"Everyone should observe carefully which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his heart"
Where Your Heart Lies
Will POV
She stands alone on the shore, staring out into the black abyss. A single clear jewel among the dark mystery of this island. She looks more alone than I've ever seen her, and its my job then isn't it to go and place my arm around her shoulders, tell her everything will be ok. But I can hear the discourse that will happen even before I get close. She'll shrug me off, tell me she's OK, independent; and who was Jack anyway? Id mention the kiss and she'd snap. For that's what she's good at doing. Snapping. Being independent, sending me away. She looks small and frail, ill almost and I really don't want her to accompany us on this journey, but she wont listen to me and I have no right to demand her to stay. I never did in the first place, but now I don't even have her heart.
Elizabeth POV
"Beg your pardon Miss Elizabeth" Gibbs says creeping up behind me and disrupting my thoughts "But I was wondering you see, what one true love you were referring to"
"The pearl of course" I say, my tone short, annoyed by the interruption. "Jack's one love" I whisper digging my nails into my hand trying to replace guilt, with pain.
He speaks through a smirk "Yes that, or his woman?"
Maintaining eye contact he almost asks me to deny it, but with every attempt words escape me. Any argument falls out of my mouth like lost moments.
"Let me give you a humble pirates opinion Miss Swan, Jack Sparrow is a unruly mysterious sort of man, always has been, but for the last year or so he was acting….strange; against his own principles even. Ever since he was marooned on a particular island with a particular governors daughter"
I focus on the sea, the pattern the waves are creating, ordering my ears not to listen. Yes, I can pretend I haven't heard, or that it doesn't make sense, but even as I'm trying to block out his words I know they're tattooing themselves onto my heart. My awakened, burning heart. I feel like its drowning, that during that kiss Jack reached into my chest tore out my heart and dragged it down to the bottom of the kraken with him. Gibbs coughs awkwardly beside me, and suddenly I realise I know what I have to do, that I've always known. All I need is faith.
"Do you trust me Gibbs?" I ask eventually
"I've known you since you were up to my boots, but trust isn't a thing a pirate does"
"OK well then do you believe that if there was anyway for me to bring him back Id do it, I'd do anything?"
He studies my eyes, and as I look back into his grey pools I see something like fatherly appreciation in them
"Aye, I believe that alright"
"Then give me a month? Please? I'll meet you, Will and the men in Tortoga with something that will help us bargain against Jones"