The Years After (

1731-1750, age 42+ )

Jack is – not well, and he knows it. He is extremely damaged by his time in the Locker – hallucinations and consistent reminders of things that have done ill by him are wreaking havoc on his stability and his sense of who he still is. Losing the Pearl to Barbossa yet again proved to be his breaking point.  

With Robby Greene dead thanks to the actions of the EITC while they had control of Davy Jones’ heart, Jack turned to Nadifa for aid. He sought a means to die that would be eternal and uninterrupted – one that would keep him from the Locker and all this mess once and for all. If any would know a way, he believed it would be she – but to his discomfort, she instead chose to lift him from his depressive cause and taught him how to heal.

Nadifa and Arabella both worked with Jack, coaxing from him his stories and teaching him ways to regain control over his mind and his emotions. Though it was difficult, in the seventeen years he sailed with them they found ways to return Jack to the man he used to be – and were it not for age taking Nadifa to death’s door, he may never have left. Nadifa was seventy-two and her life had been a long and arduous one – she left the world without regret, something Jack had never seen before in his life, and it changed his perception and understanding of many things.

Not the least of which being his own life, and the fact that though Arabella was consistently applying henna to her hair and wearing wrinkles like medals of honor as she commanded control of her bar in Tortuga, he himself didn’t look a day over forty. He didn’t have the same creaks and sores Arabella suffered from, and most of those they had known for so long were either long dead, or well aged.

A new fear gripped Jack, and eventually he left Arabella behind, as well as his crew on board the Renegade. It was time to stop running from his past and to face it. It was time to reclaim the Pearl and his own sense of adventure. It was time to find a way to challenge the inevitable facts of life, and find a means to make those who made life worth living as lively as himself!