Chapter II - The first thought is always right

It was two weeks before their wedding and two weeks after his return.

Will couldn't sleep. He stood at the beach staring at the sea.
He missed something. He didn't know what. It was like the nights on board the Pearl.
He always decided to stare at the ocean. Because the ocean means freedom.
Freedom to go to the horizon. Freedom to do whatever he wanted to do.
But what was it he wanted to do?
He tried hard to think of nothing. To get the feeling of loneliness out of his head.
But every time he tried, the Black Pearl came to mind.
Why? He felt like this on board the Pearl, too. Why would he miss the boat when he was on board?
When he went back to bed, he smiled at still sleeping Elisabeth. She looked like an angel.
He remembered her words and for a moment he asked himself if he could live without her. He decided no!
Because she was the reason he returned.
And she was the one who waited for him.
The one who believed in their love and he loved her.
More than everything else.
He placed a gentle kiss on her forehead and went back to bed.

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Jack Sparrow sat next to some rocks on the beach. The water was playing with his boots and in his right hand he held a nearly empty bottle of rum.
He asked himself if should've talked to Will. If he should've told him everything. Or if he just didn't let him go would have been the best thing he could have done.

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It was the same dream. Again and again. The whole night.
Three weeks after his return to Port Royal, Will couldn't sleep anymore.
Elisabeth was on vacation with her father for a few days.
The bed was empty and there was nothing beside him that he could make himself sure that Port Royal was the right place to be.
When he closed his eyes he saw it. This beautiful ship. The black sails of the Pearl and then, on board, Captain Jack Sparrow. Smiling at him.
He didn't know why he dreamed that. He had this life.
And he decided that it was wrong, because there was this loneliness night after night.
And he tried to remember the moments when he didn't felt lonely on board the Pearl. He tried to remember the moments when it felt right to be on board. The answer was the smiling face of Jack.
He started to think about Elisabeth words.
Was she really the one he couldn't live without?
He could live with her. Sure. Everyday was one of the best in his life but he also could live without her.
He never really missed her on board the Pearl. He missed something but not exactly her.
And now. He didn't miss her a week before her wedding.
But he missed the Pearl.
And he missed Jack. Just a little, as a friend but he missed him.
No, he didn't missed him just a little. But maybe it would be easier when it was just a little.
And as friend?
It was just that he missed him.
Maybe he missed him in the nights while he lived on the Pearl.
He didn't want to say that it was possible that he loved him, but he missed him.
He didn't want to say more at the moment.
Or maybe just that he can't live without him. Doesn't matter as a friend or more.
Will stood up and walked down to the harbour.
He found a ship that would take him anywhere.
But where did he want to go?
Sure. Tortuga.

In the morning he would sail to Tortuga.