Drabble: 'Grave Error'

[dwgm]

A little Jack backstory for the current challenge at Black Pearl Sails ("error").

Can't believe I wrote Beckett and Mercer.



~ Grave Error ~


"Sparrow's disappeared, sir. We've had word that his ship was sighted off Barbados a month back. He should've made port here ..."

"A week ago. At least."

Beckett's voice... Mercer thrilled to the mix of fear and that strange euphoria he felt more and more often at the imminence of cruelty.

Beckett said, "You are certain? There has been no mishap? Though I don't recall that there were storms, particularly, in the last weeks."

"No," Mercer assured his employer. "There is no error. The ship is gone, out of our reckoning."

Beckett was silent for a moment, expressionless but for a slow tightening of his full lips. Then the man turned his cool gaze on Mercer once more. "You are mistaken. There has been a grave error. Most grave. I'm afraid the cost will be... painfully high. For us. And most certainly for Captain Jack Sparrow."

Mercer shivered.


~.~

Comments

[sinningia.livejournal.com]

Can't believe I wrote Beckett and Mercer. I couldn't either but you did *very* well!
I liked this and both seemed very in-character to me.
I imagine Mercer is hard to write, is he?! He seems the most disturbing sort of man.

~sinningia~

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

I imagine Mercer is hard to write, is he?! He seems the most disturbing sort of man.

I wouldn't like to write him on a regular basis. He sort of makes my skin crawl. But he wasn't that difficult, particularly as this is set many years before the movies. I tried to write him as though he wasn't quite as hardened yet, though the potential is certainly there.

Thank you so much for reading and commenting!