Drabble: Impatience

[honorat]

by Honorat Selonnet

Rating: G
Disclaimer: Disney owns Jack and the Black Pearl.

For this week's "Patience" Drabble Challenge at BPS.



For ten years she has felt nothing but the burn of desire for
eternally cursed gold. Not the embrace of wind in her sails. Not the
caress of the sea on her hull.

For ten years she has flung herself like a wounded leviathan against
the snarling seas. She has lashed fortresses and towns and tall ships
with the screaming fire of her cannon in her search for the gold that
calls. And she has wept tears that rise like banks of fog for him.

She has endured.

Now the curse is lifted, and she has no more patience. In the joy of
salt spray and the kiss of ocean breezes, she flies to him. What
Jack Sparrow has always been for the Black Pearl is freedom.

Comments

[shrieking-ell.livejournal.com]

Very nice! Good imagery and i love the ending!

[honorat.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I kind of liked that ending too. After all, the Pearl has been imprisoned by that curse just like the pirates, and Jack is the one who has set her free. Now with him as captain, she can go where she wills rather than chase cursed gold.

[hereswith.livejournal.com]

I like sentient Pearl fics and the descriptions here are quite lovely. I'm especially fond of: For ten years she has flung herself like a wounded leviathan against the snarling seas. Also: And she has wept tears that rise like banks of fog for him.

[honorat.livejournal.com]

I too like Pearl as a character. Ted and Terry discuss her in the commentary on the DVD and there is some implication that the Pearl is more than an ordinary ship even without the curse. Thanks for commenting.

[sharklady35.livejournal.com]

That rather goes without saying, doesn't it?

Very nice POV piece.

[honorat.livejournal.com]

Well, at the time this was written (pre-DMC), we saw the Pearl uncursed only in the few minutes of the final scene, so there wasn't much to go on.

I'm glad you like her POV.

[cymbeline.livejournal.com]

Wonderful imagery!

[honorat.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you enjoyed this.

[cymbeline.livejournal.com]

There is so much that can be done with Jack/Pearl

I did a poem back in April for a challenge on BPS. http://www.livejournal.com/users/caliscrapnmom/25867.html

[honorat.livejournal.com]

I'll just go over and check this out. Yeah for more Jack and Pearl.

[order_of_chaos]

Joy. That last line, especially.

[honorat.livejournal.com]

(Does a Snoopy Dance)I'm glad you liked it.

[porridgebird.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's really beautiful! And yeah, that last line! :-)

[honorat.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the kind words. I'm glad you like my version of Jack's lovely ladyship :)

[thekestrel.livejournal.com]

Nicely done - the thought of how the curse, touched Jack's ladyship. Saved this one.

[honorat.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Thank you very much. I'm honoured that you saved it.

[sasateq.livejournal.com]

Very interesting! ^^ I likes. Some very nice imagery - as everyone else has said. ^^

[honorat.livejournal.com]

Sorry it's taken me so long to acknowledge your kind words. I'm glad you like the imagery. Thank you.

[torn-eledhwen.livejournal.com]

Very nice indeed - excellent use of imagery!

[honorat.livejournal.com]

Oops. Shame on me. I forgot to say thank you for your comment. (Grovels.)

[equivocal-muse.livejournal.com]

A wounded leviathan? That description gives me tingles! What a relationship these two have ... I adore the last line of clarification ... profound.

[honorat.livejournal.com]

Of course you would recognize the source for that imagery! :D Jack and his ship are my favourite couple in that movie. Thank you for brightening my day with comments on these ancient bits of writing.