❝Wait, didn't I beat your ass in the Smithsonian?❞
❝No, I'm pretty I beat your ass.❞
❝Well, I wasn't the one who ended up on the ground so...❞
In which Serenity Lennox, a direct descendant of the infamous pirate Henry Avery, gets recruited on a hu...
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SMITHSONIAN, WASHINGTON DC.
THE NAUTICAL ARTIFACTS EXHIBIT
Henry Avery, the dirtiest pirate, founder of Libertalia and coincidentally, or, not so coincidentally, Serenity Lennox's great something of a grandfather way down the line. At least that's what her grandfather Magnus believed. And the sight they were currently in front of reigned this true.
❝There 'ye is,❞ Magnus spoke, voice enticing, ❝the very coin passed down through our family, it made it to me, then I passed it down to your father, God rest his soul... and now, it can sit here, in the museum, because history's meant to be shared.❞
So, how exactly does this coin confirm Serenity and Magnus' relation to the richest pirate in history? Avery's infamous sigil, of course. A skull, tied with a bandana and bones in the shape of an x. The coin was an artifact in the family... an important one at that.
❝So when you auctioned off our shit after my parents died, the Smithsonian bought that coin?❞
Serenity pressed her nimble fingertip against the glass case around the coin, her coin.
That coin would've been passed down to her if Magnus didn't auction the darn thing. Don't get her wrong, Serenity adored her grandfather but, that coin was her father's good luck charm, he never went anywhere without it.
How synchronistic that the day he left it at home, with Serenity, was the day he died. Why leave the precious hunk of gold behind? Who knew.
❝Yes, they did.❞ Magnus nodded, ❝We have a bunch of treasure, Serenity--❞
The seventeen-year-old cut him off, quoting his infamous line.
❝'Cause, we got pirate blood in our veins, right?❞
Magnus smirked, mischievously. ❝That's right, darling.❞ Magnus wrapped an arm around his grandaughter, pulling her away from the exhibit.❝We should get home, it's late.❞
But, Serenity would come back for that coin. It was her's, after all.
