(A/N: I would also really love to know who you guys think will really be in the car in season 4.)

Kris and Dani reached their room at the motel and Kris slid the card to get them inside. "I can't believe you didn't spray the Lysol on the doorknob before you opened it. You're going to get a disease."

"Thanks but I don't think anything will happen by opening a door without spraying Lysol all over it."

"But, it's dirty..."
"Right. And when people touch something dirty they use this newfangled thing called soap. You should try it sometime. Works miracles." Kris smiled at her cleverness and Dani gave her a sarcastic smirk. They entered the room and Dani threw her stuff on her bed and Kris did the same for hers. "I'm gonna take a shower," Kris informed Dani. "You don't need my permission." Dani began unpacking her things for the night. Kris stopped short of the bathroom and looked at her backpack and took in a deep breath before going inside. I'll unpack after my shower. Dani's kind of a bitch but I haven't known her to snoop. She won't find the pictures.

Dani finished unpacking and dressed for bed. I'll take my shower in the morning. AFTER I sleep in this probably unwashed bed. Dani yawned and turned to turn off her light when she noticed Kris' stuff. Hmm. She got out and put her ear to the bathroom door. Water's still running. She turned back and sat on Kris' bed and slowly began to go through her stuff, not expecting to find anything that had to do with Junior, but looking for something to do with Matt. Okay. She pulled out the first item. A racing ribbon, A picture of the Ritters, a half-eaten Hershey bar, nothing was too incriminating and Dani was about to give up her search and go to bed, until she noticed something in the bottom of Kris' bag that had her brother's handwriting on it. What's this?

Even taking a warm, steamy shower couldn't get Kris' mind off of everything. I thought this would relax me... she said with a disappointed look on her face. She put her head underneath the shower head and closed her eyes. More memories came flooding back to her.

"I didn't know you were that strong."

"You could easily take me. I don't know that many girls who could lift ninety pound bales of hay."

"Yeah well I don't know many guys that would do this."

"What was that?!"

"A horse. Can you believe it?"

"Hm."

"There are only two reasons a mare would refuse stud. One, she's not in heat which we KNOW she was, or two..."

"She's already pregnant."

"Yes. But how?"

"Junior, is Matt there?"

"Yeah, somewhere. Why is something wrong?"

"Just tell Matt to come home right now and postpone the race for me please."

"Junior! I'm so glad you're here!"
"What's wrong?"
"Belladonna's in labor and the vet things the fole is positioned wrong. I need you to get her to lie down."

"Junior, look."

"Is that..."

"It's, incredible."

"What are we going to name him?"

"Child of Belladonna and Wildfire... Willadonna? Childfire."

"What's with the bow?"

"He wanted to look spiffy for his new owner, you."

"Me?"

"I bought him, for you."

"I was thinking, while you were gone, I could, start his training..."

"Training?"

"Kris, I would do anything."

What's this? Dani pulled out the small piece of paper. It was a napkin from Ray's cafe. I love you. Junior and Kris 4ever. Hm. A little elementary of you Junior. Why would Kris keep this after they broke up? Dani looked in the bag again. Underneath the napkin was Junior's cowboy hat, pictures of her and Junior kissing in a photo booth, a necklace he gave to her, a small, broken-off piece of her cast that he had signed, a clip of a magazine with her and Junior's picture at a party after one of the races, and finally, the blanket that Junior took with him when he told Dani that he and Kris were having a picnic. Dani heard the water shut off. "Shit," she whispered. She put everything back in the bag and tried to put it exactly where she had found it. Dani climbed into bed and shut off her light as soon as Kris opened the door from the bathroom. She turned over, facing away from where Kris' bed was, eyes wide open. Oh my God.

Kris threw her stuff in a chair on the other side of the room and unzipped her backpack. She got the blanket out and walked over to her bed. She draped the blanket over her and layed down on the bed and fell asleep, not thinking that Dani had ever seen the blanket before or had known what it is that it represented. Dani was still awake, and after awhile she thought Kris was asleep and she turned back over, facing Kris. She saw the blanket on top of her. Maybe it's not the same blanket. It can't be. She is with Matt. She can't still be in love with Junior. After Kerry? After Matt? After the Sandpiper? Dani turned on her light and noticed a small tear in one of the right corners of the blanket and turned the light off again. That's the one.

Kris woke up in the morning to the sound of a squeaky water faucet turning on. Dani must be in the shower. She got out of bed and stretched while simultaneously yawning, and walked over to her duffel bag to get her clothes. She got all dressed and ready except for brushing her hair and her teeth. She debated as to whether or not she should test Dani by knocking on the shower door and asking her to hurry. I'm in the middle of the Mojave desert. And Dani has the car. Kris brushed her hair in the main room and decided to wait until Dani was out. "What took you so long?"

"Me? You were in the shower for a half an hour last night."

"Not because that's how long it takes me, because I was thinking about things." Dani tried to hide a smile. "What things?" Kris was never good at lying. "Um, you know, about the new ranch." Dani knew what, or rather, who, Kris was thinking about, but decided to wait to bring it all up. I'll do this on the drive. The two girls got in the car and Dani stopped in front of the main office so Kris could take back the key. Kris grabbed the complimentary breakfast, which in Motel 6 and other motels that are similiar, is really just donuts and coffee. She turned to leave, but then went back and got coffee and a donut for Dani. She opened the car door and handed them to Dani. "Here." Dani took the coffee and donut and looked at Kris and muttered a quiet "thanks."

The two girls were quiet nearly the rest of the morning, except a few words here and there, but not really conversation starters. Kris' head was resting on the window and she was looking out. Dani flew past a sign that Kris read "Welcome to New Mexico." "We're here."

"Not yet. The land I'm buying is near the border of Texas. We've still got another eight hours or so to go."

"Oh." Great. Another night in a hotel with Dani. Dani was thinking of the opportune moment to bring up the things she had found the night before. She went back and forth about it, but in the end she decided not to bring them up. She knew Kris was one of those people who really hate when other people go through their stuff, and as much as she would have loved to piss Kris off, she was her new partner. Some things are better left unsaid. And she hated Kris a little bit less after she found out that she had not one memoir of Matt in her backpack.

When they got into a more civilized area of New Mexico, Dani drove into a drive-through ATM to check the status of her credit card. She slid the card in and out and waited for the response. She read the screen. Credit Card Balance: $3,000

Cash Available: $3,000.

"What does it say?"

"I guess I was over my spending limit before, because now it says I can use it."
"That's good."

"Yeah."

The girls were in within 50 miles of El Paso, Texas, which was about ten miles east of the new ranch. Dani pulled up to another Hilton and parked the car. The two grabbed their stuff and walked inside. This time there was no problem at the front desk. Dani got a suite, with two rooms. Hers was the one with the view, of course, but the two of them were separated only by a thin door within the same hotel suite. "So how much is my half of the suite?" Dani couldn't believe she was about to say what she was beginning to tell Kris. "You know, don't worry about it." Kris was shocked. Dani had never done anything like this for her before. It wasn't much of a gesture since Kris payed last night, but this one must have been at least a hundred dollars more than what she had paid, and for Dani, it was a big gesture. A symbol of one step towards peace between them. "Are-are you sure?", she said, still in awe. "Yeah. You paid last night." Kris smiled at Dani.

"Thank you."

"Yep. Well I'll see you in the morning." Kris took the hint and went to her own room.

Kris got the blanket out of her backpack and once again draped it over her body. It still smelled like a mix of grass and of Junior. For some reason it seemed to bother her much more tonight than it did the last one. She took in a whiff of the blanket and closed her eyes to fall asleep when she began feeling them getting heavy. Oh no. She opened her eyes and sure enough, water spilled out. She tried holding back the tears that were to come but she couldn't do it. She cried into the blanket, hoping that that would keep her quiet enough so Dani wouldn't hear her. Not that Dani would care, but she didn't want Dani to know that she cried. She was trying to put up a stronger front than Dani was. She couldn't stop thinking about Junior, and couldn't understand why she wasn't thinking about Matt, at all. She loved Matt, or at least she thought she did. Why didn't memories of her and Matt keep following her?

Dani tried to ignore the small whimpers she heard from the other room. Of course she didn't care, she told herself. But she was trying to sleep. She knocked on Kris' door and heard Kris say "Come in." In a small voice, trying to hide her cries. She covered her face with the blanket in order to keep her tears and red eyes hidden from Dani. Dani saw her cover her face. "You don't have to do that. I know what you are doing." Kris pulled the blanket off of her face and re-adjusted her position on the bed. "What?"

"Could you try to keep it down?"
"Yeah, sorry. Didn't know you could hear me."

"You cry louder than you think you do. I'm the same way. Everyone knows when Dani Davis is sad."

"You cover it up pretty well."

"Only because I cover it up with anger." Dani didn't know why she was spilling all this personal stuff out to her enemy, so she quickly stopped. "Well anyway I'm going to the vending machines to get a bottle of water. You want anything?", remembering how Kris brought her a coffee and a donut earlier. "No. Thanks though. I'm fine."

"Alright."

Dani shut the door behind her and leaned up against it. She didn't go get the water that she had planned on going to get. She just leaned up against Kris' door. Should I tell him? Does he have a right to know? Dani wanted to tell Junior that Kris still loved him so badly, but then on the other hand Junior was doing great with Gillian. She thought that maybe Gillian could make Junior forget about Kris. In the back of her mind she knew that if she told Junior, it would make him really happy. Kris was always number one to him. But at the same time, if things did start going with Kris again, who's to say they wouldn't break up? She didn't want to see Kris hurt her brother, AGAIN. She went back and forth about what to do all night, until finally she felt herself drift off to sleep.

"Do you, Gillian Parsons, take Ken Davis, Jr. to be your lawfully wedded husband, in sickness and in health, for better or for worse, till death do you part?"

"I, Gillian Parsons, take thee, Ken Davis, Jr. to be my lawfully wedded husband."

"And do you, Ken Davis, Jr. take Gillian Parsons, to be your lawfully wedded wife, in sickness and in health, for better or for worse, till death do you part?"

"I, Ken Davis Jr, take thee, Kristine Furillo, to be my lawfully," Junior didn't go on after the realization of what he had just said. He looked at the crowd, who was shocked, leaning forward in their seats, Gillian's half of the audience, angry and disgusted. Then, he looked at Gillian, and saw a hand coming at him. She slapped him, and ran off. He thought about chasing after her, but he ran the other direction, and Dani followed him. Junior found a small bench on the other side of the Davis Mansion, where the wedding was, and sat on it. "I could swear that's happened somewhere before..." Dani ran up to him. "Junior! What happened?!" Junior looked up at his sister. "I can't marry Gillian. I can't do it."

"Don't you love Gillian?"

"Yes."
"Then why not?"
"Because Gillian is not the one I just saw standing up on that altar."

"You saw Kris?"

"Yeah. I saw Kris, in Gillian's wedding dress, looking more beautiful than ever before, vowing to marry me."

"You haven't seen Kris in four years."

"I know."

"Then how can you still be in love with her?"

"That I don't know."

"Are you? Do you think that what happened at the altar was some sort of coincidence?"

"No. I don't. I love Gillian, but I want to spend the rest of my life with Kris. I knew that four years ago and I know that now. How could I have let her go?"

"You let her go, because..." Dani hesitated, "Because you thought she didn't love you."

"Right." Dani took in a deep breath and then let it out. "Junior, there's something I never told you..." He listened intently.

Dani woke up screaming. Kris opened the door. "Dani! What's going on?!"

"Oh. Bad dream."

"Oh. Well get dressed we were supposed to be on the road an hour ago." Dani was still thinking about the dream and how vivid and real it seemed. She reached over onto the nightstand and tossed the keys to Kris. "Here. Um, go warm up the car. I'll be right down." Kris was even more confused than ever. "Wait, you trust me with your car now?"

"Don't make me regret it." Kris smiled and grabbed her stuff and left the room. Dani still sat there thinking about the dream. There's no way that's actually going to happen if I don't tell him. He won't say the wrong name at the altar. It must've been that tv show I was watching before I fell asleep last night. What was it called? Oh yeah, Friends. That's what caused the dream. It had to of been. That makes the most sense anyway. Dani got out of bed and got ready. She was still thinking about the dream. Before she left, she flipped open her cell phone and went to her phone book. She found Junior, and now, he was one button away from knowing. She closed the phone. She took in another deep breath and closed her eyes. I hope I don't regret this... Dani flipped open her phone again and called her brother. "Hello?"

"Junior? Dani."

"Dani! Where are you!? Dad is going crazy! He thought you would get scared and come back by now."

"I'm not coming back. I'm gonna do this, but that's not the reason I called."

"Oh?" Junior said, sounding nervous. "What's up?" Dani was scared to say it, but she finally managed to get it out. "Junior, there is something you need to know...".