PotC fic -- Lost at Sea

[artaxastra]

Next in the Outlaws and Inlaws series, though you don't need to have read anything else first -- Will Turner, Captain of the Flying Dutchman, picks up an unexpected passenger.

The other stories in the series are here: Swan in Flight, Outlaws and Inlaws, Four Days of Advent, Cradle Tales, Dream Tides, The Ferryman's Bride, Gods and Heroes and

Comments

[veronica_rich]

Great story. And I like particularly the mental image of: "Jackie? My Jackie?" Her voice shook suddenly.

Moms everywhere are alike ...

[geekmama]

Great icon!!

[veronica_rich]

Someone else got Will reading, so you get Jack reading ...

[geekmama]

:)))

[torn_eledhwen]

Oh, lovely. I like Isabelle. Now I'd like to know how she met Teague, and how she died ... *pushes plotbunnies in Artaxastra's direction*

[azulada]

Oh look! A bunch of plotbunnies! I hear they like cookies ;)

[artaxastra]

Thank you! I keep meaning to do a whole Teague story...

Oh noes! Not more bunnies! eeeek!

[reneeks]

Now I'd like to know how she met Teague, and how she died ... *pushes plotbunnies in Artaxastra's direction*

The first part of this series, Swan In Flight, explains that. Teague is telling Elizabeth about it...

[compassrose7577]

Brings all to clearly to home the fact that the Dutchman eventually comes in contact with everyone.

Any of us mothers know that odd feeling of suddenly realizing you're child has grown. Isabelle must be feeling that in spades. If she is as devilish and charming as her son, no wonder Teague was so smitten.

We can only wonder what other traits Isabelle shares with her son...or not.

Lovely fic!

[artaxastra]

Thank you!

Isabelle was suddenly terrified that perhaps Jack hadn't escaped, hadn't lived after all. That's been her comfort these years -- that she was killed, but her son escaped. It's still odd though to realize it's been as long as it has, and that the boy she remembers as a sunny, mischevious child of nine is long since a grown man. And that Teague, who was ten years younger then than Jack is now, is now an old man.

[compassrose7577]

It does tend to bring up the issues of time travel and immortality. Knowing someone is aging is one thing, seeing it (and the ravages thereof) can be quite another.

It might be quite heart-breaking for Isabelle to see what life has done to her 'sunny boy' (and he was a spritely one, to be sure). What keeps us all going is the thought that whatever happens to us, as long as our children are safe, we've served our purpose.

[artaxastra]

Oh yes, he was her sunny boy. And to her, he's still a child, not a man nearly fifteen years older than she is. And Teague, gone from thirty to sixty in a moment, for her. Don't you know he was impetuous, and a little too easily led by his heart?

[jillapet]

Oh my. No one has ever brought up Jack's mom. That is such a great angle.

Jackie had to have gotten his wiles from somewhere...Teague is so stoic and mysterious.

[artaxastra]

Thank you so much! I can see Teague being the mysterious, fey one, and Isabelle being the practical pirate.

[azulada]

Very nice! I see very little Jack!Mom fic that I am satisfied with, but this was spot on. :)

[artaxastra]

Thank you! It was fun to write, and I love Will as the Captain of the Dutchman.