Drabble: 'What's in a Name?'

[dwgm]

A double drabble for the current challenge at blackpearlsails, with thanks to hereswith for looking it over.



~ Faith and Wit ~


"The Faithful Bride," mused Elizabeth. "I suppose the name's some sort of ironic piratical joke?"

"We pirates do have an amusing and highly developed sense of irony," Jack said, ogling a pretty tavern wench, who cast him a provocative wink.

"That we do," said Gibbs, his eyes lighting with the fire of storytelling, "but the Bride was named for its first proprietor, a comely lass and true. Her man was a right successful pirate, and he brought her out here from England and built this place for her, nigh on twenty years ago, to help her pass the time while he was off plyin' the sweet trade."

Elizabeth looked around at the raucous patrons, and the less-than-pristine surroundings that bore no evidence at all of a woman's touch. "What happened to her?"

"Oh, she went back to England," said Gibbs. "Seems she was faithful, but her man was one as has a lass in every port, as the saying goes. She took exception when she finally found out."

"Just like a woman." Jack's wandering gaze finally returned to Elizabeth's. "Not amusing at all, then."

"Apparently not," she agreed, blandly. "To achieve irony they should have changed it to Faithful Husband."


~.~

Comments

[pearlseed.livejournal.com]

Ah yes!
"We pirates do have an amusing and highly developed sense of irony,"

It's my favorite Jack story when it's a elbow in the ribs kinda one! Love this, made me laugh and sounds just like the group of them, snarking and scopin' out the talent! Thanks!

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! Glad to have amused you on this fine Sunday (yay for Winter Break!!!). Thank you for commenting!

[sharklady35.livejournal.com]

I was anticipating a wonderful closing line, and I was not disappointed. :D

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth can snark with the best of them. ;)

Thank you for commenting -- I'm so happy you enjoyed it!

[hendercats.livejournal.com]

"To achieve irony they should have changed it to Faithful Husband."
Ha! Go, Lizzie! Great fun, and the perfect "small package" - storyteller!Gibbs plus Jack and Elizabeth.

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Hee! Glad you enjoyed this little excursion into piratical snark. Thank you so much for reading and commenting!

Praise from Willofthewisp

[(Anonymous)]

"We pirates do have an amusing and highly developed sense of irony." Well if you're going to be a scourge of the seven seas and go out pillaging and plundering and just being an overall bad egg, might as well have a sense of irony to go along with it! There is something about this line that is side-splitting funny, and I wish I could pinpoint exactly what it was...

Great voice with the storytelling! It is so much fun to Gibbs stories to tell. Fun drabble!

Re: Praise from Willofthewisp

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Gibbs as storyteller is fun to write -- and can be the vehicle for any amount of exposition, as TnT knew. *g* So glad you enjoyed! Thank you for reading and commenting.

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Nice all round, especially Jack on pirate humour. I can just hear him saying that.

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[luvvycat.livejournal.com]

Ha! Point and match goes to Lizzie, for that final line! Irony, indeed! ;-D

Wonderful drabble! Completely in-character, all of them, and Gibbs is in particularly fine form as storyteller extraordinaire! Good stuff! :-)

-- Cat

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. (And I do love that icon of yours.)

[sparrows-swann.livejournal.com]

This was a fun fic to read. I think adding Gibbs to the mix always adds a fun element to the dynamic between J/E (ie.-DMC Letters of Marque scene)! :)

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Gibbs is just the best. Thank you so much for commenting! I'm so glad you liked it!

[realist-romance.livejournal.com]

this was a fun little fic! I loved that Gibbs was telling a story. I could totally picture this as a scene in the movies!

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

No one can do exposition like Mr. Gibbs! Glad you enjoyed this instance. Thank you for commenting!

[florencia7.livejournal.com]

Wonderful dialogue and such a fantastic scene with the three of them! AWESOME drabble.

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Thank you!