A/N: I missed this site so much that I thought it was high time to start posting here again :)

This series of drabbles focuses on Jack & Elizabeth and Blaxton. All the drabbles are set approximately five years after the end of Have We Met Before? but as they are spoilers-free, if you haven't read the story all you need to know is that Blaxton is Jack & Elizabeth's son :)

Disclaimer: Jack, Elizabeth, etc. belong to Disney. Blaxton belongs to me! ^^

A Step Ahead

"I'm a fast learner, aren't I?" A five-year-old boy exclaimed excitedly, searching his father's face for the anticipated reply.

Jack smiled, fixing a clumsily tied knot. "Aye. You learn in jig time, sailor. But you can always be faster."

"How come?" Blaxton asked curiously, darting his eyes between Jack and the knot, wondering why Jack was doing something with it, if he had already tied it so well.

"You always have to be faster than you can, and only then you will be fast enough. You always have to be a step ahead," he said, taking his hat off, and putting it on Blaxton's head to his visible delight.

"Ahead of whom?" Blaxton asked, touching the hat with his hands to make sure that it was properly placed.

Jack smiled. "Of everyone. But most importantly..." he squatted down, and said in a conspirational whisper, "of yourself."