A/N: It's me… again, well this chapter is kind of sad yet cheesy at the same time I hope you enjoy it

A/N: It's me… again, well this chapter is kind of sad yet cheesy at the same time I hope you enjoy it.

Key: Italics: Danny's Letter

Bold: Rafe's Letter

"Daddy? Where are ya?" Danny Walker repeated as he walked through the house. "Daddy?"

He walked through the back yard and through the fields. As he walked back to the house he found a trail of empty beer bottles. Danny sighed as he picked the bottles up. The bottles ended at the side of the barn. That is when he found his father's boot, lying on end around the corner. "Dad?" he yelled his voice going between high and low as most growing teenage boys do.

"Oh my God!" he cried as he rounded the corner. Thee with a pile of empty liquor lye him, Cole Walker dead. His eyes were open and rolled up to the back. His mouth wide open with tongue hanging out the corner.

"Oh my God!" Danny repeated as he ran to his father's side trying to wake him. "Daddy please wake up, Daddy!" He slapped his father's face around a bit trying to wake him but the failure brought more tears to his eyes. "Daddy you can't die, not here, not now, I didn't get to say good bye! Daddy please wake up! Please… just wake up!"

Danny sat there with his arms wrapped around his father crying into his chest.

He was an orphan now; it seemed all of his links to the Walkers were gone. But now that he was alone whose family could he call his own?

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In the year following Danny's father's death Danny traveled back to Arkansas where he lived with his aunt. There they had the funeral, sold the house in Tennessee and tried to figure out Danny's living situations. Once every week Danny would write a letter to Rafe and Kirsten would help Rafe write to Danny.

Dear Rafe,

It has been so strange without seeing you guy's everyday. My aunt says that I may live with her till I turn 18, but I suggested that I could live with you if that wasn't any trouble. I told her that you guy's been more my family then her and she slapped me, but I don't care. She also said that I could if you said it was all right.

Danny

Dear Danny,

Momma says she would love you to stay with us and so did Pa. I miss ya too.

Rafe

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The sweet spring of '34 approached as the McCawley's gathered up the house for the arrival of their newest family member.

An extra bed, dresser, and nightstand were placed in Rafe's room. An extra chair fashioned for the table; everything was to be ready for a new person to move in.

The day Danny moved in finally came as all four McCawley's waited in front of the house for his arrival. The car pulled up and Danny came out and grabbed his things. He first gave Rafe a hug then Mrs. McCawley, then Mr. McCawley. Finally he approached Kirsten. "Danny we missed you so much!" she said as she swung her arms around him.

"Yeah I missed you too," Danny said in shock, Kirsten was different…very different.

A/N: I had to keep you a little suspended. Ok no more today a thunderstorm is probably about to blow my computer up. Bye!!!