Written in 2010 for a prompt 'pace' on LJ-comm 'blackpearlsails' and posted for the first time on my journal (aletheiafelinea, LJ). I'll be happy to put the direct link as soon as FF's editor stops messing with it...
Disclaimer: Disney's.
"No way! I'm barefoot on a beach! ...not the damned minuet again! It's out of the...! Wrong; one step back. No, not like this... Oh, give me your hand, Jack."
Oh how the fire is roaring... the sea humming... or is it the rum in my head? I feel so dizzy...
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...from the gunfire, from the smell of powder and... burning rum, again... so dizzy from the sea's humming, and from... One more step, Jack, just one... Give me your hand.
"I'm not sorry."