Drabble: "Birdwatcher"
Mar. 27th, 2008 12:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
veronica_rich"Birdwatcher"
Rating: G
Pairing: W/E ... others, if you squint
Disclaimer: Belongs to Buena Vista and Bruckheimer. I derive no profit from this.
Summary: Post-AWE, Will's POV - response to "Fly" prompt at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
blackpearlsails, inspired by the screenwriters' allusion to a William Turner in history who studied avians.
Turner’s eyes opened as salt water swirled over them; oddly, he could see clear as a well-cast bell. Against the gray sky was an askew square of sail, ropes gathered to two figures.
He’d heard Swann’s protests to Sparrow’s insistence they leave, even as he was being anchored to the sea, over the rush of waves replacing the tympani of his own heartbeat.
He could stay Below, relinquishing all he’d loved, become the ghost of Calypso’s Will. Or he could remember Beckett and the awful ships, and defy the downward current.
Turner knew which would keep his two birds flying.
Rating: G
Pairing: W/E ... others, if you squint
Disclaimer: Belongs to Buena Vista and Bruckheimer. I derive no profit from this.
Summary: Post-AWE, Will's POV - response to "Fly" prompt at
blackpearlsails, inspired by the screenwriters' allusion to a William Turner in history who studied avians.Turner’s eyes opened as salt water swirled over them; oddly, he could see clear as a well-cast bell. Against the gray sky was an askew square of sail, ropes gathered to two figures.
He’d heard Swann’s protests to Sparrow’s insistence they leave, even as he was being anchored to the sea, over the rush of waves replacing the tympani of his own heartbeat.
He could stay Below, relinquishing all he’d loved, become the ghost of Calypso’s Will. Or he could remember Beckett and the awful ships, and defy the downward current.
Turner knew which would keep his two birds flying.
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Date: 2008-03-30 12:50 am (UTC)But, seriously, I didn't want to comment on this just off the top of my head after first reading. That's some fascinating and captivating dichotomy you've curled into those sparse words, and it's an accomplishment in itself to have the answers to it in those words too.
I'd love to know what happened in Will's mind after that moment (well, after AWE, when he had more time to think again...), because people rarely go undisturbed after a revelation as profound as that.
And I'm anxious about the J/W W/E series that you've mentioned. More so now than before reading this, which wasn't little even then.
At any rate, this was a great thought, applause are in order.
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Date: 2008-04-01 05:26 am (UTC)I hope to someday finish that series. I know what I want to do, but it's wrapping my brain around it so that it doesn't come out as terribly OOC. (I used to just write the fic and not worry so much and it was fun.)
I'm glad you liked it. Thanks!