Hi everyone, I know your use to werewolves and faeries from me, but it you don't mind will you give this story a chance and let me know if I should continue it or just toss it out, I would appreciate it very much.

Disclaimer: I don't own the characters of SoN and I mean no disrespect to anyone who live in or are of Eastern decent. I know nothing of the area, so I just made it up as I went. If this offends someone please let me know. Thank you.

Disclaimer 2: I got the idea from another book but I changed it around and put in the SoN characters the book is called Montana Secrets, I don't it nor am I making any money off of it.

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I Won't Give Up

Chapter 1

Lt. Ashley Davies was sitting at her desk rubbing her eyes with the palm of her hand. She'd been working non-stop trying to get everything ready for the next Lt. To take her place. She had been stationed in Salalah in the Middle East for over fourteen months now. Salalah was an amazing coastal city. On one side of the city was the Arabian Sea and on the other there was nothing but endless desert.

As much as she enjoyed her job, she was beyond excited to be going home to finish her time in the military. No if Ashley was being truthful, her excitement was because she would be returning home to her fiance's. Ashley sighed, there was so much work to be done, but the view from her fourth story office had her mesmerized. The view of the boundless Arabian Sea would have anyone captivated, but with its expanse as still as glass and its color a deep penetrating blue, it reminded her of Spencer's eyes.

Ashley smiled to herself at the memory of the devilish sparkle in her intended's baby blues. It was one of the qualities she'd noted the first time she met her some six years ago in the summer before her senior year of high school.

She was invited to spend the end of the summer at her best friend's family ranch in Ohio. Glen had stuck beside her through thick and thin causing them to become inseparable. That was the time that she met Spencer, Glen's baby sister. That summer she remembered Spencer following her and Glen around like a lost little puppy. At the time it was considered to be a major pain in the ass, after all Ashley was going to be a senior, she didn't have time to babysit a tag along, especially someone who was going to be a freshman in high school. Her and Glen avoided Spencer as much as possible, but Spencer soon retaliated by placing horse manure in her shoes and somehow getting the Carlin's roaster into her room. To this day Ashley never understood how Spencer accomplished this, it had taken her the afternoon with the help of Glen, a sheet and a very skillful tackle to remove him.

Too soon the summer ended, and Ashley went in to senior year with Glen wondering what to do with her life. They had decided after graduation they would attend cadet school with the hope of doing something good with their lives. As time went by, both were commissioned into the Marines. Ashley was invited once again to spend the summer at the Carlin ranch. A lot changed that summer, especially Ashley's perception of Spencer. She noticed that the gangly teenager she once knew wasn't so gangly anymore. Spencer was a willowy young woman with long blond hair, endless legs, and a beautifully sculpted face. The only trace of the pesky little kid was the teasing gleam in her gorgeous blue eyes.

Ashley was blindsided by Spencer's transformation and had fallen in love. She didn't know if she had ignored her or had taken for granted who Spencer truly was. It wasn't just Spencer's beauty, but her wonderful qualities as well. Her warm personality, her sense of humor, her intellect and her loyalty to her family and friends. She had stopped calling her The Pest, in her defense; Glen came up with the nickname. Instead she dubbed her Kalila, an Arabic name meaning 'Dearly Loved.'

That was two years ago that she was struck by the love bug. She knew that as soon as her current tour of duty was over, some agonizingly long eight months and a few days, she'd see her beautiful Kalila again. No, not only see her but marry her on the spot. She was ready, and would gladly shuck military life to spend the rest of days with Spencer by her side. Finally she would leave her current chain of command to follow her heart's desire.

It was on her last leave that she realized the military was a poor substitute for fulfilling her dreams, having a home, a family of her own. Ashley chose the military after her father died in a fiery car accident off a San Diego highway, he was high on drugs at the time. He had his flaws and his own demons but he was the only parent that wanted anything to do with her. Her mother hated her guts from the moment she came out of the closet in High School. She had lost so much back then and only Glen stuck by her side and became her best and only friend. They had made a pact to join up together, so they did at the end of graduation.

Stuck in deep thoughts looking out the window Ashley realizes it's time to stop hiding. Hiding who she really is and who she really loves. Her father, accepted her for who she was and now it was time for her and the world to accept her for the real Ashley Davies.

Ashley turned from the window as Glen stepped into the office from the adjoining room.

As it had happened, after they graduated from cadet school, they were assigned to the same unit of Marines that guarded the embassy, but in reality they were the crack shot duo of counter terrorists under orders from the Pentagon to locate and identify anti-nationalist terrorists who threatened not only the American interest, but Prince Beraka Yama Hasied, the sovereign ruler of Salalah.

The office they were in appeared to be a regular office to anyone that walked in, but in reality it was their base of operations. Only herself, Glen, and their commanding officer knew about the high tech equipment behind the false wall, and the secret passage way, that they could exit and enter the building unobserved by.

Glen was dressed in the flowing robes of the Salalah men, with his deeply tanned skin, and only the sun glasses he wore covered his baby blue eyes that looked so much like his sisters.

"Sneaking out to see that belly dancer from last night?" Ashley asked. "What was her name? Fiat, Fatamina...I can't seem to remember."

"Farzonna." He said as he shook his head with a rueful grin, "What a woman, but no duty calls. Our suspects on the move."

"Bradley?" She asked as she raised her eye brows. "How do you know?"

"Heard him telling his buddies while he was in the cafeteria. He has the afternoon off and plans to spend it shopping in the bazaar. I'm tailing him to see if he meets up with his terrorist friend. If he does we'll know for sure that Bradley is our man."

"I'll come and watch your back." She offered.

"No thanks, this will just be routine surveillance. You can stay here and finish the dirty work." He smirked as he nodded towards the documents on her desk.

Ashley groaned at the stack then turned back to Glen and said hopefully. "Call if you need anything, anything at all."

"Shouldn't be any problems." He said as he reached for one of the drawers and pulled out a cell phone. He shoved it into his pocket beneath his robes and slipped out the secret passageway.

Ashley turned back to the paperwork on her desk, she so wasn't in the mood to fill them out, but it had to be done. Herself and Glen were responsible for all the sensitive documents related to military or classified documents in the Salalah area. The work would take the rest of the afternoon to finish, and it wouldn't get done with her starring at it. Ashley took the first document and looked over it. It was the arms agreement between the United States and the Salalah government. With a deep sigh she began typing it into the computer.

About an hour or so later she stood up and stretched out her back and rolled her shoulders and neck. She was craving coffee and decided to run down to the cafeteria to get some. If she was lucky they would have some little cakes as well.

Ashley was halfway to the door when the phone rang on her desk. With a curse she picked up the phone. Before she could say anything Glen shouted into the phone.

"There's a bomb in the embassy!"

"Are you sure?" She asked. This was what they worked so hard to avoid, especially since the U.S. Embassies seemed to make such a tempting target for terrorists.

"Our suspect told his contact that the explosives were in place and that they would explode at anytime. The Prince is visiting the commander and you need to get him out of there."

She didn't have time to argue, She had to get them both to safety. Ashley was told the Prince's death would create an international incident, and would affect their relations with the other Arabian states.

"On it." She shouted as she dropped the phone into place and called the Unit Commander on duty to start the emergency evacuation procedures. Quickly repeating the call, she hung up the phone abruptly and took off down the hall to the Embassy commander's office . Running past the elevator she headed to the stairwell, taking them two and three at a time until coming to the ground level. She burst thru the doors and ran along the hall way toward the office. Outside the Embassy Commander's door stood four guys, two marines who saluted at her approach, and two who stirred uneasily and wore the native garb of the region, 'Must be the Prince's body guards.'

She ignored them as she slammed thru the doors and shouted "Code Red!"

The commander's face paled as he stood "Has everyone else been notified?"

"Yes sir."

"What is happening?" The prince asked worriedly and glared at Ashley.

"No time to explain, I need to get you out of here." She said as she ushered him out the door only to be met by both of his men with their guns drawn and pointed right at her head.

The two marines drew their weapons as well and pointed them towards the guards.

"Put those away." She ordered and they did. The prince waved his hand and said something in Arabic and his guards did the same. She shut the doors behind them and they started to make their way to the garage, she was hoping to get him in his car and out of there as quickly as possible. As they were making their way down the hallway the entire building shook.

Ashley flung herself at the Prince and pushed him to the floor as she covered his body with her's, just as the hallway started to crumble around them. A flash fire blinded her, as rubble fell on top of them. Something heavy landed on her back as she tasted blood in her mouth. She tried once again to push up, but she couldn't breath as something else crashed into her head and she could feel a stickiness dripping down the side of her face. When a falling beam fell and caught her between the shoulder blades and knocked her completely flat to the floor. She thought, 'Won't have to look for that bomb, looks like it found me.'

With every nerve ending screaming in pain she drifted into sweet oblivion.

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