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By Honorat Selonnet
Disclaimer: Disney owns all pirates on these premises.
Mr. Gibbs is one of my favorite characters. For the "Down Time" drabble challenge at Black Pearl Sails.
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He's really down this time. Down with the pigs. Sleeping with swine like the prodigal son. They're not bad company—pigs. Warm at least. Smarter than a lot of men he knows.
But hunger and craving for rum and memory of the sea are an ache in his gut.
Sometimes he wonders if he ever could have gone home—to anything he has called home. Would his father have forgiven? The navy never will!
Suddenly, cold water splashes. He squints up, bleary-eyed—with sleep, not rum. He's never been this far down before.
The hand of a friend with the gold of Caribbean sun in his grin and the devil's own fire in his eyes.
Time to get up again.
Who needs a fatted calf when he has Captain Jack Sparrow, a flagon of rum, and an adventure on the horizon?