Last winter I set out to write one of those "five things that never happened to 'x'" fics. I never did (I have an established track record of letting fiction languish unfinished for months or years), but I did end up with a series of "What if?" AU ficlets, all based off of quotations from renaissance drama (two from Shakespeare, one from Christopher Marlowe).
The Quality of Mercy PG-13/R-ish
Pulling the trigger was one of the hardest things Elizabeth had ever done...
But That Was in Another Country, and Besides, the Knave is Dead PG
When Midshipman John Norrington strode down the gangplank, moving with the rolling gait of someone who has spent months at sea, Elizabeth almost stopped breathing for a moment. He looked so grown up, so different from the fourteen-year-old boy who had gone to sea a year ago. So very like his father...
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