| Once Upon A Time |
| OC x OC |
| Book 2.5 of the Light and Dark Series |
| Mid Season 3 AU |
| Characters by @pepperoyns |
Erica Swan finally had family
After years of searching, she had finally found her family along with her twin sister Emma but...
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THEJOLLY ROGER was in a bottle alongside many others that lined the shelves of a cabinet as they stared at it, with disbelief in their eyes. Honestly, it was Erica that couldn't believe how many ships lay in clear bottles, shrunken in order to be able to fit in them and eventually Erica was able to tear her eyes away from the display cabinet in order to look over at Jaclyn
"He does this with all the ships he captures?"
"Mostly, yeah" Jaclyn shrugged, something between a wry and proud smile touching his lips "The Black Pearl was part of his collection for a while until I managed to restore her to her former glory. See Barbossa munited against me again after the battle with the East India trade Company and Davy Jones and he left me on the shores of Tortuga, but I'm not mad about that because of a few months afterwards. The crew encountered Blackbeard and a battle for the ship broke out and Barbossa got caught in one of that enchanted ropes and he had to cut off his leg in order to survive"
"Cut off his own leg?"
"Yep"
"I knew piracy was brutal but I never thought it'd be that brutal" Erica muttered bitterly, although she doesn't quite know. She knows a pirate life can be brutal and not like the movies or in fairytales. She knew it could get bloody and gritty and even painful, blood was constantly in her mind and how she could line the streets with red if that's what she so desired
She just had to give in and let go
Erica could be free if she did
No. She still had plenty to fight for. Erica couldn't give into the darkness so easily because she still had all the love in the world and she was going to use it all up so she had the strength to fight this thing
But on the days she doesn't, she can see how much she has already fallen prey to the darkness, she had done so many things that she never thought she'd do and yet has survived it all because when it all came down to it that was what she was: a survivor
"You did what you had to do in order to survive. I know that I did"
"Yeah, I get that" Erica grimly shrugs as she took in Jaclyn's face, seeing the range of emotions she was going through and with a big breath she decided to share her own twisted, dark tale. Seeing as Jaclyn has shown her so much of herself already and she wanted Jaclyn to see just as much of her "See that scar over my hip, I'm sure you've seen it before because when we sleep you run your thumb across it. But I got this from a foster home, I was around ten and I don't know what happened but either I or Emma pissed off whoever we were placed with at the time and he took his anger out on me...They were going to do the same to Emma, but I protected her"
"You're serious?" Jaclyn asked and blinked, disbelief clouding her voice
"Yeah"
Before she could react or say anything else, Jaclyn pulled her into her and she melted into the embrace, inhaling the scent of sea salt, gunpowder and rum. This was safe for Erica. This was home. "I'm glad you told me because I'm not going to stop working until you feel safe"
