Chapter 1 The Ship Goes Down

The hurt cuts me like a knife. I am in more pain than I have ever been in, in my entire life and yet, I can'tregret a moment that has happened in my life. For any regret, and anything I would've changed, may haveleft me without Jack Dawson. If my fiancé, Caledon Hockley, had not dragged me to South Hampton that winter, we never would have purchased our tickets on the grandest ship in the world, and I would have never met him, the one true love of my life. Jack Dawson. I spent the most memorable five days with him, some say, how could you love him after just five days? But what can anyone reply really? When you know, you know. He was the one, the only one I will ever love as truly and as passionately as I did. But now he is gone. Forever. It hardly seems fair. You see, when the "unsinkable ship" Titanic sank from under us, 1500 souls were lost at sea, my love, Jack Dawson was one of them.

I had refused to get into the lifeboat at first. I didn't want to leave him. You see, Jack is an un-wealthy man, holding a third class ticket, and he would never get into a life boat himself, as the captains orders are "Women and Children first" and the only men allowed aboard were those who were rich enough to bribe the officers to let them on. Jack had no money. When he finally coaxed me into one of the lifeboats I realised something very crucial, Jack was not getting off of the ship. He was going to go down with it, into the freezing water. He was going to die.

I quickly leapt out of the lifeboat and back onto the sinking ship; a few gentlemen pulled me back aboard. I ran, hoping I would be able to find him in the crowd of chaotic people. Thousands of people frightened and scrambling to get to the boat deck, praying for safety. Safety wouldn't come. The lord would take them in the end, no matter how hard they prayed.

I ended up finding Jack in the dining hall, we embraced and he told me I was stupid for jumping off the lifeboat, I didn't care, I just needed to be with him. We stayed aboard the ship until the very end, witnessed all of the people dying, witnessed them sliding down the deck of the ship as she rose at a forty-five degree angle, people falling, hitting, and striking objects, screaming, and crying, and praying, still praying. Didn't they realise it was no use? Didn't they realise it was their time? All of our times? They didn't give up hope.

"Hold on real tight!" Jack said to me as we both grabbed for the railing on the stern. The ship continued to rise, and suddenly, it was dark. The lights on the ship had finally failed and gone out, there was a great noise coming from what seemed to be the middle of the ship. Suddenly we were falling back, everyone cried out and the stern of the ship hit the water. For a brief moment there were cries of "we're safe! The Lord has spared us!" The ship stayed level with the water and I thought, maybe peoples prayers weren't so useless after all. Maybe the Lord had decided to spare the remaining on the ship. Maybe the ship would stay like this, split in half, but above the freezing water until help came. But then, the stern slowly began to rise again, and me and Jack clung for the railing once more. The screaming started again as everyone clambered for the railing on the back of the ship; it rose higher and higher until it was almost completely vertical.

"We have to move!" Jack suddenly exclaimed beginning to use the pole to climb over the stern rail.

"Come on!" he said urgently "I'll pull you over! Come on I've got you!" He grabbed my hands and helped pull me over the railing. Much like he did when we had first met, but then, he had been pulling me back onto the ship, to safety, and now he was pulling me over, to the unknown.

We lay on our stomachs across the railing the ship was standing straight up, completely vertical, bobbing like a cork. It stayed afloat here.

"What's happening Jack!" I cried. Jack was looking around frantically

"I don't know! I don't know!" He replied.

Everyone who had not chosen to climb over the railing was now seriously regretting it. They were now all screaming, and crying, and falling, and lifeless bodies floated in the water below us. Suddenly, there was a great burst of water from below and the ship started to sink, once again, taking its final plunge into the frigid Atlantic water.

"This is it!" Jack cried "the ship is going to suck us down, take a deep breath when I say, kick to the surface, and keep kicking! DO NOT LET GO OF MY HAND!"

I nodded, speechless, watching the water coming closer and closer to my face. Jack looked at me and saw the panic in my green eyes.

"We're going to make it Rose, trust me!" He said fiercely.

"I trust you!" I said just as fiercely.

Then he shouted, "Ready? Ready? NOW!"

We both took a lungful of air, and then, the black ocean swallowed us whole.

A/N So, what do you guys think? This is the first story i've ever written, so please review and tell me what you think! There will be many more chapters to come! I also accept constructive critism. Thanks!