(A/N) It's going to be the last post for quite a while, I am working the next week straight, so I'll be lucky to be alive, much less being able to get on the net. Please enjoy!

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN POTC!

"What are you waiting for Turner? Shoot the bloody wench!" Gallow yelped. Elizabeth and Will's eyes were still locked together, their gaze not breaking. "Turner! I am ordering you to shoot her!"

"I can't." Will whispered. "Elizabeth, I thought you were dead."

"Damnit Turner! She's going to kill me!" Will looked at Elizabeth, she was going to kill him, the look of death was glowing red in her eyes.

"No, she isn't." Elizabeth still hadn't uttered a word, simply staring at him.

"Elizabeth, put the gun down." Jack said calmly. "It's Will, he isn't going to hurt you, and I'd be damned if I was going to let Gallow hurt you either." Jack said slowly.

"Turner I swear you don't shoot that wench…hell I'll do it myself!" Gallow then reached for his gun, but before he could even touch it, Elizabeth spun around and shot him right between his eyes. He slumped into his chair and slid to the floor.

Will still had his pistol aimed at Elizabeth. "Are you going to shoot me Will? Or is that for show?" Elizabeth said coldly.

"He was a decent man." Will said angrily.

"He had it out for me…I just got to him first." Elizabeth said.

"He was my Captain." Will said angrily.

"As I have orders from mine." Elizabeth said. The anger and tension in the room was thick.

"Alright, both of you, put your pistols down and get away from each other." Jack said putting his hands up. "No need for a bloodbath."

"Elizabeth spilt blood here Jack, not me." Will said.

"On my orders, we were to leave no one alive." Jack said. "Elizabeth, agreed, although, I must say, you really didn't care much about that?" Jack said rolling his eyes in the back of his head in thought.

"Elizabeth what has happened to you?" Will asked, his voice softening.

"I learned to take care of myself." Elizabeth then lowered her pistol and shoved past Will and out the door.

Elizabeth was so unbelievably angry and hurt. Will left her to be a pirate. She clenched her jaw tightly as she walked to up to Gibbs.

"Elizabeth, the crew has been taken care of. What do you want to do with the ship? It's sinking, but there are some valuable things."

"Let it sink. Where are the shackles?" Elizabeth asked.

"I thought we weren't taking on any prisoners." Gibbs asked as he took them from his back pocket.

"I changed my mind." Elizabeth took them from Gibbs, turned around and saw Will on deck, Jack beside him. "Give me your wrists." Elizabeth demanded of Will.

"What?" Will asked bewildered.

"I said give me your wrists." Elizabeth then held the shackles out. "I am taking you to the brig."

"Jack you can't let her!" Will shouted, outraged at Elizabeth's actions.

"I'm afraid she can mate…she's half way in charge." Jack said as he shrugged his shoulders. Jack knew what Elizabeth was doing, and fully consented to it.

"What?" Elizabeth then grabbed Will's wrists, and in one swift movement, his wrists were bound.

"I am one of the Captain's of the Black Pearl." Elizabeth whispered in Will's ear as she turned him to face the Pearl. "See how much you missed…" Elizabeth's voice shook with pain. "Now move." Elizabeth nudged him in the back and he started walking.

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"Want to bloody explain this?" Will asked Elizabeth as he rubbed his wrists.

"No."

"Why not?" Will asked.

"Because, you're the one that left Will. Not me." Elizabeth said as she hung the shackles on a hook across from the cell.

"You know I wouldn't leave you without a reason." Will said as he sat down.

"To sow your pirate oats, perhaps?" Elizabeth said angrily.

"No."

"Then tell me Will. What was so important that you leave without telling me? Leaving me alone to…to…"

"To what Elizabeth?" Will truly thought she was dead, and to learn she wasn't, brought up so many unanswered questions.

"You first." Elizabeth pulled up a wooden chair and sat down. Anger swelled within her body, a year ago she loved him with everything in her, but now looking at him, she felt hatred towards her love. He up and left her alone, she had no one to love her, protect her, he left her vulnerable.

"Your father threatened me." Elizabeth rolled her eyes.

"If that's what you are going to use as an excuse, you're wasting my time."

"Elizabeth it's true! Your father came to me the morning before I left, said that he was going to bring all of the charges he had pardoned me for, and I was going to hang. He wanted me to leave without saying a word to you. I knew I had to kiss you, touch you one last time…so that's why the last night we were in Port Royal…" Elizabeth put her hand up.

"Don't speak of it." Elizabeth said, she knew what resulted in that night, and what transpired on the Pearl. Will saw the inexplicable pain in her eyes, and decided to leave it be.

"That's what happened. I am telling the truth."

"Would you have come back for me?" Elizabeth asked.

"Yes. I needed to situate myself first, make a bit of money so I could support a wife and children…" Tears began to well in Elizabeth's eyes.

"You would have been too late." Elizabeth said.

"What?"

"I'm sorry Will." Elizabeth then got up.

"Elizabeth, what do you mean!" Will shouted through the bars as she ran off. Will couldn't believe what was happening. He didn't understand what was happening, or what had happened to Elizabeth.

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"Shouldn't you be keeping an eye on your prisoner?" Jack joked when he saw Elizabeth on deck.

"Shut up Jack. I am not in the mood to hear your quick whips…" Elizabeth said as she walked past him.

"What's this?" Jack said as he followed her. "What he say?"

"He told me my father ran him out of Port Royal."

"He married you off to Louis. Did you think any better of your father?"

"No. I believe Will…but it's what he said after."

"What was that?"

"He said he would have come back for me in time, after he settled everything, after he could support a wife and eventually children." Elizabeth's voice tapered off. "I was already pregnant…I was already expecting a family…I…" Elizabeth closed her eyes. "I watched one of my closest friends die, and I was nearly raped…he would have been too late…"

"Too late for what?" Jack asked as he crossed his arms over his chest.

"Too late to save me from myself." Jack let her words sink in. Jack knew that the two were completely meant for one another, but both of them had grown independent of one another, they were different people. Elizabeth had grown to care for herself and can manage the Pearl all on her own. Will was cold as ice, whether he realized it or not, he had embraced the pirate in him, take what you can, give nothing back…it might have well been written on his forehead.

"I think that you should give him a chance Elizabeth. Will's a good man…I don't think he would intentionally hurt you."

"He has Jack."

"Intentionally though?"

"I don't know."

"Will loves you."

"That's not the problem. I think while he was gone and I was out on my own, I grew up…I don't need Will to protect me…" Elizabeth then turned away from Jack and went to her cabin, where she collapsed on her bed and cried.

(A/N) Can Will and Elizabeth rekindle their relationship? Well, I'm not telling…

The new character won't be seen for another few chapters…however he is quite shady, and you will see a sudden change in Elizabeth, from her encounter from this man, she refocuses herself…and what Will truly means to her…