Le challenge rules:
I shall put my music library on shuffle and pair her top 10 ships with the first 10 songs. Each ship gets a story related to the song with decreasing times: ship #1 gets 10 min., ship #2 gets 9 min., ship #3 gets 8 min., etc. So ship #10 is a hot mess 1 min. panic attack.
And you don't HAVE to listen to the song first...but you might want to. And author's notes are bolded.
4. ElizabethxJack (Pirates of the Caribbean) – "Basket Case" by Green Day – 7 min. timer
YESSSS, SPARRABETHHHHHH.
"Am I just paranoid, or am I just drunk?" Jack asked her, swinging a bottle of rum very drunkenly in her direction.
"Drunk," she said pointedly, without looking up.
"You know why I drink, love?"
Resigning with a sigh that this conversation was going to happen, she gave him a shrug.
"I asked my most trusted health advisor, Mr. Gibbs-"
"-absolutely who I would get my health advice from-"
"-and he informed me that it was a lack of physical intimacy that prompted me to my...neurosis, if you will."
Elizabeth was forced to do a double take at that.
"Jack, you have probably a dozen...paid women...at every port."
"Not since I met you."
Her jaw must have hit the floor because he flat out laughed at her reaction.
"They can't compare! Honestly, Lizzie, I know there isn't a mirror on my ship, but have you truly forgotten what you look like?"
She continued to be stunned into silence.
"Of course...if you wanted to help me alleviate my medical dilemma...well...you could just say that the doctor ordered it!"
And that was enough to jolt her mind back to functioning.
She grabbed the bottle out of his hand and chugged the remaining half with ease.
"What if instead I join you in your neuroticism?"
"Whatever suits your fancy, Mrs. Turner."
"Hmm."
An hour later, he was wondering how much of his time he was going to waste listening to her whine.
I was going to write "Miss Swann", but then my brain was like, "NO. MRS. TURNER." Because what does that MEAN, when does this take PLACE, what is HAPPENING, whoa, the SCANDAL.