(A/N) Okay we are going to find out a bit more about what had happened in the past year, of course, through the eyes of Captain Jack Sparrow…Enjoy!

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN POTC!

Jack sat in his cabin alone. Things were different, much different on the Pearl. The Pearl had back the reputation it almost lost, and he was the most feared pirate in the Caribbean. However he wasn't the only one, Elizabeth, had also become well known. Jack and Elizabeth both had heard of the rumors, Captain Jack Sparrow and the unknown woman beside him, raiding and pillaging, plundering and demolishing.

Jack sighed, the mood on the Pearl was also different. With the addition of Elizabeth to his crew, the mood became lighter. Perhaps even his dark mood lightened, and he realized that. The girl was enchanting, he knew that, she was gorgeous, he knew that, but she was unattainable, she still loved Will, and Jack was sure, that no matter where Will was, he still loved her, even though Will probably thought she was dead.

Jack just couldn't fathom the fact that Will would up and leave her. Something drove him away, and Jack knew that something wasn't Elizabeth. Elizabeth didn't tell him all of the details of their relationship, but he soon figured how deep it went, within the first few weeks of Elizabeth being on the Pearl.

Jack woke to the sounds of cries coming from the room beyond him, which was Elizabeth's cabin. Jack quickly got up and ran to her room, not even putting on his boots, or a shirt. When he opened the door to her cabin, he saw Elizabeth hunched over, one hand on a dresser, and she was clenching her abdomen.

"Elizabeth, what's wrong?" Jack went to her side and placed a hand on her back. Elizabeth looked at him with tear stained cheeks.

"Jack…" Elizabeth then reached up and clenched his arm and held him as she fell to her knees. Jack then took a step back and saw the blood covering her chemise. Jack then knew how far Elizabeth and Will's relationship had gone, Elizabeth had been pregnant, and now she simply wasn't.

"Love, we have to get you to a doctor…" Jack said as he knelt down in front of her.

"No, no doctors…"

"Elizabeth, you know what's happening…" Jack then heard a low moan escape Elizabeth's lips, but it wasn't one of pain, in the physical sense, it was one of pure emotion, one that Jack never wanted to hear come from her again. Elizabeth hunched over in pain. "Please Elizabeth, let me get you a doctor, someone that can help you…" Jack pleaded.

"No. Go away, I'll take care of this…" Elizabeth then looked at Jack, her eyes spelt anguish.

"Elizabeth, I can't leave you like this…" Elizabeth then started to sob. Jack then, unsure of what to do, wrapped his arms around her shoulders, and held her, consoled her.

Jack recalled the memory with a certain sadness because Elizabeth never spoke of it again, she never uttered it to anyone, not even to him. When she woke the following morning, Jack stayed in her cabin the entire night as she slept, she couldn't meet his eyes, and she didn't meet his eyes for weeks after that.

Jack knew there were a lot of things Elizabeth hadn't had out yet, that she still kept so much bottled up inside. Then he heard a knock at his door. Elizabeth stepped inside with a bottle of wine in her hand with two glasses.

"A peace offering." Elizabeth said as she smiled. She was wearing a white chemise and he saw she had something behind her back.

"You know I don't drink that sludge." Jack said referring to the wine.

"That's why I brought this." Elizabeth then pulled the bottle of rum from behind her back.

"Alright you can come in." Jack said as he sat up. Elizabeth quickly came in and shut the door behind her and set the two bottles and glasses down on the table.

"I'm sorry." Elizabeth said as she took her glass of wine and sat down across from him.

"For?" Jack said as he took a swig of his rum.

"Being so outrageous…" Elizabeth said as she looked down at her glass. "I shouldn't have been so forceful."

"Well, it works for you, got what you wanted. Apology accepted." Jack then looked at her. "What do you plan on doing once you find Louis?"

"Kill him…he doesn't deserve to live, he sent my life into a complete tailspin, I felt things I have always taught myself to never feel."

"Elizabeth, you have killed men before, but never in cold blood, it isn't the same." Jack warned her. "It feels different."

"I'm sure it does." Elizabeth then took a sip of her wine. "But he hurt me in ways that you couldn't even begin to understand. He made me think I was inferior, that I was worthless, and I am almost positive that he killed my father. He was the only one with motive, he couldn't have me, so he lost his temper with my father, and killed him. I need to do this for me."

"I'm just giving you a piece of advice. That's all."

"I know. Thank you." Elizabeth then smiled. "What are you going to do with the jewels?"

"Oh I'll figure out something."

"We should be in London by the end of next week. We are making good time." Elizabeth said.

"Yes." The room then went silent, a silence that was uncomfortable. "Heard anything?"

"About what?" Elizabeth asked as she cocked her head to the side, not wanting to discuss Will at all.

"About Will."

"No, not a thing. It's like he vanished, perhaps he's on another pirate ship. I'm just surprised that he didn't go to you for a position." Elizabeth said, desperately wanting to end the conversation.

"Wouldn't give him one if he asked." Jack said.

"Why?"

"Will uses emotions to much. Can't have that on a pirate ship, and if he were to become a member of my crew, he would lose the humanity he had in him, I couldn't do that to the boy."

"But you gave me a position? I know everything from you."

"You were different. Remember we're peas in a pod, you have the ability to separate the business aspect of piracy, and the emotional part. I can do it, so can you…" Elizabeth just nodded.

"I have become cold." Elizabeth said.

"Not true. You can also be very compassionate, but when the time comes to play the pirate you are, you change, you take charge…" Jack stopped, he was paying her too many compliments, it must be the rum.

"Thank you Jack." Elizabeth then stood up. "I should be getting to bed. I'll see you in the morning." Elizabeth then leaned over the table and picked up the bottles. Jack grabbed her hand.

"I am drinking that."

"I won't see you in the morning if I leave this bottle here." Their faces were inches apart. "Good night Jack."

"Good night Elizabeth." He watched her back away and leave the room with his rum.

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"We should be on them in the early morning hours." Will said.

"Aye. Are you sure you can attack the ship of your friend?" Captain Gallow asked.

"Yes." Will said it in a voice void of emotion. Ever since Elizabeth had died, and he had killed the Governor, Will had been a man of no care, he didn't care about much of anything. He focused on pirating and refused to let his heart break anymore than it already had.

"Thinking about her are you?" Captain Gallow said. "She's gone Will, let the girl go." Will had told Gallow about Elizabeth, about what had happened in Port Royal.

"She's not the type of girl you just let go."

"Probably not. But it has been over a year, let the lass go." Will shook his head and walked away. Gallow sighed deeply and looked at the Pearl that was on the horizon, even in the darkness of night, the Pearl was visible, not by sight, but by sense. He would take this girl that was on the Pearl and truly ring her damned neck, she always was a step ahead of him, taking things that he wanted, things would change in only a few hours.

(A/N) Next chapter…Will and Elizabeth finally see each other…