Bang…

This time it was different, much more different. I felt pain in my chest, it was burning at first but now it feels as if someone was putting sword through the bullet hole which was made just mere second ago. There were tears on my face, I could finally see once again. Darkness was gone but pain didn't left me, he stayed like good ol' pal.

My brain with delay noticed that I am looking at someone. At first I couldn't say who pulled the trigger, view was a little too hazy and fuzzy for me. So I blinked and unbearable pain shoot through me harder, making me to squint my eyes. However I needed to know who, so I opened my hazel eyes and this time I saw.

Somehow just then I noticed that the only sound I can hear was that of pouring rain and yet another thunders. Battle stopped dead in track, some still alive pirates were looking with awe at me and I didn't even know why.

Only when I met dark brown pools from behind still smoky pistol the situation hit me with all its might. Right there in front of me was standing the only man with such dark and enigmatic eyes. Captain Jack Sparrow. He shoot me to death, I feel it coming fast now. I'm getting colder with every ticking second, my life's ending.

We're looking into our eyes. I try to find something behind that dark pools of his, at least little caring but I can't. He don't care about me anymore, he shot me with cold blood. He's not smiling nor crying, he looks like he's waiting for something to happen. It happens, I hear within wind voice belonging to Hekate; she's laughing hard.

Next thing I know Jack's brow is furrowed in thought and his eyes aren't cold and unforgiving as they were before. He stares in my direction with such regret that my heart almost leaps out to him in happiness. Unluckily it's too late to do anything now. I'm not strong enough even to smile a little. Wind almost knocks me out and I sway visibly on my jelly legs. I feel so lightheaded I lose my footing.

For the first time I'm not angry at him and I haven't the slightest why's so. He just killed me. But I can't be angry right now. I'm sad and scared, I feel the blood escaping my body and it only frightens me more. Sound's getting weird as if from afar, I hear Jack as he's running to me. He kneels and speaks something but I don't understand him.

I'm trying to remember everything about him as he rests me comfortably in his arms. Only now I realized how badly he's going through this. His eyes are crazy, mad even. He's confused, sad… guilty. He's rambling like madman I see and I can't not smile even if only on the inside. His kohl lingering under eyes is all smeared, his dreads hung loosely like a halo around us. I like blond tips, a lot but he never heard this from me and never will.

I'm taking smaller breaths now because of the pain, it's too much. Hurts like hell. Jack's still speaking to himself wherever Angelica looks sadly at me and Barbossa, he tugs at his hat little. So they are saying their quiet goodbyes to me for which I am really glad and bit surprised. Jack however yet didn't accept the thought that I'm dying.

It's funny thing. Fate. Don't you think? So many years ago I dreamed about sailing the seas, being real pirate but never, ever the thought that I might actually die didn't cross my mind once. But then I was much younger back then and I killed… Jack Sparrow, but again I came back for him. I sailed to the worlds end to bring him back and it was possible!

That map was destroyed though I've heard. Shame.

Someone's shaking me. I even didn't know I closed my eyes. When I opened them I saw Jack's face staring at me warningly as if that could help me. Rain still was soaking the ship, waves were calmer though. It didn't matter anyway, my sight was getting darker and pain was letting go. I was slipping away, I felt lighter and lighter.

Jack's pushing my head to look back at him. I try but I'm so tired. I want to say something, I start to move my lips but I don't hear anything. It's getting quiet and darker, I'm scared. I speak with all the strength I have left. I hope he heard me. My eyelids are heavy but I'm rising them up for the last time and I see him. He looks back at me with regret and guilt all over his face, he mouths "Elizabeth." and it's all I need.

There's only one thing I can do for him. I mouth back "Pirate." I see understanding flash in his eyes and he nods, smiling. How I missed that smile, his smile; Will forgive me please. I'd give everything to just touch his face but my arms and hands are limp already. Coldness of the rain starts to get to me, I shiver. I'm tired and want go to sleep. When I finally close my eyelids I smile because within that cold I feel warmth coming from Jack's side.

Not so long time later darkness is consuming me. It swallows me all… Until I see a merging light.

A glimmer of hope.