This is a longish drabble, 350 words, set just before the beginning of tessabeth's In the First Year of their Acquaintance, an A/U Jack backstory that I've borrowed quite a few times. If you haven't read First Year, you should do so immediately, it's superb.

I started writing this a while back, for the 'Discover' and 'Shock' prompts at blackpearlsails, and finally ( Read more... )

100 words for the new blackpearlsails drabble challenge theme, 'Bed'.

( They'd toasted anything and everything on this night of nights... )

While I was waiting THREE HOURS AT WALMART OMG to get a new car battery and oil change, I wrote a couple of drabbles, exactly a hundred words apiece, for this week's and last week's themes at Black Pearl Sails. hereswith is asleep, so these are unbetaed. But hey! A hundred words! What could go wrong?

( Drabble #1: DMC Bootstrap Bill angst. )

"Name your terms, Mr. Turner."

Elizabeth goes free! and The crew are not to be harmed. Bloody hell. Did the whelp have no imagination at all?

And he'd completely ignored Jack's subtle pantomime. Had he not seen, or was this the same malice that had inspired that oar-to-the-head trick?

An internal whisper (doubtless a lingering effect ( Read more... )

The story's complete. Many, many thanks to hereswith for her patient help with these final chapters, and to all of you who have patiently followed the updates for the last SIX MONTHS (omg).

( Mordecai Huff was furious... )

Getting to the last of this. Many thanks, again, to hereswith for repeated editing, and some suggested improvements for 35.

( 'He was gone when she woke...' )

Yes. 37 parts and an epilogue now. Many thanks, as always, to my dear hereswith for judicious and eagle-eyed editing. Still PG-13. Or possibly bordering on soft R.

( Parts 30-32: So much for unresolved sexual tension. )

More of the unresolved sexual tension that is Dark of the Moon. Thanks again to hereswith for the quick and thorough beta.

( Part 29: Our heroine's post-bathtime thoughts. )

Ahoy all PotC fans -- fabu has established potc_dogwatch and everyone should join because the more the merrier. Here's the scoop...

This is the place to celebrate the PotC fandom, everything we love about the original movie, and the upcoming sequel, Dead Man's Chest. All PotC fans are welcome ( Read more... )

A little more Dark of the Moon, which hereswith was kind enough to edit for me earlier today. It could conceivably be counted toward the drabble theme of the week at Black Pearl Tales...

( Part 27, in which our heroine endures a terribly tittilating TRIAL )