“You gave me a key.” [...] “A way out, or so I thought.” Her voice fractured, the anger splintering as it struggled to hold. “But now I see, that you only gave it to me so I could lock myself back in. So I could step willingly into the same prison.” “That isn’t true,” he cried, stepping toward her at last, anguish breaking through his restraint. “I gave you that key because I wanted you to know you had choices.” “And now you’re taking it back, because those choices frighten you!" [...] "You don’t get to save me halfway and call it mercy.”
— Every Detail Matters on AO3
The Rose DeWitt Bukater/Thomas Andrews 50k wildly historically inaccurate story in which the Titanic (maybe?) makes it to harbor.
















