A/N: Okay, so this is the REAL epilogue. This is just dealing with Will coming back ten years later to see what became of Elizabeth after he annulled their marriage and left.

Will sighed as he looked at The Empress and The Black Pearl beached side by side near the wharf in Singapore. He was slightly annoyed to find that Jack had come to meet him as well as Elizabeth. Then again, he supposed he shouldn't feel bitter towards Jack anymore. The pirate had saved his life, after all. Yet, in saving Will's life, Jack had ruined Will's dreams. After all, Will could not in good conscience continue his impromptu marriage. He couldn't leave a woman as young and full of life and passion as Elizabeth to spend the rest of her life basically alone. It wouldn't be fair to her. He had left her a virgin. She would find another man. Suddenly it accured to him that that might be why Jack was here. Surely they were not….A sick feeling filled him as the he clambered into the rowboat and headed for the docks.

Jack was waiting on the docks, looking not a day older. In fact, he looked younger. There was no sign of Elizabeth.

"Hello, Jack." "Hullo, William. Good to see ya. Been enjoying immortality? I have. Went and found the Fountain of Youth. But I reckon you're not nigh as interested in me as you are in your former dearly beloved, eh? Elizabeth! Turner's here!"

The Pearl had been beached for careening, and Elizabeth swung down from it on a rope, then ran up onto the dock. She threw her arms around Will's neck in a big, friendly hug before he could get a good look at her. She felt just the same at first- alternatingly soft and firm in all the right places- but he realized something was different. He pulled back and looked at her face. Like Jack, she had not aged. She looked perfect. So what had set alarm bells ringing when he held her? He held her by the shoulders and looked her up and down. The sick feeling grew ten times worse than before when he saw the roundness of her stomach. Just beginning to show, he guessed. He had little doubt as to who the father was. When he looked back at her face, he could see that she was reading his thoughts. He was angry and ashamed of her. She had let herself be seduced by a pirate who would never make an honest woman out of her.

"Will. Listnen. Don't jump to conclusions." Her voice was quiet. "Jack and I have been married for nine years, Will. He loves me. Really loves me. He didn't even make love to me until our wedding night. All of our children are legitimate. This will be the third. So don't look at me like I've become a common whore. I'm a pirate, but I'm also a wife."

Will tried very hard to absorb all this, but the thought of Jack settling down, of having been married for nine years, was just outrageous. Then again, it was nearly impossible not to love Elizabeth. Shocked, he turned to Jack.

"Is it true?" Jack looked him seriously in the eye. "Yes. I love her, mate. You don't dishonor someone you love."

Despite that a rather large part of his heart was still very much in love with Elizabeth, Will felt an enormous burden lift off his shoulders. Elizabeth would be looked after, loved for eternity by a man who had apparently proved himself very worthy of her. For the first time, Will felt he could honestly say that he liked Jack Sparrow very much. The two men shook hands, but then the level of solemnity faded and Elizabeth dragged Will off to meet Marina and little Teague. It suddenly occurred to Will that now he would always have someone waiting for him, not a wife, but a family of friends, as immortal as he was, who would always be there to meet him, one day every ten years.