Chapter 20- Part of the Crew, Part of the ship

I can't find my way to you- Breaking Benjamin

Will pulled out his father's knife and stabbed it into the railing. "I'm not going to kill you. I made you a promise."

Bootstrap stared at it in confusion. He immediately lost himself in thought at the same moment that Jack regained consciousness and leapt to his feet.

Meanwhile, Jones knocked Elizabeth's sword to the deck with a clatter and raised his claw to strike her, hoping for a deathblow.

"NO!" Jack and Will shouted simultaneously, rushing forward, but to no avail. A huge wind knocked them to their knees and stilled Jones' clawed arm in one fell motion.

"Davy Jones." The voice was calm, but seemed older than eons of time.

He dropped his claw almost instantly, but did not turn around.

Jack glanced up, the raining had stopped.

Calypso stepped behind him. "Enough."

"Calypso." He whispered, almost reverently and then he realized what she said.

The goddess watched his eyes narrow with mild amusement.

"Have you come to show them how cruel you can be?"

She chuckled throatily. "You really are a betrayer." Her face turned dark. "I had hoped it were a lie."

Elizabeth chose the moment to scramble towards Will, who happened to be the closer of the two men.

Jack's jaw clenched.

Jones practically growled. "Who told you that?"

"A good man."

"Another of your lovers then?"

"There are more things in life than bed-partners Davy Jones."

"Ahh…love. A dreadful bond. And yet so easily severed." He responded to her with a smirk.

"I only ever loved you." Calypso replied.

"Liar!" He spat.

"You are the liar, not I." She answered, her voice calm.

Elizabeth tried to grasp Will's arm, but too late. He stabbed his own sword into Jones' back.

Jones turned to him and wrenched the sword from his own back, forgetting about Calypso momentarily. "Tell me, William Turner, do you fear death?"

"Do you?" Jack interrupted, making them all turn. He had gotten the key off of William somehow and now held Davy's heart in his hand. "Heady tonic, holding life and death in the palm of one's hand."

Elizabeth looked on in horror.

"You're a cruel man, Jack Sparrow."

"Cruel is a matter of perspective."

"Is it now?" Before anyone could move he stabbed the sword through Will's heart.

Elizabeth gasped and ran to him. She had not been able to apologize first. It wasn't supposed to be like this! She couldn't really lose him completely! "Will!" She slapped his face lightly. "Will! Will! Look at me! Stay with me! You're all right!"

Jack stared on in horror as Jones tossed his head back and laughed.

"William! My son!" Bootstrap cried out, finally realizing who he was and running to Elizabeth's side.

Calypso turned to him in disgust. "You're the cruel one, Davy Jones."

Momentarily forgetting about his heart, he turned to her then. "You will not forestall my judgment!"

"I will! The boy should not have to die."

"And you should not have been in my way." He spat coldly.

"I pity you." She murmured. "And yet I love you still."

He opened his mouth to call her liar once more, but his body twitched instead. Calypso's eyes narrowed. "You deserve your punishment."

Confused, he turned to find Jack holding Will's hand around the hilt of his broken sword which was sticking out of Davy's heart.

"Calypso!" He moaned and reached for her as he fell overboard.

She watched him fall into the middle of the maelstrom with the coldness of a woman scorned. Davy Jones would never again harm these men and this beautiful headstrong woman.

Hopefully it wasn't too late.

"It's all right now. He is done." She threw over her shoulder.

Davy Jones' crew stood on, staring in horror and wonder at the sea goddess.

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Meanwhile, the Black Pearl's mainsail had somehow gotten hooked onto the Dutchman as the maelstrom began sucking them closer.

James wondered if Calypso planned to kill them all, dash them on the bare seafloor at the bottom of the maelstrom.

"She's takin' us down! Make quick, or it's the locker for us all!" Barbossa shouted frantically.

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And I can't bear to face the truth- Breaking Benjamin

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Barbossa's frantic orders were heard across the deck of the Dutchman.

Jack glanced over and then back at Elizabeth and Will nervously.

Will's eyes kept rolling back in his head and then he was grabbing Elizabeth's wrist in a moment of lucidity. "Elizabeth…" He whispered.

"Yes, dear heart." She murmured, making Jack wince.

"Go with, Jack."

"I won't leave you!" The words tore at Jack's heart.

"Go, Elizabeth." Will murmured.

She couldn't make herself do it. She could not just see her childhood friend sacrifice himself for her. "No! NO! NO! NO! I won't! Don't make me!"

"I'll always love you." He choked out and glanced at Jack. "Take care of her."

Jack nodded as Will's eyes closed.

Calypso watched them for a moment and then disappeared from the deck and reappeared on the Pearl. She wasn't quite done yet.

When the crew saw she was gone, they noticed Will. "The Dutchman must have a captain." Bootstrap murmured, wanting to save his son. A chant broke out around them. "Part of the crew, part of the ship! Part of the crew, part of the ship! PART OF THE CREW, PART OF THE SHIP!"

Jack glanced around uneasily as they advanced upon them. Even if he couldn't have her, Will had told him to take care of her as his last request and he would do his best. He grabbed Elizabeth by the arms and pulled her back, avoiding her kicks and jabs, his ears ringing with her screams. "DON'T LEAVE ME! I WON'T LEAVE YOU!"

She hated Jack and loved him in that moment for taking the choice from her hands.

"Hold on!" He shouted, firing a gun.

She clung to him with all her might.

And then they were airborne as she clung to his waist. She buried her face in his coat, crying for William. Her childhood friend and sweetheart was gone. Jack was safe, but it was a bittersweet relief she felt, as she looked over her shoulder, watching the Dutchman as it was swallowed by the maelstrom.