A/N: Song is "Where You Are" performed by Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey.

Dangerous Love

Lightning struck through the sky, lighting up the dark apartment with the surreal green glow. Luka flipped the switch and the room was flooded with light. Abby closed the door, but the sound was covered up by the patter of rain on the roof.

Luka quickly walked over to the girl's room and knocked on the door. When there was no response he opened the door and peeked in. Shutting it he looked at Abby, fear coursing through his body. "They're not here."

"Just because they're not here doesn't mean that something is wrong!" Abby exclaimed.

"You feel it too, then?" Luka asked.

"Feel what?" Abby shot back, not wanting to answer Luka's question.

"That something is wrong," Luka said.

Abby nodded as sirens could be heard in the distance. Luka and Abby both looked out the window and Abby whispered, "Those aren't for them, are they?

Jing-mei was standing behind the admit desk, talking to Randi when a call came through. Randi took it and then sent Carter and Jing-mei out to meet the screaming ambulances that were pulling up, delivering two people from a car accident.

"What happened?" Carter asked as the EMT brought the stretcher down.

"Two girls ran into a light post. They seem to be okay. This one may have broken her leg," he said as Carter ran over, looking down at the stretcher.

"Alexandria!" Carter exclaimed.

"You know her?" the EMT asked.

Carter nodded, "Yeah, I do."

"Okay," he said as they pushed Alexandria to one of the exam rooms as Jing-mei stepped up to the next ambulance.

She looked down at Mariana and smiled, as the EMT put the stretcher on the ground. There was a gash on her forehead. "She hit her on the windshield. She might also be drunk."

"Are you sure?" Jing-mei asked him.

He nodded his head. "The girl and her sister both said that she just got distracted while driving, but we could smell a little alcohol on her breath."

Jing-mei nodded as they pushed her into an empty exam room.

The EMT smiled at them as he pushed the stretcher out of the room after he and Jing-mei had moved Mariana from the stretcher to the bed. Once he was gone Jing-mei turned to Mariana and questioned, "Mariana, were you drinking tonight?"

Mariana closed her eyes in pain, "My head hurts!"

Jing-mei pulled on a pair of latex gloves as she walked over to Mariana. "Let me have a look at your forehead," she said sitting down by the bed. She repeated her question again, "Mariana, were you drinking tonight?"

Mariana sighed, "I don't remember anything that happened before the accident."

Jing-mei pulled away from Mariana and walked towards the door. Opening it up she yelled out, "Haleh, I need a suture kit!"

Walking back over she said, "We'll do some tests to see if you have a concussion. You don't remember anything at all?"

"No, well…I do remember one thing," Mariana replied.

"What do you remember?" Jing-mei asked.

"It isn't my place to tell," was Ana's response.

"Why?" Jing-mei asked.

"Because it's something that Alexandria told me," was Mariana's response.

Jing-mei nodded, "Okay. And do you remember what happened after that?"

"I looked at her."

"And then?"

"And then we crashed," Mariana said, everything coming back to her now. Everything including the drinking, but she wasn't going to tell Jing-mei that, unless she asked again.

"I'll go call Luka," Jing-mei said as she finished writing notes in the folder.

Carter sat down and opened a file. "Okay, Alexandria. What's wrong?"

Everything, Alexandria thought. But when she opened her mouth she said, "My left leg hurts really bad."

Carter nodded, "Was it caught between anything in the car?" he asked as he slipped some gloves onto his hands.

Alexandria shook her head, "No. The crash wasn't that bad. We just hit a lamp. Ana's head hit the windshield and it's bleeding. I hit the dashboard."

Carter nodded again, examining her leg. "Well, I'm going to send you up for x-rays to see if there's a break or a fracture."

Alexandria looked at him. "An x-ray?"

Carter nodded, "Yeah."

"Will it hurt my baby?" Alexandria asked him.

Carter shook his head, "No, we can protect your…your what?!"

Jing-mei quickly dialed Luka's home number and waited for him to pick up.

"Hello?"

"Hi Luka. This is Jing-mei," she replied.

"Hi, Jing-mei," he responded. "What are you calling for?"

"Mariana and Alexandria were in a car accident –" Jing-mei started to say.

"Oh my gosh! Are they all right? What happened?" Luka asked.

"Calm down Luka!" Jing-mei replied soothingly. "The girls are fine. The EMT thought he smelled alcohol on Ana's breath. When I asked her about it she said she couldn't remember much about what happened before the crash."

Luka sighed, "Alcohol? Let me talk to her before you do anything else about that."

Jing-mei nodded. "Okay. I'll let you go so that you can come here right away."

"Thanks," Luka said, and hung up.

"My baby," Alexandria said softly.

"Your…your…baby?" Carter asked her. "You're…you're…pregnant?"

Alexandria nodded.

"When…when…did you find out?" he stammered.

"This morning," she whispered. "I told Ana about it before we crashed."

He nodded, "Okay. It won't hurt the baby. I'm gonna go make sure that Luka's called in."

"Don't tell him about the baby!" she shouted.

Carter nodded his head, "Yeah, I'm not planning too. That's your responsibility."

He walked out into the hall and walked to the admit desk. "You got Ana, right?"

She nodded, "Yeah. I called Luka. He's on his way in."

Carter nodded, "Good. There's something he needs to talk Alexandria about."

Jing-mei smiled sadly, "Yeah, same with Ana."

Luka rushed into the ER. "Where's Mariana's room?" he asked Jing-mei.

"Exam 4," Jing-mei replied.

"Uh, Dr. Kovac. You really need to talk to Alexandria," Carter said.

"I'll talk to her in a minute," Luka called over his shoulder as he walked to Exam 4.

He knocked on the door. "Come in," he heard Mariana call.

He opened the door and walked in, closing it behind him.

"Hi, Luka," she said softly.

He walked over the bed. "How're you doing?"

"Pretty good, I guess," Mariana replied.

He sighed, "Were you drinking? Don't lie to me."

Mariana closed her eyes, "Yeah. I had a couple beers."

Luka sighed, and walked out of the room.

Mariana blinked back tears. Had she pushed her new father away from her by drinking? She hadn't meant to hurt anybody. She had only meant to escape the pain that life was giving her. She hadn't meant for anybody to find out. She definitely hadn't meant to get into a car accident.

The door opened and she looked up hopefully. Abby walked in, and her heart sank. Sure, Abby was great. But Luka was her father now. And that's who she wanted to work things through with right now.

"Mariana," Abby said softly as she walked over. "Luka wants me to talk to you about the drinking."

"Why can't he talk to me?" Mariana asked.

"Because, he doesn't know what to say."

"And you do?" Mariana questioned.

Abby nodded, "Ana, I'm a recovering alcoholic."

Luka finished talking with Abby and went back to the admit desk. "Where's Alexandria?"

"Exam 2," Carter said.

"Okay," Luka said and turned away before Jing-mei called him back.

"Luka! What did Mariana say about the drinking?" Jing-mei asked.

"She didn't," he responded and went to find Alexandria.

He knocked on her door and entered when she responded. She smiled at him as he shut the door and walked up to her. Sitting by her bed he asked, "How're you doing?"

"I'm okay, I guess," Alexandria replied.

"Carter said that there's something I need to talk to you about?" Luka questioned. Alexandria nodded. "What is it?"

"I'm pregnant."

Luka blinked, stunned. "W-what?"

Alexandria sighed, "When we went to Croatia, I was raped by this guy I met. Now I'm pregnant."

Luka sighed, "Ar-are you okay?"

Alexandria blinked back tears, "I think so…"

"Are you going to…going to…keep the baby?" he asked her.

Alexandria nodded, "Yeah. I know life is going to be hard raising a baby, but, it feels like it's the right thing to do."

Luka nodded, "Then it probably is. I'll help you in whatever I can."

Alexandria smiled, "Thanks."

Luka sighed, "Wow. This is a lot to handle."

"You were an alcoholic?" Mariana asked.

"I guess I still am. I just haven't gotten drunk for awhile," Abby replied.

"Why did you drink?" Mariana asked.

"The same reason you did, I'm sure," Abby said. "Life sucks, life is hard. Too hard to handle sometimes. And, alcohol is one way to get away from those problems."

Mariana nodded in agreement. "But, it's not a good way. My life sucked even more when I was getting drunk every night. Alcohol messes with your mind. And it messes your life up even more. You can lose relationships because of it. You can make decisions that you'll regret, that will hurt you."

"It makes me forget about what's going on now," Mariana said.

"But what about later in your life when you look back on something you did while you were drunk, and that hurts you even more?" Abby asked.

Mariana shrugged, "I'll deal with it then."

"With more alcohol?" Abby questioned, and nodded when she received more response. "Luka and I are going to tell them that you weren't drinking. Just this once though. We probably shouldn't, but we are. So, please, don't make us regret doing this."

Mariana nodded. "Okay."

Mitchell was standing at his window, watching Mariana climb up the tree. He opened it, and held out his arms to help her climb in. He had known she'd come up that way, the tone of her voice when he had called her told him that she didn't want to see many people.

She smiled at him after she had climbed in. He stared at her forehead, "What happened?"

She laughed as she closed the window. "Got in a car accident after Al and I left your house," Mariana said before quickly adding, "She's pregnant."

"Oh," he said, sitting down in his desk chair. Then he reached out and grabbed her, pulling her onto his lap. "You both okay?"

Mariana nodded, "I had this cut, and a concussion. Alexandria fractured her leg. So, what did you want to talk about?"

"The sports director called. The boy's basketball team is playing their last game on Tuesday. If they win, they'll go to state. So he was thinking that maybe you and I would sing a song during half-time. Cheer them on."

Mariana nodded. "What song do you wanna sing?"

Mitchell laughed, "You choose."

The home crowd cheered, they were in the lead. Alexandria was sitting with Michael, her on-again off-again boyfriend, watching the game. It was half-time now, and Mariana walked onto the court as the boys filed out, watching from the hallway between the gymnasium and the locker room.

Mariana was wearing black leather pants, and black leather tank-top, and back healed shoes. Mitchell was wearing all black too. Music began blaring through the speakers and Mariana started singing.

"There are times
I swear I know you're here
When I forget about my fears
Feeling you my dear

"Watchin over me
My hopes seeks
Of what the future will bring
When you wrap me in your wings
And take me

"Where you are
Where you and I will breathe together
Once again"

Mitchell walked up behind Mariana and sang with her.

"We'll be dancin in the moonlight just like
We used to do"

Then Mariana started to sing alone again.

"And you'll be smiling back at me
Only then will I be free
When I can be
Where you are"

Mitchell began to sing alone.

"And I can see your face
Your kiss I still can taste
Not a memory erased"

Mariana sang after him.

"Oh, I see your star
Shining down on me
And I'd do anything
If I could just
Be right there"

She started singing the chorus once more, and Mitchell joined in and dropped out every once in awhile.

"Where you are
Where you and I will breathe together
Once again
We'll be dancin in the moonlight just like
We used to do
And you'll be smiling back at me
(And you'll be smiling back at me)
Only then will I be free
Then I will be free
So take me where you are"

Mariana sang that last line, alone, like a silent cry to the boyfriend standing beside her. The thought struck Alexandria as soon as her sister had uttered it. She didn't know why, but the thought chilled her to the bone. But she put it out of her mind as right away Mitchell began singing.

"Now baby there are times when selfishly
I'm wishing that you were here with me
So I could wipe the tears from your eyes and make you see
(What you mean)
That every night while you are dreamin
I'm here to guard you from a fall"

Mariana joined in, and their voices blended together naturally.

"And every night I feel alone
I close my eyes and dream of

"Where you are
Where you and I will breathe together
(And we will breather together, baby)
Once again
We'll be dancin in the moonlight just like
(We'll be dancing in the moonlight)
We used to do
(And you'll be smiling back at me)
And you'll be smiling back at me
Only then will I be free
Then I will be free

"Baby I still believe
(I've got to believe)
I still believe
I will touch you that sweet day
(That sweet day)
That you take me there
Where you are
(Where you are, ooh)

"I still believe
(I've got to believe)
I still believe
I will touch you that sweet day
(That sweet day)
That you take me there
Where you are
(Where you are, ooh, where you are)

"I still believe
(I've got to believe)
I still believe
(I'll always be waiting here)
That sweet day
(That sweet day)
Where you are
(Only wanna be where you are)
(Oh I still believe)"

They ended, smiled as ran off the court as someone said over the system, "That was Mariana Watkins and Mitchell Evans singing "Where You Are" by Jessica Simpson with Nick Lachey!"

The crowd cheered all around Alexandria, but she just sat there. She had an eerie sensation from watching them sing this song. It was like one of them was dead, and they both wanted to find each other. And now, Alexandria too was filled with the feeling that the worst was yet to come.

Behind her, a few rows back, Warner Gardner was not clapping either. Mariana was stunning of course, he thought. But that Mitchell kid is there. Gosh, I'd give anything to be with Ana. Is there a way?

Coming Soon: Grease – Mariana's the lead in the school play.