Pirates of the Caribbean 2: the Spirit of the Dead

Disclaimer: Get away from me; I know I don't own POTC.

Chapter 4: Not Proper

ELIZABETH

"I should have known," said a tremendously disgusted voice. Elizabeth turned around and was horrified to see both her father and Commodore Norrington come out of the darkness.

"Really, Elizabeth," her father began tersely. "What is so good about a simple blacksmith?"

"What's so good about a rigid Commodore?" she shot back, her eyes flashing again, ignoring the offended look on Norrington's face.

"What," hissed her father, "will the people think when they've heard that you love a BLACKSMITH of all people?"

"Why are you taking such an offense to this?" Elizabeth yelled, banging her fist down onto a nearby table with an extremely loud thump. Oh so unladylike.

"Well..." Governor Swann said, obviously flustered. "Because..."

"Because you can do better than him," Norrington cut in smoothly.

Elizabeth gaped at him.

"How long before you throw him away like a used tissue?" he continued quietly.

She gave him a withering look, then took a leaf out of Anamaria's book and slapped him across the face.

"Elizabeth!" her father exclaimed, clearly surprised.

"He deserved it!" she stormed.

"Elizabeth," her father said again. "Get outside. We need to have a little...a little talk."

JACK

He turned around and stared at what was ahead of him.

"But..." and for once, the famous Captain Jack Sparrow was speechless. "You're dead."

There was a cruel type of laughter, piercing through the air. The sound was all around him, he couldn't escape it this time—

Jack woke up. There was a cold sweat breaking out on his forehead, and the sheets were twisted around him.

"Jack?" came a voice. He looked up and saw a shaking Anamaria.

"I'm fine," he said unconvincingly. She glared at him.

"Well, okay, no, I'm not fine," he corrected. "But it's okay, I can deal with it, savvy?"

"No," Anamaria said bluntly. "Not savvy. This has been happening for a while, Jack..."

Something in her voice made him want to tell her. But he couldn't, she was already too close.

A/N: Yeah, that's not a cliffy thing, but hey, I'm trying, and that counts, right?

brittany baker: Yay!!!!! Thank you so, so much for leaving me all of your reviews, and telling me to keep going!!!!!!!!!

Araminta Ditch: Yessums, I did have lots of fun in China.

williz: I am completely relieved to have an English Microsoft Word now, I'm so happy!!! gleeful look

nicole: Yes, well, I do think that this is a longer chapter!!! I think the reason they're so short is that I write it out on paper first, so I can work on it whenever/wherever I want to, and then it looks long but when I type it out it's a lot shorter.

nagem4: I tend to hate cliffhangers too, but only when other people give them...:)

Oh yeah, I have a question... how come every time I put in astrics, it doesn't work??