Titanic. Fan fiction: "If you love them….Let Them Go"

Theme Song: "I can't Make You Love Me" –Bonnie Raitt {continues throughout the entire scene until the words: 'End Scene'}

Cal watched from the railing of the stairs of the Titanic as Rose lovingly kissed Jack and hugged him lovingly. Tears—big tears clouded his eyes. How could she feel such love for him? For Jack Dawson—a mere vision of nothingness, a poor wanna-be that could never, ever be a something like Cal is. Cal forced himself to walk away, his heart crushed into red little ashes upon seeing the woman he loved so dearly in the arms of another. Cal walked back into the stateroom he had on the ship and sat down on the edge of the beautiful sofa in the room as more tears clouded his eyes. He remembered what his mother had told him when he was seventeen years old and he forced a young girl to go to the Mummers Dance Ball with him.

"Cal, my son, you can never force a woman to love you or to be with you, for the only thing that comes out of force is hate and resentment, and hate and resentment can never grow into love." Cal's mother had told him.

Cal's mind flashed back to the look Rose gave, when she stared into the eyes of Jack. It was a look of complete love, complete trust and complete adoration. Cal knew Rose would never, EVER look at him the way she looked at Jack. And at that moment, Cal knew he had lost Rose and that Rose would never, ever be his, no matter how much force, how many threats he sent her way, Rose's heart belonged to Jack, and would forever belong to Jack's. Cal couldn't dare stand to look at Rose, knowing that Rose looked at him with true hatred and had only loving thoughts for Jack. It would crush his soul eternally to know that Rose hated him as much as he loved her. Cal broke into severe, silent tears that he felt become more and more overwhelming to him, the more he carried on with it. He felt empty, broken and lost. Rose was his compass to the road of love and life and without her, Cal was lost.

**END SCENE**

Theme Song: "Take A Bow" –Madonna {continues throughout the entire scene until the words: 'End Scene'}

The next Morning:

Rose was in the stateroom she shared with Cal, she knew she only had a few more days to go before she could be with Jack for good, for when the ship had sailed in New York, she and Jack could finally be together and she could be free of Cal and she could live happily with Jack. However, she sighed with unhappiness at the fact that she had to carry on pretending she was still happily Cal's fiancée until Titanic made its voyage in New York. She took a look in the mirror at herself, in her long, black and white striped floor length dress that looked very high-class colonial. She sighed unhappily one final time and walked out the stateroom. She walked into the room where Cal was sitting at a table for breakfast. She winced with disgust at seeing Cal sit at the table quietly. Breakfast already was sitting on the table with a glass of orange juice for her. Rose sat down at the table across from him and looked at him and noticed his expression. She noticed immediately something was wrong. Her heart jumped up in her throat with nervousness.

Cal sat across from her and eyed her as she walked in the room and sat down across from him. Inside, deep inside, he felt like slapping the shit out of her, but he resisted the urge. He knew his rage would make her hate him even more. He blinked away light tears as he just sat there quietly staring at her with a look of hurt that he KNEW Rose was picking up on as she stared at him.

Rose slightly and nervously smiled at him.

"Um, um, are you alright, Cal?" Rose asked.

Cal stared at her, still in silence for a moment before scoffing and smiling briefly and nodding.

"Yes—um, yes Rose—I—No. I mean, no I can't lie. I'm not. Rose, (sighs and puts on a hurt expression, one that is deeper than the one Rose first noticed) Rose, I'm calling off the engagement." Cal said in a low voice.

Rose looked at him with widen eyes of shock.

"What? Excuse me, you're what?" Rose replied with surprise.

Cal looked down and blinked heavily, trying to blink away light tears, mostly.

"I said I'm calling off the engagement, you're free to get your belongings and leave—me." Cal said while still looking down.

Rose scoffed and looked down at the floor in puzzlement. Was this a trick from him? Was he actually letting her go?

Rose looked up at him with a confused look as she raised an eyebrow at him.

"Why?" Rose asked.

Cal took a sip, a big sip of his orange juice. He had to, to swallow the big lump of hurt in his throat.

"Why what Rose? " Cal said with a scoff and a fake smile.

"Why are you letting me go? Calling off the engagement?" Rose said with a scoff in a cold and sarcastic way. "I thought you loved me."

Cal stared at her as she displayed her half smile, she was probably trying to irritate him with that cocky smile of hers, he thought. The fact that she'd even question whether he loved her, gave him even more proof that he had lost her for all eternity.

"I DO love you Rose." Cal said, his voice cracking with light tears. "I love you—SO much that's why—"

Cal stopped and looked away as he felt tears stream from his eyes. Damn it, he hoped Rose didn't see those tears.

Rose frowned as she observed him more.

"Cal, are you crying?" Rose asked lightly.

Cal turned in his seat more away from her and quickly wiped the tears away.

"No, of course not. Rose." Cal said with a slight frown. "I do love you, that's why I'm letting you go. You were mine but you aren't anymore. You belong to someone else. So I'm letting you go."

Cal let out a brief and bitter laugh.

"You know my mother use to take this old saying and turn it around just for me and she'd say, if you love someone who doesn't love you back, you let them go, that's true love."

Cal reached across the table and took her hand in his, as tears clouded his eyes. They were tears that he wanted Rose to see at that point. Cal looked into her eyes.

"I—I'm sorry I couldn't be what Jack is to you, although he'll never be half the man I am. but, you desire him—not me, and I can't bear to force you to be with me because if I do, I know you'll never look at me the way you look at him. So, I'm letting you go, Rose."

Cal faked a smile and then quickly let her hand go and sat back in his seat and stared down at his glass of Orange juice as the tears that clouded his eyes, streamed down his smooth, white skin of his face. Rose stared at him with complete shock. She didn't know whether to run out the room to Jack or to demand Cal to stop lying and playing games with her about how he was going to let her go. However, somehow Rose knew Cal was not playing. He was actually letting her go. She also saw the tears that streamed from his eyes. She got up and walked over to him and kneeled beside him and took his hands into hers. She stared into his eyes and looked at him with sympathy.

"I'm sorry, Cal." Rose said in a low voice.

"I—I know, but what good does that do me, Rose? No—

Cal stood up and took her hands into his.

"I'm going to do even better and well—"

Cal stopped and laughed and glanced at her, his alluring, attractive glance, that same glance that made Rose fall head over heels in love with him when she FIRST met him.

"Come on." Cal said in a low, somewhat bitter voice.

Cal led Rose by the hand out of the room.

"Wait, where are we going, Cal?" Rose asked with suspicion in her voice.

"You'll see, come on." Cal responded.

Cal led Rose out to the deck of the ship, as they were walking, Cal was searching with his eyes observantly for the person he was looking for and then Cal spotted him. Cal smiled bitterly when he sees who he was looking for.

"Cal, WHERE are we going?" Rose asked in a more demanding tone.

Rose looked at Cal with fear, had he been tricking her all this time when he said he was letting her go? Was he taking her somewhere where he could hold her hostage? All her fear and anger for Cal came rushing back instantly. Cal glanced back at Rose and motioned for her to keep quiet. He led Rose quickly over to the young man in overalls and with the slicked back blonde hair. The young man was standing by the railing of the ship, looking out at the sea endlessly. Rose knew who the man was the second her eyes caught sight of him. The man was Jack Dawson. Cal walked up behind Jack and tapped him on the shoulder, Cal's hand still holding Rose's. Jack turned around and saw Rose and Cal standing behind him. Jack immediately looked like a deer in headlights but became alert. Jack didn't know what to expect from Cal, especially after he heard all the abusive tales that Rose would tell about him.

"Cal, what do you want?" Jack asked coldly.

Cal glanced over at Rose, who looked unsure of what to make of the entire situation or of Cal's behavior. Cal laughed and took Rose's hand and Jack's hand and brought them together so that both Rose and Jack were holding hands. The smile Cal had on immediately faded when he linked Jack and Rose's hand together. Cal began blinking heavily and a look of anger flashed on his face that then was replaced with hurt. Cal looked down at their linked hands as tears clouded his eyes.

"You two obviously love each other, and so I need to remove myself from the equation. I guess there are just some things I can't have, no matter how much money I have." Cal said with a bitter laugh.

Jack scoffed and smiled with an unsure look. He didn't know whether Cal was serious or not.

"Are—are you serious here?" Jack replied.

Cal nodded without responding, with him (Cal), still staring down at Rose and Jack's linked hands. Cal frowned with a look of hurt, as if he were being stabbed with a thousand knives.

"I know, isn't this great, Jack?" Rose said with a delighted laugh.

Jack looked at Cal, still with suspicion and then at Rose and smiled.

"Yeah, its great. Thank—thank you Cal." Jack said in an unsure tone.

Rose happily hugged Jack and laughed loudly and happily and Jack hugged her back and laughed happily. Cal stared at them as tears streamed from his eyes. Seeing them hug and lovingly embrace hurt Cal even more. He nodded and scoffed.

"Well, um, you and Jack can have the room, I'll have my men find me another room on the ship. (says sarcastically and bitterly) Congratulations." Cal said in a tearful tone.

Cal walked away quickly, feeling like he wanted to just find a quiet room and cry until he had no more water left in him to cry anymore. More so he had the feeling of wanting to go back there and beat Jack to a bloody pulp and take Rose and run away with her and MAKE her love him, no matter how she felt…but he knew that would do no good. Cal could've killed Jack and Rose would STILL love him more than she would ever love Cal.

Rose kissed Jack and hugged him happily. Jack hugged her but he had his eyes still glued on Cal walking down to the other end of the ship. Jack felt something deep inside that he knew he shouldn't have felt, Jack felt guilt and sympathy for Cal. After all, he did have the woman Cal was in love with. However, he didn't know how Cal could claim to love Rose after the way he treated her, and he didn't know how he could feel any kind of sympathy for Cal after Cal tried over and over to insult him when he had dinner with Cal days back. However, he did have sympathy for him….he should have been happy that he was free to be with Rose, the woman he loved but deep down he felt guilt…..

**END SCENE**

Theme Song: "Moonlight Sonata" –Beethoven, {continues throughout the entire scene until the words: 'End Scene'}

The Titanic was going to sink—the news was over two and a half hours old and everyone had an hour and a half left to go. Everyone on the ship had already gotten word of it and were told to prepare to make escape off the ship. Cal was sitting on a sofa in his stateroom, drinking a glass of wine, drowning his sorrows in alcohol. He didn't have or make any plans to get anything together or to prepare to make an escape off the ship. Cal planned to die, to commit suicide. Cal heard endless screaming and panic from outside the room he was in. The screaming and the panic were coming from those who were scared of the doomed ship sinking before they had a chance to get off. Cal finished off the last of his wine in one gulp and got up and walked out the room. He knew what his plan was. He wanted his death, his suicide to be something he could feel, a pain he could feel stabbing into every fiber of his being. He wanted to feel the pain so that the pain of dying could match the pain he felt over losing Rose. He walked out onto the deck of the ship and looked around as people ran frantically here and there, screaming wildly and hysterically, as people helped others get off the ship and onto life boats. The entire deck of the ship was in COMPLETE CHAOS. He saw Jack and Rose together with life preservers on, looking scared and waiting for a boat. He scoffed and looked away from them with a blank stare. One of the men of the ship ran up to him with a life preserver.

"Sir! Here take a life jacket! Ya need a life jacket and ya need to get over here and get on the boat! We have a boat of first class passengers for you to get in!" Officer Lowe said in a British accent.

Cal looked at the man with an eyebrow raised and with a blank stare. Cal lightly pushed the man away.

"I won't need a boat or a life preserver." Cal said in a low voice.

Cal walked away from the man and walked in the direction of where Jack and Rose were, however he wasn't staring at Jack and Rose at all. Jack took notice of Cal walking slowly to where the railing of the ship was, with Cal looking at the water as if he were embracing it depressingly with his eyes. Jack frowned with confusion.

"Where's he going?" Jack said in a low voice.

"Who? Who Jack? " Rose asked.

Jack pointed at Cal who was standing at the railing, holding on to the railing tightly while staring at the dark water endlessly.

"LOOK!" Jack said with widening eyes.

Rose looked in the direction Jack was pointing and saw Cal.

"I—I don't know! Let's just worry about us—LOOK! Our boat is ready! We have to get on this boat Jack!" Rose replied.

Rose pulled Jack towards the boat that was for them, as the men of the ship were motioning for her and Jack to get in the boat. However, Jack kept his eyes on Cal, who was still constantly staring at the water while standing by the railing. Jack refused to be moved in Rose's direction towards the boat.

"Jack, let's go!" Rose exclaimed.

Jack yanked away from Rose as he saw Cal start to climb up on the railing to jump off the ship to his death.

"Rose no! Look! He's going to jump! We have to stop him!" Jack exclaimed

Jack took off running towards Cal. Rose looked at Jack with shock.

"Jack! No! Wait!" Rose yelled.

Jack ran across the deck to Cal frantically.

"Cal! NO! Don't!" Jack yelled.