Ten Tales: Prologue
*grin* It's Ten Tales!
Title: Ten Tales: Prologue
Author: berne
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Jack, Bill.
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by Gore Verbinski, Ted Elliot, and Terry Rossio, various studios including but not limited to First Mate Productions Inc., Jerry Bruckheimer Films, and Walt Disney Pictures. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
AN: Inspired by geek_mama_2's request for a sword fighting fic (there is now none, alas) and fabu's Halloween 2005 challenge. An insane amount of love goes tohydaspes and watersword for betaing this.
Summary: Bill could tell tales of Jack Sparrow that would quiet the most rowdy of children, satisfy the most demanding of whores and silence a whole Tortugan tavern. Ten Jack-and-Bill tales, beginning with their first meeting and ending with the mutiny.
Ten Tales: Prologue
Bill could tell tales of Jack Sparrow that would quiet the most rowdy of children, satisfy the most demanding of whores, and silence a whole Tortugan tavern. He could tell tales that would make them shudder, swear, shriek -- and remember.
The tales had no need for embellishment, for what Bill had seen on his travels with Jack were things of myth and legend, things that could not possibly exist. Charmed ships? Dragons? Mermaids? No, they said, it could not possibly be true. Not possibly.
But it was.
***
On to Tale I: The Boy Who Lived in a Shell
Title: Ten Tales: Prologue
Author: berne
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Jack, Bill.
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by Gore Verbinski, Ted Elliot, and Terry Rossio, various studios including but not limited to First Mate Productions Inc., Jerry Bruckheimer Films, and Walt Disney Pictures. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
AN: Inspired by geek_mama_2's request for a sword fighting fic (there is now none, alas) and fabu's Halloween 2005 challenge. An insane amount of love goes tohydaspes and watersword for betaing this.
Summary: Bill could tell tales of Jack Sparrow that would quiet the most rowdy of children, satisfy the most demanding of whores and silence a whole Tortugan tavern. Ten Jack-and-Bill tales, beginning with their first meeting and ending with the mutiny.
Ten Tales: Prologue
Bill could tell tales of Jack Sparrow that would quiet the most rowdy of children, satisfy the most demanding of whores, and silence a whole Tortugan tavern. He could tell tales that would make them shudder, swear, shriek -- and remember.
The tales had no need for embellishment, for what Bill had seen on his travels with Jack were things of myth and legend, things that could not possibly exist. Charmed ships? Dragons? Mermaids? No, they said, it could not possibly be true. Not possibly.
But it was.
***
On to Tale I: The Boy Who Lived in a Shell