Author's Notes:
The following is a slash fic. Slash means male/male pairings. If this bothers you, then you probably won't enjoy said fic. Just giving you fair warning. This fic deals with the following pairings:
Willington: Will/Norrington. This fic is primarily about these two characters coming to terms with their feelings for each other. At least it was supposed to be. It's proving a lot more difficult to write than I'd thought. I've tried to do the transition as believably as possible, but being a straight female myself, I have very limited experience on the subject. But basically, as long as it's at least as believable as Elizabeth and Jack's sudden unexplained attraction to each other in Dead Man's Chest, I'll settle for that. Let me know what you think.
Jackett: Jack/Beckett. In my mind, the relationship between these two took place many years ago, and ended on very bad terms. They've both pretty much already squared with this aspect of themselves, so I won't be covering that. I'll be exploring my take on what happened between them, and the effect their falling out had on each of them, through conversations, brief flashbacks and perhaps an extended flashback if I can find a way to make it work.
Elizabeth is in this fic, but I feel obliged to tell you that I don't like her. So be forewarned, her appearance in this fic will be brief and unpleasant. She'll have a total of about six scenes in all, I believe. And she will die as soon as her usefulness has run it's course.
This fic does contain some major spoilers from Dead Man's Chest and At World's end, and if you haven't seen Dead Man's Chest, it won't make any sense. If you haven't seen DMC, and you don't want any spoilers, don't read any further because I'm about to reveal one. This fic begins just before Elizabeth kisses Jack. You can sort of tell that from the way it begins, but in case you couldn't, I'm telling you now. Assume that all the events from Curse of the Black Pearl and Dead Man's Chest up to that point occurred as they did in the movies.
A lot of the events of this fic parallel events of DMC and AWE, and I'm not sure of the legal ramifications of this, but these scenes are the property of Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Jerry Bruckheimer or Disney, they're not mine, I'm not making any profit so there's no need to sue etc…
One more thing before I let you get to reading, I'm writing this fic as I go. It seems to be working so far, but I have had some bad experiences with this method of writing in the past, so just keep this in mind.
'-' Enjoy!
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Chapter 1: Abandon Ship (AKA Extricating the Distressing Damsel)
Elizabeth kissed Jack, moving him towards the mast. Jack let her. Jack suddenly felt Elizabeth's hand on his wrist, guiding it towards the mast. He felt something metallic against his wrist. He snapped it away, seeing that it was a pair of handcuffs that he had felt. He immediately grabbed Elizabeth's arm, moving his face close to hers.
"Just what were you doing, Luv?" he asked with venom.
"It's after you, not the ship." she explained, desperately. "Don't you see it was the only way."
"Really?" Jack retorted. "Well, seeing as the beastie was still attacking The Pearl when I was in that rowboat and you were here, I'm thinking that by the same reasoning it's after you, not me, and the only way is to cuff you to the ship!"
Elizabeth tried to free herself from Jack's grasp, and a wave of terror came over her when she realized that he was intentionally holding her tightly, and that for once he was not joking.
"Jack, let go of my wrist, you're hurting me!" Elizabeth cried.
She struggled as Jack forced her wrist into the cuffs and snapped them shut. He then staggered towards the rowboat, as Elizabeth frantically tried to free herself, to no avail.
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Will watched Jack climb down from The Pearl and into the rowboat, still trying to process what he had just seen this man doing with his fiancé. His confusion was compounded when he saw no Elizabeth climbing into the rowboat after Jack.
"Where's Elizabeth?"
"I cuffed her to the mast" Jack replied coolly
Will's confusion skyrocketed, the lovable clueless whelp! "Why?"
Jack merely shrugged "Why not?"
Will was in too confused a state to argue with such relentless logic. Pintel and Ragetti began rowing towards the nearest island. Will and Jack looked on as the Kraken took down Jack's beloved ship, and Will's beloved fiancé. Neither shed a single tear, nor felt nearly as upset as they imagined they would in such a situation.