~ Nearer My God To Thee ~
As Billy went swimming with rapid speed, through the dining room, he found that he was halfway through the dining room, on his way towards the cabin rooms. He was swimming like he may have been competing in the Olympics. Of course, that was nothing for Billy to do, because he had been doing it every since high school. As he swam, he mentally cursed angrily at the bitter iciness of the water that was numbing the skin on his face and hands. The water was so cold, he felt as if the skin on his face and hands would peel off. As he swam further through the dining room, his head lifted above the water, he looked left and right and everywhere for Frances and Ewan, but saw them nowhere.
"Frances! Ewan!" Billy yelled out through shivering, cold, wet lips, as he looked around everywhere for them.
Billy found Frances and Ewan nowhere in sight. Then suddenly as he continued swimming through the wildly swaying and waving water that rushed around him, he saw what looked to him to be a body lying face down in the water, almost at the top of the surface of the water, a few feet from him. The body, from what Billy could see where he was, looked to be wearing the same clothes Ewan had on. Billy frowned as he stared at the lifeless body lying in the water. He hoped his eyes were deceiving him, he hoped it wasn't who he thought it was.
"Good God, please." Billy said under his breath before quickly swimming over to where the body was.
As Billy swam over to the body, he quickly turned the body over and saw it was indeed Ewan. It was a drowned, dead and lifeless Ewan. Ewan's lips were completely purple, his eyes open and to Billy, it looked as if Ewan's eyes were completely frozen. Billy frowned as he held the lifeless Ewan in his arms and stared at him.
"Oh no," Billy said in a hurt tone of voice. "No, no, no."
Billy looked up and looked away from Ewan's lifeless body as light tears filled his eyes.
"DAMN IT!" Billy yelled angrily.
Billy thought maybe Ewan was just unconscious, so Billy checked Ewan's pulse, but as Billy felt nothing, he knew Ewan was dead. Billy fought as hard as he could the urge to break into tears. Sure he wasn't as close to Ewan as Victor claimed to be, but still Billy had worked with Ewan, and he liked Ewan. They shared a couple of laughs or two while on the set filming Titanic. Billy knew Ewan shouldn't have died like this. The man had kids and a wife for him at home in London. How would they explain this to Ewan's wife and children? Billy slowly dropped Ewan back into the water and frowned more as tears streamed that he quickly wiped away with his cold, trembling hand. He knew he had to find Frances, but he was afraid that if Ewan had suffered a fate of death, maybe Frances had as well.
As Billy went swimming through the dining room further, he swam with even more speed. He wanted to find Frances, he HAD to find her. He hoped she was still alive. Besides Kate, Frances was the one he was closest to of all the Titanic actors. As he swam or was carried away by the water, rather, down the stairs leading to the third class hallways, he fell to the floor under the water on his hip, which caused a bit of pain for him and a remembrance of when he made a similar fall such as that, in the film. He managed to keep his mouth closed under the water that had fully submerged him, until he lifted his head above the water. He looked left and right for Frances but saw her nowhere.
"FRANCES!" Billy yelled out through a shivering, freezing tone.
Theme Song: "One Lifeboat" ~ Titanic Original Score ~ James Horner ~ 1997
No answer came as he swam further down the halls in the flooding water.
"FRANCES! WHERE ARE YOU!" Billy yelled again.
As Billy continued looking left and right for her as he continued swimming down the hall, his leg hit something hard under the water. As he looked down at the water, he saw the long shape of a body—another body—a body with the same clothes Frances had on. Billy frowned and sucked his teeth in anger.
"Oh—aww, no, no, NO!" Billy yelled, his voice cracking with emotion.
Billy ducked down under the water and quickly scooped up the lifeless body he saw and lifted his head up out the water with the body in his arms. As he turned the body over, he saw it was the body of Frances. Billy frowned deeper with hurt.
"Aww, no, no Frances, no." Billy said through a lightly tearful voice.
Billy's eyes filled with tears as he knew she was dead, just like Ewan was. He hugged her close in his arms and almost broke down into tears but did a hell of a job restraining himself. He quickly dropped her down into the water and looked away as tears clouded his eyes, he frowned more and without him even realizing it, he was breaking into light tears. He wiped streaming tears from his eyes with his cold, trembling hand, only to have more to stream. For a moment, Billy just remained there, staring down at the lifeless body of Frances, deep under the water. He didn't want to leave her there, even if she WAS dead, but still…he didn't. Apart of him was in shock, another part of him was in a distant gaze of not knowing what to do next or whose life the fateful Titanic ship would claim next. As tears came constantly streaming from his eyes, it wasn't until he felt a sharp tilting of the ship that he snapped back into reality. He remembered what Victor told him before he went off to find Frances and Ewan, Billy had to get out of where he was and back to Victor and Leo and he had to do it quick.