What flowed through Turner veins was one part blood and one part sea.
Anna knew that when she married him. What she didn't know was that her honest sailor Will was also Bootstrap Bill the pirate.
So when Bootstrap went down and joined Davy Jones' crew and his veins flowed with two parts sea, Anna told their son what she thought was the truth.
And when a fever claimed Anna, young Will went to sea.
When the future Governor Swann married Catherine Elliot, he had no idea about the rumors that had plagued her family generations ago. Even if he'd heard them, he would have dismissed them. It was unfortunate that her great-grandmother had disappeared, but the scandal was long since faded.
He never would have imagined that the strange rumors that she had run out of her husband's house holding a sealskin were true.
Catherine would have told their daughter, but she never got the chance.
Catherine died, and the newly appointed governor moved their daughter across the sea.
A sea that awoke something in her blood that was wild and free.
It shouldn't have been a surprise that he lost her to the sea.
Will Turner's veins ran with one part magic, one part blood, and one part sea. Elizabeth Turner's ran the same.
Davy Jones' replacement and the Pirate King.
Henry Turner was born to the sea.
Bootstrap Bill was not in the least surprised when young Henry broke all the rules to row out and meet his father's ship.
It was in the boy's blood.
A/N: Prompt #16 - Blood.