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Chapter 28:
Betrayed

Time felt like as if it stood still. I had never been this worried about anything until now. It was 2 days after James left us to the Dutchmen and well no one was taking it too well. Well, except for Turner. He was now talking to Tia in one of the few corners of the house. He sat on the window seal, and Tia stood beside him. I could tell by the expression on his face that he was happy.

I looked around me and noticed that I was sitting at the large table in the middle of Tia's house. Elizabeth sat across from me, and Gibbs was on my right side. I pondered about that for a moment. Gibbs being my right hand man, and best mate was sitting on my right side… Hmm…. I desperately sighed and realized that the boredom and the anticipation had caused me to become reckless and irritating, and even to myself.

I took out my compass and opened it and saw it point in front of me. I looked in front of me and Elizabeth caught my glance. She smiled and blushed as I started to sing softly "Drink up me hearties, yo ho…." Elizabeth walked over to me and sang back softly "…A Pirate's life for me." I mouthed the words as she sang it, and once she stopped she sat down on my left and began to stare at the table profusely.

I sighed, put my compass down on the table, and grabbed both of her hands in mine. She smiled at me as I began to whisper to her "I know 't must be difficult…." Elizabeth then interrupted me by saying "I'm fine. I just really hope James makes it back with the key." I nodded and whispered back while massaging her neck "You tookst th' words ou' o' me mouth, 'Lizabeth."

Elizabeth looked at me straight in the eyes and asked sadly "What if he can't get the key?" I was about to answer when I noticed that her eyes started to swell up and tears started to fall. I grabbed her arms and placed them around me and I pulled her into a hug. She continued to sob quietly as I held her in my arms. I then whispered into her neck "Shh… Luv. Don't bawl. Good Old Jack-ie's here".

Once I finished saying that Elizabeth started whispering "I know… I just…." She continued talking but I didn't listen. In front of me now sat Will, and he stared at me with a dirty look. The look that he gave me could have broken through glass. I returned his evil look with one just as mean if not more. But our little staring competition was broken when Elizabeth moved away from me and asked "…. isn't that right Jack?"

My eyes widened as she repeated "Jack. Isn't that right?" I bit my lip and took a chance by saying "Aye. That be right luv." She smiled at me and whispered while grabbing my hand "I just hope he'll agree to it…" My lips curled forward slightly and I asked her confused "Agree to what?" Elizabeth chuckled and hit my shoulder lightly while saying "Your funny Jack." I shrugged my shoulder as she leaned onto me and I whispered still utterly confused "Aye, that's me."

I gulped and took a strand of Elizabeth's hair and started to play with it. She looked up at me and said, "I love you." I smiled back at her and was about to reply when someone started yelling out "I cannot take it anymore. The anticipation is driving me mad!" I looked up and saw Will standing in the middle of the room holding the knife that was his fathers. For a second I began to wonder if he knew that. I shook that thought away from my head while he continued, "I vowed to go if something would go wrong, now I must keep my promise!"

As he said this he got closer and closer to the table where Elizabeth and I sat. He leaned over the table and breathed right into my face "Am I right?" I moved my head slightly back as I said "You're right eunuch. But a week has nay passed…" He moved his body off the table and stood beside Tia once more while saying "I don't care! I want to see my father, and I would do, anything to make sure he gets set free!"

Elizabeth stood up and was about to protest when Will shouted, "I will not change my mind!" I grabbed Elizabeth's hand as Will screamed. Gibbs looked at me and asked "Captain orders!" Once again I was about to answer but Will screamed out "Jack is the Captain of the Pearl! Not of my life! And I will do this, on my own! With no one else's help"! And with this speech he left Tia's house with a slam of the door. Once he left, it seemed that our voices also left because a long silence filled the room.

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In the mean time on the Flying Dutchmen James was sitting in the corner of the ship planning on a way to find out where the key was held. James looked down at the deck of the ship and remembered that just a few days ago he was scrubbing the deck of Black Pearl. He chuckled at that last statement when a crew member walked up to him and gave him a mop while shouting "One of the crew, one of the ship!"

James rolled his eyes and took the mop and the bucket the crew member held in his hand. James began to mop the deck while asking him "How long have you been here for?" The crewmember became more visible to James, and he looked sort of like a crab. The crew mate responded "For too long…" James chuckled and said, "My name is James…."

The crewmember interrupted by saying "I know who ye are! I'm Bill. But you can call me Bootstrap Bill…." James nodded and put out his hand and Bill shook it while saying "Me last name's Turner if ere else asks who's th' one that's supposed t' be showin' ye around." James then began to smile as he asked "Bill Turner? Will Turner's father?"

Bill looked at James dead in the eyes and asked him sternly while holding onto his collar "Who be askin'?" James' eyebrows raised as he answered unsure "Uh… me? (Pause) I am a friend of Will's…actually I am wondering do you think you could help me with something?"

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Two days later, I was lying down on the floor of Tia's house beside Elizabeth. I looked around to see that everyone else was sleeping. I patted Elizabeth on the shoulder until she woke up. She yawned and she asked, "What is Jack? Have a bad dream again?" My eyebrows curved in together as I said ashamed "That be once luv! (Pause) Anyway, this be th' first time we've been alone together in quite a few days." Elizabeth looked around and nodded while asking seductively "What are you suggesting Captain?" I grabbed her face and kissed her passionately.

A few seconds later the door opened widely and I felt something fall down on me. The rest in the house were awakened by the noise of the door opening. I swore under my breath at the perfect timing. Gibbs asked worried "Who's there?" Tia then went and got a gas lamp and lit it.

The voice coming from the door said, "I told you I would make it Pirate…" Elizabeth shouted out excitedly "James!" I then looked beside me and picked up the object. It was the key. I smiled and got up and said happily "Aye, ye did it mate!" Tia smiled for a second and Gibbs danced around while saying "Oh, this is a happy day Captain!"

Elizabeth hugged me and screamed out "Your free Jack!" I smiled at her and kissed her shortly on the lips. I stopped kissing her and put out my hand to Norrington saying "No hard feelings mate?" Norrington chuckled and shook my hand. He then walked around the house and greeted everyone.

I grabbed Elizabeth once more and whispered seductively "Now, where were we?" Elizabeth put her arms around me and whispered into my ear seductively "This moment is in need of a celebration." I licked my lips and looked at her in the eyes while whispering into her ear "I'll be right with you… meet outside Tia's house?"

Elizabeth nodded and walked around while Gibbs came up to me and shouted "Captain, we need to celebrate! Do we have any rum?" I stuck out my tongue and licked my lips as Elizabeth started walking away. I looked at her and she gave me seductive look as I asked Gibbs nervously "How's me breath?" I then blew my breath into his face and he answered back "Horrible!" I smiled and said back "Perfect!"

I then took a few steps towards Elizabeth but James cut in between us and said "Now, my end of the bargain." I looked at Elizabeth who shrugged, and I sighed disappointed and began to walk towards the place where I held the chest. James followed me in there and he took out his knife, as he was ready to stab the heart. I placed the key in the keyhole and turned it and it began to open.

Tia came up behind us and asked worried "How exactly did you find the key?" James smiled and replied, "That question will be answered later." The chest unlocked, but before opening it Elizabeth asked James "Where is Will?" James looked back at her and asked confused, "What do you mean?" Elizabeth then stated "He was supposed to be with you on the Flying Dutchmen to find the key!"

James then opened the chest while replying "Well, he wasn't on the Dutchmen." My eyes squinted as I thought of all the things that could have happened to him. James then opened the chest, and once he did his knife fell to the floor.

James shouted out "The heart is gone!" I gasped and looked into the chest while screaming out "What? How could that be?" Elizabeth looked into the chest and asked still concerned about Will "What do you mean he wasn't on the Dutchmen! Something horrible must have happened to him!" I then shouted out angrily "Or something horrible happened to us! My compass is gone, and I have a feeling I knew who took it."

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