No Man Is an Island

by pinkdragon

Will and Elizabeth ask Jack to be their daughter's godfather. He refuses and decides to leave them behind forever until he mistakenly runs into them several years later when he befriends their young daughter and eventually falls in love with her.

3. Captain's Log

Bloody Will! I thought the boy knew me better! Bloody Elizabeth! Probably her idea! They've got some sand, I'll give them that! Next they'll be asking me to turn in me ship for a house!

And what a sap Will has turned into! Bootstrap was never such a noonan*! I count my lucky star that my salmon don't swim upstream! Some men are touchy about it, but not me! I am fortunate to've never had some bird's father after my neck claiming I knocked up his little girl, and I thank the sea gods for that fact, I do!

I'm afraid I hear the whispers from my crew that some are getting restless and want to settle down. Apparently they've been ailed with the paternal scurvy. No me, not ever! I live for freedom-the Pearl.

Tonight, we spend in Tortuga. I'm looking forward to devouring every woman and ounce of rum in sight! To me!!!

A/N: *Taken from the Alternative English Dictionary (www.notam02.no/~hcholm/altlang/ht/English.html) means a "dorky, very annoying person."