Chapter 4 - Nails

"Of every man here why did it have to be him?" Jack said standing at the door. He was ready to leave her life for good.

"He was there for me when you weren't."

Jack let a smirk play on his lips. "You mean he was there to get in bed with you when I wasn't."

Julien let her gaze fall before putting on a strong face. "I love him."

He turned to leave but a hand on his face stopped him. Julien was walking up the stairs. It wasn't her.

"Jack, wake up please."

The feeling was pleasent on his face and he turned toward it.

"Jack."

"Julien?"

Elizabeth started, the pirate cuddling to her hand. "No Jack, it's me. Elizabeth."

His eyes started to open, he was cold again. "Elizabeth?" He searched his mind for the name, he couldn't remember. "Elizabeth who?"

"Swann. Jack please, your scaring me."

He looked up in the young girls eyes and touched her face before pulling away, his hand was bloody. "What happened? Where am I?" Fear started to grip the captain and he pulled himself up in a sitting position.

"You were beat by Crane remember. I don't know where we are." Elizabeth eyes started to water, she didn't know what she would do if Jack had amnesia.

Suddenly it all came back to him. They were betrayed, that much he knew. He looked at Elizabeth who had tears running down her face. Next to her was a basin of water tainted with blood, his blood. "Elizabeth. How long have I been out?"

"A long time. Crane and his men came back in once since you've been out. They beat Will badly. Jack he hasn't woken up yet." Now she was sobbing and Jack looked at her, more candels had been brought in and he could see her clearly. There was a bruise on her face and a cut on her arm.

"They hurt you." He said and pointed to her injuries. Blood was all over her hands and Jack had the feeling it wasn't hers or his. Looking to Will he almost vomited, the boy was a burised mess they did more then whip him. "What did they do to him?"

"They wouldn't stop. He had passed out but they didn't stop. I'm afraid for him Jack."

"Is he dead?"

Elizabeth shook her head and went over to her husband. "No, but I'm afraid he can't stand much more."

Jack tryed to move to see the extent of Will's injuries.

Elizabeth touched his head lovingly and dipped some of the blood stained cloth into the bloody water and then wiped his face. "Will darling please wake up."

Something foul reached Jack's nose and he vomited. Elizabeth watched as he tried to regain his equilibrium. "Jack are you okay?"

"Dirt bread didn't agree with me." He said and heaved nothing, his stomach was empty. It didn't make him stop, he started to pull stomach bile from his insides and he leaned back against the cold wall, cooling himself.

Elizabeth wrapped Will with the cloth she could find then went to Jack.

"I'm fine love, go take care of him."

"He's out Jack, I can't do much until he wakes up." She said and rubbed his arms, trying to warm him. They had only been there about 24 hours but it felt like weeks. The three men hadn't made any demands, they simply wanted to torture them and she didn't know why.

"Why are they doing this Jack?" She asked, wiping his forehead of sweat.

"Why does the Devil want souls Elizabeth?"

She frowned at his question. "Because he wants them for Hell?"

He held up a finger. "Because he wants them to suffer like he did."

"Who tortured Crane?"

Jack licked his lips, this mouth was dry and his voice was rough. "No one. They killed his father, but not like this. His father's capturs made him watch as his wife was raped then murdered. Crane then did the same, his signature kill to women is to rape them, then stab them in the heart, leaving the dagger."

Elizabeth moved closer to Jack. "Is he going to kill me?"

The pirate put an arm around her and pulled her close. "Not unless I can help it."

Will caughed and Elizabeth was at his side. "Will?"

The younger man opened his eyes and looked at his wife. "Elizabeth."

The door opened and Jack had the impression they were being watched the whole time.

"On your feet." Crane said to the two men.

"No! Please stop this. I'll do anything you want, please don't hurt them anymore."

"I'm gong to do more then that missy." Crane said and smiled a wicked grin at her.

She stood and went at him, trying to hurt him. She wanted to kill him.

Rex and Ash pulled her away, grabbing at her breasts. Elizabeth kicked at them but they turnt her around, her back to Jack and Will and striped off her top. Will could barely see out of his swollen eyes but he knew what was happening. When he spoke it was now louder then a whisper but Jack was sure it was supposed to be a scream.

"Let her go. Stop hurting her."

Crane looked to Will and snapped his fingers. The two men let Elizabeth go and she falled to the floor, her arms crossed over her chest, tears streaming down her face. She had never cried so much in her entire life.

The two men each took a nail from their pockets and forced Will to kneel. With his hands to the wall, palms facing outward they nailed his hands to the wall. His screams were muffled and Jack turned his head away from the spectacle.

Crane then handed two extrememly long and thick nails to his men who picked up each of Wills legs and put them above his head, and held them to the wall.

Elizabeth almost passed out from the sight. "No." She whispered and the two men nailed Will's legs to the wall.

Jack wanted to put his friend out of his misery.

Will still hadn't blacked out and he saw Elizabeth, though faintly and said as loud as possible. "I love you Elizabeth."

She cried and screamed when Crane went over and grabbed his head. "Any last words to your husband Mrs. Turner?"

She opened her mouth but instead of the words 'I love you too' there was a scream as the pirate snapped Will's neck. Jack felt like getting sick, he was so weak he couldn't hold himself up. He was next, he knew he was.

Crane went to Jack and unhooked his chains. The other captain didn't move. "Here's the key for the missus. You can walk out the door Sparrow and live with this day in your memory forever. And you pretty missy. Have a nice life."

Jack knew what the other man was doing. He wanted to turn them hard, wanted to turn him and Elizabeth into deamons.

"Oh, one last parting gift Sparrow." He handed two more long nails to Rex and Ash and they nailed Jack's hands to the floor, his body in a bowing position. "You will always bow to me Sparrow, by will or not."

The three men left and Jack saw the key a few feet away. "Elizabeth, we have to get out of here."

The woman was up against the wall, crying uncontrolably. "Elizabeth please help me."

She looked at him, her whole body was shaking. She was in shock.

"Elizabeth! Look at me. Look at me." He yelled the words at her, trying to get her to come to. "Elizabeth!"

Her face was pale and her tears stopped. There was a haunting look in her eyes. Looking to Will's body made him use a new card. "He wouldn't want this to be your fate Elizabeth."

Recongnition showed on her face and she moved to him, reaching for the key. With careful movements she undid her chains then went to look for something to help Jack.

"What do I do?"

"Find something to pry these nails out of my hands."

She looked around frantically. "I can't find anything."

"You've got to calm down, just be calm." Jack felt his body weakening every moment, he knew time was short for him if he didn't get out soon.

"Jack I can't find anything." Suddenly she spotted one of the candels and the metal plate it was balanced on. Picking it up, along with the candel she went to Jack and put the plate between his hand and the head of the nail. She pushed on the plate but stopped when pain registered on Jack's face.

"Don't stop love, they've got to come out."

He groaned a little when it started to come up. Elizabeth grabbed it and pulled, the nail coming out of the floor and Jack's hand.

She repeated on the other hand and soon Jack was free. He knew he couldn't rest in fear he would never wake up. "Come on, no time to waist, we need to get out of here."

Elizabeth helped Jack to his feet and the two went to the door, with one last look at Will's body she opened the heavy door and let out a sob. The floor was covered in nails.

TBC

Sorry I killed Will so early and if your worried about me leaving his body in such a place and position don't worry about it there will be something later that happens that gives him a proper burial.