DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN POTC!
"What's taking so long?" Will was getting dizzy with Jack's pacing.
"This isn't an easy diagnosis." Will said. "You know what you did by bringing her here."
"Yes, I know." Jack looked at the room Elizabeth was being examined in. He wanted to be in there with her, hold her hand, to tell her he was here, and nothing, no one was going to pull him away, at least not yet. "My focus is on her, and the deal was you wouldn't hall me away until I knew she was going to be fine."
"Yes Jack, it's a deal, Matt radioed in and agreed to it." Will ran his hand through his hair. "Just know that once she's better we have to take you into custody…Harry and Joshamee are lucky they left, otherwise they'd be thrown in the same boat your in." Will then sighed. "How in the hell are you going to tell Elizabeth?"
"I'll tell her."
"Well, you know that I will have to pick her up…she's going to be heartbroken."
"At least she has someone…" The door to her exam room opened up.
"She should be fine." The young solider said. "We set her up with a treatment of neurological stimulators."
"So she's fine?" Jack said with a smile.
"She will suffer side effects. The drug that was given to her did its damage."
"Which is?"
"She will probably suffer sever headaches that will come out of nowhere…she'll will just need to learn how to deal with them. I see no other abnormalities in her lab work or in her CT images." The doctor shook Jack and Will's hand and allowed Jack to see Elizabeth.
When Jack walked into her room, he was set back at the amount of tubes that were in her arms, the cannula tubing that went into her nostrils…she looked like she was dying…no he couldn't think like that, she was fine. Jack sat on the edge of the bed and picked up her hand, careful not to disrupt any of the tubes. "Well Elizabeth, you're going to be fine…" Jack turned away. He wasn't ever going to see her again, he was going to be locked up in prison, life was simply not fair. "Elizabeth, you're going to just have headaches that will be a bother, but other than that you'll be fine. I just was worried…it just isn't fair that I can't spend the rest of my life with you…"
"Why is that?" Elizabeth asked hoarsely.
"Have you been listening to me?" Jack asked as he smiled.
"Yes, you sound so corny…" Elizabeth said, Jack noticed her breathing was labored.
"You should relax." Jack brushed back her hair.
"Fine, just keep talking to me…" Elizabeth settled into the pillows a bit more and closed her eyes.
"I love you Elizabeth. I have for a long time, and I realize I always will." That brought Elizabeth's eyes open.
"Really?" Elizabeth gripped his hand.
"Yes, just don't take that to the bank." Jack let go of her hand.
"Why?" Elizabeth's eyes widened with fear.
"You're in a military hospital…after I leave this room I will be taken into custody." Elizabeth wiggled about barely able to control her anger.
"No, no, you have to leave Jack…escape, you have to. When I leave I will find you…"
"Elizabeth, if you come with me you can never go back to the States. Never see your Father or Will, or anything you love."
"But I love you." Tears slid down the side of her face as she hiccupped.
"I know that…but you know we couldn't…"
"Jack, leave. You can escape, I know you can…"
"Elizabeth, I will be transported back to the States with you. You are going to escort me…I am the man you've been hunting for…"
"You're the man I want…" Jack stood up from the bed leaned over and kissed her lips.
"I'm sorry Elizabeth."
"Jack, please don't leave…"
"I have to."
"Jack…" Elizabeth sat up in the bed and started tearing off her IV's and took off her oxygen. The machines beside her started beeping.
"Elizabeth that's going to make you better…"
"I am going with you, I will help you escape…" Three nurses and two FBI agents ran into the room. Jack was immediately restrained as the nurses shut the machines off and settled Elizabeth back down.
"Don't you dare!" Elizabeth screamed as she saw Will walk in the room. "Will please, just…" Elizabeth looked into his eyes and knew nothing could be done, the deal was made, it was sealed. Elizabeth watched as Jack was taken away from her.
Elizabeth felt the cold of the drugs go through her veins like liquid ice. She soon found herself drifting into a sleep she didn't want…there was only one thing she did want and he was gone.
"How is she Weatherby?" President Harrington asked as he walked into the hospital with his loyal and best friend.
"Agent Turner called me just before we stepped off the plane to inform me she is conscious, that she will make a full recovery, but with some side effects, headaches…" Weatherby closed his eyes. "To think I almost lost her."
"She's a strong girl, she'll be fine." President Harrington nodded to a solider that saluted him. "She did her country an incredible honor…she went undercover and got some of our biggest problems off our back, Sparrow for one, and Norrington."
"Yes, Norrington…" Weatherby's eyes flickered with pain. "She told me when she was seventeen that she would see the bastard die…well, he's in our custody…at least she will get to see him rot in jail."
"Most certainly." President Harrington and Weatherby walked into Elizabeth's room. Weatherby took a step back, not completely sure why his daughter was still hooked up to all of those dreadful machines.
"Why is she like this? I thought…" The President began. "Shawn, check on her status immediately." Harrington ordered one of his secret service agents.
"Mister President." Will walked into the room soon as he heard the commotion. "Mister Swann, Elizabeth had a bit of a panic attack, the doctor feared her recovery would be delayed, so he gave her something to let her sleep."
"Why did she have a panic attack?" Weatherby roared.
"Sir, she…this is a private matter, one she would have to tell you herself." Will said.
"I demand to know." Weatherby turned to the President. "I'm sorry Peter, just give me a moment."
Once the door had shut Will went to talking. "She is in love with him sir."
"What? Norrington? That…son of a ..."
"No, Jack Sparrow sir." Will said softly as if not to wake the dead.
"Jack Sparrow?" Weatherby sat down in a chair to catch his breathing. "He is going to spend the rest of his life in jail."
"Now you get it." Will looked at Elizabeth's sleeping form. "Sir, she started ripping our her tubing…I have never seen her so rash, usually she is calm."
"You didn't know her as a teenager." Weatherby smiled. "Oh boy, what am I going to do?"
"There isn't anything we can do."
"Yes, I know. I will just have to be here for her." Weatherby smiled at Will. "You can go, get your rest. I plan on taking Elizabeth home as soon as she's ready."
"Well sir, she is going to escort Jack to the States, she had been on his tail for years." Weatherby nodded. "Have a good night sir. Tell Elizabeth I will be back in the morning."
Will nodded at left. Weatherby turned to his daughter and picked up her hand. "I promised I would always support you in everything you do…and I will stick by it."