I want the classic set-up where it’s post-reunion and Izzy has been banished from-- I’m sorry, it’s come to a “mutual agreement” that Izzy leave the Revenge as a convenient scapegoat for everyone’s problems, and only a few weeks or months later it can no longer be denied that this was a Bad Idea. So they return to whatever port they left him at or that he most likely would have rowed to and set out to find him and bring him back.
They find him with his new crew or new family--be it Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Sam Bellamy, Spanish Jackie, the OC of your choice, whoever--looking relaxed and content in a way he never has before aside from really not being happy to see Stede and Co. again. And Stede invites him back on board in a way that makes it clear he does not want him back but is also actually ordering him to come back because apparently he was doing a WHOLE LOT of the actual work on the ship and they haven’t figured out how to pick up the slack yet and also Ed’s not doing great without someone to ground him or let him be the good cop and also he just kinda got really used to being the center of Izzy’s world and attention and misses it and really cannot be expected to not get everything he wants without consequence or compromise, so won’t Izzy just suck it up and quietly and graciously accept a life of thankless devotion? Maybe if he’s less annoying about it this time, Ed will give him another thump on the back. Maybe even multiple thumps!
And Izzy, who’s been mostly quiet through the whole spiel, says, “No.”
“What do you mean, ‘no’?”
“I mean, absolutely fucking not, Bonnet. Now get out of my sight.”
“But what am I supposed to tell Ed?”
And Izzy smiles. “Tell him he’s got terrible taste in boyfriends and he can go suck eggs in Hell.”
And then he stayed with the people that actually liked and appreciated him and never regretted it and lived happily ever after, the end.
