After Betty and the girls spotted them, they made all four of them go to the bar. Rafe would get

a chance to tell everyone else that he was back and meet all of the new guys. They stayed there

until around 1 in the morning and then they went their seperate ways, the boys to their base and

the girls to the nurses station.

DECEMBER 7, 1941

Evelyn stepped to the door when she hears a distant rumble and looks across the harbor to see

smoke rising, ships taking hits.

"Oh my God... EVERYBODY TO THE HOSPITAL!" She screams.

All the other girls are now fully awake and are dressing still as they run out the doors.

Danny and Rafe didn't go to the base the night before because they wanted to catch up with

each other. They slept in Danny's car. They were both a sight to see, hung over and passed out.

Danny laid up front and Rafe in the back. The rumble of planes moving overhead makes them

stir.

"Why the hell's the navy practicing this early on a sunday?" Danny asked nobody as he turned

over and tried to go back to sleep.

Rafe sat up, head pounding from the hangover and looked up. Realization hit; hard. "Danny

those aren't our planes!" He shouted and Danny got up to see for himself. They were off like a

bolt of lightening for the base.

They're running toward a cluster of fighters, when it goes up with a bomb blast. Rafe and Danny

dive at each other, trying to cover the other from the blast.

"Danny, just get me into a goddamn plane!" Rafe screamed, frustrated.

"C'mon!" Danny pulls him over to a phone.

"Your making a phone call when we're being attacked?!" Rafe yelled, wondering how he could

have picked Danny out of all people to be his best friend as he makes a call when the building

they're in is being bombed. "You've gone mad!"

"This is Walker! We're under attack! Get those planes fueled and armed RIGHT NOW!" He

yelled into the phone, ignoring Rafe, and then hung up before running back to the car, Rafe

close behind.

"Where are we going?!" Rafe asks.

"Auxiliary field at Haleiwa, ten miles north of here." Danny answered shortly.

"What's there?" Rafe proded.

"Six P-40's." Danny answered, looking at Rafe quickly.

MEANWHILE

It was utter chaos in the hospital. So much so that Evelyn and Grace were sent out to play god,

so to speak, and only take in men that could be saved. Both went but protested it at first.

Evelyn just marked a man fatal when another man came carrying a woman. Her hair was

covering her face so that you couldn't recognize who she was.

"I just found her. I brought her here as quickly as I could." The man explained.

Evelyn checked her pulse and found none. "I'm sorry, it's too late. She's gone." Evelyn moved

the hair out of her face. Grace let out a scream.

BACK AT THE BASE

"Are the planes ready Earl?" Danny asked impaciently.

"Ones ready to go, one needs ammo, and two need fuel." Earl answered shortly before shooting

at the Japanese planes with his shotgun.

"You got extra weapons and ammo?" Asked Rafe, joining the conversation.

"In the gun lockers!" Earl yelled.

After shooting at the planes for a few minutes they made their way to their own planes and Rafe

gave out the plan. "Get rolling as fast as you can. Stay low! We need to seperate them and take

them one on one. Stay in between the buildings." Rafe ordered.

Billy was the first to attempt going up. He was quickly shot down before he left the runway.

Rafe gave it a shot and barely made it up. Danny tried his luck after Rafe said he needed a wing

man. Soon enough the two were shooting down japs left and right.

"Earl get some guns in that tower!" Rafe yelled.

"We're working on it!" Earl yelled.

When Rafe passed the tower again and didn't see anybody in there he yelled again. "Earl, I said

get some guns in that goddamn tower!"

"Right, guns in the tower, ten stories high. It's a long son-of-a-bitch" Earl said as he was still

going up the steps.

Once they reached the top, Rafe brought the plane by again and they shot the jap plane down.

"Whoo! Good shootin', boys!" Rafe yelled.

Once they came down all the other pilots were proud.

"Who taught you to fly like that?" Earl asked Danny.

Danny looked back at Rafe and simply said "He did."

BACK AT THE HOSPITAL

"OMIGOD! BETTY! NO!" Grace sobbed.

"Grace, pull yourself together! We need to get back to work." Evelyn tried to get to Grace. It

had been at least an hour since the spotting of Betty but Grace was not taking it well. She had

become great friends with Betty over the months. She and Danny had double dated with Betty

and Red several times...now, they would never ever speak again. It was heart breaking.

"I don't know what to do!" Grace sobbed.

It was then that Rafe and Danny entered.

"What happened?!" They yelled simultaneously.

"Nothing, she's fine. Nothing happened to her." Evelyn was going to explain more but both men

were ignoring her and coaxing Grace.

"Gracie, sweetie, whats wrong?" Danny asked as Grace sobbed. Grace, noticing him for the first

time, clung to him. "Oh, Danny! B-b-b-Bet-Betty! She's-" Is all she managed to say before

bursting into tears again.

"What about Betty, sweetheart?" Rafe asked, standing by her side and letting him comfort her.

Grace pulled herself together and pulled away from Danny. She looked at Rafe and then back at

Danny and said "She's Dead."

R/R please!!!