Stories in the series (in order):
The Lady for a Lady
No Easy Way
Sleeping Beauties
An Act of Betrayal
The Devil You Know
Demons
The Riddle of the Night
Don't Box Me In
It was a beautiful afternoon; of course, every afternoon for the past two weeks had been beautiful. At least in Cait's mind, it had. It was Monday afternoon, two weeks after they had been quarantined at the cabin. Two weeks after Dominic had been diagnosed with a severe case of the flu and took two weeks off to recover, even though she and Hawke knew he was better after one week.
Neither one of them had cared. They had spent the last two weeks in total ignorance of Santini Air, the FIRM, and Airwolf. Two weeks of nothing but them.
Two weeks had gone by quickly and now they were back to everything they had forgotten.
The first thing on the schedule was a movie shoot that required all three of them; one to fly, one to spot, and one to shoot film. Dominic had deemed Caitlin the spotter which meant sitting beside Hawke for six hours. She could think of worse things.
Hawke and Dominic came out of the office as she was finishing up the rigging for the camera on the helicopter. The last thing to do was double check the safety measures. It took fifteen minutes. After that, she went to meet Hawke and Dominic in the hangar.
"Everything hooked up and ready to go," Hawke asked as she walked up to them.
"Locked and loaded," Caitlin confirmed giving Hawke a smile. "Are we still on for dinner afterwards?" Caitlin asked.
"I'll be there," Dominic said with a smile on his face. "I'll get the helicopter going. Don't take two long, you two. We've got a big day ahead of us."
After Dominic walked out, Caitlin nudged Hawke. "We are going to tell him tonight, aren't we? This isn't something we can keep from him forever."
Hawke kissed her on the tip of the nose. "I promise you, we will tell him tonight."
Hawke jogged out ahead of her and Caitlin lingered as she walked out of the hangar. By tonight, everything would be out in the open and they could continue as. . .
BOOM! The jet ranger turned to a ball of flames in front of her. Something dark flew up into the air and fell to the ground.
Caitlin stood there stunned, even when she realized the object she saw blown into the air and fall to the pavement was Hawke.