shyaway (shyaway) wrote in wallflowering, @ 2008-02-27 22:26:00 |
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Entry tags: | fic: potc - gen |
PotC fic: The Twelve Days of Christmas (Gibbs, G, 4/12)
Title: The Twelve Days of Christmas
Author: shyaway
Rating: G
Character: Gibbs
Disclaimer: Pirates of the Caribbean and its characters belong to Disney.
Summary: Twelve festive piratey drabbles inspired by the carol.
A Partridge in a Pear Tree
Turtle Doves
French Hens
Gibbs had been most pleased to spend Christmas leave in Bristol. He’d known the port as a boy, and he’d had a grand time meeting up with his old mates and testing the taverns. The beer was just as good as he remembered. Aye, they didn’t make it like that anywhere else. Maybe he’d just stay in Bristol and drink their fine brew this next year. He’d heard a rumour that his ship, the Dauntless, was going to be posted to the West Indies, and he wasn’t at all sure that he wanted to go. Fever, pirates, hurricanes, cannibals – who knew what might happen to you in the Caribbean? Best not to go. There was a lass living a few miles from Bristol who’d been very pretty twenty years ago; he’d much rather renew his acquaintance with her than go to some nasty heathenish place on the other side of the Atlantic. ‘Sides, there was no guarantee they wouldn’t miss their way and sail off the edge of the world after all. He’d stay where he was, thanks very much.
He made that decision just before slipping into a drunken stupor in his favourite tavern of the lot. He awoke in the street the next morning to the call of the gulls, that insistent cry that heralded a journey.
Despite his aching head and queasy belly, Gibbs staggered to his feet. The old lady was calling. Wouldn’t do to deny the sea.