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So, without further adu, I give you...

Never Shall We Die
Chapter 16:
One Day

"Miss Saphira Michelle Jones, please stand."
She smiled as he gave the name that she had changed her old name to. Jack nugded Michelle to stand. She reluctantly did so as she faced the whole entire Brethern Court. Captain Teague, as Grant was called here, gave her a reassuring smile as he said to the 50 something pirates lords and captains that were in that room.

"Miss Jones, your cousin was Elizabeth Swann. Pirate King. For over a century, we have had no King to rule us. Until you came along." Grant was only saying this to catch everyone else up. He, Jack and Michelle knew it very well. "Do your promise in honor of your late cousin to rule over all the pirate nations with respect and commitment? If so, than please say aye."

"Aye."

Jack smiled as he glanced at his father who was also beaming as he said, "Well, then. Ladies and gentlemen, please help me in welcoming your new Pirate-"

"-Queen!" Both Jack and Elle said in a hurry and at the same time. Captain Teague smiled as he corrected himself,"-Queen,Captain Jones." Michelle looked up from the smiling Jack, and asked Grant, "Captain?
Smiling, Captain Teague looked down at her from the podium that he had been standing behind and said, "Yes, love. You're the new Captain of the Empress."

Jack looked over at her and smiled as he said, "Lookie there, love. Queen and Captain. All in a day." Michelle smiled as Jack wrapped an arm around her. "Now, Miss Jones...I do believe that you and I should take a trip to London. Maybe to see how your cousin is doing...ah, what's her name?" The two captains walked out of the room that the Brethren Court had assembled in. "Her name escapes me."

"Sara?" Michelle asked with a smile. "Actually, I was taking a trip there this summer." When Jack looked at her with a set of pleading puppy eyes, she said, "Yes, Jack. You may come with me!"

The two of them continued down the streets of Aramaya. A small island not to far from Tortuga. Though it was a pirate port, it wasn't nearly as chaotic and crazy as Tortuga was. It was actually in a way, peacful as they walked down the streets.

Jack looked genuinely shocked as he said, "Darlin', I wouldn't dream of imposing..." Michelle smiled up at him, waiting for it. His look of shock turned into one that of an evil smirk, "...though, now that you mention it..." Michelle giggled as the two walked deeper into the small town. Jack wrapped an arm around her shoulders and asked her as he winked at a passing woman, "Ah, so...how about you and I go on a trip to find the lost city of Atlantis?"

Elle wrinkled her nose and said, "Jack, you're kidding, aren't you?"

Jack smiled and asked, "Is that a rhetorical question?" He led her into a bar as she laughed and said, "Darling, that joke is getting old."
"Yes." Jack said, sitting down at the bar beside her, twirling in his seat. He finally stopped and said, "It is, isn't it?"

The bartender came up to them and asked, "What'll it be?"

"Two rums, mate." Jack said, nodding at the young man with a smile. He turned back to Elle as the man left and said, "Mind if I ask you a question, love?" Not giving Elle enough time to answer, he said, "-I was just wondering. Will told me that Liz said the reason you died was because you were too weak...i thought you were a goddess?"

She smiled, as if she was expecting that question, "Yes, well..." The young man set their glasses down. She smiled up at him and said, "Thank you." Then to Jack she said, "My mother, what she gave me back at the cabin, it wasn't medicine."

"Oh, really?" Jack said, interested as he brought the glass to his lips. "Do continue, dearie."

"See, every so often I have to take this drink to make my immortality stay with me. I'm only half goddess, so I only have half immortality. It sounds weird, I know." She brought her glass to her lips as Jack looked over at her with a look of amusment.

"So, love. Why didn't you take it?"

"I don't want to be immortal anymore." Elle said, matter-of-factly. "I'm strong enough in my faith that I don't fear death. But with Will being immortal, and you now that you have the amethyst, I've decided to start taking it again. When I got really sick on our way to the island, I was getting sick because my immortality was wearing off and it was killing me. So, when Elizabeth possessed me, my body sort of just gave in. In reality, I'm what? 136? When she possessed me, I lost my immortality and my body recognized me as being 136."

Jack rested his frosty glass back on the table and said, "Makes sense." She looked up at him confused, to which he smiled and said, "Love. I'm the king of all things that are confusing. I understand confusing things."

Michelle smiled as she made designs on her glass. Jack watched her for a moment, before asking, "Sara's a goddess?"

Michelle smiled as she looked back up at him and said, "I wondered when you'd ask that. No, she's not. She doesn't have the powers and things, but she has immortality just as I do. It was thanks to our grandmother. Usually, goddess blood only runs with every girl. My mum's brother had a daughter, so she wouldn't have gotten anything because of her father being a man-"

Jack snorted at that. Michelle stuck her finger in her glass and flicked rum at him as she said, "Shut up, Jack. Honestly. But with her father, who was part god, she did get immortality. God blood runs with boys only and goddess blood runs with girls only."

"So, if my mom was a goddess, I wouldn't have any amazing powers like you do?"

"No."

"So, how does your cousin have powers if her mother wasn't a goddess and her father was a god. She's not a boy-" He looked up at Elle and smiled, remembering the 'father' remark she had just said, "-I would hope not anyway... so how did she get immortality?"

Michelle grinned, "My grandfather is a god."

Jack suddenly looked very interested as he said, "WHO!?" Elle had to hush him down. Jack nodded and promised not to scream again as Michelle said like it was no big deal, "Poseidon."

"OH MY GO-" Michelle put a hand over Jack's mouth. Everyone in the bar was now staring at them. Elle smiled sweetly at them and said, "Sorry, he's a a bit too much rum." She realesed his mouth and said thru gritted teeth, "Would you stop it?"

Jack smiled, sheepishly, and said, "Sorry, darlin'. But Poseidon? Are you serious?" Michelle nodded and Jack said in amazement, "Think of all the amazing Christmas presents."

"Oh, yes." Michelle said, nodding. "Maelstroms in a bottle. Hurricanes in your morning tea..." Michelle broke off laughing when she saw the look on Jack's face, "Darling, I was joking."

"I thought you were serious." He said in a wounded voice.

Elle rolled her emerald eyes and said, "Of course not. But see, since Sara's father is a god that canceled out the goddess blood so Sara only got the immortality part of it." She said all of that in all most a nose-rubbing way. Jack smirked at that and said, "Well, looking at both you and Sara, while she's pretty and everything, she didn't get the beauty that you have."

"Jack." Michelle said, turning a deep shade of red. Jack smiled. He loved making her blush. But then he said, "Well, come on, love. We don't want Captain Turner to kill himself with worry..." After tossing a coin on the table, he wrapped his arm back around her and whispered in her ear, "...well, I may want him to..."

"Jack!" She screamed as they walked out. He laughed, "Now, now. Don't be screaming. Everyone's staring at you now."
Michelle rolled her emerald eyes but smiled nonetheless as the two walked down the street the their ships.

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"Captain." Came a voice from behind her that night as she stood on the deck of the Empress. She was staring out at the horizon as the sun set over the ocean. Not a minute later, did she feel someone's strong arms go around her as they kissed her neck. "Will..." She groaned, making him chuckle softly in her ear. He smiled and rested his head on her shoulder and the two of them stared out at the sunset.

"It's beautiful." She whispered. Will glanced over at her as his head still rested on her shoulder, and said, "Yes, you are."
She smiled, looking down, and said in a quiet voice, "You just love making blush, don't you?"

He laughed as she pulled away from him, and turned around to face him. She stared at him for a moment, with a look Will knew she usually had when she was in though. "What is it?"

"Hmm?" She said, looking up at him with an innocent face. It was so innoccent and genuine looking, that Will had to laugh causing her to roll her eyes as he said, "You heard me, Ellie. What is it? What are you thinking about?"

She smiled up at him, and said, "Nothing...just that I took it."

"Took what?"

"My potion drink thing that I'm suppossed to drink to make me become, you know..." She trailed off, hoping that he would take the hint. When he did, a smile appeared on his face as he said, "Why did you do it? Not only because of me?"

She smiled as she rested her head against his chest and said, "I did it for us. And I didn't want you to have to go thru the pain of losing someone you loved again." He smiled as he wrapped another arm around her and said, "Thank you." He pulled back slightly and said, looking into her eyes, "But I don't think that's what you were thinking of."

"Will...I can't really go in to detail now..." Elle turned around again to look out at the sun, "..but, I've got some family things to sort out back in London, and I just have to do it. Now that my-... Robert's dead, and I'm Queen, it just...I have to sort out back home."

"I understand." Will said, truthfully. He came to stand beside her. A silent moment passed them. It wasn't an awkward silence, they never had those anymore. No, it was just a thoughtful one.

"You can't come with me, can you?"

Will smiled sadly over at her and said, "You know the rule, darling. And I wouldn't want you to keep using up all of your powers on me. Remember, your mother said that unless it's an absolute emergenccy, you can't use any powers for three months. And besides, I'm needed here. My job's sailing the seas..." He broke off, and stared back out at the sunset.

"Jack's going with me." Elle looked up at Will with a face that made him think that she was scared to know his reaction. "You don't-"

"I don't mind, darling. Not unless you two end up getting married while you're there." Will blinked, remembering, then he asked, "Speaking of which. When do you want to-"
"After I get back." She said, nodding. "That way we can do it properly." She played with the opening of his shirt. She felt him shudder when her fingers grazed the exposed skin on his chest.

"How long will you be gone?" Will asked her after another moment passed them. She shook her head and said with a shrug, "How ever long it takes me to..." She trailed off, and looked back up at him. "...why?" She leaned closer to him, with a look in her eyes that scarily looked like Elizabeth. Her lips were only inches from his as she asked, "Scared you'll miss me?"

"Of course not." Will said, smirking, as he stroked her cheek. "I'd never miss you."
"Oh, of course not, love." Elle said as she closed the gap between thier lips. She pulled back mometarily, and said with a wicked smile, "That's good. Because I'd never miss you either."

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Their week together seemed to fly right by. Michelle was hugging her father tightly as Jack came up to Will. Smiling, he said to his friend, "Come on, Turner. Don't worry. I'll keep an eye on 'er for you."

Will smirked as he said, looking at Elle, "That's exactly what I'm afraid of, Sparrow." He turned his gaze to Jack who was smiling at him. Jack leaned against the railing beside Will and said, "I don't think I like what you're trying to accuse me of. It's not her I'm after."

"Ah, this mysterious Sara that I have yet to meet?" Will asked, turning to look Jack in the eye. "Is she that amazing?"

Jack shrugged, looking back at Elle, and said, "Yes. But not nearly as amazin' as Ellie." Will followed Jack's gaze, then asked with a smile, "You're never going to tell me what happened that summer in Tortuga, are you?"

Jack gave a laugh as he pushed himself off of the railing and said, "William, William, William...somethings, my dear boy, are better left never ever said ever. Somethings as like that summer is better left never said. So I'll never say it." He eyed Will, and then said with a smirk, "At least not to you."

"Oh, come now, Jack." Will said, following Jack down the deck of the Dutchman. "I thought you and I had a better relationship than that."
Jack twirled around fast as they made it down the deck, and looked Will in the eye as he said, trying (but failing to do so) to hide his evident smile, "Now, what on earth gave you that idea, Will?" Will chuckled as Jack smiled and said, "One day."

"One day?" Will echoed.

"Yes. One day." Jack looked up for a moment as if he was in thought. Then, his eyes darted back down to Will as he shot him an evil smirk as he said, "Yes, your one day on land."

"Ah. Thanks, Jack." Will said, rolling his eyes. Jack smiled and patted Will's back rather hard, "Ay, what are friends for then, huh?"
Will smiled, Jack did too, and said in a completely different voice, "Thanks."

"For what?"

"You really don't know, do you?" When Will shook his head, Jack said with a secretive smile, "Well, then I guess that's just one of those things that never needs to be said, huh?" Jack smiled to himself, before looking back at Will and saying, "But honestly don't worry. The future Mrs. Turner is in good hands, mate."

"Thanks, Jack." Will said, before doing something that completely shocked both of them. He hugged Jack. Jack, who was taken back by this, froze for a moment before smiling and returning the hug. When both men pulled back, they both smiled at each other...then, the silence turned awkward.

"Hey, Jack?" Will asked, a minute later. Jack looked up at Will and said, "Yes, Will?"

"That...that never leaves..."

"Oh..." Jack said, smiling. "No, of course not...I mean, it never..."

Will laughed and said, nodding, "Yeah, because I was just..."

"...caught up in the moment..."

"Oh! Of course!" Will said, nodding. "You know how you get."

"I completely understand." Jack said, nodding. Then he looked back up at Will, and smiled. Will returned it and said, "Maybe Elle was right about you, Captain Sparrow."

"And what would she be right about?"

"You're not half as bad of a man as you lead on to be." Will said, smiling as he shook his head. He put a hand on his shoulder and said, "Have a safe trip, Jack. And thanks."

"Don't mention it." Jack said, nodding. He gave a wave to Will, and walked down the deck, not looking back. Elle, who had been talking to Grant and clearly seeing the whole thing, smiled at him. Grant did too. Jack narrowed his eyes and said, "Not a word, Mrs. Turner."

"Oh, no. Not a word." Elle said, glancing up at Grant who was trying to hide his smile. Grant caved first and began to laugh so hard, Jack found it amazing that he could actually breath. Elle eventually stopped and said, "I'm sorry, Jackie. That was just so..."

"Awkward? Unwanted?" Grant offered as he followed Jack off of the Dutchman. Elle smiled, and turned around to meet Will who had been walking down to meet her. She smiled and said with a shrug, "Well, I guess this is-"

She never got a chance to finish her sentence, because Will pulled her up and kissed her. Her hands wrapped around his neck, bringing him closer. After a few more minutes, to them what seemed like hours, he pulled back and rested his head on hers as he whispered down to her, "When you come back-" He pushed a few ringlets back that had fallen into her flushed face as she looked up at him with those piercing emeralds. "-I intend to marry you."

She giggled and said, "Only if you'll still have me."

He smiled and said, "Darling, if I had my way-" He lowered his voice to a seductive whisper, "-I'd have you right now."

They heard two throats clear behind them. They pulled back, and saw the faces of both of their fathers looking at them disapprovingly. Will smiled, completely embarrassed, and said, "Sorry."

"Yes. You'd better be." Davy grumbled as he walked up to Elle and hugged her. Will looked over at his own father who was trying hard to hide his smile, but failing despite the look on Davy's face when he pulled away from Elle and walked down the ship's deck. Michelle was trying to hide her flaming cheeks as she walked up to Bootstrap and hugged him. He held her tightly for a moment, before she pulled back smiling, and walked back over to Will.

"I'll walk you." Will said, following her to the longboats. He stopped at the deck, and watched her walked down the stairs to the longboats where one of her crewmen were waiting. She turned back momentarily and he gave a wave from the stairs as she turned back to the longboat. Taking a deep breath, she turned back around, and ran up to him. She held on to him as he wrapped his arms around her, startled by her actions. He kissed her cheek and said, "I love you."

"I love you too, Will." She pulled back and kissed him, hard.
When she pulled back, and rested her head on his, she said to him with a smirk, "Keep a whether eye on the horizon."

He smiled as she kissed him one last time and made her way to the longboat. Before his men lowered it, she stopped them and asked Will, "One day, Captain Turner?" She took the dead man's chest containing Will's beating heart from one of his crewman and held it tightly in her arms, waiting for an answer.

He laughed as he said, "Yes. One day, Captain Jones." She turned around, but Will called out, "Oh, and captain?"

She spun around, and looked at him with a playful gleam in her eyes. He nodded towards the chest, and said with a smile, "You know that it belongs to you. Keep it safe?"

She smiled, and said to him before motioning for his men to lower her down into the water, "You know that I will, love." He walked over to the railing and watched her as she got on to her ship. Once she was on the ship, she walked over to the wheel and began giving orders. He walked to the wheel of his own ship and yelled to his crew, "Come on, men!."

His crew began to do various things as the Empress sailed directly beside him. He smiled as Elle gave him a mock salute and called over to him, "You know, Captain Turner. One day may come a lot sooner than you think."

And with that, the Empress followed the Pearl, and disappeared into the sunset.
He smiled to himself as he pulled out his compass and watched it spin. It wasn't Jack's, but he knew that if it was, it be pointing in the direction that Elle had just sailed. "Orders, Captain?"

It had been so quiet on that deck since she sailed by, that the sound of his father's voice startled him. He looked up from the compass and looked over to his father. His father was waiting orders, with Davy close behind him. Will smiled, putting both hands on the wheel and said, "Hoist the colors." His father made a move to walk down the deck, but Will stopped him.

"Oh, and Mr. Turner?" Bootstrap turned to face his smiling son. Will gave him a nod as he said with a smile, "Bring me that horizon..."
His father smiled back at him, and soon the two men left Will alone on that deck. Will smiled to himself once more, when they were gone, and sang under his breath:

"Yo, ho.
Haul together.
Hoist the colors high.
Heave ho, thieves and beggars..."

Can a heartless man be in love? Can a heartless man truly love? William Turner did just that. While his heart no longer beat inside his chest, but inside an actual tresure chest beating alone, he had loved his future wife, Michelle Jones, since the day he met her. His love for her, was so strong. He'd die for her...he'd do anything for her if it meant her safety was assured. But he knew it wasn't right. She made so many sacrifices to be with him. She loved him, as he loved her...

Leaning against the wheel, the forever young captain of the Flying Dutchman smiled as his ship sailed in the opposite direction. Sailing wherever it needed to be. And as he stood on that deck, he could have sworn (though it was entirely impossible) that he felt his heart beating in his chest that had been heartless for over a century.

He tucked his compass back into his belt and finished the song that he no longer dreaded:

"...never shall we die..."

♥♥The End♥♥

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