A/N: Thanks for the reviews. I changed some of the order of things happening in this story as you will find out. I thought some of it wouldn't exactly fit in with the circumstances. Probably I'll add in something totally new after this chappy.

Disclaimer: I don't own Titanic or Poseidon or any other movie that you may recognize from this story.

Chapter 7

"What do you mean we can't get through?" I asked confused and irritated.

Adrian looked back at me and spoke, "These gates must be automated. They close whenever the ship's system shuts down."

"Bloody terrific, now we're stuck down here." I began to panic, fearing that we would drown behind a metal gate. "We need to break this open."

"Lark, help me with this." Adrian called as he leapt over to a wooden bench.

We both grabbed a side and the realized it was bolted to the ground.

"Damn." Adrian sighed.

The both of us wouldn't be strong enough to rip metal bolts off the ground.

"Get the axe." I told Adrian remembering that's how we solved our previous problem.

"That would be helpful, it's just that I left it by the stairs, and now they're flooded." Adrian admitted, running a hand through his still wet hair.

"Help!" I yelled, trying to get someone's attention, "Help us! We're trapped down here!"

Adrian was staring of into space, thinking hard on how to get out of this. The water had begun rising now and it bubbled up the steps and rolled at our feet. We both tried in vain again to rip the bench up, but our attempts were fruitless.

"We need a new plan." I muttered.

"Well, I guess our fate rests in the hands of God now." Adrian admitted dejectedly.

"Hey if we don't get out of here alive, I'm still glad I met you." I told him.

"Yeah, me too." He said as the water rose to our knees. I climbed up onto the gate and tried to find some weak point in it that we could escape through. Fear was beginning to make me desperate; I could just see that we would end up being trapped down here forever.

Unexpectedly, a woman rushed through. She wore the unmistakable cruise line outfit with the Oceanic logo on the sleeve.

"Hey help us, we're trapped!" Adrian shouted and caught her attention.

The woman came back to us.

"Let us out!" I pleaded.

The woman looked at our scared soaked faces, and down at the rising water, then back at us again. She took out the keys, and jumbled them in her hands, trying to fit it into the keyhole. The water was chest high now and the woman had a hard time finding the right key. Her hands shook so badly that the keys dropped,and hit the bottom of the floor, layingthereinanimate.

"I'm sorry," The woman said and rushed out, leaving us to our fate.

"Wait! Come back!" We both yelled as she hurriedly escaped to save herself.

I dove under the water, fraught and frantically trying to find the keys. I reached my hand through the gate and felt around. Where were they! Come on! My fingers brushed something metal, and I grasped a hold of a pile of metallic objects. Finally! I pushed off of the ground and reached the surface. The water was about four inches from reaching the ceiling.

"Got them!" I said.

"Good, hurry, put it in the thing!" Adrian replied quickly. Knowing that our doom was still uncertain, I dunked my head under the water and felt around for the lock. I squinted in the clouded water, trying to see if I was putting the key in the right way.

I jammed it in and prayed that it would go in. The lock made a clicking sound and I yanked the padlock off and pushed the gate open. Adrian grabbed my hand and we both swam over and I drew in fresh breath at the surface.

We ran up more steps and collapsed on the carpet above on the upper floor.

"Let's hope we don't have anymore problems getting to the top of this damn ship." Adrian panted. We both forced ourselves to get up, even though we were exhausted. The dry carpet looked so comfy, I acknowledged. It would be wonderful to just lye down and take a nap.

But none the less, we still had to keep moving, trying to outrun an element. We pretty much fell onto the deck of the ship, and I wanted to scream at the top of my lungs halleluiah.

"Let's find a life boat." Adrian said weakly, we walked over to a loading boat and were about to step on when Krissy pushed herself through and stood in our way.

"Hello again." She had an evil smirk on her face, "How did you manage to get out Lark?"

"Who the hell do you think you are?" I went off at her, "Locking me down there, we almost drowned!"

"And you should have!" Krissy growled, "Adrian! How could you choose her over me! She's nothing compared to me!"

"Lark is everything compared to you." Adrian spat back.

"Well then, if she's everything, would you die for her?" Krissy asked maliciously.

"Get out of our way, Krissy." Adrian spoke loudly, and tried to push past her.

"Would you? Because I'm willing to bet that you won't. You'll leave her when you find another, better girl." Krissy pulled out a small revolver.

"What are you- I spoke as she pointed it at me.

"This is what I want," Krissy spoke in a low, threatening voice, "I want you two to come down below the decks with me now."

I gave Adrian a your-girlfriend-is-nuts look as we moved through the crowd of panicking passengers.

Adrian locked eyes with me like during the time he had been taking a group photo for his wedding that seemed like ages ago. Somehow, I knew that he was planning to escape. We just needed a distraction.

He spoke up, "Krissy, listen. Maybe it's not too late to fix things between you and me. We could still be together. I think you may be right."

I quickly picked up on what he was doing, "Adrian how could you?" I played along, "You said you loved me!"

"Shut up Lark! You're the one who got me into this in the first place! If I would have stayed with Krissy, none of this would have happened."

Krissy still looked suspicious, but she lowered her gun, "Adrian, you'd really take me back? After all I've done to you?"

"Of course Krissy. I believe everyone deserves a second chance- Swiftly, he kicked the gun out of Krissy's hands and we both ran. The gun went off as it hit the ground.

"Come on!" Adrian called as he ran along side of me.

"You liar! You cheated on me! You batstard!" Krissy picked up the weapon and ran after us. Bullets whizzed by and splashed into the water.

We ran from the manic woman, fleeing for our lives. I had no idea where we were going; I just wanted to escape all this drama.

"I hope you enjoy your time together!" Krissy yelled. I realized that we were now trapped yet again below the ship floors.

A/N: Seems like they both can't manage to stay on the decks. Finally!It took me a day to try and update this chapter. Chinchillas are friends not furs!

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