I finally caught her...

[norringtonsez]

She thought she could obscure it from me.

She thought I would not catch her in the act of it.

She thought I would be distracted enough by watching 'Master and Commander', a ...moo-vay about the His Majesty's Navy not to notice her checking her ee-lact-tron-nak mail.

She, dear ladies and gentlemen, was wrong.

My secretary ... is a slash writer

Comments

[jean_prouvaire]

Mr. Norrington--

I find that I, like Miss Mysticpenguin, must applaud your open-mindedness with regard to Gillette's desperate, passionate love for you. There are many people even in this day and age who don't have that level of understanding. And I assure you that though Miss Wren is a slash writer (as am I), she is a slash writer of the highest caliber, and her fics are among the most noteworthy in the fandom, and they paint you in a good and respectable light.

That said--I find I must respectfully disagree with the viewpoint, presented in various settings, that Groves is more deserving of your attention than Gillette. While Groves may be more classically good-looking, his character has never particularly impressed me--though all I know of him is that he reveres Jack Sparrow as "the best pirate he's ever seen" (a viewpoint with which I also respectfully disagree--unlike nearly everyone else in the fandom, I am not a slavish fangirl of Jack Sparrow, nor do I particularly like him. I am, however, one of your most passionate fangirls. If ever I devote myself to the complete, obsessive, rabid fangirling of any character, it will be you.)

Gillette has impressed me with his wit, humor and adorable little eyebrow-quirky thing ever since my second viewing of the film, and since reading Miss Elske's fic "One Night More," which is the epitome of well-written you/Gillette fanfic. As I've said, he may not possess Groves' dark good looks, but he certainly isn't a bad-looking young man by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, have you ever noticed what beautiful eyes he has? And such gorgeous, silky red hair...

*coughs* Pardon me. As I've also said before--if Gillette weren't completely, utterly, irrevocably, heart-and-soul in love with you, I'd take him myself. But that's rather irrelevant.

The point is, while I understand that sexual orientation is a deeply-ingrained thing that cannot be changed, whether heterosexual or homosexual, I don't think it would kill you to at least throw the poor man a bone once in a while. You may not be able to love him--and he knows that quite well; he isn't operating under the delusion that you could return his feelings, and he's quite angsty about it, too--but I think you should have a talk with him about all this. Get it all out in the open, explain your feelings on the matter. I think he'd appreciate it.

About the mangoes--well, every "Pirates of the Caribbean" character needs a disturbing fruit fetish. Yours and Gillette's might as well be with mangoes. :)

[norringtonsez]

From the desk of the Commodore;

Dear Miss Muse (or do you prefer Ms.?),

You bring up a string of valid complaints and points that I feel are completely justified, and therefore deserve an answer.

On the matter of who is more worthy of my affections - I think it rather ridiculous. Not that I feel something that goes beyond respect and friendship for either one of my Lieutenants, but rather the point that both Gillette and Groves both have a number of worthy qualities that make them similiar, yet at the same time different, in their realm of appealability.

To put it simply, as Miss Wren is begging me to, they are apples and oranges. You cannot compare them. Either one would be a wonderful lover and companion, for completely different reasons.

Now, on the matter of speaking to Gillette about his emotions - I fear embarassing the poor lad, really. Sodomy is a sensitive subject as it stands - pointing it out might make him think he has an appointment with the gallows. However, it is also cruel to leave him, as Miss Wren puts it, 'hanging out to dry like a cashmere sweater'. He deserves to know of my regard for him, even if it does not delve into anything beyond friendship. He deserves the very best treatment, in my humble opinion.

Finally, on my openmindedness - I must admit it was not easy to become accustomed to such things. However, God is Love, and I simply will not believe that our Almighty Lord means to exclude anyone from that love - despite religion, color, or sexual creed. Even if they are a pirate, in fact.

Or as Miss Wren so aptly puts it, 'Love is love is love'.

Yours sincerely,

Commodore James L. Norrington
His Majesty's Service
Port Royale