Drabble: The Last Act
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honoratby Honorat
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Oh, Disney is the power in these waters, true enough, but there’s no writers as can match we fanfic writers for speed.
Summary: Jack is about to be hanged. Uber angst. Sequel to "For Remembrance". This is an actual Drabble! For the "Believe" challenge at Black Pearl Sails.
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The moment he had never really believed would come had arrived.
As the rough hemp chafed his neck, Jack turned his head and met Elizabeth’s wide dark eyes across the eager crowd. She had come, as she had promised. Always a woman of her word, Miss Swann. Her face was pale, but she did not look away.
So good, not to be alone.
He turned back to face out over the battlements to the sea that owned his soul. Time to play out on this wooden stage the final scene of the last act of the legend of Captain Jack Sparrow.
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Oh, Disney is the power in these waters, true enough, but there’s no writers as can match we fanfic writers for speed.
Summary: Jack is about to be hanged. Uber angst. Sequel to "For Remembrance". This is an actual Drabble! For the "Believe" challenge at Black Pearl Sails.
* * * * *
The moment he had never really believed would come had arrived.
As the rough hemp chafed his neck, Jack turned his head and met Elizabeth’s wide dark eyes across the eager crowd. She had come, as she had promised. Always a woman of her word, Miss Swann. Her face was pale, but she did not look away.
So good, not to be alone.
He turned back to face out over the battlements to the sea that owned his soul. Time to play out on this wooden stage the final scene of the last act of the legend of Captain Jack Sparrow.
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Date: 2005-09-02 11:47 pm (UTC)I'm flattered that you have read all this! Thank you for your kind compliments. (My muse thrives on comments :D)
I'm glad to know you enjoyed this drabble. That scene in the movie seemed to combine so much tension between Jack's blithe trust in his luck and the truly dreadful situation he is in. Denial or courage or both? But there had to be a moment when he must have feared that this was it. After all, that lever was thrown. He had no reason to expect anything at the end of that drop other than death. Certainly his behaviour on that gallows was worthy of his legend. And how like Jack to play it out to the bitter end.
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