Ch, 5: Cold

This one's a bit shorter than the others, but it's more of a filler chapter to the grand entrance of Captain Jack anyway.

Disclaimer: Not mine.

All I have is one last chance

Elizabeth didn't feel the cold. All she could think of was the fact that they were getting close. Close to the end of the world. Close to the end of this madness. Close to the end of her guilt. Close to him. Footsteps behind her and a pile of blankets tossed in her lap made her look up, meeting Gibbs's gaze. "Thank you."

He waved it off. "Too cold for a lady."

"No lady here." She replied watching him retreat back to the helm. "Just a murderer." A shudder rippled through her being. "How could I be so heartless?" She questioned aloud. "I want to make this better."

"It's not over yet, dearie." Barbossa replied from his position over the map. "You'll get your chance."

"One last chance."

"Aye. You'll only need one."

"How do you know?"

He never answered her question as Will approached him with Sao Feng's maps in his hands. Elizabeth looked down snuggling closer into her blanket. "Do you care to interpret, Captain Barbossa?"

"Ever gazed upon the green flash, Master Gibbs?" Elizabeth glanced up at his voice and then settled back again. She'd heard of this tale before briefly.

"I reckon I've seen my fair share. Happens on rare occasion, the last glimpse of sunset a green flash shoots up into the sky. Some go their whole lives without ever seeing it, some claim to seen it await and some say-"

"It signals when a soul comes back to this world from the dead." Pintel interrupted and then shrank away from Gibbs. "Sorry."

"Trust me Master Turner. It's not getting to the land of the dead that's the problem, it's getting back." Barbossa cut in with a smirk.

Elizabeth frowned. What does he mean? "I assumed we'd be sailing back…"

He merely laughed.

She met Will's cold gaze uneasily.

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Elizabeth watched as they sailed through what appeared to be an endless starry night. Even the water reflected the beautiful shining orbs, yet it seemed so stagnant, the air too calm for her taste. She felt…lost. Any noise on the ship seemed to echo with melancholy. She hated it. She wanted Jack. He would make this place seem a game.

Will stepped up next to her. "Pining after your beloved?"

She sighed and walked away. What was I thinking? I should apologize. He's just hurt. Turning to go back she saw that Tia dalma had stepped up to him instead. "For what we want most, there is a cost must be paid in the end."

His eyes widened when he looked at her chest and then he was pushing past her, running straight for the helm. "Barbossa! Ahead!"

Elizabeth tore after him glancing over her shoulder to see what Will was talking about.

"Aye. We're good and lost now."

"Lost?" Elizabeth exclaimed, confused.

"For certain you have to be lost to finds a place what can't be found. Elseways everyone would know where it was."

"We're gaining speed!" Gibbs exclaimed, looking over the side.

"Aye." Barbossa nodded.

"To stations!" Will ordered and Elizabeth and the crew leapt into action. Something was going to happen. Jack we're on our way. She sent out a silent message as Will began giving orders for hard to port.

Barbossa spoke up then, interrupting her thoughts. "Nay belay that! Let her run straight and true!" It was then that she realized the reason the crew had mutinied against Jack. Barbossa did make a fine captain after all.

"Blimey." Ragetti muttered as Elizabeth and a few of the others reached the rail only to see the edge of the world looming before them in the form of a gigantic waterfall! She turned to Barbossa grimly. "You've doomed us all."

"Don't be so unkind. You may not survive to pass this way again and these be the last friendly words ye'll hear." He murmured grasping her face in his hand. She grimaced in disgust then turned to the waterfall. Lecher.

"Hard to port!" She screamed racing across the deck and reaching to grasp anything as they began going over. She heard Barbossa's barking laughter. He's mad! She thought before letting out a shriek as the only thing holding her on the ship were her arms. She clung to the rope with all her might as they plunged into the icy waves below.