(disclaimer and notes in 1st chapter)

WARNING: extremely short, dialogue-only, slightly out-of-character chapter follows this warning. Proceed at your own risk.

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"Jack."

"Can't hear you, la la la la."

"Will you just look at the map!"

"I don't *need* to look at the bloody map! I've been sailing since you were in diapers, boy, all I need to navigate is a star in a clear sky."

"It's daytime. There are no stars."

"You're so much more alluring when you're quiet, you know."

"Admit we're lost."

"I will do no such thing, because we are not, in fact, lost. I know my way to Port Royal!"

"You told me just last night that you were falling-down drunk when you sailed in its direction and it's a miracle you found a harbor at all before your stolen boat sank and took you with it to the bottom."

"I say all kinds of stupid things when I'm in bed with you. It's your own damned fault, making me weak and nonsensical."

"Please let Gibbs take over, Jack."

"And admit defeat? Ha! The Pearl will tell me which way to sail, won't you my darling?"

"It's very disturbing when you stroke the wheel like that. I'll just be in the cabin then, nursing my terrible gut-wound, without a shirt or perhaps even pants."

"...Gibbs! To the helm, man! I can't be standing 'round here all day!"

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