Lizzie's POV

It felt like I'd only just gotten to sleep when I was rudely awoken by my own tortured mind, a nightmare forcing me awake as my body forcibly jerked myself awake, immediately aware of the sweat beading down my forehead and the back of my neck and while my chest heaved with my breathing heavy no matter how hard I tried to calm myself down so that I didn't wake Harry who was passed out next to me but it was no use.

"Liza?" I heard his soft tired voice ask.

"I'm...I'm okay"

"No yer not" I felt his arms wrap around me tightly from behind and I moved my arm over his grabbing a hold of his hand to further calm my nerves a bit. "Is it the nightmares again?" he asked clearly referring to my previous nightmares.

"No" I replied.

"Liza, talk to me"

"It's nothing, it was just a dream" I turned onto my back and he moved to accommodate, hovering over me with his hand on my waist.

"Do yer want to talk about it?" he asked and my immediate response was to say no but I knew I couldn't keep things to myself anymore since it didn't do me any good in the past.

"I was trapped back there and that there was no way out"

"Well yer not and ye never will be again, yeh 'ere with me"

"I know" I nodded rolling over again onto my other side so that I was facing him this time and he laid his head back down on the pillow as well. "I don't ever want to go back there"

"Yeh won't, I'll never let yer go again" I nodded my head laying my head against his bare chest, letting his steady heartrate soothe me.

I don't know when I exactly fell back to sleep but when I woke up I was relieved by the fact that it was nightmare free and I felt the warm sunshine across my face from the porthole window but the space beside me was empty meaning Harry was up with sun as he always was.

I got up out of our bed stretching my arms above my head before I went over and looked out the small porthole window watching the waves passing by from the motion of the ship sailing forwards, I smiled at the sight since despite the fact that I still couldn't swim the sea calmed me down and being back on the water felt like I was home was again.

After I was finished admiring the view I grabbed some clothes out of the wardrobe then went into the bathroom to shower slipping into the clothes I'd picked out before returning to our room and fixed my hair tidying it into a neat style before I sat at Harry's desk and decided to re-paint my nails with a new design figuring I needed some time to myself to actually feel like myself again not realizing how long I'd been until I heard the door open and looked up seeing Harry walk in.

"Who said yer could take over me desk?" I looked up with a small smirk as I applied the last coat of nail polish on my nails.

"You did"

"I did?" he questioned with a confused look which made my smirk widen.

"Well we are engaged so technically what's yours is mine and I needed the table space" I laughed a little before I looked up and noticed Harry's sour look and frowned. "Harry"

"We need you up on deck" he replied and left the room making me slightly concerned that maybe he hasn't forgiven me and doesn't want to get married anymore which I certainly couldn't blame him for since I definitely wasn't baggage free.

I stood up and left our room heading up onto deck and my eyes immediately fell on Harry who was helping the crew lift the sails as we were heading into a storm by the looks of it so with that knowledge I immediately jumped in and helped secure everything down so nothing was lost overboard with the storm getting stronger with each passing second.

Captain Hook was at the wheel shouting instructions down to the crew and I made myself available wherever was needed focusing on checking all the ropes so that the sails didn't blow loose but it was no use the winds had picked up and the spanker sail blew loose which swung around the mast and I felt it hit right into my ribs before I felt the side of the ship and the force sent me rolling over it which lead me to scream right before I hit the water immediately getting pulled under the high waves.

"Ilizabeth!" I heard my name being called out over the harsh waves and my head constantly being pulled under the waves no matter how hard I tried to pull myself to the surface.

"Hold sails!"

"Get a life ring!"

I tried desperately to get my head above the water and keep it there but the wind and current was too strong and as I continued to sink I cursed myself for not taking Harry's offers to teach me how to swim and that some power that be was constantly trying to kill me.

"Liza grab the ring!" I heard Harry yell the moment I managed to get my head above the water again before being splashed when the life ring hit the water near me and I tried to grab it but the waves kept coming and was making it hard to even see the ring.

"Grab the bloody ring Liz!" Uma's voice shouted over the rest of the voices. "Harry don't the waters too strong!" was the next thing I heard right before I'd sank below the waves and this time I was sinking deeper under the water, my muscles exhausted and no matter how hard I tried to avoid swallowing water it was no use and I saw dark spots start clouding my vision as I fought to hold my breath, fear taking over my entire body.

The burning need to open my mouth for breath was too hard to ignore and the sharp salt water entered my lungs as I screamed underneath the water, my head growing dizzy with the lack of oxygen and I knew I was on the verge of passing out when I felt the water break above me from something breaking the surface water before an arm wrapped around my torso under my breasts and I felt myself getting pulled to the surface where I sucked in a humongous breath of fresh air coughing with the sheer harshness as it entered my lungs.

After what had seemed like forever, I could feel the hard drops of rain hit my skin before my eyes looked around and I saw the teal blue/green tentacles in which was holding me and I was lifted out of the water and placed on the deck of the ship where I coughed up even more sea water just glad to be on solid ground again.

"That's it, get the sea out of yer lungs" I heard Captain Hook's voice as I continued to cough and take deep breaths in, lips a near inch from the planks of wood almost ready to kiss them relieved to be out of the drink.

"Liza" I looked up at the sound of his voice finding him kneeling beside me with a blanket which he wrapped around my shoulders and pulled me into his chest.

"I swear I am so sick of water!" I cursed and the crew laughed.

"Yeah well stop falling in and you won't have a problem" Uma retaliated and I chuckled back nodding my head since it seemed to be a regular occurrence for me which was ironic considering I was the only one aboard this ship who couldn't swim.

"Thank god, I've got you to always save me" I smiled as I stood shivering a little in Harry's arms.

"Alright, Harry get 'er downstairs and into some warmer clothes, we'll plot a course out of this bloody storm" Harry nodded and started leading me down to the stairs to our room and I sat down on his desk chair shivering like crazy while he went over to the wardrobe and started pulling out dry clothes.

"Let's get ye into warmer clothes" he suggested and I nodded my head trying to control my shaking hands to unbutton my jeans but my frozen fingers were making that task seem more difficult than usual. "You ye...can I help?" he asked and I nodded my head letting my hands drop to my sides as he make quick work of removing my wet clothes before I froze to death and grabbed a towel starting to dry me off.

"I...I can't f...feel my...hands" I admitted watching them shake and he frowned reached for my hands covering them in his and blew onto them in hopes to breath some warmth into my numb fingers.

"Come here" he suddenly said and I felt him pull me in and I knew what he was doing, letting his body heat warm my body but right now it just felt uncomfortable with how things had been between us.

"I'm sorry" I apologized suddenly.

"What fer?" he asked tilting his head in almost confusion.

"For putting myself in danger again, I can see why you don't want to marry me anymore" I replied burying my head against his chest fighting back the tears because I didn't want him to see me crying, I was so sick of being weak in front of him and in general, I've never felt so weak in my entire life and I was so over it.

"Who ever said that I didn't want to marry yeh anymore?" I refused to answer and kept my eyes to the wooden floor. "Look at meh Liza" I continued to refuse to meet his eyes. "Ilizabeth look at me"

"Harry..." I shook my head but his fingers suddenly squeezed my chin before I could argue and he lifted my head so that I had no choice but to look into his eyes.

"I 'avent changed me mind about marrying yeh" my eyes furrowed. "The fact the yeh even think I'd change me mind about it...hurts, do you not understand me feelings for ye at all?"

"Because it doesn't make any sense on how you can love me, I'm cursed and you don't deserve that"

"You 'ave no idea what I deserve, ye right I don't deserve yer but it is aye who is unworthy, yeh are a princess after all and I'm a pirate, those two titles should never belong together but you and I do because after everything we've been though we've been drawn back to one another, you are mine and I am yours forever and if I have to prove it I'll marry you right now but I was awaiting until we docked on Auradon city where Ben agreed to let yer father attend"

"That's why you've been so closed off?" I asked eyes going wide.

"I wanted to surprise ye" I rolled my eyes at him since he should know by now that I hated surprises since they never worked out well for us.

"Next time no surprises Harry" I warned him and he chuckled nodding his head.

"Alright lets get some warm clothes on ye"

"Just hold me a little longer" I argued burying my head back into his chest hearing his soft laughter vibrate through his chest as he wrapped his arms around me laying his head on top of mine.

"I was so scared today princess, I saw ye go overboard and...I was helpless to save yer" I frowned hating that I had done that to him.

"I'm sorry"

"I'm tying a rope to yeh from now on" he replied making me laugh a little but I knew he was probably being dead serious.

"Or I could just take up your offer to learn how to swim" I suggested and his eyes widened in disbelief like he couldn't believe I'd said it and to be honest even I was surprised that I did.

"I'll believe that when I see it" he smirked seemingly reading my mind and I laughed before finally pulling back and pulled on the clothes that he'd gotten out for me but I was serious since it was stupid of me not to know how to swim when I lived on a ship but that was a problem for tomorrow and right now I was just glad to be alive and safe on solid ground of the ship.

A/N: Long time nay see...lol sorry I had to ;)

Anyway I'm sorry for the long awaited update but here's two chapters for you, there's probably only going to be a few more chapters to go in this story as I am tied up with a massive study load and have started a new story but that doesn't mean I'm going to leave you guys hanging and will definitely finish Ilizabeth's story so I hope these chapters were worth the wait and please don't stop reviewing as i love to hear your thoughts on my story.