A/N: Hey, I don't have much to say but thanks for the reviews and here is chapter 12…
Ch.12 Kathleen
It was 4:10 and James had just gotten on the Carpathia, their rescue ship. James' lifeboat was the first aboard the Carpathia; while everyone was rushed inside James wanted to wait for Lily, despite the cold and fatigue. A steward came by and gave James a blanket and hot chocolate.
~4 hours later~
James was still waiting on the boat deck for Lily. He watched as lifeboat after lifeboat was brought on board with the survivors. Finally the last lifeboat approached Carpathia. He searched the lifeboat with difficulty; the lifeboat was so crowed that the sides of the boat were only inches above the waves. At last he spotted Lily, she was shivering from the cold.
~Lily's PoV~
~20 minutes later~
Lily finally came aboard. She was shivering from the cold and could barely stand still. A steward gave her a warm blanket; after she thanked him she looked around for James. Then she saw him, their eyes locked. She started to walk towards him as fast as she could. And increased her speed. When she reached him, they embraced. Lily had tears of happiness run down her face. "James! James, you're here! I was so scared that you wouldn't make it."
"Lils, you have no confidence in me." They broke away and James wiped the tears from Lily's face. "I would never leave you like that."
"I was so scared."
"I know, I was too, lets go inside now you're freezing."
When Lily and James went inside, a steward directed them to the library were beds were set up for passengers. Since there were only a few amount of rooms left for the passengers of the Titanic, a lot of people had to sleep in either the library or the smoking room. When they entered to library, Lily explained to James why her lifeboat was the last to be rescued. "Well since the lifeboat could carry at least 25 more people, at daybreak some passengers from boat no.14 came aboard. We also took on passengers that were on top of the lifeboat that was turned upside down. All the extra weight took us a long time to reach the Carpathia."
It was about 3:00 when Lily and James had woken up from a nap in the library. There had been an announcement that a list of all the survivors was put up, and that there was going to be a small church service in a room, for all those who were lost at sea. When Lily and James reached the dining room, where the list of survivors was posted, they waited until the crowd passed. As soon as most of the crowd passed, the scanned the list; they noticed that in steerage, that Linda wasn't on the list. And of course, John wasn't on the list either. They moved on to first class, they searched and found Kathleen on the list. They looked for a long time for Max's name after checking more than once they realized that he didn't survive.
"Oh my god…" James whispered under his breath.
"How could he…?" Lily trailed off. Tears formed in her eyes and she quickly wiped them away.
"We should find Kathleen," James said while he and Lily walked out of the room.
After exploring room after room, they finally found Kathleen sitting alone on a bed. They walked over to Kathleen as quietly as they could. "Kathleen?" Lily asked gently.
Kathleen looked up; she had red rims around her eyes. The look on her face told them that she knew about Max. "Lily! James!" She stood up slowly and hugged both of them. "I'm glad that you're both alive."
James said quietly, "Kathleen, um, when I was still on Titanic, I saw Max. He gave me this," He pulled out the letter and handed it to Kathleen. "He told me to give it to you."
Kathleen opened the letter with her hands trembling. She read the letter once to herself and more tears appeared in her eyes.
Lily said, "Maybe you should sit down." Kathleen sat down on the bed also Lily and James sat down in front of her.
Kathleen looked up at James and Lily and said quietly. "I'm sorry. Want me to tell you what the letter says?" When she got no answer she read out loud the letter in her hands.
"Dearest Kathleen," she read.
"If you are reading this letter now that means I am no longer with you. It also means you are alive and safe which is most important to me. It also means our baby has survived. Please take good care of him you will be a wonderful mother. Tell them that their father loved them very much. I know that we shall meet again even if it takes us many life times. But we will find each other and we will have the life we always dreamed about together. Please take comfort in knowing that I will love you and our child always and forever. Until we meet again.
Max"
Lily had tears in her eyes, "baby? What baby?"
Kathleen paused before answering, "well we just found out two days ago, I'm pregnant."
There was a moment before Lily said, "I think Max would have made a great father."
Kathleen nodded, "He was so excited when we found out. You should have seen him, he was so happy."
"My dream had come true, you know? I wanted to fall in love and have a family. My life was perfect, then…then when Titanic sank, my dream sank with it."
James said softly, "Everything will be fine, don't worry."
"I don't know what to do!" Kathleen exclaimed. "I can't go back to my parents."
"Why?" Lily asked.
"Well it all started when Max and I first met, it was at my debut more then a year ago. We saw each other across the room and the rest is a blur. We talked practically the whole night. I remember that when I had to leave, Max kissed my hand and said, 'until we meet again.' My father never liked him; he thought that Max wasn't good enough for me. My father kept telling me to marry for money so I'll be taken care of, but I didn't care about that. He forbade me from seeing Max ever again. But that didn't stop us. Over the next month, Max and I met in secret and soon we fell in love with each other. Everything was perfect and for the first time in my life I was happy. Then, all Hell broke loose; my parents betrothed me to some man twice my age. While they planned my wedding, Max and I where searching for a way out of my engagement. For the longest time we couldn't think of any solution."
Lily was astonished, "What happened? How did you get out of your engagement?"
"Well, I tired to extend the wedding plans. I hid the wedding invitations, I also claimed I couldn't decide on dresses for the bridesmaids. That prolonged the wedding for six months. My parents didn't realize I didn't want to get married to the man they chose."
"On our one year anniversary, Max and I went to the park for a late night stroll. We were walking when Max told me that he loved me more than anything else and he asked me to marry him. I felt the same way and I said yes."
"Of course it was a problem though since I was already betrothed to. When I told my parents that Max proposed they were enraged and moved up the wedding so it would be next month."
"The only solution to my problem was that Max and I should elope. I escaped from my parent's mansion and left a note. Soon Max and I were married and we spent our honeymoon in Europe."
James finished, "And you two were coming back home on the Titanic."
Kathleen nodded and more tears fell. "I don't feel very well, I'm going to go to the doctor on board and then I might as well send word to Max's parents. Thank you both so much for comforting me." Kathleen stood up and slowly walked out of the room.
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James and Lily were walking down the hallways of the ship. Now what do we do? James thought. They continued to walk for a while and then there was a slight popping noise coming from behind them. They turned and there was the time turner in the middle of the floor. "Where did that come from?"
"I don't know; lets go back to Hogwarts please." They both walked towards the time turner and picked it up at the same time. The hallway started to become blurry. All James and Lily knew was that they were going back to Hogwarts.
A/N: I hope you liked this chapter and I want you to know that the next time I update it will be the LAST CHAPTER! I'm so shocked, only one more chapter. See you soon.