Follow
by Cherusha
Summary: Jack is marooned. (G)
[352 words
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Jack was beginning to get very tired of all this waiting around business. Not for the length of time spent waiting – he'd not been there a day – but for the lack of which to occupy his time. RUM in particular. And particularly, this particular island offered no such supply. Not right that he should be left here all by his lonesome with naught for company but the hot, unforgiving sun – and nothing to soothe his parched throat – and more still! Less right to steal his Pearl! He picked at a scab underneath his fingernail as he considered this unpleasant predicament, and in the meantime, made small bets with himself as to the whens and the whos and the howabouts that would rescue him.

It was a very boring island.

Most probable of the bets was probably a small passing pirate ship that should happen to be happening by. Awed by his fame, they'd take him in and make him honourary captain – and there would be no doubt an unending supply of RUM, from which Jack planned to take full advantage of. Completely. Until bottoms are up – so to speak. He leaned against his tree with a sigh, his mouth watering from images of liquid pleasure burning a blaze down his throat.

Ahhh. Or perhaps he may be rescued by dear Will and Elizabeth who'd come looking for him anyway – so uneventful and tedious their lives had become since Jack left their respective welcoming companies. And yes, so grateful would they be for his state of undead aliveness, that there would be much rejoicing and they'd fill his and his stomach with good food and singing praises and rum, rum, RUM. I love you, rum.

That would be the most pleasing of the options – he'd not seen Will and Elizabeth in a while, not since his own hanging. Now of course, should the Commodore find him first, Jack would—

Something zoomed across his field of vision and he swerved his head just in time to catch a glimpse of the small, white and furry—

and to hear—

"Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!"

(a/n: Apologies to Lewis Carroll.)

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