Fearing Death

The next few days were hard on me; I had to be cautious everywhere I went incase Will would be there. And every time he was in the area I was in, he would come up and try to talk to me, and I of course ran off. Hiding under stairs, in rooms, yesterday I hid behind the anchor. That man does not give up; it can be quite tiresome trying to hide from someone. I mean you would think any man with a good sharp brain would get that I don't want to talk to him, but not Will, no not Will. I was already at the point where I snuck my head out my bedroom door before actually leaving my room just to make sure he wasn't standing there waiting for me to come out, but luckily he hasn't been that desperate. You would wonder why he is even trying to talk to me, he did tell his Father that he wouldn't come near me, in fact he should be thanking me, not stalking. He was really killing my mood, ad my vacation. The past couple of days we have been flying all over Europe picking up dead souls who had died from the hurricane, which I had named Larry. Now we were just off the coast of Spain, and here I was in the ships library. I had gotten bored just hiding in my room so I had snuck around the ship, going to great lengths to get here to find I wasn't here even two minutes before guess who came barging in, Will. I sighed as I put the book I had been reading down.

"Will what are you doing here?" I asked weakly as he glared at me from across the room.

"I am here because you haven't talked to me in five days."

"That's a lie, I have talked to you." It was true, kind of.

"Only when you have to, and I mean really have to, and you call my Captain Turner not Will and you've been sneaking around the ship hiding from me. I mean you hid behind an anchor." I cursed under my breath for he had known I was there, damn him.

"So you should be thanking me." I said as I looked around the small room. When I looked up I saw Will was giving me a confused look.

"Thanking you?" I sighed, doesn't he take a hint? I stood up and started gathering a few things I had brought with me.

"I don't want to talk to you." I said quietly as I tried getting past him. But Will wouldn't have any of that so he grabbed my two arms and firmly, but gently pushed me into a wall.

"I'm sorry but we are going to talk about this." I was suddenly reminded of when Will was drunk; we were as close to each other now as we had been then. That thought alone made my heart speed up a couple of beats.

"Why have you been avoiding me Emily? And why did you think I should be thanking you?" He whispered to me, as our eyes locked together. I sighed knowing I wouldn't be getting out of this.

"You should be thanking me because I am doing what your Father wanted." He still gave me a confused look while I rolled my eyes at his oblivious, men.

"Avoiding you, not talking, not holding each other, not smiling." I said in a sad tone.

"Did my Father talk to you?" He asked in an urgent whisper, I shook my head no and replied.

"I heard you two talking, and I thought I would just avoid you, make it easier on yourself." I said looking down at the wooden floor. I heard him sigh as he lifted on of his arms to run it through his hair, a thing I had been doing 6 days ago. He finally put his arm back in its original spot and took his other hand and put it under my chin and he gently lifted my face up so I would look at him.

"Emily, I am so sorry, I shouldn't have listened to him."

"Maybe you should have, you and I do spend a lot of time together, maybe taking a break would be good." I said quietly while his chocolate eyes looked into my electric ones. He leaned into me and whispered into my ear.

"I don't think I could, I would miss you too much." And when he pulled back I realized our lips were only inches apart, and he leaned down a little while I automatically leaned up. Suddenly the ship rocked violently causing both of us to crash into the wall I was leaning against. I groan in pain as having Will crash into me, he quickly took his body off of mine.

"What was that?" I asked as he pulled me off from the wall. We looked at each other and said simultaneously.

"Kraken." He grabbed my hand and we ran up to the deck to see the crew armed with weapons ready to take on the beast. We ran over to Bootstrap who was at the railing looking at the dark ocean.

"Father what is going on?" Will asked as we came to stand next to him and we looked down at the water.

"Kraken, she wants to be used, badly."

"We know that, how do we stop her?" I asked. Suddenly the ship lunged forward causing me to fall over the railing.

"Emily!" I heard Will yell right before I landed in the freezing water. I felt as I had been stabbed a thousand times by swords, that's how cold the water was. It froze me to the bone, almost making it impossible for me to swim to the surface. But a thought came into my head, Will, and it gave me strength to swim to the surface. As I broke the surface I took a huge gulp of air, as I looked up I saw the entire crew looking down at me from the ship. I tried to weakly smile up at them, as Will yelled.

"Well don't just stand there, get Emily!" Will yelled as the crew sprang into action trying to come down and get me. Billy came down the ladder and held out his hand to me as I dogpaddled over to him. I was about a hair length away from reaching his hand when I felt something grab my ankle pulling me back down into the frozen waters. I kicked and screamed as it brought me father away from the surface. I looked down to see a pink tentacle wrapped tightly around my left leg. With the last bit of strength I had I bent down and started punching the tentacle. I punched with all my might, everything was starting to go black, but I didn't care, I wasn't going to die this way if I could even die. Finally the tentacle loosened till it completely let go, and I looked to see I was about 150 feet away from the surface, and I was out of air, and everything was going black. Just as I was about to the break the surface everything went black and I couldn't feel my body anymore.

Everything was black, I stood alone amongst the darkness, suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder and I spun around to find Will standing there smiling at me.

"Will" I cried happily as he took me into his strong arms. He laughed as I ran a hand through his hair. Once we pulled apart I asked.

"Where is everyone else?" I asked looking around for the rest of the crew.

"There is no one else it's just us." I looked at him confused.

"But why?" I asked scared.

"Because I wanted us to be alone." I quirked one of my eyebrows as he leaned down and captured my lips with his own. We stood there kissing for several minutes before pulling apart. Before I could say anything Will had vanished and I was alone again.

"Will, where are you?" I asked in a panic and soon I heard his voice though it sounded far off and distant.

"Emily I need you to wake up, please wake up." Suddenly there was a blinding white light and everything was gone.

I opened my eyes to see that I was in my room aboard the Flying Dutchmen. I felt very tired and lightheaded and I looked to see Will sitting right next to me in a chair. His head was low and he was clutching one of my hands, obviously he hadn't see I was awake yet. I gently squeezed his hand and his head jerked up. I looked to see that his eyes were red, and one tear was falling down his cheek.

"Emily!" He cried out happily as he crushed me to him. I smiled against his chest as I weakly returned his hug. We stayed like that for several minutes, until I couldn't breathe.

"Will I can't breath." I said in a hoarse voice. He quickly let me go and I took a large gulp of air.

"Opps sorry about that." He said sheepishly as I laid back down, he took my hand and put it back into his though.

"So what happened?" I asked curiously.

"You don't remember?"

"I remember the Kraken pulling me down, put everything after that is…well a bit fuzzy." I said as I looked down to see I was in another pair of clothes, nice dry ones. I raised my eyebrow but decided to save Will the embarrassment of telling me who had changed my clothes and had seen me naked.

"Well after he pulled you down we all thought you were a goner, but a couple of minutes later you had bobbed up on the surface. Billy who was still on the ladder had grabbed you and carried you up to the deck; you were unconscious throughout all of this though. We took you here and changed you into warm clothes and I have been waiting for you to wake up. And you just did a second ago." I smiled at his little joke.

"I can see that." I yawned before looking up at Will, I still have the image in my head of him crying and it wasn't a good one. So with some strength I sat up and put both of my hands on Will's face, gently stroking his face, he didn't seem to mind though.

"And how are you doing?" I whispered to him as he looked at me, with something in his eyes that I had never seen before, or at least not directed at me.

"I was scared that you were going to die." He whispered back, and I could tell more tears might come, and they did but I gently brushed them away.

"Well I didn't." I said in a soothing voice.

"I'm still here Will, I won't leave you." I said.

"Promise?" I gave a small smile at nodded.

"Promise." He smiled before standing up abruptly and looking around my room for something.

"Will what are you doing?" He held up his hand and wandered over to the corner of the room and picked something up from the floor. He walked back over and held the object right in front of me; it gleamed in the candle light.

"My necklace." I said as he motioned for me to turn around while he slipped it on my neck. I couldn't help but notice his hands had stayed on my neck a minute longer then necessary but I didn't mind at all.

"Yes I found it while you were knocked out. Why was it on the ground anyway?"

"When I heard you and your Father talking I came in here and chucked it at the wall because I was angry." He nodded in understanding.

"But thank you for getting it for me." I said smiling at him while my fingers played with the necklace.

"Your welcome." He smiled back and brought his hand to my face to move a strand of hair away from my face. His hand stayed on my cheek when he was done and I couldn't help but lean into his touch. I looked back at him to see his reaction but he just looked at me, that odd look in his eyes again. And wordlessly he leaned in and gave me a soft simple kiss. I was shocked at first but soon I responded and we sat there for a few moments just like that. My insides were melting with happiness, he was kissing me, and he wasn't drunk. Soon he pulled away but kept his hand on my cheek just barley touching my skin. Quietly he said.

"I should go." He stood up and before he walked away from my bed I grabbed his arm. He turned around and looked at me with a confused look gracing his handsome face.

"Please just stay with me for the night. I don't want to be alone." I said with a hint of panic in my voice. He nodded and I made room for him to lay in my bed with me. I was a tight squeeze; a twin bed isn't made to hold two people. But we managed, with me being almost entirely on top of him.

"Good night Emily." He whispered into my ear, as I yawned, exhausted from today's events.

"Good night Will." I whispered back right before sleep claimed me.

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