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Ch.3 Fallout

"What do you mean she's gone?" Carter asked Ryan after having found that Dana wasn't at the hospital or anywhere else in Mariner Bay for that matter.

"She just came by and told us she was leaving." Ryan answered calmly. His best friend was not taking the news very well, but then again he knew that he wouldn't.

"Just like that? And all of you just let her take off without another word?" Carter asked his frustration rising by the second.

"Something like that." Ryan said trying to calm Carter down.

"She just got out of the hospital. She shouldn't be anywhere but home. Where the hell did she go anyway?"

"We don't know she didn't want to tell any of us."

"And it didn't occur to anyone to try and stop her?"

"What were we suppose to do Carter, its not like we could tie her to chair. You know her once she's made up her mind there's no stopping her. Its what made her such a good ranger, its what makes her such a good doctor, and its what makes her such a stubborn person." Ryan said trying to reason with his friend, this was all going to be hard for him.

"I'm going to look for Chad and Joel." Carter said annoyed by the situation. They had driven Dana to the airport according to Ryan so he'd try to find out something from them.

"You're a dead man Lee." Joel told Chad as he saw Carter behind his shoulder.

"Me? You brought her back from the hospital." Chad responded turning to face Carter as he approached them.

"Where'd she go?" Carter demanded.

"Carter, we really have no idea." Chad answered.

"And neither bothered to check or ask where the hell she was going?" Carter couldn't believe that this was possible Dana just picked up and left and no one cared enough to figure out where she was going.

"Of course we did but she didn't want to tell any of us. Not even Captain knows where she was going." Joel said in there defense.

Airplane

Dana looked out the airplane window, looking but not really seeing what was beyond the thick glass. It hurt leaving everything and everyone she loved, but staying would hurt even more. She wondered if Carter had read the letter she'd left yet. It physically hurt to think about him, she couldn't even give him a proper goodbye, the kind a good guy like him deserved; but he would have made her stay and so a letter would have to suffice for there goodbye. She looked down at her bare left hand and felt the enormity of her loose again, the only thing she could do was hope and pray that she would get through this. Maybe he'd be able to find a nice girl that would love him as much as she did, a girl that deserved to have such an amazing guy with her. She couldn't help but feel jealous of the nameless faceless person that would come in and take her place.

Back in Mariner Bay

Carter threw his keys on the table and slammed the door of his apartment. The same apartment he had shared with Dana, the placed seemed eerily quiet and abandoned. How could she just have picked up and left, just like that without another thought or consideration to him. He thought over and over again. It seemed unbelievable that last week he had ever wanted in life and just like that in an instant it was all gone. Everything he had loved and cared about in the world had vanished. He was about to go to his room when he noticed something shiny on the coffee table. Sitting there was the pink diamond shaped ring gleaming back at him, and then he noticed a piece of paper underneath with his name on it in neat cursive writing. Writing that he knew all too well, he snatched the paper up and opened it.

Carter,

I am truly sorry for all the pain that I have caused you. I would give anything to take it all back and make you forget all that I've put you through. I love you more than you'll ever now, but please understand that I can't be with you anymore. Leaving is the only solution. I hope that you can be happy from now on and move on. Forget the horrible person that has caused you so much pain, and please try to forgive me for it all.

I will always love you

He saw a stain at the end of the page a single tear drop that she had left behind. He stared at the letter in disbelief; he crumpled it up and threw in on the floor. Then he did the only thing that would give him some form of comfort, he ran as far and as long as he could until the pain in his legs was almost as bad as the pain in his heart. He stopped and she'd the first tears since the accident.

E/N: Ok so I'm working as fast as I can to get all the chapters up, but please review so I can know how you like the story so far. Thanks again to those who reviewed. And as always thanks so much to K. for putting up with my neurotic self and for all the editing and reviewing. :)