The Ties That Bind
Chapter Two
The Ties That Bind
Chapter Two
“Fuck!”
Will looked up from the shelf he was perusing in time to see the young woman who had uttered the obscenity blush and duck her head in embarrassment as a couple of undergrads looked at her in bewilderment. She seemed so familiar to Will, but he knew he had never met her in this life.
Her blonde hair was pulled back and her bright brown eyes were trying to inconspicuously observe Will the same way he was observing her. Deciding to put an end to both of their not-so-stealthy studies, he approached her with a smile.
“Now what would cause a lovely young woman such as yourself to be terrorizing coeds by muttering profanity?” he asked teasingly.
She mock-glared at him and frowned prettily. “If you must know, this crappy campus bookstore has sold out of the book I need, which means I will probably start for first semester of grad school off on a bad note, meaning I will never get my masters and my future will go down the tank,” she took a breath. “I’m Liz, by the way”
“Will,” he replied, smiling in an amused, slightly scared kind of way. Somehow, he knew that this was a somewhat normal reaction to her rather unusual personality. Elizabeth always did like to break the mold.
‘Elizabeth…?’ All of a sudden, he was in another place, another time, and the woman before him was standing in front of him wearing the same impish smile.
“Will, how ever am I supposed to stay in disguise if you insist on treating me like a lady?”
He laughed as he followed her into the tavern. “I suppose old habits die hard.”
She smirked and then frowned. “So I have to ask, why are you spending your one day on land with me?”
He laughed again. “Well, when you are in love with a pirate captain, you don’t have to worry about going on land to see him. Besides, he’s meeting us here later.”
She smiled sorrowfully at the glow in his face when he spoke of his lover. He knew that she was remembering James.
“I’m sorry, Lizzie. I know—
”
“Don’t, Will,” she stopped him. “None of this turned out the way that any of us expected. Life dealt us a bad hand, it seems. I mean, it’s not like your situation is ideal either…”
The world shifted again and he was staring at the now confused face of the modern day Elizabeth Swan, who seemed to have a similar experience as himself.
She shook away the confusion and took the vision or memory or whatever in stride by quirking an eyebrow. “Pirate captain?”
OoooOoooOoooO
James sighed as he looked over the bulletin board, searching for any flyer advertising a room for rent. He knew that he should talk to Will before looking, hated himself for trying to pull away without the younger man’s knowledge, but he also knew that this was the only way. There was no way that either of them would be able to share an apartment without falling into the same type of relationship they had.
“Excuse me, pal,” an all too familiar voice behind him said as he pushed by him and hung a flyer. He then turned and took a good look at the law student. “Don’t I know you?”
James just stared at him.
‘Jack Sparrow…’
Tbc…