Elizabeth awoke in the damp, dark brig of the Flying Dutchman. When she tried to reach up and rub the spot where she had gotten hit, she realized her hands were tightly bound together. She moaned, running both of her hands over her face. She felt a hand from the cell behind hers come to rest on her shoulder. She jumped at the contact.

"Hey, it's alright, love, it's just me," Jack's soothing voice said. She grasped at his fingers, turning herself around.

"Jack?" She asked, unable to see him.

"At your service," He said, remembering a moment they had shared like this a year ago. He took her hand and kissed it through the bars, pressing it to his cheek. She started shaking, realizing what was going on.

"Jack... what's happening?" She asked him, scared of the answer.

"We're on the Dutchman as Will's captives," Jack said, stroking her fingers.

"For how long?"

"I lost count after the first couple of hours," Jack said, giving her hand another kiss.

"When was the last time you saw Will?" She asked, her eyes pleading into the darkness.

"When he was walking out of here," Jack said.

"Jack... what are we going to do?" She asked, her voice breaking. He reached over as much as he could though the bars and caressed her cheek, trying to soothe her.

"I've figured out how we're going to get Will back," He whispered.

"How?"

"The power that comes with holding that heart and having control over Davvy Jones and the crew and the sea... it's all going to his head. It's overtaking him and overcoming him and changing him. We need to not just take it away from him. We need to stab it, like Will should have done when it first came into his grasp."

"How are we going to do that? How are we even going to get close to it, in the situation we're in?"

"I've... technically... come up with an idea," Jack said, slightly pulling away from her. There was silence. Elizabeth narrowed her eyes.

"Well?"

"It's not something I actually want to put into action," He said, sounding slightly upset.

"Jack," She said, firmly.

"Alright, alright..." He sighed. "You remember... how you... got the best of me... when you chained me to the ship?" He said, in a very awkward tone.

"Of course I remember that, Jack," She said, sounding guilty at the memory.

"Well... you remember how you did that?" He said in a small voice. She stopped to think for a moment.

"By... kissing you?" She asked.

"Correct!" He exclaimed, smiling. "Just the memory of it makes me want to take you right here," He said, pressing his face against the bars.

"Well, I think these bars are going to be a slight problem when it comes to that. Now, what were you talking about?" She asked. He sighed again.

"You could... do something of that sort... with lovely little Will," He said, looking down. It was the last thing in the world he wanted her to do. But he figured that it was the only way that one of them could get to that heart.

"Oh," She said.

"That's all you have to say about that?" Jack asked, looking up at her.

"I think it could work..." She said, but then Jack cut her off.

"I don't want you to do it," He said, resolutely.

"Oh, Jack, now come on... you came up with it!"

"It's a bad idea," He said, shaking his head.

"It could work!" She almost yelled. It was silent once more. She wished she could see him. "Jack..." She whispered. "I don't want you to be jealous, darling, but we have to end this." He was still being silent. "Jack, I'm not going to do it unless you're okay with it," She said, trying to find his lips through the bars. She finally found his cheek, and kissed it lightly.

"Don't... don't... you know... with him..." He said sadly, not even wanting to speak the words out loud.

"I know. I won't. That area of my life is specifically reserved for you," She said, smiling. "So this is okay?"

"Not particularly. But if it'll end this terrible debacle, then I guess we must. But if I hear him doing anything naughty to you, I'm breaking a hole in the side of this ship and coming up there," Jack said.

"Deal," She said, holding his hands through the bars. Now, all they needed to do was wait for Will to come below deck. And then Elizabeth was going to seduce him, as horrifying as that thought was to Jack. She just hoped she would come out of it alive.