Suddenly there was a major shift in the boat, causing both men to fall, and a loud scratching noise against the side. Looking up, Viktor just barely managed to see the iceberg passing the ship. "What the hell was that?" Viktor stood, helping Yuuri up before they both headed over to the edge of the boat, looking over to see the large iceberg disappearing behind them. "Did we hit it? Surely we can't sink, right, Titanic is... unsinkable..." Yuuri said, eyebrows knitted in worry. "We won't, it'll be fine. Just to be safe, though, we should take you back to your suite." Any other time, Yuuri would have insisted on staying with him, but he wanted to make sure that his mother was okay. He nodded and followed him back, Viktor leading him back with his hand in his. When they got back, Hiroko quickly went to her son to make sure that he was okay, him assuring that he was. When Viktor stepped in, though, Jacqueline snapped her fingers and Celestino and another man held him back. "What the hell?" Yuuri asked to her, her humming and circling him. "I've lost something tonight. Something precious to me." "JJ, I'm-" "Not you." She said. "Search him." "Oh, bullshit! I didn't do-" "Is this it?" The other man held up the beautiful blue ring, which he had pulled from his pocket. Viktor was silent a second before he looked up to Yuuri. "I didn't steal it, Yuuri, you have to believe me!" "He couldn't have..." Celestino and the other man pulled Viktor away, down to the lower decks where they took criminals. 

     "Jacqueline, I..." Yuuri stammered off, JJ raising her hand to hit him before simply curling it into a fist. "You betrayed me. You ran off, you got together with another man, a low class man at that!" She said. "If you didn't have money, I would call this off." She growled at him angrily, looking up as a crew member came in. "Hello, sorry to interrupt, but the captain is requiring everyone to go to the ballroom in life jackets." "Not now-" "This shouldn't take long." He said. She groaned. "This is not over." She said, Yuuri sighing and going to get his life jacket on. They headed downstairs to the ballroom, everyone just standing around. "Yuuri, do you know what's happening?" Phichit asked as he approached the younger man, him shaking his head and looking around. "No, no idea..." He said, seeing Guang Hong hurrying ahead. "Mr. Ji!" Yuuri said, coming to him. "What's going on? Why're we here?" He paused and frowned. "The ship is sinking, Yuuri... I'm sorry, I'm really sorry... In an hour or so... Please, don't tell anyone, I don't want there to be a panic. Get to a boat, as quickly as possible... You... remember what you noticed about the boats?"  That there were only half of the lifeboats they needed to save everyone? "Yes..." He said, hurrying to his family and Phichit. They immediately went upstairs to get in the boats, Phichit getting in, then helping Hiroko in. "Come on Yuuri, get in." She said. Yuuri moved close and thought for a moment. If he left, Viktor would be left down in the low decks and he would likely die. And Yuuri didn't want to deal with that. "I can't... Mama, the man I love is below decks and I have to get him. I love you mama, I'll find you in New York..." He turned and hurried to go below decks. "Yuuri!" Jacqueline followed after him, grabbing his wrist. "Stop it! Get in the damn boat, Yuuri!" "No!" "You'd rather be a gutter rats lover?" "Better than being with you!" He slapped her and immediately stepped back. "I'm sorry..." He said, running away to find where Viktor was. 

     "Mr. Ji! Guang-Hong!" Yuuri called, coming to the other Asian man. "Where would the master-at-arms take a man under arrest?" "Yuuri, you need to get on a boat, quickly, before you lose the chance to." Guang Hong said, looking worriedly to the young man. "Mr. Ji, I'm going to do this with or without your help. But without will take longer..." He sighed softly. "Alright, I'll help... Take the elevator to the lowest level, take a left, down the crewmans passage, left at the stairs, then down a long corridor. Hurry, please..." He said, looking worriedly at him. "I will." Yuuri turned, rushing down the hall to find the closest elevator. There, a man held his arm out, blocking the elevator. "The lifts are closed." Yuuri tried to push past, but the man only repeated himself, Yuuri frowning deeply. "I'm done being polite, god damn it! Take me down!" He said. "The lift is closed." He repeated, Yuuri frowning and pushing the man away, getting in the elevator and closing the iron gates in front. "Then I'll go alone." He said, Yuuri pulling on the lever to make him go down to the lowest level. He gasped sharply as the elevator began to go into water, Yuuri immediately shivering. It was freezing cold. He opened the door and looked around, turning left when he saw the crewmans passage. He hurried down it and turned left again, then starting to call for Viktor. "Viktor! Viktor!" Yuuri called, waited for a few moments before continuing through the water down the corridor. "Viktor!" Yuuri called again. 

     Viktor groaned and tugged on the silver metal cuffs on his hands, making metal clinking noises against the pipe. "Help!" He yelled, cursing when he saw water coming from under the door. He was fucked, completely fucked. But, that was when he heard his name being called out down the hall by an oh so familiar voice. "Yuuri!" He called back. After a few moments, the door opened and Yuuri sighed in relief. "Thank god!" He said, going to him and wrapping his arms around him. "Viktor, I'm sorry, I know you didn't steal my ring!" He said, kissing him. "It's okay, let's just focus on getting me the hell out of here." Viktor said, pointing to a large rack of keys. "Look for a silver key." Yuuri went over to the rack and looked over them. "They're all brass!" "Check the drawers over there!" When he couldn't find a key in there, Yuuri went to kiss Viktor again. "I'm going to go and get some help. I will come back." He promised, Viktor smiling with a bit of fear in his eyes. "Please hurry." Yuuri hurried out into the hall, going up the stairs to try and find someone who could help them. By then, though, everyone was on the top few floors. Yuuri felt an anxiety attack coming on, but he shook his head and took a breath. There were more importantly things to deal with right now. Yuuri paced back and forth until he looked up, seeing a fire axe. That would work. When he came back to the room, it was already waist high in water, him taking off his light robe and tossing it aside. "Viktor, I found this!" Yuuri said, holding up the fire axe. "Not the best, but sure, as long as I can get out." When Yuuri came close, Viktor shook his head. "Hold on! Take a few practice swings at that chest there." Yuuri turned and hit the chest, trying to hit the same spot again. However, nowhere close. "It's fine, it's fine... Just do it." Viktor said. "But-" "Before I change my mind, love!" Yuuri nodded and looked down as Viktor spead the chains out as far as he could and looked away. He held the axe up and hit, but managed not to amputate his lovers hand. Viktor laughed incredulously. "Oh, you beautiful man!" He said, grabbing Yuuri's face and kissing him as he stepped into the water. "Shit, this is cold!" He said, taking Yuuri's hand to help him out of the room. Yuuri looked, seeing the water blocking their way out. "It's okay, we'll find another way." Viktor said, able to tell that Yuuri was panicking. Luckily, they soon found a staircase that lead to a locked door. They were easily able to break that down. A crew member glared at them. "You'll have to pay for that, you know, that's White Starline property!" "Shut up!" Viktor and Yuuri said in unison. 

     "Let us out, you can't keep us down here, we'll drown! There are women and children, damn it!" Georgi cursed, looking to his girlfriend and their daughter, her blonde locks tied back in two pigtails, their baby wrapped in a red blanket. He began down the stairs, trying to find another way to get out, when he ran into Viktor, him quickly hugging the man in relief of him being alive. "What's going on?" Viktor asked. "They won't let us out!" Viktor looked around, sighing in relief when he saw Christophe. "Chris!" He said, hugging the man tightly, Chris letting go of a brunette mans hand to hug his friend. "Theres nothing the other way either!" "Well, then lets's find something!" Viktor lead everyone away, Georgi lagging behind a bit since he had to go back up to get his girlfriend and daughter. Viktor went up to a gate, looking angrily at the guard who just told everyone to go back to the main stairwell. "Open the gate." "Go back to the main stairwell." "Open the gate!" "Go back to the main stairwell!" Viktor groaned and turned for a moment before growling and tugging at the iron gate. "*Ty, mat', chertovski svin'ya, nadeyus', ty sgorish' v adu!!!" Yuuri pulled his lover back worriedly, him pulling away and going to look around for something, anything. That's when he saw a wooden bench nailed to the ground. "Help me with this!" Viktor called to his friends, who all came and helped him pull the bench off of the wall. Yuuri, who realised what they were doing, helped make a space for the two, guiding people against the walls so they wouldn't get hurt. Despite the crewmen's protests, they rammed into the gate until it opened, the people hurrying to get out of the hallway. 

     They ran up to the upper decks, everything a mess. Boats were being lowered half full, men were jumping over into women's boats. Things were falling apart. They ran to the front, the whole group of people running to the front of the ship where boats were still packing people in. "Viktor, it's only women, we can't get on!" Viktor cursed and looked down for a few moments. "Georgi, check the other side, you too Christophe." Viktor said. "Viktor-" "I'll be fine. I'll be seeing you again soon. Chris, in the blessed lands." Christophe smiled softly and nodded, hurrying with Georgi and his family to check out the other side. Viktor looked around, noticing a long green jacket and a large hat that was draped over the side of the boat. Viktor grabbed them and put the jacket on Yuuri, it hugging his figure, and putting the jacket on next. "I have a first class wife here, move aside!" "V-Viktor?!" "Yuuri... I love you. More than I have loved anyone else in my life. At first, it was just lust, seeing how beautiful you were when you danced, how your body moved, how your clothes fit you perfectly. Then I met you and I realised that you're smart and funny and so so amazing. The world needs more men like you. And they can't lose a man like that tonight. For my sake, my love, get on the boat." Yuuri's eyes watered and he grabbed Viktor, hugging him tightly. "I can't. Viktor kissed him lovingly before lifting him with a small grunt, tossing him into the boat as lightly as he could. "I love you, Yuuri, I'll find you in America!" Viktor said. He would probably die on this ship, but if Yuuri made it out, he could be okay. He would gladly die for Yuuri to be safe. But Yuuri couldn't handle that. He watched as they lowered him down, flares going off behind Viktor's head as he smiled down to his lover. Yuuri couldn't live without him, he decided that the moment he saw him. When they came close to a deck, Yuuri stood and jumped off, getting himself back on the boat with the help of a few other men. "Yuuri!" Viktor called, running to go meet him in the dining room downstairs. Yuuri ran and jumped into his arms when he finally saw him, holding him tightly. "Yuuri, you idiot! You're so dumb! Why did you jump?" Viktor asked, Yuuri kissing all over his face. "I couldn't do it, I'm sorry! I couldn't leave you, Viktor, I love you too, if I die, I want to die with you, I'm sorry." He said, just holding him close. "It's alright, we'll figure it out." He said, looking around. The room was already flooding... Viktor took Yuuri's hand and waded through the water quickly, hurrying through the dining room to a lower deck meeting room, Yuuri pulling back and stopping when he saw Guang-Hong standing in a room, staring at the clock with tears in his eyes. "Mr. Ji... You won't even try?" He asked, Viktor pausing a few moments for him. "I'm sorry I didn't build you a good enough ship..." He looked over at a life jacket, him handing it to Yuuri. "Godspeed..." Yuuri breathed quietly. "Same to you." He said, going to him and hugging him tightly before he let Viktor pull him away. 

     Leo stared out at the crowd of people rushing to get to boats. A blonde woman with a baby in a red blanket hurried to him, speaking with a Russian accent. "Captain, please, I lost my boyfriend, I don't know where he is, where do I go? Please?" He just stared and shook his head. "I don't know..." He said incredulously. She hurried away, Leo ambling back to the steering room, going and closing and locking one door before going to the next. However, Guang Hong was there already, him coming in and locking the door. "Guang Hong, you should get to the boats." "I couldn't live with the guilt of a taken up seat if I could." He said, coming close to him, sitting beside him against the back wall of the room. "I'm sorry." Leo said as he came and sat next to him. "For?" "We're going to die, might as well confess our sins, right?" He said with an almost bitter laugh. "I'm a gay man, and I've loved you since I met you on the day of my interview to sail this ship. That's why I've flirted with you so much, and I'm sorry if I made you uncomfortable." He said. "Can I confess my sins?" The Asian man asked, the American nodding. "I'm a gay man, and I've loved you since I met you on the day of your interview to sail my ship. But I didn't want to ruin my reputation, so I hid it. I wish I didn't. At the end of the day, who cares anyways." "Well, the end of our day is coming soon. So fuck it." He said, pulling on his tie and kissing him. Though surprised, Guang Hong wrapped his arms around his shoulder and kissed back, tear dripping down his eyes. "Why are you crying?" Leo asked. "Because we waited so long." He said, watching as water began to pour in through the cracks in the window. "But we did it before we died." Leo pulled Guang Hong closer and hugged him tightly. "We did." Guang Hong said as he held him close in return. With a quivering voice, he whispered, "I love you Leo." "I love you too, Guang Hong." They were quiet for a moment before, with a small weak yelp from the smaller man, the glass broke and water filled the cabin. 

*You mother-fucking pig, I hope you burn in hell!! (Russian)