Chapter 6: Saving her Parents

Jack saw The Destroyer and had Jacob go wake Mackenzie. Mackenzie hurried out of her cabin and stood next to Jack. "We have to get over there," Mackenzie urged.

"You don't just tell father to get onto the ship. We have to wait for the opportune moment to save them," Jacob explained.

"I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE OPPORTUNE MOMENT! MY PARENTS MAY BE DYING!" Mackenzie yelled.

Jacob looked at Jack and the Captain of the ship nodded. Mackenzie hurried over to a rope and grabbed on. They carefully swung over to the ship and Mackenzie nodded to Jacob. They snuck around the ship when Mackenzie found the cabin door. She opened it and hurried inside.

Once Mackenzie entered the room, she gasped in horror when she saw her father beaten badly and her mother had the traces of being raped. She hurried over to her father in tears. "They've hurt you!" She gasped. Will smiled and touched his daughter's face.

"Mackenzie, I told you not to come here," he murmured.

"You would have died if I didn't come," she pointed out.

She then helped Will up and smiled at her mother. "Are you all right, mother?" She asked.

"I'll be fine, dear," Elizabeth assured.

Jacob entered the room and smiled to see Mackenzie helping her father up from the floor. "Here, I'll take him," he offered. He helped Will out of the room while Mackenzie helped Elizabeth.

Once they got on the ship, Jack, Will, and Elizabeth believed that it was too easy. Mackenzie and Jacob thought they were just lucky. While Will was cleaning up his newly given wounds from earlier, Jack was pondering of what was going on. "This was way too easy. Barbossa would have never let ye two go like that," Jack pointed out.

"We got that, Jack. However, we need to figure out of what Barbossa is after for when he's really after you and father," Will mumbled.

"Well, just incase, we shouldn't return home just yet," Elizabeth insisted.

"We won't be returning to Port Royal until Barbossa is sent to Hell permanently," Will assured.

Jack looked up when the doors opened and Jacob and Mackenzie entered the room. "What is it?" Mackenzie asked.

"Are ye sure there was no one around?" Jack asked.

"We are sure," Mackenzie answered.

"Why are you asking us this?" Jacob asked.

"We just want to be sure. The last time we saved Will and me, Barbossa came after us and almost killed us," Elizabeth replied.

"He didn't see us," Mackenzie insisted.

On The Destroyer

Barbossa chuckled as he watched Mackenzie and Jacob get Will and Elizabeth off his ship. "Bo'sun," he ordered. The first mate nodded and waited for Jack's ship to be gone before they followed them.

On The Black Pearl

Elizabeth watched as her husband slept without the worry of him being beaten again. She crawled into bed and fell asleep next to Will. She expected to have peaceful dreams, but she was wrong. The dreams of what Barbossa did to her haunted her dreams. Will woke up when he heard his wife whimpering in her sleep. "No, no, please don't. No please," she begged in her sleep. He reached over and grabbed her arm.

"Elizabeth," he whispered.

"NO!" Elizabeth screamed as she sat up.

He had a hold on her arms. "Elizabeth, it's all right, I'm right here," he assured. She was shaking with fear and jumped when she felt her husband callused hand touch her face. She looked at him with tears in her eyes. "It's all right," he whispered. She buried her head in his shoulder and cried. He stroked her hair and held her close.

"It was horrible, Will. It was horrible," she sobbed.

He just held her close and sighed. "I'll kill him for touching you," he whispered. Elizabeth finally calmed down and her steady breathing told Will that she was sleeping. He placed her against the pillows and watched her sleep. He couldn't stand thinking of what that man did to her. He climbed out of bed and walked out of the cabin.

Jack saw Will walk out of the cabin to see him utterly disturbed about something. "Gibbs, take the helm," he ordered.

"Aye, captain," Gibbs answered.

Jack walked down the stairs and walked over to Will. Will was leaning against the railing of the ship ignoring the pain that was inflicted upon him by Barbossa's men. "What seems to be the trouble Will?" Jack asked.

"I want to kill Barbossa, Jack. God help me I will kill him," Will assured.

"I'm sure you would. Hell I would too after what he did to me," Jack agreed.

"It's not what Barbossa did to me, Jack."

"Then why?"

"HE RAPED MY WIFE, JACK! HE RAPED HER WHILE I WAS UNCONSCIOUS!"

Jack's eyes widened as Will yelled those words. He looked at the sky and looked into the water. "He wanted answers about where you and father were. When I refused to answer him, he would have his crew beat me. Well, I guess beating the answers out of me wasn't working. No, he wanted the answers so he thought Elizabeth would give them to him. I guess that when she refused to tell him, he raped her. I didn't know what he did until I woke up and found her unconscious on the floor. I will kill Barbossa for even laying a hand on my wife," Will explained bitterly. Jack decided to leave Will alone when Mackenzie came out of her cabin. Will knew his daughter was behind him and prayed that she didn't hear what he said. She stood next to her father and saw the anger in his eyes.

"What is it, father?" She asked.

Will sighed and looked at his daughter. "Mackenzie, I have something to tell you. It's the reason why your mother has been so afraid lately," he answered.

"Is it because you were almost killed?" She asked thinking that, that was the reason.

"No, Mackenzie. Barbossa wanted his answers and while I was unconscious from my beating, he tried to get the answers out of your mother. When she refused to tell him his answers, Barbossa had raped your mother," Will explained.

Mackenzie clasped her hands over her mouth in shock. "He didn't do such a thing, did he?" She asked afraid. Will nodded sadly and looked into the water.

"I'll kill Barbossa for doing such a thing to her," Will explained.

He closed his eyes as he remembered all of those times when he and Elizabeth had to struggle to be together. The night that Mackenzie was conceived in his shop and he was almost hung for it stuck in his mind greatly. He still wandered sometimes why Elizabeth chose a commoner like himself when she could've married a man like Commodore Norrington. He looked at Mackenzie and smiled at her. "You should go get some sleep, I'll be all right and so will your mother," he assured. He watched as Mackenzie walked into her cabin while Will went back into his thoughts about his and Elizabeth's relationship.

While Will was out on deck, Elizabeth was dreaming of all the times she had with Will. The time when she found out that she was pregnant with Mackenzie and Will had proposed. Tears fell from her eyes in her sleep as she dreamt of the times that Will was almost killed because of their love. However, the great times they shared stayed in her memories and that was all Elizabeth cared about. She knew that she could have chosen a man like Commodore Norrington, but Will showed her something that Commodore Norrington could never show her. Will showed her how to live. Without Will, her life would have been lost. He was her soul mate, the man that she loved so much since she was a child. When people looked at Elizabeth as she walked around Port Royal with Will's arm around her waist, they could see that the governor's daughter was happy.

Later that night, Will walked back into the cabin and saw his wife fast asleep with a gentle smile on her face. He crawled into the bed and pulled her into his arms. He kissed the side of her head and sighed. "I love you," he whispered. Then sleep claimed him.