The Life And Times Of Danice.
Summary - Ok this is simply a collection of one Danice moments which have actually happened in the series or little made up ones made by me. We'll see how I feel. It will basically cover the life of Danny and Alice from their first meeting ect. Enjoy x
(PS) Although some of the stuff will have actually happened in the episode I will be adding dialogue and scenes just to fill in a few blanks.
Disclaimer. "Nope I do not own leopards den or WAH sadly : (
First Meeting Part 1- Dislike
Alice Collins was working in some dingy back street vets in Africa. She picked up a scalpel and the blade fell off.
"Oh come on!" she whispered. "You got to be kidding me!"
Her mobile rang. The jingle made her happy. Someone was gonna save her she knew!
"I'm a vet get me out of here!" she murmured.
"Alice Collins?" a husky male voice asked.
"Speaking." she answered.
"Are you available to go to Glen Afric on the south side of Africa?"
"I could be. Why?"
"There is a rabies outbreak at the national park there. Just outside of Jo'burg. Do you know the area?"
Rabies? Immediately Alice's mind sprang into action. "Has the area been quarantined? What about vaccinating nearby herds?" she rattled off.
"There is an operation in progress we're pulling in as many vets as possible! We want you to head over to the national park and work with a vet named Daniel Trevanion."
"Is he familiar with the area? The bush is a large area with dangerous animals."
"Yes. He is heading the quarantine. He owns a game reserve nearby."
"O." That was bound to be fun!
"I'll be straight there!"
"Good I'll call Mr Trevanion tell him your on your way."
Alice disconnected and smiled. She was so outta here! Then her smile faded when the reason she was leaving reared it's ugly head. All business now she walked and told the head vet she had to go. It was an emergency. Right she had to collect Charlotte and then find a map to get to Glen Afric.
(X)
Alice pulled her truck to a stop and saw a tall man walk over to her daughter who had also climbed from the truck.
"Hello I'm Charlotte." she said confidently.
"Danny." he replied shaking her hand gently. "I hope your not the new vet!" he asked her.
"That would be me." Alice spoke up. "Alice Collins. Sorry we're late just driven 100 miles."
"Danny Trevanion." he shook her hand with a wry smile. "So is this your daughter?"
"Yeah." Alice told him with a smile. "We go everywhere together." Alice put her arm around her daughter affectionately.
"Has she been on a operation like this before?" Danny asked.
Alice's smile froze. Her head moved back a fraction in confusion what the hell did he mean asking a question like that? "No." she said surely. "Have you?" she asked putting him on the spot.
He exhaled. "Your Scottish?"
Alice nodded in agreement. "Yeah but I've practised here for a few years now."
"In the bush?"
"No in the city mostly. As a locum." a slight pause. "I am fully trained if that's what's worrying you." his attitude was beginning to annoy her!
"Then you'll know how to handle one of these." he told her pointedly. Handing her a rifle.
"Yeah just about." she replied.
"Ok then lets go."
Danny walked back to his men and watched as Alice put her daughter in the truck. He just knew this wasn't going to end well.
(X)
Danny and Alice had split up and were working in different parts of the national park. She worked along while he had Jacob with him. He was on the lookout for infected animals. He saw an infected wildebeest. Instructed the men to shoot it. He had to find Alice to tell her to stop vaccinating. The whole herd had been exposed and therefore they had to be culled. God he hated his job! He began looking for her.
"Alice." he said when he saw her.
"I've started vaccinating these bless block." she said when she saw him. She stood up. Barely came to his chin.
"It's too late to vaccinate this group. We'll have to cull them." he told her. No emotion at all in his tone. He was stoic about it.
"This is a healthy animal!" she replied in disbelief.
"We have no way of knowing that. Their saliva mingles when they graze. The whole herd has been exposed." he said in a calm voice which annoyed her further.
They heard Jacob shouting for Danny in a urgent voice. They walked towards his voice and found him crouched over a dead bless bock. It had been completely decimated.
"Too sick to run. A cheetah too it. A big one. Male!" Jacob told them
Alice looked at the carcass. A worried look on her face.
"Dammit it's heading through the food chain! No tranquilisers from now on. Live rounds!"
Alice turned her head so he didn't see the look of disgust on her face.
(X)
Danny and Alice were knelt together in some long yellow grass. Had a healthy bless block in their sights.
"Take the shot!" Danny whispered urgently. "Shoot it Alice!" he hissed louder.
Alice got up pointed her gun in the air and fired. Looked at him angrily. Stood up. "I didn't come here to slaughter animals!" she said passionately.
"Well neither did I but we don't have a choice!" he said standing up also.
"Well I say we do!" her voice heavily accented with Scottish retorted. She walked away from him. He exhaled and followed.
"Look Alice I didn't ask them to put me in charge but they did so can we just finish the job and go home?" he asked.
"Yeah." she scoffed. "Back to your game reserve! Trust them to trust someone with a vested interest!" she said voice tinged with disgust.
"What are you trying to say?" he asked in disbelief at the implications of her statement.
She exhaled a small laugh though it held no humour. "Your all just so worried about your own stock that your not giving these animals a chance!"
"To do what? Spread rabies all around the national park!" he said voice raised slightly.
"I just think we're going about this the wrong way." she told him.
"Says the woman who brings her daughter on a quarantine operation." he told her dryly and stopped walking.
Alice felt her hackles rise. "Don't bring my daughter into this!" she turned back took a step towards him. He raised his hand and flicked it. He looked bored. "You know nothing about us!" she added.
"O but you know everything about me?" he fumed. "Look this is a bloody awful job but we have to do it and if you can't…"
She cocked her head slightly.
"Then just get in your land rover and go home!" he said finally.
"You can't fire me!" she said with a humourless grin.
"No but I don't have to work with you. We're done here." he took a step towards her and reached for the gun. She took a step back. "Give me the gun please." he told her.
They stood and looked at each other for a second. Neither person budging.
"Look Alice you do what I say or you give me the gun and go back to base!" he told her.
She shot him an annoyed look then handed him the gun.
Danny watched her walk away. He exhaled. God he hated being in charge he wished he wasn't but he was. Not only did he have to give the order to kill animals but he had to fight with Alice the whole way about it! What were the odds that he got sent the bunny hugger vet? What a surprise. He raised his arms in disbelief. Why couldn't she have just do what he asked her to do? It'd make life so much easier then they go could back off to their own little worlds and never cross paths again which would suit him just fine!
(X)
Alice walked back to base. Stomping angrily. Stupid infuriating man! Killing all those innocent animals and why? So his could live. God forbid his animals should get infected. Why doesn't he just kill all the animals and be done with it. That way he'd be sure his animals wouldn't catch it. His animals were probably immune from rabies if they had much contact with him! His behaviour had seemed pretty erratic to her! Actually no she wasn't being fair. She lost her temper a little. She just hated that all these healthy animals were being killed and there was nothing she could do about it! She had valid idea's on how this operation could be run and what does he do? He brings up her daughter! The nerve of that man trying to tell her how to raise her own child!
Alice walked up to the jeep and was instantly concerned when she found it empty. She looked around.
"Charlotte?" she shouted. "No reply. "Charlotte?" she began to run through the yellow grass. "Charlotte!" her voice full of urgency. God she couldn't find her. What if she got bitten by a rabid animal. What if she was mauled? What is she was kil… she couldn't finish that thought. She just ran faster. Caught sight of her daughter.
"Charlotte!" she said annoyed.
"Mum come and see this!" Charlotte said.
"I told you to stay in the car!" she said breathlessly.
Charlotte was on her knees beside a cheetah stroking him lovingly. "He's really sleepy. What's this stuff around his mouth?"
Alice came to a stop and her heart plummeted. When she saw the foam at the cheetahs mouth. Alice bent down. "Charlotte walk towards me." she said calmly outstretching a hand gesturing her to come. "Come on." she told her.
Charlotte got up.
"Really slowly." Alice said softly took a breath. "Now honey please," Desperation in her tone. The cheetah got up.
"Charlotte!" Alice said as the animal began to stalk her. "Charlotte run!" Charlotte ran to her mum. She reached Alice's arms when the cheetah ran towards them. Alice shielded Charlotte with her body. A gun shot rang from behind them making them both jump and scream.
Alice looked back at their saviour and saw it was no other than Danny. The man who had annoyed her all afternoon. He looked shell shocked. She felt the same way. All she could think was thank god her precious daughter was safe!
(X)
"Jacob once we're finished burning the carcasses we'll call it a day." Danny told him.
"I'm sorry mum!" Charlotte murmured. "I just wanted to get water. Were you frightened?"
Alice stood with her arms around Charlotte unwilling to let go. "I'm fine as long as you are ok." she pressed a kiss to her soft brown hair.
Danny walked to them. "Listen I'm not telling you how to raise your child but there's a time and a place to bring kids into the bush and this isn't it!" he said softly. His voice held no superiority. No condescension. Just concern.
She nodded. Sobered by the thought of how close she had been to nearly losing Charlie.
"Stay with her while we finish off and we'll all head back to Leopards Den ok?"
Charlotte smiled.
"Ok." Alice said softly.
He smiled a small smile at Charlotte and walked back to his men.
(X)
They drove back to Leopards Den Alice saw group of people standing on the veranda. The car pulled to a stop.
"Goodness Danny you look absolutely shattered!" Georgina said.
He looked behind him to alert them of Alice's arrival.
"O hello!" Gerogina said walking down the stairs. "You must be the other vet. Danny was expecting a man." she whispered shaking Alice's hand.
Charlotte smiled.
"O I'm definitely not what he was expecting!" Alice said dryly.
"Alice Collins and her daughter Charlotte meet Gerogina, Nomsa, my daughter Rosie and Anders Du Plessis."
"Hello." Dupe said in his rusty African brogue.
"Welcome to Leopards Den Alice." Nomsa said softly.
"Thnak you." she replied.
Nomsa bent down and spoke to Charlotte. "And you are welcome too."
Charlotte hid behind her legs.
"We've got somebody shy." Dupe said. "Probably scared of the beard."
"Probably scared of what's living in the beard!" Gerogina retorted quickly
"Come, lets have something to eat!" Nomsa ushered Charlotte inside. Alice followed.
"You look like you have been wrestling crocodiles man!" Dupe said to Danny.
"Close. Spent half of the time arguing with my so called assistant." Danny said wearily.
"What you mean Alice?" Rosie asked.
"Woman make useless vets. They haven't got the stamina." Dupe said cockily.
"Well at this moment neither have I!" Danny said tired.
"Sorry dad you have a patient." Rosie told him.
"One of Rosie's vultures. Seems he wasn't ready to fly the nest." Georgina added.
"Can't it wait til after dinner?" Danny asked a plea in his voice.
"I couldn't say. Woman make such useless vets." Rosie said sarcastically.
"Oooohhh!" Dupe said
"Ooooookaaaaaaay!" Danny said clenching his teeth. Punched Dupe playfully on the arm as he walked away. Georgina slapped his shoulder as he passed too.
(X)
Night had fallen all was quiet. Everyone was sat eating dinner.
"How long have you been a vet Alice? Gerogina asked.
"O about 10 years." Alice said nodding.
"What brought you to Africa?" Dupe asked.
"I think it was a 747." she said seriously.
A rumble of laughter echoed around the table. Georgina giggled.
Dupe looked at Alice not at all amused. Unperterbed though he carried on.
"And this one?" he continued. Gesturing to Charlotte who looked at him wearily. Eyes wide.
"Is her father here or back there?"
"He's neither really." Alice replied dryly.
Dupe looked confused. "What do you mean he's neither?"
"I mean he's neither here or there!"
"Anders Alice is a guest not a murder suspect!" Nomsa scolded.
Alice's mind wandered as Dupe spoke a a boy named Evan. She thought about how well she had avoided telling anyone any personal information. Over the years she had grown adept at avoiding answering questions about herself. She was cut out of her musings by Dupes raucous laugh.
"You want a word of advice?" Dupe started.
"Leave the boy alone!" Georgina said voice raised. "He can screw things up perfectly well without any of your advice!"
"I've made a lot of woman very happy in my life you know!" he said pointedly.
"By moving out presumably!" Georgina retorted.
"You want a cure for love?" Dupe asked. "Meet the inlaws!" he shook his fork at Georgina. "I am going to wash."
"Thank heavens for small mercies!" She said scathingly.
"You two aren't married are you?" Alice asked in amusement.
"OH please! I'm eating my dinner!" Georgina scolded.
"Sorry. Silly me!" Alice replied.
(X)
Danny and Rosie were rinising the vultures crop. Discussing why they were eating rocks instead of bones. The discussion quickly shifted to Alice.
"I need you to come to work with me tomorrow." Danny told his daughter.
"What's wrong with Alice?" Rosie asked helping him carry the vulture back to the cage.
"Well nothing excpet she thinks I'm clueless. Thinks I'm running the quarantine operation the wrong way!" he fumed.
"Well what did she have in mind?"
"I didn't ask her." he replied placing the vulture in it's cage. "She's just a bunny hugger. She thinks I'm some kind of pshychopath!"
"You know what Du Plessis said about you when we first moved here!" She retorted.
"Rosie!" he said twisting his face.
"Dad I have enough on my plate as it is! You need a vet and they sent her why don't you try and work with her?"
It was gonna be impossible to work with her! He'd just have to do it alone then!
(X)
Danny arrived at the base early the following morning. He was sorting drop out darts.
"Hey." Alice said softly walking towards him. "I didn't know you left."
"It's…sorry I should have said." he replied.
"Are those tranquilisers?"
"They are drop out darts. They administer a shot of the vaccine and mark the target at the same time."
"I thought it was too late to vaccinate!" she said dryly.
"Well we wiped out the infected herd yesterday. From now on we vaccinate neighbouring herds." he told her.
"Great! So where's mine?" she asked eager to get to work.
"You don't get one. I'd like you to prepare samples and write a report for the state vet."
Alice couldn't believe this! "I'm afraid I don't do short hand!"
"Yeah well I don't wanna be second guessed out there. I need someone whos prepared to work as part of a team!"
"Someone who'll do what they're told you mean?" she snapped.
He nodded slightly. "See you at lunchtime!" he walked away leaving her slightly bewildered at their exchange. That didn't last long as her name was called.
"Miss Collins I have a letter for you."
"It can't be!" she said looking at him. Felt emotion fill her as she looked at it. She didn't wanna deal with this right now although she knew she couldn't put it off forever!
(X)
Alice sat at the table maps all around her. She'd been hard at work the last few hours collecting data over a radio. She'd show Danny! She resented being bossed about like that! No doubt she owed him big time for saving Charlotte's life but that didn't give him the right to tell her what to do and it didn't mean she had to like him either!
"How's that report coming along?" Danny asked walking towards her.
"I haven't started it." she said marking more x's on a map. "I've been collecting reports of infection trying to identify the source of the outbreak."
"Rabies is endemic here. There is NO single source!" he said exasperated.
She stiffened her spine.
"Can we just finish this job…" Danny started.
"And go home? Yeah I want that too. Only I don't want to have to come back next month and start all over again!"
He knelt over the maps. "Show me!"
She leaned in closer to him. "All the cases so far seem to be centred on one area. Down here." she made a circle on the map with the end of her pencil. "And there's a water hole right here." she pointed to the end of centre of the circle. "Now I know rabies isn't water borne but all sorts of animals come into contact at a waterhole." They looked at each other for a second. Then he looked up.
"It's a long shot I know I just thought…" she started.
"No he interrupted her. "Your right we should take a look. Jacob tell your men we're gonna check this place!" he walked away.
Alice smiled almost smugly. Her eyes twinkled with pleasure.
They drove to the waterhole. Jacob was examining animal tracks.
"What do you see?" Danny asked him.
"Bless block, rabbit, mongoose." he replied.
Danny nodded and exhaled.
Alice walked over to Danny. "What are we looking for?" she asked walking behind him.
"The yellow mongoose carries rabies. Here!" he nudged a dead animal with the tip of his gun. "Not long dead or a predator would have took it"
"The burrow extends all around here." Jacob said.
"Right under that fence." Alice pointed. "Any idea who owns that land?"
"That's a game reserve called Mara and it's right next door to Leopards Den!" Danny said worriedly.
A/N ok this is part 1 up. this took 4eva to type and write. a 45 min ep took like 2 hours so i got all the speech rite :/
and also sorry this would have been up list nite but we had a power cut at like 730 at nite and it was off til 1:30 in the morn :O candles and torches. my laptop was dead too grrrrr how crap is that!