Ten Years at Sea, One Day on the Ground, Forever in my Heart:

Chapter 1: Out of Sight, Still in Mind…

Nine months have passed since the two lovers had to split.

Nine months have passed since they have spent their last day together on this beach.

Will and Elizabeth Turner were married for better and for worse…

But what's worse than spending life away from his soul mate?

This question haunted Elizabeth since this wonderful and awful day at the same time.

And during all these long days, only hope and memories could help her to get by and wait.

Hope to see him again one day.

That was the only reason she was still alive: to keep an eye on the horizon.

Yes, Will and Elizabeth Turner were married for better and for worse but they were also crazy in love with each other. And they have got time to find out that love is stronger than everything…

Elizabeth:

Today could have been the happiest day in my life but he's not here with me. He's not here to see his son's birth. Now I'm a mother, I'm so joyful but having my husband with me would have made me feel completely happy…

I'm so scared and I ask myself a lot of questions: How am I going to raise a child who doesn't have a father, or at least doesn't know him? What am I going to tell him? Honey, your dad is alive but he cannot live with us, you see, his heart is in a chest…which I have, by the way…

No, really I have no clue how I'm going to manage this. However, I can't help noticing that he looks the same way as Will, and it makes me feel so proud and it gives me the strength to keep going. Besides, I think I found a way to make him aware that he is a father…

Will:

Be Captain of the Flying Dutchman is even more painful than I figured.

All day and night long, I'm a strong and insensitive man. I hide my feelings everyday.

Being away from her would be too painful, otherwise.

Of course I'm not as cold-blooded as Davy Jones was but I can hardly recognize myself.

Everyone who knew me five years ago wouldn't either. Thinking about the time I was the straight and kind blacksmith's apprentice of Port Royal make me feel like it was hundreds years ago. My ship has a duty, and as Captain, this duty is mine as well.

I'm afraid of this man I'm becoming more each day…

Fortunately, my father is part of my crew. He's here to catch me when I fall.

However, if I wouldn't repress my feelings deep in my soul, I couldn't survive to this.

So, I'm a different human being almost all the time.

There are just minutes in a day when I can at last get some rest and be alone in my cabin. There are just minutes when I can be myself, remove this mask from my face, and think.

I close my eyes and think of her, my Elizabeth, my love, my wife and so much more…

I wonder how she is, who she has become, if she has forgotten me. Even if I already know the answer, I can't help but wonder it. Anyway, she has my heart in all possible ways and I trust her to watch over it and keep it safe. Then, I imagine the next time I'll see her.

I have already waited nine months and it was like eternity.

How am I going to wait nine more years?

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It was an average night for The Flying Dutchman.

Men dead at sea were escorted by the ship to the other world.

Survivors were made part of the crew now and then.

Captain Will Turner was walking on deck after another battle when a pirate of his crew informed him that a lost sailor was aboard begging for his life. Will went to see him.

"Who are you?" He asked

"My…My name is Andrew Backer." A shy young man answered.

"What are you doing on my ship, Andrew?"

"I'm just a sailor. I work for the navy under Commodore's Hamilton commandment.

"You didn't answer my question!" The Captain shouted.

"Our ship attacked yours but…your crew killed everyone. I guess I'm the only survivor."

A part of the crew who was listening behind them started laughing. If he was telling the truth, this sailor was very lucky. A skinny young man like him should have been murdered before realizing he was standing in front of a pirate ship.

"Please, don't kill me…" He begged quietly.

"I can offer you a chance. You'll stay alive but you'll have to serve on my ship." Will said.

"What? Captain, he can't be part of the crew! An old woman would be more useful than this boy! Look, he's skin and bone!" A pirate next to him exclaimed.

"This is my decision to make! Shut up and get back to work!" Will cried anger in his voice.

"Welcome to my crew…pirate! Father, take care of him."

A few minutes later, Bootstrap Bill approached Will, Andrew besides him.

"It's done! He's one of us, Captain Turner!"

The young man looked suddenly surprised and asked:

"You're Captain William Turner?"

"Indeed. Why?"

"This must be a sign of fate." He said to himself.

"What are you talking about?"

"Before I came aboard the navy ship, a woman asked me to transmit a message to Captain William Turner…I didn't understand. Even if I kept telling her I wasn't on my way to meet you, she…"

Listening to these words, Will felt like his heart was back in his chest again.

"A woman? Who?"

"I don't know. I had never seen her before and she didn't tell me her name but I can tell you she was very pretty."

Will stared at him, removing his mask of fearless captain.

"And, what did she say?" He said almost like a whisper.

"She said…it's kind of weird…but she asked me to tell you that you have a son."

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Goldfeather: This is my first fic.Please, don't be too hard! Sorry if there are mistakes in my sentences or if you don't understand. English is not my native language... Reviews would make me happy anyway! Thanks for reading ) The rest soon

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