Title: Betrayal 3/?

Author: Majishia

Pairing: J/W Slight J/B

Disclaimer: None of them are mine. I'm making no profit off them.

Jack hears a great deal of things. First he hears of pirates back from the dead, second he hears of the devil himself in England.

Now Jack really doesn't believe in the devil, but pirates back from the dead? He certainly believes in those. Even met a few of them. This pirate, however, he had thought to never hear of again.

Bill. His lover, beloved, whatever you wanted to call him, Bill was it. Bill was already an experienced sailor when Jack came into his life. Jack was seventeen years old when he gained the captain-ship of the Black Pearl. Bill was his second in command, his first mate. But as Jack grew into his position, he picked a different leader, Hector Barbossa.

Barbossa showed him what a pirate's life was really like, the pillaging, the plundering, and even the raping. Jack never got into the raping and killing part, and slowly his gaze was again drawn to Bootstrap.

They never had the chance to really fall in love. As soon as Jack's admiration shifted, Barbossa pounced. He was now the Captain, and neither Bill nor Jack had any say in it. Jack was marooned and Bill tossed to Davey Jones's' locker, not that Jack had gotten that saying. Who was Davey Jones? And why was the sea his locker?

In three days anyone could do a lot of soul searching, and Jack searched as hard as he could. He then knew there was always something missing with Bill, some mysterious object he could never have hoped to pass.

Then, ten years later, he found a look-alike. So similar of appearance and speech, one could almost be mistaken for the other. So this was the whelp Bootstrap always wanted him to come and see. Well he certainly saw him then. Saw his despair, his love, and his devotion.

And what a man Will seemed to be! Definitely not the eunuch he teased him about being. Jack thought 'like father, like son.' The same thing was missing with Will. But after Will left, Jack discovered it. He had had it all along, buried in his heart.