Takes place sometime after Tortuga, between picking up the crew and catching up to the Pearl.  Jack's at the wheel and Will, as usual, is sitting around staring at him….

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            "Give it a try, boy."

            Startled out of his reverie, Will glanced up to see Gibbs hovering over him with an encouraging smile.  "What?"

            "Try it," the pirate repeated.  "Might as well.  Rumor is that Jack…um…will sail under either flag, if ya know what I mean…"

            For a moment Will stared blankly, but he was not quite naïve enough to misunderstand for long.  "What?" he demanded, trying to keep his voice low.  "No – you're wrong – the idea never crossed my mind, not once."

            "Come off it, boy, we all see the way you look at him."  Gibbs chuckled.  "And the way he's always teasin' ya."

            Shocked by the idea that the crew believed him in love with their captain, Will couldn't form an articulate protest at first.  "No, I don't – I mean, it's not…stop looking at me!  I don't think about Jack that way – not at all – and I didn't know he… I had no idea," he sputtered.

            "Well, well, well," said a voice from behind them.  Will and Gibbs both whirled around, mouths open, and wondered what on earth to say to Jack now.  "So there's the reason my ears were burning."

            Will scrambled to his feet.  "Jack, listen.  I swear, there's nothing to any of that, I don't know what he's-"

            "William."  Jack draped his arm around Will's shoulders with exaggerated familiarity, grinning when he saw how uncomfortable Will was getting.  "There's absolutely nothing wrong with falling for Captain Jack Sparrow.  Devilish good looks, an unimpeachable sense of h-"

            "Stop it."  Too embarrassed to care that Jack was only joking, Will broke loose and backed away, blushing furiously.  "You know that's ridiculous.  I love Elizabeth…"

            Jack closed the distance between them with one smooth step.  His eyes traveled slowly down Will's body and back up again.  "Just because I rarely tell the truth, mate," he purred, low and intimate, "doesn't mean I can't see it."

            And then he smiled brightly and the creepy moment was broken.  Will watched him flounce away, wondering what the hell he had meant, until a quiet laugh drew his attention to the Gibbs, who (damn him) hadn't yet gone away.

            "Yer still lookin' at him."

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