Pirates Of The Caribbean Fan Fiction ❯ Sailing for Freedom ❯ One Day ( Chapter 3 )

Title: Sailing for Freedom
Disclaimer: I don’t own Pirates of the Caribbean, any of the characters or their likeness. Don’t sue me. You won’t get much anyway.
Parings: W/E
Warning: Not for anyone under the age of 18, unless you feel that you are mature enough to read these kinds of things. I can’t stop you from reading this but just so you know there will be sex, violence, swearing, and such sometime within this story.

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One Day
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“How are you going to keep that promise you made to Elizabeth?”
“I don’t know, but I will find a way.”
“No, we will find a way, my son.” Bill said to Will.
“Thank you father.” Will answered. “At least Elizabeth has longer than she should have to wait.”
“What do you mean?”
“Jack found the Fountain of Youth and Elizabeth drank some of the water.”
“So she can live forever now.”
“As long as no one kills her or she doesn’t take her own life.”
“That is true. The Fountain only grants the drinker of the water eternal life as long as one is not mortally wounded after drinking it.”
“I have heard the stories.”
Bill noticed that he still had something in his pocket that Will had given him to hold onto.
“I forgot to give this back to you before you went ashore.” Bill took the object out of his pocket.
“I knew I forgot something while I was there. Now I can’t give it to her for another ten years.” Will became sad again.
“Or until we find a way for you to be able to be together whenever you want.”
Will looked at the object, a ring that his mother had given him before she died. It was the ring that his father had given her when they married. The ring belonged in their family, it had gotten passed down from mother to son for ages. The ring was very old but exquisite, it looked very expensive. By now, the ring was worth a lot of money, made of gold, a black colored pearl set in the middle with a ring of small diamonds surrounding it set into the gold.
“I gave that ring to your mother on our wedding day. I was hoping that you could give it to your wife when you got married as well.”
“Yes, well, it was a crazy time when we did.”
“Ay, it was.”
Will looked at the ring again.
“Will you give it to her?” Will asked his father.
“What? No, son, you need to give it to her yourself. It’ll be special that way.”
“You’re right. I’m just not being rational. I want her to have the ring now but I do want to give it to her personally.”
Bill nodded. “I can keep hold of it for you if you like.”
“That’s all right. I think I’ll put it away for safe keeping.”
Will put the ring in his pocket for the time being and watched the shore fade away as they set sail toward World’s End once more.

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Elizabeth and William walked back up the beach and went home.
“When will we see father again, mommy?” William asked.
“Not for a long while, William. Remember, I told you that he can only come on land once every ten years. The next time he comes ashore, you’ll be a man.”
“Oh…”
Another ten years was a long time to live without a husband, a person to share companionship with, but Elizabeth told herself that she could wait, she waited this long she could wait longer still. She loved Will for crying out loud. As long as she had love, she thought, she would make it. But was that the only thing that she needed to keep the fire going between her and Will? She didn’t know. People say that to keep the passion in a relationship you must have love, trust, honesty, and intimacy of the physical and mental kind. She had only love, trust and she hoped that they had honesty between them. She thought that Will would tell her if he was going around with someone else, but then if he didn’t want to hurt her, he wouldn’t tell her anything about another woman, or man for that matter. No, she knew for a fact that Will loved her too much to be with someone else. How did she know exactly? It was woman’s intuition that told her that her husband was being faithful to her. That Will saw her and only her.
By the time Elizabeth and her son made it home, it was time for bed. William was yawning from being so tired due to the excitement of the day.
Elizabeth wasn’t really tired, but she decided that she should go to bed as well, maybe then she would stop dwelling on the long wait of ten years she had before she could be with her husband again.

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Soft singing was heard in the distance.

Yo ho, Haul together

Elizabeth woke from her peaceful sleep in the middle of the night. She felt as if something was trying to pull her toward the sea, but she brushed it off as her feelings of missing Will. She did long to be with him physically, but she had to stay and raise their son. Elizabeth closed her eyes and attempted to go back to sleep, but to no avail. She lay awake the rest of the night.
Morning came with a knock on her door.
"Come in." Elizabeth responded.
The door opened. "Captain Sparrow is ‘ere to see you." Saria said.
"Tell him I will be just a moment.""Of course." Saria left the room, closing the door behind her.
Elizabeth put on her robe, tied it and went out to meet Jack.
"You look bloody awful, love."
"Thank you, Jack. I couldn't sleep most of the night."
"You heard it too then?"
"What?""The call of the Brethren."
"Is that what it was? I thought it was just that I was missing Will."
"Well, that could be part of the reason you couldn't sleep, love, but I think we need to answer their call.""I can't leave the island. William is only a boy, I can't take him out to sea.""Have what's her name take care of him while you're gone.""I can't ask Saria to do that. I don't know how long I'll be gone. You go and speak for me.""I can't do that, love. You're the Pirate King. They won't believe that I'm speaking for you."
Elizabeth started writing a letter. "Take this. I'm sure they know your writing so they'll know that you didn't write it. My crew knows my writing so if you show it to them they will know for sure that I wrote this."
"I think it best that you go yourself.""I can't just leave my son, Jack. He is already without his father. What will he think if I leave him here?""I'm sure he'll understand if you tell him the truth."
"Good morning, mommy."
"Good morning, William."
"Good morning, Uncle Jack."
"Hello, lad."
"What are you talking about?"
"It's not important right now." Elizabeth said.
"Of course it's important. It does involve him." Jack said.
"Jack, I will discuss this with my son when I deem it necessary."
"Fine by me, but the sooner the better, I say."
William looked between his mother and Jack, wondering what in the world they were talking about.
"Miss, tere is someone else ‘ere to see you."
"Who?" Elizabeth asked.
"He said he is your first mate."
"Let him in." Elizabeth told Saria.
Saria left and came back only moments later with Tai Huang in tow.
"Captain." Huang greeted.
"Saria, would you please take William to have breakfast?" Elizabeth asked.
"Of course. Come along, William."
William followed Saria out of the room.
"Is something wrong?" Elizabeth asked Tai Huang.
"Captain, we know you can hear the call of the Brethren."
"I cannot leave."
"Captain, as King of the Pirates, you must go."
"I can't leave my son here alone. He is already without his father. What will he think if I just up and leave him?"
"Just explain it to him, love." Jack replied.
"Yes, you said that he would understand, but I'm not so sure that he will. He's only a nine-year-old boy."
"You could always bring him, Captain." Huang suggested.
"Risk my son's life to the sea? I think not."
"Well, love, at least you'll know that he would be in good hands if worst came to worst. Your dear Will would surely see your son to the other side." Jack said.
"I know that, but after already losing my family, losing my son would be catastrophic." Elizabeth said, sadly.
"We won't let anything happen to your son, Captain." Huang said. "I promise you that the crew will defend him with their lives, as will I."
"Thank you, Huang." Elizabeth turned to go back to her room. "I will be ready shortly."
"Good choice, love." Jack said as he followed Elizabeth.
"Jack, you know you can't come into my room."
"Of course. I'm just seeing that you get there safely."
"Good bye, Jack." Elizabeth said as she closed her bedroom door.
"I'll wait here then?" Jack said through the closed door.

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Elizabeth started to dress, thinking of the sea, of Will. Elizabeth's heart started pounding at the thought of seeing Will again so soon after him leaving.
"Stop thinking like that." Elizabeth told herself. "I probably won't be able to see him anyway. He'll be too busy helping the dead get to the other side."
Elizabeth had just finished putting on her shirt when Jack came into the room.
"Ready yet?"
"Just about. I just need one thing." Elizabeth reached under her bed and pulled out a wooden chest and opened it. Elizabeth took out the first bottle of water, uncorked it and drank the remaining contents. She placed the bottle back into the chest and picked the entire thing up off the floor.
"You're going to bring that with you?" Jack asked.
"Of course. It has Will’s chest in it. He asked me to keep it safe. I'm not going to leave it here for anyone to find."
"Even if they did, they would need the key to open it and doesn't Will have the key."
"Yes, but he asked me to keep it safe and that is exactly what I'm going to do. Keeping it with me is the only way to do that, in my oppinion."
William approched his mother.
"Where are you going, mommy?"
"You and I are going on a trip."
"Really? Where?"
"A place called Shipwreck Cove."
"Sounds scary."
"Don't worry. Nothing will happen to you. It's a safe haven for pirates."
"You never told me you're a pirate, mommy. You only told me that father is."
"Yes, I'm a pirate. I am actually the Pirate King."
"How can you be a king, mommy? You're a girl." William laughed.
"You think it's funny, do you?" Elizabeth asked her son. "I'll give you something to laugh about."
"Oh no!" William started to run from his mother, but Elizabeth caught him and started to tickle him.
"Do you think it's so funny now?"
"No, I'm sorry mommy. Please stop tickling me."
Elizabeth stopped tickling William and started to let go of him, but then started tickling him again.
William fell to the floor in a fit of laughter.
"Please... stop..." William said while laughing.
"All right. I guess you've had enough. Go get ready, we're going to leave very soon."
"Okay, mommy."
"What did I tell you?" Jack said.
"Yes, but he doesn't truely understand that we're going far, far away from here."
As soon as William was ready to leave, Elizabeth took her son to the beach where they were greeted by Huang.
Elizabeth helped William into the dinggy then climbed in herself. Jack got into the dinngy as well.
"Would you mind dropping me off at the Pearl?" Jack asked.
Huang rowed over to the Black Pearl first. Elizabeth made sure Jack got onto the ship safely before leaving for the Empress.
As soon as they arrived to their ship, Elizabeth made sure that William went aboard first as she followed closely behind him. Huang made sure the dinngy was tied to a small pully and made his way up to the ship's deck.
William couldn't believe his eyes. There were so many people on the ship, just waiting for their captain to arrive.
"Huang, you're in charge. I'm going to get us settled in."
"Yes, Captain."
Elizabeth took William to the Captain's quarters and shut the door.
"Are you alright, William?"
"There's so many people out there. You tell them all what to do?"
"In a way, yes."
"Wow..." William was in awe at the fact that his mother could comand so many people at one time.
Elizabeth sat on the bed with Will’s chest in her lap. She caressed the markings in the lid.
"Will..." Elizabeth whispered.
"Mommy?"
Elizabeth wipped the tears that she had just noticed formed in her eyes.
"I'm fine. I just miss your father."

TBC…

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Yay! Another chapter is finally done. Took long enough huh? Anyway, hope you all enjoyed this chapter. I was trying to make this one a little longer than just three pages, which is where I left it when I had a bit of writers block. Hopefully I'll be able to write another chapter soon. I already have some ideas, which is where this chapter was leading to. Well, until next time.