Fearless

I sighed as I sat on the railing looking down at the dark ocean. I had night duty so here I was rather bored with no one to keep me company, not even Will.

"You look bored." I turned to see Elizabeth standing behind me.

"How did you get here?" I asked for the Pearl was on the other side of the Dutchman. She laughed and sat on the railing that I was on and replied.

"I just swung over because I was bored, there is nothing going on the Pearl, besides Anamaria and Jack going at it." I groaned in disgust and said.

"I did not need to know that, seeing them once was bad enough." She laughed and nodded. We sat in silence for a while until Elizabeth asked.

"Do you think we will find Blackbeard's son?" I shrugged.

"I don't know, we have been searching for him for the past several days but I think we are getting close. That man from yesterday said he had seen his ship go past that island two days ago, so we can't be too far behind." We then lapsed into another silence, but something was bothering me, it had been since I met her. And she had answered the question, but I knew there was more.

"Elizabeth?"

"Hmm?" She asked as she turned towards me. I looked down not liking having to ask her. I looked back up and replied.

"Why don't you hate me?" She raised an eyebrow and said.

"Why should I hate you?"

"Because I ruined your marriage…and your family, and everything, and yet you are my friend. How come you do not despise me or wish me pain, because you really should. You said I was a sweet person but I'm not I'm horrible, I ruined your life it seems." Once I was done I refused to look at her, I picked to look at the ocean as small waves knocked gently into the Dutchman.

"Emily what happen between Will and I was not your fault." I snorted and looked back at her, my eyes were narrowed and I knew they had a cold look to them.

"Look Elizabeth I don't need you telling me it wasn't my fault when it sure as hell was, stop trying to make me feel good about myself, we all know it was my fault and my fault alone." I spat at her as I glared. She sighed and looked down at her hands.

"It wasn't entirely your fault." I opened my mouth to talk but she held up a hand to stop me and she continued.

"I guess you know about the rule where if Will and I had stayed faithful to each other for those ten years Will would have been able to leave his duties as the Flying Dutchman and stay with me and his son." I nodded ad said.

"Yes if it wasn't for me he would have been able to be with you two." She looked frustrated by now as she said.

"Emily be quiet so I can finish." She all but yelled at me. I was a little taken aback but nodded anyways.

"Even if you hadn't been around on the Dutchman and had been with Will, he wouldn't have been able to stay." I raised an eyebrow confused, when suddenly her words all made sense.

"Elizabeth are you saying…?" I didn't even have to finish my sentence for she shook her head yes.

"Who…why?" I asked trying to let everything sink in. She sighed and looked at the ocean for a long time. I feared she wasn't going to tell me and then she turned back to me and said.

"It was about a month after Will had left to be the Dutchman; I was depressed because I missed him everyday and also I had been feeling sick, I didn't know that I was pregnant yet. And one day Jack showed up on my doorstep and I spilled out everything to him, all my heartache and he did what he does. He tried to make me feel better in his odd corky way."

"Let me guess he got you drunk." I said in a joking way, but I stopped laughing when she nodded. I cursed under my breath ad ran a hand through my hair as I motioned for her to continue.

"Yes we both got drunk and next thing I know I kissed him hard. I had missed being with someone and I wanted to be love that's all." At this point tears were coming out of her eyes.

"So you two slept together?" I asked dreading the answer; she nodded as another round of tears came. She nodded and said.

"I didn't we had till the next morning, and I was distraught and I didn't mean to sleep with him, so I should not hate you Emily because I did the same thing." I know she had said all of that to make me feel better but a surge of anger swept throughout my body.

"You are unbelievable." I said in a low voice glaring at her. She looked surprised and alarmed.

"What do you mean?"

"What do you think I mean? For all these years I thought it was my fault that Will couldn't be with you, when it was really yours." She then glared back at me and said.

"Doesn't that sound a bit hypocritical coming from you?" She asked snidely. I glared at her and had to restrain myself from hurting her.

"I can't believe this! I killed myself and rotted in hell for 50 years because I thought everything had been my fault. But no you did the damage what 10 years before then." I screamed at her as I stood up and started pacing while she watched me.

"And Will, I can only bet you never told him right?" I asked harshly and she looked won sadly and nodded. Another surge of anger went through me.

"So he has carried this guilt with him for more then a century how could you do that to him if you claimed to love him so? People don't do that to their love ones." I said as she glared at me and stood up as well.

"What I did was a mistake!"

"Sure!" I said sarcastically.

"What about you?" I stopped and looked at her.

"What about me?"

"You killed yourself; I'm positive that had to crush him."

"I did it for a good reason." She then snorted and replied.

"Sure you did Emily keep telling yourself that." And before I could control myself I slapped her hard across the cheek. She backed up and brought a hand to her cheek as she looked up at me with hurt eyes. I brought my hand back and looked down to see it was shaking; I was surprised I had done that. We stared at each other for a few more moments before I turned around and walked away. I walked aimlessly around the Dutchman not caring where I went.

"Emily love look over here!" Jack yelled as I walked by the railing on the side of the Dutchman where the Pearl was. I looked up to see Jack smiling cheekily at me. Images of him and Elizabeth flashed through my mind and I glared back at him with all the coldness I could muster up at that moment. I guess it was a lot because jack raised an eyebrow but shook it off and said happily.

"I have a great feeling we will find Blackbeard's son tomorrow isn't that great?" He asked trying to make me smile. I only sneered and turned around and headed back to my cabin. I felt Jack's questioning gaze on me till I was out of sight. I threw the door opened and slammed it shut in my cabin to my relief and sadness Will wasn't there. I flung myself down on one of the couches and wallowed in self pity. How dare she compare what I did to what she did! At least I tried to make something right out of what happened. Ok maybe killing myself wasn't the best way, I know that now. But she had made Will suffer for all these years, thinking is was his fault.

I sighed as I pet Star who was lying near me, she purred and I felt a little better. But then I thought of the way she looked when I slapped her, did I have a right to do that? I scoffed, please she got off easy, I could have just punched her and ruined her face. I gave a small laugh at that, mean I know but it was funny. Maybe I shouldn't have freaked out on her; I mean she is a friend of mine. I know I'll just apologize to her tomorrow, we'll work everything out. I snuggled more into the couch feeling more relaxed now that my internal battle was over…for now. Star purred some more before stretching and jumping off the couch. I watched in mild interest as she stalked off to another corner of the cabin only to lay down there and take a bath.

"I should have named you Lazy not Star." I muttered under my breath as she licks herself. I yawn as I suddenly feel very tired, too tired to get off the couch and to my bed. I just grab a pillow and snuggle into it and soon enough I am asleep.

Hours later I woke up to find a blanket lying over my body, I look around to see faint sunlight coming through thee windows, meaning it just after dawn. I yawn and sit up and look around the cabin. I see Will sleeping in our bed and I smile and quietly stand up. I sit on the edge of our bed and watch him sleep. How could Elizabeth keep this from him? I asked myself as I gently run my hands through his hair. Will is such a good man, and he didn't deserve to carry his guilt like that. He moves around a little in his sleep and lets out a sigh in content and a small smile. I smile knowing I am giving him peace. I look over to see his chest sitting by itself in the corner. I get off the bed and walked over to it. I kneel down in front of it and sit down Indian style on the floor. I grab it and bring it to my chest as I rest my head against it listening to the soothing beat of my lover and husband. I don't know how long I sit there till I hear a voice behind me.

"Listening to my heartbeat aren't we?" I smile even though he can't see it and nod.

"I don't know why you find listening to it so fascinating." He whispered into my ear as I heard a soft thud behind me, I then feel his arms go around my waist pulling me and his chest to him. I lean into his chest as I breathe in deeply.

"I like listening to your heartbeat because it reminds me of you, and I feel close to you when our beats are in harmony with each other." I whispered as he kissed my neck as I shuddered in pleasure. I can tell that his shirtless as I lean against him, fine with me.

"If I am not mistaken love you are close to me." I give a small laugh, sending rumbles through out my body.

"Yes I am, and I wouldn't leave for the world." I could feel him smile even though I couldn't see it. We stayed in silence for several moments, I was about to open my mouth when.

BANG

Someone was knocking on our door. Will and I shared a look and he untangled himself from me and stood up and went to answer it. The warmth that had spread to my body was instantly gone. I sighed and put the chest down and stood up as well and walked to the door. I came up behind Will just as he answered the door. Standing on the other side was Bootstrap.

"You two should get on deck…now." I raised an eyebrow while Will asked.

"Father what's going on?"

"We are on the trail of Blackbeard's son." That was all we needed to know. We both nodded and Bootstrap walked off. Will shut the door and started changing as did I. Ten minutes later we were on the deck. I ran to the railing and looked to see a ship not to far a head of us, sailing away from us, bad idea. The wind was against her slowing her down while the Pearl and Dutchman were speeding up.

Soon enough we caught up to the ship, and they started firing at us. I swore under my breath as the Pearl and Dutchman fired back. Couldn't we all just talk like reasonable pirates? I ducked down as a ray of bullets went past me. Wait a minute I can't die. I stood up again and soon we were right next to the other ship.

"This is so not my idea of fun." I muttered under my breath. The firing stopped and since we were blocking the Pearl's path to the ship Jack and others jumped onto our ship and went to the railing, me following behind. I looked to see man obviously the other ships captain standing by his railing; he was giving us a death glare. He was tall with a strong built, with black hair and green eyes that stood out even from here.

"What do you filthy pirates want?" He spat as us and we all glared at him.

"I love how you call us filthy pirates when you are in fact a pirate yourself mate so you are in fact insulting yourself." I rolled my eyes and snickered as the man's face turned red, Elizabeth also gave a small laugh from next to me.

"Do you not know who I am pirate?" The man spat at Jack who only rolled his eyes and replied.

"Yes I do your old Blackbeard's son that he would never acknowledge we all heard the sob story so you don't need to explain it." I could tell Thomas was getting madder by the second.

"And what do you and your foul crew want?"

"We just want to talk to you, so could we?" Thomas thought it over before finally nodding and motioning for us to come over. Will, Jack, Elizabeth, and I made our way over to his deck and we stood cautiously as he looked us over.

"So what do you want to talk to me about pirate?"

"We have names you know." I said snidely to him as he looked sharply at me. He sighed and said.

"Fine what are all of your names?" Jack smiled and walked forward in his usual manner and stuck his hand out while he said.

"I'm Captain Jack Sparrow, you've heard of me no doubt." When Thomas shook his head no and had a blank look to his face Jack stopped smiling and looked offended.

"Well fine then." He walked back over to us as Elizabeth stepped forward.

"I'm Elizabeth Turner." He nodded curtly to her and looked at me with a glare.

"I'm Emily Turner and this is my husband William Turner you know the Flying Dutchman." I saw his face visibly pale for a second before he got his composure back.

"Are you three related?" he asked looking between the three of us, Jack smiled and laughed. Elizabeth and I both shook our head no and said at the same time.

"We're married to him." We both pointed to Will who looked slightly uncomfortable, Thomas raised an eyebrow and smirked.

"I guess you must be doing something right if they're both your wives." I rolled my eyes in disgust and said.

"At least he has two wives, who wants to bet you have none?" Jack smirked his trademark smirk as Thomas's face went a shade deeper.

"I don't have enough time for chit chat what do you four want?"

"We want a small piece of paper that's worn and looks like this." Jack said grabbing one of the clues and showing it to Thomas. Thomas grinned and said.

"Oh this?" He asked as he grabbed something from one of his pockets and held it up so we could see that is was the final piece to the map. Jack grabbed it greedily but Thomas jerked his hand back and said.

"Aw and why should I give this to you?" He asked with an evil glint in his eyes. A thought came to me and I leaned into Will and whispered into his ears.

"Can I do something here?" He raised an eyebrow but nodded. I stomped my boot on his deck three times and whistled very loudly.

"What was that for?" Thomas asked rudely.

"You'll see." I said with a smirk as a giant pink tentacle rose out from the ocean behind Thomas. Men behind him started running and before He could turn around the tentacle wrapped itself around him and lifted him several feet off the deck.

"Who says you can't teach an old mythological creature new tricks?" I asked as I looked down at my nails in a bored manner.

"You will burn in hell you vixen." He yelled at me and I chuckled.

"Been there done that got an attitude to prove it. Now I am going to offer you two choices you get to pick one got that?' I asked and I continued without waiting for an answer.

"One you can give us the clue and I won't have Kraken eat you, two you don't give us the clue and I get the clue on my own accord and Kraken gets to have a nice snack, even though I bet you taste horrible."

"What's it going to be?"

(Please R and R! I do not own Pirates!)