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" No, no that's not her, look she's way too tall, hair too short, right ladies?, it can't be her." said Betty a hint of desperation in her voice that didn't go unnoticed.

"If that's not her, why is some stranger wearing the same bracelet that Rafe gave her on her 18th birthday?" Danny thought to himself still looking after her as she tried unsuccessfully to run away with stealth. Furrowing his brow he sighed to himself, Why is she running away?

As if reading his mind Evelyn out her hand on his arm as if to reassure him that everything was going to be ok. She was always good at judging people's emotions.

"Forget it! Let's get out of here, tonight will be a night to remember!" Billy yelled pulling Barbara from her chair

"And let me ladies." said Anthony "I'll get the check."

With that the entire group got up from the small table arm and arm out and into the street.

Hair a mess, red faced and out of breath Leah McCawley finally reached their modest home. Slumping herself against wall in the front foyer of the house she closed her eyes and took long, slow deep breaths. She was warned before hand that there was a high possibility that Danny and his unit were going to be here, but seeing him walking down the road like that for the first time in how many weeks was what made her realize the reason she was hiding from him in the first place, she had known it forever, she had known it in Tennessee, she had known it in New York and by God she knew it now, she loved him, everything about him. The way he walked, they way his hair was never even close to tidy, his long and lean muscles always hidden beneath a perfect uniform. But just as suddenly as this emotion hit her, she had a grand realization… "What am I doing running away from him?"

"He clearly saw me acting like a child running away on my hands and knees, which certainly is not helping my case in Operation Talk to Danny. I can't believe I just did that…"

As she was talking to herself in the front steps of her home the post man came up to her front door to give them their daily batch of mail.

"Here you go Miss, a large bundle for you today…I'm sure you've been waiting for this letter for some time too." he winked at her as he handed her rather abnormally large bundle of mail for the day.

She knew what it was as soon as she saw the letter. The letter looked like it was a hundred years old filled with postage stamps and marks, smeared with dirt and some of the corners were slightly ripped.

It had been a long time since she had heard from her brother, too long for her liking. It was a perfect time to read the letter, everyone was out, the sun had finally slipped from the horizon, it was one of the most glorious nights she had experienced since she was in Hawaii.

Before she read the letter she decided to make herself a cup of tea to ease her recently ruffled nerves due to all the new emotions that had suddenly wormed there way into her body.

Waiting for the water to boil, she looked out the window, their home backed onto a wonderful green lawn filled with wildflowers which were all different colours of the rainbow, from where she stood she could hear the waves crashing onto the beach which is so close she would have been able to see it if it weren't for the darkness surrounding their tiny home.

She prepared her tea whistling silently to herself; her mood had improved significantly in the last little while she couldn't help it.

She walked over to the window sill which faced the back lawn and turned on the lamp just to side of her. Snuggling herself deep into the heap of woolen blankets on the couch and taking a sip of her tea she finally decided to open letter laying beside her on the coffee table.

"Yeah these blankets were a bad idea…" she sighed to herself as she threw the blankets off of herself and onto the floor. It was hot enough already why had she decided to do that she had no idea. "I guess it's just been a day full of bad decisions" she laughed to herself.

Chuckling and contorting her body so she could reach the letter, she finally felt the envelope in her hand. She liked to take her time reading the letters she got from Rafe, they came on such a rare occasion that she cherished every second that she read the letters; she always tried to make each time she read one special to her.

She looked at the date written on the outside corner of the letter where the return information was located, November…

"That's odd she thought to herself… he never writes letters that close to one another." she mused to herself.

Dismissing the fact she turned the envelope over and carefully ripped it open to reveal the letter concealed inside.

With a gentle touch she lovingly pulled out the letter. It looked exactly the same on the outside as any other letter she had received from him.

"Good." she thought, "Regularity is good because God knows the unnatural things he has to face over there…"

She finally started to read the carefully written words written on the yellowing paper.

My Dearest Love,

"My Dearest Love?" she said astonishingly "What in the name…" she read on her curiosity getting the best of her.

My Dearest Love,

I couldn't bear the thought of not writing to you for another week. I miss you to no end. I have seen some beautiful things while I've been here in England but nothing as beautiful as you my darling .Every time I go to sleep I try to conjure up my favourite memory of you and memorize every little detail from it, until I get it perfect. I try to imagine what I'm going to say to you, to what we are going to say to everyone when I return home, to feel you in my arms seems so far away but I know to see you once again is the best thing I've ever had to wait for in my entire life.

My darling Evelyn, the day I see you again is the day my life will forever be complete.

With all my love,

Rafe

"Oh my God!" gasped Leah and quickly shot from the couch she was laying on.

The music in the club was so loud you could barley hear yourself think yet alone try to have a conversation with anyone else. Smoke from hundreds of cigarettes made your eyes water and choked you. It was no were near the clubs that they went to in New York. He wasn't having any fun, how would you if you had been forced to come against your will?

Danny Walker took the final sig left in his beer and got up from the cramped, tiny table where he was the only one sitting. Everyone else was up dancing, or God knows where, it was his perfect opportunity to escape. Moving as quickly yet inconspicuously as he could he made a run for the door. Just as the fresh air began to hit his lips and his fingers began to slip around the handle to push the door all the way open, he heard an almost animalistic cry from behind him.

"WE GOTTA RUNNER!!"

Just as fast as he almost left he felt many hands forcing him back into the club.

Groaning slightly Danny shot a look of cruelty to all his friends holding him back.

"Don't make us use drastic measures again Danny, it would be much better for all of us." said Anthony, voice straining against the physical effort of trying to pull Danny back to the table.

This afternoon while Danny was fixing an airplane which propeller was slightly broken (which needed to be fixed immediately for the sake for the pilots safety) he was ambushed by his so called friends. They came up from behind him, blindfolded and gagged him and tied his arms behind his back. Too surprised to even try to defend himself, he was easily maneuvered onto the ground in which his feet were bound together.

"Sorry Danny, it's for the best." they kept on telling him

Fruitlessly trying to wiggle himself free he finally gave in to his kidnapping. His friends threw him onto some sort of apparatus to carry him about.

"MMMMMMM!!MHMHMHMHMHMH!!" was all that came out when he yelled to his friends inside his head he was screaming "Did you guys just throw me on an f'ing stretcher?! What the fck is going on? Where are you taking me?"

"Calm down Danny we'll let you go as soon as we sort this issue out." said Billy from somewhere to his right.

After a short time of walking, he was finally pulled off the stretcher and onto a cold surface. They re-bounded him to what seemed like a cold metal pole and started to take off the blindfold which shielded his eyes.

"Ok buddy where going to un- blindfold you but you must promise to just calm down and listen to us." said Billy "It's for your own good." all five of them said in unison.

When his blindfold slipped off his face he found that he wasn't in some secret underground bunker like he assumed, but just simply chained to his bed in the barracks. Red came along shortly after that and took the gag out of his mouth.

"Welcome the intervention of Captain Daniel Walker!"

"Are you guys serious?" he gaped open mouthed at his friends who where surrounding him in something like a make shift play court.

"Due to the recent events where we, your good friends, have noticed that well Danny where have you been?"

"Yeah ever since we got to Hawaii you've been in the worst moods! You just no fun anymore! Ever. We know that you've never been quite the little social butterfly…"

"Quite unlike me" Billy interjected

"Y-your just n-not the same!" Red added

"Guys this is none of your business! Now let me go!" he growled at them

"Sorry you're not going anywhere big guy."

"Let's just get this over with I have better things to do." he replied in a huff

"Exactly Danny, what other things do you have to do? Fix airplanes? That's not so important right now; you don't have to do it in your spare time." Anthony explained to him.

Suddenly it hit Danny, what had he been doing these past few weeks. Sulking around like a five year old who got denied a second piece of cake for dessert, it was embarrassing for him to be acting like this; he's a Captain for peats sake! His friends were right, this was exactly what he needed, and he had to let everything out. Well maybe not everything…

"You guys just have no idea the pressure that I've had on me since Rafe left… there's some things that I have to do, someone I've had to look after. I've been doing a horrible job of it too and now I don't know what to do with myself." he quickly but clearly said so he wouldn't have to repeat himself.

Silence pressed on the group, like a thousand pounds on the back of an ant.

Billy broke the silence first by firstly staring at Danny, then his guys going as wide as saucers.

"I get it…I understand everything now…" as he smiled at everyone

"That would be a first." mumbled Anthony under his breath

"Hey! I heard that!" Billy spat at Anthony "Anyway… Walker I finally understand what's going on in that head of yours…."

Danny laughed at him, "Ok Doctor, what's your diagnosis?"

"You love her, always have! You love Leah McCawley and now you don't know what to do! Ha! I always thought you did!"

"Uhh, you guys are crazy! I don't l-love Leah, ok?" he tried to be cool about, but he couldn't hide it.

"Oh man! This is great! Finally that's what's been bugging you are in love with your best friend's kid sister!" Anthony laughed at Danny.

Everyone in the room (except for Danny) was howling with laughter. Jumping all over him and teasing him. They were the ones now acting like a bunch of kids. It was never his intentions to let people know his true feelings it made him more vulnerable, weaker. But know they knew and there was nothing he could be about it.

He let out a gigantic groan.

"Common Guys, Danny here needs a drink!" someone yelled as they untied him

"And that's how I ended up here." Danny finished telling his story to Evelyn, who had been listening intently the entire time.

"And…" he asked quietly

"And what?"

"Do you love her?" she asked face as straight as it could be

"I don't know, I…I just have no idea!" he said frustrated "It doesn't really help my case when she's running away from me does it?"

"To be honest Danny I don't know why she did that. But you are going to have to make the first move; you know how she can get sometimes."

"Yeah I know, it's just I haven't talked to her since the train station, and that was just plain weird what happened there… I just think I've let it go on too long that I won't be able to talk to her without being forced too."

"I'm sure you'll think of something." she said giving him a genuine smile "Just do it as soon as you feel you can."

They both got up at the same time and Evelyn gave him a hug.

"Good Luck Danny." were her parting words "I need to be getting home."

Evelyn was tired when she opened the door to her bedroom. It had been a long day and all she could think of was getting into her nice, comfortable bed. It was dark in her room and she couldn't be bothered to turn on the lights.

"Evelyn, I think there's something you have to explain to me…"

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