Okay this a series of drabbles about life aboard the Dutchman if James had become captain instead of Will. Don't know how long its gonna turn out to be; hopefully there'll be quite a few more : D . Please review; reviews make James smile,and we all know how nice that is.

Disclaimer: Trust me, if I owned PotC, especially James, things would have turned out a lot differently. The overall title is nicked from the David Bowie song Underground from the Labyrinth.

ONLY FOREVER

1. A HEAVY BURDEN

He didn't dare give it to Elizabeth. He knew that if he were to offer it she would not refuse, not like this but even so he knew she didn't really want it. She never had. But there was no one else he could really trust; no one alive anyway.

He thought about burying it as his predecessor had but gave that up as a bad idea too. Things which were buried had a habit of being dug up around here and besides, on land there was always the possibility that it could be destroyed by accident. No, there was only one thing for it.

James Norrington watched the chest sink beneath the waves that lapped gently against the hull of his ship. Perhaps Calypso was not the most trustworthy person he could have entrusted with its precious contents but she owed him this much.

The sea wrapped the chest in her embrace as a dull thud echoed across the ocean bed. Now she had a heart.