It was almost daybreak when Jack returned to the Pearl. He saw that most of his crew was accounted for but he had yet to see Will. He went below to go see if Will was in his cabin. Just as he was about to knock on Will's door, Will opened it, the surprise made Jack jump back. "I was just coming to look for ye boy."
Will was smiling at the fact he had surprised Jack. "Wipe that grin off ye face whelp," Jack said trying to be as serious as he could. Will immediately tried to keep a straight face. Will stepped outside his cabin and as Will went to shut the door, Jack caught a glimpse of a woman in Will's bed and she appeared to be sleeping. Jack raised an eyebrow and suddenly got a huge grin on his face. Will, knowing exactly what Jack was thinking, started walking up topside and Jack followed him up. "Wipe the grin off your face Jack it's not what you think. I've been a perfect gentleman and the lady's honor is in fact intact."
That statement caused a frown to appear on Jack's face but before Jack could start to inquire about the young lady Mr. Gibbs walked up, "Will what happened to ye last night. Just look at ye shirt. My boy from the location of that wound – well ye should be dead."
Jack looked at Will's shirt noticing for the first time the blood and the hole. "What exactly did happen last night Mr. Turner," Jack asked.
Will began to explain everything that happened. How he saw the woman in trouble and how she had been knocked out and had yet to regain consciousness. He continued on telling them about fighting the two men and seeing Elizabeth.
"And in this fight, while ye be distracted by false visions, ye be stabbed in the heart and lived," Mr. Gibbs asked making sure that he had heard Will correctly.
"Yes, and while it hurt and it knocked me back, it did not kill me. Maybe Elizabeth was there protecting me somehow."
"And that is why the two men fled," Jack asked Will shaking his head in disbelief. If Jack hadn't seen the shirt and the blood and known Will, he would have thought this was one of his own tales.
"Yes, I believe they were afraid and to be perfectly honest Jack – it scares me too." Will left the two men thinking about everything he had said. He needed to return to his visitor and see if she had awakened. After walking away, Will once again looked down at his shirt, "this can not be," he thought to himself, "how is it I can not be killed?"
Jack looking at Will as he left noticed that the sword had gone through Will and out the back. Mr. Gibbs noticing what Jack was looking at, stopped talking completely. "We've been through strange situations before Mr. Gibbs but how is it now Will Turner is immortal? We've been away from all the strangeness for years now. But see Mr. Gibbs, young Turner is still that young. Why is it that we are aging, even poor Elizabeth aged, but not him."
"Aye Captain, do ye think we be in danger from whatever is doing this to Will," Gibbs asked Jack.
"No. And I can not abandon Will now if that's what ye be thinking. His sorrow is clouding his judgment and his life. We can not run from what we don't know. Although I've run away from plenty I have known. Anyways, I told young William I would return with his father, his father that he knows and loves, not that shell of a man filled with sorrow that left."