21/05/2008 15:16:00
A/N:I am aware that Charles Lightoller was married when he set of on the Titanic but in my story he was not and his age has been lowered to 35 on account to lessen the age difference seeing the Luna is 20 and Lily is 24, Harold Lowe is still 28 though.
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"Over there." Lily said to the maid as she unpacked her suitcases, making vague hand motions absently. "Yes miss" Lucy the maid said, dropping into a curtsy. Luna had disappeared a mere minutes after they had arrived with a quick shout that he was off to bid South Hampton farewell. "Miss. Warner" Lucy said looking up from the blouse she was folding neatly, "I can handle this, why don't you go out on deck and find your sister. Enjoy yourself! Your parents entrusted me with you care why don't you have fun on this voyage I may lose my job." Lucy's eyes sparkled merrily, and Lily stared at her shocked. "Well, I guess I should find Luna." she said hesitantly. "Good miss, I will be done soon and I will prepare you for dinner."
Lily smiled and called farewell to Lucy as she walked out the door. Her auburn hair falling loosely over her back, Lily felt strangely free, she had always longed to be strong and free like Luna, but the urge to obey had always over powered that need. Soon Lily was on the boat deck and the crowd was slowly dispersing, she hadn't even realized they had left, and she soon after realized that Luna was nowhere in sight. Lily turned to the nearest sailor; he had a mustache and fiery red hair that was shoved sloppily under his cap. "Excuse me sir, have you seen a girl she has blonde hair, almost silver really and blue eyes."
"Oh, yes miss" he said, a thick Scottish burr in his voice. "She went that way, in quite a frenzy too, is there a problem?"
Lily blinked unsure "no sir I'm sure she's fine I will go find her thank you for your help" with that Lily turned and made her way in the way the sailor pointed. "My pleasure miss." He called after her.
Lily walked at least a half -mile with out a so much as a glimpse of Luna, and was starting to question the sailor's word, when she heard a deep voice. "Ma'am are you alright?" Lily turned and came nose-to-nose with and tall man with eyes as blue as the ocean just over the rail on the deck and dark brown hair that was nearly black. "Oh!' She cried, shocked. "I am sorry miss" He said his cheeks flushing. "It's fine sir." She said "I was just looking for my sister, she has light blonde hair have you seen her by any chance" His face broke out into a wide grin "yes, miss, she is talking to officer Lowe just aft." Lily made a confused face. "Aft, Sir?"
He laughed "aft is back in ship speak" he said a wide smile on his face "oh" Lily said a small giggle escaping her mouth, then with a start she realized what she was doing, she was flirting with this officer! She was acting like …well she was acting like Luna. "Well, sir thank you for your help." She tuned to leave, but his voice cut her off
"I would be honored to accompany you Miss" Lily turned her cheeks slightly pink. "Oh yes, sir thank you."
He offered her his arm, and Lily rested her small hand on the crook of his arm, and they set off to find Luna.
Luna's P.O.V.
The ship had launched about twenty minutes and Luna was roaming the deck, her eyes on the sea and her hand skimming the railing that surrounded the deck. The cool breeze tugged her blonde hair out of the simple knot at the base of her neck. She was so caught in her thoughts she didn't realize that a steward was walking and small pack of dogs on the deck. Luna was run over by an over sized Pomeranian, that licked her face with an amazing ferocity, the steward was desperately attempting to remove the dog from her chest without making and contact with her skin, but was having trouble lifting the overweight dog. Suddenly the dog was lifted. And the steward was standing awkwardly to the side as the officer from earlier, held out his hand a soft smile on his lips and his dark eyes merrily twinkling. "Are you alright miss"
Luna sat up laughter already bubbling form her lips. "That has to be the fattest dog I have ever seen," she giggle, staring at the fluffy white dog who had since been wrangle by the steward, who was almost stumbling over himself with apologies. "It's fine," Luna said waving his apologies away with her hand. "It could have happened o anyone, I mean you must have at least eight dogs there." He smiled thankfully and rounded up the dog leashes and with a quick goodbye was gone. Luna turned her attention back to the officer, Mr. Lowe if she recalled correctly. "Well miss would you like some help up?" he said smiling brightly, "Yes, please," she said smiling. He took her hand and assisted her to her feet. "So Miss. Warner, how has your voyage been so far? Well aside from the fattest dog in all of Europe."
"Very nice, well I haven't eve seen my room, my sister Lily said she would deal with it." It was then that Lily had never actually said that she would take care of unpacking, but Luna doubted that she would mind, Lily constantly insisted that every thing must be in correct order when they traveled no matter how short a time they spent at hotels, every item of clothing had to be unpacked. Soon Mr. Lowe and Luna were in deep discussion, discussing everything from the dog to Lily, during this conversation, Luna insisted on him calling her by Lily instead of Miss. Warner and he returned the favor by insisting that his name was Harold or Harry and that his father was Mr. Lowe.
"Are you serious" Harry cried his face red and tears falling down his face. "Yes!" Luna giggled, "I stood up and said Mr. O'Reilly you are nothing if not a mustachioed slime-ball."
"Luna!" the familiar voice of her sister cut in irritation evident in her voice. "Oh no" Luna squeaked glancing at her pocket watch, it had been over three hour since she had boarded. "Luna come along, we must dress for dinner" Luna felt a blush come to her cheeks as she turned back to Harry. "Thank you for your conversation Mr. Lowe, I hope to see you again"
He smiled nodding "The same to you Miss. Warner." Lily wrapped her hand around Luna's elbow and started to walk away "thank you for you help Mr. Lightoller, It was nice to meet you." Lily called over her shoulder. It was just then that Luna noticed the tall man who had moved to stand by Harry. As the got farther away Lily tugged her closer and murmured into her ear "Who was that?" Luna's cheeks flamed "That was Fifth Officer Lowe, he was kind enough to lend me some assistance earlier"
Back where Harry and Mr. Lightoller were standing, Mr. Lightoller raised his eye-brows at Harry "so Mr. Lowe she's pretty isn't she?"
"Shut up Harry." He snapped glaring at him one last time before striding away purposefully, Leaving Charles Lightoller behind him chuckling softly. That boy is in love, he mused to himself, even if her doesn't know it yet.
So that was chapter 2 Yay! Well I'll update as soon as possible it is almost summer o I'll be updating a lot.
