Once is never Enough

Chapter 11 - Restlessness

Jack watched helplessly as Elizabeth left his ship. Will was oblivious to everything and the Commordore looked smug as he steered his ship back to Port Royal. Everything in Jack's world seemed to be falling apart and he had to keep his mind on the map to keep his focus.

Alex was standing on the deck below watching as the other ship sailed away. He wanted to tell his brother 'I told you so.' But for some reason he couldn't. He saw the way Jack looked at her and he knew his younger brother had found someone that he actually cared about and possibly even loved. He wasn't sure what happened that made Elizabeth leave but he didn't have time to dwell on it.

"Alex." Jack called down to his brother in a flat, monotone voice. "Where was the last place you searched for the dear old map that we're looking for?"

Alex was hesitant, he knew Jack would go to any lengths to find the map and the last place he looked was miles away from Port Royal.

"Singapore. But it's not there Jack. I searched all over."

Jack didn't pay any attention to Alex's last couple of sentences. "Mr. Gibbs."

"Aye captian?"

"Set a course for Singapore. I'll be below."

Gibbs took the wheel and Alex followed Jack below. Entering the captians rooms Alex looked around. It was clean. 'Elizabeth must have cleaned it before she left.' He thought than his attention was averted to his brother who sat down at his desk and started to search archives and maps, plotting his next course.

"You're an idiot."

Jack sighed heavily and looked out the window. "What did you expect me to do? Tell Will that I was fucking his girl but he could have her back?"

"Jack. That doesn't even make any sence! Why did she leave with him anyway? You didn't have to tell him that you were sleeping with her. Hell, you didn't have to tell him anything."

Jack rubbed his eyes and continued to look out the window as the sun reached it's highest spot in the sky.

"It was her choise to leave."

"What happened?"

"I told her it couldn't work. You know as well as I do that it couldn't. I can't give her what she needs in life."

Alex shook his head this time. "You could give her everything. You could protect her, give her a home, everything her heart desired. Hell Jack, you could give her a family too, what woman doesn't want that?"

"Then what?" Jack asked looking at his brother. "She would have to stay home, wherever that would be, and raise the kid while I went back to the sea. I wouldn't be able to stay landed Alex. And this ship is no place for a child."

"Fine. I don't care, find someone else then. We should stop in Tortuga. Let yourself forget her."

Jack wanted to lash out at his elder brother who was taunting him. He wanted to let him know how much Elizabeth ment to him and how he would never forgive himself for letting her go. But he did what was best for her, and that was not being with him.

Alex left and Jack layed on his bed, staring up at the ceiling musing on how just a few short hours ago Elizabeth was here with him. Her eyes were laughing as he planted soft kisses on her stomach and neck, avioding her most sensative areas. She layed, cuddled in his arms, feeling the heat that radiated from him. Now she was gone, going to be married to Will. Nothing could change the way that pirate felt about her, and nothing could ever make him forget the feel of her.

The infamous Captain Jack Sparrow wallowed in self pity and cryed a few tears before falling into a restless sleep.

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Alex stood on the deck looking toward Port Royal and feeling sorry for his brother. Jack was his only brother now and he swore to protect him the moment he was born and he thought he was doing a poor job at it. Knowing full well that Jack would have his head when he came back up Alex did it anyway.

"Mr. Gibbs."

"Aye sir?"

"Turn her around, take us to Port Royal."

The elder pirate didn't ask why or if Jack even approved the change of direction, and Alex had the distinct feeling that Gibbs knew why.

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TBC

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