concertigrossi

Title:  Corona
Author: concertigrossi
Rating: G
Word count: exactly 100
Characters: James Norrington
Notes: For the "Fire" challenge on potc100

He was fourteen when first he saw the corposants: the blue-purple flashes along the tops.   He raced up to get a better look.  As the crewmen watched the young man in motion, the eldritch glow leapt to where he clung to the rigging. It eddied around him. 

He laughed.  It tickled.

When he returned to earth, Mr. Norrington was the subject of some debate:  St. Elmo’s Fire augured well when on the masts, but around a man’s body?  An unquestioned death-mark.

Once James survived the requisite twenty-five hours, the superstitious decided instead that he was in St. Erasmus’ good graces.

Author: concertigrossi

potc100

            It wasn't that pirates were disloyal.  On the contrary, they were all wholly and faithfully loyal… to their own interests.  That was all right; it made them predictable, and predictable people are easily manipulated.  As long as she kept abreast of what those interests were, she'd succeed. The challenge made her feel alive.  Her father had always sworn his loyalty to King and Country, and what had that earned him?  An ignominious murder.

These were hard lessons to learn, but learn them she did, and she held her power proudly and bravely, standing astride her underworld like a true queen.

Author: concertigrossi

potc100

The doctor had told Pappa that winter sea-bathing might help Mamma get better, and so they’d all left for Scarborough the very next morning.

She’d thought she knew everything about the sea, but her jaw dropped, as she stared at the crashing waves.  Such beauty!  Such power!  The cold, salty air swirled around her; to her, that scent would forevermore embody the promise of adventure and discovery.  She stood on the edge of England; no more land until Denmark.  Denmark!  Perhaps a little Danish girl was on the opposite beach, staring back at her?
 
Her books were nothing to this.

Title:  The Wreck of the James Edward Norrington
Author: concertigrossi
Rating: A Disney-esque G
Word count: Exactly 100.
Characters: James Norrington
Challenge: Childhood


James Norrington’s first captaincy had been at the tender age of nine years old.  He’d commanded a small coracle that he'd built himself, of laths and canvas and tar. Unfortunately, that worthy vessel sank on her maiden voyage: the tempests and tsunamis of Lord Leynham’s fish pond proved to be too much for her, and she went down with all hands lost. (Or, at least, all hands got soaking wet and a thorough scolding from Aunt Dora.)

Banished to the corner of his father's study in disgrace, young James spent a profitable half-hour redesigning his craft and correcting her flaws.