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Chapter Thirty-One
I'll Never Leave You

- Atlantis -

Mercer's boots scraped against the wet stoned streets as he stormed angrily down them. Once he got inside the office, he put his hand on the large globe that was in the middle of the room, and pushed it, causing it o fall down with a loud bang. The office, which had been loud and buzzing with his naval officers talking about their plan of action, fell silent when he did this. "Do we have a heading?" He hissed at one of his men. The young man looked over at the others, and held up the map.

"We have reason to believe that they've retreated to the Locker, sir." The young man said, focusing his brown eyes up to meet Mercer's silver ones. He took the map, that was missing a rather large portion of it, and read, "Over the edge, over again..." He slammed the map down, and stared at it as he hissed, "They won't go down without a fight, we know that. We've just got to make sure that we beat them there. Admiral?"

The admiral walked forward and stood at attention as Mercer said to him, "We have a need to get our crew good and lost." He stared at the map for a minute longer, before shoving it at the admiral and walking out into the now hellish streets of Atlantis.

- Nearing World's End -

The Dutchman rocked rather violently that night. The creaking sounds woke her up. She woke up with a start, breathing heavy. For some reason she had broken out into a cold sweat, and immediately her hand went to her neck. Once she felt the key, she glanced over at the corner to see that the chest was still in it's place. She looked beside her on the bed to see that Will wasn't laying beside her, so she padded across his cabin, unhooked the key, and opened the chest. Sure enough, the heart was still beating inside. She sighed out of relief, and placed her hands on the chest, steadying it when the ship rocked again.

"Lila?" Will asked, throwing back the door rather quickly. Lila shut the chest and locked it, then turned around to see Will's confused face. "What were you doing?"

"Trying to kill you." Lila said, rolling her eyes and getting off of the floor. Will narrowed his hazel eyes at her, but took her hand when she came near him. "No. I had a bad feeling is all." That made Will look at her. Usually when Lila had feelings, they were almost always right in a weird twisted way. He glanced back at the chest and asked, "Did you lock it?" She nodded and he asked, "You have the key?" She reached inside the top of her shirt to pull out the key that was hanging on the gold chain. "Then, Li. Don't worry about it."

"How did you know I was up?" Lila asked, changing the subject since she was still feeling a bit weird. Will smiled and said, "I don't know. I just know when you're near the chest." Lila smiled at him, before he said, "We're entering a storm. You can't control it here, so you may want to stay inside-"

"-I'm already up." Lila said, pulling her golden-brown curls back. "Besides, I'm sure my bloody crew has no idea what the bloody hell they're doing over there." Will smirked at her as the two of them walked out. Lila glanced over at the Pearl momentarily, before saying to Will, "When should we make it to the Locker?"

"Difficult to say, love." He said, taking hold of the wheel. He glanced down at her to see that she was staring at the ocean. Since they had entered a sort of calm before the upcoming storm, the stars were reflecting into the ocean, making it look like they were sailing over a bed of stars. Will was watching her for a moment as she seemed to be in some sort of trance by it. She tore her emerald eyed gaze off of it, before saying, "I miss her."

"Who?"

"Annie." She turned to look up at Will. Will, steering the Dutchman and not taking his eyes off of the darkness in front of him, smiled and said, "I know you do. I do too." Will darted his hazel eyes to meet Lila's as she said, "It's weird. I mean...I want to be here. But I want to be there with her." Will smiled at her. She was a Sparrow, and Will knew that no matter how hard she ever tried to deny it, piracy would always be in her blood. Just as piracy was in his.

"Is that bad?" Lila looked up at him, to see that he was smiling as he shook his head and said, "No. It's not, darling." Because even though he would used to never want to face this fact, Will was feeling the exact same way. Lila was about to say something, but at that moment, Bootstrap walked up on deck and said, "Jack wants to know if he can lead."

"Tell Captain Sparrow he can lead over my dead body." Will said with a smirk, as he kept his eyes ahead of him. Lila smiled, but she still couldn't quite shake that feeling she was feeling everytime she held the key. Will saw her expression and wanted to go over and try to comfort her. But he figured out that sometimes when it came to Lila, it was best just to let her work it out by herself.

"This is stupid." Ana hissed the next morning, as she brushed snow out of her hair. Rupert smirked, pulling his coat closer together. At least this time, unlike last time, they were prepared. "Bloody snow in the bloody Caribbeans-"

"-technically, love. We aren't in the Caribbeans." Jack said cooly, as he staggered over to where they all sat on the Dutchman. He walked in between Saphira and Lila and placed the map down on the table in front of them. He glanced up at the stairs to see Will walking down below deck, also brushing snow out of his long, curly hair that was pulled back by his bandana. He met Jack's chocolate eyed gaze and said, "How close are we?"

"Close." Jack replied as Will came to stand behind him. Will peered down over Jack's shoulder at the map that rested before them, which of course was the part of the map that Mercer and his men needed most. Saphie glanced out of the cabin window to the Sun to see that Neptune and Triton were on deck talking. Neptune was trying his best over the last few days to try and explain that he hadn't organized the mutiny, that it had been Mercer who did that and shot Athena, not Jack. Triton was slowly starting to accept all of this, but as for the daughter and son part? Neptune was waiting for this all to sink in before he brought that up.

Which was getting rather hard for Saphira. She wanted to tell him, to see what he'd say, but she respected Neptune's wishes since Neptune had been like her father growing up. She sighed and looked at Lila who was twirling the key around her finger again.

"Lila, if you keep twirling it, the chain will snap." Saphira said with a smirk, as Lila let it fall back to where it hung around her neck. She nervously glanced at the frozen waters, causing Saphie to ask, "Are you alright?"

"No." Lila replied as Ana came to sit beside them, cursing Jack for something. She looked up at met Saphie's eyes for a minute, before saying, "Everytime I close my eyes..." She trailed off, now causing Ana to look up at her too. "...I see someone stabbing it." Both girls got her meaning. Saphie glanced over at Will as Ana asked, "Who?"

"I don't know." Lila said, fixing her coat and breathing deeply so that her breath was smoky due to the cold. Ana and Saphie exchanged glances, knowing that when it came to Will, Lila was more than a bit possesive. In the same way Jack was possesive over the Pearl, Lila got that way at times too. But she was also right about these sorts of things many times as well.

And maybe that's what made it all the more confusing. Lila could just be being her usual cocky, Sparrow, overly-possesive self. But then again, she could just be being a goddess and that could be her sixth sense kicking in. Either way, something wasn't right.

"Darlin', I'm sure it's nothin'." Ana said to her, in a reassuring voice. Ana groaned inwardly as she tried to shake the snow out of her hair again as a pink tint formed on her dark, tanned cheeks. She rolled her eyes, obviously giving up. Saphira nodded, trying her best to back Ana's reassurance up. Thought her mind was elsewhere. Her real father, Triton, for one thing. Leaving a cursing Ana to her cursing, and a a distracted Saphira to her thinking, Lila turned back to see that Will, Rupert and Jack were all talking about something, more or less the route, over the map. Will looked up at Lila, leaving Jack and Rupert to what sounded to be like an argument, and winked at her. She smiled, and turned back to look at the frosty window...

"Will?" Her pace down the long corridor quickened after each time she called and didn't hear his name. Her heart was pounding against her chest as she ran down the long, torch-lit corridors in search of the person she couldn't find. "Will?"

She heard a thud coming from her left. She quickly, though somewhat reluctantly, turned to her left and began walking down the even darker section of the corridor. "Will?" She repeated again, this time louder. Her breath caught in her chest, and she felt like her rib cage was about to explode when she saw him. She fell back against the wall, and screamed when the knife found its way inside the chest...

She opened her eyes, and screamed, "No!" Will jerked his head away from what he had been looking at, and stared at Lila for a moment. Saphira tore her gaze off of the window and her thoughts and stared at her as well. Tears were streaming down her cheeks, feeling as if they were frozen, as she ran out of the cabin and on to the snowy decks of the Dutchman.

Jack looked down at Will for a moment, before Will shook his head, and ran after her as he carefully tried not to slip across the icy patches that were hidden beneath the snow. "Li?" He asked, walking across the deck, holding on to the railing. "Lila." Saphira stood at the bottom of the deck, looking at Lila with a look of concern. She knew that wasn't a look of just being overly possesive. She knew what overly possesive was, I mean she was engaged to Captain Jack Sparrow. That wasn't Sparrow Lila...that was Goddess Lila...seeing something that she had a strong feeling would actually happen.

Tears were sparkling in Saphie's eyes by the time that Jack came up to her and slipped his arm around her waist. She turned slightly so that she could bury her head in his chest. He wrapped his arms around her, and kissed the top of her head, before glancing back up at the top decks as he rested his head on hers.

"Lila?" Will whispered softly to her, as he walked closer. Tears were streaming down her cheeks as she stared into the frozen waters...

"Will...don't leave me..." She pleaded with him, taking one of his hands in her own...

"I'll never leave you, Lila." Will said as she started crying. He walked over to her and brought her into his strong arms. They were silent for a minute, and he let her cry in his arms. Lila took her head off of his chest and said, "Will..."

"Li, I'm not going to leave you. As long as you have the key, I'm fine." He kissed her head, before bringing her back into his arms again. Lila put her hand over the key, and closed her eyes as she melted in his arms. The creaking on the stairs made Lila open her eyes, and Will to lift his head off of Lila's to see his father walking up the stairs.

Brushing and shaking snow off of him, he turned his hazel eyes up to meet his son and captain's as he said with a slight nod, "Aye, Captain. We're good and lost now."