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

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I have no idea why Will would have to give up his heart, except I guess it makes a good plot device for Elizabeth having a constant reminder to not cheat on him. She actually needs that sort of thing.