Chapter 21
Chapter 21
Their arrangement proved to be a success; William returned from school each day, buzzing with the boisterous joy of youth straight to his favourite room of the house-Jack’s room. He’d throw the door open wide, his hand clutching a crinkled piece of parchment that contained the latest exercises in Latin torture from Master Pinch’s devious ( Read more... )
I am sorry for doing my name justice these days. I just started a new job which keeps me busy, especially since I am also working on several articles, but from next week, my schedule will be less hectic than it is at the moment. For the past two weeks or so, I hardly got the time to read fanfic or even get online, so I suppose I missed quite a lot - I will try to catch up with it, I promise. I'll sent you an E-mail later today or tomorrow :)
But now on to your lovely review - thanks a lot, dear!
Elizabeth should be a little more sympathetic to Jack's plight. She's known him well enough to know that no one ever changes...how can she possible be surprised? Annoyed, yes, surprised, no!
Well, you may be right here, but when I wrote this, I tried to consider several things. First of all, Elizabeth doesn't know how she feels about Jack - and she doesn't want to ponder her feelings for him anytime soon but rather get rid of him. Then, Jack and Lizzie have quite a troubled past, and you have to admit that especially towards her, he has always been one for lies or half-truths. I don't think she has any reason to trust him, to be honest. He might have saved her and Will, but in the end, she probably doesn't even know what to think about his actions at the end of AWE - especially since they never talked about it.
Another point is that this time, Jack's scheme didn't involve Will or herself, but her son William. IMHO, it makes quite the difference, especially since it has been set before that actually, she doesn't want her son to get into touch with Captain Sparrow. Elizabeth (in this story) knows as little as any OC what is going on in Jack Sparrow's head. Maybe she is not as sympathetic as she should be, because I wouldn't either ;)
No child wants to hear about his parent's romance.
Funny enough, I always wanted to know how my parents met, but girls are probably different. William has no interest in his parents' romance, but rather in all the exciting adventure stuff ... he's a boy, after all ;)
Talk to you, soon!
Anne
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