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PotC drabble: Outdone [Jack, Elizabeth, general]
Title: Outdone
Author: celandineb
Fandom: PotC
Characters: Jack, Elizabeth
Rating: general
Summary: What really irritated Jack when he and Elizabeth were cast away.
Note: I was working on holiday drabbles, and this one happened kind of randomly.


If Jack had ever been trapped with a less congenial companion, he couldn't recall the occasion.

It wasn't that Elizabeth Swann was uncomely to look at. Far from it. Nor was she an uninteresting conversationalist, though perhaps a little too garrulous for Jack's taste. It was not even the fact that in order to attract the attention of the royal navy (a questionable decision in itself) she set fire to the entire supply of rum, without reserving some for future need.

No, it was Elizabeth's ability to outdrink Jack – for she unquestionably had – that vexed him more than anything else.