The next generation

Sequel to 'Jack and Martha, After the storm'

I'd recommend that if you haven't read 'Jack and Martha after the storm' that it would be better to read that before reading this one, it's only about six chapter's so it shouldn't take long.

Ok now anyone who read Jack and Martha after the storm is probably staring at their computer screen right now going, 'what, how could you write a sequel on that? you killed them', but you'll see.

I probably won't be updating this regularly, I'll try my best to, but considering I've still got other unfinished fic's I can't promise anything.

Anyway, here's the first chapter.

Chapter number 1. A whisper to late.

It seemed like yesterday that Tash remembered hearing the news that her best friend Martha had died, it had happened too soon, she had so much to live for, so much hope and so many dreams of what the future would bring for her and her family. No one asked about the baby then, it was just presumed that because the baby still had another two months till delivery, that when it's mother was gone, it went too, like it's fate was decided for it. But this baby was stronger than that, strong with it's mother's stubbornness, and it's father's ego, and without a whisper, it came into the world, a beautiful baby girl.

There was no one to call, the mother had no husband, she had a boyfriend, but the nurses didn't know that then, they didn't know what to do, so they did nothing, well nothing soon enough anyway, for the mean time they put her in the children's ward with all the other newborns, under the care of complete strangers.

Soon enough Jack was gone too, it was a week later, Martha's funeral. Jack was too depressed to keep living, so he ended it, leaving his life as a passed memory of the much loved cop who had only one weakness; Martha.

Another funeral came, another crowd of sad faces, another reason to cry. Then the call came, it was the hospital, they'd managed to get information out of one of the nurses who was with Martha when she passed, the nurse had told then everything that had happened in the moment's before Martha's death, Jack had been there, he'd just asked Martha to marry him, but sadly the call was too late, the little girl's parent's had gone away to heaven, leaving her behind.

So word was kept quiet, mouths were kept shut by the few family and close friends that knew, and the closest friends of the little girl's parent's (Robbie and Tasha) did what they felt best. They adopted her as their own, left town without anyone knowing, named the little girl Martha after her mother and didn't return to Summer bay for five years.

And when they returned, no one suspected a thing, no one did the maths, and Martha was accepted into the world as Martha Hunter, the daughter of proud parents Robbie and Tasha Hunter.

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"Martha get out of bed!" Tash yelled down the hallway of the apartment above the dinner where the Hunter's lived after they moved back to Summer Bay. "Martha, your going to be later for school if you don't get up now!".

"Yeah, I'm coming" fourteen year old Martha grumbled as she walked to the kitchen, still only half awake.

"Well you better be, you've got a Maths test today that you can't miss".

"Thanks for reminding me" Martha said sarcastically, pulling up a chair at the table and pouring a bowl of cereal. "What's the point of Maths anyway?"

"I don't know sweety, but just do your best anyway".

"Yeah that's easy for you to say, you good at maths, and so is dad, I just don't see how I suck at it so badly" she sighed.

"I'm sure you'll get the hang of it eventually" Tash told her, running her fingers through Martha's long brown hair that was exactly the same as her mothers.

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"Hello, how are my two favorite girls this morning?" Robbie greeted Martha and Tash as he came through the front door of the apartment and hour later.

"Good" Tash answered looking over at him as he entered the living room where she was sitting with Martha who was taking a last minute look at her maths notes. "Where have you been?"

"Oh, I just went for a walk" Robbie explained, "shouldn't you be getting ready to catch the bus missy?" he asked, ruffling Martha's hair a bit and looking over at her Martha books in front of her.

"Yeah I probably should" she agreed, closing her text book and her exercise book and putting them into her school bag. "See you later" she smiled at her parents as she put her school bag on her back and headed for the door.

"Bye" Robbie called back.

"Have fun" Tash added.

"Yeah sure" Martha grumbled sarcastically before closing the door.

As soon as Martha had left, Tash took in a deep breath and berried her head in her hands for a second before looking back up at Robbie who was now sitting next to her where Martha had been sitting before, "how much longer do you think we can keep this up Rob?"

"What do you mean?"

"She's going to figure out that were not her real parents sooner or later, I mean, she's nothing like us, she's almost a spitting image of her mother and she's just as stubborn as both Jack and Martha combined".

"Look Tash, remember we made a deal" Robbie started, "she can't know, yeah ok, I'll admit she's hardly anything like us, but like you said a while ago, she's our daughter whether DNA says it or not".

"Yeah I know" Tash said softly, "It's to late to tell her now anyway, it'd shatter her".

Please review and tell me what you think. It's my little rule that if I come to update and I still haven't got at least two reviews I don't actually put it up on the site until I do, it's just so that I know that there's actually people reading this.