Title: "The Difficult We Do Right Away (The Impossible Takes a Little Longer)"
Rating: PG-13 for naughty words
Gen Jack and Will
Disclaimer: I make no profit from the use of these characters, nor do I own them.
Summary: It seems a foregone conclusion what's going to happen when Jack orders Will thrown into the brig in AWE. But what's taking so damn long?
A/N: Written for the old "cage" prompt at
blackpearlsailsHe found the whelp staring down at the lock on the door of his cage, arms crossed, corners of his mouth down. “Expected t’ catch you engineering your clever escape,” Jack airily observed.
Will didn’t raise his eyes.
“You’re never going to stare that door off its hinges.”
Will still didn’t look up.
“Need some leverage for that.”
Will’s rigid jaw twitched in violent promise.
“I’m sorely disappointed with your progress,” Jack pushed, curling his fingers around two of the bars, leaning between. “
Come, Mr. Turner. Where would fair lady be if you’d diddled your once upon a time before a cell door?”
Turner’s teeth ground behind compressed lips.
“It’s simple application of force-”
“Jack.” A sharp grunt.
Finally. He swayed back, dropping his hands and trying not to stroke Will’s sword he’d confiscated when incarcerating the scowling smith. “Aye?”
“The bench … is across in the
other fucking cell.”