Today I have to say a lot :-)

1. I can't say anything else than THANK YOU! To all of you guys. Your reviews are so wonderful and I am more than happy about them. Please always keep them coming :-) I really really appreciate them!

2. And now after Kara (Marissa Neitling) favorited the link to this story on Twitter DANNY (TRAVIS VAN WINKLE) FAVORITED IT TOO! YES! I am so overwhelmed by all of this!

3. If you are on withdrawal as I am from the lack of Kara and Danny scenes: I got a new video on my Youtube account (Resslerlicious) with an unaird and really sweet scene I am actually relying on in this chapter.

4. Who of you watched the new episode yesterday and was like: WAIT...WHAT? Child soldiers. I needed a few minutes before I could breath again. :o)

And I really hurried with the new Chapter. Hope you will have fun reading it :-)

Chapter 10- Reason

"I am stronger than I look." The boy said but Danny was still captured in his own thoughts, his demons hunting him down forcefully now.

It was quite possible the child had lost his parents, his brothers, his sisters, his whole family. He was just so small, so young. How many kids out there where lost souls like he was? Danny's mind whirled to his parents, his brother. He had nightmares of them laying in their house, dead, marked by the signs of the red flue. He pictured the little baby in Kara's belly and could feel his stomach tighten.

"Mister?" The boy asked touching Danny's arm, forcing Danny to snap out of his thoughts and get back to reality. "Come on." The little voice said and grabbed Danny around his waist.

Danny refused to lean onto him as much as he would actually needed to but with a lot of afford they made it towards the small dirty bathroom.

"Can you unbound my hands now? Otherwise I will not be able to do much. I promise I will not do anything to put you in any danger." Danny promised. The kid freed his hands before grabbing the gun from his waistband. He had to grab it with both hands.

"Please be careful with that gun. It can go off easily." Danny said his gaze never leaving the deadly weapon in the boys hands.

"I know what I am doing Mister." The boy assured him.

"Alright. Will you leave me alone for a second or are you supposed to stay in here with me? There is no window in this room and I promise I will not play any tricks on you."

"Okay but hurry. Joshua is not very patiently."

"I know."

As soon as the boy shut the door behind him Danny got the camera and the comm. link out of his pocket, hoping that it would work.

"Kara?" He whispered and as he could hear her sharp breath in his ear he knew that she was there. Kara's eyes filled with tears immediately as she could see Danny's bloodied face. He looked horrible but it felt so amazing to see him, to talk to him.

"Danny?"

"Hey baby." Danny said a smile circling on his lips. He knew that they had to stay professional.

"Listen it's at least 30 kids in here. We can not afford to get any of this kids get hurt. What ever you guys are planing you have to keep that in mind. You have to tell the teams outside! They are all armed but they don't know what they are doing. It's just a bunch of small innocent children."

"We got all the dialog you had with Joshua. We have Vulture and Cobra ready. They will have the video material in the morning."

"Alright. Bruised my hip pretty badly. Don't think I will be able to do a quick escape. Have to store the equipment again. Trust me Kara, I will be fine."

"Don't you dare make me raise this child on my own!" Kara couldn't hold the words back anymore. She could see the hurt and desperation in Danny's eyes.

"That will not happen! Okay?"

"I love you!"

"I love you too!" Danny said with a smile on his face before storing the equipment again.

As Simon finally emerged into the bathroom Danny had even drank some water to keep himself from dehydrating.

"Come on, Joshua had asked for you." The kid said while Danny leaned onto him again. He had managed to take a look on his hip. It was colored badly and Danny knew that it was bruised at least. He defiantly had been full of adrenaline yesterday to walk all the way here with his hip like that.

"Get your hands behind your back again." Simon said but Danny just looked at the small kid.

"Do you really think I can run from you?" Danny asked trying to convince the child to not get him bound up again.

"We have to ask Joshua first."

"Yeah right." Danny answered getting his hands behind his back. As they made their way back to the small room Danny had been captured in he looked around for Joshua.

"We are back." Simon said and Joshua got out of the door right next to the small room Danny had been held in.

"Bound him."

"Look I already told Simon that I will not play any tricks on you. If you got my hands bound behind my back okay, but please with my hip I need to be able to move my legs."

"Fine. Simon, if he plays any tricks blow his head off." Joshua said before leaving the room again. Now it was just Danny and this small child.

Danny exhaled deeply. Normally it wouldn't be a big deal to get out of his "prison" even with his bruised hip and his bound hands. He was a Navy Seal. He was perfectly aware of the surroundings. Behind the door was a small corridor. To the left was the "main room". He had just been able to peek into it while heading to the bathroom. He had seen a few coats and a bunch of children. Across from the bathroom was a staircase leading upstairs. He was pretty sure that was where Joshua was. To the right he had seen a door but that wouldn't be important. More important was the fact that the main door to the outside was just about 30 steps away.

Danny's gaze fell back on the kid that was starring back at him. He couldn't risk the kids life so maybe he could convince him. He just needed to find a good an peaceful way out.

"How did you guys meet?" Danny asked, refusing to sit down. It would give him a hard time to get back to his feet.

"I was at a children's home when Joshua told me about this place. I thought fighting against this bastards that killed my parents would be a good thing."

"The red flu killed your parents. It wasn't spread on purpose."

"That's what most people believe in. Ramsey told us everything."

"About what?"

"About the things you have done!" Simon said, his voice shaking now.

"They told you we have spread this virus?"

"You have. Who else had the power to do so than the USA?"

"But Simon, there are millions dead in our country too so if it would have been us, why killing our own people, our own family's?" Danny reasoned.

"Because you wanted to rule the world and play heroes."

"I can tell you something Simon if you want to hear it."

"I am not interested in your lies."

"Okay, I understand but just listen for a while, will you? It's not like we have a lot to do during the remaining hours of this night, right?"

"Right."
"I am a Lieutenant on the USS Nathan James, a destroyer. We where in the arctic sea for months, not knowing that the world around us was dying. We where not allowed to have radio contact so we had no clue. We where on a mission to find the cure to save the world from dying and we succeeded. That is what we are doing, what we have been working on and that is why we are here because the vaccine, the cure, needs to be produced so we can heal people that are already sick. And than Ramsey and his bunch of immunes showed up. We didn't even know that there where so many people immune to the virus. Ramsey destroyed all the labs we wanted to produce the cure in. He killed the scientists, he tried to destroy our ship. I saw with my own eyes that he tried everything to infect the people that had stayed save from the virus for such a long time. He wanted me to give poisoned teddy bears to children so they would get sick. We are not the bad ones in it, it was Ramsey."
"I don't believe you."

"I know you don't. It's hard to believe in something and than you learn that it was all a lie, that you trusted the wrong people."

"It's not a lie. You killed them all."

"No we didn't. I will tell you something about me okay? I haven't seen or heard of my family for ten months now and I don't have a clue if they are still out there, waiting for me or if I am too late. Personally I don't think I will ever see them again but I don't allow myself to let it sink in because when I know that there is nothing left of what I called my life for so long I don't know what I will do. But what keeps me from breaking down is the will to save as many people as possible and that is what I am fighting for every day, every hour, every second. And then I have the greatest reason of all to continue. My girlfriend and my little unborn child. In all this chaos, in all this unknown we are starting a new family. So Simon please just think about my words. Our whole crew has lost at least someone they cared for, someone they loved, some of us have lost everything. Why should we have done this? We are the good ones. We are the people that can help save what's left." Danny said trying his best to convince the child of the right things.
"Ramsey and his crew are dead." He added right in the moment as the door busted open forcefully again.
"Get out of here now!" A boy screamed his gun pointing directly at Danny.

….to be continued!

Many of you asked me to make a note when the next chapter is going to be up but I honestly can't tell as I don't know when I will get the time to write or how the ideas are coming to my mind. I am sorry! Just check in here, I will do my very best :-)