The Oceans Calling

Chapter 10: Awaiting Lady

A/N: okay so I haven't updated in a while but that's because I have A levels and stuff so been a little preoccupied. This is just a small snippet that I wrote that will lead into the beginning of the next movie. Sorry its short but this is how I wanted it written and it will progress I promise.

Counting down the days wasn't fun for Rebecca but she couldn't help herself; it seemed to become the normal for her now as she kept a count of the number of days it had been since she had last saw her pirate. Captain Jack Sparrow. Since the last time he kissed her and told her he loved her, but it all seemed to long ago now. 152 days well the brunette could argue that a single day was long enough but she had put up with feeling as a prisoner again for 152 days.

There were some up sides to remaining on Port Royal until Jack returned for her. One of those being that she had increased her skill in fighting and she had become lighter on her toes and more aware; her instincts taking her over during her spars with Will to beat him. With the young blacksmith in a heated relationship with the Governors daughter now Elizabeth had now begun to learn how to handle a sword, of course all of this was done in discretion. Governor Swann being none the wiser and Mr Brown being the only other one that knew considering it was his blacksmiths workshop and swords that they were using but even then he had agreed to keep it a secret. Following Rebecca's orders but also his belief that not enough people around the port knew how to defend themselves and so were at more risk.

Rebby actually enjoyed her spar sessions now with an added person. Her skills had gone beyond what Will was expecting particularly where he was struggling to keep up with her. Her moves were quick and swift that she moved from one attack to another with such grace and precision. She also kept her attacks random and through all this time she has had time to perfect some, learn more and create her own ways of winning in a deadly duel. Only in more recent spars did Elizabeth and Will agree to a spar working together to defeat Rebecca though that didn't go their way as the young brunette was able to switch between fighting the both of them easily and had quickly unarmed them from their swords and held them down. It was those particular moments that she remembered Jack standing behind her on the Interceptor when they were sailing to Tortuga and he had directed her how to fight more efficiently when she was sparring with Will. The other memory that stuck with her was of when she sparred quickly with Jack on Rumrunners Island before they were rescued by the Royal Navy; some would actually say interrupted there.

The other upside was that she spent even more time with her two best friends and Elizabeth had asked her to be her one and only bridesmaid at their wedding which Rebby couldn't help but get excited about. Something like this didn't occur every day for the brunette and it would be very unlikely that anyone else would ask her to fill such an important role in the ceremony. The amount of times that Rebecca had to meet with Elizabeth to go over wedding details was phenomenal but she expected nothing less. She only wished that she didn't ruin the moment every now and then with her wondering mind that couldn't help but ponder over her pirate.

These ponderings had occurred quite frequently at the beginning which is when she took it upon herself to spend some quality time alone to think about such matters and what better place than the fort. She stood there every sunrise and sunset looking out at the sea. The view was perfect as she could see down into the docks and should a ship come by with black sails she would be the first to see it. The memory of seeing the same ship sailing away with Jack Sparrow did haunt her a little bit but she couldn't help that. When she would take the odd occasion to close her eyes and breathe in the salty sea air and she could swear that the wind pushing Jack further away from her. But it was like he had said to her; the ocean is calling and she just has to wait for the right moment which obviously wasn't then and probably won't be anytime soon either. Rebecca would often think about what was going through Jacks mind. Was he missing her as much as she was missing him? Why didn't he come? Was he really hiding something from her which would be the reason why she was still on land and not on The Black Pearl?

As she watched the sunset now and let the wind brush through the small strands of curled brown hair that framed her face she couldn't help but feel alone. Her hands fiddled with themselves close together in front of her as she thought but as she opened them the setting sun shone on a particular piece of metal that Jack had given her of his. A ring that sat on her right index finger perfectly, its silver band runner around her smooth skin and showing off the emerald that sat atop at well as the four skulls that were along the sides of the folded metal but then she her fiddling fingers stopped at her ringed hand reached up to her neck where she felt the familiar shape of the sapphire encircled by diamonds that she wore around her neck everyday as she did the ring on her finger. Of course she only removed the ring when closer to particular people such as the Governor when dinning with him; other than that it rarely came off along with the necklace. That was when a lonely tears shed from her eye and ran down her cheek – she managed to hold back the rest.

"Funny what someone does for love, isn't it?" the soft voice of Elizabeth spoke from behind her.

It did startle the young Lady a little considering she was normally alone at these times. She heard her friend walk up and stop beside her as they both looked out at the open ocean. "Like Will committing an act of piracy for you? Like you risking your life again right after he saved you so you could save him?" Elizabeth smiled seeing how that seemed to backfire on her. Though she would gladly admit that seeing Rebecca this way did hurt her. She had never seen the Lady be so patient and so impatient at the same time.

"More like Jack sailing off and keeping you here while you wait and watch the bay every single day" that was when the two of them sighed at the situation "Maybe you should try and adjust yourself more to staying here rather than…"

Elizabeth didn't get to finish and Rebecca quickly cut in seeing where the sentence was going "No. That faith that you have in Will" the brunette looked to her friend "I have the same faith in Jack. That same love. I've never been able to adjust living here Lizzie; not here or anywhere else on land. This is better than London but only just. My real place is out there with him"

Elizabeth nodded slightly in understanding "And if he doesn't come?"

"Then that won't stop me from breaking free from here" taking in a huge breath and letting it out Becca felt her frustrations for that moment leave as she thought of something much more cheerful "Never mind me – you're getting married tomorrow so why aren't you at home preparing" Rebecca turned around with Elizabeth and the two strolled off to make final preparations for tomorrow because it was for sure going to be a big day.