AN: sorry about the delay and about it's shortness, I felt this was a good stopping place for the chapter, plus I couldn't thin of anything else that would fit with it.

Will pondered Jack's "psychic" abilities for the next couple of moments until he realized that they had stopped walking. He looked up puzzled, and saw that Jack seemed to be inspecting the water under the dock curiously. Jack crouched down, looked at the water, sniffed the water, paused, then stuck his finger in the water, took it out and looked at it closely… then tasted it.

Will looked at him… then whispered…

"What are you doing?"

Jack turned slightly and looked at the boy who had been leaning over his shoulder as if he just now realized that Will was with him.

"I'm inspecting the water, of course."

"Inspecting it… what have you found?"

"Well dear boy, I have found that someone very recently relived himself in this here water so we should find another place to dive in."

"Relieved himself? Dive in? We're going to be diving? And how can you be sure that someone 'relieved' himself in these waters.." he looked at jack curiously "Have you had experience in tasting… such things?"

Jack leered at him

"There's not always fresh water on the ships, ya know." Will went pale and suddenly wished he had… Stayed home… where there was water.

"Alri' then. Off we go!" Jack dived into the water gracefully, a long stretch from his usual clumsy self-confident swagger.

"BUT WHAT ABOUT THE PISS?!"

But alas, Jack did not hear him because he was several feet under water swimming expertly toward the pearl… this made Will wonder idly if one of Jack's parents was a fish, perhaps he had some mermaid in him, those pirates must get awfully lonely on the seas and a nice looking girl, albeit half fish, would probably still be mighty tempting…  (Obviously Will has a bit of an attention span problem)

Eventually Will pulled out of his thoughts and attempted to dive into the water, only succeeding in doing a cross between a belly flop and a canon ball… no matter what it was, he would most definitely have burns on his belly tomorrow.

He struggled to swim to the pearl, by the time he arrived Jack was already on board, seemingly dry (I wonder how he got dry so fast... maybe mermaids have special drying abilities… like waterproof or something… maybe they had a pair of clothes waiting for him… but how many outfits can you have that look exactly alike? They can't have too many they are pirates they don't exactly have the best of everything... Do they? I suppose they could steal a good amount of clothes but what the likelihood that he found the exact same outfit-) Will was pulled out of his thoughts when a rope ladder fell on his head, thrown by Jack who helped pull him on board.

Will dripped onto the deck pathetically and looked at all the smirking faces, some of whom, who he had recognized such as Ana Maria, had grunted a greeting. Will looked up to see Jack looking at him in a pitying way.

"Should have known you weren't much of a swimmer. Alright mate time to get you settled in."

The Captain walked off, followed quickly by Will, and down a stairway to a door. He began unlocking it when he turned around and looked at Will seriously.

 "Now listen here, boy. This is me private quarters which means no one is allowed in… Cept you I'd reckon. You'll be staying in here with me, since I don't fancy you'd fair well staying with Gibbs or Ana Maria, they're very picky about keeping their space and the rest of the crew'd probably eat you alive. Keep in mind that you may not," he gestured and assumed a disgusted look on his face "touch anything without my permission, and if you happen to disobey me, you'll suffer a most horrible death… Savvy?"

Will nodded.

"Savvy."

Jack resumed the unlocking of his quarters with such suspense that Will nearly fell over himself to get in there, half expecting there to be several dead bodies and half expecting there to be riches beyond the imagination. He was surprised to see that honestly, it wasn't that big of a deal.

There was a rather large comfortable looking bed with red velvet covers and silk pillowcases, which was about the most stunning thing in there. On the opposite wall there was a working desk with a quill, an inkbottle, and some parchment with scribbled maps, and a few drawers with keyholes and upon better inspection of Jack's hair, you'd be able to find its key dangling in there. Those must be what I'm not supposed touch. Besides that there was a small closet, which assumedly, had all of Jacks… exact same outfits. Better not touch that either…

Jack did a twirl and stood in front of Will, smiling proudly of his room.

"Welcome to your new residence."

Will smiled and walked over to the bed, running his fingers over the soft material until it dawned on him that there was, in fact, only one bed. Will spoke without turning to Jack, still admiring the bed.

"Jack? Where do you want me to sleep?"

Jack silently came up behind Will and pressed his body lightly against Will's back, Will stiffened up at the contact.

"That's an awfully large bed, William. Two people could fit in there quite comfortably, don't you agree?"

Will closed his eyes briefly

"Yes." He hissed out breathlessly and tried not to gasp as Jack hand brushed down his hip.

"Good… It's nearly time for bed, get settled in while I go talk to the crew, will you?"

And he moved away, cat like in his demeanor and closed the door behind him with a click, leaving Will alone to his own devices.

Flopping down on the bed stunned and slightly confused, Will muttered to himself

"Oh. Good. Lord."

Meanwhile Jack strode to the main deck and stood beside Ana Maria, smiling to himself.

Ana Maria looked at him out of the corner of her eye and the sighed looking back out to the sea.

"D'ya bed him yet?"

Jack looked at her like she was insane but she could see a smirk coming out.

"What on earth do you mean, miss?" Jack exclaimed all too innocently. Ana Maria often wondered if he honestly thought he sounded innocent. She considered whacking him over the head but didn't want to loose control of the wheel.

"You know bloody well what I mean."

Jack smirked fully, turned to her casually and said in hushed tones.

"Lets just say that it would be prudent for the crew not to listen to closely when they pass my quarters tonight." And walked away to check the others work, leaving Ana Maria and her disapproving looks behind.

I'll be damned if that boy doesn't get hurt by the end of the week.