CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
Epilogue
Three Months Later
Jack stood outside of Rose’s
room, along with his sister Caitlin and best friend Cory. It had been ten hours
since Rose’s first contraction, and Jack was going crazy with worry. Was it
supposed to take this long?
"Calm down, Jack.
Everything’s going to be fine." Cory tried to calm his friend, who was
pacing the floor.
"Yeah. Molly’s in there with
her right now. She’s going to be fine," Caitlin reassured her brother.
"Mr. Dawson?" The
doctor came out of the room, wiping his brow with a handkerchief.
"Yes?" Jack came to
attention. "Is it Rose? Is she okay?"
"Mrs. Dawson is fine, and so
is your daughter." The doctor grinned. "Congratulations. You may go
in and see them now."
"A daughter! I have a
daughter!" Jack hugged both Cory and Caitlin happily before dashing into
the room, where Rose was holding her daughter and Molly was straightening out
the blankets in the tiny crib that Rose and Jack had set up a week ago.
"Well, there’s the new
father." Molly looked up. "Come on in, Jack. Meet your
daughter."
"She’s beautiful." Jack
sat down next to Rose and lightly touched the baby’s head, brushing back her
blond hair. "She’s the most beautiful thing I’ve seen, next to her
mother."
"She looks like her
father." Rose smiled lovingly up at her husband. "Just how I dreamed
she’d look."
"What are you two gonna name
her?" Molly asked, moving to the door to leave the two new parents alone
with their baby.
"Josephine." Rose
smiled. "Josephine Margaret Dawson."
"Good name for her."
Molly smiled. "I’ll go out and tell the others."
Once alone, Jack kissed Rose
passionately and returned to gazing at his tiny daughter. If anyone had told
him nine months ago how his trip on the Titanic would change his life, he would
have laughed at them. He had never imagined feeling so much love as he felt for
the two people in his arms right now.
As baby Josephine fell asleep,
both Jack and Rose knew that their future was bright, and that from now on
nothing on earth…not even death…would separate them. They were forever a part
of each other’s lives, now and forever.
The End.