(A/N) Review! This chapter moves on a bit!

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN POTC!

"My keys…" Elizabeth fumbled around her apartment as well helped in the search effort. It was over four months since Elizabeth was raped, and now she felt she had to move on, no matter how much Will protested.

"I got them." Will held them up finding them on the bookshelf.

"Good." Elizabeth picked up her briefcase.

"Are you sure about this?" Will asked.

"I can't sit around here anymore." Elizabeth then looked to the ground. "Besides, it will distract my mind." Distract her from Barbossa. The threatening phone calls had stopped, they hadn't gotten one since that night so many days ago. The DNA found on Elizabeth hadn't matched anyone's on the database, so they came up with nothing.

"Alright, let's go." Will was going to stay with her until he knew she was safe inside her office, then pick her up at noon to escort her to a one o'clock hearing on a case she was working on.

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"Keep your cell phone on, and call me if you need anything." Will said.

"Where will you be?" Elizabeth asked as she put her briefcase down on her desk.

"Talking to Jack Sparrow. I'm going to see what he's got, or what he doesn't have." Will smiled and saluted her as he left.

Elizabeth looked around her office. It seemed foreign and strange to her, nothing seemed to fit right. She felt empty inside, she felt so damned lost she knew eventually she would begin to lose herself in the mix of everything else swirling and spinning around her. She began to sit down and read some paperwork before the trial.

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"Your honor, the prosecution's case is ludicrous!" Elizabeth hollered. "I demand that my client be set free, I ask for a dismissal of all charges."

"On what grounds Miss Swann, telling me the prosecution is ludicrous is not enough. I need evidence." Judge Rowlings told her. Elizabeth found it so difficult to function, her client was accused of rape. Elizabeth couldn't think of a good idea…she was at a loss for words.

"Your honor…"

"Miss Swann I have heard enough. Bail is set at three hundred thousand dollars. Bailiff please take the defendant away."

Elizabeth slumped into her seat. This wasn't like her, she blew it big time. She could have had that man out on the street by now…but the funny thing was, she wasn't sure she wanted him out on the street. Elizabeth gathered up her papers and looked at the ADA, Norrington's right hand man, a Jeffery Jones, a pathetic excuse for a man, cheated on his wife and kids, now was looking at her and smirking. That burned Elizabeth in more ways than one.

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The first time after court, Elizabeth looked up from her paperwork was when she heard a knock on her door. "Elizabeth." James poked his head through the door. "I heard what happened are you alright?" He walked in and stood by her desk. Elizabeth sighed, he was trying to pry information about her rape from her, that wasn't happening, she didn't trust him.

"I'm fine thank you." Elizabeth felt uneasy in his presence since he had not been cleared completely of suspicion. In fact, the only one person who was cleared was Jack Sparrow, who had 'company' that night.

"Elizabeth, listen, why is this Detective Turner breathing down my neck? You know I wouldn't hurt you."

"He's doing his job." Elizabeth picked up some files and stood up. "Excuse me." She brushed by him and walked to the file room.

"Elizabeth, I know I was hitting on you pretty hard that night, but I wouldn't rape you…" Elizabeth walked into the file room he walked in behind her and shut the door. "Elizabeth, will you even look at me!" He spun her around. Elizabeth dropped the files and stared at him.

"Let me by…" Elizabeth's breathing hitched as the panic within her grew.

"Elizabeth, please."

"James let me out!" She pushed at his chest. He grabbed her wrists and held them firmly at her sides.

"Elizabeth listen to me…"

"No!" Elizabeth began to scream. Flashes from her memory began to flow into her. Bursts of light and sight thrust her mind and body into shock.

James let her go quickly. He left her there on the floor screaming and crying. Elizabeth slowly slipped her hand inside her pocket and pulled out her cell phone.

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Will thought Jack Sparrow was a good crook, but an honest one. Will questioned him about Elizabeth and found him to be rather straight forward, even offering his assistance. "Jack, hold on a minute." Will walked quickly to catch up to him.

"Hey boy wonder, how's it going?" Jack joked.

"Fine, listen, have you heard anything from Barbossa?"

"Nope nothing, but let me tell you, this guy is creepy and I wouldn't put it past him to pull something like this on our favorite lawyer. I guess he is in some hot water with the IRS and was looking for a good attorney."

"Elizabeth is a public defender, why would he want her?"

"First off, wouldn't it look good if the Governor's daughter was defending him? He'd some off smelling like a rose. Secondly, she's good, she's the best and she does it for free, that's mighty charitable…she comes off smelling like a rose."

"Thirdly?" Will asked.

"There was no third, never said there was." Will rolled his eyes.

"I want to thank you for your help."

"No problem. I told Elizabeth I owed her. She's a smart lady, I like her, when you go after the bastard give me a buzz, I'll send some of my boys after him." Will shook his hand and watched Jack Sparrow disappear into the crowd. Will then heard his cell phone.

"Hello?"

"Will, please come get me." Will heard her voice shake.

"Elizabeth what happened?"

"It was James…he cornered me…and I freaked out."

"Where are you?"

"In the file room, I haven't left…"

"Stay there, I'm on my way." Will ran back to his car. So completely angry, so ticked off that he might kill someone, and that someone might be James Norrington.

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"Elizabeth…" Will pushed open the door to the file room and saw Elizabeth sitting there, tears running down her face, she looked so completely jaded.

"I want to leave…" Will obliged. He helped her to her feet and look her away from there, as they were leaving he spotted James Norrington.

"Stay away from her do you hear me?" Will said.

"I didn't hurt her."

"You scared her, and that's enough for me. You haven't been cleared yet, so keep away from her. Do you understand?"

"I'll keep my distance." James walked away as Will pulled Elizabeth closer to him.

"You'll be okay. I need to stop at my apartment first though." Will looked at her.

"Yes, that's fine."

(a/n) What you all think?