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dwgmThe Muse woke up with a drabble yesterday, inspired by the new 'Vote' prompt at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
blackpearlsails. With thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hereswith for looking it over, here's 175 words of post-AWE babysitting...
~ Lady's Night Out ~
“I know! Let’s put it to a vote!” cried Jamie, dancing away, Elizabeth’s son having grown recalcitrant regarding bedtime (among other things) since he’d turned five and was (in his opinion, at least) his own man.
“Oh no, we won’t,” said Jack, patience at an end. “You’ll obey orders and that’s that. This ain’t a democracy, you miscreant brat.” And he grabbed Jamie before he could bolt entirely and tossed the boy over his shoulder, none too gently.
Jamie kicked and squealed. “Let me go! I’ll tell my mother!”
“You bloody do that,” Jack growled, and glared at Gibbs and Teague, both of them laughing as he hauled the boy off.
Somewhat later, on Jack’s return, Teague was still chuckling. Jack remarked, acidly, “Oh, it’s that funny, is it?”
“Watching you get your own again?” Teague grinned. “It’s priceless, Jackie. Priceless!”
And seeing the past in Teague’s eyes—Jack’s precocious young self as happy prince of his buccaneer family, before his mother had died—Jack had to smile, too.
~.~
blackpearlsails. With thanks to hereswith for looking it over, here's 175 words of post-AWE babysitting...~ Lady's Night Out ~
“I know! Let’s put it to a vote!” cried Jamie, dancing away, Elizabeth’s son having grown recalcitrant regarding bedtime (among other things) since he’d turned five and was (in his opinion, at least) his own man.
“Oh no, we won’t,” said Jack, patience at an end. “You’ll obey orders and that’s that. This ain’t a democracy, you miscreant brat.” And he grabbed Jamie before he could bolt entirely and tossed the boy over his shoulder, none too gently.
Jamie kicked and squealed. “Let me go! I’ll tell my mother!”
“You bloody do that,” Jack growled, and glared at Gibbs and Teague, both of them laughing as he hauled the boy off.
Somewhat later, on Jack’s return, Teague was still chuckling. Jack remarked, acidly, “Oh, it’s that funny, is it?”
“Watching you get your own again?” Teague grinned. “It’s priceless, Jackie. Priceless!”
And seeing the past in Teague’s eyes—Jack’s precocious young self as happy prince of his buccaneer family, before his mother had died—Jack had to smile, too.
~.~
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Date: 2011-04-01 02:09 pm (UTC)Thank you so much for commenting, I really appreciate it.
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Date: 2011-04-01 02:15 pm (UTC)We're beggars and blighters, ne'er-do-well cads,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
Aye, but we're loved by our mommies and dads,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
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Date: 2011-03-26 05:19 am (UTC)Such nice thought! And especially with the boy's name, ´cause James would laugh about Jack's "fate", too, of that I'm certain.
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Date: 2011-03-26 03:10 pm (UTC)Love this one to bits! Utterly precious (as well as, to quote Teague "Priceless!"). :-)
-- Cat
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Date: 2011-07-18 12:41 am (UTC)Thank you very much for commenting.