A pirates story inspired by PS I love you. I own nothing to do with either of these films. I do own Katherine, Edward and ROsalind though (Rosalind is my favourite little character)
Willabeth story obviously
BOLD dreams
Italics memories and or thoughts
BOLD italics letters
Will Turner lay on the Flying Dutchman, the sword protruding from his heart, it was slowly, painfully being twisted in deeper so as to ensure his death by the man who had slipped so far into insanity he could not stand seeing anyone else in love. Davey Jones stood there in front of Will Turners wife and killed her husband in cold blood. Jack Sparrow stood there wishing for once he had not made a big speech, wishing he had just stabbed the heart as soon as he got it. Now he could not stab it, he could not let Will Turner die, he was his friend, Elizabeth was Will's wife, and Bootstrap was Will's father. So many people cared about and loved Will, Jack could not let Will die.
And there was Davey Jones, the sick, twisted man, who just laughed at all the pain he caused. Will Turner was dying and it was due to him. He did not care that at that moment Elizabeth Turner was kneeling over him as she watched her one true love slip away from her, or that Will was fighting to be alive for her. He laid there, in the arms of Elizabeth, his angel, just wanting to be with her forever, all he wanted to see was her. At that precise moment she was all he cared about, after all she was who he cared about most. The only woman he ever loved, even when she was crying she was beautiful and Will longed to wipe them away. But he did not have the strength. All of his strength was going into keeping his eyes open so he could see that beautiful face for potentially the last time. The rain that had bothered them so much when it first started could no longer be felt for the second time. The first time was during there wedding and that kissed that lasted through many blissful moments. This time was more tragic, all Elizabeth could feel was her grief for losing the man who had taken her heart so long ago, the man who taught her how to live. And Will felt he same, he was abandoning, albeit unwillingly, the woman he had always imagined spending the rest of his life with, but unlike Elizabeth it was also because he was falling into the black oblivion of death
Four year old Liam Turner screamed in his sleep, he could not wake up from the dream that was scaring him so much. He thrashed about and the covers landed somewhere in the dark room. Tears poured down his sleeping face as the dream progressed. he saw his Mummy and Daddy laying there about to be killed by the ugly fish face man. And who was that man with a lot of plaits and eyeliner? Why isn't he stabbing the heart? Suddenly Liam screamed louder; his father got stabbed. The scream was loud and piercing and portrayed his complete and innocent fear at seeing a parent die.
The first scream woke Elizabeth who was sleeping in the next room, it was when she entered into Liam's bedroom was when he let out his seconds, ear ripping scream. She hurried over to her son and put her hands on his face "Liam," she said panicking once she realized he was still asleep "Liam its Mummy, wake up, please come on. Everything is okay"
Liam continued to cry and thrash around and his mothers cool hands seemed to scare him still "Mummy!" he cried "Don't let mean fish-face take me! HE killed daddy!"
Elizabeth felt like crying then, it was inevitable it was going to happen, she had feared it for a while, and Liam was dreaming of the day his father became captain of the Flying Dutchman. She bent down and picked up her struggling son and looked at the clock, it was two o' clock in the morning; it had been two hours into the day which marked five years since Will had left her.
Elizabeth hurried down the stairs tears streaming down her eyes as she headed for the only people she trusted to help her, she did not bother with a coat or any shoes as she outside and across the road to Katherine's house and hammered at the door "Katherine!" she called "Kath! Please I need your help. It's Liam, he's- I don't know what's happening, but I can't wake him and he's screaming. Please Kath!" she hammered at he door some more yelling, the door opened, Katherine was wearing a dressing gown tied loosely over her large stomach and looked concerned, her green eyes grew wide when she saw their state.
"Did you forget to put anything on over your nightclothes?" she gasped fighting with what to say she looked over at Liam who was struggling so much Elizabeth was in danger of dropping him.
"He thinks I'm Davey Jones trying to steal him" Elizabeth explained her cheeks wet with tears and her voice filled with emotion.
Katherine held out her arms and hugged her friend, which was difficult to do over Liam and her pregnant stomach, there was a time when she, Katherine had no hope and it was Elizabeth who had it all, now it was her own turn to be supportive "Pass Liam to me," she said softly, tired and confused Elizabeth did so and Liam stopped screaming about Davey Jones trying to take him away. Slowly Kath walked over to the sitting area and lay Liam down there. "Elizabeth, please get me some water, a piece of cloth and some lavender, they should all be in the kitchen."
Elizabeth rushed around easily finding what Katherine needed; once she handed them to her friend, she sat down on one of the stairs and started to cry. She felt a strong arm come around her and she leaned into it, she realized that it was Edward and did not pull away. "Ed, what have I done? I have condemned my darling son to a lifetime of misery just because I had to spend my one day with Will in that manner. Why could I not wait? Now poor Liam is going to have nightmares forever" she could no longer get any words out and just cried onto his shoulder. Katherine looked up and smiled at her husband then went back to tending Liam, the screams were dieing down.
"Lizzie," he said "You do not have to worry, this is a one time thing, probably only because you are half way through your time apart from Will, it was probably used to mark the occasion" another, much small hand was on her lower arm and those large eyes that met hers told Elizabeth that it was Rosalind. She fondly tousled Rosalind's hair and she smiled in return.
Elizabeth laughed and wiped her eyes "If that's true I wish it was not so horrible"
Edward smiled "I think you should go back to Liam, it looks as if he will wake up soon"
She nodded and got up drying her face on her sleeve, she was still in her night clothes, and was grateful that this one was made from thick material otherwise she would have felt colder.
Katherine was dabbing Liam head with a wet cloth, upon seeing Elizabeth she got up and passed the bowl to Elizabeth "I think he needs you now" Elizabeth knelt next to her son and gently dabbed his forehead, she glanced down at his little hand, and she took it feeling sorry for him.
"It's okay Liam, I'm here" she said in a soothing voice as she worked "Everything will be fine soon"
Liam's eyes slowly flickered open, they still had their brightness but they were red as well. Liam pouted slightly and held out his arm so that his mother would hug him, Elizabeth moved the bowl out the way and picked him up, it was then that Liam burst into tears, and he clung onto his mother tightly as if scared he would lose her.
"Fish man hurt daddy" he spluttered "He stab daddy and then daddy is dieing. Don't let Daddy die"
Elizabeth walked to and fro waiting for his tears to subside talking words of comfort to her son and stroking his hair the more he cried. When the tears finally stopped, Elizabeth put Liam down on the sofa and looked at him intently "Liam, do you remember when you visited Daddy on that ship?"
Liam nodded "We had fun, we played hide and seek and climbed the birds nest, and he gave me a new badanda"
Elizabeth smiled "yes, you are right, and Daddy was obviously alive, did he tell you why he was there and not with us?"
Liam bit his lip "A mean man cursed him. That's what Daddy says" he paused "Daddy lied. I didn't see anybody curse him. I saw a fish man stab him" Liam was in danger of crying again and Elizabeth hastily grabbed his small hands
"The fish man, was the mean man who cursed him" Liam looked confused "he used a magic sword which cursed Daddy for ten years"
"Because he was mean" Liam said a look of understanding in his young face.
"Yes, but that mean man got killed because of what he did" she got closer to Liam and smiled "he can never hurt us again. And we have already come half way through our time apart from Daddy; pretty soon he will be here again"
Liam's whole face lit up in a smile "Daddy is coming home in five years!" he turned and ran to Rosalind and gave her a hug "You get to see my Daddy! my daddy is perfect"
Elizabeth walked over to where Katherine and Edward were standing and smiled and glanced at Katherine's stomach, which seemed to have dropped slightly since last week. Katherine passed Elizabeth a drink as they watched the two children playing. "Thanks so much" she said sipping her drink "For everything, I could not have done this alone" she took another sip of her drink "Do you know what you are going to call her or him yet?" she asked for what felt like the hundredth time since Kath got pregnant.
Katherine glanced at Edward and smiled "If its a boy we are thinking of calling him James, and if its a girl we were thinking of Elizabeth"
Elizabeth smiled, she could not help it "Elizabeth?" she asked not daring to believe it was after her.
Edward nodded "After my mother, and you too. We really do not know what we would have done if it weren't for you and Will. We were originally thinking of calling the baby Will, but we realized there may be too many Wills walking around if we did that"
Elizabeth smiled "That's true, too much of a good thing is bad"
At that moment Rosalind and Liam ran up to their parents, a charming look on their faces, Elizabeth immediately suspected something "What is it?" she asked fondly of the two.
"Can I stay here tonight, have a sleepover?" Liam asked
"Yes, please" Rosalind said tugging at her mothers skirt "We will be ever so good. And we'll make you breakfast in bed too"
Katherine laughed and longed to pick her daughter "Last time you tried to make breakfast in bed you almost burned the house down"
Rosalind smiled "I'll try harder this time!"
"To what burn the house down or not to?" Edward asked picking up his daughter "Tell you what, you two can have your sleep over if you promise not to try to cook anything"
"We promise" they chimed then ran off to a bigger area to celebrate their victory.
Elizabeth smiled after them "You can stay here too," Katherine said "The baby is due any moment and I'd love to have another woman around here to keep a level head"
Elizabeth thanked Katherine and agreed to stay. She rather liked the warm family atmosphere here. An hour later she was laying down on the sofa, a blanket thrown over her to get a couple of hours sleep before morning, she resolved to not open the shop that day due just so she could take the day to relax. Maybe she could write another letter to Will. Maybe watch the sunset tonight would be good too. She fell asleep her head filled with plans for the day.
She found herself being shaken awake by Liam and Rosalind a few hours later; the sun was only just rising "What is it" she said impatiently then she saw their panicked faces "Oh gosh, what happened" she asked sitting up.
"Mummy is having her baby" Rosalind gabbled.
Suddenly alert Elizabeth stood up and took Rosalind by the shoulders "Can you be a very big girl and find some towels for Mummy?" Rosalind nodded "I will be gone for five minutes while I get changed. I'll bring some clothes over for Liam"
Elizabeth briefly saw Rosalind nod before she ran out the door and hastily changed in her own bedroom across the road, she returned quickly a bundle of Liam's clothes under her arm. She was barely gone three minutes, and Rosalind met her at the door. "I got the towels" she said breathlessly.
"Good" Elizabeth said "Come upstairs, I'll dress you both" she said taking their hands and rushing them upstairs. She dressed them both quickly and efficiently before taking them to see Katherine; she almost cried with relief when she saw Elizabeth appear.
"What am I going to do?" she sobbed hysterically Edward did not seem to well over, he was obviously distressed over his wife's condition.
"Ed," Elizabeth said "Look after Liam and Rosalind" she said. "Kath, I'm leaving to get a midwife, I will be back in a second"
Katherine nodded "Don't leave me too long, Liz!" she called out
"I won't don't worry!" she called, as she left but Edward stopped her and handed her a bag of money "get the best one you can get okay"
Elizabeth nodded and rushed outside, yelling a goodbye to the children, she could only guess how scared they were. She paused outside her house then ran in heading straight for the large trunk, in which lay the chest that contained Will's heart and a load of other precious items. Elizabeth opened the trunk and paused only to listen Will's heart then moved on and picked up a couple of large coins before running out the house again heading straight for the midwife's house. The opened before Elizabeth even knocked and a motherly face answered.
"Oh hello, Elizabeth!" she said brightly "I was just going over to see how Katherine is getting on" she peered at Elizabeth's worried face "Is something wrong dear"
Elizabeth nodded "It's Katherine, she has gone into labour"
Her face registered shock, "It is a week early, but it will defiantly survive. Just let me get my kit and we'll be off"
"Thank you Margaret" Elizabeth said as she vanished briefly into her own house to get the kit. She emerged calm faced and reassuring, she smiled and walked up to Elizabeth
"Come on, we can not waste time, don't worry, you're friend will be fine" Nevertheless she still hurried over to the house and demanded that the children be kept out. Edward was in charge of looking after the children and Elizabeth was in charge of moping Kath's forehead with water with medicinal herbs in and holding her upper torso whenever a contraction came.
Elizabeth kept a watchful eye on both Katherine and Margaret; Margaret looked calm and was constantly reassuring them both that everything was going well. She saw Elizabeth staring at her and smiled "I can see the baby's head" she said smiling, she looked at Katherine "You are going to have to push now Kath, can you do that?"
Katherine nodded and grabbed onto Elizabeth's arm "it's okay Kath, I'm here" she reassured hugging her friend, then Katherine then had to push and her screams were almost as bad as Liam's and Elizabeth hastily mopped Katherine's forehead, praying soon that her friends torment should be over soon. Suddenly Katherine relaxed and smiled, an exhausted look on her face.
"It's over" she said relieved, Margaret looked up and confirmed it.
"It's a beautiful baby boy" she said "What's his name?" she asked
"James William" she said "There has to be a Will in it somewhere" she smiled. "Send Edward in, and once the room is cleaned send the others in too" Elizabeth walked out and whispered a few words to Edward he looked excited and hugged both Rosalind and Liam lifting them up from the floor, causing them both to giggle "You have a little brother" he said to Rosalind "He is called James" with one final hug he left to see his wife and son, leaving Elizabeth with the two. She sat down next to them and Liam clambered into her lap.
"Lizzy?" Rosalind asked grabbing her hand "What does James look like?"
"I don't know" Elizabeth said "I did not see him, I expect that he has Edwards brown eyes, but Kath's hair, and probably your smile Rosalind" Rosalind displayed the smile now and asked more questions all of which Elizabeth answered however ridiculous. Finally Margaret emerged and smiled at the three of them.
"They are ready for you all to come in" Elizabeth felt the money in her pocket and passed it all to her; Margaret passed some coins back and one of the large ones that Elizabeth had donated back. "Thank you Elizabeth" she said then left.
Rosalind rushed ahead into the room she was already stroking her new brothers face when Elizabeth and Liam entered. "He looks like you Dad!" she said happily, stroking the baby again. Elizabeth watched this scene happily, Liam in her arms, she gently kissed her son, needless to say the tiredness would consume them all soon, none of them had much sleep at all that day. It was the day that marked the halfway point since Will became captain of the Flying Dutchman and she felt that the next five years would probably go faster.
A huge thank you to all my reviewers
Specially for WillsElizabeth23
Merry Christmas xxx
