Title: State Of Denial

Author: WickedRum

Disclaimer: I have no right to use these characters, Disney has.

Summary/Set: post-credits extended scene. Sparrabeth! Go figure that one!

Genre: Romance/Drama/drabble, told in first person.

Rating: PG for safety's sake, in case I do anything unplanned by me. Haha. It has happened before.

Pairing: a bit of this, a bit of that, you know how Elizabeth can't decide sometimes?

I'm standing here on our island waving at you in the first rays of sunshine, just like I promised. I smile at you exultantly as your ship approaches, I'm happy you made it, I'm happy I can see you again, my husband, my first love. My heart flutters at the memory of first seeing you, at sneaking peaks at you from my coach as we used to drive past your shop in Port Royal with my father, at holding your hand when you came to save me from Barbossa. Then the smile disappears off my face, my mind wandering further, to our spoiled first wedding attempt, to the cold distance between us after the Kraken took Jack, to the last moments of the Flying Dutchman under Davvy Jones' command.

Will climbs into a rowing boat to get to us and my previous excitement and the anticipation I've been feeling for months turns into dread. The bandana on his head does make him look more responsible, but not one day older. Of course, how could he be? He's practically dead, residing at the bottom of the sea only to come up and take the other dead with him. I wonder if he'll notice how much older I look. I wonder if he'll notice I'm not ten years older as I'm supposed to be either. Just a couple of months after I've last seen him and Jack has found the Fountain Of Youth, all cocky and bounteous about giving me a share. I knew why right away. There was a price and it was me. Your best ever plot Jack Sparrow and I gave in no second thoughts.

It was to be with you forever, Will. It was so, I swear, it was so I could wait for you till your time on the Dutchman was up. I've kept your heart safe, I've always did, it belongs to me, but I didn't bring it. Jack has it. You don't know how it's the safest that way? He's the only one in this world who'd not be interested in stabbing it, he's immortal already. You don't trust him? You should. Cause I'm holding his treasure in turn. I'm holding the hand of a child, that's his.

But how am I going to tell you all this, oh, Will? And how am I going to tell you that somewhere along the line I'd fallen in love with him?

Thing is, that I won't have to. Cause you'll know from one look into my eyes. I'm sorry, my love, but it's Jack and it'll always be now, till the end of time. I only came to tell you this.

The End.