“I never thanked you, you know—sincerely.” The day of his promotion to Commodore often played in his head, when he didn’t want it to, haunting him with memories of what was and what could have been. He knew it wasn’t healthy, to let his mind linger on the past. In the months after he lost his ship to the hurricane that had prevented him from capturing the man before him, he had used rum as a coping mechanism. It was truly remarkable how he had achieved nearly everything he had wanted in life, only to have it fall to pieces in the span of a week. “I was…so angry, at you of course, but mostly at myself, after you rescued her. It reminded me an awful lot of my father.” He would never have been so cruel, to have rather seen his former fiancée dead than to have been rescued by pirates, but that was exactly what his own father thought of him when one had fished him out of the ocean and saved him from a watery grave as a child. He supposed that in some way had contributed to the unnatural vigor with which he hunted their kind, thinking stupidly that this was how he could finally earn the Admiral’s love and respect.
Now that he was an Admiral himself, he didn’t feel the need to be recognized by his father, especially after the way he had abandoned him after his career had ended for a time in disgrace. “I don’t know why I’m telling you all this.” he marveled at himself shakily, taking a sip from his canteen and shaking his head. Guilt? The near brush with death? The desire for absolution? “But I know when I’m in the wrong, Mr. Sparrow, and I apologize.”
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and where shackles , taunts at best , have been expected , their meeting seems unusually pleasant . that’s not to say he won’t stay alert and cautious , but the unintended ANALOGY to their first encounter ( “i believe thanks are in order” ) , not lost on jack , does bring forth the ghost of an amused smile . he finds , where grudges usually are held against his majesty’s most loyal servants , he does not loathe james norrington . jack can understand the man’s anger and the wish to kill the pirate that had RUINED his life . and if it had not been for a single day’s headstart granted by the former commodore , perhaps then he would have mounted a scaffold a lot earlier in his time . even serving under greedy little beckett , from an opportunist’s point of view , is understandable .
----------- and so he shall be gentleman enough to ACCEPT the humble plea for forgiveness . though not without a little extra teasing and a trademark glint within dark eyes . ‘ ----------- and let us not forget most generously accepting you into me CREW even after you’d tried to shoot me in tortuga . ’
even though pirate , jack is not yet bitter enough to view only one side of a coin , neither naive enough to believe that attacking cargo vessels and plundering ports warrant understanding rather than punishment . ‘ i honour an honest apology , that i shall say . but you were merely doing what seemed RIGHT to you , as we all do . no shame in that , mate . ’
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