Summary – Jack contemplates another word called "Loss"

Loss of Loss

((You walk into the bar. Pirates are all over the place being their lovely selves. Mostly drinking, playing cards or going after far more better uses of their times with the floozy's that also make time in this bar.))

((In a corner, shaking his compass and swearing like the sailor he is, you see Captain Jack Sparrow. You steal – Commandeer – a couple mugs of rum and make your way over))

Ah, I see you know me better than most. Thanks mate and cheers to ye!

So, I see you've come to see me 'bout me ship, the Pearl. Ah, sanity ain't the only thing I've lost. Sure it hurts, deep down inside where you hold your deepest secrets. Just the loss of one thing spells disaster upon your life. Like the loss of your wife, or child. Well, the Pearl was my wife. She took care of me and I took care of her.

I mean, have you ever seen the way she'd creek whenever I came out of me cabin to see what my men were doing? She'd creek happily with every step! She would. I don't know when I ever was more depressed than when she was taken from me by force.

Loss, another word that doesn't mean a thing and yet describes my life well. I lost Lillian, my father (the bastard that he was – he at least cared for me) and the Pearl. I never cared much for who crewed her, they were just a tool for her to sail the seas. If I could, I probably would just do it all by meself, savvy?

((Jack finishes his rum and gets a floozy to get him some more))

I see you don't care, and you ask me why I'm telling you this? Because I'm Captain Jack Sparrow, that's why, and you should remember my name. Because one day when pirating is over and done with, when merchants won't be so worried 'bout us pirates, I'll be in the history books. I will.

You'll hear of me and you'll experience some loss because you'll never meet me. Never know me, never get to sail with me and experience my life.

Such a loss.

But as I always like to say, A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. What a better way to live than to go out and find that which you have always wanted to know. Take my ship as an example, I want to know where she's been. I want to know how bad Barbossa is Captaining her. I want her to know that I still love her and would do anything for her.

You may say that she's taking the place of Lillian. Well, maybe she is, but maybe that's because I don't want to be with any other woman like I was with Lillian. She was my sun when my sky was stormy. She knew things about me that I never knew. She was amazing.

Just like how William loves Elizabeth, well…that was how I love Lillian. Even to this day, I till lover her, and I miss her dearly.

So, think about your own life, luv, think about your losses and then go after what you want and never give up. Because, I'm Captain Jack Sparrow, and I say so, savvy?

a/n – This didn't turn out the way I thought it might. But I just wanted to try another thing for Jack, It's a bit more sad this time around…blah, maybe I'll rewrite it.