Title: Covet
Disclaimer: I don't own Pirates of the Caribbean. If I did, I wouldn't be writing this. I seem to be finding a relationship between Pablo Neruda's work and Jack/Will. Am I the only one?
Rating: PG-13 for mentions of a same-sex couple.
Pairing(s)/Character(s): Tia Dalma, Jack/Will, Elizabeth, and others.
Spoilers: All of CotB and DMC.
Genre: Angst
Summary: She hadn't wanted him.
Author's Notes: More Turrow for you all.

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He had prided himself on being a good man,; his whole life was chosen for him but he had obediently followed the path set. His trade was something he learned to love as the years went by. His first glimpse of Elizabeth as a lady, he was busy in the smithy; he had just turned eighteen and Jack Sparrow was a distant future he couldn't fathom then.

Elizabeth had snuck inside while her father talked with then sober Mr. Brown. He had been busy feeding Jess the donkey, the heat in the room making him unbutton his shirt to let his skin breathe a bit. A tiny "Oh!" made him turn to see Elizabeth in a golden yellow morning dress, her eyes wide as she covered her mouth with a gloved hand.

Awkward as it was, she had beamed at him and said he was always on her mind. Will hadn't understood then; now he knew that she hadn't wanted him. What Elizabeth had always wanted was adventure and excitement that he did not want for himself.

He lays in the dark, staring up at a ceiling he cannot see. Tia Dalma moves within in her hut and he shuts his eyes as he remembers another dark room, a warm body covering his own, rough hands moving gently over his whipped back. The soft glide of Jack's fingers as he murmurs his name, the realization that at some point in his life Elizabeth had become a stranger and Jack was his desire. How Jack had fit into a part of his soul that he had never known was empty in a way that Elizabeth hadn't.

He hears Elizabeth stir and wishes he could feel Jack inside his core again, because there is a great blackness inside him now and perhaps, he thinks as he drift into slumber, it is in the shape of sparrow.

FIN