A/N: I'm so sorry! I was going to update last week but I was busy, I'm sorry. I loved all the reviews! Thank you all. So enough of my talking, enjoy!
Ch.11 Final Moments
James walked toward the bow slowly. He was walking so sluggish because of the slant.
~Lily's PoV~
Lily sat in lifeboat number 12. She stared at Titanic with tears streaming down her face. Why, she thought, why did I leave James? I should have stayed with him. Damn him and his persuasiveness. (A/N: Can anyone else picture Lily having a nervous breakdown in a lifeboat? Just me? Ok, back to the story)
~James' PoV~
"James, is that you?"
James turned around and saw Max come up to him. "Max," James said in surprise. "You're still here. Where's Kathleen?"
"She's in one of the lifeboats. Speaking of which, I can't talk long." Then he asked if Lily was on a lifeboat before continuing. "I need you to do me a favor."
James looked at Max and answered, "of course, what is it?"
Max looked around and said, "It's obvious that Titanic will sink. The First Officer just told me that there aren't enough lifeboats for all the passengers." Max paused before continuing, "This is hard for me to ask, but incase I don't … survive, and you do, I would appreciate it if you would give this to Kathleen." He reached into his pocket and took out a letter. He handed it to James who put it in his own pocket.
"What's in the letter?"
Max sighed, "It's my goodbye. I have to go now. Please remember to give the letter to Kathleen."
"Don't worry, I'll remember."
"Thank you." Before leaving Max added, "I knew I could count on you." Then he said goodbye and left.
James started to walk while wishing that all this would be over soon. He wanted to be in Hogwarts again with Lily. He also wanted to see his friends again.
He reached a dead end; crowds of passengers were starting to block the way James came from. He pushed his way to the rail and saw three lifeboats, one was being uncovered, one was already taking on passengers, and the other one, which was smaller than the rest was left, unnoticed at the moment.
The officer in charge of loading the lifeboats was looking around the crowd of men. "Crew members!" He shouted, but no one came. "I need two men to row the lifeboat. (A/N: Cause I don't think women wanted to row a lifeboat. I don't know why though cause that sounds fun) He chose some men passengers to work the davits in order to lower the lifeboat. The officer looked around and said, "I need more people to help!"
~Lily's PoV~
Lily was shivering from the icy cold. Think of warm places, she told herself. This isn't working! If I ever get back to Hogwarts I will lock myself in a room with a fireplace.
~James' PoV~
James couldn't believe his luck; he was sitting in lifeboat number 2 helping out by steering. He thought how he got there, the officer in charge chose the passenger next to James to help row the lifeboat. Then he told James that he needed him to steer the boat. (A/N: sorry but I couldn't think how I wanted James to get off the ship.) As the lifeboat was being lowered James looked into the portholes. The first-class rooms were still brightly lit, on C-deck or B-deck, James couldn't tell, the water rushing in was visible and the furniture was falling to the floor. Before they hit the ocean the men on board were searching for a plug. A person found it easily since the boat was half full, and put in place just as they hit the dark ocean. They rowed away with difficulty; it took James awhile to learn how to use the small rudder. Soon they were a safe distance from Titanic. Now all they could was wait.
~Lily's PoV~
Lily stared at Titanic without blinking. The deck of the ship was getting steeper with every minute. Please, Lily pleaded, please let James be safe. She tried to block out the sounds of the ship, and the people left onboard screaming. More tears filled her eyes when she could see that there were a lot of passengers and crew left onboard with only four small boats. James, she said to herself, where are you?
"Did you hear that?" A woman said who was in the lifeboat with Lily.
"What?" A crewmember asked.
"The captain, listen!"
Then they heard it, the captain shouting something out to the lifeboats through a megaphone.
"What did he say?"
"I think he told the lifeboats to come back."
"They want us to take on more passengers!"
The officer in charge of the boat said, "No, we're not going back."
Lily asked, "What?"
The officer yelled back, "We're not going back, they'll drag us down when the ship sinks. There will be a whirlpool and we'll all get caught in it."
A young woman said back to the officer, "But we have to do something."
The officer just ignored her and ordered the other crewmembers to row further away.
The rest of the night's events became imbedded in Lily and James' mind. They watched from different places the last lifeboat to leave Titanic, almost full. They heard slightly Captain Smith announce to the crew through the megaphone, "It's every man for himself!"
The first shock was when the passengers in the lifeboats witnessed some people on board jump overboard into the icy ocean. Moments later, the forward funnel collapsed trapping people in the ocean under it.
Lily closed her eyes in horror, when she reopened them the next thing she saw was the all the lights on the ship blink once then go out completely. Now everyone could just see Titanic outlined by the stars in the sky. What they could barely see was now transferred into sound. An unbearable sound of ripping metal shot through the night, every one in the lifeboats watched as the outline of the great ship broke into two and the bow sink into the black ocean. There were still a lot of people left on the stern. People screaming for help, people jumping into the darkness. Then the stern started to fill with water and slowly disappear beneath the surface. In the lifeboat next to Lily's a crewmember announced that it was 2:20 in the morning.
The next hour was the longest ever. To Lily it felt like two days. Soon in the next half hour the screams died down until it was completely quiet. They were all alone.
After about 30 minutes some passengers in Lily's lifeboat looked toward the horizon then Lily saw it too, rockets. Their rescue ship was finally here!
A/N: I hope you liked the chapter. I didn't know how I wanted James to get off Titanic, I was going to have him be in the ocean but that was too much like the movie. I'll update soon, this time I promise. Bye.