Ewan knew he could no longer stay there and wait, wait to die as Frances had, he had to try to make it, to survive. He looked down at Frances's lifeless body as tears clouded his eyes, and hugged her warmly. He gently released her body down into the water and immediately began swimming away, to try to find something, anything that could get him from where he was, back to being on deck with the others.
On deck, Leo, Kate, Kathy, Billy and Victor were anxiously awaiting Frances and Ewan's return, while watching other Titanic passengers run to and from, to try to find a boat or to try to find a way to get off the sinking ship they were on. They were unaware that Frances was dead. Billy was pacing back and forth with worry.
"Look, we can't wait here any longer." Billy said anxiously. "We have to get Kathy and Kate to a boat quick before there are none left."
Kate shook her head and frowned quickly.
"No and leave without knowing Ewan and Frances are safe?" Kate said. "I—I can't do that. What if something happened to them? I have to make sure they're ok first. You all can go, but I'm not leaving without knowing they're safe back here with you all."
"WHAT?" Kathy asked with a frown. "Look, Kate, I like those two just as much as everyone else, but lets get real here. You can't afford to just stay on this ship and possibly lose your life! You have children to think about! I do too! Children who NEED you! Now we have to get off this ship! You saw the movie, you know the facts, you know what happens if we stay on here."
Victor nodded with seriousness.
"Kathy's right," Victor said seriously. "Kate, please let us get you on a boat, we'll find Ewan and Frances."
Leo took a hold of Kate's arms gently but firmly at the same time and looked her in her eyes, Leo knew Kate well enough to know that her eyes were soon going to be welling up with tears of fear and worry. He had to say something to calm her.
"Kate, they're right." Leo said. "You and Kathy HAVE to get on a boat. We'll look for Frances and Ewan. I promise. We won't leave until they're right with us, ok?"
Kate looked at Leo, and sure enough, tears began to well up in her eyes.
"Yeah, Leo's right, we promise, Kate." Billy said with assurance. "I'll personally make it a mission to look for them. We came together and we're leaving—together, I promise."
"See, they'll be fine, honey." Kathy said to Kate, while gently patting her on the shoulder.
Kate looked at Billy with a worried expression and then nodded as she walked over and hugged him warmly. Billy hugged her back. He frowned and then showed an expression of slight worry and sadness.
"Take care, sweet pea." Billy said before giving a nervous laugh.
Kate released her hug from him and looked at him with confusion. Billy looked at her and then looked away and stepped away from her, with what Kate could have sworn were light tears in his eyes, although she wasn't sure why he'd be tearful at that moment, although unbeknown to her, later, she'd know why. She smiled briefly in spite of her look and hugged Victor and Leo.
"Please make sure you find them, ok?" Kate said to Leo.
"Yeah, and please be careful and make it off of here, you guys." Kathy said with a worried expression. "You three are my favorite of all the cast, ya know besides Kate."
Kate scoffed and briefly smiled, and Leo nodded before hugging Kathy.
"I will, don't worry and we'll be fine." Leo replied. "We'll see you all on the Carpathia—and then hopefully back in 2012, where we belong."
As Ewan had swam into the first class dining room, where the grand staircase was, he was thankful that this was NOT like the film. He was able to get out of the third class hallway because one opening the officers had left one opening, open. Whether it was by mistake or otherwise, he was unsure, but he counted it all as being a miracle, a miracle bestowed upon him so that he COULD get free. As he swam further into the first class dining room, he was overwhelmed by the LARGE amount of water that had consumed the dining room. The entire dining room was covered with water, so much so, that the only thing visible of the room was the ceiling and half of the clock that was on the wall above the staircase. As Ewan felt himself becoming carried away at RAPID speed by the large tides of water, he quickly swam over to a pole in the dining room and held on for dear life. The icy waters was stinging his face so badly, that his face felt like it was being stabbed repeatedly with thousands of knives with no relief whatsoever. As he held on firmly to the pole, he could feel his wet hands slipping off the pole as the rushing water was trying its very best to carry him away. He could feel his body being seconds from being rushed away down the water stream and down through the large, raging tides of water. Ewan knew he had to hold on, no way did he want to die on the Titanic. He wasn't the character he portrayed, he wasn't Will Murdoch. He was actor Ewan Stewart, an actor with a wife and children waiting for him at home in London. He held on tighter to the pole. As he looked up at what was the staircase, he knew the staircase was where he had to go to, in order to get back up to the deck. However the staircase and everything in the direction of it, was COMPLETELY submerged under water, and not just water but raging, rushing water. Ewan knew that swimming towards the staircase to get to the direction of the deck was dangerous, he knew he could become fully and DEEPLY, submerged under all that water and drown, no matter how much he swam, but he had to try, he had to. He wasn't a quitter, never had been and he wasn't about to be now.
Theme Song: "A Life So Changed" ~ Titanic Soundtrack
Ewan looked all around the severely flooded and submerged dining room with fear, fear of dying on the Titanic. He looked down and closed his eyes shut and silently said a prayer. As he opened his eyes that were clouded with tears, he knew he had to put away the fear and swim, swim for his life—or die trying. As tears streamed, he quickly let go of the pole and began swimming, as he swam, he held his breath as much as he could, to keep from drowning. As he swam towards the staircase, he would look up and above the water as much as he could to see how far he had before he reached the staircase, and it seemed the closer he swam to the staircase, the further away it was. As the water continued stinging his face like sharp, steel knives, he continued swimming, as fast as his arms and legs could have to swim. Suddenly, as Ewan's head came above water for the third time, he looked to his right and saw a HUGE tide of water RUSHING his way. The water looked to Ewan, to be like a BIG, LARGE surf wave of water rushing towards him. Ewan looked at the water that was rushing towards him and that was ten times bigger than him, with extreme shock. He had never seen a huge, large, surf wave of water such as that before. As Ewan began swimming as fast as he could away from the water, the large surf wave of water overtook him completely and submerged him DEEP, DEEP, DEEP down under the water. As Ewan struggled and fought to get his head up above water, he found it increasingly difficult, as it seemed as if the water were forcing him to stay down in the water, way down. As he fought, he found it increasingly hard to hold his breath any longer. The more he tried to hold his breath and prevent water from rushing in, the harder and HARDER it became. He had no idea why, but it had become mysteriously hard for him. Within seconds, he accidentally opened his mouth and large amounts of water came RUSHING into his mouth, all at once, like a shark rushing towards their prey. As Ewan tried to keep any more water from going into his mouth, he found that even THAT was hard to do. It was as if something or someone was determined to have him drown and die under that water, no matter how hard he fought. As Ewan continuously tried to get his head above water, he found that the closer he got to the top of the water, the further away the top was, and it seemed as if more and more water was pushing him deeper and deeper down. It seemed he couldn't get his head above water, he couldn't swim and he could no longer hold his breath. All of that had now become incredibly and mysteriously hard and difficult for him. As Ewan fought HARD, finally he lost his will to fight, finally his lungs collapsed, his heart stopped beating and Ewan stopped trying to swim, that was it. Ewan had succumbed to the raging, violent waters that were trying to drown him and he had drowned. He was dead…
TO BE CONTINUED…..