(Fic) This Can't Be

[ninasdreams]

Title: This Can't Be

Pairing: none, Jack/Will (friendship

Rating: T

Summary: Jack's thoughts as Will lay dieing during AWE.

 

I watched in horror, frozen in place as Davy Jones' blade slid through Will without any resistance. This couldn't be happening…it wasn't supposed to end this way.

Since that fateful morning when Will sprung me from my cell in Port Royal to save a then innocent Elizabeth, we had been through so much. So many adventures…fighting back to back or side by side against impossible odds, always coming out on top. We were a great team.

And as I stood there with immortality literally in my grasp, I had to fight to hold back the tears that threatened to spill over. Tears would not help young William now. Looking at Elizabeth as the tears streamed down her beautiful face, I knew what I had to do.

So it was that when Bootstrap attacked Davy Jones I hurried to Will's side as his life slipped quickly away, wrapping his cold fingers around the hilt of my broken blade. Will, I realized, was my best friend…probably a better friend than someone like me deserved. I would do everything in my power to make sure he survived this battle.

And with that thought, I guided Will's limp hand with mine, plunging the broken blade into the heart of Davy Jones.