Chapter 2 - Pain

Elizabeth had wiped off as much of the blood as possible and kissed her hand, pressing it to his wounds. Jack watched intently, he felt a pain grip his heart as she touched him lovingly. He looked away. Jealousy and bitterness consumed him and he put on his pirate facade once again. It had been too long since he had been loved but there was no time to dwell on it. Their fate no longer rested with him, but with Crane.

"I'm sorry it has to be this way love. You and your William deserve happiness." He said and saw the tears falling from Elizabeth's eyes.

"Thank you Jack. You've always been so good to us."

He let a small smile grace his features. "Don't be so sure love."

Elizabeth looked back down to Will and wiped the hair from his face. His cheek was being pressed into the cold floor so she raised his head, setting it in her lap.

"Still asleep I see. This one's tired." Crane said as he entered. Jack stood when he saw the other men. They were holding different tourture devices. "Well Sparrow, since the lad is still out guess who's turn it is."

Elizabeth frantically looked to her friend. "Please don't. Why are you doing this? What have we ever done to you?"

Crane looked down at her still scantilly clothed body and licked his lips. "What are you willing to do for him?"

Elizabeth looked to Jack who kept his gaze averted. "What do you want?"

"I thought that would be obvious." Crane said, giving her body another once - over. Elizabeth opened her mouth to reply when a faint noise was heard.

"No."

Everyone looked to Will who had woken up. Jack was preparing his mind for the beating he was sure to get.

"What did you say boy?" Crane asked, him and his cronies now making a semi circle around the two lovers.

"I said no."

Crane looked at Ash and nodded, Elizabeth was dragged to the other side of the room again and Will and made to stand on his feet. Jack was stripped of his shirt and the two men faced the wall. Will had begun to shake, Jack stood perfectly still. On the opposite end Elizabeth closed her eyes and flinched when she heard the crack of two whips. Neither one of them made any noise. Ash and Rex sneered and hit their targets again.

He had wanted to surprise her. Pink roses, two dozen of them was sat on the kitchen table along with the necklace she had been dying for for the past few months. As he took the food out he was going to make dinner with he stopped. There was noise coming from upstairs. Julien was fast asleep before he left. Suddenly there was a crash and a mans voice. Taking out his sword he took the stairs three at a time, but softly so not to scare off the intruder. No doubt whoever it was had seen him leave earlier. Perhaps whoever it was didn't know she was there.

There was struggling and Jack opened the bedroom door only to feel a nausiating sensation start in the pit of his stomach. There was a man, who was having sex with his girl.

Jack stood outside the door, praying to hear her object, cry, scream for the other man to get off of her. But he didn't, he only heard her cries of pleasure. When she said her lovers name he felt faint.

The crack of the whip for the third time brought Jack out of his memories and back into reality.

"Give it here Ash." Crane said and took the whip that was being used to beat Jack. The pirate braced himself. Crane raised the whip and brought it down on Jack hard, he didn't give him anytime to react before he did it again and again. Jack bit his tongue to keep from crying out, the taste of blood was in his mouth. Rex had stopped beating Will to watch as his captain continued to whip the other.

"Damn you Sparrow, give up your damn pride." Crane said. "You know that will stop it."

Jack tuned around, his face seemed to be set in stone. "You can't kill me."

"I sure as hell will try."

Crane held out his hand and a bottle of liquid was placed in his hand. The other two men turned Jack around and the liquid was poured over his wounds. Elizabeth put her hands over her ears at his scream. Will winced.

The pain was still so strong in his back that Jack just prayed to become unconscious, to feel the oblivion that Will had felt. He was turned around again and Jack could see the fear in Will's eyes contrasting to the sorrow he saw in Elizabeth's as her tears left their mark down her face.

"Now, that wasn't so hard was it? Next time I won't be so lenient." Ash and Rex went to the darkened side of the room and produced two basins of water this time before kicking the one Elizabeth had used to wash Will, the smell and stickyness of blood traveled over the floor.

"Girl. They don't die. Yet."

When they left Will looked to Jack and Elizabeth went to her husband. He shook his head. "No. Help Jack, he needs it more then me." Elizabeth nodded and went to the pirate who's eyes seemed to have glased over.

"Jack? Can you hear me?"

"Aye. I can hear you love. What do you want?"

His voice was cold and unfeeling, she supposed a beating would do that to someone. She hoped she didn't have to find out. "Turn around so I can clean your wounds."

"He already did." Jack said, flinshing away from her touch. "That was rum he poured down my back. Much more effective then lousy water." He stopped and smirked. "Besides, my shirt would probably give me an infection."

Elizabeth was worried, she looked to Will who was sitting still, his eyes drooping. "I can use my shift. I need to help you, what if they come back and see I didn't help you? What will they do to me?"

Jack picked up his shirt and dunked it into the water basin, the water turned dirty. He let the water drip on his back and got the shirt bloody before putting it back. "There, now leave me alone." He said and turned away from her.

Elizabeth felt sorry for him, but also a little hurt that he didn't want her help. Turning to Will she ripped her shift in many different ways, knowing that she would need more, and wiped Will's back, scrubbing the dried blood off softly.

TBC

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