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Jack Rackham appreciation week. Wednesday/Thursday: Favourite Relationship/Facial hair appreciation. 

A Jack/Anne pre-relationship ficlet in which Jack gets a rare moment alone, and facial hair is addressed.

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Rain beat down on the window panes, rattling the glass as the ship shook gently. The sky had gotten so dark that he’d been forced to light several candles around the mirror, even though it was hardly halfway through the day. Charles had let him take use of his cabin on the Ranger from time to time, allowing relative peace and privacy when needed, at times such as this. And so, with a cracked mirror propped up against a pile of rather splendid looking leather books he was sure Charles had never even opened, let alone read, trinkets left by the ill-fated last captain of the Ranger, he got to work.

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