“Serena,” was Tina’s greeting.

“I, uh, I know I shouldn’t be here. But I couldn’t…”

Serena stood on the porch with her hands buried in the pockets of her jeans. Her hair was a little disheveled and her face worn.

“It’s…” Tina began.

“Hello Bette,” Serena greeted the other half of the couple.

Without warning, Bette stepped around Tina and enveloped Serena into her arms. A stunned Serena looked at Tina over Bette’s shoulder and then wrapped her arms around the woman’s waist, immediately crying.

*****

“Hey, guys… did you just hear?” Alice asked busting through the door with Shane at her heels.

Alice stopped abruptly at the scene in the kitchen.

“Alice,” Shane complained running into her friend.

“What?” Tina asked.

Shane looked up and saw the three women sitting at the kitchen table.

“Oh hey, Serena,” she smiled.

“What did you hear, Alice?” Bette asked.

Blinking several times, clearing her sight, Alice delivered the news.

“What channel are you guys on?” Alice asked walking over to the television, “It’s on the news,” flipping through the channels, “they found the plane.”

“What? Where?” Serena jumped up.

All five women gathered around the tube.

“Once again, downed Flight 732 has been spotted by Los Angeles Search and Rescue in the Goudge Mountains ( purely fictional ) and a team has been dispersed. Flight 732 was schedule to arrive at LAX yesterday morning…”

Click. The television was turned off.

“We have to go, we have to go,” Bette said grabbing her car keys.

“Bette, wait!” Alice and Tina said at the same time.

“What!” she screamed.

“Maybe you want to put on some clothes first,” Shane suggested.

Bette looked down at her pajamas.

“Right,”Bette laughed.

Tina smiled at her wife thinking that was the first time she had seen her wife smile since Evan had left for New York.

*****

Among the furor of the ever turning violent wind, Sabrina watched the brush fly past the cabin opening. The rain had let up minutes before making her happy that the worry of water settling in the plane dissipated. And as she grown used to the deafening sound, it, too, had changed in timbre. Slowing her breathing to nearly non-existent, Sabrina listened. Soon the slicing sound of helicopter blades echoed throughout the mountain side. They were here. The people Sabrina had prayed for finally found them.