BOOM!! BOOM!! BOOM!!

Loud bangs awoke Will and Elizabeth from their dreams. It wasn't even completely light outside yet. Liz shot up off of Will's lap, and Will jumped off the sofa with a start.

"Will! What is that?" she asked in a loud whisper.

He was about to say something when, as if on queue, a booming voice came from the other side of the door.

"William Turner! Open this door this instant or we shall be forced to open for you!"

Elizabeth gasped "Its Norrington!"

She jumped ran towards the wicker chair to get her cloak but just then the door was busted open my Norrington and three of his men, with the governor just behind them with a handkerchief covering his mouth from the dust they had stirred.

Elizabeth let out a scream, and Will ran to her side.

"Well, well, what do we have here?" Norrington said devilishly. The governor pushed his way through the guards.

"Elizabeth, darling are you alright? Where have you been? …My God, look at you!" the governor removed his handkerchief from his mouth and studied his daughter intently.

She didn't know what he was looking at so disgustedly until she turned to face the mirror on the wall. Her hair was everywhere, the top of her dress was unbuttoned and her shoes where disguarded on the floor. She could tell what her father was thinking.

She then turned to Will, who looked just as conspicuous as she did. His hair was out of its tie; his shirt was untucked and not buttoned at all.

She looked at her father who was still staring at her disgustedly.

"Father it's not what it looks like." She said moving toward him.

No Elizabeth. We will talk about this when we get back home." He grabbed her by the arm forcefully.

Will wasn't sure what to do. He obviously could see that the governor was mad, but he wanted to defend Elizabeth and her dignity.

"Elizabeth!" he yelled as her father drug her out the door.

"No!" Norrington said as he pushed him back.

"I think you should stay here. We have some business to sort out."

Then he looked at his soldiers behind towards the door. Will looked to see what he was doing. The governor was in his carriage heading toward his home. The carriage stopped in Will's doorway and the older man stuck out his hand and gave it a wave. Norrington turned back around facing Will with a smug smile. He proceeded to take off his coat.

(((Back at The Mansion)))

"Father really, your not listening to me!" she shouted trying to get him to rationalize with her.

He circled his desk for the up-teenth time that morning. "I am" he said.

"You say that you slept. That's all…" his hands were uneasily behind his back.

Elizabeth just nodded, knowing he had more to say.

"But, respectable young women do not sleep with men." He stepped to face her.

"Father, we are to be married in a month! I don't think that you would be this angry if it was Norrington I was engaged to and spending time with." She said in a rage.

"Maybe your right!" he snapped back at her.

She was shocked that he had agreed.

"What?"

"Yes, your right. I still think that James would be a better match for you." He said, his voice now lowering to a speaking tone.

Elizabeth on the other hand was getting even more enraged.

"You are being absurd!" she screamed

"In your eyes Will can do nothing right!" she yelled on the verge of tears.

"Elizabeth-" he started but was cut off by her turning around and running up the stairs.

Usually he would have let her go but this was a subject had to be dealt with.

She ran into her room and slammed the door, she couldn't stand to talk to her father when he got this way. She was absolutely infuriated with the Commodore and her father. She sat on her bed angrily thinking about what her father had said. She got up and went to her window seat, looking out over the town.

The Governor knocked then stepped into her room.

She turned to look, the quickly shot back towards the window.

"Elizabeth we really must talk more about this, and you must try and understand to see where I'm coming from." He said calmly.

"I have nothing to say to you at the moment father." Her voice was dry, and their eyes still didn't meet.

"Well I have." He started to get a governorial tone in his voice.

"You are not longer engaged to Wi- Mr. Turner." He was harsher now.

She spun around to him, about to say something but he put his hand up.

"I have decided that Commodore Norrington would be far better for you."

He looked at his daughter, her heart was breaking he could tell. He own heart broke a little as well when he saw her face. But he thought he decision was the best for her.

Tears began to well up in her eyes. "Why must you be against Will and I being together?"

"Darling, I don't think he respects you." He said, trying to make her understand.

"If you are speaking of what happened last night then u must know that it was I who came on to him. Will stopped himself, if not I'm sure it would have continued." Elizabeth stood bravely in front of her father, trying to look stronger than she felt.

The governor looked shocked. His little girl had lead a man on? No no, he thought.

" No Elizabeth you-"

"I love him"

Her father looked almost heart broken with a sad, sullen face and slumped shoulders. Elizabeth softened as well seeing her aging father like this. She stepped toward him with loving eyes

"I do love him. You must understand that."

The man in front of her straightened up, and looked her squarely in the eyes. He placed a hand in he inner coat pocket and a stern look came over him.

"He is a blacksmith and a pirate! My decision still stands. I have let the charade go on long enough."

"But- Father, you granted him clemency." She spoke quietly in disbelief.

"The clemency works on a political level, it does not clear his record in my mind." He stated stubbornly.

"You can't do this." She gasped.

"I'm sorry darling but it is for the best." He said before turning and leaving Elizabeth with her thoughts of maybe living without Will. She couldn't bare it.