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Title- Doing the Wrong thing
This is Disney’s sandbox I just play here. Ie. I own nothing cept my brain.
Characters- Norrington, Elizabeth and mentions of Jack and Crazy Beckett…I mean Cutler.
Rated- PG-13 just to be careful
AU One-shot
Warning- Spoilers for At World’s End
“You did the right thing James,” he grinned as he heard the captain of the ship say to him.
“Depends on what side you’re on,” he said over his shoulder. It was quiet for a moment as he leaned against the railing of the Singapore junk ship.
“And what side are you on?”
James turned to look at Elizabeth Swann; her arms crossed over her chest a slightly amused look on her face.
“The wrong side, doing the wrong thing,” he said softly.
“Then why did you do come with us in the first place?” she asked, coming closer to him.
He sighed “Because sometimes doing the wrong thing is the right thing to do.”
“What about your loyalty to Beckett?”
James shook his head slightly “He’s mad and corrupt, every official in the Caribbean save…save your father is corrupt. I can’t do what he wants me to, those people…all those people in Port Royal; hanged on a mere suspicion of piracy…he killed children. I can’t pretend that what he is doing is right. Pirates act with more sense than he does, Beckett has gone mad with power and I fear that if he is not stopped he’ll try and take all of the Caribbean for his own.”
Elizabeth blinked back tears at the mention of her father. “You’re a good man James Norrington,” she whispered as she went to stand next to him at the railing of the ship.
“A good man doing the wrong thing…I think I may be turning into Sparrow if that’s the case,” James said with a small grin.
Elizabeth laughed and they fell into a comfortable silence as the ship made its way through the calm sea toward Ship Wreck Cove.
“I suppose there’s no going back now, no letters of mark to steal for my own use,” he said softly as he looked at the night sky above him.
“What will you do from now on?” Elizabeth asked, glancing over at him. She watched in curious shock as he took off his hat and his wig and reverently tossed them into the sea.
“The wrong thing,” he said as he watched the remnants of the life he thought he wanted sink into the star filled sea.