Something More Than Before
Chapter 14 – Just Like Spears
Jack left Barbossa's cabin and fell back against the door with his eyes closed, thinking. What had he gotten himself in for? He could sense that soon he would be a broken man, just like Barbossa.
But everytime Elizabeth approached him, in his cabin, it left him weak at the knees and wanting more, and he always got more.
He sighed and went to her door, where she and the whelp would be.
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Will halted in the conversation at the knock on the door. Elizabeth looked up and saw Jack's dreadlocks through the glass.
"Come in!" she called out.
Jack opened the door and marched inside, smiling at them both. Elizabeth smiled back, Will did not.
"Ah, master Turner," Jack smiled, "I see you have returned with a little something for me."
Will looked down at the key hanging from around his neck. "I retrieved the key, yes."
"Excellent," Jack said, rubbing his hands together. "Give me it."
Will hesitantly, not to mention reluctantly, pulled the key from around his neck. Jack moved a little closer and reached out for it. Will practically stared daggers at him as he dropped the key into Jack's hands.
"Thankyou," Jack said, tucking the key away into an inside pocket of his coat.
Elizabeth smiled at him while Will still looked away. She winked, and Jack stopped himself from laughing and dragging her off to his cabin with a lot of great difficulty. Instead, he bit his lip and marched back out of the cabin, shutting the door behind him.
Will turned back around to face his fiancé. "I've missed you so much, you know."
"I know," Elizabeth smiled gently. "I've missed you, too," she added, sitting on his lap and kissing him.
"I love you so much, you know," Will whispered. "Even when I was drunk out of my mind, I refused to go and sleep with this girl called Giselle, even when she begged me, because all I could think about was you."
Elizabeth felt a sudden pang of guilt that hit her so hard it nearly knocked all of the breath out of her. All this time, he was refusing to do exactly what she had done behind his back. She had to tell Jack...now.
"I'll only be a minute," Elizabeth said quietly, before getting up and shakily leaving the cabin. She took many deep breaths before hastening towards Jack's cabin.
She didn't even bother knocking; she just barged straight in, to find Jack topless, about to get into bed for the night.
"Jack, I have to talk to you," Elizabeth blurted out hastily. "Me and Will were just talking and –"
By this time, she was pacing, Jack had a worried look on his face, and was shaking her shoulders to calm her down.
"Calm down, love," Jack said reassuringly, "and tell me slowly what's happened."
Elizabeth took another deep breath, before starting again. "We have to end this."
Jack was taken aback. "Why? Does Will know? Does he suspect something?"
Elizabeth shook her head, still breathing heavily. "No...But..."
"Then what is it?" Jack asked softly.
"We were talking just now," Elizabeth started slowly, "and he just told me that he refused to sleep with a girl, even while he was drunk out of his head, because all he could think about was me!"
Jack considered. "And now you're feeling guilty?" Jack asked, then without waiting for an answer, "I don't blame you."
Elizabeth felt tears welling up in her eyes, no doubt because of the guilt for what she had done to Will. Jack took his hands off her shoulders, leaving her standing there shakily, and moved to sit on his bed.
"If you want to end it," Jack said quietly, "I can't argue."
He was avoiding eye contact with her, instead looking at the floor with shifty eyes.
"Jack," Elizabeth said, attracting his attention, "I don't really have a choice."
"You have all the choice in the world, love," Jack said sadly, "and this is obviously what you're choosing."
"Don't say it like that," Elizabeth groaned.
"Why not? It's the truth, innit?" Jack said, looking away from her again.
"I love Will, Jack," Elizabeth said earnestly, "you were just a bit on the side, a bit of romance while I waited for his return. I don't love you."
Jack said nothing.
"No matter what, I owe it to him to be honest," Elizabeth said finally.
Jack looked up at her.
"You're going to tell him everything?" he asked, frowning.
"I have to."
Again, Jack was silent.
"I'm tired of the lies...I'm already sick of the secrets...I have been since before we even knew where Will was," Elizabeth said honestly.
"I never heard you complain," Jack pointed out.
"I was careful not to. But now it's time for us to end this...affair," Elizabeth told him firmly.
"Whatever you want, love," Jack said, standing up again, an unreadable expression on his face, "but don't come crying to me if he finishes with you 'cause of what we've done together."
"Don't worry," Elizabeth said quietly, before turning around, her hand upon Jack's door handle, "I won't."
And with that, she left Jack standing in the warmth of his cabin, staring after her, thinking about what she had just said.
"I don't love you."
"You were just a bit on the side...a bit of romance while I waited for his return."
Jack sat down, closed his eyes and sighed sadly. And he knew, from that moment, that Elizabeth would never realise how harsh her words had been to his seemingly unbreakable heart. She would never know that those words had hit him as hard as spears.
She would never know...not for a very long time, at least...that she had broken him. He had fallen victim to her, and fallen in love with her.
Many people would laugh at the possibility...but no matter what they said, it was true; Jack Sparrow had fallen in love.
Well, I know that many people will be satisfied with that, because they wanted him to fall in love with Elizabeth. Well, now he has! But, unfortunately, Elizabeth still doesn't love him. Aww T.T.
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QueenSerenity818 out.