A/N: Ok Ok Ok . . . . . . . It has been a long time, but I'M BACK, I even have a new name . . . . I was originally going to leave the story where it was but I had some sudden inspiration in the form of lovely reviewers and having the Internet reconnected . . .long story . . .well go on then you asked for it now read it. . .

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Jack stared at the boy, dazed. Hardly daring to believe that this was happening he opened his mouth to speak when another voice rang out in the still air, startling both men.

"Jack! Where the hell have you been?" Will looked up at him and raised an eyebrow, Jack merely rolled his eyes and stood up, pulling Will with him. After placing a kiss on the end of the ex-blacksmith's nose and briefly enjoying the blush that spread across his cheeks, Jack turned to face the only person the voice could have belonged to.

Anamaria.

The dark woman stood on the Black Pearl's railings with her usual disapproving look and harsh eyes. Gibbs was stood slightly behind her on the deck taking a deep drink from his hip flask.

Jack smiled widely at the two of them and shouted across the small gap between the two vessels.

"I had some rather pressing matters to look into, but all's well and good now so we can go about our usual business with only a slight difference." The female pirate's eyes narrowed as she asked the question that, truth be told, she really didn't want an answer on.

"And wha' difference is tha'?" Jack's grin widened, his gold teeth glittering in the bright Caribbean sun.

"We got ourselves a new crew member. Now either help me an' the whelp up or bugger off for a bit, you jus' 'appened to interupt a very important momen'!" Anamaria smirked at the obvious impatience of her Captain and called behind her for the ropes, then looked across at Jack.

"An' who is this new addition to the crew?" Jack smiled widely and turned to look for Will, when he did not see him on deck he rolled his eyes and turned back to Anamaria,

"Give me one minute." With that he stumbled across the deck and into the slightly cooler shadows, searching for his companion. "Will lad, this is not a bloody game of hide and seek, where the bloody hell . . ." he finished his sentence abruptly when he encountered a beam slightly lower than the rest.

Cursing profusely and rubbing his head he came across Will in the captain's cabin, just on his way out with his bag of belongings slung over one shoulder.

"Jack, what are you doing down here?" Giving his head a slight shake to get his mind back in order and out of the gutter at the sight of the still slightly flushed ex-blacksmith Jack rolled his eyes and answered.

"Doin' a jig, wha' you think I'm doin'? I'm lookin for the mysterious disappearin' blacksmith tha' left me stranded up on deck all by me onsies, haven't seen him around anywhere have you?!" he punctuated his slightly melodramatic speech with his usual hand movements and Will fought not to grin at the obviously flustered captain stood before him.

"Jack calm down, you'll do yourself some harm jumping about like that, we don't want you banging your head on the beams now do we?" Jack just huffed then, after a few seconds of pouting grinned and eyed Will,

"If I did jus' 'appen to do somethin' along those lines, would ye kiss it an make it all feel better?" Will's mood quickly shifted back into his usual seriousness as he regarded his companion, and wondered if the kiss they had shared only moments before-hand had meant anything to the pirate stood before him. From his reaction Will would have said that it had meant something, but he couldn't be sure, Jack might just be after another whore to use and then walk away from, and that was one thing Will couldn't have survived.

He knew he was being insecure and worrying but he had to ask, he had to know while there was still a chance to walk away and live with the memory of the few seconds of heaven he would never encounter again.

"J-jack I need to ask you something . . ." the captain noted the serious look on his companion's face and his grin faded, this was what he had been dreading, it had all been a joke, a cruel joke played on a foolish heart. He waited with a sinking feeling in his gut telling him something very bad was about to happen.

"I need to know whether or not what just happened up there . . . the kiss . . . meant anything to you, anything at all?" Jack stared open-mouthed for a few seconds wondering which world Will was living in. How could he not have noticed, all the side-long glances he had thrown at him, the brief touches passed off as accident, and then the kiss . . . how could he still not know whether or not Jack was serious?

Clearing his throat he looked at Will, more serious now than he had been in a long time.

"I know exactly what it meant to me. It meant somethin' very special to me . . . I might not know much more than the sea, me Pearl an' me rum . . . but I do know one thing Will Turner . . ." This was it, the big moment. Jack looked straight at Will and hoped beyond hope that he felt the same, "I love you."

Will gasped, Jack loved him! Jack loved him!

"Y-you do?" Jack nodded, not daring to speak. Will's eyes filled with tears and he all but threw himself at the pirate captain, kissing him deeply, hands reaching into the mass of wild hair. Jack wrapped two strong arms around Will's slender frame and kissed back, relishing in the feel of the strong body pushed up against his and the warm mouth on his.

They pulled back slightly, in need of oxygen, Jack sucked on Will's bottom lip for a few seconds before pulling back and looking deep into the eyes of the person that had haunted his every living moment since he had left Port Royale and smiled, a bright genuine smile.

"I love you too Jack Sparrow." Will whispered as he leaned his head against that of the colorful pirate. They stayed that way for a few minutes, wrapped in each others warm embrace, savoring the moment of contentment and happiness, before loud footfalls could be heard above deck, the two men looked at each other and said in unison,

"Anamaria."

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