"Love, what…" Jack began to ask but was interrupted by Elizabeth's frustrated shout.

"This compass doesn't work!" Elizabeth shouted and I looked to see her sitting on the ground Indian style with her arms crossed in annoyance. I walked to her, as to avoid Jack's question, and bent down so I could look at my compass. Indeed the thing looked broken because it was pointing at Elizabeth however I knew better.

"It does work. You're sitting on it." I said and ushered Elizabeth up with my hands. She looked at me uncomprehendingly.

"Beg your pardon?" Elizabeth said, letting her governor's daughter-ness shine through.

"Move." Jack's voice came from beside me and I startled. I hadn't heard his feet move on the soft sand as he'd come up to me. Elizabeth finally got it and moved away. Jack moved back and gestured for Norrington to dig; now I knew why he was here. I rubbed my arms and after a minute I couldn't stand not having anything to do and I grabbed a shovel and helped Norrington. He looked surprised, as I hadn't made a move to even speak with him since he'd joined our crew but quickly went back to digging. I muttered violently as we dug and dug while Jack sat in a lotus style formation a ways away on a slope. Elizabeth herself had stood enough dirt on her as she could already.

Finally my shovel connected with something hard in the sand. Norrington and I glanced at each other before we started digging around a large chest. Eventually we had dug around it enough to lift it up out of the ground and we did just that. As they all got around it I made a choking sound. I could feel just the presence of Davy Jones, and he was beyond pissed, and near. I hissed out a breath before pushing Norrington, who'd been fiddling with the lock, out of the way. I grasped the rusted lock and pulled tightly on it. Without delay it broke off into the sand with only a soft groan of protest. The others looked at me for a second but I flipped the large chest open and it grabbed their attention.

Inside of the decorative chest was everything Calypso and Davy had exchanged when they'd still been in love. I saw just on top of the large pile of stuff a beautiful pearl necklace. Without real worry as to the consequences I took it from the chest and shoved it in to my pocket. I mean hey, I could get something out of this right? Other then the necklace there were many letters, one of which Elizabeth had taken out to read, a few pressed flowers, and a smaller chest inside. Unlike Elizabeth, Jack went straight for the chest. We all stared at it for just a moment before they all, at the same time, leant forward and listened to what I guess was the heartbeat of Davy's infamous heart. Instead of listening as well I nervously tightened my clothes on my palms. I stood up and looked around just too nervous to sit there.

It was with surprise that I saw what I thought was William strutting up to us from the water. I stared at him with my mouth open in surprise. Where the hell did he come from?

"It's real!" Elizabeth said in shock. Obviously she hadn't actually believed me when I'd told her about Davy Jones. I don't know why she had doubted me when she'd already had to deal with skeleton pirates before.

"You actually were telling the truth." Norrington said and I guessed that he had turned to look at Jack but I was still staring at William's approaching form. I walked away from the group so that I could hug William. What could I say? I missed the whelp. He chuckled softly and we split when we heard Jack. Will made time to shush me before we turned to look at the others.

"I do that quite a lot. Yet people are always surprised." I snorted and walked back to them even as William called out to them, to make his presence known.

"With good reason!" William shouted at them. Every one of their heads swiveled around to look at him. They all had this priceless look on their face except for Jack who had this 'hand caught in the cookie jar' look upon his face.

"Will! You're alright, Thank God! I came to find you!" Elizabeth said and ran to William. I rolled my eyes skyward and stood in front of Jack, turning in time to see her jump in Will's arms. I wouldn't call following us like a puppy 'finding' William. I smiled lightly as Jack grabbed my hand. I was facing William and Elizabeth and Jack was behind me. At the sight of their happiness Jack's arm came around my waist and he pulled me back against him. I smiled even more as Jack pressed a kiss to my scarfed head.

"How did you get here?" Jack asked, suspicious to what I already knew. The Dutchman had arrived.

"Sea turtles mate. A pair of them, strapped to my feet." Will said in distain reminding me that it had been Jack that had sent William to his doom. I winced even as William flinched, having realized he'd just looped himself in with Jack.

"Not so easy, is it?" Jack rubbed in that fact. I had to roll my eyes at their childish behavior. They were acting like this, yet Davy Jones was waiting near by for us.

"But I do owe you thanks, Jack." William spat at him getting fired up.

"You do?" Jack was acting confused but I knew better then him.

"After you tricked me onto that ship to square your debt with Jones," William said and Elizabeth was shocked. I may have neglected to tell her that part but what was a girl to do? I couldn't give Jack away.

"What?" She interrupted William and in turn we all ignored her besides Jack who also voiced a what.

"I was reunited with my father." William said, surprising me completely. I hadn't known that Bill Turner was still alive. That was a shock and I didn't know if I was more shocked that Davy Jones had saved him or that Bootstrap had actually made the deal. Bootstrap didn't strike me as a guy who'd want to stay in this life, but in their last moments people, I suppose, show you who they really are. (A/N: Joker quote!) And some of us are cowards.

"Oh!" Jack said breaking me out of my trance just to feel him shift awkwardly behind me. I turned, breaking his hold on me, so that I could see him as well. "You're welcome, then." Jack tried hard not to look at Elizabeth but she was glaring at him horribly. Will had walked forward and was now in front of the chest. He pulled out a wet knife that had a lot of crustaceans on it. Jack stepped foreword to him.

"Oy! What are you doing?" Jack said, panicking.

"I'm going to kill Jones." Will stated, as if it wasn't a big deal. I knew for a fact that it was and I knew I couldn't let him do that. So at the same time as Jack I took out my sharp sword, still as magnificent as that day along time ago when I'd shown William the sword. William looked between Jack and I, though he seemed to get why I was doing it. I know what he was thinking. He was thinking that because I loved Jack I was choosing him but in reality I was stopping him from killing me, as I'd already made sure Jack was fine. Now I just needed to make sure I could make it through this ordeal.

"Can't let you do that, William. Cause if Jones is dead, who's to call his terrible beastie off the hunt, eh? Now. If you please: The key." Jack said and held out his hand. William slowly stood up. He stood still for a moment with Jack and I's swords pointed at him, ready for if he tried anything. And sure enough he turned a completely 360 and came back with a sword. I had no idea how he got it but I was more focused on not being killed by him now.

"I keep the promises I make, Jack." William said, talking about something I had no idea what meant. I knew enough though. I knew that any promise that William makes will be kept to the best of his ability. "I intend to free my father, Jack." Oh, that tells me what kind of promise he made. "I hope both you and Cass are here to see it." Will said, looking to me. I understood the implied message. This battle was for life or death, friends or not. I nodded at him.

"I can't let you do that, either." Norrington suddenly said and swung his sword up to point at William. Now we were all pointing them at Will and he still looked determined. I knew if it came down to it that I'd have to use special talents to win. Hopefully it wouldn't go that far.

"I knew you'd warm up to me eventually." Jack brightly moved to stand closer to Norrington but Norrington pointed his sword at me, to Jack and I's surprise.

"Lord Beckett desires the contents of that chest. I deliver it, and get my life back." Norrington said spitfully looking between Jack and I.

"Ah," I finally spoke, making everybody jump because I hadn't spoken during the conversation. "The dark side of ambition." I said and smirked lightly at Norrington. He glared at me and ran his sword down mine, which I'd now pointed at him.

"Oh, I prefer to see it as the promise of redemption." Norrington said, defiantly unlike his old self. He finally pulled back his arm and swung it forward, starting a four way battle between the men and me, while Elizabeth just kind of stood there fuming. I dodged Norrington's jab and turned a 180 to hit swords with Will as Jack attacked Norrington. Will swung his sword down and almost disembodied my head. I blocked it just in time to turn and hit swords with a surprised Norrington.

We were steadily making our way across the beach, each trying to keep up with the other. Jack and I thankfully had an advantage because we were on the same side. I swung my sword at William's legs and sadly it was the dull end and it just made him fall to the ground. I looked up and Jack was running through the beach and in to the jungle. I guessed that he had gotten the key and I ran after him, leaving Norrington and William behind as I followed Jack.

Jack found an old church and began climbing up the stairs I followed him and I heard steps behind me. I blindly kicked behind me and heard a grunt from Norrington. I turned around and began battling with William who was right behind us. Norrington ran past me to Jack. I tried to suck in a breath and I guessed William was to.

"A moment!" I said and held up a finger to William. He froze at my voice, and we both stopped, and regained our breath. When we had it back we looked at each other and simultaneously we started running up the stairs.

We got there when Jack jumped out and slide down a roped that started ringing a bell. As he bounced on it I grabbed the key in his hand and jumped out of the window beside me and on to an old rotting roof. I heard what I think was Jack following me. I turned and he was there, battling William and Norrington both. I switched spaces with him, throwing him the key and started trading blows with William. Suddenly we hear a clang and I turn to see that beside us Jack had completely lost his sword. We all stood there for a minute. (A/N: You know They are kind of balancing on the sides of the roof at the top instead of at the lining of the roof.)

I rolled my eyes as Norrington spoke to William without turning his head.

"Do excuse me while I kill the man who ruined my life." He sneered.

"Be my guest." Will said and I was prepared to come to Jack's rescue when Jack started to weasel himself out of the situation again.

"Let us examine that claim for a moment, former Commodore, shall we? Who was it, who at the very moment you had a notorious pirate safely behind bars, saw fit to free said pirate?" Jack said. I raised my eyebrows at him but I got where he was going with this so I decided to help him out.

"Who decided to take your beloved, Elizabeth by the way, all to himself? So who's fault is it, really that you've ended up a rum-soaked, wobbly legged pirate, who takes orders from a female pirate?" I asked. Norrington seemed to swell with anger.

"Enough!" He said and swung at the one closest to him, Jack. Jack did a somersault off the roof and I followed swiftly after him except I did a cartwheel off the side, just to show off. I grinned at Jack and together we started walking off like we were the awesomest people alive. Jack put the key around his neck by some kind of string and I stepped out of the way of a grave. I turned around to speak with Jack, who'd fallen behind but I didn't see him.

"Jack?" I called, wondering how he disappeared so fast.

"Love!" Jack called. I followed his voice until I was back at the grave. I looked down and sure enough there he was in the grave.

"Wow, Jack…The things I could say right now…" I said, amused even in this high pressured time. Jack looked annoyed.

"Get me out, Cass!" Jack ordered, obviously annoyed with me. I rolled my eyes and bent down to help him out. I had him half out of the grave, with a lot of pulling and heaving (I mean seriously how can someone so thin be so hard to get out of a grave?), when I heard a great groan of wood splitting. I looked up with a 'Dear God help me' look on my face to see that a large wheel that was once used to run water was heading our way and on top of it was the battling duo of William and Norrington. I gulped and closed my eyes, praying what came next didn't hurt. Just as the wheel came close to the grave I heard Jack give a grunt of success only to be cut off by the snapping of the wheel as it crunched down upon us.

It didn't hurt, like I thought it would. It was more of a sting and a few splinters later. However Jack had been captured in to the rotting wood with me and we were staring at each other in shock. Because, really, when does this happen, to anyone? I'm stuck in a rotten water wheel. I hope someone takes a pictu- oh wait wrong century.

Jack and I screamed once but then we watched, horrified as the necklace with the key to the chest of Davy Jones began to slip off of Jack's neck. I tried to wiggle free of the wheel so that I could get it but it was useless. I watched helplessly as it fell off of Jack's neck and onto the other side of the wheel to hang on an old rusted nail. I glared at it as the wheel spun around. I felt, mid-spin, someone kick me. "Ow!" I screamed up at, what I think was William and Norrington. I heard William scream sorry back at me.

Suddenly our feet made contact with the ground and we were pushed in to the inside of the wheel. I stumbled around inside of it, colliding with Jack once or twice, before I got my bearings. Together Jack and I made our way towards the key, with Jack ahead of me. I was thankful he was a head of me because suddenly he hit a medal bar with his head, which warned me it was even there. I winced, sympathetically for Jack before I dove just missed the key. I muttered darkly, as now I'd have to wait until it came back around. Suddenly I heard Jack yelling. I glanced behind me, as it is already too hard to run in this thing, and saw him catching up with the wheel.

As soon as Jack jumped in, Will managed to find his way in to the inside of the wheel, and grabbed the key. When he went to jump out I engaged him in battle with my sword. We fought until William was attacked by Jack from behind. I waited, patiently and grabbed the key from William while he was distracted to Jack. I Rolled out of the way of Norrington so that I could grab Jack's arm and pull him with me. I rolled just at the right moment, while Norrington and William fought, so that Jack and I were on the outside of the wheel again. I huffed a great deal of breath and waited a moment before grabbing on to Jack's shirt and a large hanging palm leaf at the same time.

Jack and I were swept off of the wheel. I heard a ripping that sounded like cloth being torn and I felt a sting in my hand but I couldn't do anything because I was distracted when the palm leave gave way and we began to fall. I let Jack go, when I was sure he was all right and then the palm leave and I followed after him. I winced when my legs hit the ground none to softly. It didn't help that a coconut decided to hit my on the arm. I rubbed my arm and looked to Jack, to ask him if he was all right but he was picking up the very same coconut that had hit me in the arm. He threw it and I watched it as it sailed through the air and hit a fish man in the head. He went tumbling. I grinned at it and ran to where the chest now sat.

"We're almost there love." Jack said, also running to the chest. We completely ignored the fish man trying to reconnect his head and body. Jack sat on one side while I sat on the other. I grinned at him and he kissed me without much thought. I placed my hand on his cheek so as to deepen the kiss. I smiled when he pulled back because his knees hit the chest, reminding us why we were on this island. I held the key in my hand and I took the other one away from Jack's cheek to steady the chest but Jack grabbed my hand unexpectedly. I blinked, because I was completely surprised by how his face went from excited and adrenaline filled to the blank face it was now.

"Love…" Jack said and I followed his line of vision to see him staring at my palm. Apparently when I'd heard the ripping sound, it had been the cloth ripped off. I stared at the black spot that was there, out for everyone to see and then slowly I looked back to Jack. He was staring at me and I could see his eyes watering uncharacteristically. "Love, you didn't…" Jack asked and he put his hand on my cheek now. He took my marked palm into both of his and caressed it. He placed his mark palm beside mine, curiously and I winced. I saw no way out of it so I ran my unmarked hand on his and his fake mark disappeared.

I tried to look Jack in the eye but his brown eyes were so tearful, nothing like Jack's usual self that I wouldn't have been able to if Jack hadn't pulled my face to his himself.

"Cass, you shouldn't have done this." Jack muttered against my lips.

"I couldn't not do it, Jack; you are too dear to me to let Davy Jones have you." I told him and he ran his thumb along my cheek.

"It was my fault that we were in this mess, love. I can't let you take the fall for my mistake. You've got to give it back." Jack demanded. His eyes were suddenly very fierce and he clutched my marked hand with his once marked hand. "I refuse to let you pay for my mistakes-" Jack said. I was surprised, as Jack usually let everyone take the fall for him.

"But Jack," I interrupted, "Don't you understand? I'd suffer more if I had to live without you…" I kissed him on the lips passionately.

"I won't let you die for me." Jack said and we stared each other down.

"And neither will I, Jack. No matter what I have to do…" I said and shoved the key into the lock on the chest. I turned it slowly and when it clicked, ominously, we had a moment to wait before the pressure keeping the chest locked opened. I put my hands on the top to open it but Jack stopped me. I looked up, startled, but Jack was looking at me intensely.

"I love you, Cass, only ever you." Jack said and kissed me again, not letting me think or respond as he shoved his tongue in my mouth and took my mouth savagely. I couldn't breath but I understood what Jack was going through. He'd just found out that he was safe now, but the love of his life was going to die. (At least I hope I'm the love of his life. It would be horrible if I found out that I wasn't after all of this.) I'd had to go through that realization and I knew it wasn't the best for the mind.

"It'll be all right, Jack. I promise you've got nothing to worry about now." I told him when he let my mouth go. We were both breathing heavy now and I couldn't help that I didn't want to break eye contact with Jack's lovely, eyes. I just wanted to fall in to him and let him hold me but I knew that couldn't happen now.

"We've got to focus on something else now, Jack, but I promise that you're going to be all right." I said, fruitlessly.

"It's not me I'm worried about anymore, love." Jack said and caressed my cheek once more. I leant into it unconsciously.

"Don't worry, Jack. I won't let you escape me this soon. I've got to marry you first." I said, trying to lift the atmosphere but Jack only chuckled sadly. I sighed then looked back down at the chest. Slowly I opened the intricately designed lid and as it opened I saw the red, beating heart of Davy Jones. I gasped at the mere sight of it. It was horribly disgusting but not near as disgusting as I'd thought it would have been. Obviously I wasn't going to touch of it but Jack picked it up and stared at it in his hand. I couldn't help but to gag when Jack suddenly pushed it into my shirt. I'd been so focused on the heart and Jack that I hadn't heard the fish men (And Elizabeth, Pintel, and Raggeti strangely enough) that were running our way.

Jack slammed the chest shut and we began running, wildly trying to run ahead of the fish people. We left the chest behind because we no longer needed it and it was good that we left it behind because now we needed to run like hell. We ran the complete length of the island that the wheel hadn't taken us and soon we found ourselves back at the longboat that Pintel and Ragetti had abandoned. Luckily for us the tide hadn't taken it to far away from the island. I was so hot with all of these things happening that I didn't bother to keep my jacket on. I swept it off and slung it into the waiting boat. Much to my surprise, instead of jumping in the boat and leaving without the others, Jack grabbed his jar of dirt and dumped half of it out, after slinging his own jacket off and in to the boat.

He looked to me, and I could feel that he was about to do something that he knew I wasn't going to like, just like when he'd shoved the heart into my shirt. And true enough he whispered a hurried 'sorry, love' before shoving his hand down my shirt and grabbed the constantly pounding heart. I didn't have time to curse him because right over Jack's shoulder there was a man waiting to stab Jack in the back.

"Jack!" I shouted before launching myself, sword out, at the man. I didn't look back to see what Jack did with the heart but I did swivel back when I swept the more then 300 lbs. man off his feet. It wasn't really hard to guess what he did so I focused. I blinked before getting up as if all my energy was back. I don't know what happened but suddenly I just felt as if there was no way that I could lose. I laughed heartily as I took out two of the fish men. I was so gone in ecstasy that I almost missed the large waterwheels return. I stopped when it did because it broke me out of my euphoria long enough to realize that this was not good. I grabbed a large wad of my hair and pulled it up to where I could see it.

My white and black hair was glowing and when I caught a glimpse of my skin I realized the tan I'd gotten while living here in the Caribbean had disappeared completely and turned in to a pale tone of snow white. I groaned as another fish man came near me. I grabbed a hand full of his sword and it melted on contact, that's how mad I was. He looked at me with an 'oh shit!' face on him. He dropped the weapon and ran off screaming. I ran back, dodging fighting fish men so as to make it back to the longboat. I glanced in it to see we'd obtained the chest of Davy Jones again and a passed out William. I looked up to see Jack and everyone else was backed up to the boat with me.

"We're not getting out of this…" Elizabeth shakily told us. I kept my mouth shut afraid of what was going to change about me next. No one seemed to have noticed the faint glow of me, so maybe that was just my natural aura and not something to noticeable to mortals.

"Not with the chest…" James said, and for a moment when he met my eyes I remembered when he was going to let Jack and I go to be together. I nodded to him and whispered a prayer, knowing what he was about to do. "Into the boat!" Norrington said and took the chest in his arms as the fishes got closer to us.

"You're mad!" Elizabeth said for the both of us because that was what I was thinking. I may understand but that didn't mean I didn't know it was a crazy suicide mission.

"Don't wait for me." Norrington said and I took in a shaky breath and watched as he ran through the crowd of fish men giving them a full view of the chest. I winced for him but Jack grabbed my hand (Confirming that it was just my aura) and pulled me in to the longboat backwards.

"Uh, I say we respect his final wish." Jack half shouted. I winced as my back made contact with the splintered wood. I took in a breath and got up off of the floor of the boat and on to the bench of it. Jack was on my left and I lent against his shoulder and he squeezed my thigh once before we focused on the others. Pintel and Ragetti were pulling again while Elizabeth cuddled William's head in her lap. I shivered when a sudden gust of cold, unnatural, wind blew threw my veins. I could feel the shivers of death coming upon me but I refused to give in and I drowned them out with a flash of hot power. I tried to distract myself by for once listening to the duo as they rowed us to the close Black Pearl.

"You're pulling too hard!" Pintel shouted at Ragetti, completely terrified.

"You're not pulling hard enough!" Ragetti shouted back. They were interrupted by a gasp from Elizabeth who was staring at my palm. I winced as she looked at me. But before she could do anything we arrived at the ship. I shot up the latter first and ran on to deck. Everyone followed up as fast as they could. Gibbs counted, not being there so not knowing how fast the problem had progressed. He looked at me weirdly, reminding me that my hair was half white.

"Where's the Commodore?" Gibbs asked. I winced and walked away. I smoothed my hands through my hair in worry. I didn't know what was worse, all these signs of death or the wait for it. I knew that there was no way that I was getting out of this scot free but I'll be damned if I don't fight it every step of the way! I flinched at a sudden touch. I turned around and there Jack stood. He embraced me tenderly. I wrapped my arms around him as well, hoping that he didn't get scarred from my hair and when we pulled apart he in fact didn't have any burnt pieces of skin. I smiled at him, as calmly as possible for Jack.

"It'll be all right." I said weakly. Jack kissed me with a deep loving passion.

"I love you, Cass." Jack muttered before kissing me repeatedly so I got the message. I kissed him back, hoping desperately that these hurried passionate kisses were not the last.

"I love you, so very desperately, Jack." I finally said back, having gotten some much needed air. I hesitated for a moment but I held up the almost forgotten necklace.

"I'll be with you always, Jack." I whispered and the mist inside of the necklace swirled desperate to get to my fingers. I took in a deep breath as warmth enclosed my heart just as Jack placed his hand on top of my own. "Take care of me, Jack." I told him and lifted my hand from the necklace and up to Jack's chin. I smiled softly and twirled one of his braids around my finger and tugged it so I could lay kisses along his jaw.

"Lord almighty delivers us!" Gibbs suddenly shouted, warning Jack and I right before there was a loud splash and the Flying Dutchman joined us in the water. I jumped and Jack grimaced. He picked up, much to my amusement, his jar of dirt. Though I suppose that it shouldn't be as amusing as it was because it had my one chance at survival in it.

"I'll handle this, mate!" Jack said to Gibbs, falsely confident. I winced for him and stood back beside Elizabeth and the now conscious William Turner.

"Hey!" Jack called to Davy Jones and he turned to Jack viciously, just looking for a reason to kill him. "Fishface, Lose something?" Jack held up the jar of dirt and walked across deck, to restless to stand still. Suddenly Jack tripped down the stairs. I walked over to the top of the stairs and couldn't help but stare at him where he was now jumping up with the jar of dirt in his hands. "Got it!"

I walked down to stand beside him incredulously. "Nice." I said to him.

"Got it!" Jack shouted and held the jar of dirt high above his head. I rolled my eyes at his childish behavior. He strutted across the deck still holding up the jar of dirt and I could practically feel one of Jack's moments coming on.

"Come to negotiate, eh, have you, you slimy git? Look what I got." Jack started waving the jar around and using a sing song voice. I had to hold myself back from laughing at him but I just managed it. "I got a jar of dirt! I got a jar of dirt! And guess what's inside it?" Jack said and I groaned at his stupidity. I know for a fact that you never goad someone like Davy Jones, shit ends up happening.

And I was right because just then Davy got fed up with Jack. "Enough!" He shouted loud enough for it to ring out loud and echo ominously.