Tempestuous Fortune
By TriGemini
Disclaimer: I do not own PotC, or any of its characters, Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Pictures do. So please do not sue.
Chapter Two
From the side of the ship, the town of Port Royal was coming into view very quickly and Francesca Norrington was quite excited to see her older brother James again. He was posted at Fort Charles, Port Royal, Jamaica one of England's many colonies in the Caribbean. It has been at least three years since his promotion to 'Commodore,' and she was truly proud of his achievement. If there was something James had always done in his entire life, it was to work hard and earn the respect of everyone around him. Although, she knew that James wished that his own family would accept it, especially their mother. For she could never understand why he chose a naval career in the first place, seeing how he'd come from a very wealthy family, and was always expected to go into the family trade business. Nevertheless, the life of a soldier in His Majesty's Navy was always something he wished to do, as he got older. As a child, he had held other ambitions, but as he got older, he realized they were just dreams and not meant for people like him. Father however, turned out to be supportive. Even though, at first he wasn't very pleased with the idea. However, with time he came to realize three things about James. One was that James had the intelligence and the learning to be a decent officer. Two it only proved that James had the potential of building himself a good future. Not just in the military itself, but a good standing in society, as well. Not that father ever cared about society. Third, the career that James had chosen made him happy. That last reason was what changed Mr. Norrington's mind, if the career that his son chose made him truly happy. There should be no reasons for debate and he would be willing to accept it. As for Francesca, she was proud to have a brother like James. Of course, he did have some minor flaws like everyone else. One of them was that he was too serious at times. Sometimes he just didn't know when to be relaxed, or not to be so bothered about certain things. Although, she always supposed that it had something to do with the constant threats of pirates in the Vicinity, for they were either attacking the British fleet or local merchant ships, not to mention the settlements, plus all the stealing they did, as well. Therefore, that might have caused plenty of worrying for the Commodore to deal with. In that case, though, she could probably understand her brother's position in it all. After all, he's responsible for the protection of Port Royal and it is his duty to make sure that the citizens are assured safety and that law is followed. However, in reality Francesca could never understand what it was exactly about pirates that people did not like. It's true that some pirates were quite horrible, ruthless, dishonest, and unruly. Although, she excluded some that she knew personally. Yet she could not understand James' complete dislike for them. Francesca knew from experience that James thought a pirate's life was completely inappropriate for anyone. In his opinion, they were nothing but ill-bred miscreants, who had fallen to the very lowest of society. Aside from the obvious reason as to why his dislike for pirates was always so much greater than that of any other criminal always puzzled Francesca. Nevertheless, Francesca knew that she would have plenty of time to discover the real mystery behind her brother's apparent dislike. However, in the meantime, the ship was finally pulling into port and so decided to return to her cabin to make sure that all her things were in order so that they could be taken ashore once docked.
"Land ho!" shouted one of the sailors.
In hearing, those words Francesca immediately ran back to the railing to see if she could spot anyone on shore. In an instant, Francesca saw him. He was standing right there near where the ship would soon be docking. He had come to meet her. After so long of not seeing him, she was truly happy to see that soon she would be with one of the people that she cared about, at this point she could not wait to get off the ship. Because all she wanted was to be by her brothers', side again and spend all the time in the world with him. However, the last thing Francesca would be expecting would be a surprise of a lifetime. For soon, someone else would soon appear as well bringing his or her own reasons to Port Royal, also.
A/N: However, I do own Francesca Norrington, and any other character that appears later on.