Theme Song: "A Building Panic" ~ Titanic Theme Song
As the actors went searching through the hallways of the ship for a cabin, an empty cabin, they finally found one at the very end of the hall. As they went inside, looking around to make sure no one was watching them go in, they saw the inside of the cabin room looked just like the cabin rooms that was in their film, Titanic. When inside the room, Frances and Leo immediately began looking through dresser drawers.
"Ok, everyone, look through the drawers, the closets—everywhere for extra clothes." Leo said. "You find them, put them on, and then start looking for life preservers."
Immediately, the actors all started looking through drawers and closets for extra clothes. Kate found on several pairs of formal wear pants that belonged to a man to put on, she put on four pair. She also found four formal wear shirts for her to put on. Kathy found three pairs of pants to put on, and two extra shirts. Just then, Victor thought.
"Wait, everyone!" Victor said quickly. "Tonight, when—when they start filling the boats, they're only going to be accepting women and children first, remember?"
Everyone looked at each other with blank looks.
"He's right, women and children first," Ewan said, "that means half the men on this ship are going to die."
"That also means that neither Leo, you Ewan, Victor nor I will be able to get on a boat." Billy said.
"Oh that's right, you're right." Kathy said almost quietly.
"Well I'm not getting on a boat until Leo and everyone else is on a boat." Kate said.
"What?" Ewan said, looking at Kate with disbelief. "Are you bloody serious, love? This isn't some movie we're in, this is REAL LIFE, Rose Dawson, ya ain't! If ya got a chance to get on a boat, ya better bloody well take it!"
"I agree, Kate." Kathy said seriously. "I mean, its not like in the movie, I mean, I'm sure Billy and Leo and Victor and Ewan can find a way off here and on to a boat."
Leo nodded with a hint of worry on his face.
"That—that's right, Kate if you have a chance to get on the boat, take it." Leo said.
"Oh look, why the hell can't we ALL get on the boat!" Billy said angrily. "I mean, Kathy's right, this ISN'T like the movie, so I say we force ourselves onto a boat!"
"What, NO!" Frances said loudly. "We can't just force our way, they'll stop us before we even GET to force."
"Well I—I certainly am NOT dying on this ship because of some stupid ass women and children first rule! I mean, I'm sorry but I care about my life and the lives of you all more than I do some women and children whom I've never met" Billy yelled.
"We WON'T die on this ship!" Leo said loudly. "We'll make sure that Kate, Kathy and Frances get on a boat but we WILL find a way off."
Victor swallowed hard and nodded with a fearful look.
"Leo's right, us men can handle it," Victor said, "but Kathy, Kate and Frances, they need to be protected—we have to make sure they're safe. We get them to a boat and get them on and then we go next."
Kate looked at Leo with worry and fear. Sure she didn't want to die on Titanic, but Leo was her friend, her BEST friend, she didn't want to leave him while she got on some boat. She didn't do it in the movie as the character "Rose Dawson" and she didn't want to do it now in real life, but as she was staring at Leo, directly in his eyes, it was seeming as if his eyes were telling her to trust him, to trust that he'd be ok and that he and the other men would find a boat to get on and be safe. Kate looked down and nodded slightly, light tears filling her eyes.
"Please be safe, Leo, Billy, Victor, Ewan." Kate said in a low voice. "If something happened to you all, I—I don't know what I'd do."
Leo walked over and hugged Kate warmly.
"I'll be fine—we all will, I promise." Leo said in a low voice.
Kate hugged him back and light tears streamed.
"Well um, we better keep looking." Billy said as he quickly went back to looking around the room, as the others did as well.
10:30 P.M. –70 Minutes until Titanic hits an Iceberg
Theme Song: "A Life So Changed" ~ Titanic Soundtrack
It was approximately seventy minutes until Titanic was set to hit the iceberg, all the actors were sitting on the deck of Titanic, waiting for the sight of the iceberg to hit the ship. They knew they couldn't stay in the room they took the clothes and life preservers from, because the room wasn't theirs and if someone found out they were in there, they'd be in more trouble than ever. So there they were, sitting on the deck, waiting, their life preservers on the floor of the deck right beside them.
"So why do you think we ended up—on here?" Kathy asked in a low voice to everyone. "I mean, why—us?"
Leo shrugged.
"Maybe because we're the ones who played in the latest edition of the film," Leo said. "Maybe this is some kind of—thing that only occurs to people who've played in the film."
"So—so you're saying this happened to the other actors who played in the other Titanic films too?" Billy asked.
"No, I highly doubt that bullshit, mate." Ewan said with a laugh.
"Well then WHY us?" Kate asked. "I—I don't understand."
Victor looked down briefly, as if thinking.
"Maybe, maybe because in some strange way," Victor began to say, "we have some strong ties to the actual people of Titanic."
"What? Like we're related to them or something?" Frances asked. "That makes no sense."
Victor scoffed and shook his head.
"No, I didn't mean like that," Victor said. "I mean—this film—THIS film we played in was the only Titanic film that ever had such a HUGE impact on so many before and maybe somehow that connected us with the actual people and we're here to feel—to actually feel what it would be like to BE the ones we portrayed in the movie."
"Yeah but that makes no sense in a way because Jack Dawson, Rose and Cal weren't even real." Leo said.
"Yeah," Billy added with a nod and a look of seriousness, "but they still represented the ones who lost loved ones on the Titanic, the ones who were hurting emotionally on Titanic, so—I—I don't know, maybe that's it."
Leo nodded with raised eyebrows.
"Makes sense now I guess." Leo said.
Kate sighed and frowned slightly.
"I want all of us to make it ok off here," Kate said warmly. "Please lets all try to make it off here."
Kathy looked at everyone with a bit of sad eyes.
"Maybe we should all take this time out to join hands and have prayer." Kathy said. "Ya know, just to protect us with some good luck."
"Oh great and THEN what?" Billy asked. "We all sing Kumbaya together too?"
Leo, Kate, Billy and Ewan laughed and Kathy sighed.
"Billy, I'm SERIOUS." Kathy said. "We could use God's help right now, to make it through what's ahead for us."
Billy looked at her and saw she was serious. He nodded and grabbed a hold of Kathy's hand on one side and Leo's on the other.
"Alright, alright." Billy said with a sigh.
As everyone joined hands, Kathy closed her eyes and took in a deep breath before speaking.
"Dear God," Kathy began, "we don't know why we were put on here, or even how we'll get off, but we're asking you to protect us, help us, give us strength for what's coming ahead on board here. Help us to all get off this soon to be sinking ship safely, we ask for your guidance and help—amen."
"Amen" Leo, Kate, Billy, Ewan and Frances and Victor said in unison.
Their hands still linked, they all glanced at each other, their eyes saying so much that the silence that was between all of them was keeping their mouths from saying. They had no idea that in seventy minutes, everything between all of them was about to change, some wouldn't make it, some wouldn't, some would die, some would live…Yes, in the next seventy minutes, EVERYTHING would change….
TO BE CONTINUED…
