Unfortunately, the rats led them to another locked gate with a crowd of people pressed against it as it was guarded by two scared stewards.

"Bloody hell!" Tommy angrily cursed, unable to believe his eyes. He pushed through the crowd with a frightened Juliette right behind him. He gripped the bars and glared at the men holding the gate closed. "Are you bloody mad?! There are women and children down here! Let us out so we can have chance!"

The crewmen looked at each other then back at Tommy. They nodded their heads, understanding what the Irishman was saying.

"Women and children only!" The crewman on the right directed, unlocking the gate.

Tommy had been ready to have Juliette go through, but the crowd began pushing and charging the gate before he could even make the offer.

"Women and children only! No men!" a crewman yelled, but it was of no use, the crowd was in a panic. Frightened, the two men forced the gates closed once again and held out their guns, ready to shoot.

"Damn it," Tommy cursed. "Just let us out so we can have a chance!"

The men just looked at him with real fear in their eyes. He just glared at them both, angry that they were dooming them all to their deaths.

He turned to face Juliette, guilt was hitting him like a fist to the stomach. She was supposed to be in second class. She probably would have gotten on a boat if he hadn't dragged her down here with him. He had as good as killed her.

"I'm sorry, lass. If it hadn't been for me, you'd be on a lifeboat as safe as houses right now."

Juliette took his hand, her eyes never leaving his. "Don't be stupid. I don't want to be be on no lifeboat without you. All the effort you took to convince me to give us a chance, I want to see where it goes. Even if it only leads to here."

He smiled, gently touching her cheek, his brown eyes sad, yet warm. "It won't. I swear to ya, I'll see you on a lifeboat. Even if I have to yank these gates open myself."

He looked around at the crowded corridors, wondering just how long had they been down there. What had ever happened to Jack and his Rose? Hopefully Jack's decision to follow Rose to her suite didn't lead to the trouble he had predicted it would. He had his answer when he heard Fabrizio's voice shout out.

"Jack!"

Juliette gasped whens he saw Jack and Rose, both soaking wet with Jack wearing something that seemed like bracelets on his wrists.

"Tommy look!" Juliette pointed to their friends, already pushing through the crowds to join them, followed by Tommy. "Jack, Rose!"

"Juliette! Tommy!" Jack and Rose hugged them in greeting, happy to see them alive.

"Jack, the boats are all gone," Fabrizio stated

"And the blimey bastards have this way locked, they're not letting anyone through. Murderous bastards!" Tommy added on.

"Well we have to do something. She's sinking fast!" Jack looked around for another direction and found one. He grabbed Rose's hand and began walking. "Come on, follow me!"

"Wait!" Fabrizio turned to Helga, who stood with her family. Juliette felt her heart go out to him as he struggled with English, hoping to somehow get through to the Scandinavian family. "Come with me! I lead you to lifeboats!"

Helga's father Olaf frowned, not understanding a word that the strange Italian boy that was enamored with his daughter was saying. He shook his head, not willing to trust this boy. Fabrizio then turned to Helga, his brown eyes pleading.

"Helga, come with me. I am lucky, America is my destiny."

The small group watched as Helga looked at her father, then at Fabrizio, then back at her father. She turned to her father and gave him one last hug before taking a relieved Fabrizio's hand.

"Okay, let's go!" Jack demanded, leading the way deeper into the ships corridor's, looking for another way out.

Juliette held on to Tommy's hand as they moved through the crowd, trying not to think of what if they couldn't get back on top. She knew one thing, her parents would never get over it. She was the only girl and they loved her dearly and if she died tonight, it would kill them. She then thought of Tommy's family as well. How awful it would be to find out that their son was gone forever. That they'd never see him again. They had to survive this. They couldn't do that to their families. They just couldn't…

"This way!" Jack yelled, finding another staircase, that turned out to be just like the other one, but this time, a single crewman was at the gate, demanding that they go back to the main stairwell.

"Come on, mate!" Tommy yelled, angry that they were being kept from salvation like this! They may be poor, but they were people too! This just wasn't right. "The ship is bloody sinking!"

"Go back down to the main stairwell like I told you," The steward refused to budge.

Also having enough, Jack pushed his way up front and stood off with the man, pure determination in his voice. "Open the gate."

"Go down to the main stairwell."

"Open the gate right now!"

"Go back to the main stairwell like I told you!"

Juliette watched as Jack turned and looked at Rose and saw the guilt on his face, knowing that he was thinking the same thing that Tommy had. If it hadn't been for him, Rose would be safe. The realization seemed to make him even angrier and he turned around and rattled the locked gate in his anger.

"God damn it son of a bitch!" He yelled. He turned around and spotted a nearby bench. He ran up and began pulling on it. "Tommy, Fabri, give me a hand here!"

Seeing what the boy were up to, Juliette helped Rose clear a pathway as the boys ripped the bench from the floor.

"Move aside! Move aside!"

Once the way was clear, the three boys used the bench as a ram and sent it crashing through the gate.

"What are you doing! You can't do that! You can't..."

The steward's words were cut off by Tommy's fist knocking him out as the Irishman grabbed Juliette's hand and they were finally through the gate and heading back topside.

Feeling relieved that something was going right for once, Juliette clung to Tommy as they burst through a door leading out onto the deck. Rose stopped to ask a first class gentleman about lifeboats and they all ran in the direction the gentleman pointed.

Classical musical drifted through the air as they ran in search of a boat. Juliette could barely hear it though. She could barely feel the freezing air. She could only think of finding a boat for her, Tommy and their friends to get on.

"Music to drown by. Now I know I'm in first class," Tommy snorted as they ran.

Juliette couldn't even find it in herself to laugh at that. She was too busy running and hoping. Hoping that they could all be saved. She couldn't lose Tommy. Not when she had just found him.