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Chapter 5: Freewill Always Comes With Choices.
The ride was slow and quiet. Traffic was jammed because of the disappearances. The tension in the car was awful. No one wanted to speak. They soon pulled up to a small gas station.
"There is the station." Ziva said in a quiet tone.
"There is McGee's car!" Tony said with a depression in his voice.
Once they pulled in, the lady running the station, came out. She was short and stout. She introduced herself as Beverly Cannon. When asked what happened, she shook her head in sadness.
"I didn't see what happened." She had a thick southern accent. "My daughter did. A man and a teenager were in that car. She said that they never got out of the car. They started praying. When they looked up from praying, they both vanished. My daughter, Ella, won't come out of her room. Please take that car away! She's going crazy!"
Gibbs stopped to talk to Mrs. Cannon more on the incident, while Tony and Ziva looked at the car.
"They were praying?" Tony looked stunned. "I didn't know McGee was Christian."
"He wasn't! See, that means I was right, none of this is what you say!" Ziva gave Tony a know it all look.
"Danielle was, though. She might have gotten to him." Tony snapped back.
"It is only a theory!" She snapped back.
"Prove me wrong! We have no evidence against it or with it!" Tony's face started turning red again.
"You two done yet?" Gibbs looked ticked off, to the point of no return.
"Sorry Boss." They both went back to looking through the car. It was unlocked. Over top of Danielle's clothing was her Ipod. The screen showed that it was still playing the Barlow Girl song, Beautiful Ending.
"She still had him?" A.J. laughed slightly. She held up Abbey's farting hippo.
Ducky smiled back. "Did you give it to her?"
A.J. nodded back. "Birthday gift." She smiled and put the hippo inside a box next to her. "
Gibbs and Tony walked in with saddened faces.
"Did you find Timothy?" Ducky asked intently.
"Only his clothing on the front seat of his car, Ducky." Tony choked up the words.
"I thought he wasn't a believer?" Ducky asked surprisingly.
"We have no idea what happened. He must have been a Christian for him to disappear. I think that Danielle got to him before it was to late. A witness saw them praying." Tony said sadly.
Everyone sat in silence.
"How are you handling this whole thing?" Tony spoke with a sullen voice to A.J.. "Your whole family is gone and it must be hard."
"Well, I have been praying about it." A.J. put her hands in her pockets. "I talked with my friend, Chloe, about it on the drive here. Her mother and brother were raptured. It weirdly turned out, her father was the one flying the plane I was on when it happened. They both didn't believe."
"You were on a plane?" Tony asked intently.
A.J. went back to packing Abbey's music. "I was going to London for a job interview. It was late at night. I had gone to the restroom. When I came back, one of the men in front of me wasn't there. Only his clothing. The teen age boy next to him was still asleep. The man had been large and would have woken the boy. I suddenly noticed several of the passengers were gone, everything but their clothing. A flight attendant had even vanished. I knew then and there, that Jesus had come back, and I had missed him." She started crying. "The flight was turned around and I came home to Chicago. I moved there when I came out of school for an internship. I was told about the job in London. I jumped on it! I could get away from my family. No more constant pressure about religion." She looked ticked at herself. "I was stupid. I wish I could tell Abbey that I am sorry! I never meant to say that I hated her." She looked back at them. Her eyes were red from crying.
"Big coincidence that your friend's dad was flying the plane. If he had been a believer, you would have died in a crash." Tony said with a serious face.
"God has everything happen for a reason. There are no coincidences." A.J. smiled.
Gibbs smiled and almost laughed.
"What would the reason be?" Tony asked.
"One, so I wouldn't die not remembering the truth. Two, so that I could help you to know Jesus and his love." She smiled back. "God has a purpose for all of us. You just have to make the choice of discovering it. She looked at them. "Have all of you made your choices?"
"Yeah, I think we have." Gibbs smiled.
Gibbs, Tony, and Ducky all gathered with A.J. and prayed. They gave their hearts to Jesus.
"I feel like a hundred pounds were lifted from me." Tony smiled as he sat at his desk. "I just feel like I never want to do anything wrong again."
Ziva didn't look up from her work.
"Well, I am glad that you feel that way." A.J. said as Ducky helped her carry some boxes out. "It won't always be easy though. There will be trials. No one is perfect." She dug inside her pocket. "If you need anything at all, give me a call." She handed each of them a piece of paper with her contact information on it.
Gibbs sat down at his desk and smiled. "We will keep in touch."
A.J. smiled and started for the elevator.
Ziva started getting ready to leave.
"Where are you going?" Tony asked with surprise.
"Home." Ziva said not looking up.
The director came in with a sour face. "No word from McGee's sister."
The director didn't look away from them. "Also, Abbey's replacement vanished and it could take months to find a new one."
"A.J." Ducky looked at her while she was still holding her box of Abbey's stuff, trying to press the elevator button. "Isn't it true that you have a degree in forensics?"
"Yeah, why?" A.J. started to get inside the elevator.
"God always has a reason." Ducky smiled as he climbed in after her.
The End?
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