PotC - Will and Elizabeth
Fandom: Pirates of the Caribbean
Pairing: Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann
Theme set: Delta
Title: A Love as Strong as Steel
Rating: G to PG-13
Warning[s]: Spoilers thru AWE
#01 - air
His hand clutches weakly at the sword embedded in his chest, lacking the strength to pull it free, and Elizabeth's face becomes his touchstone as he struggles against the panic of not being able to breathe.
#02 - apples
When they see Barbossa come down the stairs of Tia Dalma's hut, it isn't the maniacal laugh that makes him believe the pirate captain is back from the dead, ironically it's the green apple clutched in his hand.
#03 - beginning
There is a flash of incredulous recognition when he sees Davy Jones' sword; the instrument of his death had its beginnings in his very own hands.
#04 - bugs
They've been in the Caribbean for many years, she's the most fearless woman he knows, but he still has to go to Elizabeth's aid when she finds a bug that needs killing.
#05 - coffee
While he has come to enjoy drinking coffee, Elizabeth will always and forever prefer tea.
#06 - dark
As his eyes adjust to the darkness of the dungeon, he sees Elizabeth kneeling in her cell, her hands clutching the bars and her eyes filled with hope; he knows he will do anything to get her out of there.
#07 - despair
As their one day moves inexorably toward sunset, their despair at their inevitable parting begins to grow.
#08 - doors
There isn't a door of any brig that will ever be able to hold him.
#09 - drink
They lift their mugs of grog in Tia Dalma's shack, and although the others offer their toasts to Jack, and Elizabeth salutes him as a good man, he can't bring himself to say anything.
#10 - duty
He knows that Elizabeth thinks he works far too hard, having taken over almost all the duties of the blacksmith shop from Mr. Brown.
#11 - earth
When he steps aboard the Flying Dutchman, he turns to gaze one last time at the small figure of Elizabeth standing on the land that is forbidden him, and his absent heart breaks completely.
#12 - end
Looking at her dirty, tear-stained face, he grimly wrestles his wayward heart into submission and offers the words that begin the ending of their relationship - "if there was anything could be done to bring him back."
#13 - fall
Every night he fights against falling asleep, for he always dreams of Elizabeth kissing Jack and sailing away with him on the Pearl.
#14 - fire
He slips in behind Elizabeth as she stands on the beach, wrapping his arms around her waist; the fire licking through his veins has him huskily whispering "there are no bars here, so you can have me already."
#15 - flexible
He doesn't like to think too closely about how his ideas of right and wrong have become more ... flexible.
#16 - flying
The rain is pounding, the deck is heaving, they are surrounded on every side by Company marines and barnacle-encrusted crew; but Elizabeth's hand is in his, they're saying their vows and he feels like he's flying.
#17 - food
When they arrive in the Caribbean, he stays at the Governor's residence until a proper situation can be found for him; the first time he sits down to supper with Elizabeth and her father, he thinks that there is more food on the table for one meal than he saw in a month back home in England.
#18 - foot
Their swordplay lessons are exuberant, and when Elizabeth effortlessly mirrors his footwork, he delightedly catches her close for a kiss that has their scandalized chaperone thunderously clearing her throat.
#19 - grave
Elizabeth loves to tease him, because he knows that she thinks he's too serious, but he swears it's also that she loves to see him flush.
#20 - green
He sees Port Royal for the first time as their ship comes in to dock; standing next to Elizabeth, he is amazed at how green everything is.
#21 - head
In his head he knows there was no choice, but his heart will never allow him to think himself anything but a murderer for breaking the curse and condemning his father to his final, horrific fate.
#22 - hollow
With Elizabeth estranged from him, he fills the emptiness that is his life with the search for a way to free his father.
#23 - honor
He knows that Elizabeth doesn't really understand his loyalty to the drunken mastersmith; it's his way of honoring the man that Mr. Brown was before the rum took over his life.
#24 - hope
There isn't much hope that they can defeat the kraken, but he grimly hands Elizabeth the gun and sets their defenses; he will not let them go down without a fight.
#25 - light
As the light of their one day fades, he begins to feel the insistent pull of the Dutchman and the souls of the dead for the first time.
#26 - lost
The image of Wyvern, being absorbed into the Dutchman's very essence, never leaves him; he will not lose his father in the same way.
#27 - metal
He can touch an ingot of steel and instinctively *know* what it is destined to be; if he were to touch Elizabeth now, he thinks that he won't know if they are destined to be at all.
#28 - new
As he revels in the newness of their betrothal, he knows that this is the happiest that he has ever been.
#29 - old
After 10 years of guiding those who have perished to the shores of the afterlife, and pulling the lost ones from the cold waters of the seas of the dead, he wonders how Elizabeth will ever understand that he feels old in his soul now.
#30 - peace
His heart breaking for the weeping Elizabeth he holds in his arms, he quietly begs Tia Dalma to tell him of a way to still save her father; hearing that he is at peace is a small consolation, one he knows that, for now at least, doesn't help.
#31 - poison
He worries that his helpless rage at being separated from Elizabeth, and his resentment toward the goddess who commands him now, will spread its poison in his soul.
#32 - pretty
When he opens his eyes, cold and confused and more than a little afraid, he is comforted when the prettiest girl he's ever seen tells him that she is watching over him.
#33 - rain
It seems fitting to him, after the rain of their interrupted wedding day, that it is raining as Barbossa marries them on the deck of the Pearl.
#34 - regret
He has many regrets in his life, but getting on a ship and leaving England will never be one of them.
#35 - roses
He holds Elizabeth's wedding dress in his hands, lifting it to his face for a moment to breathe in the scent of roses that still clings to it; he is amused, but never surprised, to learn that she'd managed to find passage to Tortuga as a stowaway.
#36 - secret
It's something he's never told her, but he loves the saltiness of the sea that he can often taste on her skin.
#37 - snakes
He's learned that there are many snakes in the Caribbean, both reptile and human; he finds that he prefers the former.
#38 - snow
He aches with loss as he watches Elizabeth shiver, huddled under blankets with flecks of snow in her hair; he thinks her so beautiful despite her sad, pinched features and pink little nose.
#039 - solid
His skill as a blacksmith is such that he can fold and refold steel and iron into the finest of swords; he thinks that the love he and Elizabeth share was forged the exact same way.
#40 - spring
While he doesn't miss the cold and snows of England, he knows that Elizabeth sometimes misses the changing of the seasons, and the advent of spring after a long, dark winter.
#41 - stable
He is the blacksmith, considered steady and reliable by all who know him; Elizabeth and Jack are the only ones who seem to understand the pirate blood that runs through his veins, blood he struggles to square with.
#42 - strange
He hurries to stop Mr. Gibbs from shooting at the souls drifting on the dark seas of the dead; it isn't until later that he uneasily wonders how it is that he knew the lost ones were no threat.
#43 - summer
At her father's discreet suggestion, his Christmas gift to Elizabeth, during their betrothal, is a book of sonnets by Shakespeare; when she reads aloud to him "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day," he knows that the way she looks at that moment, carefree and drenched in sunlight, will be forever imprinted on his memory.
#44 - taboo
There is something about Tia Dalma that is wild and reckless, something that reeks to him of the forbidden.
#45 - ugly
He has so many scars now, on his back, his hand ... his chest; he wonders sometimes if Elizabeth finds them as ugly as he does.
#46 - war
When he'd taught Elizabeth marksmanship, and how to handle a sword, it was so that she could protect herself; he never dreamed that she'd need those skills so that they could go to war.
#47 - water
He cannot help the anxiety he feels when Sao Feng's men pull him up, gasping, from the well and he sees Elizabeth standing in front of him.
#48 - welcome
As he stands on the rail of the Dutchman, clinging to the rigging and anxiously leaning out as far as he can, he sees Elizabeth in the distance and wonders who it is that is with her.
#49 - winter
The trip to world's end is the coldest he has ever been; not even winter back home in England was this cold.
#50 - wood
When he sees Davy Jones towering over his unconscious wife, a killing rage sends him flying across the soaking deck of the Dutchman; no one threatens Elizabeth Turner.
Pairing: Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann
Theme set: Delta
Title: A Love as Strong as Steel
Rating: G to PG-13
Warning[s]: Spoilers thru AWE
#01 - air
His hand clutches weakly at the sword embedded in his chest, lacking the strength to pull it free, and Elizabeth's face becomes his touchstone as he struggles against the panic of not being able to breathe.
#02 - apples
When they see Barbossa come down the stairs of Tia Dalma's hut, it isn't the maniacal laugh that makes him believe the pirate captain is back from the dead, ironically it's the green apple clutched in his hand.
#03 - beginning
There is a flash of incredulous recognition when he sees Davy Jones' sword; the instrument of his death had its beginnings in his very own hands.
#04 - bugs
They've been in the Caribbean for many years, she's the most fearless woman he knows, but he still has to go to Elizabeth's aid when she finds a bug that needs killing.
#05 - coffee
While he has come to enjoy drinking coffee, Elizabeth will always and forever prefer tea.
#06 - dark
As his eyes adjust to the darkness of the dungeon, he sees Elizabeth kneeling in her cell, her hands clutching the bars and her eyes filled with hope; he knows he will do anything to get her out of there.
#07 - despair
As their one day moves inexorably toward sunset, their despair at their inevitable parting begins to grow.
#08 - doors
There isn't a door of any brig that will ever be able to hold him.
#09 - drink
They lift their mugs of grog in Tia Dalma's shack, and although the others offer their toasts to Jack, and Elizabeth salutes him as a good man, he can't bring himself to say anything.
#10 - duty
He knows that Elizabeth thinks he works far too hard, having taken over almost all the duties of the blacksmith shop from Mr. Brown.
#11 - earth
When he steps aboard the Flying Dutchman, he turns to gaze one last time at the small figure of Elizabeth standing on the land that is forbidden him, and his absent heart breaks completely.
#12 - end
Looking at her dirty, tear-stained face, he grimly wrestles his wayward heart into submission and offers the words that begin the ending of their relationship - "if there was anything could be done to bring him back."
#13 - fall
Every night he fights against falling asleep, for he always dreams of Elizabeth kissing Jack and sailing away with him on the Pearl.
#14 - fire
He slips in behind Elizabeth as she stands on the beach, wrapping his arms around her waist; the fire licking through his veins has him huskily whispering "there are no bars here, so you can have me already."
#15 - flexible
He doesn't like to think too closely about how his ideas of right and wrong have become more ... flexible.
#16 - flying
The rain is pounding, the deck is heaving, they are surrounded on every side by Company marines and barnacle-encrusted crew; but Elizabeth's hand is in his, they're saying their vows and he feels like he's flying.
#17 - food
When they arrive in the Caribbean, he stays at the Governor's residence until a proper situation can be found for him; the first time he sits down to supper with Elizabeth and her father, he thinks that there is more food on the table for one meal than he saw in a month back home in England.
#18 - foot
Their swordplay lessons are exuberant, and when Elizabeth effortlessly mirrors his footwork, he delightedly catches her close for a kiss that has their scandalized chaperone thunderously clearing her throat.
#19 - grave
Elizabeth loves to tease him, because he knows that she thinks he's too serious, but he swears it's also that she loves to see him flush.
#20 - green
He sees Port Royal for the first time as their ship comes in to dock; standing next to Elizabeth, he is amazed at how green everything is.
#21 - head
In his head he knows there was no choice, but his heart will never allow him to think himself anything but a murderer for breaking the curse and condemning his father to his final, horrific fate.
#22 - hollow
With Elizabeth estranged from him, he fills the emptiness that is his life with the search for a way to free his father.
#23 - honor
He knows that Elizabeth doesn't really understand his loyalty to the drunken mastersmith; it's his way of honoring the man that Mr. Brown was before the rum took over his life.
#24 - hope
There isn't much hope that they can defeat the kraken, but he grimly hands Elizabeth the gun and sets their defenses; he will not let them go down without a fight.
#25 - light
As the light of their one day fades, he begins to feel the insistent pull of the Dutchman and the souls of the dead for the first time.
#26 - lost
The image of Wyvern, being absorbed into the Dutchman's very essence, never leaves him; he will not lose his father in the same way.
#27 - metal
He can touch an ingot of steel and instinctively *know* what it is destined to be; if he were to touch Elizabeth now, he thinks that he won't know if they are destined to be at all.
#28 - new
As he revels in the newness of their betrothal, he knows that this is the happiest that he has ever been.
#29 - old
After 10 years of guiding those who have perished to the shores of the afterlife, and pulling the lost ones from the cold waters of the seas of the dead, he wonders how Elizabeth will ever understand that he feels old in his soul now.
#30 - peace
His heart breaking for the weeping Elizabeth he holds in his arms, he quietly begs Tia Dalma to tell him of a way to still save her father; hearing that he is at peace is a small consolation, one he knows that, for now at least, doesn't help.
#31 - poison
He worries that his helpless rage at being separated from Elizabeth, and his resentment toward the goddess who commands him now, will spread its poison in his soul.
#32 - pretty
When he opens his eyes, cold and confused and more than a little afraid, he is comforted when the prettiest girl he's ever seen tells him that she is watching over him.
#33 - rain
It seems fitting to him, after the rain of their interrupted wedding day, that it is raining as Barbossa marries them on the deck of the Pearl.
#34 - regret
He has many regrets in his life, but getting on a ship and leaving England will never be one of them.
#35 - roses
He holds Elizabeth's wedding dress in his hands, lifting it to his face for a moment to breathe in the scent of roses that still clings to it; he is amused, but never surprised, to learn that she'd managed to find passage to Tortuga as a stowaway.
#36 - secret
It's something he's never told her, but he loves the saltiness of the sea that he can often taste on her skin.
#37 - snakes
He's learned that there are many snakes in the Caribbean, both reptile and human; he finds that he prefers the former.
#38 - snow
He aches with loss as he watches Elizabeth shiver, huddled under blankets with flecks of snow in her hair; he thinks her so beautiful despite her sad, pinched features and pink little nose.
#039 - solid
His skill as a blacksmith is such that he can fold and refold steel and iron into the finest of swords; he thinks that the love he and Elizabeth share was forged the exact same way.
#40 - spring
While he doesn't miss the cold and snows of England, he knows that Elizabeth sometimes misses the changing of the seasons, and the advent of spring after a long, dark winter.
#41 - stable
He is the blacksmith, considered steady and reliable by all who know him; Elizabeth and Jack are the only ones who seem to understand the pirate blood that runs through his veins, blood he struggles to square with.
#42 - strange
He hurries to stop Mr. Gibbs from shooting at the souls drifting on the dark seas of the dead; it isn't until later that he uneasily wonders how it is that he knew the lost ones were no threat.
#43 - summer
At her father's discreet suggestion, his Christmas gift to Elizabeth, during their betrothal, is a book of sonnets by Shakespeare; when she reads aloud to him "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day," he knows that the way she looks at that moment, carefree and drenched in sunlight, will be forever imprinted on his memory.
#44 - taboo
There is something about Tia Dalma that is wild and reckless, something that reeks to him of the forbidden.
#45 - ugly
He has so many scars now, on his back, his hand ... his chest; he wonders sometimes if Elizabeth finds them as ugly as he does.
#46 - war
When he'd taught Elizabeth marksmanship, and how to handle a sword, it was so that she could protect herself; he never dreamed that she'd need those skills so that they could go to war.
#47 - water
He cannot help the anxiety he feels when Sao Feng's men pull him up, gasping, from the well and he sees Elizabeth standing in front of him.
#48 - welcome
As he stands on the rail of the Dutchman, clinging to the rigging and anxiously leaning out as far as he can, he sees Elizabeth in the distance and wonders who it is that is with her.
#49 - winter
The trip to world's end is the coldest he has ever been; not even winter back home in England was this cold.
#50 - wood
When he sees Davy Jones towering over his unconscious wife, a killing rage sends him flying across the soaking deck of the Dutchman; no one threatens Elizabeth Turner.