Chapter 12
Rose and Macy ran frantically through the Grand stair case. The passengers were less confused and more in a panicked state then before, with the sudden realisation of what was going on. Rose knew she had to free Jack and quickly. If the whole ship could be under within an hour there wasn't much time. Also she needed to get Macy into a boat; she would not under any circumstances let her stay on this sinking ship.
Rose realised she did not know where Jack was been held. She had never had the chance to explore all of the ship, so there was no way she knew where the master's arms office was. If only Mr Andrews was here.
"Where is it?" Rose asked herself
"I know," Macy said
Rose looked at her in disbelief. "Macy, did you just say you knew where the Master's Arms office was?"
Macy nodded. "It's near the laundry room in E deck. Me and Harriet passed it the other day,"
Rose smiled a wide grin and hugged Macy hard. "You clever girl, come on lets go," and they started running again.
They reached the elevator shaft and the operator was refusing to go down. "I'm sorry Miss but the lifts are closed."
Macy's shoulders sagged in hopelessness but Rose refused to give up. She felt this boiling anger inside like before with Harriet. She grabbed the operator by his collar and pushed him inside with Macy following.
"I'm through with been polite god damn it now take us down!" She ordered.
The operator nodded in fear and hurried to close the gate.
Macy had begun to realise how serious the situation really was. She squeezed Rose's hand in fear and was happy to get a look of reassurance from her.
There was a creaking noise as the lift drew nearer the bottom. Suddenly a gush of water flooded in through the lift.
Macy screamed as the water washed round her legs. Rose was quick to pick her up and flung the gates open.
"You're crazy!" The operator shouted. "I'm going back up," and with that he was gone.
Rose stood in the freezing cold water as it reached to her knees. She desperately tried to keep Macy above it. Who clung to her like a monkey not wanting the water to touch her.
"Ok, ok, ok, ok," Rose kept saying to herself to try and keep calm. Though inside her heart was pounding so hard it felt like the rest of her body was to, she looked left and right.
"Macy can you remember the way?"
Macy looked in both directions. She bit her lip, she wasn't sure.
"Err that way," and she pointed to her left.
Rose began to make her way towards the end of the corridor though it was a struggle, walking through the water and trying to hold Macy at the same time. Her legs were already beginning to go numb with the cold and it felt like the water was continuing to rise, but she had to save Jack. At the end of the corridor there were some stairs.
"Up them," Macy said beginning to remember the steps she had taken.
Rose didn't question her judgement; to be honest she was happy to go up them as it meant they were both out of the water.
They both clambered up the stairs and reached the dry land on top. The corridor was deserted; all that was left was a few suitcases littering the hallway.
"Now where?" Rose asked panting.
"I'm sorry, Rose...I can't remember," Macy said quietly.
The lights began to dim and they were left in darkness. Rose reached out for Macy and pulled her in, the only sound heard was the unstable breathing of them both. The lights gradually came back on and they let out a sigh of relief.
"What do we do now?" Macy asked.
Rose paused for a moment then let out a loud cry "JACK! JACK!"
Macy looked at her at first then joined in "JACK!"
"God dam it!" Jack cried as he desperately tried to pull off the handcuffs. He didn't know what to do. Lovejoy had left a while back, left him to die. The bastard, both of them.
The water rushed into the room and Jack began to panic. "Shit! Oh shit!" He said other and other again managing to climb onto a table.
"Help!" He shouted "Can anybody hear me?" and he banged his handcuffs on the pipe. Silence. How could this have happened? He thought to himself. He placed his head against the pipe and closed his eyes. He could hear thumping in his ears then a faint cry.
"Jack!"
Jack's head shot up and he listened out carefully.
"Jack," he heard again.
It was Rose and what sounded like Macy. They had come to save him.
"ROSE! MACY!" He shouted with all his might.
"I'M IN HERE!" and he banged his handcuffs on the pipe.
Rose suddenly stopped shouting "Shh," she said to Macy and they both fell silent.
"Rose! I'm in here," they heard
"It's him!" Macy shouted gleefully and they began to follow the sound.
"Jack!" They both shouted again.
"I'm here!" Jack shouted and they heard the banging of handcuffs.
Rose threw open the door, and stepped into the water of the room. "Oh Jack thank god!" and she threw her arms round him.
Macy stood by the door unsure what to do, she didn't like water and she didn't want to stand in it.
"Listen Rose, we have to get out of here, find the key, it's a little silver one."
Rose spent time searching the key cabinet, her hands shook as she skimmed them all.
"These are all brass ones!"
"Check here Rose and he kicked the desk."
Rose obeyed and made her way over to the desk. It was hopeless there was nothing there. She would have to go and find someone.
"I'll be right back," she said kissing Jack, she made her way over to the door, picked Macy up and sat her on the table next to Jack. "Don't move, I'll be back soon," she said to Macy who was sucking her thumb in fear.
Rose left the room, "Just you and me Macy,"
Macy just nodded.
"Hey don't worry, she'll be back soon," Jack said in reassurance. Though in some ways he found it hard to believe.
