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Ordinary Man	By : danglingdingle Category: Pirates of the Caribbean (All) > General Views: 1471 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 1-Ordinary Man
- 2-2
- 3-3
- 4-4
- 5-5
- 6-6
- 7-7
- 8-8
- 9-9
- 10-9b
- 11-10
- 12-Interlude
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His eyes refused to stay closed long enough for him to fall asleep, so Will succumbed to the toil and turn of his mind repeating the afternoon, like there were some secrets buried in the words said and all Will had to do was to find them.

“Will Turner.”

The smile on Will’s face, brought up by his dream being very much flesh and bone, dropped once Jack stepped out of the shadows.

Not giving Will time to even greet the incomer, Jack, tilting his head, verified what is was he was seeing, looking just as surprised as Will felt.

“So it is you.”

Silence hung in the air, creating an almost impenetrable barrier, neither of the men moving, almost not breathing, until Will managed to open his mouth.

“Jack.” Feeling foolish for not finding anything more to say, unable to grasp and form a full thought out of the rapid, fleeting flow of uncertainty coursing through him.

The confusion quickly fled as Jack took a pace toward Will and stood in front of him, staring right into Will’s eyes, face slack, desolate.

“You shouldn’t have come there, Will. You should’ve let me take care of it. If you‘d stayed out of it, none of this would’ve happened. You should’ve let me stab the heart.”

The accusing tone, the words so distant from what Will could have possibly expected, jolted in his ears, instinctively making him defend himself.

“I saved your life.”

“Aye.” Jack nodded determinedly, a sardonical smile cheapening the thought. “And I saved yours. You’d think we’re square, but it seems to me, that by saving your life, I took some ten years out of it.”

Jack’s eyes wandered to the walls, balking from the eye contact. “Ten years out of mine…Never mind.”

An eerie familiarity settled in Will when Jack shook his head to dismiss the thought. With a pang Will realized, remembered, what was wrong; the deflated way Jack carried himself, how his hands weren’t painting patterns into the air, how his whole demeanour was stiff and forced, careful, like he was walking on egg shells.

Will startled at the snapping tone of Jack’s next words;

“The little one is yours, right?”

Slowly, not at all sure if he should be giving any answer to the question in the first place, Will bowed his head in agreement.

“Ah. Thought so. That‘s it then…” Another moment of speechlessness spread between them before Jack spoke again; “Anyway, I thought I’d come by and see what’s become of you for myself.” His hand raised to tip his hat. “Now that I have, I’ll just be on me way.”

Another faint memory of things that should have been there hit Will when he noticed Jack’s compass missing. Errant, inessential details came pouring from the back of his mind, underlining the passage of time since he’d last heard Jack’s voice - no rabbit‘s foot, no shrunken skull, no chicken feet, none of the pieces that had been part of the puzzle that formed Jack were there - The twinge of horror of understanding that twisted Will’s gut almost made him gag. One’s ten years weren’t equal to another.

“What happened to you?” No more than a gust of breath, but it reached the withdrawing back of Jack.

“I lost the Pearl again.” Jack stepped toward the door, then stopped for a tick, lowering his head. “I can’t find her, Will.” Jack tapped the door frame twice, punctuating his words, and got out of the smithy, not noticing Will starting forward, seemingly not hearing Will’s alarmed “Jack, wait! Wait!”

With that, he was gone.

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Will knew he was dreaming when, instead of accepting his efforts to reach Jack were futile and returning to the smithy empty handed, he did find him.

Jack was knelt down, just around the corner, a key in his hand, prepared to open a chest, a knife at the ready.

Before Will could do anything about it, everything but Jack slowed down.

Light gray, almost white mist surrounded Jack as Will watched him lift the lid and take out a heart, bringing the knife over it, looking around insecurely and finally pressing the knife against the pulsing flesh with a grimace.

Calmly, Will realized that it was his heart, that it wasn’t in the wooden chest anymore, but was beating steadily inside his body, and yet, there it was, in Jack‘s hands.

Overwhelmed by a strange sense of anticipation, Will observed as Jack carefully carved out a slice of the heart, deposited it in his pocket with a gentle pat, and lowered the rest of the still beating organ back into the chest.

When Will tried to move, tried to stop Jack from leaving, he noticed the mist had shackled his feet to the ground, curling around his ankles like a lady’s hair. Unable to do more than whisper, Will had no choice but to follow Jack with his eyes as the man stood up, turned to Will and grinned prankishly, bowed dramatically, then, with a flick of the tail of his coat, he disappeared.

At first Will only smiled, deeply, unexplainably amused by what had just taken place right in front of his eyes. Then he started to laugh, falling to his knees when the waves of hilarity made him helpless and weak, until a sound came and the world shook and shifted back to reality.

Opening his eyes, Will saw Elizabeth looking down at him worriedly.

“Will? Will, what’s wrong?”

Will smiled gently, suddenly moved by the urgency in his wife’s voice.

“Nothing, I think I was dreaming…”

“You sounded like you were in pain.”

Cupping Elizabeth’s head and bringing her to rest against his chest, embracing her and soothingly stroking her back, Will closed his eyes again. A deep breath sent the last tendrils of his dream dissolving into the night.

“Everything’s alright, go back to sleep.”

Right before slumber took him again, Will knew, in a blinding moment of clarity; he was going to meet Jack again.
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