(EIGHT)
Jack, Elizabeth, Norrington, Pintel and Ragetti sat in the longboat heading towards Isla Cruces.
"You're pullin' too fast." Pintel said to Ragetti
"You're pulling too slow. We don't want the Kraken to catch us." Ragetti replied.
"I'm savin' me strength for when it comes.And I don't think it's Krack-en, anyways.I always heard it said Kray-kin."
"What, with a long A? "
"Aye."
"No-no-no-no-no-no-no. Krock-en's how it's pronounced in the original Scandinavian, and Krack-en's closer to that."
"Well we ain't original Scandinavians, are we? Kray-ken!"
"It's a mythological creature, I can calls it what I wants."
The longboat arrived at the beach and Jack disemarked and began to walk off.
"Guard the boat, mind the tide... Don't touch my dirt." Jack said as he, Elizabeth and Norrington headed down the beach.
A FEW HOURS LATER
Norrington was asleep in a shaded area of the beach. Elizabeth held the compass in her hand and headed further down
the beach with Jack following closely behind her. She stopped walking and turned towards Jack, "This isn't working...
It keeps pointing to you...Here you take it.."
"It won't work luv...It's pointed towards you for a while now."
Elizabeth smiled and sat down leaning on Jack's shoulder as he sat down next to her.
"What will happen if we can't find the chest, Jack?"
"Well, I'll have to serve on Jones' crew for a hundred years. No arguing."
"Jack why did you make that deal?" she asked with tears forming in her eyes.
"It felt like a good idea at the time...but now..."
She lifted her head and he cupped her cheek.
"Jack..?"
"Shh..." he leaned down and took her mouth with his in a passionate kiss. His hand buried itself in her hair as the lowered
down onto the sand. His other hand slid up and down her side before coming to rest on her breast.
Elizabeth gasp as Jack was suddenly pulled from her and looked up to see...
"Will?..."
Will snuck on to the beach carefully so Pintel and Ragetti wouldn't see him. He made his way up the beach and paused
when he seen someone asleep on the beach.He shook his head when he recognized James Norrington. He looked down
on to the sand and seen footprints heading further down the beach.
He followed them until he heard voices that he soon realized were Jack and Elizabeth. He listened carefully and made
out pieces of the conversation.
"What will happen if we can't find the chest, Jack?"
"Well, I'll have to serve on Jones' crew for a hundred years. No arguing."
He went to make his presence known but stopped when he heard Elizabeth say, "Jack why did you make that deal?"
It sounded to him as though she had tears in her eyes. He moved closer until he could see them sitting on the beach.
His heart shattered as he watched Jack cupp her cheek and lean down to kiss her passionately. He saw red as he watched one of Jack's hands bury itselfin her hair his other coming to rest on her breast.
He stormed over to them and ripped Jack from Elizabeth and shoved him on to the sand.He turned towards her when he
heard her say his name and took in her appearance and it suddenly hit him.'This isn't the first time...' he thought to himself.
"How long...? Huh...Elizabeth? How long has this been going on?"
"Ah, Mate...this isn't.."
"I am not your mate Jack..." He said as he grabbed Elizabeth's sword and put it to Jack's throat.
"Will. Don't...You don't understand."
"Understand? What's there to understand? Do you even realize what he could've done to you had I not arrived when I
did? He could've..."
"I know what could've happened..."
"I don't think you do Elizabeth..."
"Will! Shut the hell up!..." Will looked at her shocked at her sudden outburst. " I know what could've happened because
it already has. "
Will gripped the sword tighter and moved to kill Jack but stopped when Elizabeth stepped in front of him.
"Elizabeth...move now so I can kill him."
"I can't let you do that Will."
"Elizabeth...he raped ..."
"It wasn't rape...I was willing...I love him."
"You love him...Oh that's rich...He's a pirate he'll never love you."
"Oi...I do love her and she knows it."
Will looked at Jack over Elizabeth's shoulder and growled, "You don't know what love is...you son of a bitch."
"Will...I still love you..."
"Bullshit! If you loved me you wouldn't have let him..."
"Let me continue...I still love you but it's more like a love a sister has for a brother. I think it always has been ever
since we met. But Jack...I've always had feelings for Jack...ever since he pulled me from the water back in Port
Royal. Before that if you count all the stories I used to read about him."
Will looked at her and then at Jack and stalked off down the beach to think about everything.
Elizabeth watched Will head down the beach and disappear and then turned towards Jack. Jack seen the
heartbroken look on her face and pulled her into a hug rubbing small circles on her back.
"Dare I ask what is going on here?" they pulled apart to see Norrington standing a few feet away holding the
shovel in his hand a pissed look on his face. Elizabeth goes over and picks up the fallen compas but not before noticing it
pointing down the beach.
She follows the dircetion on a hunch and as soon as she is on the open beach she sets it down and watches the needle
spin and then stop pointing west. Jack and Norrington come up to her and look at her with matching questioning
looks on their faces.
"It's here!" She exclaimed smiling and looking up at them. Jack looks over to Norrington and motions to the shovel and
then to the sand. "Well what are you waiting for?...Dig..."
Norrington is digging in the sand and Jack sits in a lotus position nearby on a sandy slope. Norrington's shovel hits something hard, and the three of them brush off sand to reveal a chest. They pull it out and open it, it contains a pearl necklace, documents, and a smaller chest, among other things.
Elizabeth opens up a letter with a wax seal, and reads it to herself.They all bend near to put their ears to the small chest,
and they hear a heartbeat.
"It's real!" Elizabeth said in shock.
"You actually were telling the truth." Norrington said in surprise.
"I do that quite a lot. Yet people are always surprised."
"With good reason!"
Will unexpectedly appears on the beach, walking up toward them. Jack and Elizabeth look at each other then back at
Will.