Title: Unchanging
Rating: Anyone who has seen Pirates 3 can read this.
Spoilers: concerning the end of the movie
Disclaimer: I don't own POTC. Well, a couple of shirts, but that's it. Disney owns the actual franchise.
It seems like they had been destined from the beginning of time to never be together.
Fate has been cruel, allowing them the time to grow close to one another during their childhood, as well as many peaceful afternoons of sitting together with their feet in the shallows of the sea.
When they were older and engaged, Providence even permitted them to fancy the idea of a traditional marriage, complete with extravagant outfits and well-to-do guests.
Things grew harder after that, but there had still been hope. Matrimony on a ghost ship hadn't been their ideal way of exchanging vows, but it had been enough.
Then Destiny decided it had let them have enough fun- and it took human form, a depraved form without a cardiac organ and tentacles for a beard, and killed the new bride's groom.
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It seems to her, after fifteen minutes of pure hell of having her beloved dying in her arms, that salvation has come, a deliverance in the form of a curse, when he comes back alive to captain the Flying Dutchman.
Nevertheless, salvation is not much improvement over the curse when they learn it is merely a merciless game of cat and mouse that Fate plays.
And Fate continues to play the game, regardless of whether or not the reluctant players know the rules, allowing the couple one day per every ten years to be together.
It may be a vindictive game, but it is one they are both willing to play for the other.
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One day they'll be together, sailing the seas for all eternity.
Fate will no longer be able to continue its malicious interventions because they will no longer be a part of the living world.
Until they are together, they know they can't thwart destiny.
All the same, it is no lost cause, and they're going to work with what they've got.
And if Fate presents them with anything of a fleeting chance to be together, whatever the cost is, and with no second thoughts, they will lunge for it.
After all, it's only the rules of the game.
They know the rules can always change, just like the fleeting days do.
It is the only way they know they can win.
They are steadfast, and they are determined to win.
A/N: So... I know it's kind of weird... but what do you think? It was for a school assignment. Meh... Anyway! Drop me a line and let me know what you think. Concrit is welcome.
