Drabble: 'Belle'
Mar. 29th, 2007 02:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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~ Belle ~
Bloody Turners. Jack pushed the end of Will’s sword aside and, holding onto his temper with both hands (really, it was too much, asking him to deal with a Bloody Turner after the ordeal he’d just been through), pulled the drawing of the key from his pocket and spread it for the whelp’s perusal. “William,” he said, with Infinite Patience, “I shall trade you the Compass, if you will help me to find this.”
Will looked entirely baffled – an expression typical of Bloody Turners. He was Bootstrap’s get, all right. He said, “You want me to find this?”
“No,” Jack replied. Infinite Patience. “You want you to find this. Because the finding of this finds you incapacitorially finding and/or locating and discovering the detecting of a way to save your dolly belle ol'... what's ‘er face. Savvy?”
Jack resisted the urge to both shiver and smack himself. What’s ‘er face, indeed. Miss Elizabeth Bloody-Minded Face-of-an-Angel Soul-of-a-Pirate Swann. Dream and nightmare rolled into one maddening, gorgeous girl. GIRL. He was old enough to be her FATHER. Well, possibly. Nearly, at least. And she was certainly a babe in arms to his hoary hoard of Vast Experience. He knew this, and it DIDN’T MATTER. She made him new, somehow. And scared him to death.
How he wished she would GO AWAY.
Except… not really.
Bloody Whip-out-his-sword-at-the-drop-of-a-hat Turner was speaking again.
“This is going to save Elizabeth?”
Save Elizabeth? Did the whelp not know her at all? Jack got a grip, forcibly shoving his mental image of the delectable and extremely capable Miss Swann behind him, and addressed the little problem at hand. “How much do you know about Davy Jones?”
“Not much.”
Of course not. And explanations were always so tedious. Two bloody Turners: Will would be safe as houses, and Davy Jones wouldn’t stand a chance. “Yeah,” Jack said. “It's gonna save Elizabeth.”
~.~
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~ Belle ~
Bloody Turners. Jack pushed the end of Will’s sword aside and, holding onto his temper with both hands (really, it was too much, asking him to deal with a Bloody Turner after the ordeal he’d just been through), pulled the drawing of the key from his pocket and spread it for the whelp’s perusal. “William,” he said, with Infinite Patience, “I shall trade you the Compass, if you will help me to find this.”
Will looked entirely baffled – an expression typical of Bloody Turners. He was Bootstrap’s get, all right. He said, “You want me to find this?”
“No,” Jack replied. Infinite Patience. “You want you to find this. Because the finding of this finds you incapacitorially finding and/or locating and discovering the detecting of a way to save your dolly belle ol'... what's ‘er face. Savvy?”
Jack resisted the urge to both shiver and smack himself. What’s ‘er face, indeed. Miss Elizabeth Bloody-Minded Face-of-an-Angel Soul-of-a-Pirate Swann. Dream and nightmare rolled into one maddening, gorgeous girl. GIRL. He was old enough to be her FATHER. Well, possibly. Nearly, at least. And she was certainly a babe in arms to his hoary hoard of Vast Experience. He knew this, and it DIDN’T MATTER. She made him new, somehow. And scared him to death.
How he wished she would GO AWAY.
Except… not really.
Bloody Whip-out-his-sword-at-the-drop-of-a-hat Turner was speaking again.
“This is going to save Elizabeth?”
Save Elizabeth? Did the whelp not know her at all? Jack got a grip, forcibly shoving his mental image of the delectable and extremely capable Miss Swann behind him, and addressed the little problem at hand. “How much do you know about Davy Jones?”
“Not much.”
Of course not. And explanations were always so tedious. Two bloody Turners: Will would be safe as houses, and Davy Jones wouldn’t stand a chance. “Yeah,” Jack said. “It's gonna save Elizabeth.”
~.~
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Date: 2007-03-29 11:08 pm (UTC)Hee! Not quite the brightest in the bunch, those Turners (though Will did figure out how to locate the key, later). I think one of the big disappointments of DMC was Bootstrap's being not as bright as
Impverse BillI'd hoped.Infinite Patience
Marvelous! Makes me all bouncy, as does:
Miss Elizabeth Bloody-Minded Face-of-an-Angel Soul-of-a-Pirate Swann.
Will would be safe as houses, and Davy Jones wouldn’t stand a chance.
*adores you for this*
So wonderful to see you writing absolutely dead-on perfect Jack again.
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Date: 2007-03-29 11:17 pm (UTC)TnT, etc., could certainly learn a thing or two from
So very happy you enjoyed this one! Thanks for letting me know.