[PotC] Leave-takings

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Title: Leave-takings
Fandom: PotC
Pairing: W/E, W/J
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: This story is not true and not mine.

Notes: inspired by hija_paloma Relinquish (probably might make more sense if you read it first), and was written in thanks for the rareslash recs...

It started, perhaps when he first said goodbye with "I love you." When he'd first made the choice to die, honorably, at the side of a pirate and if that wasn't some sort of a vow, Elizabeth doesn't know what is.

It started, perhaps when he'd said "I love you" with his silence. When the battle was won in a golden cave, and Will could have lined his pockets with enough to make himself Governor twenty times over and Will still. He still held his toungue. Darling, impetuous Will who snuck Mr. Brown extra ale to free up three needed hours to himself; and for all his practice, Will didn't need her enough to bring himself to fight for her.

It started, perhaps when he named himself the son of Bootstrap Bill Turner. With the pistol pressed sharp to his chin accepted like the noose which lingers near a pirate's neck, and he will do this for her, he will. Blacksmith-boy swaying on the edge of the boat and the sea and the salt air like, the pirates mutter, something fey and deathdark.

It started, perhaps when she couldn't keep silent with his touch. When she asked him 'don't stop', when they'd left Jack for dead, when the round of the medallion gold shone like wretched truth.

It started, perhaps when she'd first lifted the coin from Will's chest as if she could somehow keep his heart that way. She named him 'pirate'.

And it fit, feathered hat and all and she named him 'pirate' and he welds to her still, shaky, and loose and she named him 'pirate' and she thinks. She thinks of how she'd looked to Will when he'd only kept a bare handful of coins from that cave, he'd said to her, "Not all treasure is silver and gold." He said it like rote, like a repeat, like a revelation, and Elizabeth knows that Will doesn't have it in him to be so poetic.

She, herself, named him 'pirate'.

A cursed crew frittered away their treasure, and Elizabeth wonders if she has been cursed herself because, even as they close and embrace on the parapet, the kiss turns to ash in her mouth.

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endnotes:...and yet another attempt to reconcile Pirate!Will...

Comments

[xoverau.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Dark and fascinating, full of meaning. This is something I'm going to be thinking about for a while.

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::blush:: thankee. feel free to run by any ideas or whatnot, I love to discuss characterizations and their permutations with people. I think I have several versions of Elizabeth and Jack and Will running around in my head and it's always fun to mix and match... and to check for quality! ::staps Grade A Beef to Jack and Will's butt::

[girlpearl]

Note to self: if this is what results, write more drabbles. I love your Elizabeth, and I love seeing Will through her eyes. This is quite thought-provoking... thanks!

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aww, thanks!

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

This was lovely. I really liked your characterization of Elizabeth, and how poetic that last line was. Very deep -- leaves me pondering.

Write more!

;o)

[linaelyn.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love this. LOVE. Loved hija_paloma's original (very flattering, too, to have a comment remembered) and then this came of that! Wow. One of the most beautimous things of fandom is the spread of ideas throughout it, like ripples in still water.

Elizabeth knows that Will doesn't have it in him to be so poetic. He is sincere, and loyal to a fault, and self-sacrificing and all of that...but no gift for spoken demonstative Love. A kinesthetic form of affection, not a auditory one, nor a visual.

inneresting. innnnnnneresting.

In other (unrelated) news? Shrek2? Did you see the trailer? (I just did) Who plays Puss in Boots? BWAHAHAHAHA now i'm going to go perve on a small animated cat. 'scuse me.

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One of the most beautimous things of fandom is the spread of ideas throughout it, like ripples in still water.

I fully agree, though I'm always more than a bit nervous that a non-fandom visitor might not get it, because if it's not accessible then what is it??

::giggles:: yes, dear Antonio with Shrek2 and his lovely purr and growl and the "Pooooossh--InBoots!" ::grins:: and no worries, there's gonna be lotsa perving I'm predicting...

[permetaform]

thank you! and I'm glad it leave one thinking.

as for more? in time m'dear, in time...

[1-and-the-same.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm.... this is breath-taking. It is so beautiful and Elizabeth's POV is heart-wrenching all at the same time.

She, herself, named him 'pirate'.

::sighs::

--Temesia

[guede-mazaka.livejournal.com]

Kitty! Heeere, kit--

--ahem. Marvelous little telling bit of regret and confusion and past/present mix-up. And jealous of recipient.

[permetaform]

thank you! And Elizabeth? yeah, heh, and I wonder how much she's going to try to stress the pirate thing with Will in the sequel...might make it verrrrry inneresting...

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thank you!

::grins:: You're gonna watch Shrek2 just to take notes on El-Zorro-Kitty, aren't you?? ::coughmetoocoughcoughwhistle...::

[guede-mazaka.livejournal.com]

Well, did felinize Sands, after all. And El does 'prowl' so nicely.

Oh--look what you did. Brought Calvin/Hobbes slash into the open, and now the muses are screaming, 'People! People, dammit, not animals!'

must go rub Sands' belly and hope El pounces on purring. bye

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now the muses are screaming, 'People! People, dammit, not animals!'

like 'Fight' club slash only fluffier! XD