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Maybe aninetism was just that--he would have been attracted to her no matter where or when or how they hadto know ently

"What do you mean?" she asked

"I know about your ith the police--before and after you became an officer But what happened before then? What’s the real story on the plane crash?"

She stared back at hiht that she would brush him off with a casual remark But she hesitated "You already think I’m crazy"

"I know that the s may be possible Or the illusions that we create in our mind may seem very real I’m serious Please Tell me What happened with the plane crash?"

She took a deep breath and looked away from him He knew that the memory was painful, but she had apparently decided to share it

"The weather was bad throughout the flight, but our flight attendant kept assuring us that it was like bu over the waves in the ocean I was only twelve then, but even I knehen it went straight to hell The flight attendant went rushing by us, white as a sheet, crossing herself The plane began to heave and twist, and when it went to the side, I knew that so next to my mom, and she threw her arers started screa I can still hear the sound in my mind sometimes…"

"I’ out their cell phones, trying to say goodbye to loved ones Most were just screaled, I’ainst a terrible wind shear--I learned that later The plane broke up as it hit the ground Luggage flew, nobroke off The plane spun around The next thing I kneas sideways down on the tar with the reed to undo round I shouted for e"

She stopped speaking Jackson urged her on "And what then?" He almost whispered the words

"Games in my head? In ers They had turned into yellow light, and they rose froht, and I wanted to get up and follow them I saw my mother, and I shouted for her, but she was ahead with my father They had found one another, andat my mother with a pained expression that still held hope and love I cried out for them both to wait They didn’t seem to hear me, but there was someone next to me A man in some kind of white shift, so it seemed, and he hovered down by ently, ‘No, little one, they have to go, and you have to stay It’s all right If you look, you’ll see all the light and the splendor, and you can know in your heart that you’re always safe, for the light shines down upon you’ He touched ain, the sound of sirens blaring was all around ain I spent weeks in the hospital But Eamon was there for me, my brother He hadn’t been on the plane with us because he’s three years older than me, and he ay at football camp"

"And so you made it," Jackson said "And you believe that…you saw your parents walk toward the light--heaven?--and that you were told by an entity of good that you had to stay behind?"

She shrugged "Yes, that’s ist of it And, so now, you think I’ht to be crazy?"

"You survived," he said

"Yes, I survived My broken bones mended, and my burned flesh peeled away, and thankfully, I don’t even bear a scar"

"I don’t quite believe that, but you went into law enforcement, and you’ve helped in many cases," he said "Any connection?"

She smiled ruefully "Not really I fell in love, lost the man I loved to cancer, and knew that I had to use whatever I possessed to try to help others I a of the like--it as left for me to do that seeood soul," he told her

He didn’t want to He liked her Very much

Despite the way he had ht there, in that intimate mo of soh that sounded somewhat ridiculous

"So what about you?" she asked quietly "None of us got to see your file, if you’ll recall"

He was saved fro, and shouts arise fro easily to them where they stood outside on the balcony

"Hey, please! Carrying a heavy load out here, you know!"

That caain, insistently

Jackson stepped back

"Ah, gee, honey," he said lightly "I guess the kids are horoceries were put away, and Whitney and Jake settled in

Angela spent the ti her own clothing in drawers and closets, and pausing now and then to see if she could get a sense of the children again, and she wondered if finding them would really help the team in their quest to discover the truth But she didn’t see or feel anything; the room was just a room at that moment, a beautiful one She kept the balcony doors open because the city had yet to grow hot and hu was still in the air, the huhty or ninety percent it could be and the breeze that ca more about Jackson Crow He had become human to her; she still couldn’t believe that she had told him about the plane crash--and theher that it wasn’t tiht"