Drabble: 'Give Him An Inch'

[dwgm]

Here's my entry for the drabble theme of the week, angsty and unbetaed, but exactly a hundred words...



~ Give Him An Inch ~


The blade'd been broken, but it'd been deadly sharp and only an inch away.

Yet the moment was too sweet. He'd had to gloat. "Heady tonic, holding life and death in the palm of one's hand."

"You're a cruel man, Jack Sparrow!"

Lord, that was rich, coming from Jones. "Cruel is a matter of perspective," Jack had replied, with gentle malice.

"Oh, is it now?"

The scene played behind Jack's eyes, over and over, on the way to Tortuga. Almost as bad as the Locker.

One inch to immortality, and happily ever after.

Might as well have been a mile.

~.~

Comments

[sharklady35.livejournal.com]

Who's to say it wasn't? Jack can certainly tell himself that, anyway.

I would certainly want him to find some means to remain his happy, hopeful self, certain that any setbacks he encounters are only temporary.

The saddest Jack fics, IMO, are not the ones where he dies, but the ones where he's robbed of that essential opptimism.

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

It's pretty obvious he was able to come to terms with it, for the most part. He looked pretty content headed out toward Florida in that little boat. That's Jack: the past is past, and that horizon is always calling.

[sharklady35.livejournal.com]

And may it always be so!