Where We are Bound
will turner is not a pirate
There are people who are born pirates (like him) and people who were born to be pirates (like her).
Will—despite having the blood of a pirate—is neither. And that's fine by him, he supposes. He still has the sea and his father and in the end, that's all he has ever needed.
Elizabeth needs more than that. She needs a ship and a crew and her crown. She needs freedom, and that would never come if she is stuck on land. Ten years is too long and too short, and Will could never do that to her. He loves her, but Elizabeth is not a woman made to sit still.
(If he had asked—if he had asked, she wouldn't have said no.)
And so, he lets her go and hopes Jack has the sense to keep an eye on her. After all, someone has to, and who better than the man that brought all three of them together.
(And maybe—if Will is very, very lucky—in ten years, Jack will hit port and Elizabeth (coincidently) will hit the same one and Will just happens to have a free day.
Maybe, Will thinks, and smiles into the sunset.)