Intoxication

by Dawns Heart

He shouldn't do this. But everytime he does he is reminded that she wouldn't be here at all if he could stop himself from doing this. Jack and Elizabeth drabble. Slight spoilers for DMC. JE inclined.

Disclaimer: I don't own PotC anymore than I control the sea.

Notes: A drabble that refused to leave me alone until it was written down.

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He knew he shouldn't be doing this. He shouldn't be taunting her and teasing her and trying so damn hard to make her like him.

He should have been encouraging her feelings for Will. He should have been encouraging her protective streak for the damn whelp. Instead, he was doing his utmost best to force her to see that they belonged together. He attempted to tease her into admitting that she wanted him. That she was just like him. That, in spite of her fortune she was no less a scoundrel than he. She was a pirate.

But he didn't. Even knowing that his life was at stake he couldn't do it. That intoxicating pirate would be the death of him yet. Her name sounded like freedom in his mind: Elizabeth.