PotC Fic: As the Sea

[erinya]

Title: As the Sea
Fandom: PotC
Disclaimer: Not my sandbox. I just play here.
Rating: PG
Summary: The Turners have an unexpected visitor. Written for shadphenix who long ago gave me the prompt "Will, daughter." More gen than anything else; all pairings come pre-wrecked. OFC.
Note: Heartfelt thanks to woolymonkey at rough_magic for much valuable feedback.

Comments

[erinya]

I'm not sure if she had a right choice to make in this particular situation. It's certainly a different approach than I usually take with the character, but the story really wanted it. A lot of the stripped-down aspect is a function of the distance between her and Will here and the fact that Will is the POV character, and that any vulnerability she has here is very well-hidden on her part. As with any story, of course, there's the other side, the unwritten side--in which Elizabeth left because she felt trapped, and terrified that she wasn't nurturing or patient enough to be a good mother (which might have been true for this Elizabeth, as you say) and unwilling to spend her youth being "just" a mother. And the reason she never goes back until fifteen years later is that she feels it would be crueler to be only partially there as opposed to not there at all, that she can't really justify herself to Will, that she has no way of reconciling these two worlds. A lot of that is implied, especially in the conversation-in-hypotheticals of the last part, but it had no way of making itself explicit in the story as framed.