Chapter 47

Saturday, June 18, 2005

0410 EST

Miranda's house

Georgetown, Virginia

Miranda sat straight up in bed, her breath gone as her mouth formed a silent scream. Gasping for air she remembered that Randy was in the house with her and that he had been though enough already tonight without being awakened by her screams. However, she now knew why she'd had such a bad feeling about AJ's trip to Italy. The plane was going to crash! She had to find some way to make sure that didn't happen.

Knowing that she would sound like a crazy woman if she called in her highly agitated state, she got up and made a pot of coffee and even forced herself to drink a cup before she placed the call to the airport. Miranda started by explaining that she knew they probably got calls like this often, but that she was a physic and she had seen their flight 410 to Italy crashing into the ocean. She begged them to check out the plane and was actually pleased when the person she was talking to said they would see that it was done.

She was making breakfast for herself and Randy when the phone rang. It was AJ wanting to know how Josh was. Miranda told him what had happened and that he would be fine. When he asked if they had any idea who could have done it, Miranda told him that they believed it was Ensign Navakolf's roommates.

AJ told her that he wanted to have a long talk with her about her involvement in that case, but that it would have to wait till he returned from Italy.

"You're still going?" she gasped.

"Yes, dear. Everything will be fine, don't you worry."

"On the same flight AJ?" she had to know.

"Yes, why?"

"Couldn't you please take a different flight?" Miranda begged.

"With it being a holiday weekend everything would be booked up, it's unlikely I could get another flight. Now I really have to run so I don't miss check in." he said and added, "I'll call you when I get home tomorrow night," and hung up.

So now Miranda knew either the person she had talked to earlier had been lying to her when he'd said he would have the plane checked out or that they hadn't found any problem with it. As she tried to focus on the dream she'd had, Miranda got another vision. This time it was of search boats on the site pulling up bodies from the wrecked plane. She knew it was still going to crash and she needed to do something more to prevent it. Knowing that sadly in this day and age bomb threats were taken seriously, she felt that was her only option. The plane was due to take off in less than two hours and she had to stop it!

She also knew that calls like that were traced so she put Randy into his stroller and walked down the street to the pay phone outside of the drug store. Using a tissue over her finger to punch in the number and then making her voice sound as different from her normal voice as she could, she placed the call.

Nora and Josh were just getting home when they walked up the drive, and after explaining that daddy couldn't hold him right then Randy went to his mom instead. They told Miranda that Josh had been able to pick Ensign Navakolf's roommates out of a line up and they were probably being arrested as they spoke.

Telling them how glad she was at that news, Miranda started into the house when she had a flash vision of AJ handing his boarding pass to an airline clerk. She still hadn't stopped the flight! Turning away from the house, she got into her car and headed for the airport. Still not sure what she was going to do when she got there Miranda found that she wasn't going to get very far inside the airport at all without a ticket. Purchasing the cheapest ticket to anywhere she put it on her credit card and then hurried through the security checkpoint. Running down the concourse to the gate his flight was to leave from Miranda prayed she would find the words to keep him off that flight.

To Be Continued….