This is one of the first scenes I thought of writing after seeing the movie. It's right after Tarzan was injured protecting Jane and then allowed to heal in the village.
He was back again. The wild man from the jungle. He seemed to be looking for something. Or someone. Of course he was. He was looking for her. He approached the circle of children where she was sitting giving lessons. His eyes roved over the little crowd, but they didn't come to rest on her. He became more urgent in his search. Scouring the village for the woman that had sat by his bed and talked to him the day before.
Looking up from her lesson, Jane saw him. Her eyes lit up with pleasure briefly before her face became puzzled as she realized he must be looking for her, but hadn't seen her yet. She got up from her place on the ground and made her way over to him. He was still frantically searching. Getting more and more agitated by the moment. As Jane walked up to him he looked right past her. She put a hand on his shoulder to stop him but he pushed her off and kept walking.
"Wait!" she said, reaching for him again. "It's me." He faltered when he heard her voice and she came around to face him. Looking into his eyes, she repeated, "It's me."
He visibly relaxed, but his face became even more puzzled. He looked steadily at her face as if making sure it was her, then looked down at her blue dress in utter confusion.
His head snapped up to her face again when she laughed gently. "I changed clothes. This is a different dress, see?" She rolled up the cuff on one of her sleeves to show her bare wrist. "It's me underneath." He grabbed her hand and examined the wrist and the cloth covering it. He looked as though he was about to examine further how this strange being could so easily change her appearance, but she grabbed his hand with both of hers and led him back to her circle of students who made space for the addition and she continued with her lesson. His eyes remained fixed on her face as she taught as if to burn the image into his mind so that he would always know her and would never lose her again.
