THE STORM

Summary

PART 1

Dana regains consciousness on her living room floor with Kevin bending over her. They have made it home! Even though she's in terrible pain from her beating, Dana speaks softly to her husband, who has been gone for five years from his perspective, to come to bed with her. Eventually, they sleep after coming together in a mixture of pain and relief and love.

Unfortunately, Kevin has a hard time adjusting to living in 1976. He's irritated at how much he has forgotten and the feeling that he's not really at home. After all, he and Dana had spent only two days in their new house before the return to the past began. He also has trouble forgetting the horrors he had witnessed in the five years he spent in the past. He saw a woman die in childbirth, but in a horrific childbirth, where she was strung up by her wrists and beaten until her baby dropped out of her onto the ground. He feels like he's just on another stopover, like Philadelphia, Boston, and Maine, and he can't get over how easy everything is in 1976. Further, he had grown a beard as a disguise, because he had been accused of helping slaves escape. He was helping the slaves escape, but his altruism didn't help him ease his fear about what might happen to him if he were caught. Now, he walks around his office smashing and breaking.........

PART 2

When Dana awakens this time, she is sitting in some mud with rain pouring down on her. She stands up to look for Rufus and trips over him lying face down in a puddle. She grabs him before he can drown and pulls him out of the mud. She soon realizes that he's either drunk or sick. She begins dragging him toward the house, but eventually drops him in disgust and goes to the door on her own. Nigel answers the door, and she sends him to carry Rufus into the house. Once back inside, she comes face-to-face with Tom Weylin. He........

PART 3

When Dana returns to Rufus, he's shaking violently, and Nigel observes that he has the ague again. She can't remember exactly what disease that refers to, so she turns to Rufus who is trying to smile. Nigel remarks that every time she returns, it's like she never left. Dana says she had been hoping she'd never........

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