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Then, suddenly, I heard a loud crash and a wave of light flooded everything, and then it was gone,
maybe I had died, that was my first thought, that I had been shot and I was dead, it took me a
moment to realize that the both Zeros were now smoldering piles of orange flames on the ground,
only them did I turn to see who or what my savior was, before I could even glance back, a voice
came over the radio
"Looked like you two needed some help"
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Chapter XIII-On The Ground
"Beautiful!"
I don't know whether it was me or Rafe or both who called her name, but I looked over into the
cockpit of the plane that had come in between us and there she was, the petite and pregnant girl
with disheveled brown curls and eyes like fire, she was like an angel, I felt like screaming at her
about how dangerous it was to be up here, she was, after all, pregnant, and how I had told her to
stay on the ground, but after a display like that, I couldn't bring myself to chide her
"How about if we land, me and Danny are running on fumes" Rafe said
"Me too, Earl said this one was low on fuel, and he was right" Leanna said
I followed the two as we landed side by side, and triumphantly stumbled out of our cockpits to
face Earl and the rest of the people standing there
"Who taught you to fly like that, Walker?" he was directing the question at Leanna, not me,
"They did" she said, looking at Rafe and me before climbing out onto the wing, where Rafe and I
rushed to help her down, as we walked back down the runway both Rafe and I had our arms
around the much shorter and much plumper brunette, I looked over and kissed her temple
"Next time I say 'it's to dangerous, stay here' listen to me please?" I said, holding her tighter
"and next time I say 'Danny, I'll be fine' let me go, because I have to be there to save your asses"
she smiled
"We should probably go help at the Harbor" Rafe said
"I've got more fuel in these three, you want them?" Earl asked
I nodded
"Let's go, fly close to me, Beautiful, do your stuff"
So the fates of the people of Pearl Harbor were in the hands of three pilots; one pregnant ex-pilot-turned-nurse, one dead guy, and one completely hungover. Wonderful.**
The dogfight at the Harbor had been nothing ut triumphant on our parts. Leanna flew beautifully, just like I taught her, and we drove those Japs out of our Harbor, but the damage had been done, and after we had landed back at the airfield, we had no idea what to do, and in the end it was Leanna who had a plan
"The hospital" she said simply, and Rafe lit up, had the situation not been so grave, I would have laughed at how he had forgotten his girlfriend momentarily
"To the hospital it is" I said, the car was in no shape to be driven, so we walked, it was only about 3 blocks, but it was 3 blocks of pure devastation
Finally we walked in, and *that* was chaos, people were running everywhere, the screams of pain echoed and I was sure that this was what hell was like, we stood there, greasy, burned, torn, and bloody, I on the far right, Rafe on the left, and Leanna in the middle, bathed in sunlight from the door behind us and I was sure we looked more heroic than we were
Rafe began looking frantically for Evelyn, and after a moment or two of standing there, a frazzled Evelyn appeared, she was pulling two IV stands behind her, she must have spotted us, because her intense gaze instantly softened, and after a moment of standing there looking at each other, she began towards us at what was probably supposed to be a run, but in her wearied state, it was, at best, a slow gallop
She stopped a few feet in front of us and sighed, rushing forward again, I assumed to fuss over Rafe, but I was wrong, I looked directly to my left and saw Evelyn gasp
"Oh my god! Leanna, are you alright?!" she asked, obviously *worried* about Leanna
I knew my mouth was hanging open in shock because I could no longer smell the stench of burned flesh in the air through my nose, Leanna and Evelyn *hated* each other, but here Evelyn was, making sure that Leanna was ok before she had even looked at Rafe
"I'm fine, Evelyn" Leanna assured her
"I want to bandage those cuts, could you get me- no, I'll get it in a moment"she said, then turned to Rafe, threw her arms around his neck and just stood there
"I was so worried, I thought you were dead again" she said, not seeming to mind that she was laying her head in a spot of dried blood on his shoulder
"I know, sweetheart, I'm ok" he said, Evelyn seemed to regain her composure and stepped back
"What happened to you?" she asked, again looking to Leanna
"Uh-" Leanna opened her mouth
"She flew, with us, and she was great" Rafe said, knowing that there was going to be a stern talking to coming to him later
"Leanna, you're *pregnant*!" she panted
"I know, Evelyn, I did what I had to do" was Leanna's retort
"She saved our lives" I spoke up
It was Evelyn's turn to have her jaw drop
Rafe smiled and put an arm around Leanna
"Let's get you guys cleaned up, Leanna, are you ok?" she asked
Leanna nodded
"Ok, I want to get you guys cleaned up, and the-" Evelyn was cut off
"We want to help" Rafe spoke up
Evelyn sighed and mentally shook herself, trying to clear their thoughts
"Blood. We need blood" she said
"You two aren't seriously injured? Are you?"she asked, looking Rafe and me up and down
Both of us shook their heads, I had a nasty cut on my arm and one on my shin, and I would be very sore tomorrow, Rafe had a gaping wound on his thumb and one above his left eye that had bled all the way down to his shirt, and Leanna had a large cut just at her scalp, staining her brown curls a deep crimson
Evelyn nodded
"Leanna, can you go and get me some gauze, peroxide, and some tape so I can fix their cuts...and your head?" Evelyn said
Leanna didn't answer, she just walked off in the other direction
"C'mon, let's get you two taken care of" Evelyn said, touching Rafe's arm, avoiding his bleeding thumb
We followed her into a small room in the back, behind a glass window was a man, obviously being given his last rights
I tried not to look, but with the needles stuck into my arm and blood pouring into the sterilized coke bottles, I would've done anything not to look at my own arms
Leanna walked in, many supplies under her arm, her face looked pale, and Evelyn knew why, the horror that was taking place inside the hospital was overwhelming, the room they were in was quiet, except for the chanting of the priest behind the glass, and the gurgling of the dying man
Leanna set to work on Rafe's thumb, not saying a word, she poured alcohol into the wound, Rafe jumped
"Ouch" he pouted
Leanna looked up and faked a smile, "Sorry" she said softly
She quickly finished fixing Rafe and moved to me, she was very gentle as not to hurt me, and when she was done looked up and smiled at me
"Ok, you two are done" Evelyn said, taking the needle from Rafe's arm and gesturing for Leanna to do the same to me, she gently took the needle from my arm, deathly pale and looking like she was about ready to fall into my arms, but she stayed on her feet
A man suddenly rushed in, "They need anyone who can move down at the harbor, they've got men trapped in sinking ships down there" he said, then ducked out
Rafe and I stood at the same time, Rafe hugged Evelyn, and I squeezed Leanna gently so I didn't hurt her, because I knew, despite what she had said, she wasn't ok, it was understandable, she had shot down 4 Jap Zeros, and lived to tell, finally I smiled and kissed her head
She looked up at me, her eyes glistening like emeralds in her eye sockets
"Please be careful, Danny" her eyes plead
I nodded, "I will, Beautiful"
Rafe passed by next, she reached out and caught his arm as I exited
"Rafe" she sighed, "You be careful...and take care of Danny for me?" Rafe ruffled Leanna's hair, smiling gently
"Don't I always?" he grinned, causing Leanna to smile just slightly
"Yeah, I guess" she hit his shoulder playfully as he walked away, watching them both disappear out the front door, then turning to Evelyn
"What do I do?" she sighed, pushing thoughts of us to the back of her head and only looking forward at the task that lay before her...
A/N: Ok, there we go! I like reviews, and things of the sort, and I NEED YOUR HELP!!!! I need to know if I should go through everything like it did in the movie, if I should go through it scene by scene, PLEASE HELP!! ...AND REVIEW :p ok, now that that's over, I'll be posting the new chapter...sometime when I get reviews...
**References:
(I tried to put this in my authors note, but it was entirely to long)
"So the fates of the people of Pearl Harbor were in the hands of three pilots; one pregnant ex-pilot-turned-nurse, one dead guy, and one completely hungover. Wonderful." is a reference (or a remake) of the line "So the people of Hogsmeade were left with an old woman, a werewolf, an ex-convict, and a former Death Eater. *How colorful*" from a very good HP fic called Death Before Dishonor (and if you ask me, my rendition of it took all the fun out of it) and Robin gave me permission and...yeah, that's all
