Title: "Death Comes Calling"
Characters: Weatherby Swann
Rating: G
Prompt: Dead
Word count: 100
Disclaimer: PotC is Disney's, not mine. *sniff*
Summary: Weatherby Swann must deliver devastating news to his daughter...


Weatherby Swann hesitated outside his daughter's door. This was going to be the hardest thing he'd ever had to do…

Or, perhaps, second hardest…

The rain's ghostly fingers tapped mockingly against the hall window— the same cursed rain that had delayed the doctor's coach, mired in the mud-pit roads leading to the Swann country estate.

The doctor arrived…

But thief-in-the-night Death had already come calling, stealing two precious souls…

Weatherby's wife… and stillborn son…

And now he had to tell a five-year-old her mother was dead.

Closing tear-scalded eyes, he drew trembling breath, and rapped softly on the door…

"Elizabeth…?"