Chapter 2: The miracle of 217
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Jake stared at the crash-scene, during he flew to it. Under him he could hear loud sirens of ambulances and fire-trucks. Jake was worried. Is his father okay? What happend there? Jake saw that the plane crashed far away from the town, on a acre of something else. He thaugt that it have to be good, no one other would be hurt or killed.
Jake arrived the crash-side and was shocked. The plane, or the leftovers of it, was totally in fire. Behind it, Jake could see that the plane had to slip around a half mile above the acre before it stopped. Both wings and both engines layed demolished far away from the burning remains. Maybe they breaked away during the plane smashed into the ground. And between all this mess, Jake saw walking, crying and 'injured' people.
Slowly and carefully, Jake landed in the wood near the acre. Sure that nobody could see him, he transformed back and ran to the crash-scene. He hide behind some bushes and observed the people. Worried, he looked around and found him.
Jonathan Long sat on a suitcase between some cargo-containers and stared at the burining passenger-cabin. Jake looked at him, relived that he is okay, and slowly sneaked to him. Jonathan saw him, stood up and both ran into thier arms. Happy to see him, Jonathan start to cry.
"Oh my goth, dad are you okay?" Jake asked and showed his father the bushes, he thaught that it would be better when nobody see Jake, or they will think that he was on board, too.
During they walk the emergency-cars arrived and alover the place ran fire-fighters and paramedics. Both hide in the bush and talk.
"AW Jake, I'm so happy to see you! I had thaught that , that...." Jonathan was sure under shock. He couldn't talk above what he saw.
"It's okay, dad! Nobody could have a presentiment that this will happen." Jake said and looked at the plane again. A group of survivors walked to the ambulances and the fire-trucks sprayed some water and foam on the wreck. "How are you?"
"My head... it hurts! And... I... feel very strange...!" he said and realized that he had a bloody wound on his forehead.
He looked at the burning plane and shaked his head. Than he looked at the other people. Jake saw that there had to be around 70 survivors. That was a really miracle.
"Dad, you should go to a doctor. For a check up." Jake said to his father and pointed at the group of ambulance-cars.
"And you?" Jonathan asked.
"When they see me, they would think that I was in the plane, too. And how should I explain the others, that my name is not at the passenger-list?" Jake said and took Jonathan's boarding-pass out of his pocket.
"Yes, you're right! Please, tell your mother that I'm okay. I come home as fast as possible. But, please... that I'm okay. Yes..." Jonathan said.
"Okay, go before they miss you!" Jake said and walk away.
Jonathan steped back and, even found his suitcase, and arrived the ambulance-cars when he was found by an paramedic.
"Mr., ...are you okay?" the man asked.
"A...what...? Oooo...yes, yes..."
"It's all okay!" the man said and showed his first-aid-case. "Now, we will look at your wound!"
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Jake walked threw the wood and looked for a place he could transform. When he arrived a long path. Some news-cars and other vehicles raced above it to arrive the crash-scene.
Jake took his mobile and called his mother at home.
"Long!"
"Mom, it's me! Mom, it's very important switch on the TV and look... " Jake looked on the news-trucks, "...ahhh... Channel 1 or NNY! But before you do this, I have to say: I talked with dad, right now and he is okay!!!"
"What do you mean with, he is okay?" Susan said and Jake could hear the TV in the background. "Jake...what happend?" Jake heared the worried voice of his mother.
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The news reported very fast above the crash. In her kitchen a young woman looked at her little TV and saw the report above a plane-crash near New York. She leaved the flat and walked to a phone-booth in the corridor. She was really angrilly when she called the man again.
"Yes!"
"I hope you are happy now!" she yelled angrilly.
"What do you mean? Maybe, we saved thousands,... no... millions of lifes!"
"YES, ...MAYBE...!!!" she shouted and hang off.
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The Longs arrived the hospital in Bronx, only around 10 minutes after they found out where Jonathan was. Susan almost got unconscinous when she saw the pictures of the burning wreck in the TV. She shout, took Haley and her father and sat in the car.
The hospital was totally overloaded. All over, survivors and injured people. The Long's waited in the lobby when Jake arrived and met them.
"Jake, how is your father?" his mother asked really worried.
"I observed everthing, since he sat into the ambulance car. He is okay. But nobody here talk to me all where to busy." Jake said and pointed at the chaos in the building.
"Did you found him?" Haley asked.
"He is in the second floor. I show you!" he said and all followed him to Jonathan's room.
Jonathan stood in the room and looked into the mirror. The Longs entred the room and all start to cry when they start to hug. Instead of a little wound on his head, and the fact that Jonathan was under shock he was okay. After the big hug, Jonathan took his briefcase and gave it Lao Shi.
"Your indegrients! It was difficult to bring it into the plane." Jonathan said and sat down.
"Thank you! But,..." Lao Shi didn't know what he should say, he felt guilty.
After a few minutes of talking, two men entered the room and showed thier badges. The both men where policemens who wanted to bring Jonathan home. But after they saw his family they leaved the room again.
"Mr. you can be happy to have so much luck! That all passengers had so much luck!" one officer said.
"A... Exuse me," Haley started "All?!"
"Yes.... instead of the both pilots, all people aboard survived!" they said.
The Longs where really surprised and confused. Jake could see the wreck. This was a really miracle.
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It was on all channels, in all news and everybody talked above it. On the same evening the Long's come back home, Jake, Haley, Susan, Lao Shi and FuDog sat in the living room and watch the news. Jonathan was in the bathroom and took a shower.
"...they call it the 'Miracle of 217'. All 72 passengers and three of the five crew members, survived the terrible plane-crash, around 6 hours ago in the north of New York. The plane from the InterFly Airways crashed during approaching LaGuardia Airport...." the ancorman told during the Longs could see actual pictures from the wreck.
"Oh my goth! Fortunately dad is okay." Haley said.
For a short moment, Jonathan was in the picture during he found his briefcase: "...so you look, ladies and gentleman, someone even found his baggage, a few metres away the pilots,... the heroes... who saved all this people, died pitifully in thier seats. As the cockpit broke away, the fire hits the cockpit..."
"That's terrible!" FuDog said and pressed the volume button to make it louder.
".... what.... ahhhh.... ladies and gentleman, a few mintes ago a eye-witness send us this video from the crash..." the anchorman explained fast and a video from the sinking plane was started.
The Long's looked terrified on the screen, they didn't realized that Jonathan stood behind them and could also see how the plane, hit the ground and disappeared in a cloud of dust and dirt. Fire, and loud noise was hearable. The right wing, and than the left wing broke away, before the plane got in fire and disappeared in the smoke.
Jake looked behind and saw his father stare on the screen. He realized that he saw the crash again. "DAD!" Jake shouted before he took the remote-controler and switched of the TV.
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Jonathan and Susan layed in thier bed and talked.
"You have to know...I was feared. I was really afraid that I will never see you again." Jonathan told.
"Oh, Jonathan!" Susan said and start to cry. "The main-thing is that you are okay. That you are unwounded!!!"
"After the crash..." Jonathan told. "I feld, strange... like that I got a second chance..."
"That's good Jonathan." Susan said and closed her eyes happily.
Jonathan layed in bed for hours awake. His head hurts terrible. He couldn't sleep, but he feld tired. He stood up and entered the bathroom, he need some water. Jonathan walked, rolling into the bath and took the glass from the little table. When he opened the faucet he looked into the mirror and saw that he bleed out of his nose. A little angrily, he took a tissue and could see that his left arm was full with black pimples.
Jonathan was totally terrified. He drop the glass and looked into the mirror again. The blood and the pimples disappeared..._____________________________________________________________________
End of chapter 2
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