"Sheldon!" Penny exclaimed as she watched and felt Titanic hit the iceberg. She gripped Sheldons shirt tightly not sure of what was happening. "There, there Sheldons here" he rubbed Pennys shoulder. He to was afraid of what this would mean. He was not one to be fooled into thinking that the ship was actually unsinkable.

Penny was shaking, her eyes big with fear. " I have to warn Bernadette of what has happened."

"Then let us go" Sheldon kissed Pennys forehead.

Penny wasn't ready for what she walked into. Bernadette was crying, Howard looked angry and Leonard was standing next to the master of arms.

"Bernadette what is the matter are you alright? Did you feel the bump as well?" Penny asked.

"Bump? You think this is because of a little bump? She is upset, how could you do this?" Leonard accused.

"What have I done?" Penny demanded. Sheldon stayed at her side.

"I've been robbed. My mothers locket has been taken from the safe" Leonard pointed to the open door.

Pennys mouth dropped "you think that I…" Penny shouted.

The master of arms looked sympathetically at Penny but he needed to do his job, "do you know the combination miss?"

Penny waved her hand in as if to say obviously with her hands. "Of course; but I didn't take the locket."

"May we check your purse please, just to make sure."

Penny handed them her bag "here your not going to find any…"

"Well now" the master of arms said as he pulled out the missing locket. Penny fell into a rage "I didn't take it. Someone put it there to frame me. Why would I take it?"

"You were going to sell my mothers jewelery so you could run off with him a nobody" Leonard pointed at Sheldon.

"Penny didn't steal this, she was with me the whole night" Sheldon said with authority.

"For every moment?" the master of arms raised his eyebrows. Knowing that he was going to be unable to lie without giving it away; Sheldon had to tell the truth "no; but I know she didn't take it."

"I want them both arrested" Leonard said.

"On what charge for the boy?" the assistant asked the master of arms.

"He was an accomplice" the master of arms decided.

"Don't put them together I don't need them to help them escape. I am terribly upset over this. The thought of one of my mothers only remaining pieces of jewelery on the black market" Leonard shivered at the thought.

The master of arms and his assitant put handcuffs on both Penny and Sheldon. "No! Bernadette please you have to believe me. Tell them I am innocent" Penny pleaded through hot tears. She kicked and screamed as she was dragged out of the room. "Sheldon!"

"Penny! It'll be alright. I promise." Sheldon went a bit more willingly with the officer to the holding cabin. He had promised Penny everything was going to be alright but he wasn't at all sure how that was going to be true.

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Bernadette went over to Howard who sat on the couch with his head was in his hands. Not sure of what happened. Leonard never before left him out of one of his devious plans. What did this mean for Howard was Leonard getting rid of him? He looked up and saw Bernadette; immediately jumping to his feet he hugged her. She gave him a slight shove. "I know she is innocent. She maybe a lot of things but a theif she is not. You said she was going to be safe." Bernadette ran into her room.

Howard frowned as he thought of what he was going to do. With a nod a kiss to the medalion his mother gave him he left.

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"I'm afraid that the ship will sink" Thomas Andrews said to Captain Smith.

"Are you positive?" the captain was in disbelief.

"Yes. We have two hours at the most. We must get everyone to the life boats." Thomas said as he re-rolled his blueprints.

Captain Smith took a moment to take it all in. Maybe if had done things differently. No he couldn't think in what ifs he needed to act now. "Gather the passangers and start with women and children" he ordered to his officers.

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Penny banged on the door of her current prison cell. The master of arms had led her to a small room on the very end of the first class deck. It was furnished with a small cot, a desk that was under a small porthole, and a small wash room. The door had no doorknob on the inside; so escape was slim to none. He had left her handcuffs on as per requested by Leonard.

"Someone let out, I'm innocent. Please! Let me out!" she pounded until her fists hurt. Either people weren't around or the were ignoring her pleas. She fell to the floor sobbing " why is this happening? I'm so sorry for all the wrong I've done." She sobbed into her handcuffed hands. Sheldon had promised that everything was going to be alright but how is that at all possible. She was stuck here, Sheldon was God knows where; she probably would never see him again, the ship was most likely sinking. That iceberg had to have done serious damage.

She heard the door juggle, she rose to her feet. The door opened to reveal Howard. "What are you doing here? Going to make more accusations about me?" Penny spat.

"No actually" he took out his keys and unlocked her handcuffs. "Why I don't understand" Penny asked as she rubbed her wrists.

"I promised Bernadette that I wouldn't let anything bad happen to you, so here I am" Howard shrugged. "You love my sister?" Penny questioned.

"Very much so. She makes me want to be a better man."

"Then keep her safe. Get her to the top deck, the ship is sinking. We hit an iceberg I saw it with my own eyes." Howard nodded in understanding. Penny continued "now where is Sheldon."

Howard invouluntarily scoffed " I said I would keep you safe not some street bum." With all of her strength she shoved Howard against the wall. "Howard you better tell me where he is right now or I'll…"

Howard sturggled under he control "fine he is on C-deck. In the crew quarter. Room 56. If you want to risk your life for him then so be it."

"Your keys please" Penny held out her hand. "No you've got to do this on your own" Howard smirked. "Enough of this crap" Penny shouted. She pulled her arm back and punched him square in the nose. Howard doubled over dropping the keys "ah you bitch!" howard held his face to stop the bleeding. "Keep Bernadette safe" Penny yelled as she ran down the corridor.

People were cramming the hallways; however Pennys fellow first class passengers were more angry then scared. "Why are we being dragged out of our beds in the middle of the night? This is prepostrious." She heard numerous people say. "Idiots they are all just a bunch of idiots" she muttered to herself. She saw the iceberg, Sheldon told her about the lifeboats. She had a sick feeling in her stomach that tonight wasn't going to end well. All the more reason to find Sheldon.

"Move, get out of my way." She shoved people to the side, she needed to get to the elvator down the next hallway. Finally reaching it she yelled at the attendent to take her down. The poor young man, who wasn't that much older then herself or Sheldon, turned paleface but nodded. Realizing that he must be afraid with all the commotion that is happening and not a lot of communication about what was really happening, Penny kindly thanked him. Her smile make him relax. Slowly the lift went down to C-deck. Water was slowly seeping in. "I'm sorry miss I have to stop here" the boy said.

"Let me out then" Penny said gruffly. "But miss…". The water had now made a small puddle under their feet. "But nothing let me out!" Penny banged on the metal cage door.

"Yes miss" he said as he opened the door. "Thank you" Penny said as she watched the elevator leave for safety.

Down here was empty, this is where the crew sleep and they were assisting all the passengers. The ship moaned from the pressure of the water. She needed to go down one more level. Running to the stairs, which were nearly flooded with water. "Oh no Sheldon" she cried.

Penny gathered all of her inner strength, gripped Howards keys and walked into the water. "Holy Frak!" she shouted as the freezing water touched her. "Ok I can do this" she kept repeating as she kept moving forward. Howard said he was in room 56 which was to her right. The water hit her waist she trudged on. "Sheldon can you hear me?" Penny shouted. A muffled "Penny!" came from behind a door. "Sheldon" penny quickly opened the door. She saw Sheldon handcuffed to a desk drawer and Sheldon sitting on top of the desk.

"How did you escape?" Sheldon asked. He had tried to come up with a solution to get them out of their predicament, but nothing was plausible. The water had begun to rapidly increase while he was in the room. He had moved to the top of the desk so he would be able to stay dry.

"Don't worry about that now. Here I have keys" Penny fumbled with the key underwater. "Penny tell me. How is it that you are here and with keys?" Sheldon insisted. Penny sighed "fine Bernadette made Howard promise that he wouldn't let Leonard do anything to me. so he released me." Penny finally was able to twist the key so the lock would open. "Yes!" Penny shouted as she kissed Sheldon. "Howard just gave you his keys ti rescue me? A man he utterly despises." Sheldon rubbed his wrists.

"Well not exactly. I sort of punched him and then just took his keys." Penny looked a little guilty after she heard outloud what she had done.

"Penny such vulgar behavior. I am so proud of you. You finally stood up for yourself." The ship moaned again. "We have to get to top deck." Sheldon took Pennys hand and led her to the hallway.