Chapter 6
Elizabeth quickly gets off of Beckett and helped him off the sofa. He went for his blouse and Elizabeth went for his coat. She quickly helped him button his blouse and slipped on his overcoat.
"Lord Beckett!" they heard again. Beckett grabbed his wig and slipped it on carefully.
Elizabeth straightens it perfectly on his head, "There looks like nothing happened."
He walks to his desk and sits in the chair and Elizabeth sat in the chairs in front of the desk.
"Please keep my past a secret, nobody knows, but you," he says.
"Of course I won't say anything," Elizabeth nods.
"And others can't know of our encounter," he grabs his pen. "I will have to hide my soft side towards you, so please understand."
"I understand and no one can't know," she assures him.
"Now just keep the same attitude against me before you heard anything that I said, before you and I changed our relationship," he looks at her.
"Yes of course, no one will notice," she smiled. He nods and smiles back. Then they hear someone knocking on the door.
"Come in," Beckett says. Mercer opens the door and jogs over to Beckett's desk.
"Sir we spotted a ship coming this way, most likely the Pearl," he explains.
"Really, so they noticed her gone?" Beckett looks straight at Elizabeth. Elizabeth stares back at him.
"Sir what are your orders?"
Beckett continues to look at Elizabeth, "Take her back to the brig, and then tell the crew to prepare to capture the Pearl."
"Yes sir," Mercer begins to pull out the irons from his hands. He slaps them on her wrists and attaches a chain through the hole of the shackles.
"Is that new?" Beckett asks.
"No sir I just remembered to apply these on her just in case. Beckett nods his head and motions them to leave. Mercer takes the other end of the chain and pulls Elizabeth. She looks back at Beckett and he looked up. He smiled at her, and then Mercer shut the door.
---James---
"I've finally made it," he breathes. He pulls himself on top of the ledge. He walks along it looking around to see if he sees the Dutchman. He turned and walked to his left and sees it. "There it is!" he exclaims. He starts to jog; he notices that he doesn't feel the pain from his wound anymore. "That's strange I didn't expect this wound to heal in a few weeks," he stops and lifted his shirt to look at his wound. He shrugs and starts to jog again, then he started running. He was at the ship now and he looked for a way to board the ship. He runs to the back of the ship and looks up, he decides to climb the 30 feet. He jumps and grasps a little ledge that is in imbedded in. He pulls himself up and continues to climb. He reaches 25 feet and stands against the ship. He walks towards a window and looks in, there's no one.
He jumps in and realizes that he is in the cargo room. He jogs out and heads for the brig; he remembered where everything was on the Dutchman.
---Elizabeth and Mercer---
He takes the shackles off of her and gently pushes her into her cell. Then quickly runs out and onto deck. She can here Him shouted orders and yelling at the members that weren't doing the right thing. She sits and comprehended on what just happened a few minutes ago with Beckett. Wow is all that she could think of. She plays with the dirt on the ground. It's only been 5 minutes and she already wants to get out, to leave, to see James, Will, and she now added to the list Beckett.
---Beckett---
Could this be real? I can't believe it, but all of a sudden I want to give up…I can't. He exits his office and runs towards the brig without being seen. He opens the door and notices the guard isn't there. What is the use for them? This one isn't doing his job. He walks down 4 steps and continues down the small walk way. It is dark, but there is a beam of sunlight coming from a crack in the wall. He passed cell by cell until he saw Elizabeth looking down at the ground picking at the dirt. "Miss," he calls to her. She looks up at the familiarity at his voice.
"Beckett?" she says.
He jogs closer to the cell, "I can't do this anymore."
"Do what?" she quietly says.
"This whole war, you have brought out a side of me I didn't know could be possible. And it is over powering the old me, I just want to stop the war," he grabs the iron of the cell.
"If you do everything is going to get worst. For instance the lives that were caused and the money funds," she quickly says. She's shocked and excited at Beckett, she can't think right.
"I know, but I really do want to know what 'it's' like," he leans his head on the cell's door. Elizabeth stands and walks closer to the door; she doesn't know what to say. There is a silence between them for a minute. "Ms. Swann?"
"Sorry I was thinking for a second. So you do? Well I can help you and I will because you deserve to," she smiles.
"You'll help me? That's fantastic," he smiles back excited.
"But you have to let me go," she says. She is proud of herself of what she came up with.
"I can agree to that, there is no need in my previous plan anymore. And if I'm questioned about it I have a reason," he looks at her.
"Good, so I guess I can be set free now?" she starts.
"I don't think so," Mercer appears out of nowhere holding his gun against Beckett.
"Mercer?" Beckett was speechless. He turned his back against the cell clutching the iron holes.
"I can't believe you would betray us, Lord Beckett. Why?" Mercer walks closer to them. Beckett didn't say anything, but his mouth was opened as if he was about to.
"Come on tell me why?" Mercer urges.
"No. I am your commander so you don't have authority over me. Besides what would make you think I was actually going to do it?"
"I heard every word Beckett and by law you have committed treason towards our king," Mercer says taking out the keys to Elizabeth's cell. Beckett looks at him angrily and Elizabeth was silent. Mercer puts away his gun and grabs Beckett by his coat and unlocks the cell door and quickly shoves him in. There was no time for Elizabeth to take action, so she stared into Mercer's dark brown eyes. "You will be here until further notice." He jogs out and returns to deck.
Beckett turned to Elizabeth walking to the middle. "I'm sorry," she says.
"No it's fine. I take it that I won't be apart of this royal navy anymore," he looks down.
"Isn't this what you wanted?" she asks softly.
"I don't know, it feels like a piece of me has been torn away."
"But a bad piece though," she tries to comfort him. "At least you tried to get me out of here."
"What about the war?" he says uneasy.
"It looks like it's going to get worse now that it's under Mercer's command," she told him. They both sat down, Beckett in the corner and Elizabeth in front of him.
"I should have never thought of the idea," he looks up resting his head on the wall.
"Don't say that, I think that was a thoughtful desirable decision if you ask for my opinion," she tries to support him.
"Thank you," he forces a smile.
---James---
"Damn there are too many people there. I might as well wait till' it's clear. He hears Mercer shouting orders about preparing to take action on a ship that was coming towards them. Could it be the Pearl? Who else? James peeks around the corner to see what was going on. It took Will and Jack that long to figure out that we were gone? Wow. James slid down against the wall to sit. "Now I must wait a little more. I waited a whole two weeks I can wait another few hours. Just a little more," he sighs.
---Elizabeth and Beckett---
Elizabeth felt so much for Beckett. She wants to feel him again, but second thoughts keep popping up in her head, she shouldn't do this. Why do I crave this? This isn't right? But I want to…
She gets on her knees and leans in towards Beckett. He knows what she's doing. Why does she do this again? She says she's in love with someone else, but she wants to comfort me again. I can't resist…
She brushes her lips against and then they broke out into a kiss. Beckett uncrosses his legs and Elizabeth quickly slips in between them still on her knees. They continue to kiss never stopping. Then Elizabeth pulled away gasping for air. She smiles at him for not denying her once again.
"Why again?" he whispers to her.
"I don't know Beckett," she whispers. She turns around with her back against him and leaned against his body resting her head on his chest. "Let's just accept it right now," she closes her eyes.
"Fine," he couldn't deny her and encircled his arms around her smiling.
---James---
It's been nearly two hours and James attempted to look around the corner again. He was surprised nobody even walked through this area. "Looks good to me," nodding his head at openness. He crawls out first to make sure and with all the confidence he needed he ran across the hall and down the steps. He had reached the door to the brig, and pushes to open it, but it was locked. Damn He shakes it a little hoping it would budge, but it was no use. He took out a dagger that he had and slide it through the door and the wall trying to free the lock.
---Elizabeth and Beckett---
Beckett heard noises coming in the direction of the door and snapped his head towards it. Then he looked down at Elizabeth that was sleeping on him. "Ms. Swann," he shakes her gently. She doesn't wake up and he shakes her again. "Ms, Swann." He added more intensity in his voice. She opens her eyes and looked up at him with a smile. "Someone's at the door," he says.
"What?" she begins to slide herself away from him towards the cell door.
"I wonder who's there," he stands and walks towards the cell door brushing off his clothes from the dust in the air.
---James---
James forcefully slides the knife and he hears a click, well more of a break. He pushes the door open and begins to run again down the few steps and slows to a jog passing each cell. "Elizabeth!" he calls out. He doesn't hear anything, but decides to keep going and then he could see two figures about 4 cells down and quickly approaches
"James!" He hears from the cell. He was relieved it was really her, but who was that next to her?
He gets to the cell. "Elizabeth!" he smiles at the fact of seeing her again. He turns his head to the other person, "Lord Beckett?"
"Yes Admiral, it's a long story," he says.
"James I'm so happy to see you, how did you know?" she asks filling up with excitement.
"I saw you and Mercer heading off the ship, but I need to get you out of here quickly, because I'm not sure if anyone saw me," he grabs the cell's iron bars.
"You can't, Mercer has the keys," Beckett retorted.
"I don't need the keys," he declared. He grabbed an item that looked like a crow bar. "Stand back," he advises. It was defiantly then what Will did to free Jack, but it works. He swings forcefully at the key whole. It begins to bend in and with one final blow it breaks. He opens the door and Elizabeth walks out and hugs him. "Ok now we have to go. The Pearl is on its way," he looks at her.
"What? Why?" she asks.
"They must of figured out that you were gone," he slides his hands off her. He starts motions to move, but Elizabeth stops him."
"James wait, we have to bring Beckett with us," she pulls him back.
He gave her a confused look, "Why? He is our enemy"
"Please I'll explain why later," she turns and jogs to Beckett.
"Ok, but hurry up," he said. Elizabeth tells Beckett to come and he follows, they ran to the door and opened it.
There was Bootstrap, "No one leaves the ship."
James and Beckett stand to the sides of Elizabeth. Beckett moves to his sword and all James had was a dagger and hand to hand combat.