To those of you who have put up with this second hiatus...
I love you all. Seriously. Every last one of you. Thank you so much for putting up for me.
That being said... I am determined to finish this now. This needs to be finished, whether I like it or not. So get ready for some serious ending business, k?
See you there.
"Will! Oh, Will, I'm so happy for you! And for Jack, obviously. Although I have to say, he was slightly less irritating when he was still afraid of me."
"Hm… He's changed a lot, hasn't he? We all have, I suppose…"
"… Will? What's wrong?"
"… Nothing. Nothing at all. I mean, what possibly could be wrong? I got everything I ever wanted, didn't I?"
"… I sense a 'but'."
"… Something's wrong, Elizabeth. I don't know, maybe it's just me, maybe I just got used to him being… not him. But… Now he's, he's not here anymore. When he was, when he was different, he talked to me, he told me what he was feeling, and even if he didn't, I could still tell. I could tell when he was sad, or, or, I could tell. And now I can't tell anymore, it's like he's just shut himself off, closed himself up and now all this happy-go-lucky bullshit is just, it's just him distracting us, you know? Distracting us from what's really going on. It's all just a show, just a show to make us thing he's better, but he's not really better, he's just… I don't even know. I don't even know."
"… You know, I don't think I've ever heard you swear before."
"Elizabeth, please!"
"Please what? Please smack you right upside your pretty little head? Because I will, if that's what you want. Really, Will, why can't you just be happy? Jack's back, he's the way he's always been! And he loves you! Damn it, Will, if I were even half so lucky…"
"Oh, don't start, Elizabeth. This isn't even remotely the same! I'm genuinely concerned about him, and you're, you're making this all about us!"
"There is no us, that's the entire point! You don't think I was genuinely concerned, when my fiancée decided to go chasing after a smelly, rum-guzzling pirate hooligan?! WHO IS ALSO A MAN?! Good God, Will, you know what I think? I think you are absolutely determined to be miserable! Every single time we somehow, magically manage to get a happy ending, you decide that that's just not good enough, that's just not what you want anymore, you have to have something else, something equally unattainable! This isn't about Jack, or me, or anyone else! This is about you, Will. This is all about you."
"… Get out, Elizabeth."
"Oh, what, just because you don't want to-"
"OUT! GET OUT! NOW!"
"Fine, fine, no need to get all pissy, you silly fool! I'm going!"
"… There's something wrong. I know it.'
"There's something wrong."