Making It Count

Chapter 1

"Come Josephine in my flying machine and it up she goes, up she goes" Rose sang quietly looking up at the Milky Way. Her hair was matted and iced to the door she lay on in the fridged Atlantic Ocean. All of her body heat was going and Rose was still in shock from the Titanic sinking. Rose had jumped back on the ship when her class was leaving to save her true love, Jack Dawson. After freeing him and escaping from Rose's fiancée, Cal, Jack and Rose both jumped off Titanic just as the stern went under the Atlantic waves. Here they both now lay, waiting for a boat to come and save them.

"Come Josephine…" Rose continued singing in a faint voice, but she heard muffled voices.

Rose turned her icy head to see what was going on. A boat had come back. A man was calling to see if anyone was still alive and was shining a flashlight over the dead corpes of passengers.

"Jack" Rose whispered shaking his hand she held tightly. Rose smiled and completely freed her iced hair from the door to look at Jack. Jack was lying there in the water, his chin resting on the door. He looked like he was peacefully sleeping.

"Jack, there's a boat Jack" she said, quietly, shaking his arms. He didn't answer her. "Jack" she shock a bit harder, "Jack?" Rose got frustrated. "Jack, Jack?" Rose said a bit louder, her voice cracking. Her smile slowly faded. Realization set in like a blade going through her heart. "Jack" Rose continued still shaking him. She shook him harder.

"Jack?" as a tear went down her frozen face. "Jack?" more tears going down Rose's face, her voice giving up. Both hands holding Jack's frozen hand. "There's a boat Jack" But it was too late Rose felt.

She rested her head on their hands as more tears went down her face. She was too weak and was going to die anyways. But her promise to Jack still kept in mind. Rose lifted her head to see the boat rowing away. "Come back" Roes said softly "Come Back, Come back" Rose said as loud as she could. They couldn't hear her though.

This is just hopeless, Rose thought, before remembering a man near by had a whistle he had been blowing earlier. Rose looked at Jack and back at the boat rowing away. She was not going to let him go. You jump I jump.

Rose slid off the door and plunged in the freezing water. Rose held on tight to Jack's hand as she struggled to swim, but he was bringing her down. That made Rose swim faster. She reached the man with the whistle, took it out of his mouth and blew as hard as she could. The men in the boat heard her and turned around and saw Rose blowing on to the whistle holding Jack up from drowning.

They turned the boat around and rowed as fast as they could towards them. Rose didn't stop blowing the whistle until Mr. Lightroller took it out of her mouth and they started to pull her aboard. Mr. Lightroller noticed Jack and tried to make her let go, but Rose refused to leave Jack. Mr. Lightroller nodded his head understandingly and helped Rose and Jack onto the boat. Rose was given blankets to keep warm and she took them and cuddled with Jack's body.

Rose took his hand and tried to give off some of her heat on him, hoping it wasn't to late, but she knew it in her heart. Rose fell asleep on Jack's strong chest and fell asleep into unconsciousness.

After it seemed like hour, Rose felt the sun on her face and she opened her eyes. A ship was in the distance, probably to save them. Suddenly Rose heard a voice that made her jump, but it was the nicest, calmest voice. "Rose?"...