As if I don't have 10 other wips what I want currently is a fitzier fic in which it's Francis, who after all the events of the canon, is sent back in time to 1.01 go for broke just before that wardroom meeting, and he has no time to make inroads with James and he knows that if he can't convince Sir John to abandon one of the ships and shelter away from the ice for the winter they are done for, so he does the only thing he can: pulls James aside and tells him he knows everything, about the circumstances of his birth, about Barrow Jr, and says either you support me in there or I tell everyone.
So together they convince sir John and because there are too many men now to fit comfortably on one ship, they are made to share the same berth. The fucking potential, man.