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Ch.4 Cake

"Good morning." Carter said as he appeared at Dana's office door.

"Morning." Dana answered busily looking at some files.

"I have a surprise for you." Carter said with a smile.

"What?" Dana asked looking up at him quizzically.

"Surprise!" Kelsey said moving Carter aside to get to Dana.

"Kelsey Oh my god! " Dana said surprised and got up to hug her friend.

"I've missed you Mitchell." Kelsey said hugging her friend tightly.

"Me too!" Dana said pulling away to get a good look at her friend.

"Me three."

"Me four." Joel and Chad said coming in.

"Oh my god! I thought you were all out of town!" Dana said excited to see her friends again.

"We heard our girl was back and had to come see for ourselves, now can you please tell me where she is because last time I remember she was a blonde!" Joel said teasingly.

"Very funny." Dana said smiling happily.

"Hey Dana." Chad said giving his friend a tight hug.

"Chad I've missed you!" Dana exclaimed.

"Ok ok enough love let's get something to eat." Joel said with a grin.

"Let's go." Dana said smiling. As they walked out the door she went next to Carter and whispered "Thank you"

The group then headed out to lunch at their favorite diner, and talked about what each one had been doing. Chad had been in Maui doing some experiments and Kelsey was competing in North California in an extreme sports competition. Joel and Angela had been in Washington at a meeting. She was happy to be with her friends and they were able to forget everything for a while. Dana returned to the base later that afternoon and went to the surveillance room to look over the same footage she had examined many times. Carter was about to go home when he noticed the blue lights that came from the surveillance room. He passed by and saw Dana focused on the monitors pressing some of the buttons. He walked over to her and touched her shoulder making her jump up.

"It's me. It's just me, I'm sorry I didn't mean to scare you." Carter said. He had forgotten how jumpy she had become since the attack.

"No, no, it's ok. I'm fine." Dana said feeling embarrassed.

"What are you doing here, it's pretty late." Carter said.

"Just looking over these videos, it just doesn't make sense Kat's a ranger. No matter how out of practice she is she would have been able to have fought out a common attacker. The footage of an ATM machine across the club got something but at the exact time she was taken the video has a gap of 3 minutes. We have to believe that whoever took her knows about the rangers. The fact that her tracker went off line within minutes of being taken its undeniable right, and the fact that this person was able to cover his tracks is disconcerting." Dana explained.

" You got all that in thirty six hours?" Carter asked impressed.

"I know it's not much but it's all I got." Dana said with a sigh.

"It's a lot Day, and I've been working with Angela's tech team to try to get Kat's tracker online." Carter told her and Dana simply nodded.

"Thank you for calling them." Dana said looking up at him.

"Don't mention it." Carter said with a smile.

"I mean it, I'm really glad to see them, so thank y…"

"There you are." Julia said coming in. "Are you ready?"

"Yeah…are you going home too?" Carter answered Julia and turned then turned to Dana.

"Yeah don't worry I'm just going to clean up." Dana answered with a smile.

"Ok, goodnight." Carter said and left the room. Once they were in the car Julia turned to Carter.

"Carter…I don't know if I'm being paranoid, and I don't want to be the insecure needy girlfriend but I really don't like you hanging out with Dana." Julia told him.

"What?" Carter asked confused.

"You were engaged to her, Carter there is obviously more than friendship there and you may be over her, but she might not be."

"What are you saying?" Carter asked not understanding.

"I just would like it if you didn't spend every minute of every day with Dana." Julia said with a sigh.

"Ok." Carter said.

"Really?" She asked surprised.

"Yeah." He answered tight lipped.

"Thank you." Julia said somewhat shocked.

"Let's go home." Carter said trying to give her a smile.

The next day Dana and Kelsey sat in the Aquabase galley eating breakfast

"I still can't believe you dyed your hair." Kelsey said with a smile. Dana just shook her head and smiled.

"How have you been?" Dana asked.

"Good I guess." Kelsey said unconvincingly. Kelsey and Ryan had only been married a few months when the break-in had happened. Dana knew that Kelsey had been hurt just as bad as she had when Ryan had died.

"I miss him. I can't stand the pain sometimes, so I create different kind of pain. I work out as hard as I can sometimes that help…sometimes." Kelsey admitted.

"I know Kels." Dana said giving her hand a squeeze.

"Hey Kelsey want to go swimming?" Chad said going up to the girls.

"Sure." Kelsey said lighting up a second.

"Dana?" Chad asked looking at his friend.

"No thank you." Dana said with a smile.

"We'll be back in a while." Kelsey told her as she got up to join Chad. The day went by uneventfully and Dana went home late that night. She got home a found a medium sized box sitting on her porch, and she went inside and put the box on her kitchen island. She opened the box and found a note a smaller white box inside the box.

'Welcome back' She read the note. She opened up the white box wondering what was in it. As she saw what was in it she gasped.

"Oh my god." She said breathless. Dana ran to the phone and grabbed a knife from the drawer. Panic and terror came over her as she dialed the number on phone.

"Carter can you come over please." Dana said trying to keep her voice steady.

"I'll be right over." Carter answered sensing the agitation in her voice. Dana hung up the phone and sat against the wall not wanting to move. The doorbell rang making her jump and she got up slowly and went over to the door.

"Carter?" She asked.

"It's me." Carter called back to her, Dana took a deep breath and opened the door.

"Are you ok?" Carter asked seeing how scares she look.

"Yeah…it's in the kitchen." Dana said pointing to her kitchen door. Carter went into the kitchen and looked at the note.

"It's the same cake." Dana said referring to the cake she had gotten for her family reunion.

"Are you sure?" Carter asked examining the cake.

"Every detail is burned into my brain, yes I'm sure." Dana said hugging her torso, she gasped as someone passed by the window.

"It's ok, they're my men. They're making sure it's all clear. Come here." Carter said taking her the knife that she was still holding making her knuckles white. He then brought her close and hugged her tightly.

"It's ok." He said.

"Carter." Julia said making Carter pull away from Dana.


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