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Chapter 14:
All For Her
I continued to bite my lip for a few seconds. I began lick my lips a couple of times trying to stall my answer to her question. My eyes then widened as I watched her face turn to one of disappointment. So I quickly distracted her by pointing to her right and shouting "Look at that!" Elizabeth then turned around and asked, "Look at what?" I then pointed to chair that stood behind her and Elizabeth then looked back at me in frustration.
She then grabbed my hands and asked "Jack, do you love me?" I gulped and Elizabeth then let go of my hands and she covered her mouth in shock while stating, "You don't love me." I then began to point at her as I said "Lizzie, luv. You have got to understand something." I watched Elizabeth try to hold back her tears as she said, "I know what I've got to understand, plain and simple… you don't love me."
I interrupted her by saying quite loudly "I did not say that luv". Elizabeth then began to smile as she asked, "So you do love me?" I began to feel my face tighten so I answered quite quickly "I didn't say that either." Elizabeth then groaned out in frustration while asking, "Which is it Jack?"
I narrowed my eyebrows while I said while smiling "Uhh…. Did I mention that you look awfully nice today?" Elizabeth then screamed out in frustration "Jack". I then smiled and stood up while saying "Oh, I know it's a new dress". Elizabeth then screamed out "Captain Jack Sparrow, I insist that you tell me if you love me or not right now! And that's an order!"
I gulped and then tried to grab her hands through the bars but she wouldn't let me hold them. So I began to say, "Listen, luv. This might sound a little bit strange, well of course it would sound strange it is me… you know…. Dear old Jackie has gotten a wee bit…." Elizabeth then said losing her patience "Jack, get to the point." I sighed and whispered, "It's neither."
Elizabeth then looked at me confused while asking "Neither? How can it be neither?" I then sighed and said, "See I told ye it would be strange. I love you but I don't love you…. do you understand?" Elizabeth then looked down at the ground disappointed while muttering "Yes, Jack. I understand".
I then grinned at her and grabbed her hands while whispering, "Don't give me that look luv. It's not like I don't love you…ugh…. completely" Elizabeth then looked up at me and I saw that she was crying. I felt my stomach flip as she looked at me with tears in her eyes. She then whispered sadly "It's not like you love me either." I then nodded and grabbed her hands while whispering "I'm sorry 'Lizabeth." Elizabeth then pulled back her hands and she took a step back from the cell while saying "There's nothing to be sorry about. I just guess I was the stupid one, to think that someone like you would ever fall in love."
She then began to walk towards the exit so I shouted after her "'Lizabeth where are you going?" Elizabeth then looked at me in the eyes while whispering, "To visit someone that does love me." As she walked away from me my body just froze and my mind replayed her last sentence a couple to times. I watched the empty corridor in silence, when I heard footsteps coming towards me, and I smiled as soon as I saw Elizabeth. She then whispered "Jack, next time keep your promises." She then walked away from me once again, and I was left once in my cold jail cell thinking about death.
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That afternoon Elizabeth knocked on the door to Will's black smith shop. He opened it and asked, "What are you doing here?" Elizabeth then nodded and said, "I'm sorry Will. I just really need to talk to someone…" Will then opened the door fully and let her into his shop. A few seconds later William had sat down on chair that stood in the middle of the shop. Elizabeth then pulled a chair and sat in front of him and she then said, "He doesn't love me".
Will then asked confused "Are you certain?" Elizabeth nodded at his question and he began to chuckle and he then asked "So what is your plan now?" Elizabeth then looked down at the ground and sighed while replying "No plan, Will. Just hope." Will then smiled and said, "I'm sorry about Jack Elizabeth." Elizabeth then closed her eyes and whispered "What can I do Will?" Will then grabbed her hand and held it and said as Elizabeth opened her eyes "Nothing."
Elizabeth then smiled at Will who then continued, "You need to move on. Forget about Captain Jack Sparrow and his awful characteristics." Will then got up and started pacing "You need someone that will love you no matter what. A man that dreams of you every night and a man that will do anything to protect you". Elizabeth then looked up at him confused and asked "And I happen to know a man like that?"
Elizabeth then got up form her chair and walked towards Will. He then smiled and replied, "Well, yes. Me". He then grabbed Elizabeth's face and kissed her. She surprisingly kissed him back, but a few seconds later she pushed Will away. Will then asked "What is it Elizabeth?" Elizabeth then looked at him shocked while replying, "I'm sorry, I can't do this Will. I mean when I kissed you just now, Jacks face kept on crawling into my mind."
Will then narrowed his eyebrows and sighed while saying "I see". Elizabeth then grabbed his hand and said, "I'm sorry." Will then pulled his hand away and walked towards the other end of the shop. Elizabeth then followed him and continued "I hope you can forgive me, Will. I just don't feel that way about you…" Will then turned around and shouted, "The way you feel about him? How is that you can still feel that way even after he told you that he doesn't love you"? Elizabeth then shouted back "He never said that. He said that he half loves me."
Will then grabbed Elizabeth by the arms and said "Half? Is that what you want, to be second to the sea?" Elizabeth then tried to loosen his grip of her but she could not. So Will kept on talking "I just don't understand why you can still be on his side." Elizabeth then whispered, "Will…. I need to be on his side. He is a good man". Will then chuckled and let go of her while saying "He is not a good man! He is a pirate! A man with half a brain to go with his half of a heart."
He then paused and walked closer to Elizabeth, a few seconds later he began to shout at her "He is an imbecile! A man with no purpose in life but to bed any women that moves! I bet that's what you are to a him, just another wench who could turn out to be a good lay." Elizabeth then slapped Will across the face and began to raise her voice, "That is not true!" Will then touched his face where it had now began to sting, he then said "It is true Elizabeth."
Elizabeth then shouted at him "Will you don't even know him! He rescued you, and this is how repay him? By insulting him?" Will then smiled and said "Just because he has done one good deed in his life, it does not make him a good man!" Elizabeth then narrowed her eyes and said to him "You're starting to sound like Norrington!"
Will's face then went pale and he asked confused "I am?" Elizabeth then nodded and then said before leaving "I will see you tomorrow at the hanging." Will then sighed and said sternly "I won't be going." Elizabeth opened the door and then looked back at him while saying "It's a shame. It's a chance to see the man who rescued you die." When Elizabeth left the shop, Will walked towards one of his sword stands and began to sharpen one of his swords.
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That evening I had another visitor. But it was not Elizabeth who I had hoped for. It was Will, surprisingly. When he sat down in front of my cell I asked him confused "Volunteer to watch me again?" Will then nodded and said "Yes, pirate I have." I then rolled my eyes and put my hat on.
Will then hit the bars while asking "So Jack. You never really told me why that compass means so much to you." I gave Will a small smirk and then said bluntly "No I didn't, and I intend to keep it that way mate." Will then walked up to bars and asked "Is it because of Elizabeth?" His question caught my attention so I removed my hat and then he continued, "Is it because that is the only thing that reminds you of her?"
I then stood up and walked over to the bars while asking "How did you know that mate?" Will then nodded and said "Jack, I want you to know something." By the expression on his face I knew it would be something serious. So I kept quiet and let him speak "It is something about love." My eyes then widened as I asked curiously "I'm sorry lad but I don't go for your kind… my kind…. our kind."
Will then shook his head and said "No! Jack, it's not about me loving you. It's about Elizabeth". I then said "Oh" as I began to understand. So he then continued "I want you to know that she loves you. She's heart broken Jack. I can't stand to see her that way". I then nodded and replied, "I know mate. But there is nothing I can do." Will then said furiously "You could tell her that you love her!"
I then asked surprised "And lie? Listen mate I may have lied many times in the past, but to her I just couldn't bring myself to do it." Will then smiled and asked, "Lie? Jack, just admit it! As much as it hurts me to say this, I know you love her. It's just that you won't admit it." I then shook my head and said whispering, "What does it matter anymore? If I told her I loved her, would it still stop my death from happening? Nay it would not. (Pause) It's better this way, now she has a reason to hate me. So I guess the hanging won't hurt as much."
Will then looked down at the ground and asked, "Wait a second. You did this for her? For her well being?" I nodded and replied, "Aye, I did. But that doesn't matter mate. Tomorrow I'll be dead, and she'll be living her life, just like fate has planned it."
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