(Written for the
blackpearlsails prompt "I should have..."Title: To Thine Own Self
Characters: Will, Calypso
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Property of Disney, Buena Vista, and Bruckheimer. I profit only in imagination."I should have …"
Not died for his wife? Not helped Jack secure the heart? Not aided Jack to lure the enemy into negotiation? Not turned tables on those who painted him the fool? Not tried to save his father?
Where would second-guessing end, once embarked? Should he have stayed at the workhouse or with his drunken uncle? Left Jack in jail and Elizabeth with … God knew what?
Let Jack twitch on a rope?
Hang regrets. Turner laughed, curiously buoyant as he finally saw he would have done nothing different.
Calypso smirked. "See? You de freest o’ dem all."