Drabble - A Change in the Weather

May 02, 2007 01:50

Drabble Prompt 29 for potc_dogwatch
Title: A Change in the Weather
Rating: G
Disclaimer: He belongs to Buena Vista and Bruckheimer.
Summary: At the end of all things …
Spoilers for AWE: How should I know? I’m not on Disney’s payroll.

Eddies buffeted, threatening to pull his grip from the helm, ship nose-down.

Dear sweet Jesus, his mind flailed, body resisting inhalation. The last five months burned clearly.

Gold and white.

Iron bars.

Tentacles.

Innocent wood cracking in a way God hadn’t intended.

Does God oversee this? He inhaled, expecting crushing burn.

Instead, a swell of anger he hadn’t exercised flared with successful breaths, and he felt the ship’s descent slow, right itself. He looked to the surface, jaw set, veins pumping with brackish water.

He would not go quietly into that good night.

“Up,” he growled, feet planted.
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