Title: "Adrift"
Characters: Weatherby Swann
Rating: PG
Prompt: Haunt
Word count: 100
Disclaimer: PotC is Disney's, not mine. *sniff*
Summary: Adrift on eternity's sea, Weatherby Swann's last memories haunt him...
His final memories—
Pain, knifing through his heart… Mercer's serpentine eyes, razor-sharp, glittering with cold moonlight… Falling... Icy-wet darkness, closing around him… Then… nothing…
Until a well-loved voice filtered through his fog-drift consciousness…
"Father…!"
He looked up, saw her… wild-eyed, bedraggled, but beautiful, peering down over the rail of that bedamned black ship...
"Elizabeth…" he said, bewildered. Impossible! How can she be here? Unless…
Oh, Dear Lord, please… not her, too!
"Are you dead?"
"No…"
Haunted eyes brimmed with relief, sadness, regret, love as they regarded his daughter for what he feared was the last time.
"I think I am…"
