Chapter 21:
"TIM" Allie screamed as she attempted to swim through the tremendously cold water. The ship had went down beyond quickly, and they, along 1,498 other people were forced to face their fate. Tim and Allie had tried as best they could to keep a hold of each other, but the tremendous force of the water had broken their arms from each other. Now they were both on their own. Fighting the mighty ocean that swallowed everything that tampered with it. The hundreds of other people that had been flung into the water around them were screaming, the same blood curdling screams as the people before. But this time it didn't seize so soon. The ship had completely sunken to the bottom of the ocean; there was no suction to pull these people to the bottom. The screams filled the night. It felt, to Allie, like being inside a horror movie. You couldn't see anything except the black sky of night, and all you could hear was the screams of men, women, and children filling the night.
She kept swimming, unconsciously, she wasn't making herself swim, and it came natural. She was in more of a daze and panic than in reality. Tim, meanwhile, was fighting off crowds of people, trying to find Allie. People had been fighting each other, and drowning one another to get to a piece of wreckage that just might be able to save their lives. Tim was in the middle of these fights for some reason.
He dived under the water and swam as far away from these people as he could. When he finally came up for a breath, he heard Allie screaming his name. " I'm right Allie, Right here." Tim kept repeating. Allie heard him, but continued screaming, as a natural instinct. Tim hastily adjusted his eyes to the darkness, saw Allie, and swam to her as fast as he could. Just as he reached out to grasp her in his arms, another man popped out of the water behind her and jumped on top of her, forcing her head under. She struggled under the water, she plugged her nose to help keep water out, but it was getting harder and harder to breath. Above water, Tim was enraged. He jumped on that man that had jumped on Allie, and punched him as hard as he could in the man's skull, but not enough to kill him. The man let out a terrible scream, and swam away. Tim then dove under the water and searched with his hands for Allie, as his eyes were closed. He caught hold of her dress, and pulled her up. She was coughing and gagging, still breathing though. " Allie its OK. It's going to be ok. I'm here, I'm here I'm here." Tim kept repeating over and over, as calmly as he could. He was scared, but couldn't let Allie see, as it would send her into a state of even more extreme panic and anxiety.
Allie kept coughing for a while, which worried Tim, but she eventually stopped, regained control of her mind and body, and realized that Tim and she were both alive.
" Tim, thank you." She said. She wanted to say more, but couldn't, she was so traumatized that it was difficult to even say that much. He looked at her, confused,
" Thank you for what?" He laughed, swimming all this time, trying to find something, anything to keep the two of them alive.
" Saving me." Is the reply he got.
" No problem, Sweetheart. The more appropriate thing would be for me to thank you. You risked copiousness dangers coming and saving me. You didn't have to I told you that." Just then Tim saw a board floating serenely on the top of the ocean. He swam to it as fast as he could, and threw Allie on top of it. " Where we're we now?" Tim asked as he grabbed the side of it and held on for Dear Life.