Hey-O! Welcome everyone to my very first Titanic fic! I've been in love with this movie for 10 years since I first saw it and after spending years reading fics, I decided to finally have a go at one myself. I own nothing except Muriel and her family.

Muriel Callahan yawned as she sat up in bed. She had hardly slept at all the night before, knowing the events of today were going to be exciting. She looked over to her two younger brothers and her younger sister who slept like logs.

"Children", she said with a smile. "Come on, wake up!"

Muriel got up out of bed and walked to the bed, gently shaking the three young children. She wanted everyone awake, dressed and packed. Today was the long away day when her family finally traveled across the ocean to America, to a better life than they had in Ireland. Muriel quickly changed out of her nightgown and into her green dress that matched her eyes.

"Muriel?"

She turned to see her mother Ita opening the door. Ita watched her daughter quickly brush her long, curly read hair and couldn't help but laugh.

"Dear, the ship leaves at 9:00", she said. "We still have three hours to get ready."

"But, Mum I just wanted to be prepared", Muriel said. "There's no harm in that, is there?"

"None at all", Ita smiled. "But you must be patient. Your father and I need to get ready too."

Muriel watched her mother wake the three young ones. She pulled back the curtain and took a look outside. The rest of Southampton seemed to be asleep as well. 6:00 AM and the only people that could be see where the men who needed to get to work. Most of them were heading to the port where the RMS Titanic was docked, waiting to take its passengers to America on her maiden voyage.

The children in bed yawned as they got up. Thomas was the oldest of the three at 12 years old.

"What's the big idea, Muriel?" he asked. "Couldn't you have let us sleep an extra hour?"

"I'm sorry", Muriel said. "But don't you want to get to the port early before it gets crowded? This ship is huge news. Everyone in Southampton will be there."

"Everyone?" the girls answered.

Edith and Margaret, the two youngest children at six years old looked at her with wide eyes. The twins were too young to understand just how huge the news about Titanic would be. All they knew was that they were going on a ship to their new home across the ocean.

"Everyone", Ita answered. "Come now, children. We must prepare to go. Your father and I paid good money for these tickets."

Muriel nodded in agreement as she helped her mother change the girls into their dresses and helped them pack their things. She hoped the Titanic was just as wonderful as everyone in Southampton made it out to be. They called the ship unsinkable, the one ship God himself could not sink.