Amelia smiled tiredly and didn't push him away, allowing their bodies to stay so intimately intertwined. She yawned softly and before long, she fell asleep against his body, content to just so so close with him this way - with the man she was going to marry and spend the rest of her life, maybe eternity, with.
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Three weeks and 6 days later
The sun was beating down upon her body hotly and she was afraid she wasn't going to make it home, at least not without passing out once or twice along the way. It was July 1703, and she was just returning from the riverside where she had been washing clothes for her mother and sisters. Carrying the basket in this heat was beginning to wear upon her. Reaching the town enterance, she smiled to the Gaurd that was always stationed there. He was very handsome, she mused and politely bowed her head as she walked by.
It was short lived though when the light-headed feeling became worse and she stumbled. The basket flew from her hands and she cried out, knowing her father would be angry enough to strike her if she came home with dirty clothes. She never saw what happened, just that the Guard was standing there, holding the basket out to her with a small grin.
When she reached for the basket, he seemed to change his mind and softly shook his head. "I will walk with you, m'lady, until you are steady on your feet," came his charming voice a moment later. She smiled softly with a blush. "Thank-you, good sir, I appreciate it. Do you have a name I could call you, or shall I continue to call you sir?" She asked as they began walking towards her family's home.
"Ah, my name is Stephen, and you m'lady?" he said, eyes watching her as though he were studying every inch of her even as they walked. As they came to her house, she took the basket from him and smiled. "It's Rebecca," she said and turned, walking back into her home where her family waited for her, knowing he was watching until she disappeared.
Amelia moaned softly and rolled over in the bed with a loud yawn, stretching her arms high above her head. "Mmm, Stephen?" she softly said his name, opening her eyes as she sat up in the bed. The blanket fell from her gloriously nude body - over the last few weeks Stephen had gotten her to not be so shy about being nude around him. Of course, he was stoked about that. Excited to have her naked in bed each night and being able to sleep that way once they were finished making love. Sometimes now, they even made love twice a night.
A slim hand lifted to ruffle her hair as she looked around the room. She couldn't see him anywhere in here. Perhaps he had gone to shower, or was up on deck. After all, tomorrow they would finally be arriving in harbor at Japan's waterfront. Not that she was complaining about the long journey, it had allowed them to become so much closer to each other. Physically and emotionally.
Amelia climbed from the bed and walked to the dresser, sliding on a black bra, one of Stephen's t-shirts and a pair of tight black jeans. She rehooked the locket around her neck, but for a moment, she had the urge to open it and look at it, so she did. Her blue eyes, that matched the ones in the picture, looked at the visage that belonged to Stephen's wife.
The dream came back to her - it had been such a strange dream. Her thumb slid across the picture of his wife almost endearingly and a moment later, she shut the locket and let it hang around her neck. "Stephen?" she called out again as she walked to the door of the bedroom.