Chapter 35: One Last Chance to Survive Pt. 1

DISCLAIMER: I don't own HSM, Titanic, or "So High" by John Legend.

In the cold dark night in the middle of the Atlantic, two of the lifeboats sailed up to the area of stranded passengers. The boats were being run by Lt. Jordan and Officer Lockes; a total of twelve men were rowing in both boats. Zeke was in the boat controlled by Lt. Jordan.

"Do you see anything?" Officer Lockes asked from the other boat.

"No, not yet. You take your boat to the other side; we'll cover more of the area." Lt. Jordan said. He nodded and proceeded to move his boat to the other side. When they made it to the area. Lt. Jordan grabbed his flashlight and turned it on to high beam.

"Lift your oars up!" Lt. Jordan shouted. The men in both boats lifted their oars so they wouldn't hit any passengers. They look in sadness and horror as they see nothing but dead bodies around them.

"Check the bodies. See if any of them are alive." Lt. Jordan ordered. One of the younger men, around the same age as Zeke, lifted the body of a dead White man from out of the water.

"Not this one. He's dead." the young man said.

Lt. Jordan shouts, "Is there anyone alive out here? Can anybody hear me?" They searched the area for only ten minutes and all they see are dead bodies all around them. The smell one would get from a dead person was sealed it in by the ice that surrounded them. When he sees a dead woman and her dead baby in her arms, Zeke sheds a tear in his eyes.

"Damn, man. We've waited too long." Zeke says. Lt. Jordan overheard him and turned to face him.

"You're right, but we have to keep checking them." Lt. Jordan told him before he turned his head back to the stranded dead passengers. "Is there anyone alive out there?" He resumed shouting.

Soon, Zeke hears a noise from his side of the boat. All he could hear was a low moaning sound. Zeke turned to the side to see where that noise came from.

"Hey! Over here." a small voice uttered.

"Hey, can I have a flashlight please?" he asked. Lt. Jordan hands him one and flashes it out to the water.

"Hey! We're alive over here." the same voice shouts out. He grows a smile when he spots two familiar faces floating on a piece of debris.

"Hey! I see someone! " Zeke shouts to the men.

"You do?" a man in the boat asks.

"Two people are alive over there. Let's go!" Zeke shouts to the group. They row over to the couple and see Chad and Gabriella were the two survivors on the debris. Chad could barely speak as he had almost froze to death; Gabriella is barely able to move. Zeke spots the gunshot wound on Gabriella's left arm; it looked like it had gotten infected.

"Get them up right now." Lt. Jordan ordered the men. They quickly picked them up and place them in the boat, immediately wrapping blankets around them. Extra wrapping was done on Gabriella's arm to stop it from looking worse. As soon as the blankets started to warm him up, Chad began to speak.

"Uh, what happened?" Chad asks as he was gaining consciousness.

"Don't worry, man. You're going to be alright." Zeke assured him. Gabriella turns to him and starts to speak.

"Where's Taylor and Troy?" Gabriella asks.

"I don't know where they are. That's why were here."

"Will you please find them? They're my friends and I don't want them to die."

"We'll do the best we can. Just lay down and relax." Lt. Jordan told the freezing girl. Zeke quickly sat back down and continued to help looking for surviving passengers.

Meanwhile, Taylor was laying on the broken door, staring straight into the sky looking as dead as the night. She was still holding onto Troy's hand while singing the chorus from their anthem song.

Let's go to a place only lovers go
To a spot that we've never known
To the top of the clouds we're floating away yeah
Ooh this feels so crazy
Oh this love is blazing
Baby we're so high
Walking on cloud 9

All she kept singing was the chorus from the John Legend song. In the middle of the chorus, she felt a light beaming on the side of her face. When she feels the light on her face, she stops singing and turns her head to see that a boat had come back looking for survivors. She could barely hear a man calling out for survivors. Happy and relieved, she begins to inform Troy.

"Troy, there's a boat." Taylor whispered to him. However, Troy doesn't make a move or sound.

"Troy, wake up. There's a boat." She says again. Still, there was no sound.

"Wake up baby. Someone came back, Troy." Taylor kept saying to him. She begins to shake his arm trying to wake him up. His head and arm would move, but nothing else would move.

"Troy! Troy! TROY! There's a boat, Troy." Taylor shouts out with as little voice as she has. Still, Troy remains silent. Feeling that the worst has just happened, Taylor begins to cry.

"There's a boat, Troy." She cries. Taylor felt hopeless & she didn't know what to do now. She began to think that the absolute worst thing has just occurred: Troy Jack Bolton, the love of her life, has died.

TO BE CONTINUED...

There goes Chapter 35. I hope you all enjoyed it. Sorry I made the Troy & Taylor part so short, but it will be longer in the next chapter. I had thought about putting their part in the next chapter, but I decided to give you guys a cliffhanger.

Shout outs go to chaylorxtraylorlover101, Aud11, & mzwendy85, as they were the ones who reviewed chapter 34. I was hoping for more reviews for that chapter, but we all have lives outside of fan fiction & that's more important.

If my math is correct, there are about three or four more chapters left in the story. Now that I'm finished with my exams, I have time to finish this story. Again, if there's anything you all would like to see in this story, let me know.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND KEEP READING!!!