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

[lilfluffykitten.livejournal.com]

Nicely done.

For all his cunning Jack's mouth gets him (And those around!) into trouble more often than not - you really think he'd learn... (although I suppose he deserves at least a little gloat under the circumstances!)

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Letting the opportune moment slip past is quite unlike him. I have to wonder whether he was really up for becoming CotFD. I think he would have done it, but that hesitation makes me think he wasn't entirely happy about it.

Thank you for letting me know you enjoyed this one!