's body shook in fear. Elizabeth did as she was told. "Now lock the door and place that door under the handle." Once again Elizabeth did what was asked of her. "Now, I want you to turn around." Elizabeth slowly turned around and nearly fainted. "Are you surprised to see me?"

"Very."

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"A few more hours and we'll be out on the open ocean again." Jack said as he inhaled the air deeply. "I hate being on shore longer than I have to be."

"Will, what's wrong?" Bill asked. Bill noticed Will's expression.

"Do you see that?" Will pointed in the direction of the Swann Manor.

"Looks like smoke." Jack said. "Could be from the fireplaces…"

"No…that's too much smoke." Will then started for the house.

"Will, Danielson and Caleb are dead, nothing is going to happen." Bill called after him.

"He's right Bill, that's too much smoke." Jack then started after Will, Bill right behind him.

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"I'm glad your surprised…you've surprised me."

Elizabeth was staring at Bronson Danielson, back from the dead. "I thought you were dead?" Elizabeth said quietly.

"Amazing what certain drugs, and a few household items can do to a person. I heard of your little death scene, it was quite amazing."

"Glad you approve." Elizabeth said backing away from him.

Bronson's eyes then burned with anger. "You killed my brother."

"Yes I did. He was a bastard like you and deserved to be dead, just as you should have stayed. So what was the plan Bronson? Pretend dead?"

"No, my death would have surely insured that Will, Jack, and Bill would have gone to the noose. I was going to take you…we called James down to my office, and when we heard his footsteps, well we knew we had to put on a show, it worked…but your plan, not what we counted on. You fouled everything up you wench…"

"So sorry to disappoint you…" Elizabeth back away from him.

"Stop moving." He warned. "My brother was all I had left, the only thing in this world I cared about and you took him away from me. You deserve to die."

"So you set my home on fire?" Elizabeth asked.

"Yes. You see Elizabeth I don't care about life much more, but I swear the last thing you see on this earth is my face." Smoke was starting to fill the study, it wouldn't be long before the flames began to reach the room.

"So what are you going to do?" Elizabeth's mind was racing. She needed to get out of there.

"Sit on the chair." Elizabeth sat down on a chair. The room was hot, she started coughing from the smoke. Bronson leaned over her and whispered in her ear…"We could always go out in a blaze of glory…" Elizabeth shuttered. No not again, never again, would he touch her like that. Elizabeth brought up her knee directly into his groin.

Bronson howled in pain and Elizabeth ran for the door. The handle was hot to the touch, fire was on the other side of this door, and it wouldn't be long before the flames reached the room. Bronson came from behind and grabbed her and threw her to the ground with such force the wind was knocked out of her. Elizabeth laid on the floor in a daze.

"Think your going to get away!" He straddled her, each one of his knees pinning down one of her arms. "You are in no way going to live Elizabeth…" The door then busted open with flames, and the room blew up in flames. Elizabeth's eyes widened in fear. "This is for you Caleb…" He closed his eyes and tossed his head back. Rafters were beginning to fall around them, crashing down…she was running out of time.

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"Where is she!" Will shouted as he Jack, and Bill ran up the drive.

"She's not with the servants, Estrella is also unaccounted for." James said to Will.

"I have to find her!" Will started to run into the house but Bill tackled him down to the ground.

"No, son, you can't…" Bill whispered to him. As they looked up into house, rafters were beginning to fall.

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Elizabeth struggled beneath him, there was no way she would die here with him. She looked around, the smoke was so thick it was hard to see with her watered eyes, they burned with pain. With her hands pinned at her sides she started ruffling with her dress, she nearly forgot the pistol tied to her thigh. She found the pistol and pulled it out.

"Get off me!" Elizabeth screamed.

"Shut up!" Bronson then slapped her hard.

"Have it your way!" Elizabeth fired the pistol. The bullet only grazed his side, but it did the job, he fell off her in pain. Elizabeth then scrambled to his pistol and picked it up from the floor. Bronson scrambled to his feet and started after her, and she fired the pistol…

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"That was a shot from a pistol!" Jack shouted. They paused as they heard another.

"What's happening in there?" Will said helplessly.

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Elizabeth ripped off parts of her dress and covered her mouth and nose, so she wouldn't breath in so much smoke. The flames were so hot, sweat was pouring from her, as she grabbed a letter opener from the desk. The door was crowded with debris, her last and only escape. Bronson had been shot, but she knew it wasn't fatal. As she looked down the window she saw Will. She quickly whipped around and went to get a chair, but instead of a chair, Bronson charged at her. Grabbing her he tried to pull her from the window, but this time she was better prepared. She lifted the letter opener in the air and jabbed it straight through his neck. The weight of his body falling on her knocked her out of the window.

She reached for the ledge and grabbed it.

"Elizabeth!" Will shouted. "James, we have to get something to her…" As the words escaped from his lips, a blast blew through the study and Elizabeth fell to the bushes below.

Will ran to her. She was looking up at him, in obvious signs of pain, Will gently lifted her from the ground, and took her away from the burning building.

"Elizabeth…" Will caressed her cheek. Elizabeth reached for his hand. "Someone give me water!" Water was handed to Will, and Elizabeth started to drink from the glass bottle and coughed it all up. She was gasping for air. "Breathe…your safe now…" Will placed his hand on her chest. "Breathe slowly…" Will tried to mimic how he wanted her to breathe.

"Will, the physician is here." James said from his shoulder. James pulled Will back as the doctor began to huddle over Elizabeth.

"We need to take her to the fort, at my office…" The doctor said. A stretcher made of two bamboo stalks and a thick piece of burlap was brought up, Elizabeth was placed on it. Will, Jack, Bill, and James, each lifted a corner and followed the doctor to the fort.