Unbreakable

Author: SouthamptonRose

Summary: You know...I'm really getting tired of re-writing this every time. I would surely hope that you know the summary by now. ;)

Disclaimer: This is the last time I'm going to say this!!! I DON'T OWN ANYTHING!!! Will and Elizabeth aren't mine...strictly speaking...though they are in my dreams :)

Elizabeth opened her eyes to a few dim rays of sunlight shining through the entrance to the cargo hold. She closed them again and yawned widely before stretching out her arms. She smiled, remembering her mission of the previous night, and glanced to her right. Sure enough, Will was already awake and dressed, as expected. He was sitting on his 'bed' of sorts, watching her. When her eyes met his, he smiled.

"Good morning, Elizabeth," he said with a voice that had clearly been awake for quite a long time.

"Good morning," she murmured, her own voice thick and groggy as it always was early in the morning. "How long have you been awake?"

He shrugged. "I would say about an hour."

"You did not have to leave me you know."

He looked puzzled.

She smiled again. "You could have woken me up. I would have only yelled at you for a few minutes."

He shook his head. "I'm not so sure that I would have risked that."

She leaned over and smacked him on the shoulder. She yawned again and ran her fingers through her hair, making her cringe. She looked up at Will with a serious and determined glint in her eyes. "Will, I want you to tell me the absolute truth. I am being perfectly serious. Do I look a complete and terrible disaster?"

He shook his head. "Not at all."

"I said be serious!" she hissed, completely serious. "No modesty."

He looked slightly taken aback. She was definitely not a morning person in personality. She noticed his expression and instantly softened. "Oh, I'm sorry! I always tend to snap a bit in the morning. Take no notice of it."

"It is fine. My mother was like that," he said with an understanding grin.

She smiled back. "Mine too. That is unfortunately where I got it." She attempted to run her fingers through her hair again, but still found it too matted. "But please Will, answer me. Am I an absolute mess?"

He shook his head again. "No, I already told you. You just need to brush your hair and you will be fine."

"Alright then, tell me how horrible a mess it is then." She pointed to her thick and currently tangled brown hair.

He paused for a minute and then opened his mouth to answer, but closed it, deciding he had better not. Finally, he just shrugged.

"Just tell me, I do not care."

"Alright," he said hesitantly. "It's…in a pretty bad state."

"Like a hurricane just hit it, right?" She grinned, and he knew she wasn't mad.

He nodded.

She sighed. "It is such a pain, this mess of mine." She shook her head. "I am going up to my cabin to get dressed. I shall be back in thirty or so minutes."

"Thirty minutes?" He sounded shocked, and his face proved it.

"That may seem a long time for you, but trust me; thirty is impossibly short compared to preparation for a ball or such. That takes hours."

"Hours?" Elizabeth thought he was going to pass out.

She shrugged meekly.

"What do you do?"

"Not I," she sighed. "They."

"Well then, what do they do to you?"

She groaned. "Well for a ball, you do not even want to know all of the details. But today, I just have to get fitted into my corset and dress, and I can take care of the rest."

"You wear corsets?"

She nodded. "Unfortunately, they start us proper young ladies off at a rather young age." She sighed. "Most uncomfortable they are indeed, and completely unreasonable, but they are one thing that I cannot avoid no matter how I try." She sighed again and reluctantly rose to her feet. "I shall return as quickly as time permits. I promise."

Will smiled. "I shall wait."

Elizabeth smiled back. "Goodbye."

She pulled her coat around her and walked towards the stairs. Once she had disappeared, Will folded her comforter and stacked her pillow on top, all the while thinking how perfect she had looked even in her early morning state.

(A/N:) Looks like I had one more chapter in me. Yay for pointless random Willabeth fluff!!! Lol. But really...I'm not really getting anywhere with this, am I? So sorry if I'm boring you...I've always been like that...the next chapter has more of a point though, I must say. Elizabeth gets nailed. Oh...did you think that her little excursion to visit a certain someone in the middle of the night would go unnoticed? Well you thought wrong!