Title: to cross the great waters
Fandom: Pirates of the Caribbean
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: pre-movies
Pairings: none stated
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 100
Point of view: third

Jack Sparrow was born in the middle of one of the Atlantic’s most vicious squalls. No one heard his or his mother’s cries over the roar of the wind; together, they were swept overboard, his mother barely keeping ahold of him, or either of them afloat. But she clung to a piece of driftwood from the wreckage and placed her child above the surface, and together they were pulled from the ocean, the only survivors of their crossing to the colonies in America.

Whenever he mentioned the circumstances of his birth, no one believed him. He liked it that way.