Title: "Regret"
Author:luvvycat
Characters: Bootstrap Bill Turner
Rating: PG
Prompt: Return
Word count: 100
Disclaimer: PotC is Disney's, not mine. *sniff*
Summary: Bootstrap Bill finds that endless days at the bottom of the ocean gives a man time to think, and regret…


Unrelenting blackness. Not a glimmer penetrated—neither sun, nor moonlight to melt flesh from cursed bones. He couldn't track the number of days he'd been down here, weighted by the Pearl's cannon.

He supposed t'was a mercy he couldn't feel cold; the curse numbed sensation, but not thought…

…or regret.

He'd sent the coin to ensure the guilty—himself included—suffered for what they did to Jack. But his deepest sorrow was that he'd never return to his wife and son.

A voice rippled against his sea-filled ear, a devil's bargain: "Bootstrap Bill Turner… do you fear death?"

No…

"Yes…"