(A/N: This is my first story, I hope you like it! English is not my first language. I do my best of course but there may still be some errors here and there. I'm not perfect after all. Enjoy!)
Chapter 1
14 april 1912 11:45 P.M.
Max was standing on the beach and saw the chaos around him. Officers were at a loss and he wondered what the reason was. Max walked up to one of them and asked what was going on.
"The Titanic, the unsinkable ship, has hit an iceberg and is going down, 2200 souls on board, can you imagine?" the officer answered.
The Titanic? Sinking? Max didn't think that was possible. He heard the officers talking about preparations that should be made after the Carpathia returned from picking up survivors. Nobody was paying attention to him, so Max sneaked away to his own rowing boat, climbed on board and rowed himself on the sea.
Max rowed for hours. Looking around him he only saw water, freezing water. Max maneuvred himself between the icebergs and kept on rowing. Eventually he noticed fireworks on the horizon. Distress signals of the Titanic. Max rowed with all the strength he had and eventually he saw the majestic ship going under the water. What a disaster. Max knew that hundreds of people were in the water fighting for their lives now.
Max continued rowing hard, afraid of what awaited him once he was close enough….
15 april 1912 2:30 A.M.
Rose layed on her back on the door in the water and looked upon the starry sky.
"Come Josephine in my flying machine..." she was humming quietly while staring at the hundreds of stars. Until she heard a noise.
"is there anyone alive out there? Can anyone hear me?" she heard an officer screaming. A lifeboat. Finally. She and Jack were saved! She turned around to Jack, who had his eyes closed.
"Jack! Jack. Jack. Jack, there's a boat. Jack. Jack?" said Rose desperate to Jack. He didn't respond. His eyes stayed closed.
The truth slowly dawned on Rose, but she wouldn't believe it. She began to shake Jack.
"Jack. Jack! Jack. There's a boat, Jack. Jack?" She said crying. Jack didn't respond. Rose was desperate. Meanwhile the lifeboat continued rowing, almost out of hearing distance.
Something has to happen quickly. However, Rose didn't want to continue living. She layed her head in Jack's arms and was ready to die with him. Out of the corner of her eye she saw how the lifeboat rowed further and further away from here.
She then remembered the promise she made to Jack. He sacrificed himself so she could live, living a life like she wanted. She made a decision. She turned her head to Jack again and whispered:
"I'll never let go. I promise" while she let go of him. She saw how he sank, how the love of her life disappeared from view. She held the tears back, it was now or never.
She let herself slip from the door into the water and quickly swam to the dead chief officer. She took his whistle and blew hard and long until the officer on the lifeboat turned around and saw her.
When the boat was back they took her on board and buried her under a warm blanket.
Max had changed into a diver a few minutes ago. He rowed until he arrived at the scene and he saw a few officers pulling a young redheaded woman into their boat and after that they continued rowing. Max saw his chance. He dived under water and looked around him. A few meters further on he saw a young man slowly sinking to the bottom of the ocean. He swam to him, took him under his shoulders and pulled him up to his boat. He layed him down and put him under blankets, put he was afraid he was to late. He took off his diving equipment and rowed as fast as possible back to New York.
15 april 1912 5:35 A.M.
Max arrived at the pier where he fastened his rowboat. He carried the body of the young man over his shoulders and went to his modest house. He wondered if his experiment wouldn't be pointless and whether his chosen patient wasn't already dead. He didn't hope so. When he finally arrived in the proper room he turned on the light. In the light of the room a laboratory became visible. Max' eye fell on some sort of refrigerator on the ground. He opened the refrigerator, layed the body in it and closed it. Max looked on the display on the side.
1% alive it said. Excellent, he thought, this will work. He pushed the blue button and on the display the word frozen was added. Max knew that his secret experiment was a succes. Now he had good hope that he finally could become the successfull progressive scientist that he always wanted to be.