TITLE: Came and Went
AUTHOR: LingChing
RATING: G
PAIRINGS: Jack/Will
ARCHIVE: Ask and you'll get.
DISCLAIMER: Pirates of the Caribbean does not belong to me. Don't sue.
WARNINGS: Does weird, cliché or unbetaed count?
SUMMARY: Jack went. Will went. Jack came. They stay. Together.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: This is the first POTC fic I ever wrote. I'm kind of experimenting with it. I have a plot for a long POTC fic in mind but I wanted to see how deep I could actually delve into this fandom first. So, here you have a weird four-parted ficlet. And I know I need a beta reader because I'm not a native speaker or even speak English at home, but….forgive me?
Part 1
"If you were waiting for the opportune moment, that was it."
Will glanced back at the owner of the lazy drawl, a Captain Jack Sparrow who was currently admiring a glittery diamond necklace in his palm. For a long time, Will regarded Jack quietly, wary and calculative at the same time. The dark eyes shone brightly in the dim light of the cave, but they held nothing that could tell him what was going on under that flamboyant pirate mask.
"You would rather I confess my undying love for her then," he finally said, with a slight hint of hurt that went undetected.
Jack shrugged, flinging the necklace back to the pile of gold behind him. It was an elegant shrug. Will knew everything that Jack did was deliberately. The sway, the hand gestures, the slurred speeches. The Shrug. And then, the pirate had the nerve to roll his hips and walked out flippantly with a smirk. An inviting smirk. An invitation to Will.
Jack seemed to have forgotten all about the oar incident. But Will had not. So, he stood there staring at the cave walls, doing nothing. Because he knew they would never be able to go back to the days on the Interceptor, where they found such comfort in each other's arms. Because if Jack loved him, he would never keep his plans a secret. Because if Will loved Jack as well, he would never hit his lover with an oar.
Yet, Jack had risked his own life to save Will from Barbossa. And Will felt even more remorseful than ever. So, it was perhaps with that thought in his mind, Will did the most stupid thing he had ever done that morning at the hanging. He sprung the most notorious pirate of the Seven Seas free from the gallows. Somehow, it had eased his heart to know that Captain Jack Sparrow remained free, roaming the Seven Seas.
He never did saw the longing and equally pleading look that Jack sent him before swimming back to his pearl.
Experiment No. 1 is settled. Experiment No. 2 would be posted a few days later.
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