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Elizabeth began to crawl away from the fighting. Something felt wrong…she felt a liquid heat near her chest.

Elizabeth then stopped, she felt so weak.

Will held up his arm. He had personally laid a bullet into Melanie's head, as one in the man in the room for good measure. He couldn't be sure, but he thought Elizabeth had moved away.

"Elizabeth!"

Will ran to where he saw her feet. He flipped her over onto her back and saw the blood. "We need the Paramedics!"

Jack ran over and knelt by her. "She's not breathing." Jack then began CPR.

Will watched helplessly…then saw him, the cause of so much trouble. "Melanie!" President Baines ran into his office.

Will, heated and in pain rose and walked over to him and grabbed the President of the United States by the back of his neck and forced him to look at Elizabeth. "Do you see what she did!" Will spun the President to face him and held the lapels of his jacket. "You will go down for this…I will see to it!" Will then shoved him to the floor.

Will then saw the Paramedics rush in. Will felt his world spinning…Dear God, what had happened.

POTC

Will waited in the waiting room for so long with no news. She was hurt again, he didn't protect her.

"Will?" Will looked up to see Weatherby and Evelyn Swann in the doorway.

Will said nothing as he simply leaned back in the chair and closed his eyes. "You used her…all of you used her…"

"Will, we needed to do what we had to do. Elizabeth's protection was our number one priority." Evelyn said in a hoarse voice.

"Don't give me that line of crap!" Will shouted. "You used her to gain politically…she never meant anything to…"

"You listen here boy…" Weatherby Swann bellowed. "We love Elizabeth. Do you honestly think we did this all for us? No, do you know what kind of headlines, and how much pain Elizabeth would endure if everything came out about her attack? She would lose her job, and she wouldn't be happy…she wouldn't have met you." The General cleared his throat. "I have stepped down from my position. Myself and Evelyn are headed out of the country to escape the media…"

"What about Elizabeth? She will still have to endure the media!"

"As far as anyone knows, she was doing her job. She found the serial killer that had been plaguing this country for years… her determination to find her attacker, she is being hailed a hero, not a victim." The General sighed.

Will looked stunned. "I don't…"

"I will always protect my daughter." Without another word he left with Evelyn.