A/N: 'Ello mates!!! Here's another chapter. The next chapter will be the last.

Now I must admit that most of this chapter(including how the chest is found) is rather strange. In case it's a bit confusing for you plz PM me with any question you have.

You may think it's silly but it's actually very heavy stuff. And I haven't exactly made all of this up. I based it very much on Greek/Indian/Iranian mythology. I'm sorry if some peope aren't so hot on mythology but it was a great inspration for this story so I had to stay true to it.

Most of the riddles and clues have been from mythology too but I must admit that I added a few of my own touches along the way.

Now let me not give you all a headache if I haven't already! Read and for Sparrabeth's sak REVIEW!!

Elizabeth traced the carvings on the stone door with her fingers. Jack ripped away some of the vines covering the upper part of the door.

"Well tha' is certainly interesting." Jack whispered.

"What is Jack?"

"More riddles!! I hate riddles when I'm not the one who's using them to cunfus other people."

"What does it say?"

Jack stood on the tip of his toes in order to see the carving at the very top of the door. "You may not enter alone for you're incomplete, half of your heart is caught in the web of another's deceit." he read. "Bloody hell! The door called me incomplete. The door insulted me."

Elizabeth sighed. "Does it say anything else? Let me look!" she pushed Jack aside and looked at the carving. "To open the chest you must reach for the truth within." she read.

"What?!" Jack protested. "It doesn't say that." he pushed her side and looked again.

"Yes it does." she said as she pushed him aside to look at the sentence again.

"Well that's even more bloody interesting! It changes when different people look at it." he said with a grin. "Do you know what it means? What it's telling you?"

"I think I do." she said, sounding more confident than she felt. "Doesn't mean I'll be telling you though."

Jack nodded in understanding. "I know too but...that doesn't mean I'll be telling you luv."

Elizabeth had some idea as to what the riddle might have meant."So the 'door' is telling me how to open the chest and telling you how to go in?"

"Aye. Now let us go in, shall we?" Jack offered with a grin.

"But I thought you can't go in alone?" Elizabeth reminded him as she remembered what the door had shown when he'd looked at it: "You may not enter alone for you are incomplete, half of your heart is caught in the web of another's deceit."

"But I won't be going in alone now will I?" Jack said with a raised eyebrow.

Not wanting to think about what Jack might have meant she just nodded and helped Jack as he pulled on the giant stone door. The door opened with a loud thud. They both stepped inside hesitantly, surprised that they felt like they were going through an invisible wall. The sight that lay before them was more surprising however.

Elizabeth was astouned to see that even Jack who rarely looked shocked by anything wore an expression of awe and disbelief that she was sure matched her own.

Before them lay a lake so vast that they couldn't see where it ended. The ceiling of the cave was low and the water that filled the lake was as dark as the midnight sky. Circling all around the lake was a thin strip of land only wide enough for one person to walk at a time. The two pirates jumped slightly as the door shut behind them and darkness fell...it took a few seconds for their eyes to get used to the dark but once they regained their eyesight they could both see the faint blue glow at the bottom of the lake, at the deepest part. Once Elizabeth squinted she could make out the faint outline of a chest amidst the blue light.

She gasped. "Erm...how are we going to reach it exactly? Jump in the water?" she asked sarcastically.

She could see Jack shaking his head even in the dark. "I doubt it be that easy luv. Seems like whoever has hid this mirror is fond of riddles and tricks and all other manners of confusing clues."

"Well then we best start walking in hopes of reaching the end right? Maybe there'll be a clue there?" she said tilting her head towards the thin strip of land around the lake.

"Aye luv!"

And so Elizabeth found herself with her back pressed against the wall as she tried to walk without falling in the water or...whatever that was. She felt Jack come to a sudden stop beside her. "Jack? What is it?"

"I know!" Jack said. She could almost see him grin in the dark.

"You know what?"

"What we should do of course! What else?"

"What should we do?"

"Just what you suggested at first luv." he said as he linked his arm around her waist and pulled her close to him. She was taken off gaurd by the embrace but she was more concerned with what Jack was saying at the moment to smack him away.

She really didn't remember what she had suggested. "What? What did I suggest?"

He grinned. "We jump of course!"

Before Elizabeth could protested Jack threw himself into the lake (towards the blue light) dragging Elizabeth with him. After a second or two she felt her body hit a cold surface (as expected) but instead of sinking in the water as she thought they would she felt air all around them. She opened her eyes to find that after going through the surface of the lake they were now falling through a vast emptiness. The only thing she could see was Jack who was beneath her, still gripping her waist tightly.

She didn't know for how long they were falling. She didn't know what was happening and she couldn't even open her mouth to ask Jack. All she could do was hug his neck tightly and hope they got to...where ever they were supposed to get before she barfed all over him from dizziness. She closed her eyes tightly and waited.

And after what seemed to be an hour or two (or had it been only a few minutes?) she heard a sickening thud and felt Jack crash to the ground beneath her. She opened her eyes and crawled off of him hastily.

'Ouch! That had to hurt.' she thought as she looked at his still figure. She shook him gently by the shoulder and found herself panicking that he didn't move. She knew -of course- that he was immortal and he couldn't die but what if he was really hurt? How would she get them out of this place by herself? What if he'd broken his back and he couldn't walk anymore and he had to sit on a wheel chair and-

She let out a sigh of relief when he groaned weakly. "Ouch luv! Stop shaking me." he ordered in a hoarse whisper but with his usual playful smirk.

"Oh! You got me scared for a second." she whispered with relief.

He sat straight with a pained expression. "Well excuse me for breakin' your fall. You're very welcome...don't shower me with hugs and "thank you"s or anything."

She just ignored him noticing their surrounding for the first time. They were in a desert of some sort but what really caught her attention was...the chest itself surrounded by a ring of blue blazing fire.

"Ummm Jack?" she called to him.

"Hmmm darlin'? Wanna give me a kiss to make my aching back feel all better or-" he stopped mid-sentence as he stood up and turned around to face the chest surrounded by fire. "Oh!" he excailmed simply with a blank expression.

"Yes Jack! Oh! Oh! Did you're 'utterly brilliant mind' think about this part when it discovered that we should jump into a lake of who-knows-what?" she shrieked.

"Luv! Luv! Don't be so angry with me...imagine I'd gotten seriously injured from that fall. You wouldn't be yelling at me then."

"Well you're not injured are you? Hence the yelling."

"I'm sure I can figure this out." he assured her. He didn't know how he would be figuring it out but he would...eventually.

She circled the fire uncertainly. "I'm sure you will? Why don't you just walk through it huh?"

Jack's face brightened up. "You're brilliant luv. Brilliantly daft like meself! We're going to walk through it."

Elizabeth shook her head. "It wouldn't be so simple."

He grinned. "Unless the person who desingned it knew that no one would believe it would be so simple."

She gave the notion some thought. When Jack's face brightened even more as he realized something.

"Elizabeth." he called in a soft whisper. He held out his hand to her. "May I ask you something? Can you trust me?"

She was confused. "Huh? What does that have to do with-"

He reminded her of what they'd seen on the charts. "The key to the unknown is deception. Deception is what it's not."

Her eyes brightened in understanding. "And deception is definitely not based on trust!" she nodded as she put her hand in his. Her answer to his question surprised herself. "Yes Jack! I trust you."

Jack's grin widened. "I knew you were a fool Lizzie Swann but a damn wise fool you are."

She chuckled at the statement. "But you're both a fool and an idiot Captain Sparrow."

He smiled. "I wouldn't expect anything else from Captain Jack Sparrow luv! Shall we?"

"We shall!"

They both stepped through the fire wall at the exact same moment. She half expected to feel burned but instead she felt a pleasent warmness on her skin.

They found themselves standing in front of the chest they so desperately wanted. She could hardly believe they'd found it...just like that. They both knelt in front of it shakily and ran their hands on the complicated carvings and symbols on the surface. The first thing they both noticed was two pieces of an emerald gim on the opposite sides of the chest. It was as if an emerald had been broken into two pieces.

And in that single glance Elizabeth knew what to do...and she knew Jack knew what to do as well. She didn't know how...perhaps it was trust??

She lay a hand on one piece as Jack lay a hand on the other and they pushed the two pieces together. The two pieces slided towards eachother and fit together perfectly and the chest snapped open. Inside Elizabeth saw the most beautiful and enchanting object she's ever seen in her life.

The mirror looked like it had been broken because the edges were sharp and uneven and the surface was cracked delicately but it was framed with a thick silver frame that had jewels and carvings on it. It shined like it was reflecting light from a thousand diamonds. Elizabeth stood in awe but Jack grabbed the mirror quickly and took hold of Elizabeth's hand again.

"Time to go?!"she suggested.

"Aye! Most defnitely time to leave this mad house."

They stepped through the fire again and just as Elizabeth was about to ask how the hell they were supposed to get back to the cave again she found that they were no longer in the desert nor in the cave! They were in front of the giant stone door!! The door snapped shut behind them.

"We did it!" she shouted in pure delight.

"I did it...mostly." Jack reminded her with a cocky grin.

Elizabeth was about to remind him of the writing on the door: "You may not enter alone for you are incomplete, half of your heart is caught in the web of another's deceit." and tease him with the fact that half of his heart seemed to be caught in her web of deceit because he'd been able to go in the cave with her. Not alone...with her.

But she didn't. Partly because she was too happy and cheerful and partly because he had the weapon to tease her back. When she'd looked at the door she had seen: "To open the chest you must reach for the truth within."

The truth within was that she'd trusted Jack all along. And realizing that had gave them the oppertunity to open the chest. Jack could tease her with that fact if she gave him the oppertunity...she would make sure that didn't happen.

She snapped out of her thoughts with the sound of Jack's voice.

"Back to the Pearl luv?!"

"Yes. Yes of course." she nodded.

They walked in silence. Each trapped in their own thoughts.

They didn't even bother looking at the mirror. Not now, not right after their victory. Now was time to celebrate.

Soon they were in the long boat and Jack was rowing them towards the ship with black sails.

"Jack?"

"Hmmmm?"

"Our deal is still in place right? You will take me back to NewYork after we find out how to use the mirror and reverse this whole mess?"

Jack didn't answer. He just grinned and kept on rowing.

"Jack!" she called with a touch of warning in her voice.

"Oh sure! Of course! When and if we figure out the myth of the espjo inverso I will personally escort you home." he agreed.

Satisfied with his answer she fell silent.

The crew were celebrating on the far side of the ship, even though most of them had decided not to become mortal again they could use an excuse for celebration. Their celebration was old school. Rum, music and everything else they used to celebrate with back in the good ol' days.

Both Jack and Elizabeth though were too busy with their own little problems.

Elizabeth leaned against the railing with Cotton's parrot resting on her shoulder. The railing she'd leaned upon so many times before. The exact same place she'd been standing when James Norrington asked her if she knew how her latest fiance Will Turner had ended up on the Flying Dutchman.

She scanned the deck. Jack was sitting on the stairs inspecting the mirror while the rest of the crew were singing and having the time of their life.

"The Nile! The Nile!" Cotton's parrot squaked on her shoulder.

"What? The Nile? Oh you mean denial. No I don't think I'm in denial...not anymore. I know how I feel." she said to the parrot.

"Sexual.Tension! Sexual.Tension!" the bird squaked again.

She glared at the bird. "Well haven't you learned a lot of pretty words since I last saw you? I don't think it's sexual tension, it's simply tension...of the thickest kind." she said. The parrot was proving the be a great listener.

"Hot steamy sex! Hot steamy sex!" the parrot said.

Elizabeth looked outraged. "Oh you little-! How dare you?"

"I call 'em as I see 'em! Call them as I see 'em."

Elizabeth frowned as her shoulders slumped slightly. "Then you are blind!! There is nothing between me and Jack...if something does happen. God help me cause he'll never let me forget it."

She continued studying Jack as he turned an empty bottle of rum upside down in hope of getting some rum out of it but naught but a drop fell out. She couldn't help but smile at the expression on his face as he held the bottle above his open mouth and shook it frantically.

The parrot flew to her other shoulder. "Chemistrey!" the bird informed her.

Her expression softened as she watched Jack throw the bottle aside. She read his lips as he whispered. "Why is the rum always bloody gone?!"

She looked at the parrot out of the corner of her eye. "Yes we do have chemistrey don't we?" she agreed in a whisper with a small smile on her face.

Later that night when all of the crew had finally passed out from too much rum Elizabeth decided it was time she too rested. So she made her way to the cabin she shared with Jack as the captain himself stood at the mast still inspecting the mirror in his hands. She turned around when she heard Jack's voice.

"You know what luv? It was this very spot." he said, still looking at the mirror. She knew what he meant. He was standing at the very spot she'd shackled him to when they'd escaped the Kraken.

"So it is!" she agreed with a calm and steady expression. "Had any luck with that?" she said tilting her head towards the mirror.

"Not yet but it's not a problem. We'll just visit a friend of mine and she'll tell us how the mirror works. No worries." he said with a reassuring smile as he put the mirror on a nearby barrel.

She closed the space between them. "I'm still not sorry." she hissed softly. "If I could turn back time I would do everything the same...exactly the same."

"Pirate!" he called her as he smiled sadly. He ran a hand on the shackles that still hung on the mast and fingered the oxidized surface of the metal. "I wouldn't have it any other way. You did what you had to do to save your own skin and if we could turn back time I would want you to do everything the same...exactly the same." he said with a grin. She couldn't help but notice that by 'exactly the same' he probably meant the kiss.

He brushed away a few strands of hair from her face. "Care to reenact the whole incident?" he asked as he brushed his lips against hers.

"Decidedly not!" she answered with a playful frown.

He grinned."Perhaps it's not for you to decide." he teased as he crashed his lips against hers.

She was alarmed to find out that there was still just as much hungar, heat and longing in the kiss as before. He deepened the kiss as he pressed his hand against the small of her back and pulled her even closer. She was pressed tightly against his chest, hands cupping his face and her lips kissing him hungrily.

She broke away to catch her breath. "Mr.Sparrow! I thought you agreed that we forget the thought of anything happening between us in the future." she teased.

He grinned. "But this ain't the future luv! It's the very present. We'll think about the future later."

She grinned too."I love how you can justify anything you want with your crazy upside down logic Jack Sparrow." she said as she leaned in for another kiss.

He lay a finger on her lips to stop her. "Captain Jack Sparrow luv! Don't you ever forget that name." he said and pulled her back into the heated kiss.

Next thing she knew she was pulling him dangerously close to the cabin by his shirt, all the while kissing him with passion she didn't think possible.

Now the question is: will these two hot idiots finally put aside their pride and just do it or not? Find out in the next chapter.

To be honest this story has been fairly planned out from the beginning but the last bit was a spur of the moment thing (much like JE themselves) to be honest. I haven't decided if they'll do it yet so I left the ending open.

I hope the whole cave/chest/door/trust bit wasn't too much for you but I really wanted to stick to my original plan. So there!