Treva struggled to no avail as she was brought to the Captain's quarters. She knew this was something she had to accept, to keep Meris safe, but she was so afraid that her body naturally attempted to free itself from the ironclad grips of the two pirates that led her there. The Captain walked in front of them without a word, an almost distant look on his face. Behind them, A few other pirates followed along, Bill amongst them, as well as her son who was being carried like a parcel under the arm of an uncaring pirate. At one instance Bill gently rested his hand on her shoulder to calm her, and it worked a bit. She eventually settled down and just allowed herself to be guided along wordlessly.
The Captain's quarters was as cluttered and filthy as the rest of the ship, but Treva looked up at his massive pipe organ in slight fascination. She had always loved music, though she wasn't very good at producing it herself, and her eyes eventually fell onto the small, heart-shaped music box that the Captain had placed next to the keys. But before she could make anymore of this, her attention was suddenly pulled back to the situation at hand when she noticed the Captain ruffling through a small chest sitting beside his organ.
"Tell me, my dear…what is it you love…?" he said, his voice grim, and in some strange way curious. Treva couldn't help but wonder what that had to do with anything, but she swallowed and answered him. "I…I love my family…my son, my husband…and my siblings…my family is…very precious to me…" she said softly, looking back to glimpse Meris, who was watching all this with a look of confusion and fear. The poor child had no idea what was about to happen to his mother, or of what she had had to give up to keep him from facing a similar fate. "But…above all else…I…I love God…" her expression distorted slightly, into one of anger. "And He'll stop you, you monster! From hurting my son, or anyone else like this…"
Davy Jones smirked faintly as he turned; in his hands was a small, serrated blade that had faint smears of dried blood still on it. "That is where you are sorely mistaken…you see, your soul is about to be in my hands, and that means there will be no judgment for you, no means to pray or hope anymore…" he took a few steps towards her, halting but a few inches away. She looked down at the floor, not watching to see his wretched smile anymore. "Your son Meris told me your name is Treva…" he placed the point of the blade beneath her chin, forcing her to look up and face him. "But soon…the person you are now will cease to exist anymore…"
"What are you going to do…?" It wasn't Treva who dared ask this, but Bill, his voice quiet and his gaze towards them both. The Captain gave him a look of faint anger, pulling the blade out from under her chin and leaving a small gash upon it. She cringed and yelped slightly, but didn't do anything as the blood trickled softly onto the floorboards. Davy Jones stepped around her so he was a bit closer to Bill instead.
"I know what you're thinking…I heard the small conversation you two had earlier…" Davy said with a knowing look, but Bill's expression wasn't fazed at all by the Captain's casual air about what was at hand. "How can I bind an innocent victim to the ship? Well it's actually rather easy…you see, when I sacrificed myself all those years ago, it was a choice I made for myself, and she's made the same. But this has a far stronger bond than anything you or the others on this ship have…this is an eternal tie…" he said, stepping back to where he had been. "For you see, she's not just going to give up her soul…it's her heart that's going to keep her here for all eternity…"
The other pirates fell quiet, and Bill's once calm expression turned into one of faint horror as he looked from the Captain to Treva, who paled to the color of a ghost as he said this. "For you see…giving up your heart is what truly makes you lose your link to humanity…and that's what you've promised for the safety of your son…now hold her still."
Treva felt herself be pushed forward, her wrists and shoulders still being gripped by her captors. Meris was only beginning to understand what was about to happen, but as Davy raised the dagger into the air to do as he had said he would, Bill wrenched the boy from the crewman who had been forcing him to watch was about to happen. He covered the child's eyes with his hand, his other arm wrapped around Meris's shoulders as the boy shuddered by the cold feel of his remaining flesh, and the sharp ends of the jagged shells. Bill himself couldn't even watch as stabbed the dagger into her chest, cutting a rough line before placing the blade aside and thrusting his hand into her open wound. Treva didn't make a sound, the life in her eyes draining as Davy gripped her heart in his misshapen hand and wrenched it out from her. Treva's form fell limp when he did this, but the heart in his hand remained beating as he held it with a tender grasp. The pirates set Treva's body onto the floor as her skin slowly began to change, her lifeless body beginning its transformation before their very eyes.
Davy looked at the heart he held in his hand for a moment, feeling the life still pulsating through it, and then turned and set it into a small box with small engravings carved into the sides of it. "Just like my heart…hers will forever remain under lock and key…" he clasped the top of the box back onto it, twisting the lock shut with a key and then placing the key into the breast pocket of his matted vest, just above where his heart would have been.
"Take her back to the cell, she will remain there for the night…" the Captain commanded, and she was hoisted up from the ground and placed back down into there. Once she was gone Bill removed his hand from Meris's eyes, but the boy could still see the blood on the ground and hear the beating coming from within the box.
"What did you do to mommy…?" the boy asked shaking, but the Captain just gave him a cold, unsympathetic look as Bill took the boy by the wrist and pulled him from the room without a word.