Starting Over
It had been a very long night for Jack and Rose. Cora had gone into hysterics after she had seen the ship go down so Jack and Rose had to spend most of the night trying to calm her down. But they didn't know what to do now. They couldn't keep telling her that it was going to be all right and that she was going to see her father again. Jack and Rose both knew that the chance of a third class man surviving the sinking was slim to none. They had finally succeeded in calming Cora down and now she was asleep. Suddenly, Jack saw the Carpathia in the distance. He gently tapped Rose on the shoulder to wake her up and then Rose woke up Cora. The little girl instinctively began asking for her father. Rose had to remind her that the ship had sank and that they didn't know if her father had made it out.
Soon, Jack, Rose and Cora made their way toward the Carpathia. When they boarded the ship, one of the officers asked for their names, Jack gave their names and said that Rose was his wife. She smiled because she hoped that she would really be his wife soon.
Then, they were led to a dining hall where they were fed hot soup and offered tea or coffee. While Rose and Cora were eating, Jack went to see about Cora's father.
Sure enough, the news wasn't good- Cora's father hadn't made it. Jack thought about how to best tell Cora that her father was gone and that she was now an orphan.
He slowly headed back into the dining hall and joined Rose and Cora at the table. When she saw Jack coming toward her, Rose asked one of the ladies to keep an eye on Cora and then stepped out to talk to Jack.
"Well" she said
" He didn't make it" Jack told her.
" What do we do with her now?" asked Rose
" We put her in an orphanage, I suppose. I mean that is what her father said to do with her if he didn't make it." Jack said.
" That's absurd, the last thing her father told me to do was to take care of her. That is what we are going to do. What that little girl needs most is a family, and that is what we are going to give her. She didn't survive the sinking of the Titanic only to spend her childhood in an orphanage." Rose said. So that was that, Jack and Rose were keeping Cora.