User blog comment:Captain Dashing/Arabella Smith/@comment-5120604-20110501142414/@comment-4898132-20110501161902

Here's my two cents...since not much is revealed on Arabella after the JS prequels: Arabella and Bootstrap did have a relationship in that JS prequel. But at some point before the LotBC prequels, they most likely have broken up(since they were teenagers in JS, after all)...and Bootstrap married another woman and obviously had Will, while Arabella continued her life in piracy(because of the EITC files).

But that's just how I view this case, considering the circumstances.