Hope you enjoy, guys! Written to "Taking Over Me" by Evanescence! Am adding the lyrics for the sake of it I LOVE this song!
you don't remember me but i remember you
i lie awake and try so hard not to think of you
but who can decide what they dream?
and dream i do...
i believe in you
i'll give up everything just to find you
i have to be with you to live to breathe
you're taking over me
have you forgotten all i know
and all we had?
you saw me mourning my love for you
and touched my hand
i knew you loved me then
i believe in you
i'll give up everything just to find you
i have to be with you to live to breathe
you're taking over me
i look in the mirror and see your face
if i look deep enough
so many things inside that are just like you are taking over
i believe in you
i'll give up everything just to find you
i have to be with you to live to breathe
you're taking over me
i believe in you
i'll give up everything just to find you
i have to be with you to live to breathe
you're taking over me
Taking over me
Your Taking Over Me
Taking over me
Taking over me
Here We Go!
Twenty-Five
14th April 1912
00:10 am
Henry strode over to the nearest lifeboat and pulled himself up by the falls and onto the davit's so he was observing the sailors swinging out the boats below. He hadn't been called back to the bridge so obviously nothing major had happened, or so he thought.
"Officer Wilde" a sailor called his name, Henry turned, blue eyes fixed on one of the lookouts, Reginald Lee, who had been on duty when the iceberg struck.
"Yes, Lee?" Henry asked, jumping off the top off the davits and walking over.
"Captain want's you and Mr. Lightoller up on the bridge, he say's it's urgent"Lee informed him gravely.
Henry nodded and looked back to where Charles' was barking orders to the sailors, overseeing the swinging out of the boats. "Charles" Henry cried, his throat crackling and his breath forming clouds in the night air as he shouted above the roar of the funnel's "We've been called back"
Charles nodded and jogged up to him "D'you reckon it's bad?" he asked as they both walked briskly to the bridge .
Henry shrugged "Dunno. But from the ice on the forward well-deck it doesn't look like just a bump"
"Didn't feel like it either" Charles said, rubbing his left shoulder.
As Henry and Charles instictivley turned into the chartroom, they heard Will whisper "2,200 souls onboard, sir",Charles came and stood just behind Will and Henry leaned on the doorway, they watched as Smith turned to a horrified looking Ismay, blue eye's misted, "I believe you may get your headlines, Mr. Ismay".
Henry's eyes travelled to Thomas, the master shipbuilder hung his head, eyes closed, and let his hand carelessly slip off the table. Ismay's stern eyes turned to Thomas, before saying "You're sure? You're absolutley sure?", Thomas looked up, tears beginning to sparkle the edge of his sky blue eyes "Yes" he nodded "Absolutely".
Ismay's moustache twitched before turning on Will and bellowing "This was your fault!"
"What?!" Will exclaimed "What are you-", Ismay interrupted him and said "If you'd have paid more attention you would have seen the iceberg before she hit! Before the ship hit" Before MY ship hit"
"Wait, hold on!" Chatrles butted in "It could have-", he too, was interrupted by Ismay's raving "Think of the papers! What will they say? Think of the public! What will they think of me? My reputation as manager of the White Star Line will be ruined!Ruined!"
Henry couldn't take it anymore so he shouted "Listen to yourself" he slid past Will so he was nose to nose with Ismay "You think you're the only one that matters in all this, don't you? But guess what, Joseph? You're not! You're going to get off the bloody ship alive and the likes of us, the likes of the steerage passengers, won't survive, but you, you'll go back to your fancy mansion and 12-course dinners, me. And me, Will, Harry, Jim, Charles even, we won't survive. We won't see home again, okay, maybe the younger ones might, but us senior lot, NAH! We'll be dead by the morning"
Ismay's gaping mouth slowly closed and turned into a sly smile "And this is what you've been waiting for for near two years, isn't it Mr. Wilde. An oppurtunity to end it all without making it look deliberate"
Henry raised his chin "You know what? You're right. I have been waiting for an oppurtunity to end it all without making it look deliberate, and, well, tonight I may get my chance. But if I do go down with this ship, at least I won't be branded a coward and be sworn at and be slurred at in the papers for the remainder of my days, I may not be branded a hero, but I'd rather be dead than have the word 'COWARD' stamped across my forehead" he finished with a sharp nod and turned and walked out of the wheelhouse and back out into the night.
He stopped at the bridge wing and leaned out over the side, observing the steerage passengers kicking the ice about, and he didn't look up as he heard Will "Wow, I know you can hold your own against anyone, but I never knew it could be like that!, Henry smiled "But he really was asking for it", "Suppose" Will agreed "And, errr, thanks for standing up for me in there, I could have done it on my own, but-", "Don't worry. Wherever he's concerned I'd defend anyone he was accusing" Henry said. "Even Lights?" Will asked.
"Yes" Henry laughed "Even Lights".
Will then bent down "Henry, do you think we really will die tonight?" his green eyes had a serious gleam to them in the dark of the midnight.
Henry paused then slowly nodded "I know for a fact that I am. But on the whole, I think our lot will have the honour and decency to stay onboard till the end even if they do survive by the skin of their teeth, but me, I'm gonna go down tonight, but I'm gonna go down like a sailor. And I'm not gonna be branded a coward, unlike some people" he raised his eyebrows as Ismay walked out of the wheelhouse in his striped dressing gown, only stopping to glare at Henry.
Henry held his gaze before turning back to Will "No, Will. I don't think coward suit's me"
"Hero, more like" Will smiled.Henry shook his head "Maybe"
Hope you like! More to come!