(2) The Missing

by Dequincyx

Before, CPS worker Clare Dunning's only focus was keeping Tommy safe from his abusive father. But when Tommy and millions of people around the world vanish without a trace, the only thing on her mind is finding Tommy and getting out of a now chaotic L.A. What happened to the missing? Where did they go? What 'caused them to just disappear? UFOs? Radiation? Or...the Rapture?

1. (1)-Without A Trace

The
Missing.

For this reason, you be ready too...because the Son Of Man will come at an hour you do not expect-(Matthew 24:44)

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(1)-Without A Trace.

Los Angeles, California-(1995)

At the L.A. police station, 35-year old CPS worker Clare Dunning sat in a chair in an office in front of a desk the male commissioner was sitting behind, giving her statement to him. She shouldn't have even been here. She should've been at home at the cabin in the forest with Tommy...who would probably be terrified to wake up and find that she was gone. Except Tommy wouldn't wake up and he wouldn't be terrified, because he was gone. And with two hours passed, as well as the time that was passing now...it seemed like he was never coming back. Clare knew that reporting Tommy missing to the police would likely lead to her eventual arrest for kidnapping him...but what did all that matter now?

"I'm just trying to establish if your experience is the same as the others." Said the commissioner.

"Okay. We were at the cabin, both of us-me and Tommy." Said Clare.

"Tommy's your son." Said the commissioner.

"No. I'm his guardien. His Mother died in 1990 when he was 5." Clare lied. She hated lying, especially during a time like this. But she knew that if she had told the truth, the commissioner would've most likely arrested her on the spot. And she knew she would be no help in finding Tommy if she were locked away.

"What about his father?" The commissioner asked.

"He became an abusive drunk after Tommy's mother passed. I have custody of Tommy now. But anyway, back to my story. We were at the cabin in the forest and Tommy had turned in for the night and i had dosed off on the sofa while watching TV. While i was asleep, i had a horrible dream. I dreamt that Tommy and millions of other people around the world had vanished without a trace...and when i woke up...the nightmare had actually come true. And...Tommy was gone." Said Clare as she began telling her story, leaving out the part about Jesus being in her dream and taking Tommy and all of the other millions of people to Heaven.

After all, who was gonna believe that? Certainly not the police. Besides, what was there to believe? That part of the dream was just that and nothing more. It hadn't really happened.

Had it?
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