Author's Note: I don't own Titanic or any of its Characters'. I only own the plot to the story and a few characters which are my own.
Summary: Au for Titanic. Just the events told from point of view from Will Dawson, Jack's older brother and Elizabeth DeWitt-Bukater who is travel on the Titanic with fiancé James Hockley, her younger sister Rose, Rose's fiancé Caledon 'Cal' Hockley and their mother Ruth. Both the DeWitt-Bukater sisters lives are about to change but is it for the best or the worst.
Author's Note: Here's Chapter 2. Thank you to those that review and whatever.
Chapter 2
11th April 1912 Atlantic Ocean
Rose DeWitt-Bukater felt that the walls of her life where closing in around her and choking her. She looked at herself in the mirror. Rose did not know who she was. She felt like she was in a room full of people and she was screaming at the top of her lungs.
But no one was listening or cared. Who was Rose DeWitt-Bukater really? She was neither the girl nor woman she saw as her reflection of the mirror. Rose hit the mirror and tried to hold back the bittersweet tears that threatened to overcome her.
It was not like her mother or Cal was going to care if she was dead. Rose moved away from the mirror having made up her mind at what she was going to do. Maybe throwing herself off the stern of the Titanic in the middle of night would be cease to the miserable mess that was her life.
Jack Dawson lay on a bench near the stern of the ship looking up at the night sky. He let a puff a smoke after he took a drag from his cigarette. He heard somebody, no a woman running and sobbing rather loudly.
He sat up and watched as a blur of red anbury hair disappeared towards the stern. Jack had a strange gut feeling that he needed to follow the girl. Little did Jack know that this was the same girl he had become love struck with earlier that day.
Jack slowly approached the stern and watched as the girl climbed over the railing with even attention of jumping. Jack knew he had to do something to stop her. But what?
"Don't Do It" Jack said having finally found his voice. Rose turned her head to see a boy no a man standing near the stern of the Titanic trying to her stop from committing suicide. Why would he care wither or not she jumped to her death in the freezing black depth of the Atlantic
"Stay back. Don't come any closer." Rose warned him with every intension of letting go of the railing. Jack eyes widened a little in shock that this was the same girl no woman he had been love-struck with just hours before.
"Here take my hand. I'll pull you back over" Jack offered trying to stop her from killing herself by throwing herself off the back of a ship into the Atlantic. Jack moved slowly forward.
"No. Stay where you are. I mean it, I'll let go" Rose threatened as Jack took a step forward. Jack pulled the nearly finished cigarette from his mouth and moved slowly forward to show her that he was merely going to throw the finished cigarette.
"No you want" Jack stated as he stood merely to the side of Rose. Not another man trying to control her life.
"What do you mean no I want. Do presume to tell me what I will and will not do. You don't know" Rose snapped at him clearly pissed and irritated and someone else tyring to control her life and her decides she made in her own life.
"Well you woulda done it already" Jack pointed out shrugging his shoulders in the process. What Jack couldn't comprehend what make a beautiful girl no woman to think she had no way out other then killing her self by throwing herself off the stern of the Titanic.
"You're distracting me. Go away "Rose said almost pleading for him to leave so she could just get it over with. There was no way Jack was going to let her throw herself off the back of the ship. He had to stop her somehow.
"I can't. I'm involved now. You jump and I'm gonna have jump in there after you" Jack stated. How could such a beautiful girl no woman be so broken inside. That she though no one cared whether she lived or died.
"Don't be absurd. You'd be killed" Rose said clearly not understanding why this man was trying to talk her out of jumping off the back of the stern to freezing cold water below them.
"I'm a good swimmer," Jack stated as he took off his coat.
"The fall alone would kill you."
"It would hurt, not saying it wouldn't. To tell you the truth, I'm a lot more concerned about that water being so cold." Jack said causally
"How cold" Rose asked. She was having second thoughts now about jumping from the stern of the Titanic to kill herself.
"Freezing. Maybe a couple degrees over" Jack said as he removed his vest and went about untying his boots. "You uh. Ever been to Wisconsin" Jack asked as he finished untying his left boot.
"What" Rose asked not quite sure what the hell he meant by asking her whether or not she had ever been to Wisconsin.
"Well they have some of the coldest winters around. I grew up there near Chippewa Falls. I remember when I was a kid, my D…Father and me. We'd go ice fishing on Lake Wissota. Ice fishing is you where you"
"I KNOW WHAT ICE FISHING IS" Rose snapped cutting him off before he could finish explaining whatever it was that he was going to explain.
"Sorry, you just seem like you know more indoor type of girl. Anyway I uh fell thorough some thin ice and I'm tell you water that cold, like right down there. It hits you like a thousand knives stabbing you all over your body. You can't breathe, you can't think at least not anything but the pain," Jack explained as went about untying his right boot.
"Which is why I'm not looking forward to jumping in there after you. But like I said I don't have a choice. I'm guess I'm kinda hoping you'll come back over that rail and get me off the hook" Jack said as he finished untying his right boot.
"Your crazy"
"That's what everybody says. But with all due respect Miss I'm not the one hanging off the back of a ship. Come on. Come on gimmie your hand. You don't want to do this" Jack said almost pleading with her to not to do it.
Rose glanced down once more at the water below her. She turned and grabbed a hold of Jack's outstretched hand. Rose found her self-staring into the stranger's piercing blue eyes.
"Whee. I'm Jack Dawson "Jack said letting out a sigh of relief that the girl had decided not to jump and had taken his hand.
"Rose DeWitt-Bukater" Rose said introducing herself to Jack. There was something about Jack that Rose couldn't put her finger on what it was.
"I'll have to get you to write that one down" Jack joked. Rose for the first time in a long time laughed.
I finished off my beer that Tommy had bought me ten minutes before. I glanced over at Fabrizio who was staring over at the Norwegian girl he had his eye on since yesterday.
"Hey Fabrizio. You know where Jack is," I asked rolling myself a cigarette.
"He's probably up near the stern," Fabrizio muttered half under his breath. I nodded and got to my feet.
"Where ya off to boyo" Tommy asked as he came back with three glasses of beer in hand.
"Going to go find Jack. I'll see yea later Tommy," I said heading out of the main saloon on the steerage deck.
What the. I thought to myself when I heard a blood-curdling scream come from the stern of the ship. I took off running towards the stern of the ship. I noticed Jack was leaning over the railing of the stern trying pulling someone up. It was a girl. Not just any girl but the girl that Jack had been love-struck with just hours before.
"Will give me a hand to pull Rose up," Jack said trying to pull Rose over the railing. I reached a hand down for her to grab hold of.
"Rose grab a hold of Will's hand. We're not going to let you fall. " Jack tried to reassured her. She grasped her other hand in my outstretched one. We pulled Rose over the railing and landed in an awkward heap.
"Both of you stand up and don't move an inch" Quartermaster Rowe snarled to both Jack and I. "Fetch the master at arms." Rowe said to a crewmember.
Ten minutes later a man I took to be either Rose's husband or fiancé came barrelling towards. You could almost see the steam coming out of his ears. A few other men had come with him and a woman. The same woman I had seen earlier that day.
"Completely unacceptable. What made you two think that you could put your hands on my fiancée" The man who was Rose's Fiancé demanded. " Look at me you filth" he said grabbing a hold of Jack.
"Cal" Rose tried to intervene not that had done much good.
"What did you two think you where doing" Cal said.
"Cal Stop. It was an accident," Rose said finally getting the Cal's attention.
"An accident" Cal snorted in disbelief.
"It was stupid really. I was leaning over and I slipped. I was leaning to far over to see the uh. The uh"
"The propellers" Cal prompted.
"The Propellers and I slipped. I would have gone overboard but Mr Dawson and his friend here saved me and nearly went over themselves," Rose explained. But Jack knew it was a lie.
"She wanted to see the propellers," Cal said in an almost sneering tone of voice.
"Like I said. Women and Machinery do not mix" Colonel Gracie said.
"Was that the way of it?" The Master At Arms asked turning his attention to Jack and I.
"Yea. Yea that was pretty much it" Jack answered for the two of us. The Master At Arms turned his attention to me. I merely nodded that had been the way of it. The Master At Arms unhand-cuffed the two of us
"Well these boys are hero's. Good for you sons. Well done" Colonel Gracie said. Elizabeth looked at the two men that had been wrongly accused of having attempted to rape her younger sister.
"You most be freezing. Lets get you inside" Cal said before they where about to leave.
"Perhaps a little something for the two boys" Colonel Gracie offered.
"Ah Mr Lovejoy a twenty for each of them" Cal said to his manservant-valet.
"Is that the going rate for saving the 'woman' you love" Rose scoffed at Cal.
"Rose is displeased. What do I do? I know. Perhaps you both could join us for dinner tomorrow evening to regale our group with your heroic tale" Cal said almost sneering at the same time.
"Sure count me in," Jack answered. I merely shrugged my shoulders in agreement.
"Good it's settled then," Cal said before walking away followed by Rose, Elizabeth, James, Colonel Gracie and Lovejoy.
Jack whistled over to the man called Lovejoy. He motioned for him to come over to where we standing.
"Can I bum a smoke?" Jack asked. Lovejoy offered the cigarette tin from his coat pocket. Jack took two. He lit one and put another behind his ear.
"It's interesting that the young lady slipped so suddenly. And you still had time to remove your jacket and your shoes" Lovejoy said before leaving.
"What was all that about" I asked once Lovejoy was out of sight and ear shot.
"She was going to jump off the back of the ship" Jack explained. I nearly choked on my cigarette.
"What do ya mean she was going to jump" I asked taking another drag of my cigarette.
"I heard her running along the deck and crying. I looked up when she ran passed. And for some reason my gut was telling me to follow her for some reason. I watched her climb over the railing. I tried to talk her out of it. Jumping I mean. She was resistant at first. I think she changed her mind after I told her about the time I fell through that thin ice on Lake Wissota when I was eight about how cold the water is. I think that made her change her mind or someone actually caring whether or not she's alive or dead" Jack explained.
"It makes you think about how fucked up life is in First Class" I said as Jack grabbed his vest and jacket and bent down to tie the laces on his boots.
"Yea it does" Jack said as we walked back towards our cabin/room.
In First Class maybe an hour later. Rose could not get her mind off the man that had saved her life only a few hours before. Jack Dawson. He had been the same man she had seen staring at her earlier that day when she walked out before lunch was to be served.
"I know you've been melancholy. I don't pretend to know why" Cal said announcing his presence to Rose.
"I intended to save this for our engagement gala next week. But I thought." Cal said opening the box.
"Good gracious."
"Perhaps as a reminder of my feeling for you." Cal said.
"Is it a"
"Diamond? Yes. 56 carats to be exact" Cal said finishing what Rose had been going to say. Cal placed it around her neck. Rose felt as if the necklace was a heart of ice.
"It was worn by Louis the sixteenth. They called it Le Cour De La Mer" Cal added.
"The Heart of the Ocean. "Rose said maybe in disbelief
"Yes"
"It's overwhelming"
"It's for royalty. We are royalty Rose. You know there's nothing I couldn't give you, nothing I'd deny you, if you would not deny me. Open your heart to me Rose" Cal said in almost a pleading tone of voice. Rose knew there was no way she would ever love Cal Hockley.
Her ideas of the perfect man had gone out window tonight. Jack Dawson was so very much different from any other man she had ever met or seen. Maybe it was because he came from different social class then her.