Disclaimer: Pirates isn't mine. So yeah, don't sue. You know, these things get really annoying…

A/N: Oh my gosh, I am SOOOO sorry I haven't updated in forever! Oh, wow…I am so sorry. I just couldn't get a plan in my head, and…actually, I won't make excuses. I just feel awful that I haven't updated for a long time. ::hangs head in shame:: And I don't even have a really long chapter planned out here, either. But it's better than nothing, right? Again, I'm very sorry and I hope this at least makes up for it.

Rating: PG - 13

Pairing: Jack/Will (THE best ever.)

BLACK VELVET

By: Mercedes Windgarden

He did not recall the length that he had walked, but he knew it had been four days since he left. He also knew he had no food or water since the first day. William Turner sighed, and looked at his suitcase. At least he had clothing in there…but why was he so scatterbrained that morning that he hadn't packed any spare food? He shrugged the question off as a rhetorical one, and kept trudging on. Gods, his legs ached. He really wished to be at a town, at least. He had passed so many things on his four-day trip, but none of these things or these places…if they could be called places, were towns at all…

Well, there was one thing. The ruins he had passed on his trip here. Or more of walked through, really. He could see that a magnificent city had definitely once been there…but it seemed to have become the victim of a vicious inferno, or worse. But he knew that fire had to be some part of it…he saw it, and he had felt it. Once he stepped onto those grounds, he had gotten this immensely strange feeling. It was so hot, and there was an ache inside of his heart as he crossed through the ruined place. The piece of black velvet felt painful in his hands, but seemed even more precious than he thought it was to him. It was amazing, and it was horrifying. Will had been so satisfied to get out of there, but once he left, he realized that the spot inside of him that had always felt empty inside of him was there again. He hadn't realized that it had disappeared whilst he was in the ruins, but it had. It had puzzled him, but he just kept walking.

Will remembered Elizabeth and James telling him of a city that had come to rest just recently before they found him, or when he found them, he didn't really recall which was which. They had also talked about it without Will there, because he had overheard them, but he never really thought it had anything to do with him. Maybe it did, though, if that was the city they had mentioned.

The 19-year-old had gotten so caught up in reminiscing he hadn't realized that he had finally reached a town. Plus, he was also incredibly woozy, had a horrid headache, and wanted to collapse on the ground, but he decided not to bring attention to those things and make them worse. He smiled, though, at finally finding some place to rest. He wandered around for a bit, and finally decided to go into a nearby restaurant for food. He needed food, and he needed it badly. So he pushed open the door to a restaurant, took a seat at the counter, and let his head fall onto it.

"Oh, ouch," he observed as his cranium hit the cold countertop and sent another jolt through it, once again adding onto the headache. After a little while of just staying that way, he heard a female voice ask him,

"Erm, may I help you?"

Will lifted his head up and also lifted his eyes up to the voice. She responded,

"Wow, you look awful. What happened?"

Will quirked an eyebrow.

"You've only just met me, why are you asking?"

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be rude…"

Suddenly another voice from farther down the counter began laughing hysterically, and the young lady looked over to the voice and snarled in a completely different manner,

"Oh, be quiet, Jack! Anyway," she said, turning into the nice voice Will had originally heard, "what can I get you?"

"Anything not beef or pork that can fill up four days of no food, please."

She laughed slightly, and wrote something down, then said, "Alright, I'll make sure they cook it fast." Then she disappeared through a door, which, apparently, led to the kitchen. Meanwhile, Will let his head fall onto the countertop again, not proclaiming that it hurt this time. Suddenly, the male voice, and the name going with it apparently being Jack, as that is what the waitress called him, spoke to him.

"No food for FOUR DAYS? That must have been terrible."

"You have no idea…"

"What were you doing that made you go without precious food for four days?"

"Trying to find myself."

"Ah, you know, I should be doing that too, but I haven't gotten around to it yet."

Will raised his head and looked over Jack. "Pardon?"

Jack shook his head and then said, "Nevermind. I don't even know you yet." He set down the chocolate malt that he had seemed to treasure, ate one fry, and then spun so that he was facing Will. "What's your name?"

"William Turner."

"That's a nice name."

"Thanks."

"And you know my name, obviously, since Anamaria shouted it. She's really not a nice person…that's why I was laughing."

"Well, that's all I need to know. It's so much information it's adding to my headache."

Jack made a face, "Wow, you must be really deprived."

Will groaned as if he didn't want to continue on that certain subject, but he didn't want to stop talking to Jack. Something about talking to him felt so incredibly familiar, but not familiar in the way that it was back in the ruins. It wasn't a horrifying familiar…far from, in fact.

"So, have you lived here long?" Will inquired.

"Five years…so, yeah, for me, that's a long time."

"Why?"

Before Jack could answer, Anamaria came back out and set a tray in front of Will.
"See? That wasn't fast, but then again it was probably actually cooked and put in the freezer half an hour ago. Go ahead, chow down."

Will looked over to the plate and practically drooled over it. It was a very nice looking turkey sandwich, with lettuce, onion, and tomato on top. "How much?" He asked, still not taking his eyes off the sandwich.

Anamaria chuckled, "Five bronze."

Will sighed. Thank all that was good and holy, like that sandwich, that it wasn't any silvers. He reached into his suitcase, pulled out the wallet he had packed, and handed her five bronze coins.

"I'm such a moron…I packed my wallet, but I didn't pack any food."

"Well," Anamaria said, "Um, maybe you thought towns would be more frequent?"

"Thanks. I will eat now."

"Go right ahead." And Anamaria walked over to the register, inserted the coins, and then walked over and began a conversation with Jack.

Will took a bite of the turkey sandwich…it was like heaven.

Gods, it felt good to eat again.

As he was eating, and loving every bite of it, he let his eyes wander over to Jack and Anamaria, but mostly Jack.

He felt compelled towards (and semi-crushing on) Jack. There was no surprise about the whole "he's a guy" thing, but Will was surprised that Jack also felt familiar to him.

Will looked over to the black velvet on his suitcase and ran his fingers over it. For once, it actually gave him a tingling feeling in his fingers and it made him finally feel connected in his heart, and he didn't know why. But…maybe it was…

Oh, yes, William Turner was going to be staying in this town for awhile…

A/N: I really didn't want to go into detail about Will's travels, but I got close about the ruins. I really needed to get the ruins in there! I hope you enjoyed this chapter, because I just HAD to have Jack and Will meet. And I know you may think it's too soon for Will to even think about liking Jack because it's not how things go, but oh well. It's that whole attraction thing going on immediately. Plus, he HAD loved him in the past, only Will doesn't remember that, obviously. But whatever. I am going to possibly DRAG ON the whole memory regaining thing, and the attraction becoming stronger between them, and so forth, because Will's attraction to Jack isn't very strong right now, and we don't exactly know how Jack feels. (Well, YOU don't, but I do. Heh! Heh! Heh!)

Anyway…my yo-yo.

**pulls out trusty yo-yo** You will click on submit review…you will submit a review…you will click on submit review…you will submit a review…

Hope you liked this chapter, and hope it wasn't a disappointment since you had to wait so long! (And again, I am SOOO sorry!!!!)

-- Mercedes Windgarden