"We got to get you to a lifeboat. Fast! The ship's going to break in half like a match stick, in about seventeen minutes I reckon. COME ON!" He grabbed me by the hand.

Swiftly we ran by people screaming earsplitting screeches. A preacher was reciting EFFICACIOS NOVENA SACRED HEART OF JESUS:

"O, sacred heart of Jesus, for whom it is impossible not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us sinners…"

We ran past him in a blur and headed toward the end of the ship where the last life boat was. The last one…

BANG!

I hit the deck solid, tripping over a chunk of ice.

"Bloody ice." Jeremy who was a few meters ahead of me, turned and rushed toward me.

"Winnie, are you ok?" Concern on his face holding out his hand.

"Yes I think I am." He grabbed my waist, and pulled me up.

"Owh! My ankle, I think I twisted it." I lifted up my skirt (the same dress I wore when I boarded the ship) and sure enough my ankle was black and blue. "What am I to do?"

"Well you can't get anywhere with an ankle like that, and we ain't got time so…" Picking me up, he carried me through the rivers of people, down steps, and hanging on to the railing as the ship started to tip backwards.

"There! Just a little ways is the life boat!"

"I see it, I see it." He ran toward the life boat, even tripping a little ways, but he go me there.

"Hurry, hurry! We ain't got all damn night!" The officer yelled waving his arm furiously as we drew closer.

"Watch out, she is hurt." Jeremy warned the officer as he handed me into the officer's arms.

"Don't worry she is in noble care." At that moment there was a immense whimper from the ship. "WE GOT TO GO! THE SHIP IS GOING TO PART." The officer gently but swiftly placed me in the bottom of the lifeboat. The two older women beside me started fussing, and placed a blanket on top of me.

I looked up at Jeremy still on the boat deck, smiling at me. The officer turned to him. "Are you coming then? If I was you and had brains I would." Jeremy just grinned at the man, and me. "No, sir I reckon I won't."

"Jeremy, Jeremy?" I gaped at him, and the tears that had almost dried up, came again.

"Don't be stupid boy-o get in the damn boat."

"No, sir I refuse to." Crossing his arms he kept smiling at the officer and me.

"I said get in the boat." The officer grabbed him by the arm. Jeremy turned and swung at the man, giving him a good lick in the nose. The officer put a hand to his nose then looked at the blood on his fingers.

"The hell with you then. You can be damned." The officer blew a whistle, and a man lowered the crank. I bolted upward from my laying position on the boat's bottom.

Now matter what the cost of standing on my sprained ankle, I had will power and faith wash over me. Jeremy leaned over, and gave me a kiss as the ship began to lower, and lower. When we where not in kissing range, he held at his hand. My hands barley touching the tips of his.

"I LOVE YOU WINNIFRED MORRILL!"

"AND I LOVE YOU AS WELL JEREMY AIMS." The life boat was lowering slowly. It got jammed for a couple of minutes.

"IT WAS MANY AND MANY A YEAR AGO,

IN A KINGDOM ON THE SEA,

THAT A MAIDEN THERE LIVED WHOM YOU MAY KNOW,

BY THE NAME OF WINNIE;

AND THIS MAIDEN SHE LIVED WITH NO OTHER THOUGHT

THAN TO LOVE AND BE LOVED BY ME.

I WAS A CHILD AND SHE WAS CHILD,

IN THIS KINGDOM ON THE SEA,

BUT WE LOVED WITH A LOVE MORE THEN LOVE,

I AND MY WINNIE;

WITH A LOVE THAT WINGED SERAPHS OF HEAVEN

COVERTED HER AND ME.

AND THIS REASON THAT, LONG AGO,

IN THIS KINGDOM ON THE SEA

A WIND BLEW OUT OF A CLOUD, CHILLING

MY BEAUTIFUL WINNIE."

The officers fixed the boat, and it began to lower it again. It didn't matter to me, because it was like all the sounds of the world stopped. And I was to wrapped up in Jeremy's piercing blue eyes to notice. He smiled at me, tears rolling down his face.

"Till we meet again Winnie Morrill… till we meet again." The lifeboat hit the water with a smack, freezing water hitting me like a thousand knifes. Jack was right about one thing.

Jack, Rose! What happened to them. A bunch of thoughts, and images began flooding through my mind.

My sprained ankle, that couldn't take the weight anymore, gave in. I fell to the boat's bottom hard. My head smashing against the side. I looked up and saw Jeremy's face in a blur, and the stars, shining brilliantly up in the sky. My lids began to get heavier, and heavier. Black spots appeared before my eyes…