A/N-Sorry it has taken me so very long to update my story. Everything has been pretty crazy since graduation is two days away.

Disclaimer-My only character in this story is Victoria.


Chapter 9-Identity

Danny explained to Rafe about the talk he had with Victoria during dinner.

"I don't understand, Rafe. What did I say to make Victoria upset?" Danny asked putting his face in the palms of his hands. Why was this upsetting him so much?

"I don't know, Dannyboy. Do you remember if Victoria said why she was going up to her room?"

"She said that she had things to do but didn't tell me anymore than that."

"Well, I don't know what to tell you Danny. I really have never gotten that reaction from any girl before. It doesn't sound like you did anything wrong."

"Well, what happened with Evelyn? How did she take your news about going to fly with the Eagle Squadron?"

"She was upset but promised to write me everyday while I am gone. I told her not to come to the train station to see me off tomorrow."

"Why did you tell her that, Rafe?"

"Well, if she really loves me then she will come to the station anyway."

"That doesn't make any sense, Rafe. Besides, you shouldn't be worried about testing her love for you when you are leaving for the war in the morning." Danny explained before picking up his soda and taking a sip of it.

"I need to know that Evelyn truly does love me. What else will keep me alive over there?"

"I don't know but I think this is the wrong way to go about finding out if she does love you."

"Whatever, Danny. You can think what you want to think but I am gonna do what I want to do."

"Yeah, well we better head up to our room. You have an early start tomorrow after all."

"Are you ever going to…to let me live down my leaving for England?"

"Not if you manage to live."

"I can tell you are not happy about my orders to go to England."

"Yeah, well I am heading up to the room."

"Do you want me to see if Evelyn can find out what is wrong with Victoria?" Rafe suggested.

"Do you think she would do that for me?"

"I don't know why she wouldn't. I'll go talk to Evelyn about it." Rafe replied as he got up from his seat at the table.

"Thanks, Rafe. I'll see you later. Probably back up in our room. I am heading up right now." Danny said getting up from the table.

"It is no problem, Danny. I'll see you back up in the room." Rafe headed off to, once again, find Evelyn. She was probably up in her room. Rafe got on the elevator and selected the floor that Evelyn's room was on. The elevator stopped on the fifth floor and Rafe got off and quickly walked down the hallway. Soon Rafe was knocking on the door of the hotel room. Evelyn answered the door.

"Hi, Rafe. What are you doing here?"

"Danny and I have a favor to ask of you."

"Sure, what is it?"

"Well, Danny was having dinner with your friend Victoria and after dinner she took off. He is afraid that he upset her in some way. Could you talk to her and find out what Danny did wrong?"

"Sure, Rafe. Come back in about a half hour."

"Alright Evelyn. See you." Rafe kissed Evelyn before leaving to go up to his room. Evelyn turned and closed the door behind her before going to talk to Victoria. This shouldn't prove to be too difficult of a task. She was sharing a room with Victoria who was currently in the shower. There was nothing Evelyn could do but wait for Victoria to finish her shower and come out of the bathroom. Five minutes later, Evelyn heard the shower go off which meant that Victoria would be coming out of the bathroom very soon.

"Hey Victoria. I wanna talk to you about something."

"Okay, Evelyn. I'll be out in just a minute."

"Okay."

Victoria came out of the bathroom a minute later. She went over and sat down on the bed next to her dear friend.

"What's up, Evelyn?"

"I just heard something very interesting."

"Really! What?"

"Rafe was talking to his friend Danny and Danny claimed that he had dinner with you. Is it true?"

"Yeah, I did have dinner with Danny. Why?" Victoria said sheepishly after a few minutes.

"Victoria that's great. I have one other question though. Danny told Rafe that you ran off after you were done eating. I don't understand why you ran away. What happened during dinner that stemmed the running away reaction?" Evelyn said with a confused look on her face.

"Well, we were talking about going to Pearl and Danny couldn't stop staring at me. He told me I was very pretty and I started blushing. The only person that could ever make me blush back home in Tennessee was my brother's best friend Danny. My mom always told me that only my true love could make me blush. So I got scared. I needed to get out of there to think but I had to wait until after dinner to get out. I was feeling sad thinking about my Danny from back home and this one. I was just confused."

"So, Danny didn't do anything wrong?"

"No. He didn't think this was all his fault, did he? I hope not."

"He did. Danny is really upset because he thinks he did something to upset you."

"No, Danny was as sweet as he could be. He bought me dinner and was so very kind to me. I just needed to think. Can you let him know that he didn't do anything wrong?"

"Yeah. I'll have Rafe tell him but you should talk to him as well. I think that will make Danny feel much better about dinner."

"I would but I don't know if I can. I mean, I don't even know what I am feeling right now. I think that I should figure that out first."

"Yes you need to figure that out but you can at least tell him that he didn't do anything wrong. Just tell him that you were confused and needed to be alone to think."

"That might work. I will talk to him in the morning. It is too late to go find him tonight. I am rather tired. I can wait until the morning to find Danny. That would be best, right?" Victoria gave Evelyn sorrowful look. She didn't know quite what to do.

"Well, Rafe is coming back up here soon. He can put Danny's mind at ease until tomorrow. You need to find Danny first thing tomorrow then."

"Alright. Thank you, Evelyn. That really helped me. I will talk to Danny tomorrow." Victoria leaned over and embraced Evelyn.

"You are very welcome, Victoria."

"So," Victoria began with a huge grin on her face, "how was your date with Rafe?"

"It was great until we got back here."

"Why? What happened that made the end of the date so bad?"

"Well, once we got back here to the front of the hotel, Rafe said that he had something to tell me. He told me that he was leaving for England in the morning. I told him that it was impossible for the army to order him to go. Rafe said he wasn't ordered to go. He volunteered to go over there to fly with the Eagle Squadron. I can't believe he would leave me like this."

"I don't think he is purposely leaving you, Evelyn. I think he is just trying to get some training."

"It isn't training over there though. Everyday we are hearing radio news about people being killed. Pilots are being shot down everyday."

"I am sure he can take care of himself. Did you ever find out what Rafe last name is? The name of 'Rafe' is quite an unusual one."

"Yeah, I think he said it was McCawley." A shocked expression came across Victoria's face. She had finally found her brother but that must mean that she had dinner with Danny Walker. The very same Danny Walker that she grew up with. This also meant that her brother was looking for danger. He was putting himself in the line of fire. How could he do this to his family?

"Victoria, are you okay? What is wrong? You kind of spaced out for a few minutes." Evelyn asked with a really concerned look on her face.

"Sorry, Ev. I know Rafe McCawley better than you could imagine."

"Why do you say that, Victoria?"

"My last name is also McCawley. My brother's name is Rafe McCawley."

"So you are the sister that Rafe is always talking about. He is always talking about his sister back in Tennessee."

"They don't know that I signed up as a nurse. As far as Rafe and Danny know I am off attending college somewhere but my parents didn't tell them where. I specifically asked my parents not to tell them where I am. Rafe and Danny will be really mad if they found out that I followed them into the military."

"How long do you think you can keep it a secret? Someone is bound to find out. If just one person finds out it will be all over the base in no time at all."

"I know that but I kept it from them since I left home months ago."

"True, but at that point you didn't even know where your brother and Danny were. How will you hide it from them now that you have found them?"

"I don't know. You won't tell Rafe who I am, right? I don't want him worrying about me being in the army while he is fighting in the war."

"Don't worry, Victoria. I won't tell Rafe. I will keep your secret for as long as you want me to."

"Thank you so much, Evelyn. You are such a great friend. I couldn't do this without you." Victoria once again wrapped her arms around Evelyn. Just then the two nurses heard a knock at the door of the hotel room. Victoria pulled back from the embrace and let Evelyn go to answer the door.

"Hi, Rafe."

"Hi, Evelyn. Did Victoria tell you what happened at dinner?"

"Yes she did but Victoria needs to be the one to explain it to Danny. He didn't do anything wrong. Victoria just needed to get away to think about something. I can't give anymore detail that that. She said that she will find Danny tomorrow to explain exactly what happened at dinner. He has nothing to worry about."

"Thank you so very much, Evelyn. Danny will be very grateful to know that Victoria is not mad at him. I can't imagine anybody being angry with sweet, kind-hearted Danny Walker."

"Neither could I Rafe."

"Well, I had better get back to my hotel room and tell Danny what you told me."

"Alright. Bye, Rafe." Evelyn kissed Rafe before he turned and left. She made her way back to where Rafe's sister and her dear friend was sitting.

"I told Rafe exactly what you told me to tell him. He is going to tell Danny to not worry because he didn't do anything wrong."

"Thank you, Evelyn. Are you going to the train station to see Rafe off in the morning?"

"He told me not to go."

"Trust me, Evelyn. He really wants you to show up tomorrow. If you show up it will show him that you love him. It is a stupid test that he used to do back home. If there was a girl he really liked then he would tell them that he was leaving in the morning but he didn't want to say good-bye at the station. If the girl showed up he knew that she loved him. If she didn't then he would just forget about her and move on."

"Did any of the girls that he did this to actually show up?"

"Not that I know of. He was always talking about a new girl that he liked after he gave the previous one 'the test'. He never settled down with a girl back so I guess that none of them ever caught on."

"Do you think he is just testing me and not actually going to England?"

"No, I don't. Danny told me as well that Rafe is leaving tomorrow. I think he just wants to know for sure that you love him and forget about him while he is gone."

"So, should I go?"

"Do you love Rafe McCawley?"

"Yes, I do love him."

"Then I think you know the answer to that question already, Evelyn."

"Yeah. It seems as though we both have an important day ahead of us. We should probably get some sleep."

"That is a good idea, Evelyn. Good night. I'll see you in the morning."

"Good night, Victoria."


A/N-So there it is. Chapter Ten will be up soon. Hopefully. Please Review.