"Are you asking in way of accepting?" Jack returns, liftng his voice to drop the sombre note just as James did.
He inclines his head minutely in his direction, almost as if offering thanks for changing the subject, the tone. To get away from confession as if they were both clerics and sinners, trading off the guise in each turn.
He still doesn't know if Norrington truly does understand. He suspects not, because he still spoke cryptically about it. How could he know what Jack referred to then if Jack doesn't specifically tell him? But he gets the impression that the man inferred something. The real meaning behind his waffling. That's good enough for now.
"And if you are, you'd best get use to calling me Captain." He gestures theatrically to himself and grins. Before adding in a more straight-foward way. "Or Jack."
He searches out Norrington's -- James's -- eyes and stares into them. Willing him to know that Jack is preferrable to Sparrow. That he recognises a truce between them now. An bond of some sort that wasn't there before. They'd both survived and passed through an awkward revelation with each other and that should be commemorated now.
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He inclines his head minutely in his direction, almost as if offering thanks for changing the subject, the tone. To get away from confession as if they were both clerics and sinners, trading off the guise in each turn.
He still doesn't know if Norrington truly does understand. He suspects not, because he still spoke cryptically about it. How could he know what Jack referred to then if Jack doesn't specifically tell him? But he gets the impression that the man inferred something. The real meaning behind his waffling. That's good enough for now.
"And if you are, you'd best get use to calling me Captain." He gestures theatrically to himself and grins. Before adding in a more straight-foward way. "Or Jack."
He searches out Norrington's -- James's -- eyes and stares into them. Willing him to know that Jack is preferrable to Sparrow. That he recognises a truce between them now. An bond of some sort that wasn't there before. They'd both survived and passed through an awkward revelation with each other and that should be commemorated now.