Six Months Later...

With a smile, Rose wrote the last sentence to her novel, ending a long journey she had begun just five months ago when her memories began to return more regularly. She had found that writing everything down helped her deal with the horror of Titanic a lot better. It had been Jack who had suggested that she'd turn the memories into a story...maybe one that she could sell someday, if she had the urge to do so.

Afterward, the seven hundred people in the boats had nothing to do but wait... wait to die, wait to live, wait for an absolution which would never come.

"How is it going?"

Rose turned around and smiled to see Jack leaning against the doorframe, his arms crossed and watching her intently. She had no idea how long he had been standing there, but the sight of him filled her with a sense of warmth and relief. Relief that he ending of the story had ended on a happy note. Jack had survived, too. They had been through hell and back together and now here they both were, finally whole on the other side.

"I had just finished," She smiled, taking the final sheet out of the type writer and placing it on the tall stack of paper sitting next to the machine. "There it is. Everything that had happened on Titanic...from the moment we boarded to the ship until the moments the lifeboat came and rescue arrived..."

Jack walked in as she stood up to face him. He placed his hands on her shoulders. His voice was gentl and sweet. "Are you okay?"

"Yes. I'm...peaceful. Finally getting all down...finally remembering it all...I am fine. I feel at rest."

After Jack had accepted Rose back into his life as fully as his wife, her memories began to flow back fast and furious. At first, Rose was a mess, horrified by all that she and Jack had gone through. Jack would hold her tight as she sobbed over the tragedy of it all. The people that she had known, friends that she had made...all of them gone! Then there was the terror itself...remembering the emotions and the experience...it had almost been overwhelming...almost. But with the help of Jack and Ruth, Rose had kept it together. This time, her mind didn't break. This time it dealt with the tragedy and with the help of Jack, she came through it all in one piece.

It was Jack's suggestion that she write it all down. That perhaps putting it all on paper would help her mind unload some, so the memories wouldn't be so heavy and it would help her keep it all in the past. She had been hesitant at first, but she did as he suggested and found that he had been right. Writing it all down in novel form, as if she was writing a story...it helped her a great deal. Now it was all written and she was ready to continue on with the life she had gained back.

"How about putting away for now and joining Cora and I out in the backyard? I have the day off and it'd be nice for us to make a family day of it."

Rose smiled, loving the idea. "I'd like that. Just give me a minute."

Rose stood up from her chair and picked up her manuscript. She looked at it for a second, taking in the moment. These stack of papers were memories that had sent her running away from a life she had loved..they were also the reason why she had been able to regain that life back. Titanic had both destroyed her life and given her a life that she had only dreamed of with Jack and Cora. When thinking about it, she would do it all again...well not the two years wandering the streets thanks to memory loss. No, if she had her way, her mind would have stayed intact and she would never have left Jack and Cora's side.

"Are you sure that you're okay?" Jack once again asked, watching her closely. The trust he had lost in her had returned a long time ago, but a part of him was still afraid that the memories may be too much for her mind. Thankfully it seemed that her mind was a lot stronger now than two years ago.

"I'm sure. I'm just letting it all settle. You know...I may get this published. Let the world know what had really happened on that ship...I may tweek the ending though...make it more emotional...but right now, I'm going to put it all away and enjoy my life."

"Sounds good to me," Jack grinned, watching Rose open the desk drawer and place the finished manuscript inside for a later date.

Rose sighed happily and walked up to her husband, who wrapped his arms around her waist. "I am so proud of you. You handled it all with flying colors."

"Thanks to you...your suggestion to write it down kept it from...being so heavy. It's like I had transferred the memories to paper so they're not just sitting there in my head on replay."

"Come on. Let's go get Cora. I want to take you two to the lake, maybe even do a drawing. A drawing to remember this new phase of our lives. Where we can finally live beyond Titanic, at last. A drawing tht says the future is finally ours."

Rose liked that idea. She nodded and wrapped her arms around him in a tight embrace. "Yes...the future is ours and I've finally found my way back home. I'm never going to leave it again..."

Jack looked into Rose's eyes and knew that she spoke the truth. She may have lost her path two years ago. She may have been gone from his life, but she was back now after a long hard fight. She had indeed found her way back home and he was never going to let her go again...

(A/N: That's it for this story. I have a companion piece to this one in the works, but I don't know if I'll post it here or at all. I will let you know. Right now, I am going to concentrate on finishing these other wip's that have been in the works forever and should have been finished by now. I think you for your patience and I hope that you've enjoyed this story. :))