Black Sails Baseball AU Not!Fic
My friend @leavesatanalone insists I should share with you the not fic I wrote for her when she asked about the BS baseball AU. I’m doing this to prove my point, which is basically “no one will care, I shall keep on just telling you my not!fics”.
Reposted from the chat with minor editions, mostly cutting down my rambling and spacing it out in more readable form.
@leavesatanalone: black sails baseball au go
@lordnochybaty : all i know about baseball is that it has nice tight outfits XD
but now you made me think of my fave baseball movie and i am imagining james being a grumpy ass coach for a female team during the war silver is possibly team agent helper who tries to sell it cause it was his crazy idea, and few respect him, cause it's a common gossip that he found an excuse not to go to war cause he's a coward
james is grumpy and depressed as fuck because his beautiful lover thomas went to war, though he was not made for it by far and he died
james was either discharged because of their affair or he did something stupid trying to protect saved affair or he got hurt while playing baseball and couldn't
((somehow john does lose a leg during the story and the pain of the angst is how he tried to avoid getting hurt for a cause so he got hurt for nothing or for a smaller cause, idk, maybe he was protecting the girls or got in the accident while trying to watch out for them or some shit like this there's a very emotional scene when it's brought up and john and james talk about how great cause never mattered for john, but apparently, he can get attached enough to make his friends his cause))
girls play baseball and deal with weird antics of everyone. Miranda joins in and there's tension between her and james but she's all I WILL NOT BE PUT ASIDE TO DROWN IN My GRIEF
James angsts when one of the girls gets a message that her hubby died in the war, because a) it brings up memories b) there's something super sad about the fact he cant even properly honestly grieve his own love. He and Miranda possibly get very drunk that night.
Jack is a reporter trying to make this into a story worth selling, he also convinces Silver that for him to take it, they need to take Anne on the team. because anne wants to play baseball. anne is rude to fans and standoffish to teammates, but she's the best player and through a weird twist of fate and how fans work she is one of the faves among the public/audience. jack feels weird about it and that's even before he learns anne is getting involved with max
the team is... how big should the baseball team be? *brb* ok, at least nine. i mean nine playing plus some changes i guess, so: miranda, anne, max, eleanor, madi, abigail, idelle, eme, charlotte, mary and uh, i guess thats all the girls. eleanor would be permanently benched cause she was supposed to be there to make her family look good, how all of them put their efforts for wartime but she wants to play and flint likes her and she’s good, so he let’s her play
(also it might be her hubbie who dies, that would hit flint harder and fuck woodes rogers anyway)
then peter takes abigail out of the team when he comes back from the war. he is a shit who got mildly hurt and had some super-safe duties (as safe as possible i mean) and generally he probably just had some administrative work and possibly just in england or a different part of us. It’s another angst point, because by then Abigail and Miranda are falling for each other.
Anyway, they get succesful and all. james starts getting more into silver, though possibly they havent hook up yet. miranda misses abigail. like seriously misses her, mostly because she had a bright spot in her recently really dark and angsty life and now it's been taken away and they all stay in some hotel/rented house, preparing for a game and Charlotte comes to Miranda and says she doesn't want to disturb her but there's someone for her downstairs and miranda thinks briefly maybe it's abigail? maybe she run from home, maybe...
BUT IT'S THOMAS
Because shit like this can get messed up in the war and he comes back and he's a bit hurt but he's fine. and they hug and everyone wishes them well, but they’re all scared cause they just have 9 players now so if miranda quits... and surely her husband wouldn’t let her play, right?
and one of the girls might run for their coach and james is all: what are you talking about and then he sees thomas and miranda is all "we should talk in private".
and they go into james' room and the girls are all "well, shit, now for sure she's quitting"
but john, who is totally responsible for halfway accidentaly finding thomas (he was talking to jack in the newspaper hq when he heard someone talking about some story about a mishup in the records and how few "dead" soldier are about to come back and he took a look at the list and then got thomas to his wife and james) he says to the girls that its not as obvious as this and perhaps it all will be fine
and there's reunion
and then thomas is at the stands watching the final game
and then the league is supposed to close and john wants to slip away but james stops him and asks him to stay with them
and they all happy and move to a huge house, though miranda and john often leave for the baseball seasons
and one day miranda comes back with abigail who finally run from home and rejoined the team
and they all live happily ever after
the end