PotC fic -- The Kestrel

[artaxastra]

A Thanksgiving present for geekmama, who asked for a drabble in my other PotC series, the American Revolution story, with Flipper Turner's alter ego, James Swann. It's a little longer than a drabble, about a thousand words.

Paris, Christmas 1779, with Jack, Elizabeth, Jamie -- and also a character or two crossing over from my Fortune's Wheel. The other

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[artaxastra]

Jamie is a sweetheart. This is his first girlfriend too, and he's in love with a married woman. His mother hasn't noticed yet. Of course Jack has, and has decided that Ettienne is just Jamie's type. She's a sweet girl, but not without steel of her own, under the petted prettiness. And he feels sorry for her -- Creole as he is, trying to make it in high society, knowing that everyone knows she was married for her money. A boy from home who is genuinely interested in HER would be really good for her.

I'm glad you're still liking my American Revolution. With this story and the entire story of why they're in France, it's broadening to the entire Age of Revolution, to the coming storm that will remake the world and create our world. Because everything in France seems like it always has, and always will be this way, but Jack can feel the current under it, the touch of rotten-ripeness. It's ten years to the Bastille. Ettienne will be twenty five, and her baby brother who wants to be a pirate and have adventures will be a fifteen year old schoolboy. The storm is coming.

Will is in deep trouble, which is why Jack and Elizabeth and Jamie are doing this -- they've got to rescue Will.

On a handbill, maybe? *g

*g* She has seen Jack before! The Pearl was selling prizes in the islands and her father was buying cargo in the prize courts. But he looks very different now, all cleaned up!

[geekmama]

I'm glad you're still liking my American Revolution. With this story and the entire story of why they're in France, it's broadening to the entire Age of Revolution, to the coming storm that will remake the world and create our world.

As much as I adore Outlaws and Inlaws, I love this story even more because of the historical context coupled with the very real touches of home and family, and the lack of underlying tragedy that is so much a part of the post-AWE world. I am so glad you're writing more in this universe, too. Thank you, again!

[artaxastra]

Yes, the underlying tragedy. I'm not sure how AWE worked in this world, but Beckett and James are both still alive too. A much more indescisive ending.