crack_van | 'Forget' by Alchemistic (PG)

Ahoy, maties! I'll be driving the van for Pirates of the Caribbean for the month of July.

Fandom: Pirates of the Caribbean
Title: Forget
Characters: Jack Sparrow/Elizabeth Swann
Author on LJ:

alchemistic
Author Website: LJ Profile Page
Why this must be read: Because the author was apparently somehow channeling Jack Sparrow while she wrote this. These are Jack's thoughts during the scene in the opening of Dead Man's Chest, where he's sitting at the big table in his cabin, trying to plot the ship's course, and his compass isn't working. It's completely, fantastically entertaining, and heartbreaking at the same time.

He’s not the remembering sort. He drinks the rum because he thinks it will help him forget about Elizabeth. Not that he’s thinking about her. Because he’s not. But he drinks, because usually he forgets things when he drinks (even if he’s not remembering them in the first place) but instead of forgetting, the bloody compass isn’t working again and he’s remembering. Recalling the feel of her enticingly warm body, so close to his, and the curve of her shoulder under his hand, the way her face had looked, illuminated by firelight, and her hair had sifted and twirled around his fingers.

It’s been at least six months since then—since she’d burned his rum, and saved dear William, and then helped save him too. Though really, not in the way she thinks. Or most people think. Or even sometimes the way he thinks. Not that he thinks about her. Because he doesn’t.

Go. Read. You won't regret it.

Forget