Part Two: Elizabeth - "When the Stars Go Blue" Blake Lewis/Tim McGraw version

"Elizabeth!" She whipped her head around to the sound of Will's voice. Water rushed everywhere, all over the deck, threatening to toss the entire ship underwater. Will stumbled over to her; the wind rocking the boat, making it hard for him to avoid tripping over the casualties that lay dead on the deck. He came close enough for her to see his eyes – eyes haunted by horrors no man should see, eyes whose depths were a window into his heart and soul, broken eyes.

- Laughin' with your broken eyes -

Will didn't used to be this sad, this lonely. Something had gone wrong. Something had turned the amazing Will he used to be, the Will she had loved with all of her heart – and more – into this sunken man. The battle raged on around her, but Elizabeth didn't care. She only had eyes for Will. Shocked as she was that he was talking to her – after these months of no trust, these weeks of not talking – he was still Will. Her Will. The only man she would truly ever love. The man she wasn't with, and never would be. She had ruined that.

- Are you happy now? -

They had been together. There was a time, once. A time when they were completely and hopelessly in love, a time when she counted the days down to their wedding. And now, even as the rainwater pelted into her face, blurring all the shapes around her, Elizabeth could still picture that day, her wedding day, as clearly as if it were happening on deck at that instant.

- Dancin' in your wooden shoes, in a wedding gown -

She stared at Will, silently wishing for him to speak, to tell her what was on his mind, just like they used to do in Port Royale in the lazy summer heat. There was once a time when Elizabeth and Will had been inseparable. Nothing could make them stay apart. Then how could this happen? Why weren't they even speaking, why did they avoid each other at all costs? It was her fault. All her bloody fault. Elizabeth couldn't believe that she had done this. She was the reason he was in so much pain. Even so, Elizabeth still loved Will with all her heart. She would do anything for him. She would never, ever mean to hurt him.

- I'll follow you when the stars go blue -

"Marry me." Will's voice took Elizabeth back to the present, to the fight. A sword lashed in front of her, and she pulled back with just half a second of time to spare. Plunging her knife into the man's back, she turned back to Will, still gaping at his question.

When she finally found her voice, her practical side spoke up, contradicting all the rushing emotions she was feeling. "I don't think now's the best time!" She shouted, her voice competing with the echoing winds of the maelstrom. But, as Elizabeth fought for her life, she knew that she would marry Will. Of course she would. She never stopped loving him, and she never would stop as long as she lived.

"Now might be the only time!" Was Will's answer. Elizabeth kept her mouth shut, spinning around to catch a soldier in mid-swing. Their swords clashed, the force swinging them apart. Will's hard eyes met hers. He seemed to doubt that she would answer the way he wanted her to. But how could she not say yes? "I've made my choice. What will yours be?" He asked.

- Where do you go when you're lonely? Where do you go when you're blue?-

It had always been him. He had always been there for her, to help her when she was hurt, to hold her when she wanted to cry the world away. He had been the one to make her see what a beautiful world she lived in, to make the colors seem to come alive. He had showed her so many things, taught her lessons without really teaching. He had held her in his arms like he would never let go. He had been the one to make her love.

Of course she would marry him.

- Dancin' when the stars go blue -