Okay thanks again for the reviews. I hope you like this one. Soz it has taken so long but I have had some personal issues I needed to clear up and I just didn't feel like writing at the time. But here it is and I hope you like it.
Rose rolled over and stared into Jack's blue eyes.
"Jack! I...."
"Rose for once in your life stop making things complicated and just answered the question." He smiled.
"Yes, of course! Jack I don't think it's even a question!"
Jack grabbed her into his arms and kissed her. "Rose I love you. But we can't stay here forever, where are we going to go?"
Rose smiled at him. "Straight off the subject!"
He laughed but gave her a questioning look.
"I don't know where we will stay Jack. We need money to stay anywhere. We need to get jobs."
Jack laughed. "You get a job! That will be a laugh! I will get a job and you can find a cheap place for us to live." Rose looked as if she was about to argue but Jack cut her off before she could. "Rose you may have changed from the person you were when you boarded the Titanic but you are still a rich girl by birth and you have no idea about work. You wouldn't like it. I will get a job, okay?"
She nodded and cuddled up close to him. "Maybe you could sell some of your drawings as well?"
Jack just smiled at her.
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The next morning was an interesting one. Anne had woken them up and they had come downstairs to breakfast. Derek had finished his and was reading the paper when they came down, he offered them fruits and cereals. Rose had decided they wouldn't tell them off the on goings of last night. As she was sure that Anne would refuse to listen to reason and just take her straight back to her mother.
"So Rose you must come shopping with me today. You must have lost all your clothes in the sinking?"
Rose looked down at her shaggy and torn clothes. She did need new clothes but she had no money to buy them! That was something very new to her and something she thought she would have to get used to. "I would love to Anne but I have no money, it all went down with the Titanic."
Anne persisted and Derek offered her money. In the end she gave in and said she would. Anne seemed like she was overcome with joy and ran upstairs to get changed.
Derek smiled. "She never gets to go shopping with anyone; she always has to go by herself. That's way she is so excited."
Rose smiled and remembered the times before the Titanic when that too had been one of the few things she had cared about. She didn't have any clothes to get changed into so she just waited downstairs for Anne to come and they left leaving Derek and Jack alone.
"Jack. What are you doing to this poor girl? You know she is better off with Cal! He can provide for her. Where as you..." He gave a motioning with his hand towards Jack's clothes.
Jack smirked at Derek. "Trust me I have all the right intentions. I will go looking for a job today and soon I will have enough money to buy a house and some new clothes for Rose. But none of this matters to her anymore, we love each other. That is enough for us. "
Derek snorted and went back to his paper. "And what job are you going to get Jack? You have no skills."
"Why do you care so much Derek?"
"Because before Rose was to marry Cal and I to marry Anne. I was going to marry her because we were in 'love' but I didn't have enough money and I wasn't allowed to. I was forced to marry Anne. I have grown to love Anne in a certain way but nothing like the love I had for Rose. You will not last. She will soon want her old lifestyle back. Along with her fancy clothes and expensive dinner parties."
"That is where you are wrong Derek. Rose loves me and she didn't like those things to begin with!"
"If you believe you truly love each other and are willing to try to provide for her....I will give you a job at my factory."
"Oh course I love her and I will do anything for her Derek. What is the job?" Jack was about to jump out of his seat with excitement.
"Fixing a few machines and stuff like that. Do you think you could do it?"
Jack nodded even though he had no idea how to fix a machine but he hoped he would catch on quickly. "Thank you so much Derek. "
"And you can have a house. I will buy it for you and you can pay if off by working for me."
Jack was now about to jump of out his seat and hug him. "Thank you so much Derek! Thank you!"
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When Rose and Anne came home Jack told Rose the news and she ran over and hugged Derek. The only person who didn't seem pleased with the situation was Anne, who stood over in the corner with her arms crossed.
Dinner contained small talk and some talk about work between Jack and Derek. When it was over Jack and Rose went upstairs and she showed him the clothes she had brought earlier on that day.
"Rose they are lovely, just like you. My beautiful Angel!" He pushed a bit of hair from her face and kissed her. "Rose our lives are finally starting to come together."
To be continued
