Child of a Heartless Man By Lady Fenris

Jack/Elizabeth/Will, Barbossa/OC

The Heart isn't the only leverage that can be used against Davy Jones, and there's more than one way to reclaim the lost Capitan Jack Sparrow. Can Elizabeth and Will trust an old enemy to find both? (Spoilers for Dead Man's Chest)

(I own nothing, make no money etc, I am simply borrowing the ideas and characters you may recognize, and dropping in a few that you don't...remember this is all in fun).

Chapter I

The bayou was covered with the gloomy shadows of defeat and sorrow as the weary crew rowed in from their last battle with the Kraken. Will refused to look at the girl he had loved since he was a boy. The betrayal he had witnessed was still too fresh in his eyes, but the knowledge that Jack had given his life for them was almost worse. Had he been the one to hear the news first, he may have kissed Jack too, well, maybe not, but even so he couldn't completely blame Elizabeth for her actions.

Sitting next to him Elizabeth was captivated by the flocks of people standing, some of them, waist deep in the swamp water with their candles of respect. The sad looks of those closest to her weighed heavily upon her heart.

The man she had ended up wanting more than her precious Will Turner, had died because of her. Getting into the long boat, she had already begun to feel that ache in her soul.

"I'm not sorry" she had told him, but she hadn't meant it, she couldn't look him in the eyes as she had said it. And when she had peered up into those dark mahogany pools, he had whispered the word, she had come to desire…

"Pirate"

Jack had been right, she had given into his darkness, she had become more like him than she would ever resemble Miss Swan again. That life was over, that girl was gone. Now there was only an empty woman who sat longing for the one man she would never have, and unable to face the man she did.

The long boat drifted towards Tia Dalma's shack, Will looked up at the seer from where she stood on her dock. She had a sad knowing look to her eyes, and at that moment Will knew there was more to the kiss than he had been witness to.

The crew settled into Tia Dalma's house with an air of exhaustion. None of them daring to speak first, each of them finding a strange comfort in the cold silence.

Gibbs braced against the doorframe, the others strewn about the small room. When the respectful toast to Jack had come up, Elizabeth found that she couldn't stomach the smell of the rum, it reminded her too closely of her lost Capitan. The tears sprang anew, her guilt and sorrow running over.

Will looked at her then, even in his jealousy he couldn't bear to see her cry,

"If there was anything that could be done to bring him back…" Will had started,

"Would you do it? Would you sail to the ends of the earth and beyond to fetch back wicked Jack and his precious Pearl?"

Tia Dalma was not one to give hope if there was none, and to that end every sailor in that dusty mystic's room had stood and pledged their sweat and blood to releasing Jack and his Black Sailed Ship from Davy Jones Locker. The how and who to lead this unlikely group of crewmen was heard descending the rickety staircase.

At the familiar steps echoing through the steps, Pintel and Ragetti perked their heads up and gave full attention, they knew those steps. The Capitan, with whom each of them had intimate knowledge of, some more than others, was standing unnaturally fit before them…a Capitan who should have been dead.

There stood, with a monkey on his shoulder and holding an apple, the black wretch of the sea: Capitan Barbossa.

"Man Alive! Don't you ever stay dead?" Gibbs was the first to break the unearthly silence.

"Hahahahaha, I'm glad to see you haven't lost your enthusiasm for the obvious Mr.Gibbs." His laugh penetrated the ears of the assembled letting them know he was still the same man he had been the last time he had been killed…"I hear you've lost your Capitan again, so where might ol' Jack be this time?"

A/N: This is my first posted story, sorry it's such a short chapter, but it's really just the introduction. Much more to come.