"You cannot be serious, Will," Elizabeth says sternly.

She has just heard of the plan as the Pearl sails for Tortuga. Will and her are below deck and Will is attempting to console her but to no avail.

"Elizabeth, it's only for a little while," Will says, "two days, at most. That's what Jack said."

"And Jack hasn't lied before?" Elizabeth asks stubbornly.

Will nods in agreement and goes to the window. "I don't know when he's lying and when he's not anymore."

"Does Gibbs know?" Elizabeth suddenly asks.

"I don't know," Will says. He turns to her. "Why?"

"Because perhaps he'll help us," Elizabeth says and ascends up the steps.

Will doesn't follow, so Elizabeth takes the intiative herself. She strides over to Gibbs and stands by him until he looks at her.

"What can you tell me about Captain Sparrow?" she asks.

Several hours later, Elizabeth descends down the steps, to find Jack and Will talking in hushed voices. Fuming at Will for this, she stands at the entryway to the room and glares at them until Jack notices.

"Well, it was nice talking to you again," he says, standing, "I'll just... go."

"Stop!" Elizabeth shouts just as he's about to leave, "I want to know what's going on that you two are not telling me."

"Elizabeth..." Will stands.

"Don't Elizabeth me. I want to know what's going on and why you haven't told me. And I'll stand here, guarding the door from both of you until one of you tells me."

"I have to maintain my ship," says Jack quickly.

"Gibbs and the night crew are up there," retorts Elizabeth.

"Elizabeth, there's no need for this," Will says.

"Apparently, there is. You two have been keeping secrets and this is not to my liking. Tell me what is going on." She folds her arms over her chest.

Jack flops down on the bed and sighs. "If you would really like to know, Tortuga is not our only course of action."

"Then what is?" Elizabeth asks.

"We're going to the Isles de Muerta," finishes Will.

"For what?" Elizabeth's patience is dwindling.

"To find out what he actually wants," says Jack.

"What who actually wants?"

"What Gerdy wants," says Will.

Elizabeth went to the window and looked out at the desolate sea. "So are we going there now?"

"Gibbs proposed we do," Jack says.

"Gibbs." Elizabeth's anger fires up again as she remembers what Gibbs told her. "Gibbs listens to you and trusts you, does he not?"

"Elizabeth..." Will knows where this is going.

"He does," says Jack, not paying attention to Will.

"I cannot imagine how," Elizabeth says bitterly, ignoring Will as well, "seeing how you are constantly lying. Even to him."

"I do not lie to everyone," Jack says miserably.

"Only the people that truly matter, I suppose, then," says Elizabeth, "seeing how you always lie to Will and me and Gibbs. Will and I almost died defending you and you reward us by lying to us?"
"I rarely ever lie to him." Jack jerks a thumb at Will. "You're a different story."

"Why am I so different? I was almost sent to the gallows because I was in cahoots with you!"

"Cahoots?" says Jack and Will together.

"You know what I mean," Elizabeth says sternly. She clearly has no time for games. She turns back to the window and sees the sea is not so desolate anymore. "We're being followed." Her anger melts to concern as Will and Jack rush up to the deck. She follows, making sure she looks like a pirate more than a woman.

"Heave to and take hold!" yells Gibbs.

Jack and Will appear at his side. "What's going on?" Jack says.

"It's Waxpax, she's gaining on us," responds Gibbs.

Will goes to the side of the ship and pokes his head over the side. It was clear, Waxpax was picking up lots of speed. He ducks back in and Elizabeth and Jack are talking to Gibbs.

"Can't this thing go any faster?" Elizabeth asks angrily, "Jack, you told me this was the fastest ship in the Carribean!"

"It was," says Gibbs for Jack, "until Waxpax came along. Gerdy's now got the fastest ship in the Carribean."

"The Black Pearl has yet to prove its willing-to-die-for worth," Elizabeth says angrily.

"Don't insult it," Jack says, rubbing the side of the Pearl, "it's ok, Pearl-y. She didn't mean it."

"Jack!" Will and Elizabeth yell together.

Rolling his eyes, Jack goes to yell at the sailors while Gibbs mans the wheel of the Pearl. Will suddenly rushes below deck and Elizabeth follows him, unsure of what he's up to. Jack grabs Elizabeth firmly and looks her in the eyes.

"You're a pirate through and through," he says.

Jack kisses Elizabeth full on the lips and she kisses him back. Will comes up on deck for a second, sees this, and stands there, dumbstruck. Elizabeth finally pulls away and looks Jack in the eyes.

"And so are you," she says, seeing Will standing in the entryway to the stairs.

Jack snickers triumphantly she goes below deck. She goes to explain but Will goes down the steps. She follows him.

"Will, please, wait," calls Elizabeth.

Will turns to her. "Wait for what? What am I waiting for now? Go off with Jack if you want to so badly."

"I don't, I—" Elizabeth is desperate to explain.

"You didn't fight what just happened to you, did you?" Will retorts.

"I tried to but—"Will walks away. "No, Will, please. I don't love Jack."

"Well, you certainly don't love me," Will says and before Elizabeth can protest, he adds, "I know how you look at people, Elizabeth. I know you better than I know anyone. You love Jack. And if that's how it is, set me free."

"I can't do that to you," Elizabeth says quietly, "I love you."

Will shakes his head. "I don't believe it anymore."

"I gave up everything for you," Elizabeth shouts after him, "my father protested endlessly. But I chose you. If I had chosen Jack, I would've. I had that chance and I chose you."

"Do you regret that choice?" Will calls over his shoulder.

"If that chance came along again, I'd make the same choice," Elizabeth responds.

Will stops and turns to her. "Is that a lie?"

"No," she says, "what you saw up there was my fault. I should've stopped him but I didn't."

"And why didn't you? Did you just want to feel his lips on yours? Just once?" Will asks sullenly.

"I... don't know," Elizabeth says slowly.

"Don't lie to me," Will says, "you looked in his eyes and he returned the same look. The look of excitement and danger. It was a look you once had before I asked you to marry me, right after we kissed. The same magic flickers between you and Jack. Has it smothered between me and you?"

Elizabeth goes to him but he protests. "I won't play games, Elizabeth," he says.

"I don't play games," she responds.

Elizabeth storms up to the top deck after a long talk with Will. She looks around for Jack but only finds Gibbs, so goes to him.

"Where's Jack?" she asks.

"In his cabin," he says, "he's gone to bed for the night."

"Go wake him," Elizabeth orders and Gibbs disappears down the steps.

A sleepy Jack climbs the steps slowly, a bottle of rum is in his hand. He smiles at her, his gold teeth shining against the moonlight.

"I refuse to believe you did that on purpose but somehow, I believe you did," she says as soon as Jack gets within earshot.

"Your beliefs are right," Jack laughs.

Elizabeth slaps him and, when he comes back up, slaps him again. "You almost ruined, perhaps forever, my only love."

"Your only love?" Jack says, circling her.

Elizabeth stares straight ahead. "I doubt this trick will work on me. It works on the vulnerable. Not on me. I know your tricks, Jack."

"Then why constantly come back, begging for more fun?" Jack asks, continuing to circle.

"You're the only person that knows the seas like I need to know them," Elizabeth responds bitterly, following Jack now with her eyes.

"Know the seas?" Jack stops in front of her.

Elizabeth nods. "You frightened that I could be a new pirate for you, Jack? A new Davy Jones?" Jack doesn't respond. "Say something, Sparrow."

Jack suddenly falls to his knees. He holds his head in his hands and rocks back and forth. Elizabeth kneels beside him. "Jack? Jack?"

A flashblack has occurred to Jack and in it, he sees a woman standing on a ship completely owned by her.

"Say something, Sparrow," she yells from across it.

Jack sails on the Pearl with Barbossa and the woman across from him looks, surprisingly, like Elizabeth. The wavy hair and the pissed-off face.

"Cepanto," says Barbossa, motioning to the woman who looks like Elizabeth, "one of the foulest women ever to cross the seven seas. And we're in her bad air."

Jack comes back to the present, with Elizabeth kneeling beside him, concern all over her face. Jack looks at her and realizes something.

"Your grandmother," he says, helping himself up, "what was her name?"

"Well, it was, Elizabeth Swann," she says, raising her eyebrows at him.

"No, her maiden name," says Jack.

"Cepanto," Elizabeth says.

"That's what I thought." Jack goes to the side of the Pearl in desperation and vomits.