A/N: Thanks so much to League Girl, ASummerBreeze, and Andie and whoever else may have added this story to their story alerts, thanks so much and I hope you like the upcoming chapters (including this one)


Rose, Cal and Lovejoy walked down into the third class area of Titanic, and their ears were immediately swarmed with the sounds of LOUD cheering, LOUD Irish celtic jig music and laughter, and talking. The sounds were so loud that it was hard to even hear yourself speak. Cal looked around at the crowded bar like atmosphere with a mixture of shock and disgust. There were some men and women, and even some boys and girls dancing on a dance floor, not too far from the entrance, there were booths at certain areas where people were sitting down drinking, and playing arm wrestling games and playing poker. Rose looked all around with pure excitement and joy, this looked like the type of excitement that she had longed for, but had never gotten a chance to be apart of, because of her overbearing mother. Lovejoy looked all around at the area with slight curiosity and intrigue. It reminded him of the many pubs he had visited back in his homeland of Manchester, England.

"Oh Cal, isn't this place exciting!" Rose said with a full smile.

Cal frowned as he scanned the area with his eyes.

"It looks more like a dirty haven for third class vandals." Cal said with disgust.

Rose scoffed and grabbed Cal and Lovejoy's arm and pulled them down further into the area. Cal sighed with frustration. He'd rather have been with the other gentlemanly comrades, sharing Brandy's and cigars in the smoking room, rather than down in the lower decks with people whom he considered to be nothing more than savages, dirty, filthy savages. However, as time went on, his attitude would change. Rose lead Cal and Lovejoy over to a booth in the corner of the room and ordered three beers for them and when they arrived to the table, Cal stared down into his beer as if it were dirt in a glass.

"What—what is this?" Cal asked with a disgusted frown.

"It's a BEER, Mr. Hockley." Lovejoy replied with a scoff and a shake of his head, and a laugh from Rose.

"Honestly, everything has to be SPELLED out for him." Lovejoy whispered to Rose and she laughed.

"Take a sip, Cal." Rose said with a smile.

Cal looked up at Rose with a "do I really have to?" look and then looked away and sighed.

"Alright, alright, for YOU, Rose."

Cal slowly took sips of the beer, with Rose smiling with amusement. However, the more he tasted of the beer, the better it tasted to him, and soon he was practically guzzling it down, until he finished it all completely. As he sat the mug back on the table, he saw Rose and Lovejoy staring at him, almost with amused eyes.

"What?" Cal asked.

Rose shrugged and then laughed.

"Nothing, its just that for someone who said they don't like third class passengers, you sure drink like them." Rose said with a smirk.

Cal rolled his eyes at her and briefly smirked with a scoff.

"Well, it tasted—more pleasant than I thought." Cal said in a low voice. "Almost as good as how its served in first class."

"Yes, well, I'm surprised you didn't try to lick the glass for remaining remnants of the alcoholic contents." Lovejoy said with a slight giggle from Rose.

Cal stared at Lovejoy with coldness.

"Oh SHUT up, Lovejoy." Cal snapped coldly.

At that moment, the band started playing 'Gaelic Storm' and Rose looked behind her and saw several men and women dancing to the jig, on the makeshift dance floor. Rose gasped and looked at Cal with an excited smile.

"Oh come on Cal, let's get up and try this dance!" Rose exclaimed as she got up and rushed over to Cal and grabbed him by the arm.

As Rose pulled him up to his feet, he frowned and sighed.

"Uh, no Rose, I—I don't dance," Cal said with agitation, "certainly not to—this."

"Oh come on Cal, please!" Rose said as she kept looking back at the people dancing on the dance floor and then back at Cal. "That looks like fun! For me, it would make me happy!"

Cal sighed with a frown.

"Well, if WE go up there, who—who will watch Lovejoy?" Cal asked, hoping that would be a good enough excuse for not going up to dance.

Lovejoy looked at Cal with a frown and a raised eyebrow.

"WATCH me?" Lovejoy asked. "Sir, I don't need a chaperon, I'm perfectly fine here by myself, so make up another excuse, because that one is ABSOLUTELY ridiculous—even for you."

Rose laughed and grabbed Cal's other arm, while Cal looked at Lovejoy with coldness.

"THANK YOU for helping me, Lovejoy, REALLY." Cal snapped as he was being pulled away by Rose.

Lovejoy waved carelessly at Cal and nodded.

"Sure, anytime, Mr. Hockley, whatever—go away already." Lovejoy said with a shake of his head as he took a sip of his beer.

As Cal and Rose walked up onto the dance floor, Rose began watching the other females dance, while Cal looked like he was lost in space, as he stood staring at the other dancers as well. Within seconds, Rose began dancing the Irish steps to the jig and she was doing so perfectly. Cal looked at her with a surprised smirk and raised an eyebrow as he stared at her dancing. He had no idea she knew such—dance moves. Rose looked at him and laughed.

"What, Cal? You know how to watch and not DANCE?" Rose teased, between heavy breaths, while continuously dancing.

Cal smirked and looked away and nodded. He loved challenges, and it was obvious Rose was challenging him.

"No, I DON'T dance to music like this, Rose." Cal said sternly, in his snobbish tone of voice.

Rose laughed.

"Of course you don't!" Rose yelled over the music, while still dancing. "You're a TERRIBLE one!"

Cal looked down and laughed briefly. He knew Rose was trying to test him on to actually start dancing, he knew that she knew very well that he knew how to dance. He looked all around him to make sure no one who was of importance had found him or Rose or Lovejoy down in the area and was looking at him and then Cal sighed and quickly began dancing the steps he saw Rose was doing and to Rose's amazement, he was doing them almost as well as she was. Within minutes, Cal realized he was having just as much fun as Rose was, dancing all around the floor.

"See, isn't this fun!" Rose yelled over the loud music, while still dancing.

Cal laughed as he continued dancing and nodded.

"I must admit, it is!" Cal yelled over the loud music while still dancing himself.

Immediately, Rose took Cal by the arm and began swinging him around while dancing, and he began swinging her all around, while others stood all around and watched, cheered, laughed and clapped for them. Cal and Rose were dancing, twirling each other around and laughing happily until the music stopped.

As the music stopped, Cal and Rose were laughing heartily.

"Oh my God, that was so much fun, the most fun I've had ever in my life!" Rose said between laughter.

Cal nodded and laughed heartily as he took her hand and lead her off the dance floor.

"It—it was, it really was." Cal said between laughter. "And that dancing—Rose, that was so much fun!"

Rose nodded with a smile as she turned and stepped in front of him.

"I TOLD you," Rose said, smirking, "this is much more fun than being in that boring smoking room, isn't it?"

Cal looked up at the ceiling briefly with a smirk, as if thinking how to answer and Rose laughed and grabbed his arm and led him away.

"Oh, just come on, let's see how Lovejoy made out at the booth, while we were away." Rose said as she began to walk away with Cal in hand.

As Cal and Rose walked back over to their booth where Lovejoy was, they saw it was crowded with people, people cheering, laughing, drinking. Rose frowned slightly frowned.

"Well this booth sure seems to have drawn a crowd." Rose said in a low tone.

As they pushed through the crowd, to get to the seat of the booth, they saw Lovejoy sitting across from a young, blond haired male in his early twenties, with bright, shimmery, blue eyes and fairly great looks. His name was Jack Dawson. Rose stared at Jack with slight awestruck attraction, but as Cal took hold of her hand and held it warmly, it took her vision off of Jack and onto him. Jack and Lovejoy were having a serious drinking shots contest, to see who could drink the most shots. As Rose and Cal walked closer to the seats of the booth, they saw Lovejoy downing a full shot of what looked to Cal, to be Brandy as those standing around the booth cheered loudly. Rose and Cal both looked at Lovejoy in surprise and then Rose laughed.

"Ok! Ok, so he's good!" Jack yelled with a smile. "But he's not better than me! I'm still a shot down from his shots, ok!"

Everyone at and around the booth laughed loudly and some cheered loudly and Lovejoy scoffed and smiled.

"Yeah, yeah, so ya are, son." Lovejoy said in a slightly slurred voice with a laugh. "But I'm not walking away until I have you beat!"

Everyone around the booth cheered, clapped and laughed loudly.

Cal scoffed and shook his head with a slight frown.

"Lovejoy, what are you doing?" Cal asked with a slight frown.

Lovejoy looked at Cal with a brief smirk.

"Oh HELLO Cal! HELLO Rose!" Lovejoy said drunkenly. "Sit down and enjoy the fun!"

As everyone around the booth started cheering and laughing, Rose looked at Cal and laughed.

"Cal, I think he's had one too many." Rose said with a laugh.

"I know, we should get him out of here before he makes a complete fool of himself." Cal said, as he leaned down to help Lovejoy up. "Come on, let's go."

"Wait, where not done here yet!" Jack said as he stood up quickly with a brief smile.

Lovejoy yanked his arm away from Cal roughly.

"I know, Cal! What gives!" Lovejoy asked, drunkenly with a laugh from Jack. "I was just about to beat the pants off of this Jack Dawson, young man!"

Jack scoffed and laughed, as others around the booth laughed as well.

"Ha! You WISH!" Jack said with a laugh.

"No, look Mr.—what's your name?" Cal asked coldly of Jack.

Jack nodded and faintly smiled at Cal.

"I'm Jack Dawson. Hi." Jack said as he extended a hand to Cal.

Cal and Rose looked at Jack with shock. Cal knew it was THE Jack from his dream. Cal looked down and his face instantly became flushed. Jack didn't look quite like the Jack in his dream, but nonetheless, Cal knew that, that was the man.

"What do you know Cal!" Lovejoy said drunkenly between laughter. "It's the Jack from your dreams!"

Lovejoy laughed loudly as did others around the booth and Jack looked at Lovejoy and then at Cal with a scoff and a confused laugh.

"What?" Jack said with a smile.

Cal shook his head with a shocked look, while Rose stared at Jack with an instant 'struck by beauty' type of way. Cal quickly grabbed Rose's arm and quickly lead her away.

"Um, um , come on Rose, I—I suddenly need air." Cal said as he lead Rose away.

Rose looked at Cal with confusion and then looked back at Lovejoy and Jack and the booth crowded with people.

"Wait, what about Lovejoy?" Rose asked.

"He's a grown man, he knows his way out of here." Cal said as he quickly lead Rose and himself out of the third class area.

As Cal and Rose began walking back up to the deck of the ship, Cal felt his heart sink and his mind swirl with a million thoughts. He wondered had Rose took sight of him long enough for her to have 'love at first sight' feelings for him? Had she stood there long enough for her to become curious about Jack to want to talk to him? Cal had no idea, and not knowing was making him really worried, really fast.