Drabble: "Abandoned"

[veronica_rich]

Title: Abandoned
Rating: G
Character: Davy Jones
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters; I make no profit. Just exercise.
Summary: The captain of the Flying Dutchman goes to his Maker. For the prompt "Fool" at blackpearlsails.


A fool for love.

If only that was how history would paint me. He knew better than to expect reprieve from the surviving progeny of terrified seamen and damned ocean travelers, left behind scribbling on parchment and whispering fiercely into grimy ears on dark wharves the terrifying monstrosity of Davy Jones’s reign.

It wasn’t the sucking inward spiral of collapse in his breast making him shrink in pain. It was the lad, not unlike the once-young sailor David, also breathing his last. Turner had two who sacrificed for him.

Jones had been unable to rely upon only one.

“Calypso …”

Comments

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Very true! Davy Jones is such a tragic figure, and you really caught that, here.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

He gets a lot of flak for what he did to Calypso, but I believe being the more powerful and mobile of the two, she had a responsibility to either live up to her end of the bargain in the first place, or tell him she wasn't interested and give him opportunity to be released from his service. She underestimated him, which is hopefully a mistake she won't make with her new ferryman.

Thanks!