Fearing Death

I woke up to sunlight streaming on my face. That's weird the sun has never bothered me before in my room. I yawned before rubbing the sleep out of my eyes, I looked around my room, to find I wasn't in my room, I was in Will's. I gasped, uh oh this is bad. I looked over to the other side of the bed to find him sleeping, I gave a small smile till I found he was shirtless, hesitantly I looked down to find I was not wearing any clothes. Uh oh this is bad. Suddenly last night came back into my brain, Will and I slept together! This would have been a good thing if he wasn't married. How do get myself into these situations, I mean it went from simple kissing to love making. I am so going to hell when I die. I looked around the room to find my clothes in a pile on the floor. I quietly got out of bed and I grabbed them and I put them on quickly. I looked back at Will to make sure he was still sleeping and then I quietly snuck out of the room. I opened the door and glanced in the hallway to make sure no one would see me. Once I was sure no one was in the hallway I crept out of the room and I quietly shut the door. I was about to walk to my room when I remembered something, Star! I cursed under my breath, now I got to go back in the room and get Star. I quietly snuck back into the room and I found Star still sleeping on the leather chair that I had placed her on last night. I picked her up and I proceeded to sneak out, again. Once I was out of the room for the second time I made a break for my room. Once I was safely in there I collapsed onto my bed as Star walked around checking out her surroundings. After she was done sniffing she jumped onto my bed and she curled up next to me.

"What am I going to do Star?" I asked as she licked my hand.

"I mean I slept with a married man, and I enjoyed it. I am so going to hell." She meowed at me before giving herself a bath.

"What would you do in this situation?" I asked.

"Meow."

"I don't think that's going to work." I said as I put a pillow on top of my head.

"Well I can't lay in bed all day avoiding Will, even though I want to." I said as I groaned and I got off the bed. I took extra time getting ready, not to look pretty, to stall. I finally picked a white shirt, the new pants, boots, and jacket I had received last night. I put my hair up in a ponytail and before I left my cabin, I placed my belt on with my sword hilt. My sword was also in the hilt, incase I had to be ready to fight. Finally I took a deep breath and I walked out the door, I didn't see Will because my back was too him, but when I did turn around to see him standing there I gave a little scream. I backed into my door, while he glared at me.

"Uh good morning, I really have to go." I said as I started walking forward but Will blocked my path.

"Please move." I said in an even tone.

"No."

"Move." I said in a cold voice.

"We need to talk." He said matching my tone. Something caught my eye and I looked down at my sword and a thought came to me. I suddenly pulled my sword out of its hilt and I held it up at Will's face.

"Why talk when we can fight." I said in a dark tone. He also pulled his sword out and said.

"You do know I am immortal right?" I smirked before replying.

"That means I can hit your harder." I turned my sword to the flat side before whacking will in the side in the wall causing him to crash into the wall, and making him slightly dazed. I was able to get past him and I turned around to block his attempt at hitting me as we moved through the hallway deflecting each others swords. Soon we made it to the stairs and I hopped up them backwards as I fought Will. Once I reached the top one I ducked avoiding a collision with Will's sword. We then were on the deck with the crew watching in interest. As we moved around slashing wildly around. As we neared the railing I hopped on a crate and onto the railing as Will did the same. We were a little unsteady but we managed to stay on the railing as we fought. By now the entire crew was interested in our fight, and they were cheering at certain moves we did. Sadly while we were on the railing Will did a move that distracted me and he grabbed my sword and threw it so hard that it stick to the wall. I ducked down to my feet as he slashed at me and I jumped off the railing and onto the deck, as I ran to the wall to retrieve the sword. It was hard getting it out, and I saw Will heading to me and I ducked again and I kicked him in the leg causing him to wince in pain, and by the time he was ready to strike again I had gotten the sword out of the wall.

"Want to give in?" he asked as we got our swords ready for the next battle.

"You wish." I said before striking him in his side causing him to crash into a pole. He charged at me and we had a small battle before he backed me up to the mainmast pole. He had his sword at my throat with a determined look in his eyes. At this point the crew was betting on who would win.

"We have to talk about this Emily." He said quietly, I looked next to me to see a rope leading up to the mainmast, at the other end was several 100 pounds of powder hanging and it wouldn't be disturbed unless the rope was yanked. I smirked before I grabbed it and I yanked it causing the powder to fall down from the mainmast towards the deck, as the rope went up with me on it. I went up quickly and I landed on the main mast. I looked down to see Will looking up at me, and I was about to walk to the other end when another bag of powder fell and Will came flying up to the mainmast. I cursed under my breath before getting my sword ready Will also got his ready.

"This is getting old Emily." He said as he ducked one of my blows.

"I don't know I'm finding this entertaining." I said as he hit me in the thigh.

"You would." He said as he blocked my sword. I stuck my tongue out at him and he actually gave a small smile.

"What are we going to do fight up here all day?" I sighed this was getting kind of old, and dangerous. My eyes landed on a rope that was under us, it was going straight across to the crow's nest. This could be dangerous, oh well.

"Ok truce?" I said blocking his sword away from my face. He thought it over for a minute. He put his sword back down at his side and said.

"Truce." While he held out his hand. I smirked before saying.

"Bye." With that I leaped off the mainmast I fell a couple of stories till my fingers made contact with the rope. I swung around it several times before letting go making me go flying. I curled up in a ball as I flipped my way to the deck. I landed on my feet with a loud thud. I smirked back up at Will who was looking down in amazement at what I had done, so was the rest of the crew. Not wanting to wait for Will to find someway done I walked down the stairs down to the crew's hallway. I was about halfway down it when I heard a loud thud on the deck. I inwardly cringed before turning around to see Will standing there with a victorious smirk before running down the stairs to me. I was right in front of room 14 and I barged into the room and I slammed the door shut, as I looked around to see Billy looking up at me in surprise.

"Hey Billy." I muttered as the door flew open and in came Will. Billy sat straight up on his bed, as we engaged in another sword fight. The rest of the crew stood outside the door watching us. Growing tired and desperate I threw a book that had been lying on the table at Will who ducked it with ease. Will then jumped on the other bed while I fought him, his sword hit my on the upside of me head, causing me to stumble around the room and into a dresser causing me to spill the items on top of it.

"Not my grandmother's china!" Billy shrieked as the china crashed onto the floor. Will then lunged at me and I blocked it and now our swords were in the some position, making an X, as we glared at each other.

"Could you two please take this to another room, I mean you trashed mine. And what's the point of this you both can't be killed."

"Shut up!" Will and I yelled simultaneously at Billy, who just cowered in the corner. Will then shoved me hard, causing me to fall into the hallway and I crashed into a wall, as the crew scattered. Not wanting to be in the fight, but not wanting to miss it. I looked around dazed as Will's sword came flying at my face; I ducked down so that I was in a sitting position on the floor. I kicked Will in the shin and he groaned and leaned over in pain, his face was only inches from mine when I punched him sending him flying into the opposite wall. I stood up quickly and Will was about to charge at me again when Bootstrap got in the middle of us.

"That's enough, you two our acting like children." The crew seemed disappointed that our fight was over. Bootstrap grabbed one of my arms and one of Will's as he dragged us around the ship. We finally stopped at Will's cabin. We both looked confused as to why we were here. He opened the doors and shoved us roughly into the room, and he said in an angry voice.

"You two are obviously having problems, and you're going to work it out." With that he slammed the door shut and I said after a moment.

"Looks like he left us with our swords." I said with a smirk as Will looked up at me, getting the idea. And as if reading my mind Bootstrap stormed back into the room and grabbed our swords from us and marched out of the room.

"Or not." I said as I looked around uncomfortably. I noticed blood coming from Will's nose.

"Will you're bleeding." I said as I walked over to him, He put a hand to his nose and he nodded his head. I looked around his cabin and I finally found a cloth. I walked back over to him and said.

"Here." I said it and he took it nodding his thanks.

"You should lie down, it makes nose bleeds go away." He nodded and I directed him over to his bed. He laid down while I propped his pillow.

"I'm sorry." I said after a couple minutes of silence.

"About what? Punching me, fighting me, or sleeping with me?" He asked with a dark tone.

"Everything." I said as I gently stroked his cheek.

"Really, I found the fighting entertaining, except for you punching me. That hurt."

"What did you think I would go soft on you?" I asked teasingly.

"Apparently not." He said as he lifted the cloth to only put it back on his nose.

"Why do you always run away from me?"

"I looked up in surprise at him.

"I don't run away." He snorted and said.

"Yes you do, when we first kissed, when I was drunk you hid it from me. When you heard me and my Father talking you avoided me like the plague. You avoided me during our second kiss. And now you would rather fight with me then talk about what happened last night. Why do you always run away from your problems?" I looked down; no one had ever said that to me before.

"I don't know, I guess it's because of my childhood. My Mother was a physic and the village we lived in thought her a witch and mad. They ran her out the village when I was 10. My Father was a drunk who was never around, and when he was he abused my siblings and I. I actually have a scar from it."

"I want to see it." Will said quietly and I nodded. I slowly lifted my shirt to reveal a burn mark; Will cautiously brought one of his hands to it and touched it. After he brought his hand back I put my shirt down.

"I didn't notice that last night." Will said and I had to laugh.

"Back to my story, when my Father wasn't around I had to take care of my younger Brother and Sister."

"What were their names?"

"Anthony and Lucy." I said quietly.

"So I took care of them, which wasn't easy. I often had to steal food from market places, we more often then not we slept in the streets, or in fields. And when I was twelve, while Anthony was 9 and Lucy 6 there was a riot in the street we had been sleeping in. It was British soldiers against the villagers, I already had experience with fighting and I wanted in on it." I hadn't realize I was crying till I felt something wet go down my cheek. Will had taken my hand and said soothingly.

"You don't need to tell me anymore." He said but I shook my head no.

"You need to this hear this. I told them to hide, and when they ran off I started fighting and I was pretty good. The fight lasted till morning and I had more then a few cuts and bruises. When it was over I looked for them and I found them, lying dead in the street. They died of stab wounds." By now I was sobbing but I continued.

"I was so distraught that I ran away, I joined a ship as a cabin boy, I had known the captain when I was younger and he had let me work for him. He taught my how to protect myself from the crewmen, by teaching me how to fight. And when I was 15 I left his ship and became a pirate, and the rest is history." I said as tears spilled out of my eyes. Will pulled me down to him, and he held me as I sobbed. He rubbed my back and whispered soothing things into my ear. Sometime later my tears finally stopped.

"I have never told anyone what had happened you're the first one." I whispered as I held Will's hand.

"Really?" He asked. I looked up at him and I nodded.

"Well I am glad you told me. But can you promise me something?"

"What?"

"Don't run away from me, tell me when something is bothering you, don't hid. Can you promise me that?" I thought about it, and I nodded my head yes.

"I promise."

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