Will stopped.
"Will?" Ten feet behind, Elizabeth had stopped. She shuffled to catch up with him. "What's the matter?"
"Ah…Elizabeth, are you sure about this? That…doesn't look like Jack to me. Maybe it's another crab." Will did not like himself at the moment. He was hovering between strong hate and strong loyalty. What was wrong with him? He should hate Jack. Jack had been a…
No, he should be loyal to Jack. After all, Jack had done things for him, like…
Well, there had to be something. Will had done plenty of things for Jack, like freeing him from his cell in Port Royal that first time they met (but Jack was the person who got Will into this whole pirate trouble), Will was the one who had suggested burning the rum so the Kraken would go away (but look how that turned out), and when the cannibal tribe was running after Jack Will had said he wouldn't leave without him (but he almost did). Yes, Will was loyal to Jack (almost)! So why couldn't Jack do the same? Will thought of a few answers to this question:
a) Jack was a pirate. Pirates aren't the most loyal people in the world,
b) Jack was a captain of a ship, and he had probably learned not to trust strangers that broke him out of prison, and
c) Jack was…well, Jack.
Now that they were drawing closer to the crab/Jack, Will had to admit that the figure did have the distinct shape of a human being.
