The lack of sleep had finally taken her toll and she found herself walking in a daze. The girls tried their best to help her but they too were tired and in need of rest. Rafe was aware of this so tried to take Danny out with him as often as possible. He walked up the tropical path to pick up Danny. Today he had planned to take him to the airfield to show him the planes down to the smaller air field.

Rafe knocked on the door and waited for about a minute, Evelyn slowly opened the door with a zombie look on her face. "Are you here to take the little crying machine?" Evelyn asked rubbing her eyes.

Danny's roar was present in the background as Martha tried to rock him to sleep. "Go to sleep little non-stop don't dare let anyone sleep yet little cutie pie," she sang.

Rafe walked over to her and took Danny from her, "hey there Danny boy," he said in a soothing voice. "Daddy's gonna take you to go look at the planes."

Danny's cry stopped as he began to grab Rafe's face and mush it around. "Can you please move in," Martha begged staring at him surprised. "How did you get him to stop crying?"

"Luck I guess," Rafe said tickling little Danny's stomach, "well I gotta get going." He got Danny's bag and walked out closing the door behind him.

"Evelyn, marry him now before somebody else does." Martha joked as she picked up Danny's blankets.

Evelyn just watched him walk away, so sweet and caring towards Danny, "do you really think so?"

*~*

The airfield was quiet on this Sunday afternoon making it a perfect time to show Danny around. "See this plane," Rafe said pointing one out to little Danny who wasn't paying attention, "that plane your real daddy Danny flew once, when we shot down a bunch of planes in Pearl Harbor." He took him into the garage where Gooz was working on his plane, "hey Gooz."

Gooz looked up at them and waved with his wrench, "since when did they drop the entrance age for the army?" He asked looking at Danny.

"Aw, no this is Danny." Rafe responded.

"Rafe, Danny's dead, that's just some baby."

"No, it's his son, Danny."

"Oh, ok," Gooz paused, "my girlfriend had a baby once. It wadn't mine though."

"Yeah, ok Gooz."

After Rafe had finished his tour of the airfield he took him for a drive along the coast. "You know," he began, "I've got a secret to tell you that you probably won't remember until I tell you again when you're older. I'm not your real daddy." Danny looked around at the big mountains not paying attention to Rafe. "Yeah, your real daddy died back in China saving my butt and well he was my best friend. And your mom and I have a strange past, one that you'd probably never understand. In fact, if I could I would turn back time and then you'd probably be my son and we wouldn't have to have this conversation. Well not that it's a conversation because I'm the only one whose talking. Well anyway, I just wanted you to know that even though your not my real son I'm gonna love you a lot and treat you like my own because I owe it to Danny for what he did for me. So are we cool?" He asked looking down at Danny; the baby just looked at him and laughed. "What you think that was funny? So can you still call me Daddy?" Danny nodded 'no' even though not sure of what he was talking about. "Yeah, we'll just wait until you start talking then we'll see. Can I get a high five?" He asked reaching a hand out in front of Danny who began to hit it with his little hands.

Rafe drove back to the nurse's quarters and carried a sleeping little Danny back to the door. "Here," Rafe said handing Evelyn the baby, "I wore him out for you."

"Yeah, but he'll be up again as soon as you leave." Evelyn responded rocking him slightly.

"What do you want me to stay tonight or something?"

"Nah that would be awkward."

"Trust me, I think we've been through a lot more awkward situations, I could sleep on the couch or something."

"Could you? I feel so bad keeping the girls up all the time."

"Yeah, yeah, it's nothing really."

"I owe you big time!"

"Oh, I know."

*~*

It was now three o'clock and Danny still hadn't woken up screaming, out of habit Evelyn woke up and walked down the stairs to the living room. Rafe lay cuddled on the couch with Danny wrapped in his arms sleeping soundly. Evelyn picked up a blanket and put it over them for warmth. She paused for a minute and just watched them sleep. "I could see this as a family," she whispered.

Rafe stirred a bit as he woke up from his sleep. "What are you doing up?" he moaned his eyes still squinted.

"Just checking on you," she said softly, "are you sleeping okay?"

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine now go back to bed before you wake up my baby," Rafe said shifting himself back into a comfortable position.

"You mean our baby," Evelyn corrected him.

"No I should mean your baby," Rafe said as he closed his eyes going back to sleep.

Evelyn stood and thought for a minute, "It should be our baby," she sighed all of a sudden feeling a wave of guilt as she went back up to her room.