May the Sea's Take Me!
Don't Own Never Will
Short Drabble
Spoilers Warning
I have seen him a scant five times since he became Captain. True, I have seen him a thousand times in my dreams, the dreams that come late at night and soothe my harried tears. True also, that I see him a thousand times during the day, when I look upon the face of our son, and the face of our daughter, and their children. But I long for the day when I ask them to row me onto the ocean, when the depths shall take me back to his side.
I have fulfilled my post as Pirate King of the Bretheren; my son has taken my post, and he did so with several more votes than I received. Apparently, the son of the Captain of the Flying Dutchman is more popular than the wife. My daughter, however, is a different matter. She has taken command of the Singapore pirates, and earned her own name. It makes me smile, sometimes, to listen to people speaking about the strange antics of Captain Beth Sparrow.
Captain Sparrow, the original I speak of, not the current, had long disappeared from our shores when Beth took it upon herself to adopt his name. I've a feeling he met my husband, though Will neither denies nor confirms this for me. Beth, my little Beth, took his name from the many stories she heard me speak of during her raising. She had never met the strange Captain, and believed his stories to be only stories. What is stranger indeed, is how so many of her mannerisms take after that damn pirate. She is one who has never made peace with her father; indeed, she has met him only twice. It will be a battle of wits when she finally does heed the call of the locker.
My children have both made me a grandmother several times over. Billy, my dear son, has followed the tradition and named his boy William. Of course, his son receives 'Willie' as a shortened form, and it amuses us to no end when he calls himself the 'Underwater Captain'. He is one of the few who has met his Grandfather, and was old enough to remember the ship appearing out of the ocean.
But my time is near, and I beg that Calypso will allow me to join service upon the Dutchman. I will meet my husband again, and then I will sail eternity by his side; the Sea's take me if I cannot!
