Title: Beauty will rise
Author: WriterKos
Rating: FR15
Parings: McGee/OFC
Characters: McGee, OC, the whole Gang from NCIS.
Genres: Character study, Tragedy, Drama, Disturbing imagery
Summary:The Earth laughs in flowers, burps in earthquakes and sneezes in tsunamis. A Joy Buchanan story and a tribute to Japan victims of March 11 Earthquake.
Written for the Japanese, The Fair Fight and The (Un)Natural Disater Challenges from NFA Website
a/n: We were still asleep here in Brazil as the ground shook in the other side of the world and their lives were changed forever. Some were hurt; many died; many more are lost, never to be found again.
We've seen, heard and read throughout the day horrifying reports of what has happened in Japan. The scars cut into that nation's heart are currently bleeding, but I have faith that those will heal. Beauty will rise out of the ashes of their dreams, hopes and lives, and they will once again have the chance of dancing among the ruins, looking to the skies and being thankful of being giving another chance.
This is my tribute to them, a nation so great that I'm sure they will soon rebuild again.
As they've always done, time after time.
Chapter 1: 灰 – Ashes
It was the day the world went wrong
I screamed till my voice was gone
And watched through the tears as everything
came crashing down
Slowly panic turns to pain
As we awake to what remains
and sift through the ashes that are left
behind
Beauty will rise – Steven Curtis Chapman
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that 'The Earth laughs in flowers'.
As I stand here on the top floor of the Sendai Airport and watch the destruction unfolding before my eyes I can only imagine that the Earth might laugh in flowers, but it burps in earthquakes and sneezes in tsunamis.
Earth is a living and breathing thing; it only gracefully allows us to rule over its surface for the feeble length of time of our very short existence. Nature cannot be controlled or stopped once it unleashes its fury.
You can prepare yourself to the worst case scenario but, unfortunately, not even the worst creation of our imagination could have even come close to the scene that unfolds before our horrified eyes.
We weren't supposed to be here, thousands of miles away from home. Yet duty brought us to Japan, as a Marine who had been recently reassigned from USS George Washington to another Norfolk homeported ship died in an alley in DC with a small paper in his pocket.
In it, just a phone number and a small message written in Japanese.
Our investigation brought me and McGee across the Atlantic to visit NCISRU Yokosuka office before we had to head north to Sendai city where Petty Officer Williams had recently purchased a house, approximately three hours north by train from the main local NCIS office.
But nature was against us. We never made it to our destiny.
The ground beneath us shook with fury and the road stretched out before us became a wet noodle moving under the strength of the fury of the nature.
Once the earth stopped moving, we realized that we had to find higher ground fast.
Time was running out.
The waves were coming.