Title: His Little Mermaid
Characters: Gillette/ ?
Rating: PG
Author's note: In Response to lyra_lupin's prompt:

Interject Gillette (and other POTC) into a revised telling of The Little Mermaid Fairytale, the Hans Christian Andersen version. (not the disney movie)

You can find the run down of the plot here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Mermaid

They say to every story there lies a grain of truth Mr. Andersen. And it is for this reason that I write to you today. I have heard many tales but none so fanciful as that of yours. Sometimes you will find, Mr. Andersen, that the truth can trump even the greatest of imaginations.

 

My father, the Prince as she called him, was a fine man of the Royal Navy. At a very young age he had dedicated his life to King and Country, to those around him and this would prove a steadfast companion throughout my father's long life.

 

My mother on the other hand, was a force unto herself. Hers was a time when a woman's principle goal in life was to marry. I think even now we are too eager to assume that marriage equals love. It is a dangerous proposition to make as the two straits rarely coincide, then as well as now. Her father, my grandfather, had been blessed by a loving marriage and he took great pains to impart that lesson to his daughter. A marriage without love was more a death sentence than anything else.

 

He was however, as it were, fiercely protective of those he loved, and his daughter was no exception. She was the last remaining member of his family and perhaps one of the only remnants of his now dead wife. He loved to indulge her in her every whim as long as he approved. But my mother, being the fiercely independent creature that she was longed to see the light, longed to see and experience what she could not. A passionate woman, somewhat given to recklessness, she was my father's sea nymph, his little mermaid.

I suppose that it would only be fitting for me to introduce myself. I'm a university student, although the end is indeed in sight with a near closet passion for writing. It's not something I really advertise since I don't really think it's anything of substance nor of any intrinsic value. But it's something that makes me happy. Which is why I still write online. This journal will primarily serve as a fic journal but I will update periodically about things in my life if you should so desire. Thanks for stopping by!