I do not own any of the characters and am just taking them out to play.

Chapter 4

Dominic Santini pulled the car that they'd rented when they flown to San Antonio in Airwolf to the curb in front of Caitlin's condominium. When he turned off the engine, he turned to Stringfellow Hawke and asked, "You ready for this?"

"I don't think that I have any choice," Hawke said as he got out of the car. "We need to find Nicky and then we'll get the other thing fixed."

They walked up to the door to Caitlin's apartment and knocked. It took a couple of minutes, but then Cait came to the door.

"Dom, I can't talk to you right now," Cait said anxiously.

Hawke stepped forward into Cait's line of sight and handed her the paper that he had found on his chopper the day before.

Cait took the paper and read it, then looked at both Dom and Hawke.

Dom just shook his head and said, "Cait, we know about Nicky not being here."

Instead of answering, she just moved out of the way and motioned for them to come in. Cait moved further into the apartment and Hawke shut the door when he'd come through it.

They waited a few minutes for Cait to say something, but when she didn't, Hawke said, "What do you know about Nicky being missing?"

Cait had her back to them and she didn't answer right away. Finally, she sighed and answered, "I went to pick him up at the day care center yesterday and he wasn't there. The woman in charge said that Dom had come and picked him up and left me a note. I took the note and left. When I got into my car, I opened the note and it said… Here, read it!"

She went to her desk and got a piece of paper which she brought back to Dom. Dom moved over so that he and Hawke could read it at the same time.

"Okay. It says that they have Nicky and they don't want you to discuss the situation with anyone. They'll be in touch in a day or so," Dom said. "What did you do next?"

"I went back inside the day care center and got the person who was in charge to show me the tape of the person who picked up Nicky. If I hadn't known that it wasn't you, I would have said that it was you, Dom. Then I came back here and spent the rest of the night trying to figure out who had him and what was going on. I'm still waiting for them to get in touch with me."

At that point, Cait started crying. "He's so small. I can't lose him," she sobbed.

Dom went over to Cait and took her in a hug and tried to comfort her.

Hawke felt uncomfortable, but felt that he should stay out of this. He went out into the kitchen and poured Cait a glass of wine and took it back into the living room to give to her.

Dom had Cait seated on the couch and was still trying to comfort her. Hawke walked over and set the wine down on the table in front of her.

"You do know that we have to call Archangel," Hawke said breaking the silence that had descended. "He needs to know what is going on since it involves Airwolf."

Cait stopped what she was doing and just looked at him. She moved off the couch and came to stand directly in front of Hawke, "You can't tell Archangel! The people who have Nicky said not to get in touch with anyone! I'm not going to let you jeopardize his safety by getting in touch with Archangel!"

Hawke regarded Cait for a few minutes and then said very softly, "Cait, we have to get in touch with Archangel. He's the only one that can help us get Nicky back in one piece. They obviously want Airwolf in exchange for him and they'll need me to fly her, so they'll keep Nicky to make sure that I do what they want me to do."

"No," Cait shouted at Hawke. "They'll let Nicky go just like they said they would! You can't put his life in jeopardy."

At that point, Cait slapped Hawke hard across the face.

For a few minutes, they just stood there staring at each other. Then Hawke turned and stomped out the front door.

Dom came over to where Cait stood and took her in a hug again. "I know that you don't want to hear this, but String is right. We need to get in touch with Archangel to see if he has anything we can use to put the odds more in our favor. String won't do anything to put Nicky's life in jeopardy because he knows how much you love him. He wouldn't want to hurt you."

Cait closed her eyes and thought for a minute. When she opened them, she said, "All right, we'll get in touch with Archangel, but it has to be done so that no one knows about it."

"String will see to that. Just remember that he's only now realizing that he has a son and he won't let anything happen to him," Dom told Cait.