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A New Family, a New Future-Part 4:

The plan had been for Jane and Maura to ride out the hurricane but it suddenly intensified and moved faster than anyone had predicted. This now created problems as Jane and Maura didn't have enough time to change their flights and they were now stuck and being evacuated away from the coast.

"You cannot tell Louisa," Maura had said, "and make sure she doesn't know anything about it. The last thing we need is her getting panicky and upset and worrying," she had said to Angela in a phonecall, "we will Skype Louisa as normal as we will get evacuated out after the call and then just lie to her. Anything to stop her finding out the truth and then freaking out."

Of course Angela had agreed and had called Cailin and Hope, Constance, Frankie, Frost and Korsak to a family, a dysfunctional family, meeting while Louisa was at a skating session.

"Jane and Maura do not want Louisa finding out about the hurricane because they want her to remain normal and as she is because they don't want her to get sacred or worry. Now she doesn't have news alerts and her social media is set up so no news headlines appear," Angela said, "all we have to do is not tell Louisa anything and we should be OK."

Silence fell on the room as everyone thought about what Angela had said before nodding and agreeing. Cailin, however didn't say anything and Angela said that she'd talk to Cailin after the meeting. Cailin sighed but she was closer in age to Louisa and someone had to stand up for the teenager.

Constance soon brought an end to the meeting and headed off to get Louisa. Soon Angela and Cailin were on their own and Angela looked at Cailin,

"Why do you want to tell her?"

"Because they are her parents and I'm pretty sure that if someone kept something like that from me that I would be pretty angry and upset. I could also see why it would have been kept from me," Cailin said, "I mean everyone wants to protect Belle but keeping the truth from her will only hurt when she finds out everyone knew about it except her."

"But Maura has told me not to tell her anything," Angela said.

"So tell her part of the truth but not the whole truth," Cailin said, "that way she's not entirely in the dark but she knows a little of what is going on…"

"What's going on?" came Louisa's voice before Angela and Cailin turned and saw Louisa and Constance stood there.

"Louisa come and sit down," Angela said, backing down slightly. She watched as Louisa sat down before she sat next to her, "it's about Jane and Maura."

"What about them?" Louisa questioned.

"Well there's a hurricane heading towards them. It's not going to be a big one but they are being evacuated from the coast just for safety but they'll be OK," Angela said, "it's not going to be a big hurricane."

"OK Angela," Louisa said before looking up at Cailin.

"I said for her to tell you what was going on," Cailin said, "I didn't think it was fair that you should know what's going on. Now go and get changed before Jane and Maura Skype you." Louisa nodded and hurried off to get changed.

Soon the Skype call was going on.

"Stay safe during the hurricane," Louisa said and Jane looked at her mother.

"She heard me and Cailin arguing so we decided to tell her that a minor hurricane was heading your way and you were being moved inland," Angela said.

"Right well that's OK then…even though we said not to tell her Ma," Jane said.

"Well I couldn't, not after she walked in on me and Cailin. I couldn't lie to her after that," Angela said with Louisa sat on her lap.

"It won't be a bad storm so you'll be OK," Louisa smiled, "they're just moving you inland just in case. That's a very good call because even small hurricanes can cause damage, especially with the storm surge."

Maura nodded,

"That's right. You've been doing your research haven't you Star?" she questioned.

"Nope, just remember from when we did hurricanes last year at school. I still have the book with the information in," Louisa said, "so I looked up all my notes and hopefully it won't be that bad. Can I go with Hope and Cailin when Cailin moves into her apartment?" she questioned.

"I don't see why you can't if Hope says it's ok," Maura said, "we'd better go as the evacuations are starting. Behave yourself and we love you Louisa."

"I love you too," Louisa said, "stay safe and Jane don't do anything stupid." Jane laughed before ending the call. Angela hugged Louisa before deciding to distract the girl by starting on the dinner and getting Louisa to help her.

A couple of days later and it was night and Louisa was in bed and the hurricane was making landfall where Jane and Maura were. The whole group were sat watching the TV so they all knew exactly what was going on. Cailin, however, was bunking in with Louisa to either keep her in her room or make sure she didn't hear anything as, of course, she had no idea how bad it was actually going to be.

As soon as the hurricane made landfall it seemed to slow down prolonging the uncertainty for everyone and Cailin was getting Louisa out of the house so she wouldn't gather anything was up. Cailin was taking her to the rink and shopping and for coffees under the suggestion of spending time with Louisa before she moved into her apartment. The shopping was so she could get the things that she wanted to go in her new room that Jane and Maura were planning to finally sort once they got back from their honeymoon.

Finally the hurricane passed and Angela was desperate to phone Jane or Maura to make sure that they were OK and let Louisa know but Constance said that it was far too early to try and contact Jane and Maura and they would have to wait.

And wait they did and it was eventually decided that Angela would try and get in touch with Jane and Constance with Maura. They both sat and tried to call their daughters but they didn't appear to be able to get in contact with Jane or Maura. It was only when Hope arrived back after a long shift at MEND did they find out why,

"I know why you can't get hold of Jane and Maura. A friend managed to get hold of me. The phone lines are down and they don't know when they'll be back up…"