Characters:
Rose Dewitt Bukater – Iris Dewitt Bukater
Jack Dawson – Vanitas Dawson
Fabrizo - Sora Grey
Cal Hockley – Riku Hockley
Brock Lovett – Zidane Lovett
Ruth Dewitt Bukater – Aqua Dewitt Bukater
Granddaughter of Rose – Surane Calvert
Spicer Lovejoy - Ansem Lovejoy
Mr. Andrews – Zack Andrews
Molly Brown – Yuna Brown
Captain E.J. – Captain Xemnas
Tommy Ryan – Terra Ryan
Mr. Murdoch – Mr. Cloud Strife
Bruce Ismay - Demyx Ismay
At the very front of the ship, Vanitas leaned against the railings, his eyes in the general direction of the setting sun. But his mind was far from what he was seeing, since he couldn't get Iris out of his head. He had tried, but he failed to get through to her. He sighed, but there was one thing he knew in the back of his mind. He knew that sometimes words need time to get their full effect through, and people needed time as well to think about them. He could only hope at this point that Iris was doing the same, and was-
"Hello, Vanitas." came from behind him, almost on cue. A little startled, he turned around to find Iris standing about ten feet away, smiling slightly. As he stared at her for a few seconds, she shrugged slightly and said, "I changed my mind". He slowly got that goofy grin of his as she came closer.
"They said you might be up here" she started to say, but was cut off by Vanitas's gentle "Shhh" with his finger over his mouth. Smiling, he gently extended his hand toward her, "Give me your hand" he gently whispered. Blushing faintly as she smiled, she gently took his hand and gently came closer, stopping about a foot away. "Close your eyes" he whispered, smiling. She slowly blinked, but smiled and did what she was told, and gladly for the first time.
Still holding her hand with a smile, he gently guided her up to the railing, making sure to tell her not to peek. "I'm not" she said with a smile. Vanitas silently chuckled a little, "Step up onto the railing here" he gently whispered, helping her up. As he got up on the railing just behind her, he didn't bother telling her to hold on, she was doing that pretty good herself. "Keep your eyes closed" he said, getting a laugh out of her.
Gently holding her other hand as well, "Do you trust me?" he whispered, smiling.
"I trust you, Vanitas." she whispered back, without any hesitation.
Smiling, with that he gently pulled her arms up until she had them completely outward, using his body as support for her. After removing his hands, "All right, open your eyes" he gently whispered with a smile.
Iris slowly opened her eyes, gasping at the view she saw. The setting sun, the ocean rushing below them, and the gentle wind that blew across them. It was undescribably good to her, and the sensation was similar, "I'm flying! Vanitas!" she said, and she enjoyed the pure sensations for a good while. Vanitas smiled at her, then gently took both her hands in his own, which she didn't resist in the slightest. Smiling, she started singing softly, getting a small chuckle out of him, "Every night in my dreams, I see you, I feel you, that is how i knowyou go on. Far acorss the distance, and spaces between us, you have to show you go on."
Iris smiled as she slowly looked at Vanitas, while he looked back with a smile. Once again, they found themselves two inches away from each other, and they couldn't resist this time. Dammit, they don't want to! Even as Vanitas slowly leaned in, Iris slowly closed her eyes and touched her lips to his. She felt she was in pure heaven, and she slowly reached out and put a hand in his spiky hair, which she really liked as she thoroughly enjoyed his sweet lips, as he was enjoying hers.
"This is real." she murmured in bliss against his lips, and Vanitas couldn't agree more! Nothing else mattered to them now, nothing but each other, and they wanted it to stay that way forever.
Old Iris sighed slightly as she turned away from the images of the present day Titanic. "That was the last time Titanic ever saw daylight" she said. Across from her, her spellbound audience was just sitting there, silently imagining the ship sinking for themselves. Zidane nodded slowly, looking at her, "So we're just up to the night of the sinking" he said, sighing slightly. "Six hours to go".
"Unbelievable" spoke up Bratz, coming up to the front. "There's Smith and he's standing there with the iceberg warning in his f****** hand, excuse me, his hand! And he's ordering MORE SPEED!" he said, shaking his head in disgust.
Zidane sighed slightly again, "Twenty-six years of experience working against him" he said, more or less to himself. "He figures that anything big enough to sink the ship, they'll see it in time to turn - but the ship's too big with too small a rudder." Zidane slowly shook his head, "Everything he knows is wrong - it doesn't corner worth a damn" he whispered.
Old Kairi slowly sighed, looking back at the images of the Titanic.
Opening the door to her and Riku's private rooms, Iris was giggling slightly. "It's quite proper, I assure you" she said to Vanitas, who had walked in with her and was surveying the room. "Will this light do? Don't artists need good light?"
Vanitas drew a finger across the fireplace rim, noting it was dust-free. "That is true, but I'm not used to working in such horrible conditions!" he said, using an Italian accent, getting a giggle of her as she worked on the green safe. "Riku insists on hauling this hideous thing everywhere" she said, more or less to herself as she finally got the lock off.
"Should we be expecting him anytime soon?" asked Vanitas, still looking around. He certainly didn't want Riku or anyone else just walking in on them; it would just make things worse. Hearing her moving, he turned around to face her. "Not as long as the cigars and brandy hold out" she said, smiling as she carefully placed the Heart of the Ocean into his hands. He whistled, "That's impressive" he said, glancing at Iris with a smile, then turned back to survey the key-shaped diamond.
For a few seconds, neither said anything, and Iris looked a little nervous. "Vanitas... I want you to draw me like one of your french girls" she said, fidgeting slightly. While his attention was still on the diamond, he raised an eyebrow slightly to show that he had heard her. "Wearing this" she continued, which got a nod and a whispered "All right" from him.
Blushing faintly, she wasted a few seconds before she said, "Wearing 'only' this." Vanitas blinked several times, slowly looking back at her, seeming to be in total shock. When moments passed and it became clear that Vanitas wasn't gonna react anytime soon, "Well, I'll... I'll be getting... getting ready" she whispered, blushing as she easily took back the Heart of the Ocean, turned and went into a different room. Vanitas's stunned gaze followed her all the way, and it wasn't until the door closed did he finally blink and jolt out of his shock.
Blushing faintly himself, he slowly turned and walked back toward the middle of the sitting room. Carefully adjusting the furniture, he make a good sitting spot for himself, and a good laying spot for her after getting the pillows arranged. Slowly sighing, he sat down and opened his pack, taking out his artist tools. Seeing that the drawer needed a little sharpening, he took the pocket knife and carefully did so, making small scraping noises. Soon, he heard a door opening, and he looked up after doing the finishing touches.
Iris stood there just in the doorway, dressed in a see-through robe and wearing the Heart of the Ocean around her neck, blushing faintly with a small smile. With a straight face, she untied the robe strap and twirled it around her fingers, getting a slight chuckle out of him as he looked at her come closer.
"The last thing I need-" she said, speaking clearly and seriously, "-is another picture of me looking like a porcelain doll.". Coming closer, she extended her hand toward him, holding a dime in it, which she threw into his lap. "As a paying customer, I expect to get what I want." she said, backing up slightly. Blushing a little harder, she hesitated slightly, then on a bit of courage grasped both sides of the robe and slowly pulled it sideways, then letting it fall to the floor.
Several seconds went by, Iris blushing faintly and subduing her natural instinct to cover herself, Vanitas still in shock from what he was seeing. Sure he had seen this sort of thing before, but he never thought she would actually be doing this! With a little jolt, Vanitas shook himself out of it, still looking at her, but no longer than necessary. His first attempt at moving his arm was a twitch, but he finally got it after a few trys. "Lie down on... the bed." he said, shaking his head at his mistake. "The couch." he corrected.
Iris dipped her head slightly at this, slowly moving toward the couch. Vanitas adjusted his sitting position, and slowly breathed in and out to get himself ready. Iris slowly laid down on the couch, putting her arms into the positions Vanitas instructed. "Now, head down" he gently said, which she did with a small smile, though she was still blushing faintly. "Eyes to me, keep them on me. And stay still" he said, now adjusting his sketchbook to be just right.
With that, he slowly breathed in and out, then he took a long good look around her head area, then he started drawing. Other than occasionally glancing at Iris, he focused intently on what he was doing, ignoring all other sounds and movements.
Iris briefly made a face, "So serious" she whispered, putting her face back to normal. Vanitas smiled, and some of his black locks got in the way, so he pushed them away and continued to draw. He'd gotten the rough outline of her upper arm done, and now was working on her head and other arm. Tilting his head slightly, he started shading in some areas, giving them some of that lifelike look of his finished drawings. He took another long look at her, and shaded in some of the smaller details.
Iris forced herself to keep breathing slowly, despite her hammering heart. She was doing this for him, and she didn't want to mess this up.
Vanitas worked his way lower on the drawing, getting another long look at Iris, doing some of the shading work on her breasts. He kept himself breathing normally, but he couldn't eliminate a certain something no matter how much he tried. "I believe you are blushing, Mr. Big Artiste" said Iris, smiling with a faint blush herself. Vanitas chuckled slightly, but continued on his work. Having gotten the entire rough outline of her body down, he worked on getting the smaller details all shaded in. Iris could only lay there, her heart absolutely pounding.
Old Irissmiled slightly from the memory, "My heart was pounding the whole time" she said to her audience. "It was the most erotic moment of my life - up until that point, at least"
"So what happened next?" asked a very interested Bartz.
Iris gave him a look, even in her old age she could still give people the look. "You mean, did we 'do it'?" she said without shame. Everyone in the audience had some combination of the following: guilty smile; embarrassment; glancing at each other; fidgeting; slight chuckles. Old Iris chuckled herself, shaking her head, "Sorry to disappoint you, but Vanitaswas very professional".
Vanitas wrote April 14, 1912 - SD at the bottom of the drawing, while Iris, now decent again, watched from over his shoulder. He blew on it gently to get rid of any dust, then he smiled up at Iris, half offering his book of drawings to her. With a smile and a blush, she gripped it with her hand, "Thank you" she whispered, then she leaned and kissed him. He didn't mind of course, but he increased with which he was kissing her, and she liked it. But she squealed a little loudly when Vanitas's tongue touched hers, which she returned in kind.
After their make out session, she wrote a note to Riku, while Sora walked up near her. "Would you put this back in the safe for me?" she asked, to which he responded with a nod and took the box with the Heart of the Ocean in it. "Sure thing, Iris." Walking up to the thing, he carefully placed the box inside the safe.
"None of these stewards have seen her, Riku" Ansem was telling him in the first class area.
Riku gave a sigh of frustration, "This is absurd!" he whispered. "It's a ship, there's only so many places she could be!" he said, then he sighed. "Ansem, find her okay?"
Night was falling as Titanic sailed across the sea, and Xemnas stood near the helm of the ship, looking out to the sea. "Clear" he said quietly, hearing Vincent step up near him.
"Yeah... I don't think I've ever seen a more peaceful night before" he said, glancing at his captain. Xemnas chuckled slightly, "Not a breath of wind".
After a few seconds, "It, uh, will make the icebergs harder to see... with no moving water at the base" said Zack.
"Hmm" murmured Xemnas, still looking out at the sea. After a few seconds, he sighed slightly and turned to Vincent, "Well, I'm off. Maintain speed and heading, Zack." he said, moving past him.
"Yes, sir" he responded, looking out at the sea himself.
Further back on the ship, Vanitaswas just outside the doorway, pulling his half-jacket closer to his body to try and warm himself up as he walked back inside. "It's getting cold out there" he said, still trying to warm himself up. But soon he looked at Iris, finding her to be in a different outfit. A white dress with three black roses on the bottom left side on it. "You look great, Iris" he said, getting a smile from her, but just then, they heard a knock on the door.
With a slightly panicked look, Iris grabbed Vanitas and dragged him out of the sitting room. Vanitas thought about his drawings, but now wasn't the time to go get them, and with Iris urgently pulling him along.
Walking into the sitting room, Ansem carefully looked around.
Pushing Vanitas into the next room, Iris slowly and carefully closed the door, hoping for it not to make a sound.
His head snapped around as he heard a faint clicking noise, the one of a door closing. With that, he walked toward it's source.
Vanitas quickly pulled her through the next door, and didn't bother closing it all the way.
Opening the door quickly, he immediately noticed the rearranged furniture and the discarded robe. He soon noticed the slightly ajar door though.
Smiling and chuckling at each other, Vanitas and Iris walked down the hallway, turning their heads over their shoulders as they heard a faint noise.
Ansem went through the ajar door, turning around and finding them pleasantly walking up the aisle. He immediately started following them, but as soon as they noticed, they broke into a run.
"Come on!" she yelped, running with Vanitas following her, trying to get rid of Ansem. Rounding the corner at high speed, they called for the open elevator to stop, and they quickly got inside. Closing the 'doors' themselves, they urged the doorman to hurry. They were just in time, as Ansem got there only to lightly pound his fists on the doors as they went down, looking down at them.
With a mischievous grin, Iris gave him her middle finger. Vanitas burst out laughing, and she grinned even more as she waved slightly to him. "Bye!" she said with glee, gigging hard with Vanitas still laughing with a grin.
He sighed slightly, going past the elevators and heading down the stairs. "I probably deserved that one" he whispered quietly to himself.
Still laughing and giggling, they got out of the elevator and headed down another corridor. "I've been wanting to do that for awhile now!" she said with glee as they ran. Vanitas simply laughed as they flew down a flight of stairs, accidentally knocking down some poor servant. "Sorry!" he yelled, with Iris right behind him. Once they got past a set of doors, they simply stood there and laughed to themselves, having had too much fun from the chase. "Seems more like a cop, this guy" he said, leaning against the wall.
Iris giggled slightly, watching the door. "I think he was" she said, and just then they saw him come down the stairs. "Oh, shoot!" he whispered, and he turned to run, "Go!" she yelped, running right behind him. They rounded a corridor, only to yelp and find themselves on a dead end. "Over here!" he said, opening the closest door and pushing Iris in. When Ansem got there, the door was locked.
Iris had her hands over her ears, the sheer noise of the place too much for her. Sora looked down slightly, seeing orange and red light filtering up from the opening, and he had to cover his ears too. "NOW WHAT?" she yelled at him, turning him toward her. "WHAT?" he yelled back, and she giggled slightly from the fact neither could hear the other.
Soon enough, they had climbed down the ladder, and had a glimpse of the ship's boilers. "Hold up" said a voice, making them snap around, facing a blone haired man. "What are you two doing down here?" he demanded, and they backed a step in fear. "You're not supposed to be down here!" he said, and they simple took off and ran away from him. "Wait! It could be dangerous!" he yelled after them, but they didn't hear him, and they wouldn't have cared anyway.
"Carry on! Don't mind us, you're doing a great job!" he yelled at the workers, getting giggles out of Iris, and having the workers in question starting after them, confused.
Soon, they reached another door, and he eagerly opened it. He recognized it as the cargo area, or at least he did from the sheer amount of stuff that was stored here. "Wow, what do we have here?" he whispered. Holding Iris's hand, he pulled her along, "Come on". With a smile, she followed him, looking around the area herself.
Chaos dose not own the Titanic or kingdom hearts, but she owns Iris and Surane is own by SuraneSpiral.
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