Fic: Birds of Prey

[djarum99]

Title: Birds of Prey
Author: djarum99
Rating: N17
Pairing: J/E, J/W/E implied
Disclaimer: Disney owns the world of pirates, and I make no profit
A/N: Future ficlet (in part by virtue of the need for post-18th century plumbing) written for challenge prompt five at hseas_challenge - J/E four hundred years after finding the Fountain of Youth. Love in the time of global

Comments

[greenisbeauty]

This is so fascinating! The world you've painted here is so dark, barren, and yet somehow Will (leave it to good old Will) finds the smallest bit of optimism in it all. To me, the idea of the three of them surviving it all is so romantic in a strange and bittersweet way.

Elizabeth ventures ashore to walk the salt flats beneath the city’s towering levee. The sun has dried their surface like some monstrous beast’s stretched hide, chiselled a labyrinth of cobweb cracks

For some reason, I had the picture of the locker in my mind when I read this. Stark, pale and blinding. Very cool.

they can offer its blessing, and its curse, to no one else. Aztec gold or eternity’s wine, and sometimes Jack isn’t sure of the difference.

This section and the part when Elizabeth speaks of wanting to see the shores of the dead is so poignant to me. The idea that everything is a gift and a curse. I'm glad you pointed that out, because I cannot imagine living forever would come without a price.

There’s blood, just a little, and she tastes his copper, his salt, until he moans and pulls her beneath him, finishes them both in a sweet water haze.

GUH. Never thought I'd read a J/E shower sex scene. Hot damn, woman, this is good stuff!

“You told me once that once was quite enough.”

“I lied.” Another truth, an old one, but the tale’s still new for all that.

“Don’t stop, Jack. Lying. You tell such pretty stories - I promise to believe them all.”

By far my favorite passage. Everything about it: the callback to AWE that is "still new" and Elizabeth never tiring of Jack's stories. Who would afterall?

Another lovely piece, darling!

P.S. Haven't been able to stop listening to "It's Blitz!" I have decided that I want "Hysteric" to be my wedding song. A bit of an unusual choice, perhaps, but I can't help but imagine swaying to that stunning song with love pressed tight. "You suddenly complete me..." *sigh* [/tangent]

[djarum99]

the idea of the three of them surviving it all is so romantic in a strange and bittersweet way

I like the idea of J/W/E, and I can't imagine how lonely it would be for Will as CotFD, or for all of them as the last relics of an age. I'm not sure how much they could be a part of the world, after the first few decades. There would be a disconnection, I think, a distance they could never cross. And glorious possibilities, in seeing what comes next. A blessing and a curse.

I confess. The shower scene started it all :-)

A wedding song? Is something in the offing, or are you just planning ahead? :-) I love "Hysteric" - perfect.

Thank you so much for such a lovely and thoughtful comment ♥

[greenisbeauty]

Haha, oh no. Just planning ahead. I tend to think about 5-10 years in advance at all times. I even have all my baby names picked out. Daughter #1 is Reverie. Haha!

I love all these challenges! I will have to write one when all of my finals are over next Thursday. Now back to "writing my paper."

[djarum99]

Planning ahead is fun :-)

Please, write something POTC! I look forward to seeing a challenge response from you - all the prompts are open ♥