Title: Mythos
Author: WonkasChocolate
Rating: G
Word Count: 100 (!)
Characters/Pairings: James Norrington; J/E
Disclaimer: To my great regret, I don't own them. I own only the arrangement of words.
A/N: I've been reading about Greek mythology for school and have discovered some interesting facts about Aphrodite, which sparked this little drabble here. According to some texts, Aphrodite's birds were the sparrow and the swan and her gemstone was the pearl (irony on a stick, no?). She was also married to Hephaestus, the god of blacksmiths. Oh, irony, how I love thee!

James thinks he shouldn't be so surprised by their affinity for one another. After all, she's been in love with him since before he met her.

He remembers when she was fourteen; she had stolen his book of Greek mythology from his library. She rambled on for weeks about Athena and Poseidon and Apollo. As he watches Elizabeth and Jack, he remembers the goddess Aphrodite, born of the sea, the goddess of love, beauty, and happiness.

It is fitting, really, he thinks. The Sparrow and the Swann, Aphrodite's birds, together on the Pearl, and smiling in the face of Calypso.