Request Ficlet for Kahva

Apr 01, 2005 14:15

This one's for kahva, who wanted...



~ After The Kiss ~

“Elizabeth,” he whispered, his dark head bending to hers.

“How good it is to hear you say it at last!” She drew away and studied his handsome face, now full of satisfaction and confidence. A man’s face.

“I always said it, in my heart,” he said, simply.

“From the moment we met?”

He smiled. “I believe you knew that.”

She had the grace to blush. “Perhaps.”

To cool her cheeks, she looked out from the parapet, to the dazzling sea and the Black Pearl, now an object of beauty, rather than fear, her new sails spread to the winds, her rightful captain at the helm, making her majestic way out of the bay, to the open sea, and freedom.

All as it should be.

She turned to Will, admiration in her eyes. “You saved him!”

Will tried to turn it off. “Pirate!”

She shook her head. “No. More than that. Hero.”

He shook his head, and gazed out at the ship. “My father loved him, though he couldn’t save him from the mutiny, it seems. And still they put my father to death, for supporting him.” Will looked at Elizabeth: his treasure. “It was through Jack's efforts that we are here now. What else could I have done?”

“Nothing. And you risked everything to do it, to do what was right. That is the part of a hero.” When she saw he would still dispute the assertion, she added, “No more arguments! You know I am right!”

“Yes, ma’am,” he said, in a meek little voice, but smiled at the tiny gasp she made as he pulled her close, and kissed her once more.

~.~
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