You Were Meant For Me
Author: williz
Summary: Will/Elizabeth focus- It's just Will and Elizabeth in a big adventure in which they meet many times. OK…I'm bad at summaries. But my story is going to be really fun. I swear! Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Johnny Depp (or Jack Sparrow), Orlando Bloom (Will Turner), Keira Knightley (Elizabeth Swann), the commodore, the governor, and the rest of those guys in this that you recognize from the movie. Disney owns the movie, not me.
Just for your reference:
The flashbacks will say FLASHBACKabove it, END FLASHBACK below it...and it will be in italics.
Happy reading, mates!
Jack sat in the corner of his cell with his knees tucked up under him. His hat was stripped from him, but the uniform still adorned him. Jack picked up his head and looked in the cell next to his.
"Will?" He whispered. "Hey! Will, are you sleeping!" Will looked up from his boots and looked at Jack. "Yes, Jack. I'm sleeping. Now leave me alone." Will dropped his head back down.
"There's no need to be touchy, mate. I'm thinking up a plan to get us outa 'ere! Now listen…" Will just rolled his eyes. "Jack…" Will interrupted. "Just…forget about it." Jack crawled to the bars between the two cells. "Aye, mate. You plan to give up everything just because of a setback with your lassie?" Jack said, rolling his eyes at Will and batting his eyelashes.
Will picked up some dirt and tossed it at Jack. "Shut up!" Will barked. He sighed and ran a hand through his hair. "Jack, I'm sorry. It was just… I don't know what to make of all this. I mean, she just stood there…not even blinking." Will stood up and walked to the bars to look at the door of the prison.
"Elizabeth probably hates me, now. I was so close…but that damn PIRATE BRAND!" He leaned his head against the bars and closed his eyes.
"The governor's daughter," Jack said, chuckling and shaking his head. Will turned and looked at Jack. "What?" Jack just kept laughing. "Will, me boy… only your father's son could win the heart of the governor's daughter." Will just smiled sadly. "Have I? You know, I fell harder for her this time. Now that we're both grown. Six whole years between now and then, and she still held my heart…. It's the worst feeling to know you have an unrequited love," he said.
Jack rolled his eyes. "Bloody hell, William! Stop feelin' sorry for yeself! The lass is in love with you!" He droned, disgustedly. Will grinned. "You think so?" He asked his friend. "I know so, whelp."
"Say…" Will said as he walked closer to Jack's cell and plopped down. "…how do you think they found the Rockwells but not the crew?" Jack just shrugged. "I dunno. There's always the fact that me crew threw 'em out there when those redcoats cam barreling down towards me ship."
"Would they leave us here like this, though? I mean, the crew really does like you, Jack….they always say they'd never want to be on another's crew." Will smiled a secret smile, as Jack sat up and leaned closer to him. "Really?"
"No," Will answered matter-of-factly.
"Har har har," Jack said, sarcastically as he sat back down again. "Damn boy," he mumbled. "What was that, Cap'n?" The younger pirate asked, teasing. "Ehhh, shut your mouth." Jack started pouting in the corner with his arms crossed in front of him.
"I wouldn't worry though, Jack," Will said, a bit more serious. "The crew'll be back, I'm sure. This absolutely won't be the end of Captain Jack Sparrow and his first mate, the son of Bootstrap Bill himself, William Turner!" Will grinned.
"Aye, mate! They better not count on getting that rope around me neck! It won't happen!" Jack said, determined. "It won't happen!" Will repeated. "No, it won't."
A distant boom sounded as Will and Jack's eyes shot wide open. Both dove down to the ground as a cannon exploded through the wall. Half the wall fell out of place, leaving a large hole.
Both Jack and Will coughed and slowly rose, dust and dirt falling off their clothes as they did so. "Oh no…" Jack said, looking out of the hole, a frightened, yet perturbed look on his face. Will, meanwhile, dusting himself off, noticed the look and followed to look out of the wall. "What? What is going on?"
"It's Barley," Jack said. He turned and looked at Will. "Barnacle Barley, Will." The younger pirate just started climbing out into the setting sun, quickly. Jack grabbed his arm.
"What are you doing! Where are you going!" He hissed at his friend. "Jack, we're free! Let's get out of here while we still can!" Will said. "C'mon!" Will walked out and crouched behind a bush. Jack glanced behind him to see if the coast was clear and followed his first mate.
Elizabeth sat on her bed, completely rigid. She had been spending the last couple of days, two to be exact, pondering whether she should go to see Will or not.
Her thoughts wandered back to what had happened at the fort.
FLASHBACK
"Aye," Will said.
Elizabeth just looked at him. "It can't be! Why didn't you… you could have…" Elizabeth just turned away quickly, breaking his deep brown gaze.
"Elizabeth, I…" Will tried. But the commodore had interrupted him quickly. "You what? You are a pirate. Scum. I have not given you permission to speak, Turner!" The man spat in his face.
Will stood tall. "I'll speak when I feel the need to speak. You, sir, have no authority over me!" Will said, angrily. The navy man blanched and stood up rigidly. "Bad idea, mate. Baaaad idea," Jack said, wincing.
"You shut up!" James yelled at Jack, completely irate. "Right," Jack said, shutting his mouth. "You see now, Elizabeth? This is a pirate!" He said, his voice dripping with disgust as he gestured to Will. "A no-good, vile, treacherous pig with no sense of honor, decency, or respect. The saddest part is that you deserve to be that way." He shot the last part at Will himself. Will was about to speak, but Norrington punched him down to his chair and backhanded him hard across the face, his anger far from being in check. Jack winced as Elizabeth took a small step towards them, her arm stretched a bit in front of her. "No," she breathed.
Will raised his head and caught her eyes once more. The governor's daughter winced when she saw the blood on his lip from where James' hand made contact.
Elizabeth kept eye contact with him, finally seeing the boy she fell in love with those years ago in the pirate who was now a man. "Definitely a man," she thought. She could hear the other pirate, Jack, making another sarcastic comment in the background of her thoughts, but all she could focus on right now was Will.
Why hadn't he told her? Didn't he trust her with his secret? Maybe the whole thing was a cruel joke on her. A pain cursed through her heart at that horrible thought. What a way to play with a girl's heart.
"That's enough, Commodore Norrington," the governor said, looking extremely bitter. "Guards, take these men to the gallows. You will both be tried as pirates and hung in a week's time."
Elizabeth gasped. "Father, no. This is wrong! You can't!" Elizabeth pleaded as she crossed to her father. "Do not plead with me, daughter. These men are not only pirates, they betrayed us and betrayed the kindness we bestowed on them. THEY ARE UNWORTHY OF YOUR SENTIMENTS!" Governor Swann roared.
Elizabeth flinched. She'd never seen her father so angry. She turned around and glanced at Will. He was watching her so intently, that she felt weak. He sent her a reassuring and calming look. "Please, Father. Don't," she mumbled.
With a newly strong boldness, Elizabeth spun around to look at her father. "These men did no harm! You can't do this! You can't!" She said, looking into her father's eyes desperately.
"I can and I will. That will be all, men. James, take Elizabeth home…now!" He cast a look at Elizabeth and strode away.
"No!" She said, angrily, as James took her arm to lead her out. "Don't touch me!" She growled at him. Tears sprung to her eyes as she was pulled away from Will for the second time in her life. "Maybe the last," was her next thought, for right behind her, Will and Jack were being dragged away.
Elizabeth turned and looked at Will who was roughly shoved in the other direction. He got up and turned to her, desperate, it seemed, to see her once more.
"Elizabeth! ELIZABETH!" Will yelled as he was violently pushed to the ground and forcefully lifted back up. "Keep going, pirate!" One guard said.
END FLASHBACK
That was the last Elizabeth had seen Will. In these past few days she had been on the edge of anguish. The way the pirate looked at her in the fort put to rest any ideas that sprouted about Will keeping his disguise from her secret because he hadn't cared about her.
And the way he had screamed her name proved to her he must care. "But what of it, now?" She asked herself.
The tears started prickling her eyes once again as she thought of her peril. Her peril! "And what about Will's peril?" She thought. "At least I'm not going to hang in five days' time." That thought brought a full fledged cry on, as she buried her face in her pillow.
Once she had gotten most of it out of her system, she laid fully on the bed and just closed her eyes. "Maybe I should go see him now," she thought. No, she could not; her father would never allow it. But then again… when had that ever stopped her before?
The whole reason she had even met Will in the first place was because she had disobeyed her father. The young beauty opened her warm brown eyes and smirked a bit. She would go see Will.
Elizabeth sat up and dried her tears, getting off the bed. She crossed to her window. The girl would have chuckled at herself if the man she loved's life wasn't on the line.
The man she loved. Did she love him, still? He lied to her, even worked himself into her affections meanwhile. The whole thing was a lie. A blatant lie.
Oh, who was she kidding, anyway? She fell in love with the same man twice, all the while believing they were two separate men. She was in love with Will Turner, and she'd be damned if her father or the commodore tried to keep her from him again.
Elizabeth had just started crossing back to her dresser for a cloak to disguise herself when she heard a loud bang in the distance. "What was that?" Elizabeth said, stunned.
She hurried to her window and saw a menacing sight. A large, frightening ship with a torn Jolly Roger and sails loomed in the bay, shooting cannons at Port Royal. "No!" She yelled. Just as she turned around, Estrella burst into her room.
"Miss! Pirates! I bet they're in league with those two who were here!" She exclaimed, eyes wide with fright.
"Come, Estrella! We must get out of here now!" Elizabeth said. Although she'd never admit it, she was petrified.
As the two women ran down the stairs, Elizabeth demanded, "Where's my father, Estrella!" The maid turned and regarded her mistress with fright.
"I don't rightly know, Miss Swann!" Elizabeth just turned to look at her father's study, but kept running down the stairs. "Estrella, make sure the others are safe!"
What about you, Elizabeth?"
"I'll be fine, just GO!" Estrella ran off after kissing the younger woman's hand. Elizabeth ran through the rooms to the back entrance.
But as she opened the door, a disgustingly ugly pirate with all teeth but two gone from his mouth gave her a toothless grin. " Hello, missy. And what might you be doin' 'ere? Hm?"
What the pirate didn't notice was that Elizabeth snuck a hand around the door to grasp the sizzling fire poker for the oven.
"None of you business!" She said, as she brought it down on his head, knocking him out cold. She dropped the poker and fled over the pirate's unmoving body and ran as fast as she could towards a group of cowering mothers and children.
Jack looked around a bit, then motioned for Will to follow him. "Ay! Lookie 'ere boys. It's a Sparrow," Jack and Will heard behind them. Will had found a sword discarded by a dead citizen and had picked it up earlier.
Will quickly drew the sword and swirled on them. Jack winced and turned around, placing his hand on Will's arm. He shook his head as Will lowered his sword a bit, confused.
"Why hello there Lambry. Long time no see!" Jack said as congenially as possible. Meanwhile, Will was mentally counting how many pirates he and Jack were up against. Six of them. "This'll be fun," he thought.
"And who's this whelp?" Lambry asked, mockingly eyeing Turner.
"Not important," Jack tried, but the men egged Will on.
"Turn…" Will tried.
"Turning around now, actually. We're a bit late, so we'll see you soon, then? Good, good!" Jack covered, quickly.
"I don't think so, fellas." The six enemy pirates drew their swords, preparing for a fight. Will raised his sword as one came at him. He blocked the swing and brought his other hand around to hit him across the face. Another pirate sneaked up behind Will and raised his sword. At the last moment, Will dodged the pirate in front of him, causing the pirate in back of him to get a blade through his middle. Will turned and looked. "Ha!" He told them, matter-of-factly. Then he turned and ran the other slightly shocked pirate through with the cutlass. "Two down, four to go!" He mumbled, excited.
Meanwhile, Jack caught a small pirate's hand and grabbed the pistol from the man's belt, turned around, and shot a pirate running at him. The pirate dropped his sword and grabbed his stomach, falling over dead. Then, Jack turned and kicked the small pirate, stealing his sword. "Thankye, kindly," Jack said, out of breath.
Will finally subdued his third pirate and punched the man across the face soundly, before running him through quickly.
Jack turned and picked up the fallen man's sword. "Good thing this one's dead," he spoke to himself. Now that he was holding two swords, one in each hand, the pirate turned to throw one to Will so the boy could help him out.
Two pirates were sprawled out dead on the floor, a third just now being killed by his first mate. "Hm…" Jack said. "Guess he's doing just fine, then."
All of a sudden, Will was surprised by Lambry coming up behind him. Will spun as he was hit across the face, a large cut sprouting blood just below his eye, on his cheekbone. As he scrambled up, ready to fight, Jack came up behind Lambry and hit him on the back of his head with the hilt of one of his swords.
"Thanks," Will drawled, wiping his cut with his sleeve. Jack saluted with the blade as Will sheathed his sword in his belt. "Shall we?" Asked Jack as he tossed one of his two cutlasses aside. "We shall," Will answered.
They ran as fast as they could to the bottom of the hill. As Will ran, he saw a girl with the same color hair as Elizabeth.
ELIZABETH! He had almost forgotten about her! What must be happening to her right now? What if she is alone, in the dark, frightened? What if she's hurt!
Will ran through every bad thought he could think of. "She might need me!" He thought, frantically.
Unknowingly, he had stopped dead in his tracks as he went through every catastrophe possible in his head. Jack stopped when he didn't hear Will beside him. He saw the horrified look on Will's face and said, "Let's go!" Will was shaken out of his thoughts.
"Jack! I need to find Elizabeth! If they find her, not only will they kidnap her, but they'll also have the medallion!" Jack waved him off and started walking away…but stopped and turned back to Will with slanted eyes. "Wot?"
"The medallion, Jack. The medallion they're looking for! It's in Elizabeth's possession!" Will was becoming frantic. He had to get to Elizabeth before Captain Barnacle Barley and his crew could get to her.
"How in Davy Jones' locker did it GET THERE!" Jack's voice exploded by the end of the sentence. Sometimes the boy was too much like his father for his own good.
"I gave it to her when she left six years ago… as something to remember me by! I didn't know it would…" Will tried to explain. Jack silenced the boy.
"S'Alright. Stupidity in the face of love runs in your family," he droned over the flames roaring in the background. "I'll help you look for 'er." He rolled his eyes as they set off.
"Let's look in the manor first," Will suggested. They ran all around the mansion when they got there, trying to find the girl. Will was distressed when they didn't see her, but as they exited the front door of the Swann manor, he saw her in a crowd of frightened people rushing down the cobble street.
"Jack, I see her… make sure I'm covered until you that I have her, got it!" Will said to Jack. "Aye-aye, Captain," Jack sarcastically answered. "Who's he think 'e is, anyway?" Jack mumbled, watching the young man run towards the lass.
Will rushed into the crowd and grabbed Elizabeth, spinning her to face him by the shoulders. She let out a gasp, thinking it was one of the evil pirates destroying her city, for reasons unknown to her.
"Will!" He got close to her, but she pulled away. "Where is my father!" He shook his head, not knowing.
"I need to get you out of here! You are in grave danger!" He told her urgently. "I can't! Where's my father, Will!" She asked.
"Don't worry, he's safe! Just come with me," he begged as he caught sight of the medallion around her neck under the dress. She turned an started moving away, refusing to leave, not knowing what danger would await her if she stayed. Just then, Jack ducked under her and threw the girl over his shoulders.
"Let's go, princess," Jack said as he started moving, Elizabeth pounding on his back screaming, "LET ME GO!" Will followed quickly, pushing away some pirates still attacking citizens. He yelled Jack's name. Jack turned, still being beaten furiously by the lass, and looked at his first mate.
"That's my job."
"Bloody 'ell, Will" Jack mumbled as he set the fuming governor's daughter on her feet. Elizabeth turned to give them both a good yell, only to find her speech cut off as Will hoisted her over his shoulders as he ran. She screamed in surprise.
Jack stood and watched, rubbing his aching back. He shrugged.
"Your funeral."
(A/N) I'm REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY sorry it took SO BLEEDING LONG to put this hella' short chapter up! But it's been horrible at home and school for me these past weeks and I've been really..ahem...well, I'm not trying to excuse it. So, I'll just say that I hate school and parents.
Yeah, so I thought this would be a good place to end my story. It's a nice place to just put it to rest. So no more chapters. I know, I know...what happens now? Well, you guys can figure it out.
NOT! JUST KIDDING! HAHAHAHA! AHAHAHAHA...HAHA...aha...ha...ahem. Sorry. Couldn't resist. (shrug)
And next week is STAR testing at school, so most of my teachers won't give me homework, so I'll have a chapter up by next week I'm sure. Sometimes tests are ok, this one'll suck...but sometimes they are ok.
So anyways, here are my REVIEW THANKS:
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melleh1: Melanie, Melanie, Melanie. THAT WAS THE COOLEST TOY KANGAROO I'VE EVER GOTTEN! Well, the only kangaroo toy I've gotten...BUT IT WAS COOL! THANKS!
JohnnysDoll84: (hangs head) I know...I know...I'm a horrible poster...(sniff) I should be hung, nevertheless. (HAHA! GET IT! POSTER! HUNG! AHAHAHA! No? Alright. Ahem.) But I promise I'll do better with that new advice you gave me! THANKYOU! It really helped! I have a couple pages of chapter 12 written already JUST FOR YOU! You're the coolest EVER! Thanks!
mz-turner: My story totally accepts! It said TOTALLY! Alright, that aside... I seriously blushed and felt all warm and fuzzy inside. (sniff) Thanks for the nice review. (tear) How did her reaction turn out? Is it good, or no? Clue me in on anything. The flashback was kinda lame, I know...but I got really into the story and then was like, "WAIT! NOBODY KNOWS HOW SHE REACTED!" So here we are! I LOVE YOU TOO! (high-five)
Thing-One: You, MJ...are the coolest. You're so cool, that I'm not even going to use an exclamation point (like this!) when I write to you. I thought the "Aye"was a nicedramatic touch. THANKS. (See? No excamation point.)
Daftlilme: Daft like Jack, eh? (Sorry, I had to put that.) Thanks for the review!
WillsOneLove: I could kiss you! But I won't because I don't swing that way...
garnet: Hey! Look pappy! I found me a PATIENT one! (grins a toothless grin and claps uproariously) Thankyou for your patience...garnet-san. (bows)
xo-miss-elizabeth-ox: Thanks dudette. And I must say... if I were gay...which I'm not (no offense to gay people up in herrr) I would totally dig Keira Knightley. I DO dig Keira Knightley...but who doesn't? (shrug) THANKS FOR THE REVIEW! YOU'RE SO COOL!
Drama Queens rule: You, my dearest reviewer...are my dearest...erm...reviewer. Yeah, anyways...what can I say? I guess I'm just...the evil type. MUAHAHAHAHAHA! (strokes beard devilishly) I loved writing Harold because he was such an arse, and at the same time, sooo...lovable? Yes, lovable. (pause) PSHYCHE! AHA!
Right...so that's it. Oh..and sorry for the evilness up there. It was just so tempting...I bet nobody even fell for it, did they? Figures. (slumps down in chair)