Drabble: 'Illusions' (mid AWE Jack - Rated G)

[dwgm]

Actually posting a drabble for the current prompt at blackpearlsails for a change. This is unbetaed, but only a hundred words, so hopefully it's OK. Mid-AWE Jack here, for the prompt...



~ Illusions ~


"Jack, this is real. We're here."

Jack's illusion it's just an illusion suffers a killing blow, wafting away on the (blessed) sea breeze.

Elizabeth.

It's her, all right.

Sun-burnt, including her hair. Thinner. Intent. Fragile.

Fragile. That's a new one.

But he can feel his hair trying to stand on end as the eyes he remembers (and remembers, and remembers) bore into him, through him, through the Illusion of Captain Jack Sparrow.

He's too obviously skimming the edge of sanity and turns away to find Gibbs, who must be real, too. Gibbs, keeper of the Illusion, even when Captain Jack Sparrow's mislaid it entirely.

~.~

Comments

[pearlseed.livejournal.com]

Wow--this is very scary intense. Hurts it's so real. Such a thin thin line between insanity and worst.

"Thinner. Intent. Fragile.

Fragile. That's a new one." Might be Elisabeth, sounds so much more like himself at this time.

"...he remembers (and remembers, and remembers)..."for some reason this is a very chilling summary of his life in the locker--really knocked me back. And turning to Gibbs, well, what's a pirate to do--there has to be someone to hold body and soul together. Just awesome.

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

He's skating on pretty thin ice here, though his sense of injured amour-propre will shortly see him through.

I'm so glad you liked this, and understood what I was getting at. Thank you so much for your thoughtful feedback.