Author: My second attempt at drabbling into the POTC fandom. This has spoilers for AWE. -grins-
Never Shall We Die
Jack was a fool's fool... an honest man until the end, but... there would never be an end, now would there? He had cast his lot in life, and in the end, even though he had given up one form of immortality for a friend, he had found another. The Fountain of Youth... a nectar that would make his life, however pitiful it was, never end.
Ever foolish, he had taken his drink of this unending life. Elizabeth had stood beside him, becoming immortal as well. For as much as she loved her son, and would hate to see him die, she was the guardian of Will's heart. It was a post that she would give to no other, and therefore, she became immortal to keep it that way.
Learning the hard way, Captain Jack Sparrow finally realized that immortality was no game. He watched friends and family die, aging faster than it seemed possible. Young William James Turner died when he was only twenty-eight. In his lifetime, he had seen his father only twice, but twice was enough. A part of Elizabeth had died with her son in that cold room. Secretly, a part of Jack passed away as well. He had come to love the boy as his own, resigning himself to the fact that he loved freedom... the sea, more than he could ever love any woman.
But, as he had also learned, where there was no love, lust was enough. At least, that's the idea that he entertained himself with as he laid tangled up in the sheets of other women. A self-loathing smile slowly slided into place on his face. Yes, always the beds of other women, never the one woman that he wanted. Elizabeth Turner, a pirate for life, at least in her heart... and his. She had learned to love the sea just as much as he had, but never as much as Will... never as much as she had loved her son.
That was the difference between them, after all. They would never die. They would never age. They suffered in their own pain. They watched everyone around them die. They had both lost apart of themselves the night young William had passed. They both loved the sea, but at this one point, they differed. Elizabeth loved Will more than the open waters. Jack loved the sea, for it was the embodiment of all the he long for... freedom.
So, as he had learned the fool's way, immortality wasn't all that it was cracked up to be. He had lost his friends, the woman he loved, a boy that was like a son... and sadly, as the years rolled past, never stopping or slowing or giving him time to grow accustomed to this new world that was forming... he was losing his freedom, and to a pirate, that was just like losing his life...