Drabble: 'Escape' (Jack/Pearl - PG-13)

[dwgm]

100 rather dark and angsty words for the current prompt at blackpearlsails...



~ Escape ~


You let them go? You shall take their place. Runaways are whipped, Jack. Slaves are branded…

He jerks awake to Beckett’s ghostly murmur, a shameful mewl coiled in his throat, hovering on his lips.

By God, he’ll be damned first.

He lies there in the black, heart like a triphammer, sweat pouring, hearing the hiss of words and whip, smelling sickly cologne and his own seared flesh.

He lies there, in the black.

The black.

Puts his hand out, groping, touching the charred bulkhead of his ship. His Pearl.

Not slaves. Not now. Not ever.

The Black Pearl is freedom.


~.~

Comments

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the lovely comments. I'm very happy you thought this worked (and I was pretty chuffed at coming in at a hundred words, too).

I have to agree, there are a lot of reasons for Jack to overindulge in rum, though I think he does it less than he'd like everyone to think. *g*

[sharklady35.livejournal.com]

> ... there are a lot of reasons for Jack to overindulge in rum, though I think he does it less than he'd like everyone to think. <

Either Verbinski or Bruckheimer has said in interview, most of the time Jack is faking his inebriation so his enemies will underestimate him. His first escape from Norrington indicates it's an effective strategy.

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know I must have read that at one time or another. Very tricksy, is Jack.