Drabble: "Abandoned"
Title: Abandoned
Rating: G
Character: Davy Jones
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters; I make no profit. Just exercise.
Summary: The captain of the Flying Dutchman goes to his Maker. For the prompt "Fool" at blackpearlsails.
A fool for love.
If only that was how history would paint me. He knew better than to expect reprieve from the surviving progeny of terrified seamen and damned ocean travelers, left behind scribbling on parchment and whispering fiercely into grimy ears on dark wharves the terrifying monstrosity of Davy Jones’s reign.
It wasn’t the sucking inward spiral of collapse in his breast making him shrink in pain. It was the lad, not unlike the once-young sailor David, also breathing his last. Turner had two who sacrificed for him.
Jones had been unable to rely upon only one.
“Calypso …”
Rating: G
Character: Davy Jones
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters; I make no profit. Just exercise.
Summary: The captain of the Flying Dutchman goes to his Maker. For the prompt "Fool" at blackpearlsails.
A fool for love.
If only that was how history would paint me. He knew better than to expect reprieve from the surviving progeny of terrified seamen and damned ocean travelers, left behind scribbling on parchment and whispering fiercely into grimy ears on dark wharves the terrifying monstrosity of Davy Jones’s reign.
It wasn’t the sucking inward spiral of collapse in his breast making him shrink in pain. It was the lad, not unlike the once-young sailor David, also breathing his last. Turner had two who sacrificed for him.
Jones had been unable to rely upon only one.
“Calypso …”