Author's Note: Based on a story starter in the Challenges forum, so I don't lay claim to that. Jack/Will pairing.

NOTE: The theme for this one is Sexuality.

Disclaimer: Funnily enough, nothing is mine, just the plot. I like to play.

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"Jack, are you...?"

Jack looked up from the wheel to see Will standing so awkwardly before him in the early morning light. Jack narrowed kohl-rimmed eyes. "Am I what, lad?" Jack growled the words a little, feeling rather hungover.

Will looked pale. "It doesn't matter. Never mind."

Jack raised his eyebrows, interested now. "Yer might as well spit it out, William. You've got me attention now, savvy?"

Will didn't meet his eyes. He shifted his weight from his left foot to his right foot, then back again, then he chewed on a nail. He was just about to bite his lip when he finally spoke. The words left him in a speedy, single breath. "Are you gay?"

Jack threw back his head and laughed in spite of himself, even though it made his head hurt. "Young William, do you honestly think I've ever contemplated that?"

"Your sexuality? You mean you don't know?"

Jack pondered this. To be honest, he had always known he wasn't straight. What exactly he was remained a mystery, though. "I don't," he shrugged. Then he looked at Will with interest. "How about you?"

Will opened his mouth and closed it again. "Never mind," he said.

Then he walked away. Jack rolled his eyes, too sore to be confused, and yet finding that he was anyway. Stupid bloody Will.