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Chapter 10

Darling Please

~Valarie's Point of View~

I took a deep breath and got up off of Thomas's lap. There was a loud knock on the door causing me to jump. I rushed to the door. "Yes First Officer Murdoch?" I asked softly.

"Your father wishes to see both you and Mr. Andrews." Said Murdoch.

I looked at his face. It was pale. "Please... please tell me we didn't..." I was hoping that my fears weren't coming true.

"I can't Miss Smith." He said softly.

My eyes widened. I turned towards Thomas. My worst fears were beginning to come true. "Gather up the plans." I said quickly rushing over to the table.

Thomas quickly rolled up some of the plans of the ship while I got the others.

My hands were shaking so badly that I dropped one onto the floor.

Thomas put the plans that he rolled up onto the table and took my hands. "Valarie everything will be fine." He said to me softly.

I looked at him. "How can we be so sure about that. You felt that shudder. That wasn't a normal shudder."

Thomas rubbed the tops of my hands with his thumbs. "It will be fine."

I nodded my head and kneeled down picking up the rolled plans that I had dropped. I picked up a few more as he picked up an arm full and I had my arms full as well. I followed Thomas out the door.

"Why have the engines stopped? I felt a shudder." Said a woman from the floor that we were on.

"I shouldn't worry, ma'am. We've likely thrown a propeller blade, that's the shudder you felt. May I bring you anything?" Said the steward.

Thomas and I rushed quickly up the hallway going to the the bridge area.

I quickly opened the door and walked in quickly with Thomas. I looked at my father who was studying the commutator. My eyes widened. I knew that this was bad.

Father turned and faced us as we rolled the plans out onto the chart room table. He stood behind us. "A five degree list in less than ten minutes." He said softly.

"She's making water fast... in the fore speak tank and the forward holds, in boiler room six." Hutchinson said to my father.

My eyes widened. That was very, very, very bad. I heard the door opened quickly and Ismay came into the room.

"Why have we stopped?" Ismay demanded.

"We've struck ice." My father said.

My worst fears had come true. I gripped onto the front of my gown trying to take a deep breath.

"Well, do you think the ship is seriously damaged?" Ismay asked, my father rather rudely.

"Excuse me." Father said glaring at him.

"You son of a bitch!" I yelled turning and facing him. "Of course the ship will be damaged!" I said getting closer to him. "You didn't listen to someone who has traveled in the middle of April. Saying I didn't know anything."

"A lady wouldn't speak like that to a man who owns your father's career."

"Own my father's career? Screw it!" I yelled and I hauled off and punched him.

Father looked at me in shock. "Valarie."

I seethed in anger. "He deserved it." I said as I followed him, Thomas, and Hutchinson out of the chart room. I wasn't going to be staying in the same room as Ismay. It would end up in more bodily harm to him.

Thomas grabbed onto my hand as we walked briskly on the top deck.

The four of us had grim looks on our faces and rush past Jack and Rose.

I looked at Thomas and he barely glanced at Rose as we walked.

"Can you shore up?" Father asked Hutchinson.

"Not unless the pumps get ahead." He said softly.

We rush down the stairs to check the well deck.

Thomas looked at me. "I want you to stay up here." He told me softly.

I shook my head. "No, I'm not going to do that Thomas." I said softly as I walked with them still. I didn't want to stay around because I would beat the hell out of Ismay and Thomas figured it out.

Hutchinson left our group to check another part of the ship while father, myself, and Thomas went to the Mail Sorting room.

I peaked into the mail room and saw that the clerks were scrambling to get mail from the racks, hauling wet sacks of mail up from the hold below. I watched Thomas go down the steps a bit further down to the hold. "Thomas..." I said softly.

"Stay up there Val." He said using my nickname. His voice was making me heart break slowly into pieces. Within a few moments he was back up with us. "Go." He said pushing me lightly on the arm.

We quickly went back to the chart room.

I looked over and saw that Ismay was nursing a black and blue eye were I had hauled off and punched him. If he said one more word that was disrespectful I would punch him again. I walked over to Thomas and helped him unroll a big drawing of the ship across the chart table. It was a side elevation, showing all the watertight bulkheads. I saw his hands were shaking. I took one into my hand carefully trying to calm him down some. My hand was shaking too.

Father stood behind us.

Ismay and Murdoch hovered behind the three of us as we looked over the drawing.

"When can we get underway, do you think?" Ismay asked again. His voice was annoying as hell that was for sure.

I turned and glared at him. "Shut it." I hissed out at him before turning my attention back to the blue print of the side view of the ship for the bulkheads.

"Water 14 feet above the keel in ten minutes... in the fore speak... in all three holds... and in boiler room six..." Thomas said his voice shaking slightly.

"That's right." Father said softly.

The dread that I was feeling before had gotten much much worse. My fears were becoming more and more true. I didn't want to show fear. I wanted to be brave, but it wasn't working that well at all.

"Five compartments. She can stay afloat with the first four compartments breached. But not five. Not five. As she goes down by the head of the water will spill over the tops of the bulkheads... at E Deck... from one to the next... back and back. There's no stopping it." Thomas said his voice filling with more dread then I needed to hear.

"The pumps..." Father started.

"The pumps would only buy a few minutes." I said softly.

Father looked at me in shock.

"From this moment, no matter what we do, Titanic will flounder." Thomas said sadly.

"But this ship can't sink!" Ismay yelled.

I felt something inside of me snap. I turned and faced him. Anger poured into my blood. "She is made of iron! She can sink!" I yelled in anger. I turned and faced my father and saw that he looked like he was punched in the gut.

"How much time?"

"An hour, two at most." Thomas said softly.

"And how many aboard, Mr. Murdoch?"

"Two thousand two hundred souls aboard, sir."

I felt the oxygen leave my lungs. Two thousand two hundred that was a lot of people who were on here. There was only enough boats for half of the people on board.

Father turned and faced Mr. Ismay. "I believe you may get your headlines, Mr. Ismay." Father said gravely.

I couldn't hold my anger in any more. "This is your fault." I hissed out at him. "If you didn't order for more speed we wouldn't have ended up sinking in the middle of the cold Atlantic." I said as I punched him again for good measure. I heard a snap in my hand. I winced. "Go." I hissed at him. "You didn't care for the safety of the people on board." I turned to Thomas holding onto my right hand gingerly. "We alert the staff then?" I asked softly. My voice was shaking lightly. I couldn't believe that my worst fears were happening right now.

Thomas nodded his head.

"Mr. Andrews my daughter will meet you shortly." My father said softly.

"I will go and see if the men can get the boats undone correctly." Thomas said, leaving the room.

I looked at my father. "Father... what is it?"

Father pulled out an envelope. "Gather what little you can. Take it with you. I want you off of the ship." He said handing me the envelope.

I took it carefully. "What is this?"

"Do not open it until you are on the ship that is supposed to get here to help us." He said sternly.

I took a deep breath. "I will father." I said softly.

Father placed a kiss on my forehead. "Be safe please."

I nodded my head. "Yes father."

"I love you Valarie."

"I love you too father."

"Do me a favor."

"What is that father?"

"Get Thomas to go with you." Father said looking at me sadly.

"Yes, father." I kissed his cheek before leaving. What I didn't know was this was one the last times that I would see him alive.

~Edward's Point of View~

"Lightoller." I called out to him.

"Yes, sir?" Asked the man that worked on the ships for 24 years.

"I want you to make sure that my daughter gets off of here alive." I said looking at him.

"Sir?" Lightoller asked confused.

I took a deep breath. "We know that she is going down." I said as I looked at him. "I am going down with the ship."

"Sir... what about your daughter? She'll be devastated."

"I know she will Lightoller. That is why I am telling you that she must be off this ship with Thomas before she goes down." I told him. I was going to do anything that I could think of to save my daughter. It was the only thing that I wanted for her. I wanted her to be happy and happy she shall be.

"Yes, sir. I will make sure that she gets off."

~Valarie's Point of View~

I ran down the hallway to my stateroom. I quickly grabbed the items that I wanted to take with me. I grabbed my coat slipping it on. I slipped the envelope into my pocket as well as the items that were small enough to take with me. The jewels that father had bought for me just in case in his mind that he decided to do something. If I lost him I would have the memory of him through those trinkets that I had in my coat.

I rushed out of the room and went to go and find Thomas. I up the stairs up to the deck where Thomas was scolding someone about the davits. "Thomas!" I called to him running up to him.

"Valarie." Thomas said pulling me close to him. "I am so sorry." He whispered softly into my ear.

"This isn't your fault Thomas." I said softly stroking his cheek with my uninjured hand. "If it is anyone's fault it is Ismay's."

"I want you to get onto one of the boats... Get to safety."

"No, Thomas not with out you." I told him softly. I wasn't going to leave him. "Come on we got to make sure that everyone has their life belts on." I said softly taking his hand in mine. I led him back inside going towards the A-Deck Foyer. I took a deep breath as we walked into the A-Deck foyer. I looked over at Thomas.

Thomas's faced was etched over with heart break. He knew that the entire ship was doomed. He pulled me closer to him as we walked.

I saw Rose coming towards us, her bastard of a fiancee was right behind her.

"I saw the iceberg, Mr. Andrews... And I see it in your eyes. Please tell me the truth." Rose said softly to him.

I gave Thomas a light squeeze on his hand.

"The ship will sink." Thomas said sadly.

"You're certain?" She asked softly.

I took a deep breath. "Yes, in an hour or so... all this... it will be at the bottom of the Atlantic." I said softly.

"My god..." I heard Cal say. He was in shock.

"Please tell only who you must, we don't want to be responsible for a panic. And get to a boat quickly. Don't wait. You remember what I told you about the boats?" Thomas asked her.

"Yes, I understand. Thank you." She told us softly.

I looked at Thomas. "We should go." I said softly urging him to move.

We disappeared into the passengers to do our job urging the passengers to put on their lifebelts and get to the boats.

I pulled away from Thomas. "Thomas... I got to go and see my father to see if he is going to be getting onto one of the lifeboats. I need to see if a ship is coming."

Thomas pulled me close to him.

"Thomas?" I asked softly.

Thomas looked down at me. "Marry me."

My eyes widened. "What?"

"Marry me."

"Thomas..."

"Valarie Lynn Marie Antoinette Smith please marry me." Thomas held a box in his hand. He opened it.

"Thomas..."

"Please Valarie you make me the happiest man in the world." Thomas said his eyes were filled with tears.

Tears came to my eyes. "Yes, Thomas... I will marry you."

Thomas put the ring on my left hand which wasn't injured. Thomas kissed me lightly on the lips.

"Thomas I need to check and see who's coming." I said softly trying not to sob.

Thomas kissed my forehead lightly.

"I will find you. I promise." I said getting up on my toes to kiss him softly. I pulled away from him. "I will be back." I said running off.

"Good luck." He called out after me.

I rushed up to the bridge. "Father!" I called to him.

"Valarie what are you doing here?" Father asked in shock.

"I wanted to see if someone was coming this way." I said softly.

"No one has responded yet." Father said sadly.

Junior wireless operator Bride came into the room to relay a message to us. "Carpathia says they're making 17 knots, full steam for them, sir."

"And she's the only one who's responding?" Father asked.

"The only one close, sir. She says they can be here in four hours."

"Four hours!" The both of us shouted.

"Thank you, Bride." Father said as Bride left the room. "My god..." Father said softly.

I looked at father. "Are you going to catch one of the boats."

"I will try to. You go and catch one of the boats please." Father said softly. "Go to Thomas."

I kissed him on the cheek. "I will father."

"I will see you on the Carpathia."

"Yes, father."

"Go..."

"Father..."

"What?"

"Thomas asked me to marry him."

"He did?"

"Yes..." I said softly wiping my tears away with my uninjured hand.

"You said yes." He said looking at the ring that was on my hand.

"I did."

"Go to him." He said softly. "I will be there as soon as I can."

"I love you father."

"I love you too my little Valarie." He said kissing my forehead. "Now go."

I ran as fast as I could to go and find Thomas. I didn't know my father's intentions once I left. I saw Rose running. I caught up with her. "Rose where are you running to?"

"I am trying to find Mr. Andrews." Rose said frantically.

"I'm coming with you." I said grabbing onto hand in my left hand. "Let's go find Thomas." I said with a sad smile.

Rose must've felt the coolness of my new engagement ring on my finger because she automatically looked down at it. "You weren't wearing this ring before. Did you get engaged?"

"Not only, but 20 minutes ago." I said with a small smile.

"To who?"

"Thomas." I said as I ran with her.

"Anyone in here?" I heard Thomas's Irish accent.

"That's Thomas." I said softly.

We ran up to him. Rose was more breathless than I was.

"Mr. Andrews, thank God! Where would the Master at Arms take someone under arrest?" She asked him frantically.

"What? You have to get to a boat right away!" Thomas told her. He knew that there was no point of trying to tell me to get on a boat. Not now anyways.

"No! I'll do this with or with out your help, sir. But with out will take longer." Rose said softly.

I softened my look on my face. "Tell her Thomas... there is no way to get into the path of young love." I said softly. This reminded me so much of our love from the very first day that we met. When he was on the task of building the Baltic.

Thomas let out a sigh. "Take the elevator to the very bottom, go left, down the crewman's passage, then make a right." Thomas said softly.

"Bottom, left, right. I have it." Rose said softly.

"Hurry, Rose..."

"Congratulations on the engagement." She said running off.

Thomas looked at me with a confused look. "How did she find out?"

"Wasn't that hard." I said softly. "She felt the ring."

"Let's make sure that everyone else has their lifebelts on and are up on deck."

I nodded my head.

He took my hand in his and he led me down a few more hallways to check to see if everyone else was up on deck.

"Thomas we might want to check to see if they are loading the boats right." I said softly dragging him up towards the deck.

Thomas followed me quickly. "Is there someone coming?" He asked me briskly as we walked quickly.

"Yes, Carpathia." I said softly.

"How long?"

"They said four hours they are full speed 17 knots." I said softly as we ran up the stairs.

We made it up to the deck.

"Why are the boats being launched half full?" Thomas demanded an answer from Lightoller.

"Not now, Mr. Andrews."

"Damn it Lightoller answer him." I demanded.

Thomas pointed down at the water. "There, look... Twenty or so in a boat built for sixty five. And I saw one boat with only twelve... Twelve!"

"Well... we were not sure of the weight."

"Damn it. Lightoller." I groaned out.

"Rubbish! They were tested in Belfast with the weight of 70 men. Now fill these boats, Mr. Lightoller. For God's sake, man!"

Lightoller looked at me.

"Do it Lightoller." I ordered him. "As the daughter of the captain listen to him. I demand it."

Lightoller bit the inside of his lip. He knew not to mess with me. He knew that it was only right to listen to what I said.

I looked at Thomas. "We should go and check to see how the others are doing."

Thomas looked at me. "You need to get on the boat."

"I am not Thomas... Not without you."

Thomas held onto my left hand. "I wanted to go down with this ship. It is my fault that she wasn't strong enough."

"Thomas... it wasn't your fault." I said softly. "Please..."

We went back down below to make sure that everyone had their lifebelts on.

Thomas took a deep breath. "That's everyone that we could get up there."

I looked at Thomas and put my hand on his cheek. "Come on Thomas. We need to try and get off of the ship." I said softly.

He didn't answer me and began to walk with me towards the First Class Smoke Room. He walked in before me.

I watched him carefully. He stood in front of the fireplace the fire was still going. "Thomas..." I said softly. I heard footsteps.

"Won't you even make a try for it, Mr. Andrews?" Rose asked him softly.

"I'm sorry that I didn't build you a stronger ship, young Rose." Thomas said softly as a tear rolled down his cheek.

I looked at Rose and Jack. "Go you two." I said softly.

Thomas picked up his lifebelt and handed it to her. "Good luck to you, Rose."

"And to you Mr. Andrews..." She said hugging him. "You too Miss Smith." She said hugging me.

"Go Rose." I said softly.

Rose and Jack run through the revolving door.

I looked at Thomas and came up to him. "We got to get off of the ship. Thomas please." I pleaded with him. "I won't get off the ship with out you. You proposed to me... you can't leave me widowed." I needed him to come with me. I couldn't live with out him if he didn't want to get onto one of the boats. "Please..." I said as tears came from my eyes. "Please..."

Cliff hanger. That is the end of chapter 10. Will Thomas go with her? What will wait for Valarie after she gets off of the Titanic? What did you think of Valarie not punching Ismay only once, but twice? I will be updating very soon.