LOVE HIM, LOVE HIM NOT
Chapter 1
Elizabeth Swann looked dismally out over the wide blue ocean. “We’ll find him, don’t you worry ‘bout that Miss Swan” Mr Gibbs said in his pirate like voice.
Elizabeth looked over her shoulder at him and nodded her head solemnly.
Will Turner was sitting on a sack, milling over what he had seen between Elizabeth Swann and Captain Jack Sparrow just two days before. Why had she kissed him? He thought angrily, are we not getting married once we get out of this dilemma? Maybe that damned Jack tricked her, maybe he tricked her into thinking that I was dead and she began to fall in love with him to make up for my absence?
“Will?” Elizabeth’s face peered at his face under his hat. Will was jerked back into reality.
“Oh, sorry, I was just thinking…about Jack” Will mumbled under his breath.
“Oh…so was I, Oh Jack do you suppose we shall ever see him again?” Elizabeth said, tears forming in the corners of her eyes. This sight made Will rather jealous and angry. He was about to confront her about what he had seen when Captain Barbosa approached the pair. “Some of the crew tell me that ye all had an encounter with the krakin’ and ol’ Davy Jones,” He said in his thick pirate accent. Will nodded his head and Elizabeth retreated below deck as the captain began to ask questions.
My God, did Will see me kissing Jack and get the wrong idea? I don’t love him, I just love him as a friend, nothing else! Elizabeth began to think frantically about the coldness that Will seemed to be showing towards her. Suddenly, a hearty chorus of yo ho a pirates life for me began on the decks;
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
Elizabeth managed a weak smile at the forgetful crew members above underneath the black heaviness of her heart. Oh Jesus, what if he did see? What doe he think of me? I don’t really love Jack…But suddenly, a thought that had been in the back of her mind ever since Jack had dived into the water to save her that fateful day that they met that had gotten her into the trouble she was now in, What if I do love him, I mean, I don’t just kiss anyone, I only kiss the people I love, Oh mother of Christ do I love him? The thought of her loving such an untrustworthy man scared her. But every cloud has silver lining does it not? Oh my dear God I can’t believe I am even trying to make up excuses for ‘loving’ him, I don’t even know if I do! She thought frantically.
“Elizabeth, may I have a word with you?” Will Turner appeared at the steps coming down below deck. His voice sounds odd, something is troubling him, that’s it, I’m dead, he knows! Elizabeth tried to remain calm whilst all these thoughts flitted through her mind.
“Of course Will, what’s the matter?” Elizabeth replied as calmly as she could, sweat was slowly forming upon her forehead.
“Elizabeth, I-” Will began quickly but was cut into by Elizabeth as she said, “Will, I didn’t intend for you to see that!”
“Elizabeth, please, just tell me you do not love him, please, tell me why you felt compelled to kiss him?!” Will sounded rather desperate.
“I, Will, it was to trap him on the ship, that Krakin’ thing was after him, as long as he was with us, we were doomed, and I…I don’t actually know, maybe I do love him, maybe I don’t, but I still love you Will! Will, he tried to convince me to marry him while you were on Davy Jones’ ship! Please oh Will, believe me!” Elizabeth said, getting more desperate to make it up to Will as his face turned from its normal colour to an increasingly brighter shade of scarlet as he listened to what she had to say.
“You trapped him? YOU trapped Jack? How could you do that? Wait a minute, he tried to convince you to marry him? Bloody pirate! Elizabeth, what do you mean you don’t know if you love him or not? Am I supposed to feel comforted that you love both of us?!” Will said, becoming increasingly infuriated. Elizabeth’s expression turned from that of desperation to one of pleading,
“Will, please, I said I love you, I love you more than Jack, He’s…he’s just…I love him as a friend, not as anything else, I swear it!” Elizabeth pleaded, tugging at his shirt sleeves. Will pulled away from her viciously.
“Oh, so do friends go and plunge their tongues down other friends’ THROATS?!”
Will practically yelled.
“Oh Jesus Will, I told you, it was only to trap him!” Elizabeth yelled back at him, her face turning bright red in the process, tears began to stream down her face.
“I do not know what to believe anymore, you kissed Jack, Jack is gone, you kissed him to trap him on the Pearl, You love him as a friend but you’re not sure if you do or not and you claim to love me more than he…WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!” Will yelled even louder than last time. Elizabeth raised her hand and slapped him hard across the face, he grabbed her both hands and held them up either side of his face and looked into her eyes. “The weddings off Elizabeth, don’t you ever slap me again, I did not deserve that!” Will said in a low voice as the pair became increasingly aware of the crew members above that had suddenly become quite silent at the sound of shouting from below the decks.
Elizabeth pulled away from Will and wiped her tears with her sleeve. She gave Will one last angry glance and hitched her dress up as she ran up the steps back onto the deck.
We pillage, we plunder, we rifle, and loot,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot,
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
We extort, we pilfer, we filch, and sack,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
Maraud and embezzle, and
Something something
OHHHHHH a pirates life for me!
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