Disclaimer: Not yet, but when I rule the world, I might rule them, but, then again, you can't rule people huh? World domination is only 3rd on my list.

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Eleven
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"This shouldn't have happened!" Jack shouted running down the narrow trail of the mountain with Norrington and Lizzie behind him. "If I wasn't more careful I wouldn't have been thrown over! Then Will wouldn't have fallen!" tears streaked down Jack's face, marring his angelic beauty.

"It's not your fault!" Norrington shouted. "You couldn't have helped it!"

"Jack, this is crazy, you know as well as I do the possibilities of William landing in a sink hole is too narrow a chance!"

"It was a narrow chance that you AND I didn't hit the rocks last time!" Jack shouted over his shoulder. He jumped the rest of the trail and ran the long side of the bank until he came up to Bruno's broken body.

"Three hits sounds too odd," Norrington said but Jack tuned him out.

"WILL!" Jack waded into the water. "WILLIAM! PLEASE!" Jack sobbed. "PLEASE! Don't die," he fell to him hands and knees and faltered into an unbreathable cry.

Norrington and Lizzie stood next to him until Jack blacked out, when he fit the water face down, Norrington picked him up and they headed back for the road taking the long way around so they wouldn't run the risk of falling on the narrow trail back up.

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Dani sat on the cliff's edge, John was left forgotten and he was able to sneak off, Dani starred into the murky waters of the river below, she had watched Jack collapse into the river after calling for his love. She sighed and lit a cigarette, "What is going to happen now?" she asked no one. "Will, possible dead, Jack, if this is true, might just die of a broken heart," she took a long drag, letting the smoke escape her lips in a smooth jet. "Hmm, this is tricky," she smiled. "But, like every other time they came back to life, this will be interesting on how this turns out." She flicked the cigarette out and launched herself off the cliff.

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Jack lay in Lizzie's bed, the curtains pulled tight around the windows, not daring any light to enter. He shifted in bed, flipping over to lie on his stomach. Every moment he spent with Will ran through his head, tears began to cascade down his face as he realized how bad he was towards William and how he would do anything to take it back. He felt people come into the room, he knew they tried to talk to him, but he tuned everything out.

Hours stretched into days, days stretched into weeks. Jack knew that if William had lived through it, he should have turned up by now. With no strength to get himself out of bed he looked over at the nightstand, Lizzie always brought in food for him, though he ate very little, he figured it was time to get out and stop mopping about. He reached over and took up some bread in his hand. He chewed weakly, but with each scratchy gulp, he earned a bit more strength. He passed through the bread and grapes quickly before grabbing an orange and peeling it. He got out of bed and sat by the fire, throwing the peelings into the fire and watching the flame lick it.

Lizzie stepped into the room and smiled at Jack. "You're up,"

Jack nodded, not wanting to talk, he hadn't use his vocal cords for anything much but crying and he didn't want to sound like a frog to Lizzie.

"Think you're up for a movie? Norrington is working late tonight and I wanted to go see this movie, Secret Window, I heard it was great, wanna come with me?"

Jack nodded.

"Okay then, uh, get ready, I went to your place on Bruno's estate, and I got your clothes, they are in the bathroom, the movie starts in about an hour, so you can get ready and I will come back in a little while when I am ready."

Jack nodded and she left, he finished off his orange before walking to the bathroom. He started the shower and stripped down and stepped in. He let the water fall over him, he grabbed the soap and began to clean him self, washing off the grime of the past week or so off his body. He climbed out of the shower and dressed in his usual black jeans, black fishnet shirt, boots and bracelets and anklets. He toned his face with makeup, black around his eyes and a slight dark brown on his lips, he addressed his hair with different charms and his favorite bone piece which only came out of his hair when someone took it out, he hated being without it. He looked at himself in the mirror before taking a deep breath.

"We can pull through this right?" he smiled and walked out of the room and into the hall just as Lizzie came into the hall.

"Oh, ready?"

Jack coughed. "Sure," he smiled and followed her figure downstairs and out to her car.

They headed down the streets of the city and then into the movie theater. Jack sighed as they sat down and the movie flickered on the screen.

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"That movie was great!" Lizzie cheered.

They walked out of the movie theater and back to the car.

"Don't you think Jack?"

"It was good," Jack nodded. "I liked it,"

"Wanna get something to drink?" Lizzie looked down at her watch. "Norrington isn't coming home until eleven and its only ten."

Jack shrugged. "If you're buying,"

"Of course I'm buying," Lizzie smiled. "Come on, the Red Rooster is open."

They got into the car and slowly headed off for the coffee house called Red Rooster. They stopped at the light as it turned green and a small crowd passed in front of them. Jack scanned them out of habit and sighed.

"Wait that was Will!" He shouted after a moment of delayed reaction. He sprang from the car and ran across the street but saw no one. Lizzie parked her car and shut the doors before walking over to Jack who was rubbing his eyes.

"Are you okay?" Lizzie asked.

"Yeah, I must have been seeing things," Jack said and walked with her to the coffee house.

Lizzie nodded. "Come on," she sat him down on a recliner in the coffee house and ordered 2 mocha singles.

"I have a bad feeling," Jack said looking around. "Did they ever catch John?"

Lizzie starred at him. "The oddities of him coming after you this soon is highly unlikely,"

"I've more then 2 enemies you know that."

"I know that," Lizzie nodded. "Oh, did you know Loki's got a boyfriend? He gave up on you, said you and Will we're too cute-" she quickly bit her tongue.

Jack looked down. "It's okay Lizzie,"

"I'm sorry,"

"I'll live," Jack smiled. "I'll live."