Michael heard it first, a dull thumping noise that grew steadily louder. He woke up, jumped out of the bed and startled Bonnie as he did so. He barely had time to notice that in their sleep they had again moved into an intimate embrace.

"What are you doing?" Bonnie questioned him.

"Do you hear that?"

"No." She rubbed her arms feeling the chilled air and missing Michael's embrace.

"Well I do and it sounds like a chopper." He gathered up his coat and gloves, they had dried but were stiff and very cold. He grimaced and put them on anyway.

Bonnie heard the sound now too and got up to stand next to him. "Don't tell me you're going outside?"

"Well I want to make sure they see us, besides we have to get out of here somehow." He responded. Then he pulled the lose vent out of the hole and started to climb out. This time he climbed upward to stand on top of the tipped over semi trailer. It was very slippery and at a slight angle. He had a difficult time keeping his footing, but finally managed to stand upright. He glanced around at the scene and was amazed. There was a thick coating of new snow everywhere, and it sparkled like a million diamonds. It covered the ground and clung to the trees. If it hadn't been for the fact that they could have frozen to death in it he would have thought it was beautiful. Then he saw the chopper come into sight and started to wave at it.

Devon saw Michael standing on something waving frantically at them. It took a minute for him to realize that Michael was actually standing on the semi, and that it was not on the road. Devon had the helicopter hover over the scene for a minute to let Michael know that he had been seen. They would have to call in rescue personnel for this, the roads looked impassable.

It took another hour for the rescue helicopter to arrive and extract Michael and Bonnie from the semi. After being assured that KITT would be rescued as quickly as possible and that a snow plow and truck were on their way with equipment to pick him up, they were then flown to the nearest hospital to be checked and cleared.

Michael glanced through the small window in the door to see Bonnie sliding off an examination table. Her arm was in a sling, but she looked fine. He knocked softly on the door as he opened it. "Hey there, can I come in?"

She looked up and gave him a big smile. "Of course you can. Did they fix you up?" She said angling her head to catch a look at the head wound that she had originally stitched up.

"Yea. The doc said that you did a decent job. He put in a couple of extra stitches, but left it alone for the most part. He did say it would scar though."

"Ohh, I'm sorry."

He laughed a little. "Don't worry about it what's one more, besides it'll add character don't you think?"

She laughed back at him "I think that you are enough of a character."

"Now, come on," he looked at her eyes and they were shinning. They had just gone through the equivalent of the rinse cycle and spent several hours freezing in the back of a semi truck and he thought she looked beautiful. "We should probably go see if they got KITT rescued yet." He said as he started to turn.

She agreed with him, but she felt an urgent need to question him about his words in the semi. She was scared to death, but she felt that if she didn't do it now she might never have the courage again. "Michael?" She called a little questioningly and paused. He stopped and turned back to her. "Did you mean it… what you said?"

He stopped when she called his name and turned to look at her. There was anxiety in her face. Then she asked the question and he knew what she was talking about. 'She must not have been asleep' he thought. His first instinct was to play it off and pretend he didn't know what she was talking about. Then he realized that she was giving him his opportunity to tell her for real. He steeled his courage and walked back to her stopping only inches away. He locked eyes with her.

"Yes." He said simply and smiled. "I don't know when it happened." He laughed a little. "Hell maybe it was even the day we first met. But it did happen." He put his hands on her arms. "I have fallen in love with you."

She opened her mouth to say something and he stopped her. "No, you don't have to say anything, not yet."

She interrupted him. "Well I'm going to. Do you know how long I have dreamed about hearing you say that? So long in fact, that I gave up. I mean at first I think it was infatuation, then wishful thinking maybe. Then Stevie came back and I put it aside, what ever 'it' was. Then I got hopeful again when you climbed out of that depression and finally I gave up. So when Chad came along… well I guess... I don't know."

The whole time she was talking Michael was standing there in stunned silence. He never imagined that she felt the same way he did. He finally gathered his thoughts and realized that she was still rambling on. He interrupted her. "Bonnie," he paused. "Shut up." He leaned in to kiss her.

His kiss was light, soft and tentative. She then began to understand the power she might have over him. He was afraid, even after she had pretty much admitted that she loved him too. He was still afraid. She had never known Michael Knight to be afraid of anything.

She opened up to him and he slowly and methodically explored her mouth, as she did his. She wound her one good arm around his neck and threaded her fingers into his hair.

He felt dizzy and light headed and it had nothing to do with his head injury. When she invited him in, he deepened the kiss and it was more fantastic than he had ever dreamed. He felt her arm circle his neck and her hand in his hair. He carefully wrapped his arms around her waist and back and pulled her to him. He didn't want to squish her other arm, but he wanted to bring her as close as he could.

She felt a little involuntary shiver move through his body and he slowly pulled away. She found that she was breathing hard.

He slid his hands around her body and brought them up to rest on either side of her face, as he rested his forehead against hers. "Wow." he said softly.

"You can say that again." She said as she ran her hand down the side of his neck and his chest and rested her palm there.

Devon had made sure that KITT was safely removed from the semi wreckage and loaded on the flatbed truck. Pete attached the charging system they had brought with them and started charging KITT's batteries.

After ensuring that KITT was in good hands and would soon be on his way to LA, Devon got back in the FLAG helicopter and flew to the hospital to check on Bonnie and Michael. When he arrived he was told where to find them and then made his way to the examination room. He glanced in the window before knocking and stopped, frozen statue still by the scene through the window. Michael and Bonnie were in an embrace that could thaw any frostbite.

'Oh dear Lord' he thought, 'What sort of trouble is this going to cause?' Then an uncontrollable smile spread to his face. Trouble or not, he wanted these two people to be happy no matter what and that maybe they had just found the right match.

He waited until they broke apart, then he knocked on the door. "Excuse me, am I interrupting anything?" he said as he came in the room.

Michael pulled away from Bonnie and turned to face Devon. "As a matter of fact..." he started.

But Bonnie interrupted him. "No, you're not." she said blushing and glanced at Michael who had a shit-eating grin on his face.

Devon came further into the room. "Well, I thought you'd like to know KITT is safely on his way back to LA."

"Devon, did Pete initiate his systems?" Bonnie asked.

"No, he said it would take time to charge KITT's batteries enough."

"Well can you contact the truck? I want him to come here. There's no way he's going to make the whole trip home shut down."

Devon pulled his cell phone out. "Of course. I'm sure they haven't gotten far and if so we can meet up with them in the helicopter."

Twenty minuets later they had met up with the flatbed truck that was taking KITT home. He was strapped down to the back and covered with a tarp. Michael and Bonnie climbed up on the bed of the truck. Bonnie checked KITT's charge levels and decided that he had enough power to be brought back online. She initiated the start up sequence for him.

"Hey, Buddy can you hear me?" Michael asked when Bonnie shook her head indicating that he was coming online.

"Michael? Bonnie?" KITT answered hesitantly.

"Yes, we're both here." Bonnie answered him.

"Where are we? Are you both okay?"

Michael smiled and laughed a little. "We're all gonna be okay, you're out of the semi."

Bonnie climbed back in KITT's cabin and bent awkwardly under the dash. "Just a minute. I'll turn your main scanner back on. I know it's damaged a little, but it's better than being totally blind."

"Thank you, that's much better. Hello Devon, I take it you rescued us?"

"Well I called the rescue teams in. I'm glad to see you are alright." Devon answered.

"Well I'll be much better when I get home." KITT said.

"Alright then let's get back on the road." Michael said then jumped down from the truck. He reached up and helped Bonnie climb down. Michael stepped closer to her when she had both feet back on the ground. "I'm gonna ride home with KITT."

Devon went back to the helicopter to give them a moment alone.

"Are you sure? It's going to be a long slow ride on that truck."

"Yep. I'm sure. I don't want him to be alone anymore."

She smiled a little and again was amazed how much he cared for KITT. "Okay. I'll get the lab ready for him." She wanted to say more, felt that more needed to be said. She thought their conversation in the hospital left so much unsaid.

Michael read the expression on her face. He reached up and rested his hand on the side of her face. She leaned into his palm and closed her eyes. He leaned down and kissed her lips; several soft, sweet, short kisses. Way to short she thought. He pulled away and placed one last kiss on her temple as he moved back just a little.

"When you're done with KITT we're going to talk" he said. Then he quickly climbed up to KITT on the truck. "OK let's roll" he shouted to Ray, the driver, as he got into KITT. He waved to her and they rolled away.

She stood there several minutes and watched them disappear down the highway. Her whole life was about to change, normally that scared her and this time was no different. She loved Michael, she was sure of that, but she was also completely devoted to KITT. How was this change going to affect all three of them?

"Well I guess I missed something while I was offline. Care to catch me up?" KITT said as Michael settled into his seat.

"I took your advice and told her how I feel."

"And?"

Michael chuckled. "And it turns out she feels the same way, or at least that's impression I got. We're going to have to spend some time figuring it all out. But right now I want to talk to you about it."

"Michael, it's alright I don't need an explanation. I've seen this coming for a while now."

Michael laughed again. "You did? Why didn't you tell me?"

"It's my understanding that you humans have to figure these things out for yourself." KITT joked.

"Yea, well I still want to talk about it with you. I want you know that my feelings for Bonnie are not going to change the way I feel about you. We're friends, partners and that's not going to change."

"Thank you, Michael."

The End