To: Elizabeth Swann
Governor's Manor
Port Royal
June 20, 1725
Dear Elizabeth,
I know that you love me. I always have. I just thought that our feelings were of the same nature, I guess I was wrong. I suppose that I have been wrong about a lot of things haven't I?
How can you stay in my life, if not as my wife? I don't quite understand. You want me to find someone special to bestow my love upon, well I have, but she won't accept it. She just keeps throwing it back in my face. How can you say that you will never be the one I'll marry? Can you foresee the future?
You used to have a dream like that? So did I, but that person was always you who would turn around. You were the one who wore my ring. How could that man be Jack? You know what he's like, he'll never settle for one woman, not even you. He's a ladies man Elizabeth, he always will be. Even if by some miracle you managed to get him to marry you, who's to say he would be faithful?
I will try not to dwell on what could've been, I'll look to the future, and not ours.
I could never hate you Elizabeth, you mean too much to me. I risked my life for you, I wouldn't do that for just anyone. You'll always have a place in my heart, you were my first love, nothing can take that away.
Fate intervening? Maybe you're right, maybe we were never meant to be. Maybe I was just here to help you find Jack. If there's one good thing I can say about Jack, it's that with him, you'll never be bored, always on some adventure or other.
I know that you never meant to hurt me, you weren't thinking when you kissed him, I can understand that. The look you saw was one of disbelief. I never thought that you had it in you to betray someone, once again, I was wrong. The looks I gave you broke your heart? Well you should've felt what you did to my heart, what you are still doing to it. I can forgive you for kissing him, but not for leaving him to die. No decent person would ever do that.
I can't promise you anything Elizabeth, because I can't be certain that I'll ever find anything anymore.
I loved you from the moment I laid my eyes on you, and I will continue to love you till the day I die.
Yours,
William Turner