All Hell was breaking loose.

It seemed as though every sailor, marine, coast guardsman, pilot and soldier that had been anywhere near Pearl Harbor that morning had come into the small hospital where most of the nurses had made a mad dash when the bombs had started to fall.

Even while she ran around trying to assist the overworked doctors, Sandra was worried about Danny because she didn't know exactly where he was. She knew that he'd gone to meet Rafe and Evelyn at the Black Cat for breakfast after having been out half the night looking for him.

He'd received a telegram from Rafe telling his best friend that he was alive and Danny had come over to the nurses quarters to find Evelyn and tell her. After telling Sandra, she told him Evelyn was still at the hospital. "He's really alive?"

Danny showed her the telegram and shook his head. "Leave it to Rafe McCawley to return from the dead and not come tell me himself."

"Are you all right?" Sandra had never seen him so agitated.

"I'm fine and happy as hell that he's alive. I just wish I knew where to start lookin' for him."

"The hospital would be the logical place, don't you think?"

He couldn't help but grin. "If Rafe's already found her, I doubt they'd still be there."

It took Sandra a moment to understand what he meant and when she finally did, she flushed. "Oh!"

"I'm sorry honey."

She shook her head. "I feel like such a dunce. He came back to her after she thought he was dead, after he left her in that hotel lobby in January."

"I remember the last letter I got from him before he was shot down. He never came out and said it, but I always got the feelin' he wished he'd stayed with her before he went to England. But he didn't because there might have been consequences and if somethin' had happened to him she'd be alone. "

"She would always have us, you know that."

"That ain't what I mean."

Sandra touched his arm. "I know exactly what you mean and she still would have had us to help her."

"Well that don't matter now because he's alive and he's here." Danny grinned.

It was that grin that Sandra remembered as she and the other nurses tried to keep up with the deluge of injured men. They were coming in faster than the nurses could find beds and doctors were forced into making life and death decisions to make room for those who could be saved.

It was into that chaos that Evelyn ran and found Sandra. "What can I do?"

She gave her friend a quick run down of the situation. She wanted to ask about Danny but didn't have to because Evelyn could see the question in her eyes. "Rafe and Danny went to Wheeler to see what they could do."

Knowing he was all right for the moment eased Sandra's mind enough for her to put her full concentration on the job at hand, helping those who could be helped.

It was several hours before Danny showed up at the hospital with Rafe and as the latter went looking for Evelyn, Danny went looking for Sandra. He'd never seen so much blood in his entire life and knew this would be something he would never forget. How did the nurses do it? How was Sandra holding up?

He couldn't find her so backtracked to look for Rafe and found him with Evelyn. When Rafe spotted him he looked back at her. "How can we help?"

"We need blood, come on."

Seeing how frazzled Evelyn looked, Danny started to worry about Sandra. She was a good nurse, but she had a hard time when things were not going well. Something like this might have her completely undone.

Evelyn led the two pilots to one of the examination rooms and because the hospital staff had exhausted all the bottles used for blood storage, one of the nurses had come up with the idea of sterilizing coke bottles and taking blood that way. Danny looked at the whole process and shook his head, coke bottles?

He looked over at Rafe to see how he was doing and he and Evelyn couldn't take their eyes off each other. There was a look in his eye that Danny had never seen and he suddenly knew that Rafe had done what he'd wanted to do before he'd shipped out to England, he'd made love to Evelyn.

He didn't know how she knew where he was, but Sandra was suddenly there and had her arms around his neck. "I'm fine honey. Just doin' what I can to help."

She pulled away slightly to look at him. "Is it true?"

He was puzzled. "Is what true?"

Sandra gave him a look that told him she knew that he and Rafe had gotten in the air and he frowned. "How do you know about that?"

"Anthony called and told me. Are you all right?"

"We did what we had to do." He said and glanced over at Rafe who was avoiding Evelyn's questioning look. He hadn't told her.

"Rafe, what is he talking about?"

Rafe looked at Danny to try and help but Danny only shrugged his shoulders as though to tell his friend, you're on your own.

"Evelyn..." His voice trailed off because he didn't know how to tell her.

Sandra stood there and watched Evelyn as it seemed to hit her all at once that Danny and Rafe had gone up against the Japanese. The color started to drain from her face and Sandra thought she was going to faint. But she took a deep breath and then looked at Danny. "How could you let him do this?" She said quietly.

Danny sat there, his blood draining through a tube into a coke bottle and Evelyn was chastising him for letting his best friend do what they'd both been trained for.

He didn't know what to say.

"Don't be upset with Danny. We couldn't just stand there and let the Japs destroy every plane in the Air Corps and not do somethin' about it." Rafe tried to reason with her.

"I just got you back and you went and nearly got yourself killed, again!" Evelyn was furious.

Danny and Sandra looked at each other because they knew that Evelyn had every right to be angry, even though what he and Rafe had done had to be done.

Rafe didn't have a chance to say anything else before a soldier ran into the room imploring them for help. There were still men alive in the harbor and they needed every able bodied man to help in the rescue effort. No sooner had he gone than Evelyn disconnected Rafe from the needle that had taken his blood as Sandra did the same for Danny. They held each other for a moment before Danny kissed her and let her go so he could leave.

Evelyn was holding on to Rafe like she never wanted to let him go.

They looked at each other again and Danny sighed. "Come on Rafe, they need our help."

Rafe reluctantly let go of her. "I love you Evelyn, never doubt that."

"I know you do, never doubt that either." And she kissed him.

"Ev, you've got to let him go." Sandra said quietly.

Evelyn finally let go of Rafe and then touched his cheek. "Please be careful."

He took her hand from his cheek and kissed it. "I will honey, I promise."

Danny smiled and shook his head. "Can we go now?"

Sandra looked at Danny and repeated to him what Evelyn had said to Rafe. "Please be careful."

He repeated to her what Rafe had said to Evelyn. "I will honey, I promise." And he kissed her again. "You girls watch yourselves too, the Japs may be back for another round."

Sandra and Evelyn watched their pilots walk away and once they were gone, went back to work.