A/N: Thanks again for all the reviews! I truly appreciate it! We're approaching the last two chapters of the story!
Cal looked at Rose with warm eyes. He then looked down and frowned.
"Rose, I—I thought you said you hated me." Cal said in a low tone. "I mean you said you hated everything about me."
Rose sighed and frowned as she looked down and looked back up at him.
"I know, but I realized, I was wrong," Rose said warmly.
Cal looked at her with an eyebrow raised, his heart was telling him to forgive her and take her back, but for some reason, he couldn't get what Lovejoy was screaming at her before he walked away, out of his mind. He sighed briefly and stared at Rose.
"I love you Rose." Cal said warmly, but with slight suspicion in his voice.
Rose quickly hugged Cal warmly and sighed.
"Oh thank you Cal for taking me back." Rose said in a low voice. "I'm so sorry, I won't ever leave you again."
Cal stared down at her with a suspicious look. He lightly pushed her back from him and looked at her with seriousness.
"I said I love you Rose." Cal repeated.
Rose stared at him with slightly nervous eyes and hesitantly nodded.
"Yes, I—I know Cal." Rose said in a low voice.
Cal frowned briefly and shook his head and briefly closed his eyes.
"Well, do—don't you want to say you love me back?" Cal asked. "Don't you love me too?"
Rose stared at him for a brief moment, almost clueless and then looked down and scoffed.
"Cal you know how I feel about you, I love you, you know that." Rose said with her head down, not looking at him at all.
Cal looked away and frowned with anger briefly. He looked back at her suspiciously.
"LOOK at me and say it." Cal said strongly. "Look at me and say you love me."
Rose laughed nervously and briefly and looked at him.
"Cal, you're being ridiculous." Rose said with a nervous smile.
"I love you." She added as she looked away from him nervously.
Cal stared at her with hurt eyes, he knew, he knew he already had the answer to his deep doubts.
"You can't even look at me and say it, can you?" Cal said with a hurt tone.
Rose sighed with anger as she looked up at him briefly.
"Oh Cal, you're being silly, I don't HAVE to look at you!" Rose yelled angrily. "I just SAID I love you!"
"Except you DON'T mean it, DO you, Rose!" Cal yelled angrily, with his voice breaking with tears.
Cal scoffed as light tears filled his eyes.
"Do you, Rose?" Cal said in a lower, slightly tearful voice. "You don't love me, do you?"
Rose looked down and sighed as she briefly closed her eyes.
"What's love got to do with it?" Rose said in almost a whisper.
"It has EVERYTHING to do with it." Cal said in a lightly teary voice. "I love you, and I thought you loved me."
Rose sighed again as she briefly closed her eyes. She couldn't lie to him. She didn't love him, she didn't even like him, but she needed him to survive, now that Jack was gone. She needed him for some money and then she could go on her own, but lying to him seemed hard to do, when she knew his feelings for her were genuine. Cal stared at her with hurt eyes.
"NO," Cal said with a cold, teary voice.
Rose looked at him with slightly confused eyes.
"What?" Rose said.
"I said NO." Cal repeated coldly, with a tearful voice. "No I—I won't take you back."
Rose immediately looked with ultimate disappointment and shock.
"Cal, please—"
"SHUT UP!" Cal yelled angrily, through a tearful voice. "You THINK I'd take you back and here you can't even look me in the eye and tell me you love me, because you DON'T!"
"Huh!" Cal shouted as he grabbed Rose's arm and violently pulled her close to him. "You think I'd actually let you USE me again!"
Rose gasped and looked at him with fear.
"Cal, you're hurting me." Rose said as she looked at him fearfully.
"Oh, I am, am I!" Cal said with a brief, angry smirk and an eyebrow raised. "Am I hurting you the way you HURT me!"
Cal pushed her back from him roughly and she looked at him with fear, while he looked at her with deep hurt.
"I LOVED you Rose!" cal yelled tearfully. "I—I was actually trying to change—for you! And you tossed me aside the first time and then come back and expect to use me and then toss me aside a second time!"
Rose frowned and gasped lightly.
"Cal, please," Rose said with a fearful, shaky voice, "I—"
"NO! Don't you DARE EVEN TALK NOW!" Cal yelled loudly with a slightly tearful voice. "Why Rose? WHY? I was willing to actually CHANGE—FOR YOU!"
Cal looked down and couldn't hold in his hurt anymore, he broke into light tears. Rose stared at him with disgust, she hated the very fiber of this man, but she knew she had to find some way to have him take her back, maybe she could lie to him just once more.
"Cal, I DO love you." Rose lied as she walked closely over to him and grabbed his hands and held it within hers. "I do love you, I mean it, I—"
"DON'T touch me!" Cal yelled tearfully as he pushed her back away from him roughly. "I don't EVER want to talk to you again. Don't you dare even attempt to. You had your chance, and you blew it and I won't have you use me again."
Cal turned and walked away and then stopped.
"I let Ruth know you're alive and then I don't want to see neither her nor you ever again." Cal said coldly, before continuing to walk away.
Rose looked on as Cal walked away, with hurt. Tears filled her eyes, but it wasn't tears of hurt because she loved Cal and he left, but it was tears of hurt because she knew that she lost her ticket to get some financial money before she could go off on her own, basically, she lost her "meal ticket", so to speak.
"I guess too little, too late, hmm, Ms. Rose?" A British voice said from behind Rose.
Rose turned around and saw Lovejoy standing behind her.
"Well you should be happy, Lovejoy." Rose said coldly. "You've ruined Cal's mind into not taking me back."
"Oh, I ruined Cal into not taking you back?" Lovejoy said with a brief laugh. "Rose, YOU'RE the one who ruined it. You had a GREAT thing with Cal and you blew it. Its your loss and wow isn't karma wonderful, my dear?"
Lovejoy laughed as Rose stared at him with coldhearted dislike.
"A great thing with Cal?" Rose said angrily. "A great thing? Cal abused me verbally, physically and mentally, he was controlling, and he was a complete snob! How did you even THINK I could stay with a man like that, nonetheless LOVE him!"
"Oh PLEASE Rose!" Lovejoy yelled. "Cal was CHANGING! Sure the way he USED to be, YES he was a complete bloke! He—he was an asshole, an—unimaginable bastard but then he decided to CHANGE! He decided to change FOR YOU! And you couldn't even give him the chance to see how he'd be after he changed! Now you just wanted out, no matter what, and now you get what you dished out. You thought he'd take you back and you'd be financially SET after you trash talked him like he may have been lower than dirt and LEFT him, but your plain failed."
Lovejoy laughed briefly as he walked closer to her.
"Karma is a bitch isn't it, Ms. Rose?" Lovejoy said with a brief smile before walking away.
Rose looked at Lovejoy with hatred.
"Why do you even give a damn about him anyway?" Rose asked coldly. "If you think for one SECOND Cal cares about you, you're wrong. The man only cares about him and his, and YOU are last on his list."
Lovejoy stopped and looked back at Rose with a cold expression.
"I CARE because he's my friend, MY FRIEND, Rose." Lovejoy said coldly. "And you're WRONG about Cal. He does care. When we were in a lifeboat, trying to swim away from Titanic, the lifeboat turned over on its side, spilling everyone out of the boat and into the water, the water practically drowned most of the ones who spilled out of the boat, but as I was about one split second from falling out of the boat myself and into the ICY water, Cal grabbed my arm and held onto me, all while trying to keep himself from falling out of the boat, AND trying to keep the boat from turning completely over. Had it not been for Cal grabbing my arm and holding on to me, I'd have fell into the water and DROWNED, seeing as how I can't really swim. So, you SEE, Rose, don't TELL me he doesn't care about me, because you're WRONG. Its YOU he doesn't care about."
Lovejoy continued to walk away as Rose looked down with a single tear streaming. Lovejoy stopped and looked back at her with an eyebrow raised.
"I bet right about now, you're wishing you'd had never run off with Mr. Jack Dawson, now aren't you?" Lovejoy said with a brief scoff and smile as he continued walking away again.