POTC: Jack/Will - Preferential Treatment
For meletor_et_al because I wrote this on the El on the way to see her and my handwriting sucks so I couldn't give it to her then.
Title: Preferential Treatment
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Still not mine
Summary: Jack's been treating Will differently from the rest of the crew
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Jack, though not a risk-taker, was not what one might call a gambler. Not in recent days at any rate; not now that he had something to lose. So after the fifth time that Will said, “What?” or “I beg your pardon?” Jack would not have laid odds on the situation, but he was 99.9% sure that Will wasn’t any kind of deaf. That is, Jack would have been 99.9% sure, had he known anything about percentages.
Then Anamaria started doing the same when Jack knew damn well there was nothing wrong with her ears. She’d slapped Jack the day before for muttering something about her being a plague on everyone’s house one week a month. Then she’d slapped him again when he’d mumbled that William Shakespeare said it, not him. Though, in her defense, Anamaria might have missed the last half of the name (as he did mumble rather quietly) and she might have supposed he was blaming it on Will Turner.
So finally he told her to stop questioning his orders, and really, simply shouting, “Quoi?” at your captain wasn’t very polite, whichever way you sliced it.
It was only later that he caught it from Will for giving him preferential treatment. For hadn’t Jack snapped at Ana for doing the very same thing that Will had been doing? It was a test, of sorts, and Will wasn’t happy with the results.
Jack thought about it for a moment or two and then took it upon himself through judicious use of hands, lips, tongue and other bodily parts to show Will what preferential treatment really was.
Then he showed Will again, just to be sure that Will had understood, since his hearing did seem to be a little off and he didn’t want to think Will had missed anything.
Title: Preferential Treatment
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Still not mine
Summary: Jack's been treating Will differently from the rest of the crew
*~*~*~*
Jack, though not a risk-taker, was not what one might call a gambler. Not in recent days at any rate; not now that he had something to lose. So after the fifth time that Will said, “What?” or “I beg your pardon?” Jack would not have laid odds on the situation, but he was 99.9% sure that Will wasn’t any kind of deaf. That is, Jack would have been 99.9% sure, had he known anything about percentages.
Then Anamaria started doing the same when Jack knew damn well there was nothing wrong with her ears. She’d slapped Jack the day before for muttering something about her being a plague on everyone’s house one week a month. Then she’d slapped him again when he’d mumbled that William Shakespeare said it, not him. Though, in her defense, Anamaria might have missed the last half of the name (as he did mumble rather quietly) and she might have supposed he was blaming it on Will Turner.
So finally he told her to stop questioning his orders, and really, simply shouting, “Quoi?” at your captain wasn’t very polite, whichever way you sliced it.
It was only later that he caught it from Will for giving him preferential treatment. For hadn’t Jack snapped at Ana for doing the very same thing that Will had been doing? It was a test, of sorts, and Will wasn’t happy with the results.
Jack thought about it for a moment or two and then took it upon himself through judicious use of hands, lips, tongue and other bodily parts to show Will what preferential treatment really was.
Then he showed Will again, just to be sure that Will had understood, since his hearing did seem to be a little off and he didn’t want to think Will had missed anything.