Drabble: "Nothing!"

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A drabble and a half of Gibbs, from a scene in DMC, written for the current drabble challenge at Black Pearl Sails.

~ Nothing! ~

"Nothing!" he says -- shivering in his boots, his back 'gainst the doors to the Great Cabin. Well, I knew that for a lie. Jack's an odd duck, but he ain't a coward, not that I've ever seen and I've been with him, off an' on, for a good many years. So this nothing was sure to be something, something real bad.

He told me the next mornin'. The Kraken! And his deal with Jones. Beckett, and the slaves, and the Pearl before she was the Pearl, burning in the night -- the hot metal Beckett had laid on Jack's wrist was nothing to that pain.

He says to me, "You tell the others, Josh," and he didn't have to ask twice. I felt for him, aye, and I was a mite concerned for the rest of us as well. But what a tale! Had sea turtles beat to flinders.

 

~.~