Catch Up Drabble

[dwgm]

Finally got around to writing this for last week's Drabble Challenge theme at Black Pearl Sails. It's not exactly 100 words, but whatever. Gotta run off to work now.

~ Lady’s Man ~

Well, this was a slap in the face.

But no use fightin’ the tide. Carryin’ on, fit to wake the dead.

Or the guard.

Daft buggers. Keepin’ him awake!

“You can keep calling all night, that dog is never going to move!”

“Well, ‘scuse us if we haven’t resigned ourselves to the gallows just yet!” came the retort.

He chuckled, and gave it up. Settled, and tugged at his hat, shading his eyes from stone and iron.

She’d turned fickle, but it’d pass. She loved her Jack, did Lady Luck. If escape was on the cards, it’d be through her kind offices.

Not the bloody dog’s!


~.~

Comments

[hereswith.livejournal.com]

She always does seem to favour him in the end, fickle though she certainly is. As usual, excellent work!

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! Glad you liked it. :)

[jenthegypsy.livejournal.com]

Ah, the Ladies in Jack's life have the way of "tough love" about them, don't they? At least his Lady Luck didn't slap him up'side the head like his two-legged ladies tend to! Quite a fun read!

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Hee! Glad you enjoyed this -- although torn_eledhwen commented that he did lose his patience later. So I'm thinking of a little sequel to this, maybe.

[cymbeline.livejournal.com]

Love it! Interesting how he later tries the same tack after his 'Lady' leaves him behind.

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Exactly what torn_eledhwen said. I believe I might have to write a sequel to this one. I'm glad you enjoyed this one, though. :)

[ladywarringford.livejournal.com]

(sigh...) "She loved her Jack, did Lady Luck..."

I loved that line. A lot. Beautiful! And this just fits soooo well with the look on his face from that scene in the film.

*Aplauds loudly*

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Yes, but, as I said above, I need to write a little sequel in which his patience with Lady Luck runs out after that cannonfire from the Black Pearl frees the others and not him.

Glad you liked this!

[thekestrel.livejournal.com]

You can see Jack waiting for Lady Luck, to show him the path between the rain drops - to a jail break. Lovely.

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed this. :)