"Right, don't touch anything metal, it could have been lightening." Elliot said which did not help Jac in any way.

"No, I checked with the receptionist to give Jac piece of mind, the building has a lightening rod so if it's struck, the energy is diverted to the ground safely." Jonny explained.

"Well what was that noise then?" Jac mumbled from under the duvet.

"I don't know sweetheart." Jonny replied. Elliot opened the bedroom door and he could hear screaming and people panicking. He walked up to the door, the entrance to their room, and opened it to complete and utter chaos.

There were the hotel staff trying to get people to remain calm in the absolutely freezing corridor. Everyone was heading towards the stairs, but the staff were trying to go the opposite way so that they could get to the rooms to warn people. Elliot tried several times to get the attention of anyone but no one would stop to help him.

"Excuse me, please... Please could you help me?... Excuse me?"

One of the male staff made his way forcefully across the corridor to Elliot who let him into his hotel room to exit the panicked corridor.

Once the man was in Elliot's room, Mo, Jac and Jonny emerged from the bedroom. Jac was wrapped in a blanket with Jonny's arm around her shoulders. Jonny had his other arm around Mo's shoulders.

"Sorry, I can't stay to explain everything but a van has been swept by the flood water into the front of the building. There's water coming into the building and we don't know if it's safe or not; one of the supports has been taken out. You need to leave now, put on warm clothing and leave." He shouted over the noise of the corridor which was coming through the door. The man quickly opened their hotel door, left and slammed it behind him.

"Right, quickly lets put on some warm clothes and pack a bag with a few spare bits but very quickly. We need to leave now." Elliot said frantically as he ran into the bedroom. Mo and Elliot were getting changed in front of their wardrobes. Jonny had just finished getting changed when he saw Jac who's hands were shaking too much that she couldn't do up her zipper on her third jumper. Jonny jumped over the bed and did it up for her. He helped her slip on her black, northface waterproof coat and pulled on her knee high leather boots which she hoped were waterproof. Jonny grabbed his rucksack and packed a few things for himself and Jac whilst she sat in shock on the bed.

Jonny grabbed both of their phones in the hope that they would soon find some service. He grabbed their wallets and got some of Jac's panty liners and breast pads out of her wardrobe; he wrapped them in a carrier bag. He then ran into the kitchen and grabbed some cereal bars, bags of crisps, bottles of water and other snacks and put them in zip lock bags. Mo and Elliot did the same before they then met at the door.

"Right, I want everyone to stay together. If that becomes impossible and we split up, stay with whoever you can and we will be alright okay?" Elliot explained.

Him, Jonny and Mo were standing there with back packs on (Jonny had Jac's things for her) nervously awaiting their escape. They had only been a few minutes but when they opened the door, it was empty.

There was an eerily silence where only the heavy rain on the building could be heard. They could hear water gushing as she approached the staircase. There was odd bits of clothing on the floor in the corridor and they all stayed close. Because of the crash downstairs, the cold air and water was coming in so the corridor was freezing.

Jonny was guiding Jac with his arm around her waist. Jac placed one arm around his waist and the other arm around her small bump.

They were on the fifth floor and they began their decent to the ground floor. As they made their way down the stairs, a man and woman rushed past them down the stairs. They had obviously been told later than others and they quickly disappeared down the stair case.

As they turned the corner to go down the last flight of stairs, they froze. The water was already covering the bottom few stairs and rising.

"Right, if it's like this here then it's going to be deeper than our height in the street." Jonny concluded as he remembered that the hotel had several steps up to its entrance. "Can we all swim?" He asked.

He received a strong nod from Jac and Elliot but then he turned to Mo.

"You know Im not the strongest of swimmers Jonny." Mo said quietly.

"Neither am I. Its alright, we're all going to stay together." He stated.

"I think we should leave these bags. I mean, they're going to get soaking and they'll only make us slower." Jac said.

"I agree but we need to keep at least one phone with us." Elliot said.

"How are we going to keep it dry?" Mo asked nervously.

"We could wrap them in your... you know." Jonny said to Jac as he nodded towards his bag. Jac got the hint and began undoing Jonny's bag which was on his back.

"Pass me your phones. I think I'm the strongest swimmer so I should carry them." Jac said. Mo and Elliot got their phones out of their bags and passed them to Jac. Jac got hers and Jonny's phone out of his bag and stacked the four iPhones together behind his back.

The other three could hear rusting behind Jonny's back as Jac was messing about in his bag.

"Jac? What are you doing?" Elliot asked.

"I brought a few of her panty liners for her, we can wrap the phones in them." Jonny whispered.

"And before you ask, yes they're clean." Jac stated.

She stuck the adhesive side to the phones and wrapped them around. Jac used four of them, which was all Jonny had brought, but it was okay because it covered the phones completely. You couldn't see them at all.

"We can use the zip lock bags that you put the food in as well." Jac said.

"Wait. Can we put our credit cards and a bit of money on there? We can take them out of the wallets and just lay the flat inside the zip lock bag." Mo suggested.

"Yep, pass them here."

After Jac had finished making the small parcel , she wrapped it in a carrier bag, ties several knots in it and held it tightly in her hand. They had stopped on the stairs just before the water so they didn't spent more time than they had to in the water. Mo squatted on the stairs to look towards the door but she couldn't see a gap to get out.

"We're trapped." Mo stated.

"What?" Jac shrieked.

"Look, the debris is blocking the entrance." Mo said. The other three carefully squatted and saw that as well as the van, there were parts of trees, traffic lights and floating bins that were blocking the entire hole; barely any light was getting in.

Water was still pouring rapidly through any gaps it could find and the water had now risen to the first three steps.

"There must be a fire exit out the back way- Wait. I saw one next to the swimming pool, we can use that one." Jac said quickly however, she still didn't want to enter the icy, fast-moving water. Jac took a deep breath, tightened her grip on the bag and put her other hand comfortingly on her stomach.

"Right, lets go." Jac said as she put her foot on the first submerged step. Luckily, the water didn't come through her knee high boots so she went to the bottom of the stairs to find that the water was about an inch below the top of her boots. The other three soon followed.

It was easy for them to walk towards the back of the building because the water was flowing that way. It gave them a bit more hope because they realised that if it was flowing it must have been exiting somewhere.

But then they realised as they reached a set of five stairs, that the water wasn't going over the stairs; it was flowing very fast through an open doorway down stairs which looked like it was pouring into the basement. Jonny cautiously grabbed Jac's waist and guided her around the doorway and up the stairs to make sure she didn't fall down there. Once the four were at the top of the stairs, they entered the room that contained the swimming pool. It was pristine blue and hadn't been touched at all.

They headed their way towards the fire exit and opened it to a small metal staircase. The fire exit opened onto the bank of the river Thames, it was only a few meters away. It was still raining fairly heavily, There were numerous boats sinking and debris floating everywhere.

Then they heard a noise. They looked frantically around the river looking for the source of it. Jac saw it first, she jumped for joy as she pointed towards the orange RNLI life boat. There were three crew on it.

"Hey! HELP OVER HERE!" They all shouted and waved to get their attention at the slow moving boat, it was obviously looking for people. Luckily, they saw them and they turned the boat around and navigated slowly through the debris that had collected at the side of the bank until they reached the edge of the river. They were only metres from the staircase when one of them used the megaphone whilst they were still using the engine to fight the current.

"Stay calm, we can only take two of you but I've radioed another boat and they'll be here soon. We can't come any closer to the edge so you'll have to swim here. We need to take the most vulnerable first."

"I can't swim in that current." Mo stated nervously.

"Neither can I." Jonny agreed.

"Elliot?" Jac asked.

"Yes, I could do that I think." He said softly.

"Right, Jonny do you know my mobile number?" Jac said as she took charge because she was the most confident swimmer.

"Yeah, why?"

"I'll swim you over, then Mo. you two can go first." Jac said as she handed the bag with their phones in to Elliot.

"No Jac, I don't want to leave you." Jonny said as the rain continued to pour onto his hood.

"Jonny, I'll be fine. The other boat will be here and I've got Elliot. Come on who want to go first?" Jac asked.

"I will." Jonny replied. He obviously trusted Jac.

"Right, keep hold of my hand okay?"

"Yep. I trust you Jac." He stated as they both put their feet onto the first submerged step.

They got to just below bum height water and they were struggling to beat the current. Jac was just managing to keep her bum out of the water so that she didn't risk any infection to the baby. They were just a meter away from the boat and Jonny grabbed onto one of the handles on the side of the boat. One of the RNLI men pulled Jonny into the boat whilst Jac made her way back to the stairs.

"Jac, I can't do this." Mo shouted as the icy rain hit her in the face like a thousand knives. She could barely swim a length in a normal pool without having to hold onto the side let alone swim in the strong current where the cold water had already numbed Jac's lower legs.

"Mo, Trust me."

"I can't do-"

"Mo, trust me." Jac said firmly as she held her hand out. Reluctantly, Mo took Jac's hand and slowly entered the perilous water.

The current took Mo by surprise as she fell into Jac.

"Mo stand up... That's it, come on." Jac said as she waded through the fast flowing water towards the boat.

The second guy pulled Mo onto the boat and gave her a life jacket. "Jac, be careful." Jonny shouted from his seat as Mo sat next to him.

"I will, I promise." She shouted back as she tried to run through the water, back up the steps and next to Elliot.

Just as their boat began slowly moving away through the debris, thunder rumbled. Jac froze on the spot but Elliot moved in front of her and awkwardly hugged her because he knew it would make her feel a little safer.

As soon as Jonny heard the thunder, her looked back at Jac. He saw Elliot hug her and relaxed a little as they speed along, bouncing on the waves of the Thames.

Jac realised that she would have to tell the RLNI people that they couldn't go too fast because she was pregnant so they couldn't bounce roughly on the waves. Her and Elliot were left stood in the pouring rain, waiting for their boat to come.

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