June 1911

Caledon and Rose were sitting in the living room of the mansion, they had been living together for a year and were already engaged. Rose had already discovered little traits about her fiancée that had made her sense he wasn't the caring, charming man she first met. Why, there were times when she discovered Caledon's raging temper, and she unfortunately had discovered small hints of abusiveness, when he would slap her or roughly push her, just small tidbits of abuse, nothing major—but it was enough for Rose to feel like this was not the man she wanted as a lover or a husband, but what could she do? Her mother, Ruth had already made it clear that they both needed her to marry Caledon, so that they would have financial stability. Ruth wouldn't even step in or stop Caledon when he would occasionally hit Rose or treat her harshly. In Rose's mind, Ruth could care less about Rose being hurt physically by Caledon, just so long as Ruth was financially taken care of. It was the main reason; Rose was beginning to hate her mother for not caring about Rose's happiness. So Rose found herself in a trapped situation—forced to marry a man whom she, at this point, only loved but was not IN love with... but soon, even that love would eventually turn into HATE when they would later board a ship called, Titanic. Today, however, Rose was about to discover the very depth of Caledon's rage and abusiveness, a brainwashed trait he learned from his father, Nathaniel (Nathan) Hockley:

Caledon and Rose were sitting at the breakfast table in the dining room, one Saturday morning, eating breakfast, Caledon had minimal talk with Rose during the times they sat together at the table, this morning was no different. As Caledon was talking with Rose about work at the mill and the stock market, Rose however seemed to have been effectively drowning him out by playing with the scrambled eggs and other assorted breakfast foods that was on her plate.

"And so can you believe, this dirty, third class white man was telling ME how to run the mill my father and I owned?" Caledon said with arrogance in his voice.

Rose either didn't hear him or was purposely ignoring him, as she continued playing and twirling her food around with her fork. Caledon looked up at her with an eyebrow raised and a slight frown.

"Rose, sweetpea, are you LISTENING to me?" Caledon asked.

Rose looked up at him briefly and looked down again and shook her head with a frown.

"Oh I—I'm sorry, dear." Rose said in a low voice. "What?"

Caledon looked down and scoffed and shook his head. He looked back at her again, as she continued to swirl her food around on her plate, with her fork, playing with it, as if she were bored, bored to be sitting there and even eating with him. It took Caledon back to a similar situation, a situation he remembered very well, one when he was a child, sitting at the dinner table, in the same seat Rose was sitting in at that moment, with his mother and father at the table as well. Caledon remembered how he was playing with his food, as he remembered, he was making happy and silly faces with his food and laughing about it, like any playful child would, and Caledon remembered the severe scolding Nathaniel gave him for it. Food was NOT to be played with, Nathaniel had told Caledon time and time again as a child.

"Food is too expensive to be played with, or to be twirled around on a fork, its to be eaten! Either eat it up or you'll never eat again!" Nathaniel would tell Caledon as a child when Caledon would play with his food.

Yes, Caledon remembered, and now that he had been brainwashed to believe in that ridiculous rule, he would stick by that—even with Rose. He was about to show Rose, the exact same situation he experienced when he did with his food what Rose was doing at that very moment.

"DON'T play with your food, dear, its rude and its too expensive to just be twirled and scooted around on a plate." Caledon said in a scolding tone to Rose.

Rose looked at Caledon with an eyebrow raised.

"I—I'm really not hungry." Rose said with a slight shrug.

Caledon looked at her with surprised eyes and a brief but angry smile.

"Not hungry? Not HUNGRY?" Caledon said with anger filling his voice. "So you're going to waste a great meal that third class workers spent all morning preparing?"

Rose sighed and frowned.

"I'm sorry dear, would you rather I force myself to eat to make you happy?" Rose said sarcastically.

Caledon looked at her with anger.

"EAT everything on that plate or so help me GOD, it will be the last meal you'll ever receive in this house!" Caledon scolded, in a voice that very much sounded like his father's.

Rose looked at him with a stunned look.

"EXCUSE ME?" Rose said with surprise.

"You HEARD me," Caledon said coldly. "Don't make me repeat myself."

Rose slid her chair back from the table and stared at him with anger.

"You're angering me, Cal and so I don't want to be around you right now, excuse me." Rose said as she stood up.

"Angering you? ANGERING YOU!" Caledon yelled as he quickly walked over to her and grabbed her arm forcefully.

Rose gasped loudly as he pulled her towards him roughly.

"You will sit down and FINISH this meal or I will make you WISH you had never disobeyed me!" Caledon yelled angrily.

Rose looked at him with anger and fear.

"You're absolutely mad, you know that? YOU'RE CRAZY!" Rose said angrily.

Caledon's eyes widened with anger. How DARE she talk to him like that?

Caledon quickly back slapped her HARD in the face, making her fall to the floor, and her nose bleed.

"How DARE you talk to me like that!" Caledon yelled angrily as he kicked her twice HARD in the abdomen.

He kneeled down and pulled her up by her hair and whispered in her ear.

"You will NEVER talk to me like that again, Rose." Caledon said in a sinister voice. "I will NOT have you misbehaving on me, is that CLEAR?"

Rose nodded as tears filled her eyes, she broke into light tears. Caledon smirked.

"Good, now get cleaned up, we're going into town in an hour." Caledon said before walking out the dining room.

Rose sat up on the floor, while crying lightly, holding her stomach in slight pain. She had no idea that this same situation had played out several times before with Caledon and his father, Nathaniel, when Caledon was a child and Nathaniel would beat Caledon almost senseless at the dinner table, and now she was getting a dose of the same type of abusive behavior, behavior that Caledon had learned from his father. Behavior that Nathaniel had brainwashed in Caledon's head. Yes, Caledon beat and controlled Rose because he had been brainwashed by his father for SEVERAL years that that was how women were to be treated. Its how Nathaniel treated Caledon's mother and its how Nathaniel even treated his own son—with controlling behavior and with severe physical abuse. Not only was Rose a victim, but Caledon was as well, Rose was a victim because she had to endure the abuse with no real reason why she was being abused the way she was, and Caledon was a victim because he was only being abusive because of forced brainwashing and forced learned behavior as a child, from his father. However, yes, this was the beginning of what would be numerous abusive fights she'd have with Caledon, before she would decide eventually, with the help of a man named Jack Dawson, that enough was ENOUGH.