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prettyinlimegreenboots · 4 years ago

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Oh my gosh this was adorable and little Romeo is a now favorite!! Big Brother Jack gives me alll the feels and I love how he’s with Ro!!! This was so so so good!!! Brilliant job!! Also, this isn’t shitty writing ☺️

“I could tell it was your favorite book because of all the notes you wrote in the margins.” For the prompt and whoever you would like

Thanks for the prompt!

Characters: Romeo and Jack.

Book: Unicorns? Get Real! by Kathryn Lasky.

Word Count: 1,601

Okay. So I know the book seems like an odd choice but hear me out. The original story was going to be The Secret Garden but then I went into one of my drawers to grab a stress ball (I call the drawer my ‘Stress/anxiety drawer’) and found the book, hitting me with a bunch of flashbacks considering it had been one of my favorite books when I was younger.

He knew going through his brother's things were wrong but to a curious eight-year-old, the danger of being scolded was nothing to the nagging feeling of wanting to know...Besides, he was sure he had left Cinnabun in Jack's room and he really wanted the stuffed toy in his arms right now.

Romeo bit his lip, carefully opening the door. He knew that Jack was out for a few hours, so he had a while to look for his rabbit before getting out of there. However, part of him also wanted to explore the room of the boy he looked up to oh so much.

The smell of paint greeted the boy as he quietly slipped into the room, leaving the door behind him open just a crack. He took a small shaky step into the room.

Still, the colors mixed on white backgrounds drew him forward. Jack rarely liked to show off his art which no one seemed to understand. The only idea Romeo could come up with would be insecurity. He never understood because the few pieces he had seen looked like they should be hung in a museum! Though, maybe he was just biased because Jack was his older brother.

His eyes ran over the piece in front of him, multiple brush strokes mixing just the right shades of color to make a beautiful landscape of the Brooklyn Bridge. If he focused hard enough, Romeo could feel the wind blowing through his hair as the noises of the water flowing under him filled his ears along with the sounds of the traffic, conversations fading in and out as people walked past in a steady flow.

Shaking his head, the young boy found himself back in Jack's room, the feeling of cold wood under a small paint-splattered tarp bleeding through his socks. Finally, he drew himself away from the artwork, stepping back onto the carpet, toes twitching slightly at the sudden change in texture.

The young boy scanned the room, noticing the small patchwork bunny resting on Jack's bed, right where he had left it that morning. A bright grinned stretched across his face as he found himself running over, launching himself onto the bed so he could grab the old toy, hugging her tight to his chest. It was one of the only things he had left from his biological mother and was something he wanted to keep with him at all times, even though he knew couldn't.

Breathing in the familiar scent that reminded Romeo of safety, a calm aura surrounding him as he closed his eyes, allowing himself to relax for a few moments despite knowing the risk he was taking by being in a room he wasn't meant to be in.

When he woke up, he found himself alone in the room with no evidence that anyone else had entered the room. Well, other than Tubs, the family's aging fat cat who was now resting by Jack's bookshelf.

Getting up, the child walked over to her, gently scratching her head with a sleepy grin, pausing to stretch as he finished waking up. He paused, noticing one book that had been tucked into the corner of one of the shelves as if it was being hidden from the world.

Biting his lip, Romeo crept to the bedroom door, peaking out only to find that the house was still, faint music coming from Race's room to let everyone know that he didn't want to be interrupted.

Giving in to temptation, he turned around, silently darting towards the bookshelf, pulling out the old book. Judging by the worn-out cover and multiple tabs popping out from its pages, it was a well-loved book, making Romeo question why it had been hidden away from everyone's eyes.

Running a hand through his messy hair, he looked over it. He hadn't heard of it before but something called Unicorns? Get Real! didn't seem like something that Jack would enjoy. He would think that it was an old school book but he doubted that. All of Jack's primary school books ended up going to the younger kids, yet here was this random book, hidden away and judging by the way the tabs looked, it had been opened recently. Shaking his head, he looked over the blurb.

Who can think about unicorns at a time like this?

When rumors of wild unicorns come to Camp Princess, there's a frenzy of excitement as the royal maidens prepare for the Unicorn Round-Up. But Princess Gundersnap has more important things to worry about. Her war-inclined mother has taken her beloved pony, Menschmik, into battle, and Gundersnap fears for his life. Besides, Gundersnap is much too practical to believe in unicorns. Or is she? Both the magical tapestry in the tower and her favorite local witch, Berwynna, seem to be trying to tell Gundersnap something. Could the Unicorn Round-Up be more than just a bunch of royal hooey?

The mention of war confused Romeo. Due to his young age, he had never heard of war though he guessed it was a fight...But if it was a fight, why was the princess fearing for her pony's life?

Shaking his head, he moved back to the bed, planning to read for a little before finally escaping the room. However, the second he made himself comfortable with his beloved rabbit in his lap, Tubs resting by his side, the door opened, revealing the body of his older brother causing them both to freeze as they made eye contact.

Romeo knew that Jack would rather die than hurt any of his siblings but Romeo still feared his reaction. Privacy was meant to be respected yet here he was, breaking that simple rule by not only entering the room without permission but by taking something that didn't belong to him.

The book dropped from his hands as Jack walked over to the shaking boy. Looking between his little brother and the fallen book, he sighed. "Ro...Whata you doing in my room?"

Shaky hands rose, Romeo ready to explain in the only way he knew when it came to communicating. "I'm sorry! I just wanted to get Cinnabun and accidentally fell asleep and then Tubs was by your bookshelf and I noticed the book and wanted to investigate! I'll leave now!"

Jack sighed, carefully picking up the book before sitting beside the mute boy. "Take deep breaths for me kid okay? I'm not mad. You just need to ask next time okay?" He kissed the top of the boy's head after he nodded, glad to see his shaking was starting to settle.

He looked down at the book, running a finger over the image of a princess on top of a unicorn. Part of him was embarrassed by the fact he had kept the book for so long but one of his foster sisters had owned it and often read it to him before she passed away and Jack had been moved to a new family but he had hidden the book in his suitcase, wanting to keep a part of her with him.

There was a reason he had hidden it away considering it would be a seen as a stereotypical 'girly' book. It brought back good memories that he didn't want to let go of.

"Why this book?"

"It was hidden and considering all the tabs, I wanted to see what it was..."

Jack carefully picked up Romeo before setting him in his lap. He hadn't read the book in a month or so and considering his brother now knew about it, he may as well take the time to read for it.

The second he opened the book, the two were greeted with multiple small notes, listing pages with events, written in two different styles. Listed in even smaller handwriting was a key for each tab.

Jack cleared his throat. "The princesses of the south turret." He slowly started to read, using different voices for each bio of the princesses so Romeo would be able to tell which princess was which.

Each page's margin had been filled with small notes, tabs labelled with scene names. Memories flooded the teen as he read. He didn't notice Romeo had fallen asleep until he had closed the book.

Carefully tucking him into bed, Jack silently moved towards where he kept his art supplies, an idea having popped into his mind as he read.

Allowing his hand to guide him, he smiled as he watched a drawing come to life. Losing himself in his art, he didn't notice time flying by until soft footsteps approached him.

Jack looked up, smiling softly at the sleepy boy. "Hey." He set aside his sketchbook, carefully putting down his watercolours.

Romeo paused as he noticed a familiar figure on top of a unicorn. A shy smile spread across his face. "Is that me?"

"Sure is kid." He smiled, patting the ground. After the small boy sat down, he wrapped an arm around him. "Ain't done yet but once it is, I'll give it ta you okay?"

"Can I ask you a question?"

"Go for it."

"Is that book one of your favorites?"

"It is. A few years ago, it was my favorite. How'd ya know?" Jack hummed, looking at the book he had brought over with him.

Romeo grinned as he snuggled into his older brother. "I could tell it was your favorite book because of all the notes you wrote in the margins."

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somedayonbroadway · 4 years ago

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Picture this for angst: Titanic au.

Oh yikes...

Okay so… not gonna lie, I’d never seen Titanic until now.

I mean… obviously I knew how it ended and also knew that Jack could have survived if he’d tried a little harder. But no, it’s fine!

Anyways,

Titanic AU

TW: Major Character Death (obviously. This is the Titanic), suicidal thoughts, mentions of abuse

Characters

Jack Kelly — Jack Dawson

Katherine Plumber — Rose DeWitt Bukater

Racetrack Higgins — Fabrizio

Spot Conlon — Tommy Ryan

Medda Larkin — Molly Brown

Joseph Pulitzer — Ruth DeWitt Bukater

Morris Delancey — Cal Hockley

Crutchie Morris — Lizzy Calvert

William Randolph Hearst — Thomas Andrews

Albert DaSilva — Brock Lovett

So so…

In 1996, a group of treasure hunters are searching under the sea for the Titanic, where it had been said the Heart Of The Ocean might be found. Albert, the leader of the whole fiasco, has been searching for this particular diamond for three years, becoming nearly obsessed with the lost artifact and not truly understanding the history or weight behind The Titanic or why it’s important at all.

On this particular hunt, Albert and his crew manage to find a lost safe in one of the first class rooms of the ship. Believing they’ve hit the jackpot, they head for the surface with the safe and Albert can hardly contain his excitement.

Finally opening the thing up, much to his irritation, all they find is one single drawing. Albert’s right hand man, JoJo, assures him that something similar had happened to someone else and it had ruined his whole career.

But Albert takes the thing down to the lab anyways, getting the thing recovered.

When he can see the thing clearly, he finds a beautiful young woman wearing only a single necklace and nothing else. The picture is really detailed and good and it is signed “JK” and dated April 14, 1912, the day the Titanic went down.

The story of the findings is aired live on television.

One woman in particular sees the drawing on the news. She’s with her great grandson at the time. Despite his bum leg, he takes care of her. She asks him to turn the television up, so he does. She drops the tea that she’d been drinking. The cup shatters on the floor and she makes a mess but she stands up from her wheelchair anyway.

Because she recognizes that drawing.

With a newfound strength in her heart, the old woman calls Albert DaSilva.

On his boat, Albert nearly dismisses the call until JoJo convinces him that he should really pick up, telling him that the woman’s name is Katherine Kelly-Dawson. Finally doing it, Katherine asks Albert if he’s found The Heart of The Ocean. After a few quick questions, Katherine reveals that she is the woman in the drawing.

He invites Katherine to come aboard and sends a helicopter out for her the next day. His crew tries to tell him it may be a hoax, just some old woman wanting attention. They reveal that Katherine is 100, almost 101 years old, married a Spencer Dawson, had three kids and was working as an actress in her twenties. Regardless, Katherine and Crutchie board the ship and they find that Katherine travels with a suitcase full of pictures.

When she’s settled in a room on the boat, Albert confronts her and asks if he can get her anything and she replies she would just like to see her drawing. So Albert takes her to it. The moment she sees it, her eyes water.

She can still see those green eyes that looked at her like no one else ever had.

Albert describes the history of The Heart of The Ocean, to which she responds it was a heavy, dreadful thing that she’d only worn one time.

Crutchie asks Katherine if she’s sure. And she says she is, referring to herself as a “doll”. Crutchie’s never heard her talk like that before.

After explaining that, if what Katherine was saying was true, she would’ve been wearing the necklace the day the ship sunk, Albert asks what they can offer for the information of what happened to the necklace. She doesn’t ask for any money. She instead, only asks for the picture. Albert agrees and shows her some things they found in her stateroom on the Titanic.

There are very few things, but that doesn’t make the emotion of it any less controlling. A few tears fall and she trembles a bit, but JoJo asks her if she’s ready to go back to the Titanic.

They show her an animation of the titanic hitting the iceberg and beginning to sink. Katherine starts to get really tense and emotional, so Crutchie offers to take her back to her room. She refuses.

JoJo gives all the scientific analysis and Katherine realizes that they may know exactly what happened, but they seem to have forgotten that the sinking of The Titanic was completely devastating.

So she begins to tell a story.

She states that The Titanic was called the ship of dreams. And it was just that.

Young Katherine Pulitzer arrived to board the Titanic reluctantly, with her fiancé, one Morris Delancey, and her father, Joseph Pulitzer. Morris had been trying to impress Katherine for some time, but nothing worked. She never did really like him, but this was an arranged marriage. Morris insisted it could be love, but she was much more reluctant.

After all, she’d only been 17.

But Morris is rich and smart and confident and would make a proper husband and that’s really all that mattered.

Meanwhile, moments away, in a local pub in Southampton, a young boy was in the midst of a game that may well be changing his life in mere moments. He and his best friend, a very Italian Antonio Higgins whom he’d given the name of Racetrack, are playing poker for two tickets aboard the Titanic.

It’s a close call, but Jack plays a very lucky hand and ends up winning. After a brief celebration, they are told by the bartender that the ship is set to depart in merely five minutes.

So they run.

They barely make it aboard before the ship departs, convincing the crew that they’re both American and are in fact brothers. He doesn’t let Race talk at all, as to not give them away. Then they go up to the deck of the ship and wave at the people on the shore, though they have no one to bid farewell. Then they go down to find their room, greeting their roommates who are confused as to who they are. They end up making friends with one of them, who Race calls “Spot” because of a birthmark on his arm.

Katherine is unpacking in her suite, instructing some of the crew to set up some of her paintings around the room. Morris comments that these “mud puddles” were a waste of money, but Katherine insists they’re beautiful. Truth without logic. And she adores them. Katherine is a huge fan of art and has been a collector ever since she’d been a child. Morris assures her that Picasso will never amount to a thing and dismisses the conversation easily.

He’s not a very kind man. Katherine complains about him often, though she knows it’s improper and rude. Her father makes it clear that she must marry this man to save their status as they’ve lost all their money.

Katherine knows this.

That doesn’t mean she’s okay with it.

Jack and Racer are exploring the ship together, much like they would explore a city. It’s gorgeous. They end up at the front of the ship, Jack standing right up on the edge, shouting that he’s the king of the world, to which Race replies they’ll at least be the kings of New York when they arrive in America.

Katherine is stuck inside, having lunch with many important people on the ship, including the ship’s builder, Mr. Hearst and someone Katherine finds amusing and fun to be around, one Miss Medda Larkin. Many around here think her annoying or out of line, but Katherine adores her from the moment she lays eyes on her. It’s mostly because of the color of her skin that folks have issues with her. Medda is the only one that seems to notice how controlling Morris is when it comes to Katherine.

Katherine makes a point to sit beside her until she ultimately leaves the table after her father and fiancé ridicule her for smoking a cigarette.

Finally alone, she explores the ship, ending up on the front deck.

The moment Jack catches sight of her, he knows he wants to meet her. His friends tease him and tell him to let it go. But Jack can’t stop looking at her. Not even when another man comes up from behind her and takes her out of view.

Later that night, Katherine is struggling to keep her cool. She is not content with her life and knows that once she arrives in America, that will be it for her. She’ll have to marry Morris and she goes to dinner and she meets important, rich people. While they’re eating, she presses her fork into her skin, drawing blood.

It’s only then that she realizes what she wants to do.

The moment she can, she runs.

Somehow she ends up at the back of the ship, though she doesn’t manage to get there without drawing attention to herself. Specifically the attention of a teenage artist who happened to be stargazing all alone when she rushed past him in tears, thinking no one else was still up at this hour.

As she swings her legs over the railing of the ship and readies herself to jump, a voice stops her and she gets even more frightened. Jack just talks to her, telling her that hanging off the boat like that’s dangerous as he takes off his coat and socks, explaining that he has to be ready to jump in after her. She tries to tell him the fall will kill him. He tells her that he’s not so much worried about the fall as the freezing cold water. She asks him just how cold.

And they start having a conversation. Jack tells her a story about falling through ice back in Wisconsin after ice skating with his father. He tells her it’s so cold, you can hardly think or breathe.

He promised her even still that if she jumps, he jumps too.

Eventually, she gets scared down and turns back to Jack finding their faces inches from each other.

Just as she’s gonna step back over, she slips.

Jack barely catches her. He promised her he won’t let go and that she needs to grab the railing and pull herself up.

Terrified, she listens, letting Jack pull her back over. She lands beneath him and her dress rips.

What they didn’t know is that when Katherine screamed, people came running.

When security sees Jack hovering over Kath like he was, they naturally assume he was taking advantage of her and he wordlessly let’s them pull him up, knowing his words hold no weight. He lets them out cuffs around his wrists as Morris rushes up to Katherine and helps her up. He then backhands Jack and yells at him for thinking he could touch his fiancé.

And Katherine pushes Morris away, quickly explaining that she had been leaning over the ship too far to see the propellers and had fallen over and Jack caught her just in time.

Morris apologizes to Jack only barely and Jack is released. Morris’s brother, Oscar, tells Morris that surely he must do something to repay Jack so Morris offers Jack twenty bucks. This does not please Katherine. So Morris invites Jack to dinner the next night.

As they’re walking away, Oscar comments that it’s interesting that Katherine fell so suddenly but Jack still had time to remove his coat and socks.

Once they get Katherine back in their room, Morris gives Katherine a very heavy, very expensive necklace to try and cheer her up. It doesn’t work. Morris is just trying to prove his wealth to her. That doesn’t mean she loves him.

The necklace is the heart of the sea. But Katherine doesn’t care.

The next day Katherine finds Jack on the ship, talking with Race who’s trying to woo some girl. They talk and Katherine tries to thank him, but Jack makes it slightly difficult. He’s nice enough but Katherine gets defensive and they bud heads. Jack tells her that if she didn’t like her life, she could change it. She doesn’t have a response. She won’t tell Jack that she doesn’t love Morris. Jack tells her she can leave but she counters him telling him he should leave until eventually she ends up stealing his sketchbook out from beneath his arm, telling him he probably isn’t that good until she sees his drawings that take her breath away.

He tells her that he’s been drawing ever since he could hold a pencil and the pictures he draws are of real life. She asks what was with all the naked women and he’d say he’d been in Paris and a lot of women didn’t mind taking off their clothes for him. He tells her stories about some of them, explaining that the one she called him “infatuated with” was a one legged prostitute.

Katherine comments that he really does see people, to which Jack responds he saw her and knew she wouldn’t have jumped.

Meanwhile Medda was trying to have a nice time with Katherine’s father and other rich folks on the ship who don’t necessarily like her around them. She manages to stick by them anyways as they go for a walk around the ship.

Jack and Katherine continue to talk about their dreams. Katherine always dreamed of being a reporter, chasing a story all on her own. Jack says she wouldn’t last two days as a reporter in New York, living in a crummy apartment with no hot water. She slaps his arms, telling him to stop dismissing her dreams like everyone else. So he does.

Jack promises to take her to Santa Fe and teach her how to ride a horse and then to California where they can ride a rollercoaster. He promises to travel the world with her and show her the seven wonders of the world (can’t wait for eight and nine) and she agrees to all of it, laughing with him, happy for the first time in a long time.

Jack loves hearing her laugh.

Then he takes her hand and they run around the ship. Jack tries to teach Katherine how to spit “like a man”, and she tries.

That it’s, until she hears her father behind her.

She’s pulled away and everyone looks at Jack like he’s got two heads. He’s used to everyone thinking he’s crazy. He’s never minded it.

When Pulitzer takes Katherine away, Medda asks Jack if he knows what the hell he's doing and Jack replies honestly that he has no idea. So Medda would take him and get him a change of clothes.

When she’s done with him, Jack looks like a perfect gentleman.

He goes to dinner, sticking close to Medda who knows how to behave at these sorts of functions whereas he does not.

Jack escorts both Katherine and Medda to dinner (which is honestly freaking adorable).

Throughout the whole dinner, Morris is belittling Jack but Jack ignores him completely, focusing all his energy on trying to make Katherine smile.

Once the dinner’s done, Morris and Pulitzer and the other men at the table excuse themselves, inviting Jack who declines. Morris says it was a good choice as it would be nothing interesting to him anyways. Politics and stuff like that.

Jack has to hold back an eye roll.

He excuses himself, kissing Katherine’s hand and passing her a note to meet him at the clock and make it count.

So she does.

And Jack asks her if she’s ever wondered what a real party looks like.

He takes her to one.

It’s down below. Everyone is drunk. Race has struck up many games of poker and other drinking games and has started everyone off dancing. Jack gets them a drink and is shocked at how well Katherine can hold her liquor. She says it’s nothing.

Jack dances around with a little girl, this sweet little six or seven year old (Smalls) and Katherine asks if she can cut in. Jack promises Smalls that she’s still his best girl and teaches Katherine how to blend in when neither of them know the dance.

Eventually, after mingling a little, Katherine shows men what real pain feels like by going up on point completely barefoot.

They don’t see Oscar catching sight of them all.

Jack walks her back to her part of the ship and Katherine explains to her that everyone in her crowd are so small and Jack tells her she must’ve been mailed to the wrong address.

They see a shooting star. Jack tells Katherine that it’s a soul flying up to heaven.

He tells Katherine to make a wish.

She tells him it’s no use and leaves, though Jack doesn’t want her to.

The next morning, Morris goes off on Katherine, scolding her for behaving at that party as she did. He slaps her and leaves, knocking their breakfast onto the floor. Katherine tries to apologize to the maid and clean up, but the maid assures her it’s alright.

Later, Pulitzer demands Katherine never see Jack again reminding her once again that their money’s gone.

Jack tries to catch Katherine after church, but is sent away, though he tries to explain he was there last night and is a friend of Katherine.

Jack goes back to his friends who tell him to let it go. Race just wants him to remember where they stand in the food chain, but Jack doesn’t care.

He sneaks over to see Katherine anyway, stealing a coat and a hat to fit in and then grabbing Katherine's arm while she’s out for a walk and pulling her into an empty room.

He tells her he can’t leave her alone unless he knows she’ll be alright. So she assures him she will be and that it’s not his job to save her and he agrees, telling her that only she can do that.

She asks Jack to leave her alone and goes to rejoin her group.

Later she gets out of tea with her father by accidentally spilling some on herself and she finds Race who tells her that Jack is up at the front of the ship.

When she gets to him, Jack acts like nothing ever happening to begin with. He tells her to step up on the railing and close her eyes, promising that he’s got her. He wraps his arms around her waist and tells her to leg go and open her eyes, so she does.

She’s flying.

Jack holds her tight and let’s her fly. And he sings to her.

They stay there till the sunsets and then Jack and Katherine walk around the ship, just talking and having fun until Jack asks what’s up with her necklace and she tells him she wants him to draw her like one of his French girls wearing it.

And nothing else.

He just grins.

They run back to Katherine’s room and get to work after she pays him a dime for his work. She lays out on the couch and Jack admires her as he draws her perfectly. Katherine notes that he’s blushing and he just chuckles.

When he’s done, he dates and signs it and she puts the picture and her necklace in her safe with a note for Morris telling him that now he can keep them both locked in his safe and just as she and Jack might move further into their romance, someone unlocks the door. Oscar.

Katherine and Jack are then on the run.

Jack doesn’t let go of Katherine’s hand the whole time.

Eventually, they end up down at the bottom of the ship in someone else’s car and they definitely have sex whole half the ship is up searching for Katherine. They don’t find her. At least, not for a while.

When Jack and Kath eventually make it back to the deck, they catch the attention of the lookouts who realize moments later the whole ship is headed straight towards an iceberg. Katherine promises Jack that she’ll be getting off the ship with him and they can run away together.

When the ship hits, Katherine and Jack were dancing under the stars. Jack has to pull Kath away to avoid getting hit by the ice.

Everyone thinks it’s just a close call.

Eventually, after realizing the damage is worse than they thought, Jack and Katherine go to see Pulitzer and Morris, hand in hand and prepared to come clean, only for Morris to insist that he’d been robbed as Oscar plants The Heart of the Ocean in Jack’s pocket.

Jack screams for Katherine to believe him as they drag him away, calling him a criminal and she can’t speak, not knowing what to do.

They take him down further beneath the ship and Oscar handcuffs him to some of the pipes. Jack knows he can’t get out.

When the ship starts sinking, he starts to panic.

Everyone in first class is told to get their life straps on and climb up to the deck. They do. Women and children are told to get on the lifeboats. Katherine recalls that there aren’t enough boats to get half the passengers off safety. Without thinking anymore, she goes to find Jack.

She runs into Hearst who tells her the ship’s going to sink and then tells her how to get to Jack.

When she finds Jack, Jack is alone, screaming for help because the water is rising and he can’t get out and he just doesn’t want to drown. He hears Katherine calling for him. She finds him and kisses him and tells him how sorry she is.

Then he tells her to get help because he needs the cuffs off. No one is willing to help them, so Katherine grabs an ax and runs back to Jack. After some not so promising test swings they manage to break the cuffs and run, finding their way to Race and Spot whoa really arguing with the man who has the entire lower class on the ship locked behind a gate, not allowing them to get to the surface.

Spot is trying to argue, saying there are women and children down here too but no one’s listening.

Morris goes back for the necklace which he puts in his pocket before trying to find a ship that will let him board. He bribes a crewman for passage on a lifeboat and is about to board the thing when Oscar tells him he found Katherine and she’s with Jack. Morris is torn, but rushes to find Katherine.

Jack and his friends try to find another way out, resorting to grabbing a small bench and ramming it into the locked doors and letting the lower class people out so they’d have a chance.

Jack tries to get Katherine on a boat, only convincing her when Morris finds them and helps Jack lie about having bribed someone on the other side of the ship after giving Katherine his coat. Jack goes along with it, trying to keep Katherine safe. But she jumps back on board after they begin to lower the boat.

He jumps, she jumps.

When Jack rushes down to her they run and Morris realizes he left the necklace in his coat which Katherine now wears. Morris sends Oscar after them with a gun.

Oscar tries to kill them. Eventually, Jack gets the upper hand. But Morris grabs the gun and chases them.

Jack and Katherine are forced to run down where they once again get trapped behind a gate. The man with the key to their release throws it into the water and Jack only manages to find the things and unlock the door just in the nick of time.

Race and Spot are trying to fight for their right to live with nervous security who end up accidentally shooting Spot. He dies in Race’s arms. Race takes his life vest and kisses him on the head as he goes.

Morris finds an abandoned child and uses her to get a seat on a lifeboat, abandoning Katherine and Jack and Oscar all at the same time.

Oscar jumps overboard and dies on impact. Race gets crushed by part of the ship. Hearst resigns himself to dying in the grand entrance of the first class cabins.

But Jack and Katherine keep going. Jack says they have to stay on the ship for as long as possible. So they do. He holds her hand the whole time.

The ship is sideways. They’ve climbed to the top and are on the other side of the railing. Katherine comments that this is where they first met and Jack kisses her deeply before explaining to her what they have to do once the ship goes under. Kick for the surface. Hold her breath and kick for the surface.

Katherine emerges but Jack doesn’t. Not right away. Someone grabs at her, nearly dragging her under until Jack finds her and fights the guy off, helping Katherine swim over to the wreckage and helping her up on a piece of the boat that’s still floating.

(Okay, look guys… they both could have survived that day, alright? But it makes for a much less dramatic ending and even though myth busters proved it could’ve worked, were sticking to the script here)

There’s only room for one of them.

So Jack floats beside her and holds her hand, shivering but talking nonetheless.

Jack tries to tell Katherine that the boats will come back for them, though they both know it’s a lie. Katherine tells Jack that she loves him and he tries to tell her not to say her goodbyes. But he ends up telling her he loves her too.

Jack makes Katherine promise him that she’ll survive. That she’ll grow old. That she’ll make it.

And she does.

He asks her to promise that she’ll never let him go.

And she does.

Hours later, Katherine is delirious. She’s still gripping at Jack’s freezing hand, laying on her back and watching the sky.

A shooting star crosses it.

That’s when she hears someone calling for survivors. She calls for Jack, telling him they’d made it. He doesn’t respond.

No matter how hopeless she was, she had made him a promise. Even though it pained her through and through, she did what she had to, turning to the boy… the man that her heart and soul would forever belong to, and telling him that she’d never let go, as she lets his body fall beneath the surface of the ocean. She sobs as she watches him go.

But she swims over to a dead body nearby, grabbing a whistle and blowing it as loud as she can.

And they come back for her.

In 1996, the entire crew is staring at her in shock, including Crutchie who has never heard this whole story. Katherine explains that she saw Morris one more time but did not make contact and last she heard, he’d taken his own life when the depression hit America.

After that, she’d lost Jack. she began to introduce herself as Katherine Kelly, believing Jack was now her guardian angel, which he was.

She made contact with Medda who grieved with her for a boy they’d never get to see again.

Katherine explains to Albert and his crew that Jack Kelly had no records. So no one knew he existed. He lived only in her memory until Medda had brought her a picture one day.

A sketch of one Jack Kelly, done by a professional.

Then, the old woman reaches into her purse, the one she’d always carried, and she pulls out an old piece of paper, showing her great grandson and Albert the smiling face of her guardian angel, the one that was watching over them at that very moment. She’d tell them that every time she felt an ocean breeze pass her by, she knew it was just Jack laughing.

Jack had saved her in every way a person could be saved.

Katherine went on to live a great life. She’d met her husband, Specs, she’d ridden a rollercoaster, a horse, she’d explored New York and even published a few articles herself. And all of it was because of Jack.

Crutchie takes Katherine back to her room that night.

And Katherine wakes up hours later, walking barefoot to the back of the ship, admiring a shiny blue necklace. The Heart of The Ocean. And then she drops it in, smoking as she watches it leave.

The next night, warm in her bed, Katherine’s heart gives out. Charlie watches a shooting star cross the sky.

Jack is waiting for Katherine when she opens her eyes. He’s waiting for her by the clock. And Katherine meets him right on time, suddenly seventeen again. Forever and eternity.

And she’s with Jack again.

And everything’s okay.

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