Prompt: 19. Blood and Tears
Characters/Pairing: Mercer/Elizabeth, (Beckett, Weatherby, James, Will)
Rating: R
Song: Perfect Circle: Hollow
Summary: Long after AWE and losing those they held dear Mercer and Eli still can't let go of old grudges.

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Hollow (Mercer/Elizabeth) from Kate Schmidt on Vimeo.

 
( 02. DARK )

When Anamaria feels those dark, rough hands against her skin she thinks of the tree. It had been her tree once; she’d been born under it one starless night, so her mother always said, as far away as possible from the lecherous Spaniard who had fathered her. Years of stories woven into her memory slowly turned the tree into an almost magical ( Read more... )

( Barriers )

“He’s trouble.”

The candle’s faint light softly danced across the small, dark room that was so different from the Master’s spacious quarters, illuminating Prudence’s features, gently kissing her worried frown. Mercer’s hand stopped, hovering over the gun he was polishing but he didn’t look up at her.

“So you have been telling me for two hours ( Read more... )

The White Hawk barely stirred excitement as it laid anchor closely following the huge, pompous ship specially commissioned by the Governor as a wedding gift for his daughter to take the newlywed couple on their honeymoon back to England for the necessary social visits. All of Port Royal was present as the heavy lady elegantly floated into the ( Read more... )

Title: The Shape of Things to Come - VI
Author: sunsetdawn20
Characters: James Norrington, Maid, Mercer
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100

Note: Part of an ongoing drabble series with greeneyespurple

The dark, old house was watching James threateningly as he was approaching, it was almost growling like a vicious guard dog at the unsuspecting intruder. Mercer ( Read more... )

Title: Eight uses of pieces of eight
Characters/Pairings: Beckett/Jack, Beckett/Mercer if you really squint, Beckett/random whore, Calypso, Beckett's father
Rating: R
Word Count: 8x100
Prompt: Coin at cutler_beckett

Eight uses of pieces of eight

1.) Traitorous friend

Lord Cutler Beckett remembers a time when he didn’t know wealth from poverty and the sharp ( Read more... )

Mercer will never understand the Lord’s whims, he’s sure of it, but doesn’t care. He’s not paid to understand. He’s not paid to hunt down the Lord’s playthings either, no, if the Master ever suspected, Mercer would be the one to pay the highest price. But all men need something for which they’d willingly sacrifice everything. Even murderers.

( Read more... )

Beckett is losing his mind. He doesn’t know when it started, never noticed the discomforting peculiarities of his own behaviour or Mercer’s piercing glare and only sees his own fall when he buys the first wench in Tortuga who knows Jack’s name. Getting lost in quick, unsatisfying pleasure is easy, but it’s only when he see’s her - dark, wild ( Read more... )