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Steps of the Dance
From a series of stories featuring Elizabeth Swann and Jack Sparrow

by Hereswith

The tale thus far...
1. A Matter of Trust
2. Steps of the Dance
3. Mirrored Movement
4. Reasons to Believe 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
5. Ladies Speaking in Confidence
6. In the Dark Watches of the Night
7. Fair Weather Morning
8. Marchland
9. White Squall (Rated 'R')
10. Halcyon
11. Turnabout 1 - 2 - 3 - Epilogue (Rated 'R')

She often dreamed of him, in the long, empty hours before the dawn. Dreamed of his hands and those deft and wicked fingers, but not once of that thrice-damned, clever mouth. And she always woke with a gasp and a shudder; her body flooded with a restless longing, the cause of which marriage had taught her to recognise.

Each time this happened, she would leave her bed and go out into the garden, walking barefoot to the spot that overlooked the sea and the far distant horizon. Standing there, she was as close to Captain Jack Sparrow as she could hope to be, when not in his presence, and she took some comfort from that.

She never told him, and even though she thought he might have guessed it, they only spoke of such things in jest and not in earnest, both of them skirting the issue with an ease born from years of practice. It was like a dance, and she knew all the steps by heart, she breathed them like air and, for the most part, that was enough. But some nights she dreamed, and she wanted, and she willed those heated, frenzied dreams to plague him too.

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