Anyone who has read my other fic "COTPB: What could have happened" knows that I'm a big fan of long chapters so trust me when I tell you the chapters will be long after this.

The story hasn't really kicked off yet! So stay tuned for the real action to start. And R&R

"I just wanted to be with him," Elizabeth said as they walked down the street. There was clearly a sea of sadness in her voice. "I went after the fountain. Oh what I bargained for it and how long and hard I tried to reach it is best left unsaid. I did drink from it...and for a moment I thought we were going to be together forever but I was so foolish."

"I'm suspectin' it has something to do wiff the heart?!"

Elizabeth nodded. "Someone stabbed the heart...his heart...Will's heart." she concluded looking rather guilty.

"So you left the heart on the island, through everything to the wind, did everything neccessary to be reunited with your Willy ol' lad only to find him dead at the end of your venture...well that's quite disturbing and...sad." Jack excalimed with a wave of his hand.

"Yes...yes it is. " Elizabeth said looking down at her shoes. "So what's your story Captain?"

"Barbossa stole my ship, I stole his charts, drank from the fountain and here I am at your service eh?"

"Did anyone else...is anyone else still alive?!" she hoped.

"Most of the crew is! After I found the fountain, I got me dolly belle ol' Pearly back savvy? So I led the whole crew to the fountain. Some who were smarter didn't drink ofcourse!Like Cotton...but his parrot did! And I'm only to assume Barbossa's dead too...no shame really! The world is better off without 'im and-"

"Jack what do you do now?"

"Pirate!"

Elizabeth laughed. "No, really?"

"Really! Although I may occassionaly play guitar with a rock band but I'm still a pirate at heart!"

"And do you still insist people call you captain?"

"It's like you don't know me at all luv! What do you do?"

"I work in the PR section of a very big-"

"Tsk. Tsk. And here I was hoping you'd stayed a pirate for all this time! Although I should've known from your choice of wardrobe! You're one of them now." he scanned her uber expensive and fashionable clothes.

Elizabeth knew what he meant but she wanted to hear him say it. "One of who Jack?"

" I used to think people like you and I luv? We were different from the rest of the world. Our kind against the world. To us the immaterial was material and the material was immaterial remember? We wouldn't pass up an adventure for all the gold in the world darlin'. It was us against the world! Now you're..." he couldn't find the right words so he just waved his arms up and down indicating her appearance again.

"A girl can only fight the whole world by herself for so long before giving up Jack."

"It depends on what she's fighting for luv!"

"You don't know anything about me! So quit passing judgements. I had a son Jack. I had to watch him die with my own eyes. We don't know eachother any more Jack. We're entirely different people than what we used to be..."

"No luv! We aren't different! We're just back to square one again."

"What do you mean?"

"The day I saved you, I was a pirate and you were a girl trapped in a world she didn't want to be in. That changed over the years but seems like we're back where we started. I'm a pirate and you my friend are most definitely a girl who is trapped in a world she doesn't want to be in."

Elizabeth just shook her head and kept on walking.

"I'm supposin' you got married quite a few times?" Jack asked with a smirk.

Elizabeth nodded. "I had to. There were points in my life where I had to have someone to support me. I couldn't die, that's true but I could get crushed by soceity." she laughed. "I've been married 15 times! Never had any more children though."

Jack laughed. "I know people who've married more times in one life time."

Elizabeth smiled weakly. "Am I right to think you never got married?"

Jack nodded with a smirk. "Nothing can make Captain Jack Sparrow settle down. Not even those nice receptions they have now a days...with lots of rum."

He took out a silver falsk and took a sip. Elizabeth could smell the Bacardi rum even from a distance.

"Jack...the Pearl?" she asked her eyes were moist thinking about what had been lost through the ages.

Jack smiled sadly. "Not even my girl could survive all this time." he said looking her in the eye. She knew that look! It was the same look he'd given her all those years ago in Tortuga when he'd told her he didn't have anything to do with Will being on the Flying Dutchman. He'd been lying then and he was lying now.

"Jack?!" she demanded with a hard gaze.

"Oh fine! Fine! She's still a-floatin'. Satisfied?"

"Rather. Where is she?"

"I've roamed these waters longer than anyone else. Found a cave near Isla De Noir a long time ago where no one can find her. Haven't seen her in years but she's still there. I can feel it in me bones."

They walked in silence for a short while. Before Elizabeth spoke again. She had to tell him. He was the only one she coud tell.

"Jack..." her voice resembled a cry, a plead. They looked at eachother for a second. "I want to die!"

If Elizabeth had said those words all those years ago when Will had left Jack would smack her over the head before taking her to Tortuga and getting her drunk so she would forget her sorrows but now he knew what she meant. She wasn't sad. She was just tired of living. The woman standing before him was still young heart, body and soul but her mind was so old and labored. It wasn't so much that she wanted to die she wanted the excitement of having the possibility of dying.

"I know exactly what you mean luv." he said with a charming smile.

"Is there a way? To become mortal again."

"Funny you should ask darlin'! As a matter of fact I was just telling the crew..." he rapped his hands around her shoulder and led her to a corner where he flipped out his famous compass. "There is a chest..."

Next chapter up tomorrow!