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Chapter 34:

Realizing

Elizabeth remembered why she was so furious with Jack and she then answered Captain Morgan's question by yelling "Yes! I still am very mad at him, and it's all because of her!" Elizabeth pointed at Scarlet and Helena asked confused "My daughter? I mean…. my other daughter? Why?"

Scarlet looked at Elizabeth with a guilty expression. Elizabeth walked over to Scarlet and said to her "You…" Scarlet looked at her sadly until there was a banging at the door of the cabin. Captain Morgan walked towards the door and opened it slightly. He looked at the person confused and asked "Can I be of service mate?" The man replied, "I doubt that sir. But I must speak with Elizabeth immediately… is she here?"

The man then came in and Elizabeth screamed out angrily "I told you I didn't want to speak with you James!" James bowed his head at her and smiled while replying "Elizabeth… you must understand something." Elizabeth took a few paces around the room and asked impatiently "This better be good, I was just about to kill Scarlet!"

Scarlet took a step back terrified as James then said in melancholy "That is the reason I need to speak with you actually. Scarlet didn't do anything with Jack weeks ago…. Will paid her a bag of shillings to say that she did." Elizabeth coughed out sarcastically "Yes because the William Turner I know would do that!"

Scarlet took a few steps towards Elizabeth a little bit scared and whispered "It is true Miss." Elizabeth looked at her in bewilderment as she spoke her sentence. Elizabeth's lower lip then started to tremble and tears started to pour down her face. Helena walked over to Elizabeth and whispered trying to comfort her "At least he didn't do it…. Whatever it is."

Elizabeth couldn't help but show a little smile as Helena then made her way towards Scarlet. Helena raised her hand and hit Scarlet across the head while shouting "How could you do this to her?" Scarlet took a few steps back and explained, "I didn't know… I was under the im…. impression… that…that Jack didn't love Elizabeth. Well, that's what that strapping young lad Turner told me."

Elizabeth's mouth dropped and she wiped away tears from her face. She was about to speak but Captain Morgan dropped his rum glass on the floor and asked angrily "Where be this enuch-mother-of-cats-and-dogs-little-pissant of a scallywag?" Norrington spoke scarcely "I don't know, the last I saw of him… was when...well…. I defended Jack's honor…" Norrington chuckled and continued, "…That is if he has any."

Elizabeth took a few steps towards James and asked half surprised and half happy "You defended his honor?" James smiled at her and took her hand and kissed it while saying "I mean well. You love him…. Though I don't understand why you do… you do…and the fact that you love him and that love within him created love between the two of you which created a love…."

James then stopped himself from speaking and rolled his eyes while saying "I defended him once and now I've started to talk like him. God help me!" Elizabeth touched Norrington's cheek and whispered "Thank you." She then grabbed him and started hugging him while sobbing onto his shoulder.

Scarlet smiled at the two of them and then asked "Miss Elizabeth, if you love him then why aren't you with him?" Elizabeth let go of James and turned to look at Scarlet and whispered, "I will be with him." Captain Morgan chuckled and suggested "If ye want young Missy, I could take ye to him. We could sail on me ship together and find 'em at the end of the horizon…or wherever he be."

Elizabeth laughed happily at his suggestion and then Helena joined in "Yes, we could all go together." Elizabeth walked over to her mother but then James stopped this happy feast with a guilty conscience "There is one problem." Elizabeth turned her back to look at Norrington and Captain Morgan asked suspiciously "And what that be?"

James looked down at the ground while responding "Jack…. Sparrow…. ugh…this is hard for me to say…. Captain Sparrow is…d-…dead." Everyone's eyes in the room widened, but Elizabeth walked straight up to James and asked hurt "What did you just say?" James looked at her in the eyes and started to ramble on "I am sorry Elizabeth… Will and I, we tied him up to the mast…. and the Kraken…got him."

Elizabeth turned around and started to sob as James continued, "I didn't think at the time what I was doing and whom I could hurt. Elizabeth please forgive me, it was Will who brainwashed me into thinking that Jack was not a good man. But he is…" Elizabeth turned around and screamed out hysterically "WAS"!

Helena and Scarlet then ran over to Elizabeth and tried to comfort her. Captain Morgan now started to look at the ground sadly and he whispered "Elizabeth…. Daughter…" He then smiled and walked over to her and continued, "Would you be willing to do anything to bring him back?" Elizabeth looked up at him and nodded, and James admitted, "So would I sir. Jack Sparrow is a good man and he got exactly the opposite of what he deserved."

Captain Morgan smiled and whispered "I'm partially glad to hear that Norrington. That is yer name isn't it? Well even if it isn't, that's what I'm calling ye. (Pause) Elizabeth, luv, there is still a way to rescue him". Helena shook her head and whispered to Frank "It is too dangerous Frank…" Frank nodded and continued, "…so be a broken heart! Elizabeth, would ye sail to the end of the earth and beyond to fetch back yer beloved Sparrow"?

Elizabeth nodded and whispered, "Yes…" Captain Morgan smiled at her and took another glass of rum and shouted out happily "To World's End it is then!" Scarlet looked at her mother and whispered, "If you would excuse me….I have someone to meet..." She then left the cabin and James asked confused "Ye know where World's End is?"

Captain Morgan looked down at the ground and he began to get pale and he said frustrated "Does anybody know where it lies? Not anyone who has made it back I'm sure…. But it's a sacrifice I am willing to make for me…daughter." Elizabeth gave her step-dad and small smile and Helena hugged him as he ordered, "Then it's settled! We leave tonight!"

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(In the meantime)

That is when I realized something…. Elizabeth never loved me. I looked at the blank canvas below me as thoughts of hurt ran through my mind. I have never realized it until now… she loved and loves freedom. She never loved me. I turned around to look at the Sparrows but no one was behind me any longer. I gasped and took a few steps on the deck and said out loud "She never loved me…she never…."

I felt a huge rage of anger fill up inside of me when I thought of another reason. I shouted out "Was I so blind to see it? How much of a pathetic eunuch was I to realize it? Once I said that she didn't have authority...she left me… because she thought she didn't have freedom any longer!" I held the ring tightly in my hand and suddenly I felt an urge to just break it into tiny pieces!

I breathed in and out deeply and threw the ring out into the desert sand. My feet still remained firmly on the deck of the ship as the ring fell somewhere into the white canvas. I quickly and angrily sat down on the deck, and started to play with my hands. I bit my lip nervously from all the pain welling up inside of me.

Suddenly I jumped up and ran over to the side of the railing and climbed onto it. I held a rope to hold my balance. I looked frantically for the ring in the sand; my first instinct was to look for something shiny. I rolled my eyes and whispered, 'If only that stupid whelp hadn't stolen me compass.'

I held onto the rope and jumped onto the sand, and I took a few steps carefully on the sand hoping not to crush it with my feet. I sighed frustrated while thinking 'If only I had seen where it landed'. I then rolled my eyes angrily and shouted out "If only she loved me!" I then clenched my knuckles and hit my hands hard against the sand. The pain grew a feeling that led to a burning sensation.

I raised my hands and examined my knuckles because they now where red from the sand's rough complexion. I began to lie down on my stomach in the sand and put the side of my head into it. My ear, within a few seconds, laid slightly deeper into the sand then my body. But I did not care, what traumatized me now was the fact that Elizabeth will never find me and will never want to find me, to love me, to marry me…. To anything."

I put my hand to my side and grabbed a rum bottle that I had found earlier on in the ship. I took a sip and because of my position some of it spilled onto the side of my mouth and then onto the sand. I then raised the rum bottle as far as I could in the air and shouted out angrily "Anything…. but freedom"! Suddenly I heard a voice whisper "Jack…" I dropped the rum bottle and it spilled right onto my head. I licked my lips and turned around frantically and whispered shocked at what I saw "'Lizabeth…."

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