If Jack survived Titanic

"I won't leave you Rose"

It had been three days since Jack and Rose arrived to New York with Carpathia. Now, they lived in an almshouse with other Titanic-survivors who had nowhere to go. Everyone there had lost everything they had when Titanic sunk. They would therefore get a financial aid, but how much each of them would get depended on how much they had lost. Everyone had had a personal meeting with two men who worked with the tragedy of the Titanic. Now, they were just waiting for an indication, but they had no idea when or how much each of them would get.

The mood in the almshouse was low. Everyone were still in chock. It was hard for them to believe what they just went threw, just a couple of days ago. People often cried and it happened at least one time every day that someone got a dramatic panic attack.
People didn't talk much to each other. If they did, they often talked about simply things like the weather. But it happened that people talked about some relative they were going to start looking for after getting their aid. But most of them, who hadn't their relatives in the almshouse, had already given up all hope and started to grief.

Now, it was night. Jack had recovered since the night in the life boat. He lay in a bed, just as everyone else in the almshouse. Rose lay in a bed next to him. She slept too.

Suddenly, Jack woke up.
"No, no, no.."
It was Rose. She wept while she slept.
"No, please.." she cried.
Jack sat up and walked towards Rose's bed. She kept crying.
"Hey, Rose" he whispered as he sat down on the side of her bed. He laid carefully a hand on her arm which made her woke up. Her breath went faster, she sat up and started panicking. She found it hard to breath.
"Rose, Rose!" He laid his hands on her arms and held her firmly. "It's just a dream" he said, looked seriously into her eyes. "Breath just like I do" he said and inhaled threw his nose and exhaled threw his month. Rose tried her best to do as he told her to. Gradually she started to breath normally again without panicking, but she started to cry instead.
Jack hugged her.
"It's okey" he said holding her tight.
"Ah Jack.." she sob.
He kissed her head and than started stroking his hand over it, trying to calm her down.
He felt her tears hit his bare skin.
"Wanna tell me what you dreamed about?" he asked gently, still stroking her head.
Rose kept crying. Than she leaned backwards a little, so that she could look Jack into his eyes.
Jack noticed how bloodshot her eyes were.
"You died" she said. "I promised you to never let go". She sob as she spoke. "But than everything went into a disaster. I begged you to forgive me for not saving you. I begged you to come back".
First, Jack didn't know what to say. Than he wiped away her tears.
"I won't leave you Rose, I promise".