The Caretaker's Daughter

A/N: KNOCK, KNOCK. Alright, so this is the start of my second fanfiction. I know I didn't finish the first one yet, but I'm working on it. And this one just wouldn't leave me alone. It's kind of an introduction to my Tumblr RP OC, Dana Olivia Donovan-Jinks. My former Tumblr RP blog for her was knockknockwarehouse13, now it's artifexadmiratio.

It took me ages to pick a face for her. In the end, in my mind Dana is portrayed by the beautiful Alexandra Daddario.

Sadly I don't own Warehouse 13 or its characters. Neither do I own Alex Daddario, of course. But the character Dana and the one or other character in future chapters are out of my own imagination. I hope you enjoy my story.

KeepTheFaith, CLM.

23.07.2026

It was a rather stormy day in the Badlands of South Dakota. Dark clouds were hanging above the desert, the few sandy streets and the mountains. What most people didn't know, was that one of the giant rocks was hiding something. A building, greater than the outer view would ever allow curious passengers to imagine. The closest most them got to this place was a lonely street that was guiding towards a small town, or rather settlement, a few miles from here. Little do the inhabitants of Univille know, about what was hidden so close, and yet so far away from their eyes.

A black SUV stopped in front of the Warehouse. An eight year old girl jumped out of the passenger's seat and ran towards the locked door. Stopping in front of it, she turned around to face the driver.

"Come on, Uncle Pete! Unlock the door to the umbilicus or I'll have to let myself in!"

All patience lost, she nervously jumped up and down while she was waiting for the man to get out of the car. Special Agent Peter Lattimer pushed the button on the remote, built and improved by the girl's tech savvy mother, to open the door. He shook his head in amusemt and followed the girl with his brown eyes. She reminded him so much of her mother. She was exactly how he imagined a young Claudia Donovan to be. Still with her dark brown hair, but already with her sarcastic smartass attitude. Except for the piercing blue eyes and the fact that every high tech lie detector was a joke against her.

The agent laughed as he followed the impatient girl through the umbilicus. If someone would have told him when those two met years ago that the independent Miss Claudia Donovan would fall madly in love with her back then as gay identified best friend and partner Steven Jinks, he would have made sure there was a reserved place for that freak in the closest mental institution.

He still remembered the day when he noticed that Claudia and Steve could actually be so much more than friends like it was just yesterday.

16.03.2015, Lansing, Michigan, St Lawrence Hospital

Jinks and Claudia had just finished a difficult artifact snag. They already had what they were sent to get, but the man they had taken it from was still affected by the artifact. He was obsessed with it and wanted it back, no matter at what cost. Long story short: The mad man followed the second A-Team to the airport and without any warning he started the gunfire. They handled the situation pretty well, but Steve was shot in the shoulder. Steve said he would just see a doctor and then they could catch a later flight. He even told Claudia that she could leave and that he would come after her as soon as he could.

But of course that was not what his partner had in mind. She immediately brought him to the hospital and before Steve could say anything, she assured the doctor that they would stay there as long as he needed to. Shortly before her friend got into surgery to get the bullet out, she called Artie and told him what happened and that they would probably stay a couple of days. Since there was no case to send Pete and Myka to, their boss agreed that they could go to Michigan, too, to visit their colleague at the hospital.

When they arrived a nurse told them Steve was already out of surgery and that everything went well. She brought them to his room, but told them to stay quiet because the patient and his girlfriend were asleep at the moment. When the woman called Claudia Steve's girlfriend they just exchanged a slightly confused glance, but as soon as they went into Steve's room they saw why she had assumed they were a couple.

The injured agent lay on his bed, wearing a hospital gown. His bright blue eyes were indeed shut. Nut what really caught the agents' attention was the redheaded woman, who was snuggled up beside him. Claudia held onto her BFFEWYLION for dear life. He had his right arm slung around her small shoulders and she had buried her face in his chest.

Pete turned to his left where he heard Myka giggling uncharacteristically. His partner looked him gleefully in the eyes and said, "It's weird. They're not even actually romantically involved, but I've never seen such a cute couple."

At first Pete thought the woman had just seen one too many chick flicks, until he remembered who he was talking to. If the fencing, independent, book loving and super smart Myka Ophelia Bering said something like this, then it was worth been given a second thought. So he thought about it. He thought about the nicknames his friends had for each other, the way they worked together, the way they looked at each other, the way how just Claudia and Steve knew even their deepest and darkest secrets.

When the case of Claire Donovan came up, it had taken Pete and Myka quite some time to follow what was happening. They hadn't even known that the redhead had an older sister. But Steve had known. Claudia had told him about her family, about the time before her life got so messed up. Only him. When Claudia had a nightmare, because of what she found out about her past or because she was reminded of the darker times of her young life, she went to Steve. Because she trusted him. With everything. And it was Claudia who reconnected Steve to his mother. He hadn't said a word to Emma in years, and Claudia could change that on a single day. Of course he still had a hard time to swallow everything that happened, but she helped him to get through this rough time.

They were at each other's side, day or night. In the good and in the bad times. These two had been through so much together. Every normal couple wouldn't have gotten through all of this. A normal relationship would have been broken long ago. But they didn't have a normal relationship. They weren't a normal couple. They weren't just simply friends or partners. These two agents had a relationship like he had never seen one before. Claudia Donovan and Steve Jinks had a totally new kind of love for each other. They were friends, they were family, and they were each other's most important constant in their lifes. And maybe, even if they would deny it forever, that's exactly the reason why they were a perfect couple. All on their own they were just two lonely misfit toys, seemingly broken to everyone else, who had met through a coincidence in the middle of chaos and madness. But together they found their place. Maybe it was not just a coincidence after all.