Until The End of Time
"Death can not stop true love, it can only delay it for a little while."
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"You may still remember your First Love, but you will never forget your True Love - the Love of your lifetime..."
Chapter one: Letting Go
April fifteenth 1912...
Promising him to never let go Rose did exactly that, on a physical level she let go of Jack's hand and promised him her heart. Her everything. Taking a moment to lay her head down and cry she heard the calls of her rescuers and knowing now she had to live Rose slid off the plank of wood and swam, with every ounce of her being, over to an officer, she pried the whistle from his dead lips and blew into it as hard as she could.
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Dreams and promises had been made in the last three days and now all of that lay at the bottom of the North Atlantic. Rose was too numb to cry as she lay in a lifeboat staring up at the sky; the sun was now coming up introducing a new day. Soft water lapped against the sides of the lifeboat and she listened as the officer lit a flare and waved it in the air. Soon enough she knew she would be on another ship and she wondered if this one would sink into the ocean just like the last had. She wondered if Jack would be watching over her as she sailed to America and walked off the ship a free woman.
He should be watching it was of course all his doing. He was like all the princes she had ever read about in Fairy tales. The Ones who picked up the woman and rode away with her on a white horse. Well even if she did not get to ride off with Jack, he saved her and took her away from everything she had once been. Everything she wouldn't ever be again.
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As Rose sat upon the deck of Carpathia, she was wrapped in a flannel blanket that scratched her skin. Cal had just recently snooped around trying to find her. To his dismay he failed and Rose was left to collect her thoughts. Tears dared to fall from her eyes as the day broke and the sun warmed her face. Jack she thought, he would love the way everything looked this morning. She imagined herself waking up in his arms. The way his smell lingered on her skin. And as she turned over to see his eyes opening upon the day, tears fell. Gently working their way to be gentle sobs Rose covered her face with her hands and breathed deeply. She would not let herself break down in front of these widows, and fatherless children.
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While Carpathia sailed into port, Rose stood on the deck and stared up at the statue of Liberty with a look of indifference on her face. An officer walked up to her, clipboard in hand. "May I take your name please love?" Rose looked at the man for a moment and began to speak, turning her head back towards the statue. "Dawson, Rose Dawson."
The man nodded and walked away. Satisfied with her answer, her lie. Now she would begin again as Rose Dawson and no one would have to know.
Rose shoved her hands into the pockets of the Jacket Cal had lain upon her shoulders. Finding The heart of ocean in her hand, she thought, well Cal hadn't been a waste completely. She would now have her fondest memory of Jack just a touch away. She wouldn't sell it, no Cal would certainly find her if she sold it. No, she would keep it forever, and if she ever had the chance, she would return it to Jack. To his memory.
A/N: This is a story that I had posted at one time I've taken the chapters down and I'm in the process of editing them. I promise to the readers that begin to read this story that I will not, will not give up on it. if I do I will disappear off of here and never come back, I need to be a better author. Hope you enjoyed this chapter please review, thank you. New chapter should be up in about a week, sorry for the delay school is being an annoyance. -Nadine