Yay, thank you, mystery writer! I didn't expect this fic to be remixed for some reason. I just figured it be a LOTR one. And then I was worrying about how old and bad and incomplete and unremixable my LOTR fics are... I'm glad you were able to find one and turn it into a great remix like this. I like what you did with this very much, giving us Bill's POV and giving some more reasoning to the captain's desire to take Jack with him. Also, the way you portrayed Jack's joke as more of a serious issue, which I mostly just brushed over in the original. And it is so very cool to see all my little OC's written by someone else.

Great job tying it all together into a cohesive story too. Mine was really an abandoned WIP. (I had a sketchy outline of the plot further on though, which included things like Jack finding out who his father is, and then more crewmembers getting picked up, including Barbossa, and then Jack's father getting killed in a storm at some point and Barbossa becoming captain and taking Jack under his wing; Barbossa wouldn't want to accommodate Bill wanting to visit his wife and son (who Bill finds out has been born) so Bill abandons and Jack goes with him; Jack has a little thing with Bill's wife's little sister but then he gets restless and leaves them and... That may have been as far as the outline went. I don't remember. I just thought I'd share that with you, lol.) Oh, and I love the "little sparrow" line hinting at Jack getting his name, which I planned on having come up but never got to.

I love the change of having Bill be the one to help Jack get his stuff together and teaching him to tie the knots too. Seemed very fitting. And the way you handled their coming to an agreement about Bill teaching him to read and write.

Thanks again. I really enjoyed it. Very well done.