Danny and Sandra settled into married life and their new home almost effortlessly.

While he was trained for his new job as a flight instructor at Wheeler Air Field, Sandra worked to make the small military issue house a home. It had been a little strange for them both at first because although Rafe and Evelyn's things were out of the house, they felt somewhat like guests. But with all of the wedding gifts they had received and with what her parents had shipped out to them, it began to feel more and more like their own home.

The days became weeks and the weeks became months as they settled into a routine of work, dinner with Red on Wednesdays and Sundays and the occasional attendance at the cocktail parties that many of the military matrons would open up to the Air Corps officers that resided at Wheeler. The parties were the things that Sandra wished they could skip and Danny didn't disagree with her, but as they both found out early on it was a part of the military social life. There hadn't been time to stand around and make small talk with a watered down bourbon and soda in your hand while there was a war on, but with the world at peace again there was time.

Thanksgiving rolled around and Sandra took Danny home to share the holiday with her family in Ohio. She hadn't been home since the previous Christmas before they were married and she was anxious to show him around her childhood home.

They were home for barely a month when they were off again to Tennessee. Danny had a promise to keep to the McCawley's to come home for Christmas and as Sandra had wanted to do for him, he wanted to show her where he had grown up.

It was a happy group that met the car as Rafe pulled up in front of the house.

Evelyn was the first down the front steps to meet the car as it came to a stop and Sandra was barely out of the car when Evelyn hugged her. "It's so good to see you." And she stepped away. "You look wonderful."

Sandra smiled. "So do you Ev."

Tom and Sarah had followed their daughter in law down the steps and followed her example. "How was the flight?" Tom asked Danny after he let him go.

"About as comfortable as you would expect military transports to be I guess." And he grinned. "But we're here."

"And very happy to be." Sandra added with a smile of her own.

"Come on in you two." Sarah coaxed them. "After that long trip you probably want to rest before supper.

"Thanks Sarah, I think we'll take you up on that." Danny smiled at her before he took Sandra's hand.

"Come on upstairs with us." Evelyn told them. "We have something for you so that you can have some peace and quiet."

"And privacy." Rafe grinned at them before he headed up the stairs as Evelyn, Danny and Sandra followed behind him.

They reached the third floor and to Danny's surprise the large attic that he and Rafe had played in as boys on rainy days had been converted into a combination of a bedroom and a sitting room.

"When you told Tom and Sarah that you'd be coming back for Christmas, they wanted you to have a room of your own when you got here." Evelyn smiled at them.

Sandra looked at Danny and then at Evelyn. "I don't know what to say Ev."

"You can thank Mama and Daddy when you come down for supper." Rafe smiled. "They've been lookin' for an excuse to clean out this attic for a long time. And when you told them you'd be here that was all Daddy needed to throw out a lot of the junk that had piled up in here."

"This is a hell of a surprise Rafe. Thank you." Danny shook his head in amazement.

"Well, we'll leave you two alone. And when you need to freshen up, you have your own bathroom." Rafe added.

Evelyn hugged Sandra again. "It's so good to have you here."

Sandra hugged her back and smiled. "It's really nice to be here Ev."

Rafe took Evelyn's hand and he walked with her out of the room. After he'd closed the door behind him, Danny and Sandra smiled at each other. "If this don't beat all. They must have done this after they got home from the weddin'." Danny commented as they walked around the spacious room. Everything had been arranged so that they would get the morning sun in the bedroom and have afternoon sun filtered through the large trees in the sitting room in the afternoon.

"They're really something Danny." Sandra agreed. "All of this for us."

"That's the way they are. They've always treated me like a son and now their treatin' you like a daughter in law."

She put her arms around his neck and hugged him. "We're two very lucky people to have them then, aren't we?"

"That we are honey," And he hugged her back. "I don't know about you, but I've had it." He told her before he let her go to walk over to the bed and then sat down on the edge.

She followed and sat down next to him. "It's been a long day hasn't it?"

He looked at her with concern. "And you haven't been feelin' well have you?"

That got Sandra to frown. "I've had some indigestion lately, but that's because of the finger food we've had to eat at all of those insufferable cocktail parties."

"They ain't my favorite thing to do either, but it's somethin' we're expected to do." He sighed.

"I don't mean to complain. I guess if we could have Ev and Rafe there with us it wouldn't be so bad."

Danny nodded. "I know what you mean." He admitted to her before he kissed her cheek. She got up to go around to the other side of the bed while he slipped his shoes off and laid down. Sandra took her glasses off and put them on the night table before she slipped out of her own shoes and curled up next to Danny.

She had no idea what time it was when she awoke, but she knew dusk had fallen because the room had dimmed. What she also knew was that her stomach had started to rumble and she knew that it wasn't hunger pangs.

She was nauseous.

She lay quietly and listened to Danny's even breath next to her and she knew that he was sound asleep. She tried to remain still, but her stomach refused to settle and she knew she needed to get to the bathroom as quickly as she could.

When she got there, she turned on the faucet in the wash basin to create a diversion just before she lost her fight with the nausea.

She remained still while she waited for another wave to hit and when it had passed she sat down on the floor, exhausted. Perspiration had broken out across her forehead and while she sat, she tried to remember the last thing she'd eaten that would have caused her stomach to revolt.

But she hadn't ingested anything unusual and there was one other thing that it might be.

The thought of it made her flush because in the six months that they had been married she and Danny had enjoyed a healthy love life and even though they had thought they would wait before they started a family, they may have already done it.

When she felt that her legs would support her, she slowly stood up. She stepped over to the sink and after she'd rinsed, she splashed cold water on her face to freshen up.

She turned off the water and heard a soft knock on the bathroom door. It opened and Danny stood there with a look of worry on his face. "Sandra, we've lived together long enough now that I know when you ain't feelin' well. What's goin' on?"

She looked at him and as the realization of what they might have done made her smile. "Danny, I think I might be pregnant."