Flint saves Madi AND keeps the cache AND captures Woodes Rogers. In return he gets: at best an imprisoment with his bf, at worst a bullet. Thanks, Silver. You get to live with your wife in the open, Flint gets to live with his bf in the barracks. Madi gets to serve beer to sad ex-pirates, you get to feel sorry for yourself. But it was totally worth it, right? A life like that is totally better than fighting and dying for what you believe in? So much more dignified? Keep telling yourself that.

I couldn’t agree more, Anon. Seriously, Silver? That’s how you thank the man that’s nearly killed himself on your behalf? Thanks for everything, James – only I don’t think you’ve lost enough, say goodbye to your freedom, hope you like your prison barracks (and oh by the way, Thomas, hope you like them too despite having never done anything to deserve getting locked away from the world, here’s your husband back k thx bye)? That’s how you treat the woman you say you love? Love you honey, hope you like how I treated you and your people both, as if you were naughty children who didn’t have the right to make decisions for yourselves. I adore you, truly, that’s why I took your best friend and essentially sold him. Serve the beer? 

No. Fuck him, frankly. I have so many fics that I’m working on to fix this, because dear gods no. I refuse to leave it at James and Thomas being imprisoned together and Madi being forced to the sidelines, living with the man who did this to her and to Flint. Fuck that.