All Your Nights Belong to Me: Chapter 27
Title: All Your Nights Belong to Me
Style: Prose
Genre: Drama
Rating: G
Length: Drabble
Pairings: Beckington
Warnings: AU, AWE, Slash, Unanswered Questions, etc…
Authoress: cassiopaya
Characters: James Norrington and Cutler Beckett with a supporting cast.
Word Count: 222
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Dedication: lady_elizabeth2
Summary: James Norrington is given a choice: he can serve Lord Beckett during the day or he can serve him at night.
Notes: Chapter 27, MOAR PLOT! Norrington has a meet and greet with Captain Schwann of the Diamond.
Index: http://cassiopaya.livejournal.com/61458.html
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Captain Schwann had been born in the realm of Electress Sophia and German was his mother tongue. Despite this, the Admiral found himself at ease with the Captain’s English - his accent was quite light - as the Schwanns had left Hanover to follow George I to Great Britain. During his meeting in the great cabin of the Diamond, James learned that Captain Schwann had received his initial education in all thing nautical through Trinity House and had gone on to the merchant service. Norrington was pleased with the captain’s plain and easy manner - he neither acted suspicious nor tried to hide anything from James - and knew he would receive no trouble from this man.
Approval was granted to Captain Schwann to proceed with his orders - after the Admiral had inspected him, of course. Norrington’s only concern, naturally, had been Schwann’s ability to hunt and engage - to destroy or to take a prize. James had let his own Naval Pride paint this captain as a mild mannered merchantman. Schwann had sailed the routes to and from India and had successfully defended his cargo from pirates and privateers; he was no merchant bumpkin about the guns. This elder captain looked forward to putting his old pursuers to chase. Norrington and Schwann shook hands and drank a little of the captain’s brandy over their mutual attitudes.