Chapter 10 (confessions and death)

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Victor grabs a bottle of brandy from a waiter and runs off pulling us along to a bench on the deck. 

"To life!" 

We all take a gulp and just laugh insanely, Yurio wraps me in a hug. 

"Well I guess I have nothing to lose... I'm gay too and I have a huge crush on that crew member over there" he says loudly and points at a dark-haired crew member who is currently setting up another lifeboat. 

"Is that why you didn't tell anyone about me and Victor in third class that night?" 

He looks up at me sadly "Yes, we are the same" 

I lean over and see the ship is leaning further, getting steeper. 

Victor pulls me back and takes my face in my hands before kissing me deeply. 

"Oh hell, am I going to have to spend the last hour of my life watching you two make out?" he growls but sounds sad. I'm sure he hasn't kissed anyone before, let alone a man he would actually like. Victor stands up and grabs the crew member Yurio likes who looks bewildered. 

"What is your boyfriend doing?" Yurio asks with an edge of panic in his voice. 

Victor brings him towards us. 

"Yurio, it's now or never" Victor whispers to Yurio who blushes and looks at the crew member. 

"What's your name?" Yurio asks quietly.

"Otabek Altin, you?" 

"Yurio Plisetsky" 

"Well Yurio, like your friend Victor said, it's now or never" 

Otabek grabs Yurio and pulls him into a deep kiss, they pull away when Otabek's name is called by another crew member. 

"I have to keep going, I'll see you in paradise Yurio" 

Yurio gasps and cries as Otabek runs off, Victor hands him the brandy and he has another drink before I take it off him and take a big gulp of the warm fruity liquid.

It's all we can do now, drink. I lay in Victors arms and laugh with Yurio. 

"So you guys had sex yet?" 

I cough and Victor laughs. 

"Maybe" I whisper and wink. 

"Well how was it" he elbows me. 

"Amazing" I feel myself blushing as Victor runs his fingers over my sides. Well at least we are distracted from our impending doom. 

As the minutes pass, the ship sinks lower. 

Soon chaos breaks out near us as what looks like the last lifeboats are pulled from the top deck of the ship. 

"Lets help" Victor pulls us to our feet and we start pulling the boat down with several other men. It falls with a loud crash in front of us, Otabek and other crew members secure the ropes to lower the boat. 

Women and children are tossed into the boat as the water comes up to our ankles, Victor lifts Yurio up and shoves him in before throwing me in as well. 

"Victor you too!" I pull him up, no way I am going anywhere without him. 

"Cut the ropes!" Otabek yells. 

The water rises and the ship will pull us down any time now, Yurio and Victor both happen to have pocket knives on them. They both climb up and start cutting the rope on opposite ends of the boat, waves hit the boat and it rocks wildly. 

Yurio cuts the last rope but loses his footing and falls into the water, I lean over the side to grab him.

"Yuri!" He cries.

I lean further, I almost have him. Suddenly a ship window smashes, the current pulls him away from me and sucks him inside the sinking ship trapping him under the water. 

"Yurio!" I scream. 

"No!" Otabek cries. 

The window is now fully under the water... he's gone. 

I sob in my hands and turn to Victor who is holding on to Otabek and frantically cutting the ropes as waves swell up around him, he cuts the last rope and falls with Otabek into the water as the boat jerks suddenly. 

"Victor!" 

I watch helpless as the boat moves further from the man I love. 

"Victor!" I scream again. 

Otabek grabs him and swims to the still exposed part of the deck, the people in my boat paddle frantically away from the sinking ship. 

"No! Stop! Wait, Victor!" 

Every meter of separation hurts. 

"Victor I'm coming" 

I try to jump off but several people wrap their arms around me, keeping me in the boat. 

"Yuri! I love you!" I hear Victor yelling to me and see him leaning over the railing of the ship as the stern raises up more. 

"I love you too!" I scream back in tears. 

All I can do is sob, I can vaguely see Victor as he connects from his friends Chris and Phichit, I can tell from their height and hair colour, they run up the deck together. 

The water chases them closely and Otabek and Chris fall behind. The ship cracks loud enough for me to hear from this far away, even in the darkness I see the ship snap in half. Otabek and Chris both hit the deck and fall to the water. 

The hands on my arms shove me back hard and I hit my head on the seat, my head goes fuzzy and eyes close.    

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