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The decision I had made was in my mind finalized. I knew then that that was my last chance to get out of here. Of course I had no regrets about staying with Jack, I just didn't know if it was possible to survive this, especially with my injury. Jack kept reassuring me that there would be another boat; we just had to find it. I didn't know if he actually believed that, or if he was just trying to keep me calm either way he wasn't very convincing.

We began to make our way back over to where the panicked crowd of; mainly men were trying their best to get in the lifeboats. The officer I think he was called Murdoch was waving them off with a gun. Jack and I hadn't exactly been lucky with guns recently, but we had to try, it was our last hope.

"Stay back! Stay back I say!" I heard him shout.

But the determined cries of the passengers just got louder and more persistent. Jack pulled me into the crowd.

"Jack," I uttered as we were jostled in the middle.

"Don't worry we are going to be fine trust me Cassia, I won't let you get hurt,"

I didn't say anything else, I just trusted him because at this moment in time there was nothing else I could do. I could feel the ship tilting, not enough to cause a dramatic effect but definitely recognisable. I was aware of more people pushing further forward. Shots rang out in the air, the cracking noise so close to my ear. I jumped and closed my eyes praying for it to stop. Of course my prayers were unanswered, madness had taken control.

We were nearing the front now, I could hear Tommy. But only Tommy, none of our other friends were around. Bert, Cora, Will, Alanzo. I didn't know where they were. I hoped they would be ok, I remembered Cora's little face, how scared she was I prayed her and Bert were on a boat cast off in the middle of the Ocean now far, far away from all of this.

I saw Tommy screaming at Murdoch who was refusing to listen.

"Give us a chance to live you limey bastards!" Tommy screeched.

Murdoch raised the gun in the air and shot twice before pointing the gun back towards the crowd.

"I'll shoot any man who tries to get past me!" He shouted back in response seriousness splashed all over his face.

"Bastard!" Tommy repeated in sheer frustration. Me and Jack watched not sure what to do or say.

"He's gonna get himself killed," I managed to utter.

Jack began to pull me further forward into the crowd even though it was agonising. He rested a hand on Tommy's shoulder and he shot round before his face relaxed.

"Tommy where is everyone?" Jack asked.

"I don't know," Tommy responded.

"Well Cora did she get on a boat?" I asked in desperation.

"I don't know Cassia," He said sharply. I then noticed Rose's fiancée Cal move towards Murdoch.

He hissed in his ear something I didn't hear. Murdoch shook his head and threw a load of dollar bills at him. I gasped at the realisation he had tried to buy his way out of here.

"Your money can't save you anymore then it can save me. Now get back!" And he pushed him into the crowd with some force, unfortunately right onto me. Pain flowed through my leg and back I gasped in agony causing Cal to turn round.

"Well well well if it isn't you two again," He said coldly his dark eyes staring at me in sinister.

"Back off Cal," Jack hissed.

Cal's eyes wandered to Jack's and they both stared at each other intensely before a shot rang out. I watched as a man collapsed down and I threw my hands up to my face in despair. Another surge of people joined the crowd pushing us all forward. I struggled to keep my balance as I was pushed and tumbled straight into Cal, who threw me off him in disgust but couldn't stop himself tumbling into Tommy. Tommy fell forward and another shot rang out, I watched as Tommy fell immediately to the floor blood pouring from his chest. I screamed in horror.

I went to try and help him but Jack held me back. Guilt shadowed over Murdoch's eyes, he turned to look at another officer who turned away in shame. Gracefully he stepped back and saluted before raising the gun to his temple. BANG! He stumbled back and fell into the water like a puppet whose strings had been cut.

Cal seeing no other reason to be here pushed back through the crowd, but I was too grief stricken to notice. The crowd dispersed, and though leaning heavily on Jack I couldn't move away from Tommy. Jack seeing this slowly knelt down and felt his pulse even though we both knew he was gone. Cries were heard and Jack and I both snapped our heads round and we saw water pouring up the deck in an angry frenzy of waves.

Jack began frantically pulling at Tommy's lifejacket until he had removed it. All around us people were screaming and running somewhere anywhere just to escape the harsh reality of what was going to happen. Several women and children were amongst the men been unsuccessful in securing a place in the boats. My heart skipped a beat as I saw young girl with her back to me, she had corkscrew curls like Cora, it couldn't be please say it wasn't her. A woman came running towards her grabbing her hand, the girl turned around and I let out a sigh of relief. It wasn't her, and they both ran off.

Jack stood up and pulled the lifejacket over me tying it up tight before I had much time to react. He glanced at the rising water one last time before pulling my arm over his shoulders.

"Come on we have to keep moving,"

I didn't need telling twice. Full on adrenalin pumped through my body giving me the momentum to move faster even if my leg was disagreeing. I noticed how our progress compared to all the others was much, much slower.

"Jack, if you want to go on without me I won't hold it against you," I offered.

Jack shook his head and reached for my hand. "I would never leave you, we are in this together Cassia,"

I pressed against him and tried to move faster. As we moved I looked down and noticed little specks of blood were beginning to show on my dress. The bandaging was becoming loose, I should have notified Jack but I didn't want to cause more distraction. Instead I prayed, prayed that it would be ok that God was on our side.

Hope you liked it, a bit of a short chapter but I don't want to rush the sinking. Remember to review because if you don't then I might have to prolong the story further just to be nasty :P

Leah xx