Disclaimer: I do not own PotC.And also the lyrics of the song that is used is from Les Misérables ( You're fault Amber. LOL )

Chapter Four

On My Own

The date with Will the night before had gone so wrong...The whole time she couldn't bring herself to look into Will's eyes, and he had immediately thought that something was wrong...At dinner he had leaned over the table and candles to tilt her chin to look him in the eyes...but the candle had singed his facial hair off of him...and he had to go and get ice, leaving Elizabeth all alone , making her think that he didn't care.

She now wandered the halls of Governor Swann's house , alone and worried of what would come.

It was dark in the windowless halls , black velvet paintings hung upon the dark maroon walls...Elizabeth stopped infront of one , so framiliar...But she hadn't seen it since she was young, very young...It was her mother and another young woman...But it was her mother as her father chose to remember her, with her light honey locks and amber coloured eyes. It was nothing like the real Eponine Swann, she had had vivid red hair , like the fire embers , living in the hearth, and emerald green eyes that seemed to shine with their own secret inner light. Her skin had been nearly pure white, not lightly tanned as she was in this painting , for she had been the decendent of the Celt, and perhaps , as some people believed , of the Faeries. But Eponine Swann was long gone now...Bet the other woman , the painting, Elizabeth did not even remember...and all the description said was : "Lady Eponine Swann and Friend, Annelyn Mc'Victor , Lady of Bristol".

Elizabeth peared closer at the woman , she, Annelyn, had hair the colour of dark aged honey, and eyes like the moon upon a midnight pool in the forests of the night. Annelyn's skin was lightly tanned, her lips smiling, and pinks as the rose in bloom.

Elizabeth soon realize that this was the woman that Eponine had let watch young, baby Elizabeth when she and Governor Swann had to depart for a night. The woman that had tought Elizabeth to read...

But somethind dawned upon Elizabeth. she remembered that Annelyn had had a son about a year older than herself , named William , as it was a very common name, and that Eponine had disappeared at the same time that Annelyn had become ill and finally died...That's why her father had moved them here to Port Royale, after all , Eponine was dead...but the boy, William had not been seen since Annelyn had died.

Elizabeth contined on her way down the dark corridors her mother had never , would never walk...and she remembered a simple fact.

Her mother, Eponine, had never loved Elizabeth's father, he had always kept her in a "prison".

Eponine had just "vanished" into thin air one night, everyone had thought her dead, but Elizabeth had thought she had known better, she had believed her mother, wild Eponine, had just run away into the night, she had believed that she would come back for her, she kept that belief for 3 months, but then her father had packed them up and moved them here to Port Royale. And then the sad truth dawned on Elizabeth, her mother was never coming back for her, Eponine was dead , long dead , buried in a shollow grave, somewhere outside of Bristol.

A crystal tear rolled down Elizabeth's cheek, as she remember the long supressed grief, and realized once again , she would never see her mother again...and now not knowing if Will still loved her or not , the only person that had loved her, since her mother was killed. Her father never really cared for her...but Will had. She sudden realized she was all alone , and she felt the need to espress the feeling in her heart. So she sang

And now I'm all along again

Nowhere to go, no one to turn to

Without a friend

Without a face to say hello to

And now the night is near, now I can make

Believe he's here

Sometimes I walk alone at night when

everybody else is sleeping

I think of him and then I'm happy with

the company I'm keeping

The city goes to bed

And I can live inside my head

On my own

Pretending he's beside me.

All alone I walk with him till morning

Without him.

I feel his arms around me

And when I lose my way, I close my eyes

and he's found me !

In the rain, the pavement shines like silver

All the lights are misty in the river

In the darkness the trees are full of starlight

And all I see is him and me for ever and forever!

And I know its only in my mind

That I'm talking to myself

and not to him

And although I know he is blind,

Still I say there's a way for us !

I love him

But when the night is over

He is gone, the river is just a river

Without him, the world around me changes

The trees are bare, and everywhere the streets

are full of strangers

I love him

But everyday, I'm learning

All my life, I've only been pretending

Without me, his world will go on turning

The world is full of happiness that I have

never know !

I love him, I love him, I love him...But only

On my own.