Take My Hand (Thomas Brodie Sangster)

Part 24 Thomas

She'd been gone too long, far too long. I watched the clock on the mantle counting seconds. She should have been back by now. I couldn't take the wait any longer I slipped my shoes back on and ran as fast as my feet could carry me down the stairwells and corridors almost all of them empty now making it fairly easy to rush though the ship until finally I reached her decks stairwell and immediately I saw water. It must have been waist high and raising fast.

"Y/N!" I yelled into the corridor but no answer "Y/N!" but still no answer 

I sighed and held my breath as I stepped down the stairs and into the ice cold water "Ohhhhh holy toad!" I sighed trying not to panic "I get why she says that now. My god its cold." I complained slowly going further down "so cold. So cold. Christ its cold." until I reached the bottom the water at my waist having to hold onto the wall to stop the water simply pushing me down the hallway "Y/n!" I called out hearing my voice echo off the wooden walls 

"Thomas!" I heard her call down the corridor 

"Y/n! Are you okay!" 

"I'm fine!"

"Then what bare you still doing down here!" I yelled moving as fast as I could towards her voice until I found her at a cabin door Immediately taking her into my arms and kissing her "I thought I'd lost you"

"It's okay, I'm fine its the door." she says "There's children inside" she whispered  

"Okay" I nodded "The lock?"

"Broken, we need to break it" 

"Alright, together on three alright?" 

"Okay" she nods 

"One.... two... Three" 

We both rammed into the door with our shoulders as hard as we could and the door did more 

"Again, One... Two... Three!"

We hit into it again the door slightly breaking water rushing into the room 

"One more and it'll go"

"One more as hard as we can" she nods even if I could see the fear in her face as the water now almost reached the top of her dress, 

"One....Two... Three!" We both hit into it as hard as we could breaking the door down setting free this woman and her three children. 

"Thank you so much" she cried helping her children out the room though the water, we helped them where we could heading quickly up the stairs the lady and her children ran off up the stairs and I pushed y/n up and out of the water first as she had been in it far longer and must have been far colder but as soon as she got out the water there was his creak from below us y/n quickly grabbed my hand and pulled me out the water as a door broke down the corridor flooding the hall with enough water that it reached the ceiling and quickly began flooding up the stairwell, if she hadn't have grabbed me I'd have gone down the corridor just from the power of the water alone "Come on we need to get higher"