Thunderstorm

A late night thunderstorm has woken the Charming house.

Hanna woke with a start when she heard the loud boom of thunder. About a second later, the sky lit up with lightening. Hanna hated thunderstorms. The thunder was so loud and the wind was blowing like crazy. What if a tree fell on them? She closed her eyes tight and tried really hard to go back to sleep. One more very loud boom of thunder had her jumping out of bed though and running to her door, her baby blanket clutched tightly in her hands. She calmed herself down for second and slowly walked down the stairs. Luckily, the power hadn't gone out, so the lamp that was on downstairs allowed Hanna to see where she was going. As Hanna made her way to the first floor the loft, she was kind of hoping the storm had woken her mom and dad too, but when she got to the bottom and peered into their room, they seemed to still be asleep. Hanna sighed and walked over to the couch. She flipped on the TV only to find that the cable was out.

"Hey sweetie. Did the storm wake you?" Snow sat on the couch next to Hanna.

Hanna nodded her head. "The TV isn't work either."

"How about we put in a movie?" David suggested as he came into the room.

Hanna smiled up at her dad, glad that he was awake too. "Okay, you can pick which one."

David gave Hanna a wink and stuck the first DVD he found into the player. He sat on the other side of Hanna. He grabbed the blanket from the back of the couch and draped it over the three of them. Snow pulled Hanna close and wrapped her arms around her. Hanna let out a sigh of relief at her mom's embrace. She started to lean her head back when another boom of thunder roared from outside. Hanna jumped and sat straight up, clutching her blanket tightly.

"Hey, it's okay. You're not scared are you?" Snow thought the storm had just woken Hanna, she didn't realize she might actually be fearful of the storm.

Hanna just shook her head.

David and Snow gave each other a look, knowing full well Hanna was frightened. They wondered if Emma felt the same about storms.

"Think we'll see your sister tonight?" David asked.

"She's asleep. She's not scared," Hanna told them just as another loud crack came from outside. Hanna buried her head in her mom's arms.

In that moment, Snow and David heard footsteps coming down the stairs. "Oh no?" Snow said. "Look."

Hanna lifted her head and spotted her sister standing at the bottom of the stairs.

"Oh, you're up," Emma said. She looked down, realizing she was holding her baby blanket and quickly tried to hide it behind her.

Snow and Charming definitely noticed the blanket and couldn't help but smile. "You're not scared of the storm are you, Em?" David asked.

"Nah," Emma said with a shrug. "Just thought I'd check on everyone." Another loud boom rang though the house. "Geez!" Emma jumped and quickly run across the room. She crawled onto the couch by her dad and held onto his arm.

David pulled his arm from Emma's grasp and protectively wrapped it around her. "I thought you weren't scared?" he teased.

Emma just look up at him shyly. "It just caught me off guard."

"If you say so." David kissed the top of her head and covered her up with some of the blanket too. "Okay, who's taking bets on whether Neal will wake up?"

The girls all just looked at him and raised their eyebrows, knowing full well that baby wasn't going to woken by this storm. He can sleep through anything.

"Yeah your right that kid sleeps like a rock," David said with a laugh.

It looked like just their girls would be needing some comfort tonight. Snow and Charming were more than happy to give it to them.