A/N: Ok, yes this is short, but bear with me – the next NOW chapter is already done and I'll post it Wednesday or Thursday. A cutesy little tidbit about Will, who believe it or now I'm beginning to miss. Enjoy.

A few weeks pre-accord. On the way home from World's End.

It was the perfect time – Barbossa was alone. Elizabeth was sleeping and Jack was off celebrating life by raising a toast to each and every one of his Kraken scars (he was quite drunk) and now was the time.

It still took Will a moment to get up the courage to approach. "Captain?"

"Mornin, Turner. Let me guess…" Barbossa turned to face Will and drawled, "Y'just simply have to talk to me." Mocking didn't even begin to cover it.

Will winced. "Look, I just… I mean, I really do appreciate your traipsing around World's End looking for me. And I know it had to be Elizabeth's idea. It's just… I want to know, how did she…err…" After a moment he tried again. "I mean, did anything…"

"Did anything…?" Barbossa prompted, clearly enjoying himself too much to make this any easier.

"Did anything… happen…?"

"Acourse – a whole couple weeks of things, in fact. I drank up the last of the coffee, Gibbs took a fall from the r-"

"Captain, please! I have to know." Will tried to keep his tone polite. "Did, you know, did anything happen? Between you and Elizabeth?"

Barbossa draped his arm over Will's shoulders and rested his head on Will's neck. "Will." He was laughing. "Will, bein dead be a bit disorientin. I know that. So I'll give ye one more chance not to ask that question."

"But I-"

Barbossa shook him. "If you ask me, I'll tell you. And if I tell you, you'll know. And once you know, you'll never be able to forget. So-"

"All right," Will interrupted. "All right, thank you – you've said quite enough." He shrugged the arm off and folded his hands on the railing and twisted them nervously.

Barbossa came to stand beside him. "Course, you know I'd tell you that whether or not I actually touched her. The missie is all yours, Turner." He patted Will on the shoulder and for a moment Will was relieved… until he added, with a small nasty smile: "Least from now on."

TBC.

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