Rose's POV:

"Hello!" I hear a distant voice calling out, "Is anyone alive out there?" As painful as it is to turn, I do so and see a boat coming towards us, a beam of light scanning the water for signs of life.

"Jack," I say, though it comes out as a whisper. "Jack, there's a boat, Jack!" I shake him awake, as he lies next to me on the wooden doorframe we've been floating on for the last few hours. It seems to have lasted for a lifetime.

"Rose?" He says, careful not to tip us off.

"Jack, look!" I say, pointing to the lifeboat. "There's a boat!"

"Quickly, Rose." He croaks, taking my hand. "We have to swim again, okay?"

I squeeze his hand and we topple off the door into the water. It hits me like knifes and the breath is almost sucked out of me, I'm just thankful I have a lifejacket on. "There," Jack manages to say and we swim as fast as we can towards an officer with a whistle around his neck. Jack gets there and blows it, quietly at first, as there's hardly any breath in his lungs, then louder.

"There!" I hear the officer say and the boat turns towards us.

"We made it, Jack." I whisper.

I sit in a crowded room on the Carpathia, holding Jack tightly, both of us covered in blankets. The Carpathia had come to collect the lifeboats and had given us warm drinks and blankets from the passenger's rooms. "We're alive, Rose." Jack says, holding me close.

Just then, an officer comes over to us and squats down in front of us with a clipboard and pen. "May I take your names, please?"

"Jack Dawson." Jack says and the officer looks at me.

"Rose Dawson." I say and the officer nods and walks away.

"Rose?" Jack looks down at me.

"I've been wanting to say that for so long." I say and he kisses the top of my head.

And that's when I hear a voice I hoped I would never have to hear again. "Look! There they are!" It was the voice of Cal Hockley.

"Jack," I whisper, clinging to him. "It's Cal."

He turns around to get a look at him, then whispers back to me. "It's okay. Just stay quiet." I nod.

I bury my face into Jack and watch as Cal walks around the room, taking in the passengers, until finally he sees us. My heart sinks as I approaches, accompanied my two officers from the Carpathia. "There, that's him!" He says walking up and pulling Jack up roughly by the arm. "This is him."

"Let go of him, Cal!" I say, standing up and taking Jack's hand.

"This is him. He was a stowaway on board the Titanic, the captain was planning to arrest him before we went down." Cal glares at him.

"What are you talking about?" I say, as loud as my cracked voice will allow me. "This is nonsense, you can't really believe him, can you?" He asks the officer.

"Take a look at the Titanic passenger list." Cal says to the officers. "There's no Jack Dawson on the list."

"I won that ticket." Jack says, shaking his arm out of Cal's grip. "I was gambling and won the ticket the morning we set off."

"It's true." I add, though it seems to make no difference in Cal's eyes.

"You're a filthy liar." He spits and I notice people have started to leave the dining room. The ship has docked.

I watch in horror as the officers exchange a glance then walk forward and take Jack by the arms. "Alright, we'll see to it he's given the correct punishment."

"Stop!" I yell trying to run to Jack, but find that Cal is holding me back.

Jack is struggling to get free as the officers pull him away from me. "Jack!" I scream. "Jack!"

"Rose!" He shouts back. He's almost at the door. My heart is pounding so fast as I desperately try to fight free from Cal's grip. "Rose, I will find you Rose!" He says, "I promise!"

And with that, he's gone. The only one I have ever truly loved has been taken away from me. I turn to Cal, furious. "I will never marry you." I spit. "I would have rather died out there in the ocean than had to see your face every again."