Sandra was having a late afternoon cup of coffee on the front porch when she saw a young couple come up the street.

It looked as though they'd been on a picnic because in his hand he carried a picnic basket and in her hand she held a blanket. Their free hands were entwined and from the way they were looking at each other, she could see that they were in love.

She didn't recognize them and supposed they were one of the pilots and his wife that were newly transferred to Wheeler. Funny though, because she and Ev were on the welcoming committee for the wives and children of new pilots and she didn't recognize this couple.

What struck her odd as well was that the young man had a striking resemblance to a young Rafe McCawley. It struck her just as odd when the couple stopped in front of the house long enough to turn into the yard.

The closer they got to the front porch Sandra was startled when she realized that the young woman wasn't the wife of a new pilot but her own little Annie all grown up.

"We had a wonderful time Mama. It was a beautiful afternoon to be by the water. You and Dad have to come with us next time." She smiled and Sandra could see something of Danny in her. She was relieved as well to see that her daughter wasn't wearing glasses.

Sandra smiled back. "I appreciate the thought and I know Dad would too."

Ann turned to the young man and held out her hand for the basket. "Thank you for carrying that Lieutenant. But I can take it off your hands now."

He smiled at her and handed it to her before he kissed her cheek and raised a hand in farewell to Sandra. He turned down the walk and headed back in the direction they had just come.

"After Danny has dinner with his parents, he wants to take me over to the Officer's Club. They're having a dance tonight." And she stepped up on the porch and walked into the house.

Danny?

She was awake in an instant.

Sandra didn't know what was more startling. Seeing her daughter as a young woman or seeing her with Ev's oldest son.

She reached for Danny but he wasn't there. She rolled over and found him in the rocking chair with baby Thomas. As they had done with their girls, the bassinet was in their room. Sandra and Danny took turns getting up to feed him and she wondered why he was up because it was her night.

It didn't seem to matter that he'd just returned home a couple of days earlier from an extended mission that had taken him away a week after their son was born. He was nearly a month and a half and growing bigger by the day.

She watched as Danny held the baby and fed him. He seemed to sense that he was being watched and looked up before he grinned self-consciously. "Sorry honey, I didn't mean to wake you up."

She shook her head. "You didn't, I did."

He laughed softly. "How can you wake yourself up?"

Sandra smiled back. "When I have a dream about our oldest as a young woman with a beau."

"You've been workin' too hard on that weddin' of Barbara's. You should let Evelyn do more because she is Barbara's matron of honor." He stated matter of factly.

"I know that, but she's doing so much already and can't do all of it by herself. I'm feeling fine and Thomas still sleeps so much that I can help." She countered.

"But we still have two girls to look after."

"That's why Ev comes over here in the morning. Her kids are all in school and she doesn't have to pick up Joseph until noon."

Danny grinned at her as he took the bottle out of the baby's mouth. "You have an answer for everythin' don't you?"

She felt her face flush. "I'm just saying that I'm not the delicate flower you seem to think I am sometimes."

"Honey we've been married for almost six years. And after watchin' what you went through with Annie, I know you ain't a delicate flower." He looked at the bottle before he put it back in the baby's mouth. "So what's this dream you had about Annie?"

Sandra sat up against the headboard and sighed. "She looked to be about seventeen and was going around with a pilot."

He laughed again. "Well that ain't much of a stretch. We do live on an air base after all."

"I know that Danny, but it was the particular pilot that she was going around with that surprised me."

"Sandra, are you goin' to tell me who this pilot is or am I goin' to have to guess." He asked her as he watched the baby.

"Danny."

He looked up. "What is it?"

She shook her head. "The pilot was Danny McCawley."

The look on his face wasn't surprise, but she could see that it hadn't occurred to him either. "Danny?"

"That's what I thought. Why do you suppose it was he? He's five years older than Ann is and from what Ev tells me, he's decided to be a pilot."

"He's still a boy. He's got time yet to decide what it is he wants to do."

She raised an eyebrow in surprise. "This coming from the man who knew he wanted to fly when he was his godson's age?"

She saw his face flush. "You got me there. I don't really think about how young we were when we knew we wanted to fly, but we were about Danny's age now that I do think about it."

"But Ann and Danny?"

Sandra saw him shrug. "I don't know what to tell you about that. It might just be that you've got Barbara's weddin' on your mind and it came out the way it did in your dream."

"But it doesn't explain Danny." She insisted.

He sighed. "So what are you tryin' to say? You think it might actually happen?"

She shook her head. "You know I don't believe in dreams being premonitions. Nevertheless, it's a little odd that of all the young men I would see her with I would see her with Danny."

"I wouldn't work myself up about it honey. Annie's still a little girl and if Danny's got his mind on flyin' the way you think he does, that's all he goin' to think about until he becomes a pilot." He reassured her before he stood up and put Thomas down in the bassinet. "Let me take this out to the kitchen and I'll be right back."

"Did he take all of it?"

Danny showed her the empty bottle. "He sure did." And he walked out of the room.

She supposed that Danny was right. It was only a dream after all and she meant it when she said that she didn't believe in dreams.

But for a girl who didn't, how would that explain that her dream came true the day she married Danny?