"Jimmy!” Sally yelled and launched herself at her weary brother as he stepped from the Coast Guard cutter to the dock where everyone was waiting. Jimmy stumbled and weaved as he gladly accepted his sister’s welcome. His smile was tired but warm and grateful. He held his sister both to feel the love and to stop himself from falling over.
As Rick stepped from the boat he put both his arms around Jimmy and Sally. Seconds later everyone was wrapped in a group hug. Judith and Robert, Sandy and Nelson, Jimmy, Sally, and Rick. Even Ensign Robertson jumped from the boat and added himself to the group. Coast Guard Captain Brunsden smiled from the deck of his boat, glad that everything was now in hand and that no one had been seriously injured.
They all turned to look at police vehicles speeding a
