Title: Five People Captain Jack Sparrow Never Talks About (and one he does)
Author: Carmarthen (caerfyrddin @ gmail.com)
Fandom/Pairing: Pirates of the Caribbean; Captain Jack Sparrow/OFCs
Disclaimer: It belongs to Disney, not me. Sadly, 'cos I want a swishy gay pirate boyfriend. I make no profit, please don't sue.
Rating: G
Spoilers: For small parts of the movie.
Warnings: Nonexplicit m/f references.
Summary: A not-quite-fic meme for Darwin.
Archive: My personal site (http://thewritegirls.populli.net/carmarthen).
Jack Sparrow didn't remember his mother well--she'd had dark hair, he thought, and a kind face, but she'd died when he was very young. The other whores petted him and made sure he ate regular, but didn't pay him much mind.
When he was twelve, he ran away to sea and never looked back.
The first girl Jack kissed wasn't a whore at all, but a sweet Chinese girl whose father was a fisherman. She blushed and ran away.
That night in no uncertain terms, her brothers made it known that Jack wasn't welcome in their town anymore.
The first woman who broke Jack's heart was a Voudouienne from Martinique, who wore rosary beads in her hair and threw the bones for him. She left him for a merchant captain with skin the color of oak and a smile that held no secrets.
Jack never told Tía Dalma about the first one.
Jack called many men friends, but few close enough to mourn. When he was twenty and first mate on the Egyptian Queen, the second mate washed overboard in a storm off Capetown.
They'd drunk together and whored together, and bled for each other. Jack took one of the buttons from the second mate's spare jacket and braided it into his hair. It was the first trinket, but not the last.
Once, in the dead of night in a becalmed sea south of Japan, Jack Sparrow saw a mermaid.
She wasn't the sort of thing you talked about, not if you valued your soul. Jack might have been daft, but he wasn't a fool.
He did talk about himself, quite a lot. After all, he was Captain Jack Sparrow.
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