A/N: I know, I know, I know-yet another "what should have happened" fanfic from yours truly. Just so you know this is a three-shot (three chapters, three different parts.). I currently have a bit of writer's block on What Happens When and Titanic DVD To FFN so I'm writing this instead. I promise this is different than my other ones of this type.

This fic addresses the following circumstances from the movie; What if Rose had stayed in the lifeboat and Jack had the door to himself? What if Fabrizio had chosen to stay with Helga's family when they refused to go with him to find boats? and What if Tommy never got shot?

*Titanic characters/script lines, etc belongs to James Cameron. NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED.

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~Part I; Fabrizio & Helga~

Tommy Ryan was at the top of the stairs. "Come on man! You can't just keep us locked down here like animals, the ship's bloody sinkin' let us up so we can have a chance!" he shouted, banging the gate. "Get back!" the panicked stewards were shouting and shooting off their guns. "Come on there are ladies and children down here!" Tommy shouted. The stewards wouldn't budge. Tommy clenched his teeth and shook his fist, he pointed a threatening finger and turned around to go back down the stairs.

Jack pulled Rose quickly along one of the steerage hallways, at the end they could see a large mob of people and hear frantic yelling and gunshots. Once they got to the end they realized all the steerage passengers were being held below decks by a locked gate, everyone was crowded at the bottom of the stairwell. Nearly a hundred people or so were trapped behind this particular gate and the men up front were banging, cussing, and demanding to be let out. The stewards met them with "Get back!" and threatening gunshots. Jack looked at Rose, she looked scared and confused, and Jack felt as if he'd put her in this situation. He felt awful.

"Jack!" Jack spun around to see his best friend Fabrizio's Norwegian girlfriend, Helga Dahl, her eyes were wide in fear.

"Helga! Hey! Where's Fabrizio?" Jack asked worriedly.

Helga pointed down the hall, she looked utterly terrified. Jack hugged Rose closer, he could feel her heart pounding heavily against his chest. "Jack!" Tommy bounded down the stairs. "Tommy!" Jack shouted, hugging his friend. "Can we get out?" he yelled over the panic.

"It's hopeless that way!" Tommy shouted back, waving his hands angrily towards the locked gate.

Rose's eyes were welling with tears. 'Could those stewards really keep all these innocent people locked down here?' she thought. She could hear Jack's voice talking to Tommy. "Well whatever we do, we gotta do it fast!" Jack was saying. Rose glanced at Helga, the poor Norwegian girl looked as if she might faint in fear.

"Jack!" Fabrizio De Rossi, Jack's best friend, came running up. "Fabrizio!" Jack shouted, hugging him tightly. "The boats are all gone!" Fabrizio informed them, he had a deranged look about him.

"The whole place is flooding we gotta get outta here!" Jack said, panicked.

"There is niente this way!" Fabrizio shouted in exhasperation, waving his arms frantically like the Italian he was.

Jack looked down a different hallway, then back at his friends. "Let's go this way alright?" he said. Rose and Tommy turned to follow and Jack grabbed Fabrizio's sleeve, starting to pull him along.

"No. Jack, Jack, aspettare! Aspett-" Fabrizio wheezed, turning back to the Dahl family. The fright in Helga's eyes was evident as she looked every which way, unsure of what to do. Fabrizio prayed the Norwegians would be able to understand him.

"Everyone, you come with me we go! We go! To boats! They going!" he told them, panicked, using hand gestures to try and help them understand.

Helga looked at her father. "Kan vi gå Far?" she pleaded.

Olaf Dahl stomped his foot stubbornly and shook his head, he began shouting at Fabrizio in infuriated Norwegian. "Come in the boat! In the boat! Capito?" Fabrizio yelled helplessly, they needed to understand.

"Come on!" Jack urged, trying to help. Rose and Tommy looked on anxiously. Olaf didn't budge, he continued shouting angrily at Fabrizio. Helga turned to her father again. "Kan vi gå?" she begged.

"NEI!" Olaf snapped, Helga shut up and turned towards Fabrizio. It broke his heart to see her so scared, she needed him, and he needed her. He gently took her hands in his.

"Helga, per favore, you come with me now, is my destiny to go to America, please!" he begged, shaking her ever so gently. Helga looked from him to her father over and over, she didn't know what to do. Fabrizio looked into her deep, blue eyes brimmed with tears about to spill down her face.

"Far?" she asked weakly, turning to Olaf one last time.

"Nei," Olaf shook his head. He wasn't about to let his precious only daughter go with some crazy foreign boy she'd just met. He didn't know what was going on and this boy was shouting at them in a language he did not understand. Mrs. Dahl stood behind him, not saying anything. Helga knew she couldn't go, she could not disobey her father.

She turned back to Fabrizio, the tears wanted to spill down her cheeks so badly seeing how hopeful he looked, his sweet hazel eyes so anxious and alert waiting for her to say she'll go with him. She threw herself into him and they shared their first passionate kiss.

It was a different kind of kiss, Fabrizio didn't know exactly what it was, it was a different kind of passion, a...fueled passion. Helga pulled away, smiling sadly as she backed away from him to stand by her father. Olaf rested his hand on her shoulder-but she was still holding Fabrizio's hand.

Fabrizio had misinterpreted the kiss, he thought she was coming with him. "Come!" he said, gently pulling her along. "Come on!" Jack repeated. Just then Fabrizio felt resistance, "Fabrizio..." Helga said quietly, more tears welled in her eyes.

Fabrizio turned around. "I kan not gå." Helga said as tears began to rain down her sweet face. Just like that, Fabrizio's entire world was shattered. Jack tugged his sleeve "Come on," he said gently yet firmly. Fabrizio didn't budge, he just stared at Helga.

"Come on!" Jack said louder, pulling Fabrizio along harder. Fabrizio let himself be pulled backwards a few inches before staring back at Helga, desperately. "Jeg beklager," Helga apologized, the tears now rained rapidly down her face. Mrs. Dahl hugged her close.

Fabrizio suddenly realized he'd let Jack drag him through the crowd, Helga's face was disappearing from view. "Aspettare!" he shouted before he knew what he was doing. Jack and Tommy spun around and looked at him as if he were insane.

"I'm a' so sorry but I can't. I a' cannot leave Helga, lei amo. You go Jack, I maybe find you later," he said solemnly.

Jack's eyes widened in shock "Fabri are you pazzo? That isn't the way to get out-you're only wasting time! Olaf Dahl is an idiot-he isn't doing his family any favors. Come on ragazzo mio! You can't be serious." he said, panicked.

Fabrizio shook his head "I take that chance, Dio Mio help me," he said, pushing his way back through the crowd to find Helga.

"Fabri! What are ya thinkin' boyo?!" Tommy yelled, but Fabrizio didn't answer. Jack shook his head "Oh no ragazzo mio..." he muttered, hurrying along in the opposite direction behind Tommy, Rose clung to his side tightly. "It's alright Rose, everything will be alright." he whispered, kissing the top of her head.

Helga was sobbing into her father's coat. She needed Fabrizio, she figured she'd probably never see him again and was now deeply regretting the fact she'd refused to go with him. "Shh, Helga-" Olaf patted her back gently.

"Helga!" Fabrizio's voice echoed through the hallway as he ran back. Olaf clenched his fists, his face reddened like he was ready to start yelling at Fabrizio again.

Helga's heart fluttered and she spun around "Fabrizio? Hvor du nei gå til båter?" she asked, confused but incredibly relieved. Her eyes welled with fresh tears that began to once again rain down her face.

"I a' could not leave you, I stay with you here sweet Helga, ti amo," Fabrizio said, gently approaching her.

Olaf looked at Mrs. Dahl, both of them clearly confused. Helga jumped into Fabrizio's arms and kissed him again. "Oh Fabrizio jeg elsker deg!" she sobbed. Fabrizio grinned "Ti amo sweet Helga, I love you too," he said. Helga buried her face in his soft nightshirt, mumbling something in Norwegian that was muffled by her crying.

"I never leave you again, no," Fabrizio shushed her, gently kissing the top of her head as he ran his fingers through her wavy blonde hair.

Helga continued to sob, she didn't understand what was happening or why the gate was locked, just that something was seriously wrong. Olaf and Mrs. Dahl looked around nervously, they weren't going anywhere for a while-the gate was still locked and the stewards still extremely reluctant to open it.

"Hvor du kommer back?" Olaf asked, shocked.

"I no leave your daughter signore, I love her," Fabrizio said, gesturing at his heart then at Helga.

Olaf just nodded "Oh." He hadn't really understood what Fabrizio said other than that he loved Helga, which he'd gotten from the hand gestures.

"Come, please, let me take you to boats. Capito?" Fabrizio decided to try again.

Olaf's face reddened, "Nei!" he yelled. Fabrizio shut up.

Helga began to shake in Fabrizio's arms. Olaf didn't know why the gate was locked, he just knew that there was something to panic about-something was wrong, and the last thing he needed was this boy yelling and trying to take his daughter away. He was determined to keep his family together-if he had been able to understand what Fabrizio was trying to do-he definitely would have followed. However, the good part of his choice was that no matter what happened to them, they'd all be together.

Helga sniffled and Fabrizio hugged her tightly. "Ti amo sweet Helga, is okay." he whispered.

Fabrizio wasn't sure what would happen to them, all he knew was that he couldn't live without Helga, so he was willing to take that chance to stay with her.