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October 9th, 2005
11:15 am - Just a little ficlet...
I wrote this for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) shrieking_ell in a comment, and thought I'd share it here.
Title: Drink up
Pairing: A bit of Sparrington
Rating PG-13 - Just a bit of a kiss
Jack is elated. The spokes of the Pearl's wheel are smooth in his one palm, and in the other he holds a bottle of rum. Lovely rum, fine rum, free rum. They've found a whole supply of it on another of these otherwise dreadful little islands. Cheerfully, he pulls the cork out with his teeth and guzzles a giant swallow.
He reels. He wrenches at the wheel and pulls them off course before righting himself. He spits across the whole quarterdeck, making choking noises. And, not to forget, he swears. Loudly and fervently. "Bleedin' hell! What sort of swill's that?"
Amidst the obscenities, he bellows for the course to be set for Cuba, to restock. Because they have casks and casks and casks of rum, but it's all the same swill that tastes of bilge water.
He continues to curse, does so all day, because with the current calm, it'll take them days until they can get a new supply.
He's still cursing when he makes his way down in the brig, and, unsurprisingly, it makes his captive grin widely, the green eyes sparkling.
"'tis bad enough yer throwing all the folks with the good drink out of business and keeping the prices high, but laughing 'bout this vile stuff is dreadful! If I'd known that, I certainly wouldn't've shared me good, perfectly fine grog supplies with ye!"
That bloody Navy bastard seems no less amused, on the contrary, the aristocratic countenance, faintly bruised from a bit of suppressed struggling, is hiding a chuckle.
"On the contrary, Sparrow. I find it most hilarious that it was you who found the soiled rum. I had already thought it lost to the deep."
Jack's eyes widen, and he grabs Norrington's collar through the bars and hauls him up against them. "Ye know of this...this...this..." He is shaking the Commodore wildly, at loss for words. He is too upset to even correct the omission of his title.
And Norrington grins again, even wider. "Rum thinned with bilge water? Yes. It was my idea." And the damned bastard says it as though he's proud of it!
"Your idea? Yer the devil! Who'd do such a dreadful thing? And ye call me a criminal!"
Norrington seems not daunted in the least by Jack's hands still on his collar and dreadfully close to his throat, clenching and unclenching. "It is efficient, Sparrow. It is one matter to find a hidden stash of a smuggler. Another entirely to sacrifice the means to wait until he can be caught, getting it away. You have little idea how helpful a sailor can be in pinpointing a smuggler if he feels he has been cheated with badly watered rum."
Jack gasps for air like a fish. "You...you...you...bloody pirate!" Norrington only laughs.
Jack has to admit he looks quite fetching like that, amused and without that bloody wig. Not to mention that, unlike other people, Jack acts drunk when he's in fact sober, and he thinks shocking the good Commodore is the least he can do in payback.
So he doesn't punch or kick - which he suspects would make Norrington even more smug, but instead shoves the second arm through the bars and hauls the Navyman close for a kiss.
It seems quite reasonable that this would discomfit Norrington far more than a beating.
However, just as poisoning the rum - and really, putting bilges water into it counts as poisoning - is dreadfully unreasonable, Norrington apparently seems to like being unpredictable, because he parts his lips and moans into the kiss, his hand yanking Jack's head close, the other groping lower.
Norrington isn't bad, but Jack's been a pickpocket before he could walk, and he catches the hand trying to take the keys from his belt.
Not that Norrington couldn't have them, Jack thinks with a sparkle in his own eyes, worrying the cut in his lips from the probably unplanned bite.
He's definitely planning on getting that cell open now, after all.
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Comments:
LOL! Oh, *lovely*! I do adore your smug, *professional*, competant Norrington who can give as good as he gets. I love the little insight into exactly how Norrington shut down the rum-runners, and yes, *I* found it most hilarious too to see Jack's reaction. Love his grab for the keys too, especially when my dirty mind had been diverted by the word 'groping' ;) "You bloody pirate!" LOL! How splendidly ironic :)
![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/34323926/2630044) | | From: | elessil |
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| Date: | October 10th, 2005 08:34 am (UTC) |
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See, James even distracted myself with the word 'groping'. I was writing this on the fly, in a comment window, getting to the snoggage (because isn't that the best way to cheer Ell up?), and then sneaky James made a grab for the keys rather than Jack's buttocks.
Glad you like him!
heeee! "...bloody pirate!" I love it! galadhir said it perfectly: "smug, *professional*, competant Norrington who can give as good as he gets. mmmmmmm :)
![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/22786303/2630044) | | From: | elessil |
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| Date: | October 10th, 2005 08:35 am (UTC) |
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Thankee! And if my own imagination is any indication, he's going to give it to Jack, and good!
Just so you know - i still love this.
Thank you!
*hugs*
| | From: | elessil |
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| Date: | October 10th, 2005 08:36 am (UTC) |
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You're welcome and I am very happy you liked it. *hugs*
Lovely. I can't think of anything new to say, because your Norrington is smirky smart and competant and god, my mind did go dirty places with the word "groping" so the keys thing was worded beautifully. Absolutely wonderful.
| | From: | elessil |
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| Date: | October 10th, 2005 08:54 am (UTC) |
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The fun part of writing this was that I didn't know myself how it would develop. I just wrote, and I can't even say for sure if the groping wasn't intended as actual groping originally :)
Thank you!
Oh, how absolutely delightful to read! I love your Norrington- witty, sneaky and amusingly unpredictable man that he is. And Jack being scandalized and on the shocked, receiving end for once is a great change from the usual.
*thumps up*
~sinningia~
![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/22755584/2630044) | | From: | elessil |
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| Date: | October 10th, 2005 08:58 am (UTC) |
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James tends to like seeing Jack like that, and as he is my dominant Muse, he usually gets his will :)
Glad you enjoyed!
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| Date: | October 10th, 2005 04:55 pm (UTC) |
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James tends to like seeing Jack like that As do I! I´m glad he got his will this times^^
~sinningia~
Heeee! I love sneaky, crafty Norrington, and putting blige water in rum is totally poisoning. :-D
| | From: | elessil |
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| Date: | October 10th, 2005 08:59 am (UTC) |
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It is! Poor Jack! Well, he'll have something other than rum to occupy himself with.
*reiterates all that everyone else has said* Lovely fic. It's only missing one thing.....
An equally charming sequel. ^_^
| | From: | elessil |
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| Date: | October 10th, 2005 09:00 am (UTC) |
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Insatiable pirates!
Thank you!
Evil Evil James! What a dreadful thing to do to the rum! And he does have a thing for biting, doesn't he? *G* Lovely work, oh Commodore!
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| Date: | October 10th, 2005 09:02 am (UTC) |
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When he has a delicious pirate handy, he is *most* fond of biting and nibbling and all other sort of depravities. Thank you!
XD I love reading Norrington with a sense of humor.
And this was a hot, funny, adorable little ficlet. Loved it! ^_^
![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/22939065/2630044) | | From: | elessil |
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| Date: | October 10th, 2005 09:05 am (UTC) |
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Norrintgton without a sense of humour isn't Norrington to me. He must tease and snark sarcastically.
Thank you!
Oh but of course. Norrington without snark is like snow without cold. ~_^
But I did also mean the actual laughing. I don't see him laugh in fics often enough, and I love that.
You're very welcome! ^_^
Lovely version of Norrington, who knew that he could be so sneaky?
| | From: | elessil |
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| Date: | October 11th, 2005 08:01 pm (UTC) |
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If everyone knew it, would he still qualify as sneaky?
Thank you!
Oh, sure, everyone knows that Jack can be sneaky, after all :)
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| Date: | October 11th, 2005 08:06 pm (UTC) |
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That is because Jack can always come up with even newer, more unexpected sneakiness.
That was great!
I loved the grope/sneaky reaching for keys. :)
| | From: | elessil |
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| Date: | October 11th, 2005 08:01 pm (UTC) |
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Jack quite enjoyed that one too, and if he is honest, James did, too. So happiness all around.
Thank you for commenting!
But why is the rum...? I love your Norrington. Bloody pirate.
| | From: | elessil |
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| Date: | October 11th, 2005 08:05 pm (UTC) |
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He is, isn't he? Hanging around too much with Jack, I take it. Well, he has to be clever to keep up with the pirates' methods, and sometimes stoop to them himself. In the name of justice, of course. He didn't enjoy groping at ALL.
Natuarally he didn't :P And he won't do it again the first chance he gets. And if he did, theoretically of course, have to tie Jack to his own bed, cover him with pie and lick him, it would only be his duty forcing him to do so in the noble cause of distracting the pirate from other potentially flagitious acts of piracy.
| | From: | elessil |
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| Date: | October 11th, 2005 11:06 pm (UTC) |
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Can't catch him, can't hang him - best to keep him otherwise "occupied." (and nobody ever said he couldn't enjoy his duty!)
AHAHAHAHA!
Also: rawr. hot.
Also: Norrington isn't bad, but Jack's been a pickpocket before he could walk, and he catches the hand trying to take the keys from his belt. -- I LOVE THEM. So much. You tricksy minx, James. *beams*
| | From: | elessil |
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| Date: | October 11th, 2005 08:07 pm (UTC) |
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He always learns in order to keep up with his opponents. And Jack certainly is a worthy one. Of course he ddidn't enjoy the groping in the least. No. He didn't think "Nice arse," either.
Thankee!
This is adorable! *loves muchly* Perfect, perfect Sparrington. And the Commodore finally gets his revenge! Huzzah! Will there be a sequel? *puppy dog eyes*
| | From: | elessil |
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| Date: | October 11th, 2005 08:10 pm (UTC) |
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Ehm, probably not. I have a few fics in progress, and thoughts for sequels of others which are far for likely than to this one. Not to mention that my lovely hippediva and her Jack tend to keep James and me busy with lovely indlugence. Thank you for commenting, and glad you liked!
Oh, that was brilliant! Even if it hurt a little to see the good rum spoilt like that, it was a very very pleasant read. Smug!James is adorable and Pouty!Jack even more so! I'd love to see where that is going!
*applauds*
| | From: | elessil |
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| Date: | October 17th, 2005 07:54 pm (UTC) |
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Thankee! And I'm sure Jack and James will find a way to make up for the spoilt rum.
Lovely lovely lovely ! Impredictable!James is one of my favoured ones.
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