Lizzie's POV
I made my way through the Isle and people moved out of my way, fear on their faces as I moved with purpose heading straight for my mother's castle I passed Tick-Tock dock, passed the Castle Across the Way and Hell Hall walking up to the iron gate with a heart atop of it and glared at the mansion in the distance before pulling out my sword and pushed the gates open walking towards the entrance to the maze pausing for a moment since if I went in there then I knew there was a possibility that I wasn't walking out again and my mind drifted to Harry knowing how angry he was going to be at me but I had to do this, if there was any chance that I was going to have a future then I had to do this.
With a new spark added to my anger I pressed forward making my way easily through the maze since I'd been walking this maze from the moment I could walk and knew where every turn lead and where the dead ends were and the ones that weren't really dead ends at all and only a trick of the eyes to fool trespassers, when I finally came out of the maze I marched up to the front doors and wasted no time kicking them in smirking at the loud bang that reverberated through the entire mansion especially when I was met by a small hoard of guards coming running to inspect the noise.
"Take me to my mother" I ordered them for once taking pleasure that I was the princess of this house and they gestured for me to follow them which I did and found myself following them into her throne room and as usual she was sitting in her throne, a wicked smile on her face.
"The prodigy daughter finally returns" she sneered towards me as I continued to walk forward and that's when she noticed the sword in my hand because she started laughing. "Don't be so ridiculous my child, you can't hurt me"
"I didn't come here to hurt you, I came here to be rid of you" I glared at her stopping at the steps that lead to where her throne sat. "You wanted me to come to you well here I am mother but not to become your wicked princess, since it's about time you got a taste of your own medicine" I held up the sword. "I'd settle for your head but I'll leave with a promise" her face began to turn red and her eyes blazed with anger.
"You dare come here and threaten your mother"
"You may have given birth me to me but you are not my mother, I have no parents"
"Is that so?" she questioned finally standing up from her throne and walked down a step. "Tell me my child, have you ever wondered who your father is?" she asked me and I faltered for a second but I knew it was just a trick to distract me since she probably didn't even know who my father was since growing up I'd heard a lot of talk between the guards that she'd taken companionship with since being trapped on the Isle and any one of them could be my father for all I knew.
"I don't care"
"No?" she smirked. "Because I remember a little girl, who used to beg and cry for a father that she never had"
"I don't care!" I yelled more forcibly since to be honest I didn't want to know. "Now get on with this mother because the sooner I'm through with you I get to be free"
"Free, what will your freedom be Ilizabeth...to live in deeper squalor with your sea rat buddies, to actually believe that your in love with that pirates son...your not in love Ilizabeth, your 17 years old you're a child with a fool hearty desire to be loved when you know that your not capable of love"
"Because it's far better to be feared than loved, right?" I scoffed back at her. "Which is the endless difference between me and you mother, I actually know what it feels like to loved and have friends whereas you are nothing but a rageful, jealous, unloved bitch"
"How dare you!" she exclaimed and moved towards me hand raised by I quickly snapped my blade out knocking her hand out of the way and she screamed out in outrage. "You insolent brat" I smirked motioning her to try and hit me again because next time I will use the sharp edge and she just laughed making me frown. "Darling daughter, there is a harsh reality that you seem to haven't learnt yet and it is that sometimes love isn't enough" she continued to laugh and I finally heard the heavy footfalls as guards burst into the room with Ace leading the way.
"Just the other man I wanted to see" I said turning so that I was facing the both of them. "You ruined my special place and for that I'll remove your head from your shoulders"
"Your not a killer Ilizabeth" Ace argued.
"About time you showed up" mother spat at him annoyed. "Take my daughter to her room"
"No thanks" I argued raising my sword and the guards in the room all raised their pointed lances at me.
"Don't make this hard Ilizabeth" Ace said walking towards me.
"Come near me and I'll kill you" he smirked just didn't stop so I reacted and slashed out nicking his face with the tip of my sword drawing blood which brought a smile to my face. "Next time I'll take yeh head"
"Argh speak properly my child, you're a not a pirate"
"I'm not a princess either mother, I would rather me a pirate than stand another minute under your roof" I told her.
"Ace take her now!" mother yelled and when my eyes turned back to Ace one of the other guards handed him a sword as he glared at me.
"I told you it wasn't over Ilizabeth and you were foolish to come here without your body guards"
"I don't need them to defeat you!" I screamed before we lunged at each other, the only sounds in the room were the clanging of our swords and I could tell that Ace was more use to his lackeys doing all dirtier stuff like fighting.
I got the upper hand kicking him backwards after he fell into my trap with him thinking he had me over powered and he stumbled back dropping his sword which was a big mistake and I wasted no time grabbing his discarded sword and moving towards him with my sword at his throat and his behind his neck meaning I only had to move them to remove his head and to be free I was truly willing to become everything that I hated...my mother's daughter.
"End this now mother, let me live out my life and I'll spare him"
"Do it" she smirked at me and my resolve fell a little since I'd counted on my mother actually caring about Ace since he was her favorite...in more ways than one. "Become my daughter and I'll let you go because in the end you'll come back, face it Ilizabeth your my daughter and it's all you'll ever be" I glared at her before looking down at Ace seeing him looking at me with actual fear as I had him trapped and his life was in my hands.
I'd never truly hated Ace since throughout my life he was the person who was always there for me, yeah he ordered my mothers lackeys to do her bidding and was responsible for so much pain in my life but he was also the one who would bring me bandages to patch up my wounds, make sure I had food no matter how much my mother ordered him to starve me so that I had to beg her for food and took care of me whenever I grew ill from infection or sicknesses...I even had a sick imagination that he might even be my father but never had any proof...but the question running through my head was could I truly kill him...I didn't come here to become even more pathetic and end up trapped under my mother's rule...
"No!" I yelled releasing him and stepped back but didn't lower my weapons. "I'm not like you"
"Pathetic and weak, just like your father" she spat at me.
"I'm not a killer but that doesn't make me weak since a weak person wouldn't do the one thing that's right to escape your tyranny" I told her.
"And what's that?" she questioned.
"Kill myself" I dropped the swords and pulled out a dagger that I'd stolen from Harry's room after I'd escaped last time and pressed it against my throat cutting in feeling blood start trickling down my neck.
"Enough!" she yelled up stepping forward her eyes wide.
"Let me go, let me be free mother"
"No" she growled out so I pressed the knife in deeper ignoring the searing pain.
"Stop...let her go Iracebeth" Ace exclaimed standing up looking at me with actual real tears in his eyes. "It's time"
"You dare tell me what to do with my daughter!" she yelled at him and the slap that came after whipped his head to the side before she turned to me. "Get...out" she told me slowly and my eyes widened. "Don't ever return, don't expect mercy from me again Ilizabeth, your no longer princess of this domain and should you return I will not hesitate to cut off your head" I turned to Ace and he nodded towards the door telling me to leave so I didn't hesitate and ran for the door and didn't stop running until I had made it to Tick-Tock's dock before I collapsed onto my knees out of breath and dizzy from the blood loss.
"Lizzie!" I heard someone yell out but I saw nothing but black spots in my line of vision before I felt my eyes roll back and that was the last thing I remember before everything went black.
Harry's POV
I hadn't gone to school as I could care less about attending school since the only reason I even went before was because I had Liza and Uma and it was fun and I couldn't understand why Liza had even gone to school at Dragon Hall today and hated Harriet for pretty much giving her the idea to leave me so I did nothing but stay at the ship and do chores but most of all I fixed up my room getting rid of the old hammock I slept in making up an actual sleeping are with crates and an old mattress that I'd recovered from the barge earlier in the day after Liz left.
Although she never complained about snuggling up in the hammock of crashing in the desk chair I wanted to give her a proper place to rest since I knew she was plagued by nightmares and had trouble sleeping nearly every night so I felt the need to make my room more comfortable for the both of us since I officially wanted to ask her to move in with me and actually start a life with her since there was never going to be anyone else I'd want to be with that Ilizabeth.
"Hey Harry" I down from my place in the crows nest seeing Gil.
"Hey mate" I called grabbing a rope and used it to drop down to the deck. "Where's Ilizabeth?" I asked since I'd kind of expected her back by now since the school had let out over half an hour ago.
"You mean she isn't here?" he asked and I frowned.
"What do you mean she's here, she went to school with Harriet this morning?" I asked him.
"Yeah but she left at lunch" he replied and just like that I felt my heart constrict with fear.
"Where the hell is she?" I demanded grabbing the front of his shirt.
"I...I don't know" he stuttered out but really I already knew the answer and narrowed my eyes since she promised me she'd be safe.
I pulled my sword out and started running across the gangplank onto shore with him following me as we ran towards the Heart's mansion, the whole time it felt like my heart was still since I should've known better than to let her go, that Ace bilge rat was probably just waiting for the time she was alone before he took her again and this time she'd be shown no quarter but just as we'd made it past The Castle Across the Way and Hell Hall we saw someone knelt on the ground hunched over but the moment I caught the red streaks I felt my heart break even more.
"Lizzie!" Gil yelled as we continued to run forward and she looked up but then I saw the whites of her eyes as she collapsed and I slid on my knees towards her catching her just before her head smacked against the cobblestones.
"Ilizabeth?" I turned her over and my eyes widened when I saw the amount of blood around her chest and frantically moved her clothes aside trying to find the source finally noticing the cut across her neck, I yanked the hat from my head and pulled off the scarf that I tied around my head and pressed it to the wound to slow the bleeding. "Help me get her back to the ship" I stood up with her in my arms and he kept her head upright and the cloth pressed to her neck as we walked through the Isle everyone jumping out of our way with a single glare before we made it back to the Jolly Rodger and immediately took her down to me room. "Go get me sister" I told him and he nodded racing back out.
I pulled off her jacket throwing it carelessly aside before I raced up onto the deck getting some water from the barrel quickly returning and ripped up a sheet to use as bandages and cloths and started cleaning the blood away so I could see the wound better and glared at the deep gash.
"Ye stay with me princess" I told her pressing a cloth to the cut watching it soak in the thick red substance just as Harriet and Gil came into the room.
"Sink me!" Harriet exclaimed stopping at the door. (A/N - Pirate term meaning: An exclamation of surprise)
"Help me" I told her since the blood wasn't stopping.
"Gil go and get our Dad" she told him and once again Gil raced out of the room before she came over. "Keep pressure on the wound, when it soaks through put another one on but don't remove the other piece of cloth" I nodded feeling my hands shaking a little as I quickly grabbed another piece of cloth and pressed it over the other one, my hands were soaked in blood.
"What's going on...oh sink me!" Dad announced coming into the room. "What happened?"
"Her mother" I spat out feeling the anger consume me and if it wasn't for Liza bleeding out I'd already be marching up there and slaughtering the lot of everyone responsible.
"Harriet fetch some clean water, Gil any towels or pieces of cloth you can find" Dad instructed before coming towards me. "Son just keeping that pressure and pray that it stops" I nodded my head not even looking up at up watching as the bleeding continued to flow and the paler she got.
"She can't die father" I said feeling tears building up.
"Let's not sink into despair my boy" he told me placing a hand on my shoulder as Harriet came back with fresh water and Gil had more cloth and we all worked for what seemed like hours to stop the bleeding but really it was only a few minutes as Harriet continued to pass me fresh cloths.
"It looks like it's stopping"
"Wrap that last piece of cloth around it, Harry let go" I frowned not liking it but Dad had experience dealing with wounds so I let up a little relived when it seemed like the bleeding had stopped and Harriet tied a bandage around her neck keeping it loose so she could still breath but tight enough that the bleeding wouldn't start back up again and through that Dad was checking her pulse on her wrist.
"It's slow but she's alive, you did well kids but now it's all up to her" I hated that, I wanted it to be fixed right now and for her to open up her eyes, I wanted to be anywhere but on this Isle where we had no access to actual medical help. "Keep those bandages clean and change them twice a day, I'll be back to check up on her" he started to leave and I was grateful for his help but angry that he was just leaving but what more could he do for her.
"Thank yeh Dad" I told him and he nodded before I pulled the chair over and sat down beside her taking her hand in mine. "Yeh stay with me Ilizabeth, please" I begged bringing her hand to my mouth resting my lips on her knuckles as I watched her face so that I knew the moment she opened her eyes and just sat there not moving for hours silently wishing that she'd wake up.
Harriet's POV
It was a shock to me seeing my brothers franticness when I'd first come in seeing his hands covered in blood trying to stop Lizzie's bleeding but most of all I could see the clear desperation in his eyes as he worked to stop it his eyes never leaving his task and even now as he sat at her beside never moving, eyes constantly locked on her face holding her hand to his lips I never imagined I'd ever see him so in love with a girl that he could be this worried.
I'd first noticed that my brother liked the princess of hearts back when they were kids and no older than eleven, he would tease and taunt her more than any one I'd ever seen but he would also blush and deny like no tomorrow when she teased and taunted him back which never ceased to make me laugh and since then I've seen them grow closer until she suddenly showed up on the ship and told me why she was staying with us and it was then that I could see that Harry had fallen in love with her and her with him and now it felt like she was family to me so seeing her in this state hurt me so I couldn't imagine what it was doing to Harry.
"Harry" I finally decided to approach him since he was covered in blood and needed to change. "I can sit with her while you change and wash all that blood off you"
"I'm not leaving her" he argued exactly like I knew he would.
"Harry trust me I won't let anything happen to her"
"Then where we're you today when she snuck away from school and her mother caught her again!" he snapped at me and I knew that was just the fear taking but I also kind of deserved it since I had known about her mother being out to get her but I didn't know she left school, I thought she was back here with Harry when Gil came and got me from the Slop Shop where I was with Ginny and Anthony, I sighed knowing he wasn't leaving her anytime soon so I left the room seeing Gil sitting on the floor leaning against the wall.
"Watch out for my bother okay" I told him and he nodded before I left since I had to go and babysit the Smee twins right now leaving Harry to sit with Lizzie.
"How is he?" Dad asked as I passed through the shop.
"Angry, desperate" I shrugged since it was hard to say really.
"He loves this girl doesn't he?" I nodded my head and saw a smile cross our fathers face, between me, Harry and CJ, Harry was the one that resembled our father the most and I knew Harry was the one truly a marvel in my father's eyes since he was the only son and the child that my father had wanted the most, me I was the matriarch after our mothers death and CJ was his little girl...say what you wanted about our father but he was an actual good parent compared to the rest of the villains on this island...Lizzie the worst example of how bad some were and I was grateful that we actually had a parent that generally cared for us. "Let's hope she pulls through then" he nodded a sad look on his face no doubt remembering our mother who'd died shortly after CJ was born, another prime example seeing as he had actually loved our mom who'd been a simple peasant girl who'd been as undeserving as the rest of us for suffering the cruelty of the royal family.
"Check in on him okay, he's barely holding it together Dad and try and get him to clean up" I told him before I left trusting my Dad to look after Harry since he knew what it was like to care and watch over the one you loved on their death bed.
Harry's POV
She was too still for my liking and I agonized over every rise and fall of her chest frantic when I thought she missed a breath since if she dies then I'll be lost, I'd have nothing truly worth it on this Isle since the crew was nothing without her...she's my captain and my heart, they say a pirates only love was his ship but that had never been the case for me since I'd known from a very young age that Ilizabeth was a huge part of my life, from when we were kids she always had the ability to make me smile and actually feel alive...she was the love of my life...me true love.
"Son you need to wash off and take a caulk" he told me but I shook my head since I couldn't rest when she was still out of it. (A/N: 'Take a caulk - is a pirate term which means take a rest)
"I'm not leaving her father"
"I'll sit with her but you need to take a walk son" he placed his hand on my shoulder and I finally looked away from her face towards him. "Take a walk" he nodded at me and I sighed looking down at my hands seeing the blood which was now dry so I nodded placing her hand down before I stood up.
"Please-"
"She's safe with me my boy" he smiled at me already knowing what I was gonna ask so I left walking above deck to get some air and washed my face in the barrel of water.
"Is she okay?" Gil asked me.
"I don't know...she isn't...she hasn't woken up" I breathed out. "How could her mother do this to her?" I asked feeling the anger coming back.
"I actually asked around on how and where they'd picked her up from" he told me and I frowned since what did that matter. "A lot of them said they saw her willingly heading towards her mothers mansion with a murderous look on her face"
"She...she wouldn't willingly go to her" I argued since that didn't make any sense.
"That's what people are saying" I frowned since if that was true then I was going to be so mad at her since what did she think was going to happen, I didn't say anything as I walked back down but stopped when I heard my fathers voice.
"I never thought I'd see the day that my son would fall for a princess but I can see how much he loves you sweetheart" I smiled at the caring tone in his voice since it wasn't often I heard it with him always three sheets to the wind every day. "Your good for my son so you hold on for him alright princess" I decided to head back in and he looked up nodding his head moving so I could resume my spot. "Come and get me if anything happens, alright son?" (A/N: 'Three sheets to the wind' - Pirate term for very drunk)
"Yes father, thank yeh again"
"Not a problem my boy, I'm happy that yeh found a lass that makes yeh happy like yeh mother made me happy" I smiled since again he didn't bring me mother up very often either.
"Me too" I nodded at him before turning my eyes back to Liza as he left me be once again. "Yeh need to wake up yeh hear me, because you and I are gonna talk about your stupidity Ilizabeth" I grabbed her hand again squeezing it and smiled when I felt a light squeeze back but she was still very much asleep but it was a proof that she was alive. "I love yeh Liza so yeh come back to me alright" I told her and she gently tightened her hand again, all I had to do was sit here and wait for her to open her eyes.