Hey everyone!
This is the first fanfic I've written for Titanic, and I'm really excited about it. If you like it, please review and tell me to keep going! Cause there's no point in a writer without readers!

Hope you enjoy :)

*Disclaimer. I do not own Jack Dawson, Rose DeWitt Bukater or any other characters featured in Titanic the motion picture.

CHAPTER ONE

Jack Dawson looked down at the heavy parchment tickets gripped in his right hand. His left arm was looped into that of his fiancée, Katherine, who was staring at the enormous ship, her mouth agape.

"Isn't it marvellous, Jack?" She said shouted over the sounds of the port, her clipped English accent sounding out of place amongst the cries of the Irish and American.

He looked down at her calf-skin gloved hand and nodded curtly. "It is," He answered.

"Jack?" His mother, Vanessa, strolled up behind him, the hem of her wine-coloured travelling dress trailing on the dusty ground of the port. "Oh, there you are. Did you arrange the luggage?"

"Yes, mother," Jack answered. "It has all been arranged. Don't worry, your trunks will be in your cabin."

"Thank you, darling." She smiled at her only son. "What would we do without you?"

Jack laughed a little. "Where is Nancy?" Nancy was Jack's fourteen year old sister, the apple of his eye.

"She's coming with your Grandmother." Vanessa's mouth went flat. She hated Jack's grandmother, the mother of Jack's dead father, but would never stoop so low as to slight her in public.

"Mother! Jack!" The words had barely left Vanessa's mouth when Nancy came running up, her straight brown hair awry, stains already on the front of her lemon silk dress.

"Oh, Nan!" Vanessa scolded, using a handkerchief she pulled from somewhere to swipe at the damp spots.

Jack smiled as his grandmother came behind Nan, huffing up the steps to the platform they waited on.

"I hate ports," She sniffed. "Full of vagrants and thieves."

Jack restrained a smile.

"Oh, Lillian! You always complain. I would really be much more comfortable if -"

Lillian raised a hand and cut her daughter-in-law off mid-sentence. "Now, now, Vanessa. You need not start that nonsense about leaving me behind. As if I could bear to part from my beautiful grandchildren!" She smiled warmly at Jack, who reached out and squeezed her hand.

"Are we ready to board?" Jack asked. The ship's horn sounded loudly, and suddenly the sounds of the excited people in the port increased hugely.

"What did you say?" Vanessa shouted to her son over the escalating noise.

"I SAID, ARE YOU READY TO BOARD?"

The four women looked questioningly at him. It was impossible to hear over the noise. Instead of shouting again, Jack simply pointed to the tickets in his hand, and then to the ship.

They all nodded with relief. Jack looped one arm through Katherine's and another through his mothers, and Nancy took her Grandmother's hand. They walked quickly through the dense crowds of lower class people, and finally slowed when they reached the queue of First Class passengers.

Despite himself, and the reservations he had had about leaving Paris, and now Ireland, Jack felt his excitement build as they approached the First Class gangplank.

Nancy was chattering on excitedly about cabins and starboard and dolphins, and goodness knew what else, and Jack found himself laughing at her in a way he hadn't laughed in a long time.

Maybe America would be different. Maybe everything would be well. After all, it was the land of dreams.

"Elizabeth! E-LIZ-A-BETH!" Rose stood at the bottom stair in the hostel and shouted loudly.

"Shut it," A stooped old man wandered by, muttering to himself. Rose stuck her finger up at his back.

"LIZZIE!" She yelled.

"Alright, alright! I'm coming!" There were footsteps at the top and Rose was relieved to see Elizabeth coming down, a heavy leather bag over her shoulder. She grinned when she reached the bottom, and Rose grinned back.

"Can you believe we're actually going?" Lizzie wrapped her arms around her swollen stomach. "I'm so scared."

Rose laughed. "Don't be. This is the first day of the rest of our lives."

Sorry it's so short! Please tell me if you enjoyed it. Or if you didn't! :L Constructive criticism helps :) If you liked it, I'll continue ASAP :)

Lily Beth x