A/N: Sorry the updating has been slow. I've been having some MAJOR headaches and been rather stressed out, plus the website was being mean. Anyway here we go again!
I felt the blood drain from my face and I staggered back a bit, Jack supported me up.
"Please, go get your life vests on and get to a boat as quickly as possible." The man said and with that he was gone.
"Jack…Jack it's happening again!" I nearly cried.
"Come on, we need to get to the boats." He said trying to remain calm.
Just before we were about the climb the staircase up to the decks, the people came rushing back in a huge mob. They fought tooth and nail to get up the steps so Jack and I went back and tried a different hallway.
He paused for a second when we reached an area with three separate corridors. He ran a hand through his sandy hair.
"Oh great." He muttered.
Suddenly a guard appeared on the other side of one of the hallways. He had a gun drawn, and his face was grim.
"Hey, why don't you put that gun away…?" Jack said calmly trying to get me to go behind him, but I refused.
"Cal anticipated that you might escape, so I was supposed to give you this from him." The guard replied.
The water was already ankle high on the floor and the man was advancing on us. Thinking quickly, I slipped forward and collided into the man before he had a chance to react. His head went into one of the doors and he went out like a light.
Jack appeared seconds later.
"Great idea." He said sarcastically.
"Well it worked didn't it? Besides I didn't see you offer up any brilliant ideas." I snapped.
He helped me up and we chose a random hallway. Twists and turns which only led us to another flight of stairs going down. Water was already pouring up the stairs and coming closer.
"Wrong hallway." Jack said and we ran back to the main area.
We tried another one that led us to a gate, which was sealed shut.
"Damn it." I cursed.
Jack kicked the gate trying to unlock it and slipped on the floor. I couldn't help but laugh.
"You got any more ideas?" He grumbled taking my hand.
"Just one." I responded and rammed my side into the gate.
Pain shot up the side of my arm and I cursed some more.
"Not a good idea."
We tried the last hallway which was blocked by a wall. Jack and I kicked the wall until the wood snapped apart and we were in the main stairwell. We took of to the upper decks, but regretfully most of the boats were gone.
"Oh bloody fantastic." I said.
"Women and children only!" A man was calling.
No one was really listening to him and men were jumping onto the boats or jumping off the ship and into the freezing depths of the North Atlantic.
"If we live through this I am never getting on a ship again." I said.
"Women and children only!" The man said more fiercely and fired off three bullets.
Jack stared at me, wondering if it was really worth it. I read the expression on his face right away.
"Don't. Don't even try it. Don't even suggest it."
He didn't.
"Jack, what are we going to do? This is just like what happened with the Titanic." I muttered in a panicky voice.
"Listen to me; we are going to get out of this alive. The both of us." Jack replied, trying to calm me down or himself I wasn't sure of.
There was another boat calling for women and children and suddenly Jack pushed me so I flopped into the boat.
"Jack! NO!" I objected getting ready to climb out.
A woman in the boat held me back and Jack kissed my hands.
"You have to." He replied.
The boat was slowly lowering down and I did what I did on the Titanic, I jumped from the boat onto the ship.
Jack met me in the stairwell, tears in his eyes.
"How man times are you going to do that?" He asked.
"Until you realize that I'm not going anywhere without you." I replied.
He smiled and then he went to one of the vases on a table, pulled out a daisy, and stuck it in-between my ear and hair.
"Come on." He said and tugged on my arm.
I followed him back up the steps and we reached the hallway, then suddenly the lights went out. It was suddenly very quiet in the hallway, and all you could hear was the running water pouring in.
"Let me go first. Wait here for my signal." Jack said and went down the hallway.
I waited for a moment, only a moment, and then started down the hallway.
Suddenly I heard angry shouts, grumbling, and then a loud clang, followed by a splash. I splashed through the water as quickly as possible and when I turned was slumped against the wall, blood on his hands.
I stared at the bloody water down below and turned away. The sight of the blood and dead body floating in the water made me puke. When I was finished with that delight, I turned to Jack.
"The jerk off tried to club me with a vase after I turned the hallway. Then he tried to strangle me so I busted his nose and…"
Before Jack could finish I retched again and he got the idea I didn't want to hear the rest.
"Can we please go now before I lose any more body fluids I'm not supposed to know exist?" I asked clutching my stomach.
Jack nodded and helped me through the hallways. We were in the dining hall when it started to happen. The ship started tipping, but on the right side. It wasn't going up like Titanic; instead it was sinking on its side.
"Wait here." Jack ordered making his way toward the window.
He picked up a chair off the ground and shoved it through the circular window. The glass shattered and the ship tilted some more.
"Suck in your stomach and try to squeeze through this window." He ordered.
"Are you implying that I'm fat?" I demanded, trying to add a little humor into our death sentence.
"No, I'm implying that this window is too small for even you to squeeze through, now come on."
Jack climbed through the window first and as I made my way over the ship went even further on its side and a counter fell over.
Right on top of my leg.
A/N: Aren't I evil? Another cliffy muhahahahahahahaha! I guess you'll have to wait and see what I cook up to find out what happens. Please R&R, it makes me happy.
-16aqua