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Voyage of Discovery
Avoiding the Iceberg
IMPORTANT, you must read Journey of the White Star first.
The doctor came back at 11: 30 after falling asleep.
Kai had long since taken the thermometer out of his mouth so they had to do it again.
The doctor recorded the results.
"Good news, by about 9am you'll be fighting fit now I'm going to bed I'll be in the next room, if you need me, don't hesitate to call me" Ray nodded.
"We should sleep too, you will want to leave tomorrow" Ray smiled at his Russian lover.
"Ok, get on" Kai shifted over a little so Ray could lie down next to him under the covers.
"Night Kai"
"Night"
"Ok, so I guess I sleep on my chair then"
"Sorry, no room Tala" Kai laughed
During the drama in the barbershop, high up in the crows nest of the forward mast that supported the wireless antenna, lookouts Fredrick Fleet and Reginald Lee strained their eyes in the darkness for any unwanted ice that may be in the path of the great liner.
The air was cold and the crisp and the North Atlantic breeze enhanced by the mighty liner's near flank speed stung the faces of the two men.
The sky was brilliantly speckled with more stars than the mind could comprehend, the water as calm and still as a pond; unusually calm for the North Atlantic in April.
Due to a mix up in a last minute shift of officer's assignments and positions, the lookout crew was without binoculars.
High-tech equipment such as infra-red technology, sonar, global positioning systems, and radar were still many years away from invention.
Peering straight ahead into the darkness, Fleet squinted to see if he could identify the large dark mass that was quickly growing in size as the liner made way ahead.
"MY GOD!" he said, while reaching over to grab the pull cord on the ships bell mounted on the mast, Fleet gave it the traditional 3 rings indicating an object sighted.
He grabbed the crows nest phone to hear the voice of the ship's 6th officer below in the bridge.
"What did you see?"asked the anxious voice.
"ICEBERG RIGHT AHEAD!" was Fleet's reply.
The officer quickly acknowledged with a
"Thank you" and the phone was hung up.
"Iceberg right ahead!" was repeated again in the bridge.
The first officer quickly looked out of the ship's bridge windows.
Seeing the berg looming off the bow, he turned and shouted
"Hard astarboard" to the quartermaster tending the ships wheel in the wheelhouse. A
t the same time the officer reached over to the ship's telegraph and rang in the order
"all stop" and then
"all reverse full."
The quartermaster now had the ship's wheel spun over as far as it would go.
The men in the bridge were peering forward to see if the helm would respond in time.
Silence filled the bridge, all staring at the shape moving towards them.
They saw the bow of the liner start moving port and Murdock the first officer breathed a sigh of relief, they had just avoided certain catastrophe.
"Resume previous course at a slower speed".
"Aye sir!"
Author notes
Beywriter: This sets the Alternate Universe section of the fic where the Titanic does not hit the Iceberg.
Ray: A final reminder for this fic, Journey of the White star sets the main story.
Tyson: The main Alternate universe story starts next chapter, please leave a review.
Story- Beywriter
Editor- Lirin Sama