Hey this is my first Pearl Harbor fic so be nice. Please R&R for me thanx.
Background for my story: Evelyn and Rafe son Danny (like in the movie) is 18, he has a younger sister Megan who's 17 (her father is Rafe). OK that's it!
"Megan, you'll be late for school is you don't leave right now!" Evelyn calls.
"I'm coming." Megan comes into the kitchen, she looks just like her mother dark hair framing her face, her skin the same silky color as he mothers, but she has her father's eyes. "I don't see why I have to finish off this year, I know everything I can know."
"So you can know even more then you do and make sure you know it well." Rafe answers for Evelyn coming in from outside. "Morning." He says giving Evelyn a kiss.
"Morning, is Danny out there with you?"
"That he is, showing him how to work the farm like a real man." Rafe replies, he doesn't fly anymore unless it's for fun, so he could settle down to have a family.
"That's good, call Danny in, I need him to drive Megan to school." Evelyn tells him
"Mom I don't need a ride."
"It's raining outside, I don't want you getting sick." Evelyn says sternly
Megan looks at her father for help, Rafe shrugs "I can't help you there, but have a great day at school." He kisses her on the head and goes out to get Danny.
Danny walks in a minute later. "Come on Meg, you ready?" Danny looks like his real father, the same dark eyes and strong features, he has dark hair like his mother and sister though.
"Yes, let's go."
"Thanks Danny." Megan says getting out of the car.
"I'll be back here to pick you up after school." Danny replies
"Don't bother, I'll get a ride with Michael."
"I'll be here, I don't want you getting in a car with him." Danny tells her protectively
"Fine. I'll see you later." Megan waves and then joins her friends
"Hey Megan, you're so lucky you get a ride to school from your brother, my father drove me." Anna tells her
"Danny only agrees so he can see what I'm up to." Megan replies
"Meg, come on. You know you prefer Danny driving you to your father." Elizabeth says
Megan's eyes widened "I need you both to do me a favor."
"No, Meg, I'm not going to lie to anyone." Elizabeth says
"Just my brother, and you wont be lying, just stall him after school long enough so I can find Michael." Megan pleads "Please? Anna come on."
"Fine, last time though, you hear me?" Anna agrees
"Thank you so much." Megan shuts her locker. "Come on let's get to class."
"Hey" Michael wraps his arms around Megan when she came into class.
"Michael." Megan says blushing "Not here."
"You're cute when you blush. But all right not here." He lets go. "We still going out after school?"
"Yes, you have to meet me around back though."
"Danny's supposed to pick you up?" Michael asks knowingly
"Yes he is and he doesn't want me in a car with you."
"Well tell him not to worry I'll never let anything happen to my girl."
"If it were only as easy as that." Megan replies taking her seat.
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"Hello ladies, either of you know where Meg is?" Danny asks pulling up in front of the school
Anna and Elizabeth glance at each other nervously. "She's staying after for a club." Anna says tucking a strand of hair behind her ear nervously
Suspicious Danny asks "Oh yea? Which one?"
"The…uh….newspaper?" Elizabeth asks trying to make it sound more like a statement
"But if Megan is always trying to get out of going to school, why would she stay longer to go to a club?" Danny asks
Anna gets frustrated "OK so she went home with Michael, they were going to go out after school." Anna exclaims feeling caught
"I thought so. Where are they going?"
"We really don't know, she wouldn't tell us, she knows how bad liars we are." Elizabeth says
"So where would they go?" Danny asks annoyed.
"I don't know, the café? Maybe they went driving." Anna suggests
"What about his house?"
"No." Anna shakes her head. "They know you'd go there. And Meg is smarter then that."
"Go inside and wait for you rides both of you, it looks like it's about to rain again." Danny instructs them, they nod and go inside.
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"Michael where are we going?" Megan asks looking around
"How about the Ridge?" Michael suggests
"What are we going to do to there….it's about to rain any minute." She side glances at Michael. "Michael no."
"Meg, do you really think of me as that kind of guy?" Michael asks frustrated pulling the car over and getting out
"No, but my brother he doesn't approve of you, the way you acted last year and-" Megan replies getting out and going to him
"That was last year!" Michael shouts
"Michael don't yell at me." Megan yells back.
"You listen to him, over me!"
"He's my brother what am I supposed to do!?" Megan asks "I'm not going to do this, fight with you."
He grabs her arm and wrenches it, "I'm not going to fight." He growls "But you're going to listen."
"Michael you're hurting me!" Megan exclaims as he tightens his grip
"You take his word over mine, I'm supposed to be your boyfriend."
"Danny is just trying to protect me."
"Like your father and mother are?" Michael asks angry
"What are you talking about?" Megan asks hotly
"Oh don't act like you don't know."
"Know what?" Megan shouts
"Don't yell at me." He twists her wrist and pulls her closer. "Danny isn't your real brother, you mother is a whore and slept with Danny's real father, who by the way was your father's best friend. Then Danny, your brother's father that is got killed in Japan and on top secret mission, he took two bullets to his chest because of your father's own stupid actions. Your father got his best friend killed and then just stepped in as father."
"You're a damn liar." Megan says evenly
"DON'T! " Michael slams her against the truck "Call me a liar. Go on ask your mom, haven't you ever wondered why your brother only looks like your mother and not your father? My father flied with your father and Danny I know the truth!"
"Get away from me!" Megan yells wrestling herself out of his grip. It starts to rain as Megan walks away.
"Get in the truck Megan." Michael yells "You can't walk home from here."
"I'm not getting into the truck with you."
"It's at least a mile and a half to get home from here get in!" Michael yells, Megan doesn't even turn around and continues walking cradling her wrist. Her head pounding from hitting it on the truck along with her back.
"Fine walk then, get sick. See if I care!" Michael yells, he gets in his car starts it up and drives away.
Megan shivers it was a long way home from here."
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"Mom! Dad! Mom!" Danny runs into his house shouting
"Danny what's wrong? Where's Megan?" Evelyn runs in followed by Rafe.
"Megan got a ride home with Michael and I've looked all over and I can't find either of them."
"Rafe it's pouring out she's going to get sick." Evelyn says
"Come on Danny, let's go look for her." Rafe grabs his coat. "Evelyn you stay in the house in case she comes back."
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Megan coughs as she makes her way down the road, she's soaked to the bone. She thinks about what Michael has told her and wonders if any of it is true. Danny didn't look like their father at all.
Megan looks up and catches site of some houses, she had about another 15-20 minutes to go before she got home. She shivered she didn't even know what she was going to say when she got home. What if it was true?
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"Meg!" Rafe walked into a diner looking for her. It was starting to get dark out.
"She's not in the store." Danny tells Rafe
"I don't think she's in town. And your mother hasn't heard anything yet, she's been calling all of Megan's friends."
"I don't get it Dad, she's never done this before, just not come home." Danny says
"I know, that's what worries me. Let's start for home." Rafe tells him
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"Anything?" Evelyn asks as they walk inside the front door.
Danny sits at the table and Rafe leans on the counter and shakes his head. "What about her friends? Did they say something?"
"Michael came by his house and left" Evelyn says "Megan wasn't with him." She says tearing up
"Don't cry, Evie. We'll find her." Rafe assures her
"It's nearly dark out, where is she?" Evelyn asks sitting across from Danny. "And the rain hasn't let up."
"We have to think about this, where she would go, I thought she went home with Michael." Rafe says
"She did, that's what Anna and Elizabeth told me" Danny replies
"They both told me the same." Evelyn confirms she looks up as Megan's form appears in the doorway. "Megan!" Evelyn rushes over to her.
"I'm sorry." Megan shrugs her mother off. Megan's face is pale, and she is completely soaked through.
"Go and take off those clothes and change into dry ones and we'll talk." Evelyn instructs her
Megan nods and returns a few minutes later, in dry clothes the wet ones in tow. Evelyn takes them and hangs them so they can dry.
Megan stand warily in the doorway.
"Megan, where were you?" Rafe asks
"I got a ride home with Michael and we got into a fight so I got out of the car and walked home." Megan answers him softly
"From where?" Rafe asks
"The uh the Ridge."
"That's over a mile away." Evelyn exclaims
"I know and I'm sorry I made you worry, I should of just listened to you Danny." Megan cries
"Hey, hey come sit down." Rafe pulls out a chair "Is this about you two fighting?"
"Sort of uh." Megan mumbles hoarsely pulling her sleeves over her hands
Danny notices and speaks up for the first time. "What happened to your arm?"
"No-nothing, it's nothing."
Rafe gently takes her arm and pulls up her sleeve and reveals the bruise left on her arm. He exhales and closes his eyes, Evelyn gasps. Danny jumps up "I'll kill him."
"Danny, Danny sit down your not going to do anything foolish." Rafe orders him
"Megan what happened?" Evelyn asks
"I don't want to talk about it." Megan replies tearing up.
"Megan." Rafe says sensing it's bigger then Michael hurting her.
"Michael uh told me about Danny." She says standing up and edging towards the doorway.
"What about Danny?" Rafe asks glancing at Danny
"Not that Danny, your best friend Danny." Megan gets out.
"The one I'm named after?" Danny asks innocently not knowing what was really going on.
Rafe and Evelyn get uneasy and don't know what to say. Megan takes this opportunity to leave the kitchen and go to her room.
Rafe rubs his eyes and looks at Evelyn for help. "I guess it's time Rafe." Evelyn says
Rafe nods. "Danny, we need to tell you something……"
Megan winces as she hears Danny start yelling, she couldn't understand about what though, then Danny's door slams shut as Evelyn pleads with him to open it. Megan's door opens she doesn't turn around though and lays there facing the wall in the dark.
The light flicks on and Rafe sits on her bed. "Meg." He says softly
"Is it true?" Megan asks still facing the wall.
"That I'm not Danny's father? Yes." Rafe admits "I don't know what Michael told you, do you want to know the truth?"
"My life is a lie isn't it?" Megan asks rolling over
"No of course not." Rafe licks his lips. "A long times ago, I met your mom. I was 25. It was love at first sight. We started to date not to long after we met. I left two and a half months into our relationship to fight in Britain. Voluntarily. My plane was shot down and everyone had thought I died. Danny and your mother went to each other for comfort and fell in love. Danny was my only family, and I thought I had lost him, when I came back, alive and they were together." Rafe pauses and watches his daughter's reaction, she's captivated by the story.
"I had to live with the fact that the women I loved was with my best friend. You know about the attack on Pearl Harbor right?"
Megan nods "You fought in it, that's why you were awarded all those metal for doing so good."
Rafe smiles "That's right, Danny and I shot down 7 planes we along with a select few were the only pilots with combat experience, so we were asked to come on a top secret mission in Japan. I talked to you mother before I left and she told me she's always love me but would marry Danny because she was pregnant with his child."
Megan nods, looking at Rafe waiting for him to finish.
"The mission was dangerous we knew we had a better chance of dying then living. We had to bomb Japan then fly to China but be careful not to land where there were Japanese camps. We ran out of fuel and landed in a Japanese camp. The Japanese had gotten Danny strung up and were taking him away, I couldn't let them do that so I grabbed a gun and started shooting at them from where I was laying on the floor. I ran out of bullets and the guns were turned on me. Danny took the bullets for me he died in my arms right after I told him he was going to be a father. His last words to me were "No you are.". Your mother and I got married had Danny and not to much longer had you." Rafe says "We were only trying to protect you."
"I know, I wish I hadn't found out the way I did." Megan replies
"I wish that you hadn't found out that way too. Now, it's your turn, tell me what happened today." He tells her softly
Megan takes a deep breath "Michael and I were driving and he wanted to go to the Ridge, and I told him I didn't want to and he got mad and pulled over saying he couldn't believe I thought he was that kind of guy. And he was getting angry, and he grabbed my wrist and twisted it, and told me that I shouldn't be listening to Danny about how Danny doesn't trust him. I asked him what I was supposed to do, Danny's only trying to protect me. The he said like your mother and father are and told me that your not Danny's father and got his real father killed."
Megan pauses. "I said he was a liar and he got so angry he shoved me and I hit into the truck. Then he told me to get into the car and I refused and started to walk home and he left. That's what happened."
Evelyn walks in with a bandage in her hands and sits down next to Rafe. "Here let me." Rafe takes the bandage and wraps Megan's wrist in it.
"Your burning up." Evelyn says feeling Megan's head. "Does it hurt anywhere else?"
"I hit my head and back too." Megan says weakly
"All right, lay down." Evelyn instructs. "I'll be back in a few minutes." She leaves.
Before Rafe leaves he turns "Your going to be all right, your strong." He says more to himself then to her.
"I'll be fine Dad." Megan assures him.
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"Evelyn she'll be all right, right?" Rafe asks
"She should be fine, it doesn't look like anything is too extensive. I can't believe this could happen though. I never thought Michael would hurt her, and I can't believe they both know the truth now."
"I'm supposed to protect my children though." Rafe protests "And my little girl comes home, bruised, soaked and knows the one thing that can change her life."
"She's 17, she's bound to hear things that can change her life, and getting hurt none of us could of helped that." Evelyn reasons with him
"Evelyn, did you see her? She was scared to talk to me. She was scared to come into her own house, and Danny he just found out his father isn't his own. What's going to happen?" Rafe sits down
"What's going to happen is up in the air. But what we're going to do, is be there to answer any questions they have and to help Danny get past this, he grew to know you as a father everything you taught him can't be erased in a single instant. And you'll have to be there for Megan because her trust in boys her age may be destroyed and you'll have to show her it's ok to trust. They'll be ok both of them"
Rafe smiles "What would I do with out you?"
"I don't know. What would I do with out you?" Evelyn asks kissing him
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"Meg?" Danny walks into her room
"Hey Danny."
"You're awake?"
"I couldn't sleep if I tried too."
"I know the feeling."He sits down "I'm 18 I'm supposed to be a man, and I just broke down like that."
"Danny you just found out the biggest thing ever. I think your reaction was normal. Besides you are a man you finished school and did good, now your learning everything about working a farm and being good at it so one day when you have your own family you can do it right. That sounds like a man to me."
"Always the voice of reason." Danny muses "How are you doing?"
"I'll live."
"I know, so what do we do now?"
"With what we just found out?" Megan asks
"Yea."
"I don't know about you, but my family is still intact, and that includes you."
"Yea but your not on the outside, mom and dad are your biological parents."
"They're also the same people that raised you from birth and gave you moral and priorities and taught you everything you know." Megan protests
"I just need to think Meg." Danny says getting up. "Get some sleep."
Megan nods and Danny leaves as Evelyn walks in. "Let's see what's going on with you." She sits down. "You still have a fever. And you've got a bump on your head where you hit it. Let me see your wrist."
"Is Dad ok?" Megan asks quietly
Evelyn looks up "You're father will be just fine. Ok your wrist looks like only a sprain, did you get hurt anywhere else?"
"My back." Megan tells her
"OK tell me if anything hurts." Evelyn runs her hands over Megan's back, Megan winces from time to time if Evelyn touches a bruise. "It doesn't look so bad it should heal in a few days." She assures. "Get some sleep, we'll see how your feeling in the morning."
Evelyn walks out and is surprised to see Rafe standing outside her room. "She's going to be fine."
"I know. I heard.Let's go to sleep." He takes her hand
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"Megan, why are you up already?" Evelyn asks surprised the next morning
"I couldn't sleep anymore."
"Are you in any pain?" Rafe asks as Evelyn puts some food in front of Megan.
"A little." Megan answers carefully so she doesn't alarm her parents.
Danny come downstairs then. "Good morning Danny." Evelyn says when he walks in.
Danny stands back a little with his hands in his pockets "Morning Mom, Meg." He looks to his father. "Morning Dad." He says, his way of saying everything is ok.
Rafe nods and smiles. "Morning Son."
OK that's my story, should I add anymore? I don't know it may just be good the way it is. If you want more I'll add it. Please R&R thanx!
Background for my story: Evelyn and Rafe son Danny (like in the movie) is 18, he has a younger sister Megan who's 17 (her father is Rafe). OK that's it!
"Megan, you'll be late for school is you don't leave right now!" Evelyn calls.
"I'm coming." Megan comes into the kitchen, she looks just like her mother dark hair framing her face, her skin the same silky color as he mothers, but she has her father's eyes. "I don't see why I have to finish off this year, I know everything I can know."
"So you can know even more then you do and make sure you know it well." Rafe answers for Evelyn coming in from outside. "Morning." He says giving Evelyn a kiss.
"Morning, is Danny out there with you?"
"That he is, showing him how to work the farm like a real man." Rafe replies, he doesn't fly anymore unless it's for fun, so he could settle down to have a family.
"That's good, call Danny in, I need him to drive Megan to school." Evelyn tells him
"Mom I don't need a ride."
"It's raining outside, I don't want you getting sick." Evelyn says sternly
Megan looks at her father for help, Rafe shrugs "I can't help you there, but have a great day at school." He kisses her on the head and goes out to get Danny.
Danny walks in a minute later. "Come on Meg, you ready?" Danny looks like his real father, the same dark eyes and strong features, he has dark hair like his mother and sister though.
"Yes, let's go."
"Thanks Danny." Megan says getting out of the car.
"I'll be back here to pick you up after school." Danny replies
"Don't bother, I'll get a ride with Michael."
"I'll be here, I don't want you getting in a car with him." Danny tells her protectively
"Fine. I'll see you later." Megan waves and then joins her friends
"Hey Megan, you're so lucky you get a ride to school from your brother, my father drove me." Anna tells her
"Danny only agrees so he can see what I'm up to." Megan replies
"Meg, come on. You know you prefer Danny driving you to your father." Elizabeth says
Megan's eyes widened "I need you both to do me a favor."
"No, Meg, I'm not going to lie to anyone." Elizabeth says
"Just my brother, and you wont be lying, just stall him after school long enough so I can find Michael." Megan pleads "Please? Anna come on."
"Fine, last time though, you hear me?" Anna agrees
"Thank you so much." Megan shuts her locker. "Come on let's get to class."
"Hey" Michael wraps his arms around Megan when she came into class.
"Michael." Megan says blushing "Not here."
"You're cute when you blush. But all right not here." He lets go. "We still going out after school?"
"Yes, you have to meet me around back though."
"Danny's supposed to pick you up?" Michael asks knowingly
"Yes he is and he doesn't want me in a car with you."
"Well tell him not to worry I'll never let anything happen to my girl."
"If it were only as easy as that." Megan replies taking her seat.
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"Hello ladies, either of you know where Meg is?" Danny asks pulling up in front of the school
Anna and Elizabeth glance at each other nervously. "She's staying after for a club." Anna says tucking a strand of hair behind her ear nervously
Suspicious Danny asks "Oh yea? Which one?"
"The…uh….newspaper?" Elizabeth asks trying to make it sound more like a statement
"But if Megan is always trying to get out of going to school, why would she stay longer to go to a club?" Danny asks
Anna gets frustrated "OK so she went home with Michael, they were going to go out after school." Anna exclaims feeling caught
"I thought so. Where are they going?"
"We really don't know, she wouldn't tell us, she knows how bad liars we are." Elizabeth says
"So where would they go?" Danny asks annoyed.
"I don't know, the café? Maybe they went driving." Anna suggests
"What about his house?"
"No." Anna shakes her head. "They know you'd go there. And Meg is smarter then that."
"Go inside and wait for you rides both of you, it looks like it's about to rain again." Danny instructs them, they nod and go inside.
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"Michael where are we going?" Megan asks looking around
"How about the Ridge?" Michael suggests
"What are we going to do to there….it's about to rain any minute." She side glances at Michael. "Michael no."
"Meg, do you really think of me as that kind of guy?" Michael asks frustrated pulling the car over and getting out
"No, but my brother he doesn't approve of you, the way you acted last year and-" Megan replies getting out and going to him
"That was last year!" Michael shouts
"Michael don't yell at me." Megan yells back.
"You listen to him, over me!"
"He's my brother what am I supposed to do!?" Megan asks "I'm not going to do this, fight with you."
He grabs her arm and wrenches it, "I'm not going to fight." He growls "But you're going to listen."
"Michael you're hurting me!" Megan exclaims as he tightens his grip
"You take his word over mine, I'm supposed to be your boyfriend."
"Danny is just trying to protect me."
"Like your father and mother are?" Michael asks angry
"What are you talking about?" Megan asks hotly
"Oh don't act like you don't know."
"Know what?" Megan shouts
"Don't yell at me." He twists her wrist and pulls her closer. "Danny isn't your real brother, you mother is a whore and slept with Danny's real father, who by the way was your father's best friend. Then Danny, your brother's father that is got killed in Japan and on top secret mission, he took two bullets to his chest because of your father's own stupid actions. Your father got his best friend killed and then just stepped in as father."
"You're a damn liar." Megan says evenly
"DON'T! " Michael slams her against the truck "Call me a liar. Go on ask your mom, haven't you ever wondered why your brother only looks like your mother and not your father? My father flied with your father and Danny I know the truth!"
"Get away from me!" Megan yells wrestling herself out of his grip. It starts to rain as Megan walks away.
"Get in the truck Megan." Michael yells "You can't walk home from here."
"I'm not getting into the truck with you."
"It's at least a mile and a half to get home from here get in!" Michael yells, Megan doesn't even turn around and continues walking cradling her wrist. Her head pounding from hitting it on the truck along with her back.
"Fine walk then, get sick. See if I care!" Michael yells, he gets in his car starts it up and drives away.
Megan shivers it was a long way home from here."
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"Mom! Dad! Mom!" Danny runs into his house shouting
"Danny what's wrong? Where's Megan?" Evelyn runs in followed by Rafe.
"Megan got a ride home with Michael and I've looked all over and I can't find either of them."
"Rafe it's pouring out she's going to get sick." Evelyn says
"Come on Danny, let's go look for her." Rafe grabs his coat. "Evelyn you stay in the house in case she comes back."
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Megan coughs as she makes her way down the road, she's soaked to the bone. She thinks about what Michael has told her and wonders if any of it is true. Danny didn't look like their father at all.
Megan looks up and catches site of some houses, she had about another 15-20 minutes to go before she got home. She shivered she didn't even know what she was going to say when she got home. What if it was true?
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"Meg!" Rafe walked into a diner looking for her. It was starting to get dark out.
"She's not in the store." Danny tells Rafe
"I don't think she's in town. And your mother hasn't heard anything yet, she's been calling all of Megan's friends."
"I don't get it Dad, she's never done this before, just not come home." Danny says
"I know, that's what worries me. Let's start for home." Rafe tells him
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"Anything?" Evelyn asks as they walk inside the front door.
Danny sits at the table and Rafe leans on the counter and shakes his head. "What about her friends? Did they say something?"
"Michael came by his house and left" Evelyn says "Megan wasn't with him." She says tearing up
"Don't cry, Evie. We'll find her." Rafe assures her
"It's nearly dark out, where is she?" Evelyn asks sitting across from Danny. "And the rain hasn't let up."
"We have to think about this, where she would go, I thought she went home with Michael." Rafe says
"She did, that's what Anna and Elizabeth told me" Danny replies
"They both told me the same." Evelyn confirms she looks up as Megan's form appears in the doorway. "Megan!" Evelyn rushes over to her.
"I'm sorry." Megan shrugs her mother off. Megan's face is pale, and she is completely soaked through.
"Go and take off those clothes and change into dry ones and we'll talk." Evelyn instructs her
Megan nods and returns a few minutes later, in dry clothes the wet ones in tow. Evelyn takes them and hangs them so they can dry.
Megan stand warily in the doorway.
"Megan, where were you?" Rafe asks
"I got a ride home with Michael and we got into a fight so I got out of the car and walked home." Megan answers him softly
"From where?" Rafe asks
"The uh the Ridge."
"That's over a mile away." Evelyn exclaims
"I know and I'm sorry I made you worry, I should of just listened to you Danny." Megan cries
"Hey, hey come sit down." Rafe pulls out a chair "Is this about you two fighting?"
"Sort of uh." Megan mumbles hoarsely pulling her sleeves over her hands
Danny notices and speaks up for the first time. "What happened to your arm?"
"No-nothing, it's nothing."
Rafe gently takes her arm and pulls up her sleeve and reveals the bruise left on her arm. He exhales and closes his eyes, Evelyn gasps. Danny jumps up "I'll kill him."
"Danny, Danny sit down your not going to do anything foolish." Rafe orders him
"Megan what happened?" Evelyn asks
"I don't want to talk about it." Megan replies tearing up.
"Megan." Rafe says sensing it's bigger then Michael hurting her.
"Michael uh told me about Danny." She says standing up and edging towards the doorway.
"What about Danny?" Rafe asks glancing at Danny
"Not that Danny, your best friend Danny." Megan gets out.
"The one I'm named after?" Danny asks innocently not knowing what was really going on.
Rafe and Evelyn get uneasy and don't know what to say. Megan takes this opportunity to leave the kitchen and go to her room.
Rafe rubs his eyes and looks at Evelyn for help. "I guess it's time Rafe." Evelyn says
Rafe nods. "Danny, we need to tell you something……"
Megan winces as she hears Danny start yelling, she couldn't understand about what though, then Danny's door slams shut as Evelyn pleads with him to open it. Megan's door opens she doesn't turn around though and lays there facing the wall in the dark.
The light flicks on and Rafe sits on her bed. "Meg." He says softly
"Is it true?" Megan asks still facing the wall.
"That I'm not Danny's father? Yes." Rafe admits "I don't know what Michael told you, do you want to know the truth?"
"My life is a lie isn't it?" Megan asks rolling over
"No of course not." Rafe licks his lips. "A long times ago, I met your mom. I was 25. It was love at first sight. We started to date not to long after we met. I left two and a half months into our relationship to fight in Britain. Voluntarily. My plane was shot down and everyone had thought I died. Danny and your mother went to each other for comfort and fell in love. Danny was my only family, and I thought I had lost him, when I came back, alive and they were together." Rafe pauses and watches his daughter's reaction, she's captivated by the story.
"I had to live with the fact that the women I loved was with my best friend. You know about the attack on Pearl Harbor right?"
Megan nods "You fought in it, that's why you were awarded all those metal for doing so good."
Rafe smiles "That's right, Danny and I shot down 7 planes we along with a select few were the only pilots with combat experience, so we were asked to come on a top secret mission in Japan. I talked to you mother before I left and she told me she's always love me but would marry Danny because she was pregnant with his child."
Megan nods, looking at Rafe waiting for him to finish.
"The mission was dangerous we knew we had a better chance of dying then living. We had to bomb Japan then fly to China but be careful not to land where there were Japanese camps. We ran out of fuel and landed in a Japanese camp. The Japanese had gotten Danny strung up and were taking him away, I couldn't let them do that so I grabbed a gun and started shooting at them from where I was laying on the floor. I ran out of bullets and the guns were turned on me. Danny took the bullets for me he died in my arms right after I told him he was going to be a father. His last words to me were "No you are.". Your mother and I got married had Danny and not to much longer had you." Rafe says "We were only trying to protect you."
"I know, I wish I hadn't found out the way I did." Megan replies
"I wish that you hadn't found out that way too. Now, it's your turn, tell me what happened today." He tells her softly
Megan takes a deep breath "Michael and I were driving and he wanted to go to the Ridge, and I told him I didn't want to and he got mad and pulled over saying he couldn't believe I thought he was that kind of guy. And he was getting angry, and he grabbed my wrist and twisted it, and told me that I shouldn't be listening to Danny about how Danny doesn't trust him. I asked him what I was supposed to do, Danny's only trying to protect me. The he said like your mother and father are and told me that your not Danny's father and got his real father killed."
Megan pauses. "I said he was a liar and he got so angry he shoved me and I hit into the truck. Then he told me to get into the car and I refused and started to walk home and he left. That's what happened."
Evelyn walks in with a bandage in her hands and sits down next to Rafe. "Here let me." Rafe takes the bandage and wraps Megan's wrist in it.
"Your burning up." Evelyn says feeling Megan's head. "Does it hurt anywhere else?"
"I hit my head and back too." Megan says weakly
"All right, lay down." Evelyn instructs. "I'll be back in a few minutes." She leaves.
Before Rafe leaves he turns "Your going to be all right, your strong." He says more to himself then to her.
"I'll be fine Dad." Megan assures him.
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"Evelyn she'll be all right, right?" Rafe asks
"She should be fine, it doesn't look like anything is too extensive. I can't believe this could happen though. I never thought Michael would hurt her, and I can't believe they both know the truth now."
"I'm supposed to protect my children though." Rafe protests "And my little girl comes home, bruised, soaked and knows the one thing that can change her life."
"She's 17, she's bound to hear things that can change her life, and getting hurt none of us could of helped that." Evelyn reasons with him
"Evelyn, did you see her? She was scared to talk to me. She was scared to come into her own house, and Danny he just found out his father isn't his own. What's going to happen?" Rafe sits down
"What's going to happen is up in the air. But what we're going to do, is be there to answer any questions they have and to help Danny get past this, he grew to know you as a father everything you taught him can't be erased in a single instant. And you'll have to be there for Megan because her trust in boys her age may be destroyed and you'll have to show her it's ok to trust. They'll be ok both of them"
Rafe smiles "What would I do with out you?"
"I don't know. What would I do with out you?" Evelyn asks kissing him
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"Meg?" Danny walks into her room
"Hey Danny."
"You're awake?"
"I couldn't sleep if I tried too."
"I know the feeling."He sits down "I'm 18 I'm supposed to be a man, and I just broke down like that."
"Danny you just found out the biggest thing ever. I think your reaction was normal. Besides you are a man you finished school and did good, now your learning everything about working a farm and being good at it so one day when you have your own family you can do it right. That sounds like a man to me."
"Always the voice of reason." Danny muses "How are you doing?"
"I'll live."
"I know, so what do we do now?"
"With what we just found out?" Megan asks
"Yea."
"I don't know about you, but my family is still intact, and that includes you."
"Yea but your not on the outside, mom and dad are your biological parents."
"They're also the same people that raised you from birth and gave you moral and priorities and taught you everything you know." Megan protests
"I just need to think Meg." Danny says getting up. "Get some sleep."
Megan nods and Danny leaves as Evelyn walks in. "Let's see what's going on with you." She sits down. "You still have a fever. And you've got a bump on your head where you hit it. Let me see your wrist."
"Is Dad ok?" Megan asks quietly
Evelyn looks up "You're father will be just fine. Ok your wrist looks like only a sprain, did you get hurt anywhere else?"
"My back." Megan tells her
"OK tell me if anything hurts." Evelyn runs her hands over Megan's back, Megan winces from time to time if Evelyn touches a bruise. "It doesn't look so bad it should heal in a few days." She assures. "Get some sleep, we'll see how your feeling in the morning."
Evelyn walks out and is surprised to see Rafe standing outside her room. "She's going to be fine."
"I know. I heard.Let's go to sleep." He takes her hand
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"Megan, why are you up already?" Evelyn asks surprised the next morning
"I couldn't sleep anymore."
"Are you in any pain?" Rafe asks as Evelyn puts some food in front of Megan.
"A little." Megan answers carefully so she doesn't alarm her parents.
Danny come downstairs then. "Good morning Danny." Evelyn says when he walks in.
Danny stands back a little with his hands in his pockets "Morning Mom, Meg." He looks to his father. "Morning Dad." He says, his way of saying everything is ok.
Rafe nods and smiles. "Morning Son."
OK that's my story, should I add anymore? I don't know it may just be good the way it is. If you want more I'll add it. Please R&R thanx!