Another JuddxVicki heavy chapter! Sorry! I promise more of others soon! At least I have some new OC's!

"Babe!" Vicki called from her position on the couch, she was under the laptop again. It was getting harder and harder to fit the computer of her lap, but for now she was still able to comfortably, "Are you busy?"

Judd bounded in from the kitchen, "Yeah, what's up?"

"I just heard back from that girl in Australia and she said she available to chat now if we are." Vicki explained.

"Sure." Judd shrugged, "Hook it up."

Vicki got up off the couch and set the laptop up on the kitten table. The two sat in front of it, and she logged into Skype. Within a few moments, an incoming call from Alex Davis was flashing on the screen.

When Vicki answered they saw a couple of beaming young adults that could have been supermodels. Alex had a beautiful face with striking features, deep blue eyes and long brunette hair that fell in waves down her shoulders. Joel was an athletic blonde young man with brown eyes, shaggy hair and a bit of light stubble.

"Hi!" Alex exclaimed, "It's so nice to finally meet you! I'm Alex. This is my husband, Joel."

The woman had an accent that was somewhere between Australian and English.

"Hi," Vicki smiled, "It's great to hear from you. This is my husband, Judd."

"Hi."

"Nice to meet you Judd." Said Joel.

"And these are our twins." Judd said patting Vicki's stomach.

"Oh congratulations!" Alex beamed, "This is- come here sweetie," a gorgeous little boy who would be around Kenny Williams age with blonde hair and blue eyes and a gorgeous little girl a little younger with brown hair appeared in front of the screen smiling and waving, "These are our little ones, Jesse and Penny."

"Hi Jesse, hi Penny." Vicki smiled, waving at the little ones as they scurried off.

"So," Alex started, "I know it's pretty random of us messaging you."

"We're honoured." Vicki said.

"I remember seeing your broadcast at the gala back during the tribulation and thought you were just a hero." Alex said.

Vicki blushed, "It was terrifying."

"We'd love to hear your story." Judd said.

"It's a heck of a story." Joel smiled. The two launched into the tale and Vicki and Judd sat riveted.

Alex had come to Australia from London three years before the rapture to attend a really prestigious college of theology in Sydney that was linked to an enourmous church. She was on fire for God and completely passionate about learning theology and becoming a pastor back at her home in London. She started her degree and by the time she entered her third year, she was beginning to lose it. She had seen a lot of things happen in the church that she thought were hypocritical and began to feel as though God had abandoned her. It was around that time that she met Joel. He was a drummer in the church worship team and Alex had just started worship leading. But Joel had started falling away from God. He didn't tell anyone though because he loved drumming in the band and didn't want to be kicked out. The two had started hanging out and that had quickly turned into hooking up at inappropriate times.

"It was during a worship team practice that the rapture happened." Alex said, dropping her head as if reliving it, "We were mid song when the entire team, save us two disappeared out of their clothes and guitars and microphones all hit the floor."

It didn't take too long for them to figure out what happened. They eventually learnt that the entire church staff and college faculty all disappeared. Not a single pastor or lectured remained. And to top it all off, there were only a handful of students remaining. They also learnt that both their families had disappeared. Most of the remaining students were from overseas and they all wanted to go home to their families. Alex was the only student from overseas who stayed there.

"It took us about five minutes to decided that we had missed the boat and we both became Christians. We then decided that it would be up to us to rebuilt what was left of this church. It had once been huge, but more than 95% of weekly attendees had disappeared and all the ones that remained where youth and young adults." Explained Joel, "So we stayed here and began teaching the people that were left what had happened. Alex had almost finished her degree and I had completed it the year before so we both knew some stuff."

They lead the church for as long as they could and it grew and grew until the earthquake destroyed their building and they GC stronghold really took over and they had to hide or run or both. They formed groups of ten and equipped themselves with enough knowledge to go and take the message around the country. They managed to grow their groups and by the time the Glorious Appearing happened each group of ten had grown to at least 50.

"We got married around the second year of the tribulation and had Jesse the year after." Alex said, beginning to tear up. "It was rough. We had to keep running for our lives. The GC here saw us as their biggest enemies because of all we had done, you'd know all about that. But doing that and being pregnant was awful. It was a rough pregnancy and I was sick a lot but I finally had him and miraculously, we met some Christians who helped deliver him. Everything was looking upwards…" Tears began forming in Alex's eyes.

Joel embraced her and rubbed her back, "When Jesse was two he was shot by a stray GC bullet and died instantly." He explained.

Vicki covered her mouth with her hand and gasped, tears welling, "I'm so sorry."

"It's okay." Joel smiled, "We got him back. We fought for him the whole time and we made it to the Glorious Appearing. We got to see Jesus and our little boy again."

"What about Penny?" Judd asked.

"Penny was born to one of the unbelievers in our group." Alex explained, "Her mother died during the tribulation when Penny was six months old, before accepting Christ and no one knew who her father was. We took her in as our own."

"So you raised two children while running from the GC?" Vicki asked. "That blows everything we did right out of the water."

Alex smiled, "You don't even know how much you inspired us though. When things were rough, we got to see how you would put your life on the line for others and it inspired us to keep moving forwards."

"Well that's our story." Joel said, "Basically once the Millenium began, all the people from our original groups, plus the additions all came back to us and asked if we would lead them as Pastors. Jesus built us a place of worship and that's where we gather."

"Tell us your story." Alex said.

Judd and Vicki did. They told everything. From losing their families and meeting at the church, to becoming fugitives, to the fights, to their separation, to busting people out of GC prisons, to escaping near misses themselves, right up to their reunion, marriage, time in Petra and final battles in Jerusalem. Alex and Joel smiled the whole time, just excited to hear the tale.

"Wow." Joel said, "You guys really didn't stop did you?"

Judd laughed, "No we didn't."

"So what about this seminar?" Vicki said.

"Well," Alex started, "A large majority of our congregation are people our age and younger and a lot have questions about... you know… relationships and dating, but there are also a lot of young married couples. We wanted to have a seminar with guest couples who have worked hard to get to where they are and still work hard every day to impart some wisdom in to the young people."

"Everything would be covered," Joel said, "We'll fly you to and from and we have plenty of room for you to stay with us."

Judd and Vicki looked at each other, silently discussing, before turning back to the screen.

"It's in January right?" Judd asked.

"Right." Said Alex.

"We're in." Vicki announced.

Alex and Joel almost leapt off their seats with joy.

"Oh thank you sooooo much!" Alex exclaimed, "Our church is going to love seeing and hearing from you guys!"

"We really appreciate it guys." Joel said.

"It's an honour, really." Vicki said.

The two couples chatted a little more about practicalities before signing off and promising to keep each other posted.

"Wow." Vicki said brushing a tear away, "Their story is incredible."

"Yeah." Judd replied hugging her sideways.

"We're going to Australia!" Vicki exclaimed.

"I know!"

They both laughed excited for their next adventure.

Aww. I don't own LBTK or the associated characters however I DO OWN Alex, Joel, Jesse and Penny. Byeee.

Peace xo