Chapter 2

Elizabeth

The apartment in the Dover was nothing like No. 17. Only one would truly ever be her home. She tried futilely to make the apartment more like a home as opposed to the cold apartment it would always be.

For the entirety of the two months that had passed since Will's death she had been Mrs. Keller. Now though, she was Mrs. Cairns to everyone else except herself. She was carrying Will's child and it seem wrong to think she wasn't his wife. She had often thought that it would be easier to be in heaven with him, but now she had to live and soon she would have a living part of him with her.

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Diana's POV

The men were yelling orders at one another and the blue green ocean looked emptier than my heart felt. I stayed out of the way trying to avoid work until it was absolutely necessary. I didn't want to low my cover before the ship left either.

Willed my eyes to look at the ocean, figuring that Herny's ship had left at least a few hours ago. The early March breeze was still a little chilly and I was glad for the double use of the hat.

A man walked to rail on my left and too stared out to the ocean. "It seems impossible that anything can be on the other side of that." I had heard that voice before. So many times, but usually at a much lower volume.

I looked to my left. "Henry?" My voice was so shocked that I didn't have time to make it sound like a man and not a sixteen year-old girl.

His head whipped around to look at my face. "Diana what are doing here? This ship's going to the Pacific. You know that right? I didn't want you to... you shouldn't have... What if you get caught?" his panic was the only greeting I would get ,and his shock seemed to mimic mine.

"I will get caught if you keep talking that loud," I said in an almost hushed tone.

"I'm sorry," he said his shocked look morphing into what looked strangely like relief, "But Di you really shouldn't have come."

"I know but I couldn't stay. I have no one. You were leaving, Elizabeth's gotten married to ," I was still a little panicked, but now there was an edge of pleading on my voice.

"Fine," he sighed, "How did you get on the ship though? You certainly don't look like a man."

"My name is Daniel and I looked enough like a man to get here didn't I?" I questioned his statement.

"I suppose. I will always see you as my Di though," his voice was still questioning. It was probably for the disbelief that his little Diana could be a man and not for my vague explanation.

"I still am your Di though. It's just my appenence. I'm still the same girl that loves you and you are still married," I had to remind him of that as much or maybe less than I had to remind myself.

"I know. I know ,and I still love you too ,and I'm not married to Penelope anymore," Henry had the same sincere face that he had when he told me he loved me.

"We're still in the same place though," I said realizing it at that moment as I said it, "We still can't be together. You realize that right?"

"Why can't we be together?" he really was caught up in the thought of being together," I don't have any obligations. We could get of the ship now and go out west or somewhere, anywhere."

"You can't just dis-join the army."

"Why not?"

"That's why."

We both looked out over the now moving ocean.

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AN: Yay they found each other! I had to add a little of Liz's life so I know the beginning's a little fluffy and meaning less.