And now the whale is over.

[andajarofdirt]

 Darlin', I'm bound to like the whale better than the squid-o-doom, if only because it didn't eat me.

And stop staring at me, it was just a month. 'a course I'm not hearing voices and having cheery old chats with myself and all possible variants.

[Mun might or might not be snickering about something.]

And can we lay it off the goat thing already? It was a bloody handsome goat, alright! Why can't a man want a little peace and quiet with his ship and his monke---oh bugger all, he is my monkey now, isn't he.

[Pause.]

Hector! If you're out there, come here and take your bloody demonic chimp!

[Silence. Mun snickers.]

Oh hush you, it might have worked. But honestly, love, why can't a man have some peace and quiet with his ship and his borrowed chittering hellspawn, without someone bringing up the goat?

Comments

[codekeeper]

Really, now, Jackie. A goat, is it?

[ because what you really wanted was your dad to ask, right, jack? ]

[andajarofdirt]

[Ohshi--]

Er. Well.

[codekeeper]

Well?

[ y e p he still knows the Expectant Stare. ]

[andajarofdirt]

[He is not whining. Scary Pirate Lords do not whine to their Scarier Pirate Dads.]

Must we, really? It's a very long, very boring story!

[codekeeper]

We can do this the easy or the hard way, lad.

[andajarofdirt]

...well it was either the goat or Blackbeard's daughter. And the goat didn't have a pistol. Or wanted me dead.

[codekeeper]

[ a loooong silence.. then: ] Good choice.

[andajarofdirt]

[Oh thank god...]

Exactly! But it's not like a certain someone will ever let me live it down.

[joshamee_gibbs]

Cap'n! You never said anything about a goat thing!

[Gibbs reasons that now he has an excellent reason to take all the rum. Really. Jack needs to cut back, obviously.]

[andajarofdirt]

Well, Mr. Gibbs.

[Jack leans in, waving his arms for emphasis.]

Maybe that's because there's no such thing as the goat thing.

[You don't dare touch his rum, Gibbs, he's been forced to deal with things. Sober. Don't take the rum, his heart can't take it.]

[joshamee_gibbs]

Ah! I see, sir!

[He doesn't. At all.]

But there is a....whale thing?

[andajarofdirt]

In a manner of speaking?

[He nods.]

Not as such, no.