ollietheocto
James Norrington's fatal flaw is *almost.*
Fifteen years ago there was a girl on the south pier - a stolen
chart, an open horizon, an invitation to run. He said no. He kept
her ribbon.
Now he's a disgraced officer face-down in a Tortuga pig pen, and
she's a pirate captain with her own ship, her own crew, and a coin
that knows the difference between a door and a cage.
The door is unlocked. She doesn't lock things behind people. She is
not going to turn around.
But she did leave him a note.
A slow-burn enemies-to-almost romance running through Dead Man's
Chest and At World's End - about two people who keep choosing the
wrong side of every door, and the one Elizabeth nobody wrote songs
about.
Content notes: canon-typical violence (battle, sword fights,
injury), a stabbing and a near-drowning, body horror (the
Dutchman's crew), alcohol and a disgrace arc, grief, period-typical
sexism in the background, and canon character deaths. Per-chapter
notes appear where needed.