Fearing Death

"Yo ho, yo ho, a pirates life for me." One of the crewmen sang at the top of his lungs, and everyone else joined in.

"We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot. Drink up my hearties yo ho. We Kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot. Drink up my hearties yo ho." The crew yelled the last part. I laughed as I watched most of the crew act silly, usually they did that when they were drunk, like now. We really didn't have a reason to celebrate, but when you're a pirate you don't need to have one. Out of the corner of my eye I was Will and Bootstrap by the railing talking, they were probably the only one's on the ship who never got full fledged drunk, tipsy but never drunk. Lenny our cook walked up to me, more like swagger, and asked.

"Care for a dance?" He asked while swaggering around the deck. I smiled at his silliness and peered over at Will to see him staring intently at us. I quirked an eyebrow and turned back to Lenny and said with a smirk.

"Why not, just act appropriate." He nodded eagerly, even though he most likely couldn't even say appropriate at this point. We danced a wacko jig that Lenny was making up to his own beat, while the crew sang a pirates life for me. Once the song was over I wandered over to Bootstrap who was now alone.

"Hello, where's Will?" I asked as I leaned against the railings and looked over at Bootstrap.

"Over there." He said pointing to Will who was with the rest of the crew again singing a pirates life for me. The only problem was Will wasn't singing the right verses.

"Is he drunk?" I asked shocked. Bootstrap nodded and there was a disappointed look in his eye.

"Like tipsy drunk or drunk drunk?" I asked afraid of the answer.

"Drunk drunk."

"Why?"

"I don't really know he was tipsy when he saw you dancing and he went over to get more rum, and now he is like that." Weird, Will never gets this drunk. Tipsy if you're lucky but never to this extreme. I looked concerned at him as the crew sang. The party went on for a little while later until everyone got tired. I looked around for Will to make sure he got back to his cabin safe, I saw him sitting on a crate mumbling a pirate's life for me. I sighed before walking over.

"Will it's time we got you to bed." I said as he shook his head no.

"But me don't wanna go to bed, my having fun." He said loudly, like a whining child. I rolled my eyes before saying in a don't mess with me kind of tone.

"William Grant Turner you are going to bed, I don't care if I have to carry your sorry drunk little arse there." I said threatening, he looked scared but nodded his head yes.

"You're like my Mother." He said as he stood up and nearly fell over had he not landed in my arms. I groaned from the extra weight, but I got him standing again and said.

"Ok this isn't going to work. Here put your arm around my shoulder and shift your weight over to me." He did as he was told but in a sloppy manner. And walking back to his cabin was slow business.

"At least I have the perfect blackmail on you." I huffed as we made it into the hallway, of where his cabin was. I sighed in relief as his cabin was only a couple feet away.

"Where are we?" Will asked groggily.

"We are almost in your cabin." I said as I steered us along, but Will had other plans in mind. He stepped shifting all of his weight into me causing me to crash into the wall and him holding onto the wall, with his arms both above me pinning me to the spot. He gave me a lopsided smile as I glared up at him.

"I'm drunk." He said and I couldn't help but laugh.

"Yes you are."

"I'm so drunk I won't remember what happened when I wake up." I rolled my eyes but went along with his odd conversation.

"Good for you, we really have to get you to bed."

"I'm so drunk I can do this." And before I could say anything his lips came down on mine. I tried to break free from his grasp, but even drunk Will still is very strong. After trying to fight him for a few seconds before unwillingly I gave in, ok maybe not so unwillingly. It's just even though he was drunk, and he had no idea what he was doing it still was a good kiss. It wasn't sloppy or yucky like many drunk kisses are, it wasn't too hard, but it wasn't too soft either. He put one of his arms on my waist as my hands went through his brown hair. Things were about to go out of control, but luckily Will then went unconscious.

"Will, will." I asked as all of his weight was now leaning against me, still pinning me to the wall. I groaned and I maneuvered myself so that his arm was still around my shoulder and I tried getting us to his cabin. Which wasn't easy considering all of his weight was on me. I am about 115, and now with about an extra 150 or more on me, I was really close to collapsing on the floor. Finally we got in the cabin and I maneuvered around his things, like tables, chairs, other things, until finally we were at his king sized bed. I tried to gently lay him down, but instead he pretty much flopped down on the bed. His legs were hanging off the side and I bent down and propped them up on the bed. I looked him over thinking that he can't be to comfortable. So I took his boots off of his feet and set them neatly next to the bed, I grabbed his belt along with his sword hilt and took those off; I took of his vest and his bandanna. I gave a small smile as his hair went everywhere from being under the bandanna to long. Gently I ran a hand through them making them better. I couldn't help but notice he gave a small smile in his sleep, I was about to smile until he said.

"Elizabeth." I sighed and took my hand out of his hair. I couldn't help but feel my heart die a little. I looked over and spied a blanket on one of the chairs I walked over and grabbed and unfolded it and put it on Will, just incase he got cold. I took his clothing that I had taken off of him and folded them and placed them on the other side of the bed. I looked back over at his handsome face and I was tempted to gently stroke it, but I stopped myself and walked to the door. Once I turned around I was surprised to see Bootstrap standing there looking surprised to see me.

"Emily what are ye doing here?" He asked in a shock, and accusing voice. I looked up at him surprised with his tone and replied.

"I was just putting Will to bed." I said quickly. He still looked suspiciously at me, but finally nodded. He moved out of my way as I walked back up the stairs and then down another flight and in the hallway till I was back in my room. Once in my room I did the only thing I could think to do, I paced. Will kissed, he actually kissed me. Does it even count, I mean he was drunk. I placed one of my fingers to my lips remembering the feel of his lips being on mine. I gave a small smile, until a thought came to me. Will's married, happily married, even though he can't see her only one day every ten years. This is wrong, I can't have feelings for Will, I will not have feelings for Will. What if he remembers, he did say he wasn't going to remember anything, but can you trust a drunk man? I groaned before sitting on my bed. I am so dead if Will ever figures out what happened. I laid down without even bothering to change and drifted off into an uneasy sleep dreaming about Will kissing me.

A couple of hours later I woke up, due to the fact that if I slept anymore I might never get up do to this fabulous dream. I sighed and got up and changed into brown pants a white shirt, a brown vest, and the same navy blue coat I wore yesterday. I put my hair into a braid and kept my necklace on. I wandered up to the deck to see the sun starting to rise, a light fog had settled around us. I walked to the back of the ship and I hopped onto the railing and I grabbed the loose rope hanging down from the crow nests. On the other end of the string was several bags of powder, I yanked the rope twice causing the bags to fall out of place and come falling down and at a easy pace, carrying me up to the crow nests. I settled myself comfortably in the crow nest as I sat down and I watched the rest of the sun rising. I sighed when I heard someone calling my name; I peeked over the crow nest to see Will looking up at me, motioning for me to come down. I sighed before grabbing the rope and jumping off the crow nest waiting till my feet were on the deck.

"Good morning Will." I said as I leaned against the railing. He smiled sheepishly.

"It's not a good morning. I feel like the dead." He said weakly while he put a hand to his head while I quietly laughed.

"Well you shouldn't have gotten drunk." I said as I looked over at him in mild interest.

"Can I ask you a question?"

"You can, but I might not answer." I said mimicking what he said to me two months ago. We both laughed before I nodded yes to his question.

"Did I do anything bad last night?" He asked looking at me curiously.

"Define bad." I said teasingly. He rolled his eyes.

"Anything embarrassing, something I should know about." I thought about our kiss, but I knew if I told him he would ignore me, and I didn't want that so I said.

"Besides singing a pirate's life for me terribly, no." I said fingering my necklace. He sighed in relief and said.

"That's good; I thought I had done bad."

"Do you remember anything last night?" I asked hesitantly. He thought about it for a minute before saying.

"Not really, I remember talking to you. But I don't know what we talked about, and I remember someone running their hands through my hair." I cursed under my breath as he said that.

"But I think it was my Father because I vaguely remember him." I sighed in relief before turning to him.

"Emily what did we talk about?" He asked curiously.

"Uh nothing really, you just saying you were drunk." Then you kissed me, I thought bitterly. He nodded his head.

"I hope I didn't bother you."

"No you didn't, it was actually quite entertaining." I said while his cheeks turned red, causing me to laugh rather loudly. He covered his ears with his hands and said.

"Could you not do that please?" He asked in pain and I gave him a sympathetic smile before responding.

"Sorry I forgot." I said in a whisper.

"So what are we doing?" I asked as I turned to watch the ocean.

"Uh we are heading to London."

"Really?" He nodded and responded.

"Hurricane." I nodded in understanding.

"When should we be there?"

"With our super speed, end of today." See when we weren't being seen by people we actually sailed really fast, taking us all over the world in a matter of hours. But when we were insight of people we went at a slower rate, way slower, at least to us.

"I love London; I can make fun of woman in corsets when we reach land." I said and he laughed. He put an arm around me in a friendly gesture.

"What am I going to do with you?" He asked teasingly, and I laughed as we watched the water. Inside my heart was racing and I prayed that Will couldn't hear it. Soon the rest of the crew cam on deck and we started doing our jobs, mine was to help with putting the sails ready to steer to London. The day went slowly, in the middle of the day all of us crew started playing the game would you rather.

"Carl, would you rather? Eat a live cockroach or be pecked alive by a crow?" I asked Carl, who was new to our crew, we got him last week. He said in a hurry.

"Cockroach." We all laughed. Will wasn't here neither was Bootstrap, but I didn't mind. I like hanging out with the crew. The game went on for a little longer till we all got bored. I walked around the deck and I was about to turn a corner when I heard voices, I recognized them immediately as Will's and Bootstrap's.

"Father I don't know what you're talking about." Will said.

"Like hell you don't. When ever I see you two you're holding each other, or smiling, or just being close together."

"She's my friend; there is nothing wrong with that." Will said in a strong voice.

"Yes but you two don't act like friends, you act even closer then you did with Elizabeth when you two were here."

"We had a misunderstanding, so we were mad at each other."

"Yes but the only displays of affection from you two were when you got married."

"What are you saying?"

"I'm saying maybe you should stay away from Emily for awhile, you two spend enough time with each other as it is."

"I don't see anything wrong with our relationship." Will said quietly and I had to lean forward to hear him.

"You may not, but the crew's been talking. Just stay away from her for awhile, and when you are with her don't hug or stand close together or anything of that sort."

"Fine." I walked off not wanting to hear anymore of their conversation. I stormed back to my room and I slammed the door and locked it. Great Bootstrap did suspect my feelings for Will and now told him not to hang around with me. Angry tears fell out of my eyes, and in anger I tore the necklace off and chucked it at the wall. I laid down on my bed and stayed like that for several hours not caring about helping with the crew. Soon I heard knocking on the door. I got up and opened it angrily to see Billy standing there.

"What do you want?" I asked in a somewhat rude voice, ok it was completely rude.

"What happened to you?" He asked curiously I guess I looked like a mess. I glared at him and he said.

"Fine don't tell me, I'm here to tell you that we at our destination and Captain wants us on the deck." I nodded and said.

"I'll be up in a minute." He nodded and walked off; I walked over to my mirror and saw I did look horrible. My hair was a mess; my eyes were red and puffy. Great, I took my hair out of its braid and combed it and let it hung loosely, and I got a hat and stuck it on my head, it was slightly big on me so it shielded my face, perfect. I sulked up to the deck to see everyone huddled around Will. I rolled my eyes and stood in the back leaning against the railing barley listening to Will as he talked. After he was done everyone walked to their posts and Will walked over to me, instead of doing anything I would usually do I turned my back to him and looked at the ocean.

"Emily are you alright?" Will asked with concern in his sweet voice. I smirked before turning around and I said in a sarcastic voice.

"Just peachy Captain." I pushed past him to my post as London came into view. This was going to be a long day.

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