Story Ideas - Re-write (again)

My story has once again had to be rewritten but only to fix up some points that needed to be changed.

Story Idea
A light house keeper and his young daughter are setting up and turning on the lantern of the light house as a storm starts to roll in. As they watch the storm from inside their home the keeper spots a boat that’s in trouble and is heading for the rocks. The man tells his daughter to stay in the light house as he goes out to help. The young girl watches from the window as the storm becomes more wild.

Years later, in the present, we see that the girl has now grown up. She is seen standing in front of her father’s grave showing that he didn’t survive, it is also shown that she has become a light house keeper herself to carry on his memory and to protect others from the same fate. However, the grief of her loss is still with her as she now spends all of her days and nights locked away in her light house on her own with none to talk to.

However, a young man appears at her door one day and introduces himself as having moved into the old fisherman’s cottage by the shore. He tries to befriend her, commenting that he thought that she might be lonely like he is, along with trying to give her a flask of homemade soup but she pushes him away.

The man goes back to his cottage just as the weather starts to turn bad. Thinking no more about it he sets about making more soup in his kitchen, for his own lunch or dinner, with his blender. However, as he works away he doesn’t notice the lightning that is part of the oncoming storm.

Sometime later, as the light house keeper is turning on the lantern, they hears the thunder from outside and steps out of her home to see how bad it is only to find that the flask has been left at her door. Annoyed by this she grabs the flask and plans to pour out the soup on to the floor but just as she is about to do this she catches something out of the corner of her eye. To her horror she sees the fisherman’s cottage is on fire having been hit by the lightning.

Quickly making her way down to the cottage she sees that the man is still inside and attempts to save him but as she is about to run in to the building she catches a look at a bust of flames and they remind her of the waves that claimed her Father’s life. Fighting back the memory the light house keeper runs in and pulls out the man.

A few days later the light house keeper is shown standing in front of a grave once again. It is shown that it is still her father’s only this time the young man appears next to her. Taking her hand shows that she has finely opened up him and accepted him into her life.

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