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

[pearlseed.livejournal.com]

This not even really shown in the movies, just hinted at breaks my heart. I am so tenderhearted that the very idea one person could hurt another in that way...just kills my soul. You presented it beautifully, right down to the first chilling words of Beckett. Right smooth down to Jack's belief in himself and his Pearl.

"Not now. Not ever." What beautiful words, kept Jack safe somehow didn't they, cost him greatly, and gave him a Nort Star, so to speak, so he knew which way to go. He must have felt so lost as a child that the Pearl became home and family to him as an adult. Good one here, now is it Friday?

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

I should have warned for angst and violence in this one. But you're right about the Pearl being his North Star, and that's what it's about, really.

Yes, it's Friday, whoot! TGIF, my friend. *hugs*