Chapter 4-Ice and cold hearts

Okay I messed up there is meant to be a chapter in between this one and the welcome to Singapore. There for I've had to republish. Anyway I don't own POTC, but Scarlet is mine.

I woke up just as the sun was rising into the window, I looked out and had to double check. Yep there was ice, not just a small amount, but enough to make the inside of my windows to freeze up. I got up and dressed quickly before walking over to the door. I tugged on it, but it didn't budge. I ended up putting my feet either side of the door, and it flung open, sending me flying backward. I got up and straightened myself up, walking over to Barbossa, who was at the helm looking out at the sea.

"When you said it's was gonna get a good bit colder, I didn't think my door would get stuck!" I exclaimed, looking at his darkly.

Barbossa turned towards me, and laughed gently, "Aye Lass, but this will be de worst of it. I promise."

"For some reason I don't really trust your promises, Barbossa. No idea why!" I said sarcastically. It was Barbossa's turn to glare at me.

I moved away quickly and sit on a barrel staring out at the sea which was covered in Ice, ice and more ice. That was all that could be seen around us. Feeling the snow land lightly on my shoulders. A great change from earlier this morning where by the looks of the deck, there had been a heavy snow storm, with hail mixed in, and I can imagine that the crew who were on night duty had a really horrible time walking in it, believe me I had tried to walk through storms before. I had nothing to do with the sudden storm, this one wasn't under my control. Not that I could really control my weather conditions, as they react when my emotions are high.

"No one said anything about cold." I heard Pintel mourning again. As an ice berg floated past. Jack the monkey sat almost completely still, minus from his shivering of his limbs, which was a surprising change from his usual way of acting, no running around, and stealing wooden eyes.

"There must be a good reason for our suffering," Ragetti tried to reason with him while I sat a few spaces away, just watching the ice move by trying not to think too much, thinking always hurts.

"Why don't that obay woman bring back Jack, the same way she brought back Barbossa?" Pintel asked, I guess this was a rhetorical question. I sighed had he not been listening when I explained this to Will, before we had even began this troubled journey.

Tia appeared behind them, "Because Barbossa was only dead. Jack Sparrow is taken, body and soul, to a place not of death, but punishment. The worst fate a person can bring upon himself. Stretching on forever. That's what awaits at Davy Jones' locker."

I shuddered at the thought. The way Jack must be suffering was terrible to think about, I had heard so many stories from Pirates about Davy Jones' locker, the never ending nothingness at least Jack had the Pearl. What made it worse was he had chosen that fate. "I knew there was good reason," Ragetti said simply in response.

I looked around to see what was going on. Elizabeth was sitting under a blanket on the opposite side of the ship to me, and there was a man who was one of Tai crew, there name completely escaping me. He was nursing his blue foot trying to get the blood supply to work again. When he moved to his big toe, it snapped off his foot. As he tried to stick toe back onto his foot, I had to turn away from it. It made me feel unwell. I walked over to Will and Tai who were looking over the charts, "Nothing here is set. These can't be as accurate as modern charts," Will was saying as I joined them. As they turned the outer ring.

"No, that's true, but it leads to more places," I explained, standing next to Will. He turned the charts again and began to read "OVER THE EDGE OVER AGAIN. SUNRISE SETS FLASH OF GREEN," we looked over at Tai who just shrugged, unable to answer Will, who then looked forward to me. I stared at them both hopelessly. We slowly walked over Barbossa with the map, "Do you care to interpret, Captain Barbossa?" Will said the word 'Captain' with such menace you would have thought it was going to poison him.

Barbossa just smiled as he read the chart, "Ever gazed upon the green flash, Master Gibbs?"

I could see Gibbs going into story mode, "I reckon I seen my fair share. It happens on rare occasion. At the last glimpse of sunset, a green flash of light shoots up into the sky. Some go their whole lives without seeing it, some claim to have seen it that ain't. Some say..."

"It signals when a soul comes back to this world, from the dead!" Pintel interrupted. To which Gibbs gave him a death stare for interrupting his storytelling, "Sorry."

"Trust me, young Master Turner, it's not gettin' to the land of the dead that's the problem," Barbossa said, moving the wheel slightly to the left, "It's gettin' back."

I smiled gently, laughed sourly, "Great hope huh, Cap'n?" The laugher died slowly in my throat, as if I was suffocating.

Will turned around and looked at me. He made his way over to me slowly, "Scarlet, are you okay?"

"How can I laugh?" I asked softly, my voice just above a whisper, "He's in a place worse than death itself."

Will engulfed me into a hug, I didn't care if I was in front of the crew, or if I was making a fool of myself. I just began to sob, softly into his shoulder. He was the only thing that was holding me up. I saw over his shoulder Elizabeth staring back at me with the saddest expression on her face, as she looked at me and Will. It took me a second to realise that what I was looking at was someone's heart breaking in front of me. I wondered if that was what I looked like when I saw Elizabeth kiss Jack.

I was suddenly very confused again, if Elizabeth loved Jack and Jack loved Elizabeth both enough to hurt me and Will, then I didn't understand why she was hurt by me and Will hugging.

Tia suddenly appeared blocking my view of Elizabeth and took me out of Will's arms, "I'll help her William Turner," she glided me into my cabin away from the pitiful eyes of the crew, and the sympathetic whispers.

Tia lied me down onto the bed and stroked my hair, in a mothering way. Something she never did when I was younger. I heard a lullaby, which I had somehow known all my life, my parent's lullaby, the soft humming of her voice, reminded me of the gentle waves riding up and down the sandy beaches. As I began to drift off, my only thought was that maybe after all this time I'd finally get my mother and father back. And I prayed that I would get Jack Sparrow's heart as well.

The sky was completely clear and the water perfectly calm, all the stars could be seen. The completely opposite of what had accursed yesterday. Something that rarely happened. I was sitting on a barrel looking out into the world. Elizabeth was standing where I usually could be found staring out into the water. Something people only do whenever they are thinking deeply. Will walked over to her as I listened into their conversation, "How long do we continue not talking?"

"Once we rescue Jack everything will be fine," Elizabeth replied looking away from the ocean and into Will's eyes. She spoke as if she was trying to get out of the conversation.

"When we rescue Jack?" Will questioned. I knew that he loved her and I guessed that she had once loved him too. However between Jack and Elizabeth, Will and I were the ones who had been left behind and alone with our hearts broken into a million pieces.

Elizabeth opted to walk off before they could talk more. Tia walked over to him next, "For what we want most, there is a cost must be paid in the end," she said to him.

Will noticed her necklace, I felt my heart race as I watched recognition on his face. He walked off towards Barbossa and I finally plucked up the courage to talk to Tia and ask her the question I wanted to know, "Can you answer my questions?" I asked nervously.

"Of course him love ye child," Tia answered immediately.

"After everything I said to him after the way I acted. After how he was around Elizabeth. How could he?" I questioned I didn't know whether I could believe her. I questioned everything about Jack and my relationship.

"Him will understand, and Elizabeth is complicated," she assured me. I looked at her in confusion as she turned back to stare out at the sea.

Will's voice started me back to reality, "Barbossa! Ahead!"

I turned to look at Barbossa, "Aye, we're good and lost now," he said simply in response.

"Lost?" Elizabeth questioned.

"For certain you have to be lost to find the places can't be found. Else ways, everyone would know where it was," Barbossa said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. In a strange way it did make sense.

Gibbs looked over the edge of the ship, "We're gaining speed!" he exclaimed.

"Aye," Barbossa replied simply, clearly annoyed by the way Gibb's was stating the obvious.

"To stations! All hands, to stations! Hard to port, gather way!" Will yelled orders around the place.

"Nay! Belay that! Let her runs straight and true!" Barbossa ordered.

"Barbossa are ye trying to kill 'em?" I questioned beginning to get worried about this. Every single sense I had was telling me the danger.

"Blimey!" Pintel exclaimed.

I looked over the bow of the ship to see a sudden drop heading our way, one of the biggest waterfalls I had ever seen, "You've doomed us all!" Elizabeth accused.

"Don't be so unkind. You may not survive to pass this way again, and these be the last friendly words you'll hear." Barbossa answered, not even worrying about his own death.

"Tie her off!" Will ordered, it was getting too late though the waterfall was moving towards us at a great speed.

"Malfaiteur en Tombeau, Crocher l'Esplanade, Dans l'Fond d'l'eau!" Tia muttered as she threw her crabs claws onto the ground.

"Tia stop! It's not going to work!" I said as I ran over to grab anything, quickly joined by Tia. I grab hold of the rigging line and just began to pray.

"Hard to port!" Elizabeth screamed the fear high in her voice.

Everyone was running around, "Don't bother," I yelled at the top of my voice, "It's too late."

"Hold on!" Will ordered.

All that could be heard over the commotion was Barbossa laugh. The ship began to turn and fell off the waterfall backwards. I shut my eyes tight afraid of what I would see otherwise.

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