Bootstrap's Son (Bootstrap; PG; Forgiveness)
Working Title: Bootstrap's Son
Author: Pirate Turner
Characters: Bootstrap and Will Turner
Rating: PG
Challenge: Forgiveness
Summary:
Date Written: 14 July, 2012
Word Count: 200
Disclaimer: All characters within belong to Disney, not the author.
In Hell, minutes become years; years become centuries. Men lose all track of time and can only vaguely remember what they most treasured in life. There's only one memory that Bootstrap has managed to cling to for most of his eternity thus far. He has a son, and he aches for that son's forgiveness.
From time to time, as his son grew in the land of the living, Bill's sanity would almost return to him, and he'd wonder about his child, how he was growing up, if Jack had found him, who was caring for him, and the kind of man he would become or perhaps had already became, but now, he knows what kind of man his son is. Bootstrap's mind is a muddled mess. He barely remembers how Will found him, but he's here with him now.
He's with him every day, if you can call what they have days, captaining the Flying Dutchman, and steering them toward a better eternity than Bill thought he'd ever get. He knows they're still damned, but the future's never looked brighter to the old Pirate with a wonderful, grown son who's forgiven him and loves him enough to share his Hell.
The End
Author: Pirate Turner
Characters: Bootstrap and Will Turner
Rating: PG
Challenge: Forgiveness
Summary:
Date Written: 14 July, 2012
Word Count: 200
Disclaimer: All characters within belong to Disney, not the author.
In Hell, minutes become years; years become centuries. Men lose all track of time and can only vaguely remember what they most treasured in life. There's only one memory that Bootstrap has managed to cling to for most of his eternity thus far. He has a son, and he aches for that son's forgiveness.
From time to time, as his son grew in the land of the living, Bill's sanity would almost return to him, and he'd wonder about his child, how he was growing up, if Jack had found him, who was caring for him, and the kind of man he would become or perhaps had already became, but now, he knows what kind of man his son is. Bootstrap's mind is a muddled mess. He barely remembers how Will found him, but he's here with him now.
He's with him every day, if you can call what they have days, captaining the Flying Dutchman, and steering them toward a better eternity than Bill thought he'd ever get. He knows they're still damned, but the future's never looked brighter to the old Pirate with a wonderful, grown son who's forgiven him and loves him enough to share his Hell.
The End