Fic: The War Within

Rating: M
Characters: Elizabeth/Jack Elizabeth/Will
Chapter Title: Look into your Present Action
Disclaimer: I do not own Pirates of the Caribbean. Disney does, no money being made off this.
Summary: Captain Elizabeth Swann, Pirate Lord and King. Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirate Lord, lecherous pirate, son of the Keeper of the Code. What will happen on the eve of battle. JE. Reviews welcome.

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Author note: Thank you for all those great reviews. I really appreciate all the feedback I have received thus far!

Elizabeth was sitting upon the cannon on which Gibbs had recently vacated. Her head was whirring with the information fed to it. Jack was an honourable man, a decent man and he had been forced to watch as people he had felt responsible went down in flames upon his own ship.'He must have been absolutely mortified and felt horrendously weak,' she thought to herself. Elizabeth felt for the past Jack. She would not wish that on anybody, no matter how ill she thought of them. '- So this was part of the reasoning behind his madness,' she thought. 'What a tragedy. Was this why Jack wanted to trade with Will? So that he could live?'

Elizabeth heart was heavy, so very heavy. Hers was weighed down from knowing that she herself had contributed to Jack's reasons; most probable that her actions in sending him to the Kraken had been the catalyst for his decision.

Perhaps this is why Jack never let on the reasoning behind his actions. Normal people would be weighed down by them.

Elizabeth knew she would have to exchange Jack for Will. Knowing that Jack was looking for a way to live, for it seemed he had faced death too many times already; it seemed the least she could do for him.

Elizabeth sat on the cannon, her mind and heart at juxtaposes. Gibbs had come past again and patted her on the shoulder before disappearing. She had just nodded absently and sat, absorbing the pieces of Jack's puzzle of a life. It seemed there was more to Jack than Jack let on.

She suddenly did not want to go to the meeting. It was not that she did not want to see Will or Beckett. How could she go when she knew what Jack had planned?

She lifted her face to the brightening sky. She had so many questions, and very few answers.

As always, reviews welcomed and encouraged…. TJ