"...There are only four questions of value in life.
What is sacred?
Of what is the spirit made of?
What is worth living for?
What is worth dying for?
The answer to each is the same. Only love..."
The Black Pearl-
-Present Day, 1820-
Love is a complicated thing. The more he looked at her, the more he talked to her...he felt like he was pushing her away. Why was this happening? He knew that he brought it upon himself. He was in love with her. But when she left...Elizabeth...that's what messed their relationship up. But when she left him and didn't come back, he felt used. Like Lila expected him to wait for her.
But did Lila really expect that? Or did she have another reason?
They were never married. He knew why. She left earlier than she was suppossed to, and somehow he always knew that it was because of Elizabeth. She thought that he was in love with her while he was with her. He wasn't. Of course he did love Elizabeth, but at that time, his eyes were only on Lila. He would have never done that to her. And it broke his heart knowing that she thought that. But she herself said everything happened for a reason. Had he not been with Elizabeth, he would have never got to see his son somewhat grow up. He would have never been immortal and never would have been able to meet Lila again.
But right now, he didn't know how good that was. She wasn't talking to him anymore. And it was killing him.
"If you're going to get sick, please don't do it on me ship and go to the railing and vomit over the rail as opposed to on it." Jack smiled as he came to stand beside Will. "Mate, you look bloody awful."
"Thanks, Jack." Will said, half-smiling as Jack shoved a rum bottle in his hands. He took it, taking a sip of it, before putting it back down. She didn't love him anymore. He was certain of that. He'd seen the way Rupert had looked at her. Jack even. She couldn't get anyone she wanted. Why would she come back to someone who broke her heart?
"Aye, someone's deep in thought." Jack said, bringing a rum bottle to meet his own lips. "Want to talk about it?" Will turned to look at Jack and was somewhat surprised. Jack had been wanting to talk a lot more than he usually did. Not wanting to question his friend's motives, he turned from Jack and said, "Just thinking."
A chuckle escaped Jack's lips as he said, "Yes. I did gather that much, William." Will sent a smile over at Jack before Jack said, "What seems to be the problem? You are not a woman, but my intuitive sense is tellin' me that you are indeed troubled." Will looked over at Jack. It seemed that Jack had just set himself up for a eunuch joke, but Jack didn't. "What's wrong, Will?"
Will noted that when Jack said that, there wasn't a hint of humor or anything in it. It was sober. So serious, in fact, Will barely recognized it as Jack's. Jack sighed and asked Will, "You ever loved someone so much that you would do anythin' for them?" That question, coming from Jack ,really surprised Will. Making no sign whatsoever that Will was in shock, he said, "Yes."
Jack smiled to himself as he brought the rum bottle back to his lips and said, "Yes. I thought you would say that." Jack and Will were silent for a moment before Will managed to say, "We wouldn't be talking about-" He was cut off by Jack turning around and facing him. Smiling, Jack said, "We weren't talkin' about anyone. And if her last name sounds like a bird, than no. We aren't."
Will watched in shock as Jack walked over to Lila. Had he just confessed that he- No. No no no. Jack said that he didn't love Lila.
No, Turner. He said that it was hard to love again when the girl you loved betrayed you.
Lila caught Will's eye, and quickly turned away. Was Will doubting Jack again? I mean, he had been known to do things like this in the past. Kissing Elizabeth for instance, while that wasn't entirely his fault, he could have stopped it. And selling his soul to the devil was probably the prime example of Jack Sparrow. What if he was playing mind games with Will? Telling him things to make him think that he wasn't in love with her while he actually was. Because something inside Will told him that Lila would choose Jack over him.
What was he saying? Was he actually admitting it?
"I still love her." He whispered to himself. He found himself playing with the key that he was wearing around his neck. He wanted to give it to her, and tell her that even if she didn't still love him, to keep it. His heart belonged to her before it did to Elizabeth.
Was he lying to Elizabeth when he said that his heart would always belong to her? No. Part of it would. But the whole thing belonged to the girl standing just a few feet away from him. He loved Elizabeth. He always would. But she was dead. And it was time he excepted that fact and moved on from him. Lila was alive...
Lila didn't love him anymore.
"Don't be so sure of that, Will." He heard a voice from behind him and whirled around. When he saw her standing behind him, he asked her, "Beg your pardon?" Her green eyes were unreadable as she said to him, "I said, 'We're about to make port'. "
Elizabeth had been faithful. After serving 20 years on the Dutchman, Tia lifted the curse. Will could walk on land, but he was still bound to the Dutchman. He was still immortal and his heart would forever be locked in that chest. He lived a sort of half life, but that's the price you pay for living. Jack was already on a longboat when the two of them ended up on one. Jack winked at Will as if he had this planned.
Now Will was confused. What was Jack doing? One minute it seems he's trying to steal Lila away from him, and the next minute it seems that he's trying to get them back together. Hopping in to the last longboat, and being pushed to shore by Calypso's crabs, the two of them prepared for a long boat ride. Which in truth, Jack told them it would be.
Will's eyes fell on the two boats in front of them. Filled with the girls, Jack and Rupert...their big boat was empty, and when he glanced back, he saw that Lila was sitting on the other end. Sighing he said, not looking at her, "How long are you going to ignore me?"
"I'm not ignoring you." She said, quietly. Even though he was now looking at her, she wasn't looking at him.
"Well, you're certainly not talking to me." Will said, surprised at how angry his tone sounded. Lila apparently was too, since she finally looked up at him. "What do you want me to say, Will?"
"Why haven't you talked to me in the last few days. You won't look at me, and you won't come-"
"-you're avoiding me too!" She cried. "I thought you were mad at me."
"Why the hell would I be mad at you, Lila?" Will's voice came out harsh and rough. Lila just stared up at him, almost with a look of fear in her eyes. He couldn't bear to look at her as I said, "What? Did you expect me to wait for you until you came back?" Lila's face changed from fear to anger as she spat, "Excuse me? You're the bloody reason I left, Will." When Will stared up at her in shock, he noticed tears were flowing freely down her cheeks as she said in a surprisingly calm voice, "I thought you loved Elizabeth. I thought I was in your way." So he had been right. He was the reason she left.
"I wasn't." Will said, softening his tone. "I only was with her because I thought you weren't coming back." Will watched as the crabs continued to move them down the ocean. "I loved her, Lila." He couldn't mistake the look of hurt in her eyes when he said that. He was telling her the truth, "But I didn't while I was with you."
"How can I believe you?" Will looked up at her when she asked him that.. He reached behind his neck and unhooked his key as he said, "Part of it will always belong to her. I want you to know that." He moved closer to her and whispered, "But she's gone. And I have to realize that. You're-" For the first real time, Lila looked up into Will's eyes as he said, "-you're here. And it belongs to you."
Will handed her the key. She tore her eyes from Will, and stared down at the key to his heart. When she looked back up, she saw the same look in his eyes that he had at Tia's hut. Was she going to back away this time?
"Please don't." Will whispered as he leaned closer to her, as if he had read her mind. Her heart was pounding against her chest when he leaned even closer and rested his hand on her knee for support as he leaned over to kiss her. He stopped before his lips touched hers and said, "Don't leave me again, Li."
"Never again." She said, finding the voice to speak. "Never." He rested his forhead on hers, almost disappointing her that he hadn't kissed her. So she said, "I was coming back. But I heard you were engaged to her. I just-" She looked into his gorgeous hazel eyes as she said, "-I just couldn't bear it, Will. And you can't say you regret it-"
"And I won't say I regretted being with Elizabeth, Princess." He whispered hotly against her so that she closed her eyes. "Anymore than you can say you regretted being with Jack-" He saw Lila tighten her eyes as he said, "-does it matter now?" When she didn't answer, he took the hand that wasn't on her knee, and stroked her arm as he whispered, "Does it matter?"
"I don't know." She said, finally. "I don't know. I want to say no, but..."
"Lila, it doesn't matter." He said, pulling her closer to him. "It doesn't. " When she lowered her gaze, he whispered in her ear, "Princess, you're the only thing that matters to me now." For a moment, their gazes just locked. It seemed like forever to them. It was in Will's stubborn nature to lean in for a kiss, then turn away. It was such an annoying habit. So, if he wasn't to kiss her.
She leaned over to him and briefly captured his lips with hers. When she pulled back, she whispered to him, "It doesn't matter." Will smiled at her as he hooked the key around her neck and said, "Only you." She smiled back up at him, and was about to kiss him again when something hard collided with the water beside them, nearly tipping the boat.
"LILA!" Will screamed when the boat tipped, and she went under. Jack tore his eyes away from the conversation he was having to look at the boat behind him. He didn't see Lila, and Will was taking off his jacket. Put two and two together. Jack pushed his way from the girls and took of his own jacket and his "effects" before jumping in after Will.
The two boys popped up a minute later. Will pushed his wet curls out of his face to see Jack beside him, "Jack, you don' think she-" Jack's face fell as he dove back under the water with Will following behind him. They could feel bullets flying past them as they swam.
"DAMMIT!" Will cried when they popped back up again after no luck. "Where the hell is she-"
"Will, mate. I think I found her." Jack said in a awe struck voice. Not the good kind of awe. The kind of awe that makes you think that someone's been raised from the dead. And though I meant that as a figure of speech, it was actually quite true. Because standing on that deck holding a gun to an unconsious Lila was Andrew Beckett. And beside him?
Lord Cutler Beckett.
"I thought you had his skull?" Will whispered harshly at Jack as men in boats rowed over to take them as prisoners. Jack smiled sheepishly at Will as the boats neared and said, " ' Guess the skull grew skin, aye?"
As Will was being dragged on to the boat by Beckett's crew, his gaze fell on Lila as Andrew held a gun to her head. He told her all those years ago that he would die for her. And that moment seemed to be coming... Would he?
Of course he would. And that's exactly what he kept telling himself.
"...There are only four questions of value in life.
What is sacred?
Of what is the spirit made of?
What is worth living for?
What is worth dying for?
The answer to each is the same. Only love..."
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