Chapter two the list
It was about three o clock in the afternoon when Kate and Michael finally got a break from work. They where sitting in the workers lounge eating away at some chicken salad. "I can't believe that bathroom took me three and a half hours to clean!" Micheal cried. "I'm gonna tell the Mexican buffet to cut down on the beans they put in their taco's." Kate's face grew sour as she heard him say those words as she at her food. "Don't say that while I'm eating!" She cried. "But I'm telling you," Michael replied, beginning to complain, "my job isn't gonna go anywhere as long as I'm scrubbing the toilets and cleaning up baby vomit off the daycare floor." "Michael, doing dirt jobs and kissing up to my uncle isn't going to get you a promotion." She said. "You have to show off your skills or at least learn some when an opportunity to do so comes your way." "What skills?" He asked looking interested, "I don't know!" Kate replied. "What do you know how to do?" "Well, I can cook pretty dang good." He replied. "But I don't want to be promoted for my cooking skills, then I would be stuck in a hot steamy kitchen all day. I want to be promoted for my business and organization skills." He explained. "There is no business when it comes to working on a ship, there is only organization." Kate commented. "Well be that as it may, I still want to move up from scrubbing toilets and responding to room calls." Michael replied. As they where having their break, captain John entered the room with a stack of papers and sat down in the seat across from them. "Hello kid's," he said as he thumbed through the pages. "Hey captain, can I get you anything?" Asked Michael. "No Michael, I don't need you to serve me today." John replied. Kate couldn't help but chuckle at hearing that comment. "But I do need you two to listen to me about something very important." He added. "What is it uncle?"Asked a curious Kate, with her arms folded.
"Well, I have just recently heard of a jailbreak from a local prison, and this ship is the perfect place for a criminal to hide, so I have made a few list's with pictures included of some of the criminals we have had on the ship before." John explained handing them both lists. They where nothing at all like lists, but more like dictionaries in alphabetical order of all the psycho's the Titanic has had aboard before. These booklets included detailed stories and pictures. As Michael and Kate thumbed through them briefly, they got a little creeped out by some of the photo's they saw. "Wow uncle John," Kate said in a surprised tone. "I had no idea the ship had criminals on it before, and of this kind." "I mean,there are thieves, gang members, even killers in these booklets. "Yeah,and freaky ones too!" Michael added. "Yes indeed, I just wanted the whole staff including you guys to know, and be on the lookout for anyone who may look like anyone on the lists." John said in a serious tone. "And unfortunately, not all these criminals where put behind bars." He added. Kate and Michael looked at him with fear written on their faces. "What?"Said Michael nervously. "Yes, in fact, turn the page to page four, there is one particular criminal that didn't ever get caught." They didn't want to look for, they feared he may be some scary psycho killer, but they turned it over. There they saw a picture of Jack. "Who is this?" Kate asked. "That is Jack Dawson, he is the worst thief I have ever met in my lifetime." John replied. "How long ago was he aboard the ship?" Asked a scared Michael. "Oh my dear boy, way before you or even Kate came aboard. "He replied. "Tell us what happened." Kate asked eager to find out. "Well you see," said Captain John beginning his discourse, "a few years back, I had set sail for a two month trip from Hawaii to France. I had just gotten the ship a fresh coat of paint and some new furnishings for all the cabins of the ship, including some rare jewels I received from Africa, as a gift for delivering some lost children back to their country. Well, as the trip went on into the first month, I had noticed a very shady young man in suspender's always walking by the storage room where I had kept the jewels hidden away in secret. He always looked at the door and would slow down as he passed by as if he knew there was treasure hidden away within. At the time, I had not gotten suspicious of him because he always acted very polite and never seemed to have an interest in anything the rich folk had, but I was a fool. One night, when asleep in my bed, I was awoken by thunderous knocking at my door from one of my crew. I jumped out of bed and ran to the door. I opened it up and found Amelia one of my maids screaming about about 50 men or so breaking into people's rooms and stealing their furniture. I called security and ran for my gun. When I got to the top deck, I found several speed boats zooming away with Piano's, bed frames, chairs, vanity tables, mirrors, even dressers. Then I remembered the storage room and ran with six armed men over to it on the other side of the boat. When I got there, the door had been opened and the lock thrown across the dock in pieces. I ran inside with my gun drawn and found that the safe that held all my African rubies was gone. 'Jack Dawson!' I cried. Then I heard the sound of a young man chuckling. I ran out of the closet and found Jack with the safe in his hands. 'You stupid old man!' He cried to me. 'I knew you would buy that whole innocent act I put on.' And with that, he jumped over the railing and landed safely onto a speed boat and got away before I could capture him."
"That is why this boy is in the top ten making him number two on the list." Kate and Michael where not only scared about the story, but now they where scared to be on the boat at all now. "Uncle John, why didn't you ever say anything about these criminals sooner?" Asked Kate. "Well, because I didn't want to scare you unnecessarily." He replied. "Okay, only when a maniac boards the ship you where going to tell us!" Michael cried. "Are you suspecting there could be somebody on the ship now?" Asked Kate. "No, but I do want to be on the lookout." He replied. He stood up and began to walk to the door. "Oh and one more thing," he said as he was walking away. "If you do find someone, you are to call security on your radios." He left the lounge with Kate and Michael feeling messed up. "Well I don't want to go to sleep tonight!" Michael cried. "Oh Mike," Kate said trying not to sound scared. "There is nobody on this ship, we are perfectly safe." "Yeah well, you can tell my mother you said that to me three hours before I was murdered on the toilet." He replied sarcastically. There break by that time had ended and had no choice but to start their work. "Are you gonna have a heart attack?" Asked Kate. "Not unless someone stabs me there." Michael replied. They left to begin the night shift.
Meanwhile deep below the deck, Jack and Eddy had unpacked and where setting up their beds for bedtime. "I hope we can get through this last heist without getting caught," Eddy said while arranging his pillows. "Eddy, you better be careful how loud you talk, walls have ears ya know." Jack replied. "and plus, we don't want Melman to get suspicious of us and report us do you?" "Oh Jack! That guy is so stupid, he wouldn't ever get the idea even if I told him face to face." Eddy replied. "Why do you say that? Is it because he wouldn't know what the word heist means?" And that's when Melman came back from the wash rooms. "Hey fellas! What about a heist? is that some sort of ice cream flavor?" He asked. "Your right Eddo, he wouldn't know." Jack replied laughing. Right before Jack could lay down on his bunk bed, Melman climbed up and sat there kicking his feet. "Uh... that's my bunk." Jack said impatiently. "No, you stole mine. This is mine, take the one below me." Melman replied. "No, I don't want a bottom bunk, the whole reason to sleep on a bunk bed is to be on the top and I want the top!" Jack replied angrily. "Sorry pal ya snooze ya lose!" Melman replied. Jack grabbed him by the shirt collar and began to strangle him. "What did you say Dumbo!" Jack cried. Melman screamed like a woman and begged him to let go. "I'm sorry!" He cried. "Give me the top bunk!" Jack screamed. "Never!" Melman replied. That enabled Jack to squeeze poor Melman harder. Eddy jumped off his bunk and began to restrain Jack. "Jack! Stop it! Take my bunk just don't blow our cover." Eddy whispered in Jack's ear. Jack immediately released Melman from his grip. "I'm sorry Melman, I lost my temper." Said Jack in an irritated tone. "Well you should be for freaking out about something stupid!" Melman replied. He got off his bed and headed to the door. "Now I need to go get my jockstrap and exercise clothes back from the wash room, be back soon gentlemen!" Melman said as he left the room. Eddy moved his stuff to the bottom bunk under Melman's, and Jack moved over to Eddy's. They placed their clothes and things on the last available bunk under Jack's. Jack placed a black box under one of the pillows that contained the heist plans in it for safe keeping. "I hope we don't get caught, especially since we have been here at one time."Jack said. "Well, technically, you have and I haven't. I was robbing a mansion that night remember?" Eddy replied. "Well in any case, we better stay below tonight, but tomorrow we will move into action. Jack replied. So Jack and Eddy settled down for the evening.
It was about nine o clock at night when Kate got off of work. She was in her room on the third floor from the top deck combing her hair and getting into her pajama's. She was sitting at her vanity table looking at herself in the mirror. She couldn't help but feel uncomfortable and strange that night. "Perhaps it was the story that scared me. "She said to herself. "Or the list that's sitting on my night stand." She finished combing her hair, and placed her brush back on the table. Just as she was about to take her robe off, she heard Michael's screams coming from his room about two hallways away from her's. "AAAHHHHHHHH!" He screamed. She ran out of her room and dashed down the hallway's for his cabin. She kicked in the locked door and found him sitting up in bed screaming at the window. She turned the light on and ran over to comfort him."What! What! WHAT!" She cried. "I saw a shadow passing by my window and it looked like it was someone trying to break in!" He cried. Kate bravely walked over to the window and peaked out. She immediately saw a clown walking by with balloon animals in his arms, and a herd of children following him. Kate looked at Michael with an angry face. "That was mister Haha walking by your room!" She cried. "Oh," Michael replied feeling relieved. Kate smacked him on the back of the head. "You big baby! Why are you screaming at the top of your lungs at nine o clock at night, waking all the passengers up for something like this?" She cried. "I was scared of Jack!" Michael replied. "Could you blame me?" "Michael, first off, Jack is no where near the boat and second of all, there are a lot worse people we could have on this boat. "Like who?" Asked a shaken Michael. "Oh I don't know... a serial killer maybe! Butch looked kinda scary!"She replied. "Well, thieves will kill for loot if they have to!" Michael cried. "Oh Michael, shut up and go to bed!" She replied, turning out the lights and slamming the door as she left. She went back into her room and climbed into bed. As she laid there, she decided to open the book and look at that picture of Jack again. She starred at it for a moment and put it back in the drawer. "Is it wrong to think he looks cute?" She wondered. After that brief moment she turned out the light and fell asleep.