Author's Note: Thanks for all the reviews! I always give someone from some story a little sister or a daughter. But I think Ron is one of my best creations yet. I'm trying to make a website with drawings and pictures and profiles of the characters in the stories I write, but itsnot working well. If I get it up, you will be able to see Ron! And all my other characters.
The chapter is short, but bear with me.

Ron opened her eyes, slowly waking up. She got up, put on her favorite denim overalls and a white t shirt. She pulled the comb through her hair and made it into two braids. She took the chain with the dog collars and placed it around her neck. She and Danny each had three of Daniel's tags and three of Rafe's.

She skipped down the stairs and out the back door. She headed toward the meadow. She picked a daisy and headed back to the gravestone. She liked to call it the listening stone.

"Hi Danny. Did you like the heather I brought you yesterday? Some of the kids at school think I'm crazy because I say I have two fathers. They think I talk to myself. They don't know you're my favorite person to talk to. I'm having Casey for a sleepover tonight. I'll bring her over tonight so you can meet her." She fingered the lockets on her neck. She had two gold lockets on one chain. One with her Daddy's hair and picture and one with Daniel's. One finger traced the W on the stone softly. She shifted from a sitting position and lay, propped up on her elbows.

"After Danny talks to you. I hope you listen to him as well as you listen to me." The wind ruffles her stray hairs softly in answer. She stared at the sky amazed. "Daddy said that you are my and Danny's guardian angel. He said you're always with us when he can't be. Tomorrow's July 1st and you know what that means, don't you? I get my first flying lesson. Daddy's gonna take me and Casey up after breakfast and start teaching me. Can you watch over us then? Thank you Dad. Danny. Whatever." She brushed her lips softly against the stone. "Love you. Bye. Wish me luck with Casey!"

She went back inside. "Daddy! Mama!" She hollered. No answer. She climbed the stairs and bounded into Danny's room.

"Danny!!! Get up!" She pulled his blankets off.

"Shut up an' let me sleep!" He pulled the blankets back.

"You'll miss breakfast if I shut up!" She teased.

"Okay okay! Get outta here and I'll get up."

She bounded into her parents' room next. "Mama! Daddy!" Come on. I'm hungry. I had an extra long talk with Danny's dad. I need breakfast."

"Okay!" Evelyn yawned and stretched. Three years she woke up like this. With Ron yelping in her ear for breakfast.

"What did you talk to him 'bout angel?" Rafe asked, rubbing his eyes to get them to see.

"I told him all about Casey sleeping over and how you said he was mine and Danny's angel and my flying lesson too!" She said all of this in one big breath. Rafe smiled.

"Angel?" Evelyn looked at him in surprise.

"Yeah, Mama. Daddy told me that Danny's dad was my and Danny's guardian angel. That he watches over us when Daddy can't be there and he protects us."

Evelyn looked at Rafe questioningly, with a tiny smile on her face. He grinned at her. "You know he watches over them. Why do you think she loves to talk to him?"

"Because he listens better than anyone! He understands me no matter what I say to him. I'm lucky. I have two daddies." At this, she skipped out of the room and down the stairs.

"Don't you wish we were a normal family?" Evelyn asked.

He smiled. "We're better than normal. You heard the girl. These kids have two daddies instead of one. And one can protect them anywhere they go."

She smiled at him sadly. "Sometimes I think the kids got switched by accident. Why is she so fascinated with Danny? She calls him her Dad. I got a call from the school the other day. They said she was telling the kids that she had two fathers. They thought she was telling lies."

Rafe grinned again. "So what did you tell them?"

"I told them that she wasn't telling lies, that she was telling the truth. Then I hung up." She smiled slyly at him. They laughed together.

"Mama! I'm starvin'!" A cry was heard from the kitchen.

"We're coming down!" Rafe roared back.

"Most little girls her age would be afraid to be near a grave. She talks to it. And she lies down on top and sits and everything."

"There's nothing wrong with that. She sees him as an angel, not a ghost. No. I think she sees him as a normal person. But to her, he's invisible. " Rafe told his wife as they dressed. "Besides, I didn't raise no sissy!"

She rolled her eyes and went downstairs to start breakfast, before Ron started yelling again.

"Mama, can I wear my special dress today? Since tomorrow's my birthday?"

"Why don't you wear it tomorrow then?"

"Because tomorrow's Saturday and I want everyone in school to see it."

"All right. Go ahead. Just don't take too long or you'll be late for school."

Ron hopped up the stairs and back into her room. She opened her closet and took out one of the two dresses that hung in the back. It was yellow and blue with a hula design. It was made from the two hula shirts her father and Danny had worn during the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Her mom had cut the two shirts and fashioned them into a short summer dress for Ron. It was the only dress she allowed her mom to dress her in.

She pulled it on and went back downstairs to the mouth watering smell of sausages.



A/N: Do you think Danny (SR) should be seen by Ron on her birthday? Input on this topic is much needed. I can't make up my mind!