Just a quick, nonsense chapter for New Year's. I came up with the silly idea, and then... well... "Couldn't resist, mate." ;)

Chapter 12

Will eyed the eggnog that Jack was drinking critically. "Just how much alcohol is in that?"

"Don' you worry 'bout it," Jack said evasively – and somewhat drunkenly. "Unless you wan' me t' make you one," he added with a grin.

Will made a face of disgust. "I'll pass."

Jack snorted. "Lightweight."

Will glared at him, took a quick swig of his beer.

"Lightweight, huh?" Elizabeth asked, smiling teasingly and poking him in the arm.

"Haven' you ever seen 'im drink? 'e can barely 'andle anythin'. Give 'im more 'n a couple o' beers an' th' bloody idiot'd do anythin'." Jack shook his head. "It's downrigh' sad, it is."

Noticing just how much Will was blushing, Elizabeth decided that a rescue was in order. She quickly changed the subject.

"So, Will, you never actually told me your theory on how you and your dad are actually twins."

Will and Jack both laughed.

"Now's when you find out jus' 'ow big of a nerd yer boyfriend really is," Jack chuckled.

Will grinned. "You're just jealous because you know being a nerd is more fun." He turned to Elizabeth. "Have you ever watched that show Doctor Who?"

"Isn't that the one with the time-travelling alien in the phone booth?"

"Technically it's a police box," Will corrected her. "And it's called the TARDIS. And the alien's called the Doctor."

"All hail th' king o' th' nerds," Jack said sarcastically. "Jus' get on with it, would yeh?"

Elizabeth had often wondered throughout her two year relationship with Will exactly how much of his life he had spent glaring at Jack Sparrow.

"Anyway," Will said pointedly, again turning away from Jack, "the theory goes something like this…" He took another sip of beer. "My dad and I were actually born as identical twins twenty-five years ago. But at some point, the Doctor showed up and took my dad with him on outrageous and highly improbable adventures through time and space, as the Doctor does."

Elizabeth giggled. Will was adorable when he was being nerdy.

"Somehow, during their travels," Will continued, "a paradoxical alternate reality formed around my twin, thereby creating a world where he became my dad. And, er, changed the color of his eyes."

"Tha's jus' messed up," Jack said.

Will shrugged. "How else do you explain us?"

"Pretty sure it's called genetics, mate."

"Bull. We're clearly twins."

Jack shook his head. "Yer messed up."

"Says the man drinking something that's about twenty percent eggnog, eighty percent hard liquor. What'd you put in there? Rum?"

"Wha' else?" Jack grinned.

"That's disgusting," Elizabeth laughed.

Jack just shrugged and downed the last of his drink. "I'm getting' another one. Wan' me t' make you one?"

"Absolutely not."

"Yer loss." Jack peered under the counter. "Dammit, where's th' rum?" He wondered off into the kitchen. "Ana? Yeh still doin' inventory back 'ere?"

"Yeah!" she called from somewhere in the back.

"We got anymore rum?"

"None back here. I thought you still had two full bottles out there!"

"Are you tellin' me tha' the rum is gone?" Jack asked, horrified.

"Apparently."

There was a brief moment of silence. And then: "Why is th' rum gone?"

Out in the front room of the bar, Will remarked curiously, "I thought there were a couple more bottles out here, too. I wonder where they went. He can't have drunk them both already – " He looked at Elizabeth, who was suddenly overcome with a fit of giggles. "What is it?"

Elizabeth reached down to the floor next to her stool. "Where indeed?" she laughed, holding up a bottle of rum.

A huge grin spread across Will's face. "I really love you."

"I love you, too," she grinned. "And we should probably get out of here before he realizes it was me…"

"Probably." Will drained the last of his beer. "Let's go."

As they stepped outside with the bottles hidden under their coats, Jack's frustrated shouts could still be heard from the back room:

"But why is th' rum gone?!"

And I even managed to inflict my nerdiness upon you all with a cleverly placed and incredibly blatant Doctor Who reference! Happy New Year, loyal (and hopefully nerd-tolerant) readers!