Drabble - Open Water

[veronica_rich]

Drabble Prompt 5 for potc_dogwatch
Title: Open Water
Rating: G
Disclaimer: This one’s a toss-up; he may belong to Buena Vista and Bruckheimer, after all.
Summary: A Turner goes to sea
Spoilers for AWE: Most probably.


Each night, he’d fallen asleep to the box’s steady thrumming. It had been constant for seven years, since he traded the heartbeat of his womb for the reassuring wooden thunk of his father’s next to his small bed.

Now it swayed with him on the vast ocean. Mama said he couldn’t be harmed upon the sea. It had been simple to cast offshore in the rowboat while she and Captain Jack slept – to be free, like Mama wanted to be.

William ran a small hand over the top of the chest as he excitedly waited to meet Papa, at last.

Comments

[stabbycutlass.livejournal.com]

*heart attack dies down*

Thank you for saying so. You have a gift with saying so much with so little. I honestly started fearing the worst for little Will.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I'm not big on kids, but I'd never do that to one. Especially not one of Will's. *G*

[stabbycutlass.livejournal.com]

Well, had he died, he still would have seen his father. Would have been a morbid twist on hopeful goals.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Nope. In fact, if this kid wanted, he could probably become the richest merchant marine in the world at the time.