Birthday Drabble: 'Just Dessert'

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A Happy Birthday drabble, 225 words of post-AWE wishful thinking for aravah's birthday prompt...




~ Just Dessert ~

"Come on, lad," said Teague. "I'll take you up to bed."

Jamie roused from where he'd been nodding off, reluctant to leave the celebration but unable to stay awake any longer. His own bed—that was a comfortable thought after all these weeks at sea, and particularly after the last two days, days that had changed their lives so much. He slid from his chair and followed Teague, the two of them slipping away without ceremony. But then, at the landing halfway up the stairs, Jamie paused to look down at the happy, vociferous group below.

Jamie had met his father several memorable times over the last nine years, of course, and he had heard a great deal about him from others. Awe of the immortal had always been accompanied by pride in the man. But to see his father here, alive and whole and released from Calypso's service, and, along with mother and Uncle Jack, telling the tale of it all to the people of Shipwreck Cove, was more overwhelming, more joyful a thing than he could well fathom, even if he hadn't been ready to drop.

Then a kindly hand was laid upon his shoulder. "It's like havin' your cake and eatin' it too, ain't it lad?"

Jamie grinned, and looked up at Captain Teague's lined, unwontedly lighthearted face. "That's it! That's it, exactly!"

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Thanks, as always, to hereswith for the beta!