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

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

I love your take on this moment. You're really caught what I think is going on in the film here. OK, I probably see less J/E, but you convince me while I'm reading it. "Gibbs, keeper of the Illusion" just perfectly expresses so much of what Jack and Gibbs seem to mean to each other. You don't often see that in fic.

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Being so partial to J/E, I tend to expand on the few nebulous hints we get in AWE, and this scene is one of the few, though it can certainly be interpreted differently than I have here. As for Gibbs and Jack, I think both really feed off each others' enthusiasm for Jack's legend. Gibbs seems to appreciate Jack in all his aspects, a true friend, something everyone needs. Thank you so much for reading and commenting!