Hello everyone! Thank you for the continuing support, I'm sorry it's been so long, but I had exams, and then I was ill, and then I've been on holiday. So, sorry for that, but I hope everyone is still enjoying the story. This chapter includes the physical sinking of the ship, so I'd just like to apologise in advance if any of the information and facts are not correct. I'm just doing it on rough knowledge from the film. If anything is wrong, then I'm sorry. Enjoy, Robyn x

Jack gripped my hand.

"Come on, Scarlett" he said softly, encouragingly. I had been rooted to the spot where Cal had vanished behind the crowd of frightened passengers, still with a glimmer of hope that he would appear any minute.

I knew I had to move, I would die otherwise, but my feet felt like they were nailed to the floor. Jack squeezed by hand gently and said,

"It's alright, I'm here. I'll keep you safe." And I looked into his beautiful, blue eyes, and trusted him. Slowly, I nodded.

"Right," he said, jumping to his feet "We have to stay on this ship as long as possible." He began moving swiftly through the crowds, pulling me along behind him, and Freddie being dragged by me, following Jack's path.

Everyone else seemed to be having similar ideas to us, and everyone was making their way towards the Stern. I couldn't help but notice a distinct lack of children. I looked down at Freddie and a sudden thought struck me. It was alright me and Jack trying to save our own lives, but it seemed that we would also have to try and save Freddie's life, a task sure to slow us down. It seemed that whatever we were about to attempt would be made much more difficult with Freddie with us.

There was a man giving one last call for "Women and children!" and I was struck with sudden inspiration.

"Jack" I said, pulling on his sleeve "I'm going to put Freddie on a boat, I..."

"Scarlett, no." Said Jack "It's fine, we can take him-"

"Jack, listen to me. Having Freddie with us will only slow us down, I would much rather know that he was safe on a boat. Please. If we make it through this, I will go and find him again. If we don't..." My voice cracked slightly, realization hitting me, "Well, at least I'll know he's safe" I finished.

Jack opened his mouth as if to protest further, but thought better of it, and nodded.

I rushed over to the lifeboat, which was much more crowded than others I had seen. I spotted a red headed woman in the boat, clutching two small children, another, older child, holding onto her arm. I went up to her.

"Please," I said, finding sudden tears running down my face "Please, take my brother, he is only five. I wish for him to have a better chance at living."

I woman looked at me, kindly. "Of course, dear." She said, with an Irish lilt in her voice "What is his name?"

"Freddie." I choked out "His name's Freddie"

The lady smiled, kindly at him, but Freddie seemed to have realized what was going on, and was clinging on to me, and crying. I knelt down to him.

"Freddie, please. I-" A thought popped into my head. "I've got to get on another boat. This is your boat, and then I've got another boat somewhere else. And then, we'll all meet up again in America, okay?" I said, trying to smile through my tears. I hated lying to him, but it seemed the only way to convince him to get in the boat. And, anyway, I still had a glimmer of hope that I would see my little brother again, although it was a very small glimmer.

Freddie looked at me, earnestly, but eventually he nodded, and I passed him into the lady, giving him one last hug.

"Thank you, um..." I trailed off, realising I didn't know the lady's name.

"Bridget Driscoll." The woman said, introducing herself.

"Thank you Bridget." I said, "I'm Scarlett, Scarlett Monty."

"Well then, good luck to you, Scarlett Monty" she said, giving me one last smile, before the officer called "Lower Away!" and the boat was lowered into the water.

I walked back to Jack, who was waiting nearby. He hugged me as I returned. "I know that was hard, but at least he'll be safe now" he said.

The boat was now extremely tilted, and it was difficult to move forward towards the stern. Eventually, we reached the railings, where a dozen or so other people were already clinging on.

"Quick," said Jack, hurriedly "Climb up onto the other side"

"But..." I began

"Scarlett, please, just climb onto the other side. Trust me." And I did trust him, so I clambered up and onto the front of the railings, which were now practically vertical. Jack scrambled up after me. I couldn't help but notice the deathly drop into icy waters just behind us, but I tried not to think about that.

I looked around at the other people, clinging on for their lives. One of them had a familiar hair net...

"Ann?" I called over to a woman, gripping the rails tightly. The woman turned, and I saw that it was Ann.

"Oh, Ann!" I called over the rush of the sea, and howl of the wind "Ann, I'm so sorry we fought. It was so stupid of me!"

"That's alright Scarlett!" came Ann's slightly muffled reply "I'm sorry too. I just kept thinking about that, about if I never saw you again...Well, I have seen you, so, and that's alright."

"This is a funny sort of conversation to be having whilst dangling of the end of a sinking ship, isn't it?" I said, with a nervous sort of laugh.

"Yes," agreed Ann "Do you think..." But at that moment, the ship tilted one last time, to make it completely upright, and I could now see why Jack had made us get on the other side. People on the inside railings, were now dangling, having to hold themselves up with their arms. Ann was among them.

"Keep holding on, Ann!" I called to her encouragingly, "You can do it!"

Except, I could see her hands slipping with sweat on the railing. Ann was not the smallest of women, and she was struggling to hold her weight up. Her hand slipped, and-

"ANN! NO!"

But Ann had already gone, fallen to her doom along with many others around us. I was screaming, crying hysterically, wanting to throw myself off the boat too, but then I felt two strong arms wrap themselves me, and rock me slightly, gently, until my sobs subsided.

"It's okay, it's okay" Jack said over, and over again.

Then there came a horrific sound. A loud, cracking sound. The boat was splitting in two. I could feel our end heading down towards the water, as the ripping sound of wood and metal rang through the night. People screamed as the stern hit the water with an almighty crash. We were submerged in water momentarily, and it took all the strength I could muster to keep a hold of the railings. I knew now that I had made the right decision in putting Freddie into a boat.

The stern bobbed in the water briefly, before tilting up again, until we were vertical once more.

"Oh god," Jack breathed in my ear, and it took me a few seconds to realise why. But when I did, a sick feeling rushed to my stomach; the stern was sinking down into the sea.