Disclaimer: I don't own Pirates of the Caribbean or any of the characters.
Okay, my first fanfic with multiple chapters and such…hope you like!
-Prologue-
The nurse worked quickly, covering the two boys lying in front of her with blanket after blanket, hoping to sweat the fever out of them. Her usually cheerful, round face was contorted into a grimace of determination and touched with a hint of worry. She laid her ebony hands on each of their foreheads and pulled them back quickly. She reached down to their tiny arms and lifted up their wrists one at a time, her shaky hands searching for a pulse, but there was nothing. Tears threatened to spill out of her eyes. She couldn't stand seeing the boys who used to run and play and tell jokes to her just lying there, so unnaturally still and silent.
She opened the door to find her employers, who had treated her so well these past years, waiting in the hallway outside. Commodore Norrington was sitting with a bottle of rum, and she noticed that ever since the boys had gotten ill, he seemed to always have some kind of alcohol cradled to his chest. His wife, Julianne, was pacing back and forth, her golden hair pulled back into a careless braid and her young, attractive face pale with concern for her sons.
They looked up in unison as she came out of the room and curtseyed. She didn't have to tell them the terrible news for them to know, but they still needed her to say it. They were still holding on to a tiny shred of hope that something may turn out for the better.
She hated to be the one to tell them, to break up the once happy family. It was she who had been left with the responsibility to nurse them back to health, so confident in her abilities to do so. But for the first time in her life, her strong-willed soul had been left trapped behind a body weakened by lack of sleep. She had sworn not to rest until she knew those boys would be okay, and she had failed.
"I'm so sorry, miss," the nurse whispered. And the three of them cried together.
A week afterwards, Julianne would find the selfless, kind hearted woman hanging from a noose fashioned out of the very sheets her children had slept on until their last breath.
Sorry, I know it was super short, but it's only the prologue and hopefully I'll have the first chapter in the next couple of days.