#10 "Leaving By Choice" (Jack Sparrow, POTC)
Fandom: POTC
Title: Leaving By Choice
Author/Artist: Nicole (PineappleIce or sulliedxunusual)
Theme: #10 Suicide
Characters: Jack Sparrow
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Suicide, angst
Disclaimer: I don't own it.
Summary: At the end of his life, Jack Sparrow is but a shadow of his former self.


Suicide? No, this wasn't suicide. A man like Captain Jack Sparrow would never succumb to the shameful, weak way out that was suicide. What he was doing... what he was doing was the right thing to do. It would help people. The world would surely be a better place without him. He had nothing left to live for, nobody who loved him anymore. All those people had come and gone; Elizabeth, who had sworn she loved him, had wound up with Will anyway. Will, who had been almost a brother, had never forgiven Jack. Anamaria- well, she was too changing for Jack's liking, and she had eventually morphed again, into a proper lady with no need for a man like Jack. Gibbs had joined Barbossa's crew after the latter claimed ownership of the Pearl.

No ship, no friends. There was barely even any money for rum or food. This was not life. So leaving it by choice was not suicide.

There were no tears left in his eyes as he reached for the rusty blade at his waist. They were long gone, the last ones spent so many days ago. Now there was only peace and understanding.

Captain Jack, so faded. The tongue that had once been so sharp and quick had no witty last words as the blade sliced worn, golden skin.

Then again, there would have been nobody to hear them.