The next morning Jack woke up in the sand alone. Slowly he winced as his eyes took in the bright sunlight beaming down on him, the island was silent so he quickly assumed that the crew was still passed out from their partying the night before. Dusting the sand off his body Jack stood up and lazily looked around and spotted Ruby standing a few yards from him fully dressed with her back to him.

"Love," Ruby turned to see Jack standing stark naked looking at her. She walked over to his, kicking small dusts of sand up along the way.

"Come on Sparrow, I will take you to the treasure." Jack had almost forgotten about the treasure after Ruby had agreed to stay with him. He took another look at her and then quickly grabbed his clothes and dressed himself.

"The crew?" asked Jack once he was fully dressed and pulling on his boots.

"We will get them later," said Ruby before she turned away from him and began walking away from him. Jack jogged a few steps to catch up with her. Silently the two walked towards the middle of the island, through palm trees and low shrubs with bright flowers surrounding them. Jack watched as Ruby walked like she had been this path a million times before.

Ruby held back tears as she looked at the small markers her father had left hidden along the way so she'd be able to find the way back. The last time she walked this trail with her father she had a feeling that something bad was going to happen, a month later she had received word that her father had been killed.

Finally the two of them came upon a weather beaten shack. Ruby stood in front of it silently for a moment just staring at the doorway with Jack next to her.

"This it love?" asked Jack. Ruby nodded without taking her eyes off the shack, she started playing with her ring.

"C'mon love," said Jack quietly. Ruby looked over at him briefly then walked into the shack followed by Jack. The inside way empty and dark, it smelt of rotting wood and moss covered most of the walls. Jack watched again as Ruby walked to the opposite wall then turned around to face the door and took one large step. She then dropped down to her knees and started digging at the sand.

"Need help love?" asked Jack.

"No," barked Ruby as she kept digging at the sand. She dug down about half a foot before her knuckles hit a hard metal surface.

"Ouch," hissed Ruby as she drew her hand back in to herself. Immediately Jack dropped down next to her and looked over at her hand.

"That is it," said Ruby ignoring her hand and looking down at the hole she had dug. Jack continued digging the rest of the sand up until he had a large square of metal uncovered.

"The edge there," said Ruby pointing to the side of the hole. Jack brushed the sand off of his hands then looked over where Ruby was pointing. He felt around the edge and dug his fingers into the packed sand to feel the edge of a box. Pulling at it he pried the metal lid off the box. The inside was dark as some of the surrounding sand spilled into it. Before Jack could reach in Ruby stuck her arm in and pulled a large black velvet bag out. She dropped the bag in the sand next to her.

"That it?" asked Jack. Ruby nodded as she now slowly started opening the bag carefully. Once the bag was opened she reached in with both hands and pulled out a large egg shaped piece of gold covered in sparkling diamonds and rubies. Jack's eyes grew as he looked down at the piece Ruby held, Ruby just looked at it expressionless. Softly her fingers ran over the stones, this was the last thing her father left her, the thing that killed his wife, his sons and himself; this was the thing that kept Ruby in hiding. It amazed her that something so small in comparison to the rest of the world, something that was just there, not living, not breathing, could have so much power. Slowly Ruby put the piece down in the sand, once it was sitting in front of her she carefully pulled her ring off reluctantly. Silently Jack watched as Ruby took her ring and carefully placed the gold part into the top of the piece sitting in front of her. Once the ring was in until it reached the beginning of the claws the egg shaped piece softly snapped opened in the middle. Ruby pulled the two pieces apart to reveal black velvet lining of the egg and in the middle a large diamond ruby.

"There it is," whispered Ruby. She set the gold egg back down and pulled the ruby out. The large stone was heavy in her hand as she stared at it in a bit of disgust, this was the precious thing she had been named after.

"Take it,"said Ruby holding the ruby out for Jack who was still awestruck over the treasure. Jack looked over at as if she was tricking him but Ruby just nodded her head. Slowly Jack took the heavy stone from her.

"From what I have been told it was the largest ruby the Egyptians ever found, it is still the biggest ruby in the world. It was buried in a tomb with the ruler whose men found the ruby but it was stolen from by grave robbers and some how found its way into my father's hands," said Ruby as Jack stared at the treasure that every pirate in the world had been searching for, the treasure he now held, "if the sand is dug up on the inside of the shack here there is more chests with first gold my father acquired." Jack heard her but ignored her words, he was still in disbelief over the ruby. Ruby stood up and looked down at the empty hole before walking out of the shack. She felt heaviness as she walked away from the shack back down the path to the beach. It seemed all to petty to her, all of this for that stone, all the death her family had occurred and pain she had dealt with all was worth that stone.

When she came back to the beach she sat down in the sand next to foot prints that she and Jack had left. Looking down she traced her finger around one of Jack's prints, never had she imagined that her life would turn out like this. She had always figured that eventually she would meet a suitable man with a title and marry him, they would have children and she would fade into life and the branding would always just be a horrible childhood scar. Then out of no where she met the one man who she felt some what fondly of and he turns out to know it wasn't just a scar.

"Maybe it is fate," muttered Ruby,.