Title: Simple Love
Author: Bunny W.
Fandom: PotC
Characters: Pintel, Ragetti
Pairing: None really
Warnings: Pintel and Ragetti family love.
A/N and Summary: This was the story idea that originally leads me to writing the longer one. A vignette about the loss of an eye. Again, I prefer non-family moog, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to try.
Simple Love
Pintel felt guilty. He had not felt guilt like this since the day the lad's mother was killed, and he had stumbled upon her body, draped over the lad's weeping form. Since then Pintel, being the boy's only family, decided to take upon himself the duty of protectorate and father figure. But as life wore on, he realized how hard this actually was to accomplish. It began when they were forced into service by the navy, and from there a life of piracy had ensued. And now, after a small skirmish with a band of privateers, Pintel's nephew, Ragetti was now down to one eye.
He was taking it fairly well, Pintel thought. The lad was letting him bandage his face up with out so much has a whimper, all though Pintel knew he must have been in pain. As he helped Ragetti into a hammock he muttered, "Oim sorry, lad. Was me du'y to protects ye'. Yer mum id be real mahd at meh."
With obvious struggle, Ragetti lifted his thin frame from the floating cloth and managed a kiss against Pintel's scruffy cheek. The older man could see his nephew trembling with the exertion of staying up right as he whispered, "I lurves ya', Uncl' Pin'tel…" After that the poor bugger passed out.
Left to his shock alone, Pintel allowed his eyes to swell with tears, and he bent to return a kiss to the skinny whelp's temple. Brushing his fingers lightly over the bandage he left the boy to his deserved sleep.