Chapter 9 - Comfort

"Listen Tohru!" Kyo yelled. Tohru looked up at Kyo with sad eyes that were weeping, which made Kyo's heart break but he continued. "We'll find a way!" he said. Tohru's eyes buldged open. Hot tears began running down her cheeks. She grappled onto his shirt and he hugged her back.

"Thank you!" she said squeezing him. She looked at her watch: 1:00am. Margret's boat had left 5 minutes ago. She slid her watch away and continued to feel how warm Kyo was.

"You guys are still here?" they turned to see Yuki and Machi running towards them. Machi hugged them both.

"At least both of you are ok!" she said with a smile. Tohru was glad about that, but what about Margret? Machi held Tohru's hand. "Let's go see if we can get something to drink, how's that sound?" Tohru nodded as the two girls made their way around the Grande Staircase and into a cafe. Yuki and Kyo mived closer together.

"I'm pretty worried." Yuki stated.

"Yeah, our girlfriends won't go anywhere without us, and they're are only enough lifeboats for less than half the people on board." Kyo said sounding upset.

"What should we do?" Yuki asked sounding worried. They both were silent for a moment. What were the supposed to do other than survive? They already knew that getting onto a lifeboat would be next to impossible, so what could they do?

"We need to stay on land as long as well can." Kyo said. He knew that they would freeze if they were in the water for too long, so staying on land for long would be there best bet.

Margret hugged her doll as she watched other boats be dropped in the water from Titanic. She hoped that Tohru was on one of them.

"So kiddo, what's your name?" Margret turned to see a lady with short brown curly hair.

"M-M-Margret." she said. She was still cold and a little scared.

"That's my name too! But you can just call me Molly!" Molly said. Margret nodded. Molly was trying to make conversation to keep the little girl calm. It must be really scary, even more so since she didn't have a mother with her at the moment. They talked about her doll and tried to keep each other warm, in hopes that they would both be ok.

Tohru placed down her emtpy cup that used to by full of tea and sighed.

"Thank you Machi, that calmed me down more." Tohru said with a small smile. She tried to play it off that she was calm, but on the inside she was screaming. She wanted to save herself, Kyo, Yuki and Machi but she knew that the chances of saving everyone was slim. The thought of have some, if not all of them die was too much for her to bare. She shoved the thought out of her head. Tohru glanced around the room. Machi, Kyo, Yuki and Tohru all knew that the ship was sinking, but everyone seemed very calm. Tohru thought that people would be panicing at this point.

I love you!

Those words that Margret said continued to rang through her head like a gong. Her voice, her tears, her screaming when she was trapped, it all broke her heart. 'At least she's safe.' Tohru thought. A loud clatter from the deck caught everyones attention. Another lifeboat was leaving. Kyo and Yuki were worried at this point, several lifeboats had left but Tohru and Machi refused to get on any one! What happens when there are no more lifeboats? Tohru stood up and stumbled.

"Is it just me, or does the ship seem to be tilting?" Tohru asked. They went onto the deck, water was spilling onto the front of the boat. Tohru checked her watch: 1:30am. According to some people on the deck the water began to surge over around 15 minutes ago. People now are beginning to panic. People are rushing to lifeboats and shoving people aside. Tohru was ripped away for Kyo in the process. "Kyo!" she yelled as the croud pushed her away.

"Tohru?" he called? She was gone. He dashed around the decks trying to see her; nothing. Tohru had finally pulled away from the croud, but was now on a completly other deck. She glanced around, trying to see Kyo or the others, but all she could see was husbands coaching their wives and children onto the boats. A sailor grabbed her hand and began dragging her into a lifeboat. "No sir, please I need to stay on the ship!" she said trying to pull away. The sailor managed to seat her right in the middle of the lifeboat surrounded by other people. Tohru was beginning to panic. 'I promised Kyo, I can't stay on here! His saftey and my saftey are now the same thing.' she boldly told herself. She began making her way towards the end of the boat. People began to yell at her; 'Hey watch it!' "What the heck are you doing?' and 'Stay on the boat girl!' she grabbed onto the railing of the deck and the boat dropped, she was left hanging there. She tried to push herself up, but she was too cold, scared and tired.

"Kyo?" she yelled. She couldn't believe what was happening. She looked below her, the lifeboat had just hit the water and was beginning to row away, if she fell she would land in the freezing water, and she knew that she couldn't stand to get much colder. Tears began welling up in her eyes, as she continued to try to push herself up. Nobody could see her because she was over the edge so nobody could help her, the only things visable were her fingers but people were to worried about fining a lifeboat to see. And even if they did see, they would just assume she was jumping into the water like thousands of others. "Help!" she screamed, but her screams were pushing aside by the yelling of sailors and people freezing in the water, yelling for a boat to come and save them. Tohru's hands were getting sore, but she still tried to cling on. She needed to stay strong for all the people she loved.

"Tohru?" Kyo yelled, she had up and disappeared, and he didn't like that. He was beginning to get mad, everyone was pushing and shoving, but where was his girlfriend?

"HELP!" Kyo stopped, he looked around. 'That sounded like...' Kyo thought. He heard that scream again, he looked around and finally saw some fingers shaking against. He flew against the railing and looking up at him, were the red puffy eyes of his girlfriend.

"Tohru! Thank god!" he said grabbing her arms.

"Kyo.." she said fading off and her hands still shaking from the pressure. Kyo began to pull her up, she tried to push her way up at the same time. "Please don't let me fall!" she said shaking. Finally she flew over the edge and into Kyo's arms. They stood their panting, Tohru was shaking. Kyo was a little shocked, if he had taken even two more minutes, his girlfriend could have been an icecube in the water! Kyo hugged her tightly so glad she was ok. Tohru glances around the deck, horrified by what she saw. People were running, screaming, and crying about leaving their loved ones. Tohru was glad that she wasn't one of those people. But there was one thing she didn't like.

Almost all of the forward lifeboats were gone.

Current Time: 1:40am.

That last part was just to show how much longer they have until the ship goes down, JSYK. Thanks for reading! :3