Friends Forever?

Chapter twelve

Danny watched as Mary made her way over to the couch to sit down. He went to a closet and grabbed an extra blanket and pillow. He set it down next to her and kneeled in front of her. "Did he hurt you anymore?" he asked as he held her hand.

She shook her head no.

Danny looked at the wound on her throat. He sighed. "I know it's early, but why don't you get some rest. You can sleep in my room, I'll sleep out here."

Mary nodded her head. "I guess I could use some sleep," she replied before she let out a yawn.

"I'll be right out here if you need me." The former marine watched as the woman cautiously made her way over to his bedroom. "Good night."

"Night," Mary said before walked into the room.

Danny looked back over at the picture that layed on his end table. Memories flooded his mind again, happier times. Times when he and Mary would hang out almost everyday. Those were the times when he was scared of his true feelings for Mary, too. After everything that had happened in the past week he was sure of his feelings for Mary. He loved her with all his heart.

12:00 am…

Mary woke-up from her dreadful dream, her kidnapper's face was haunting her. She couldn't sleep; she was scared. Scared of everything that was happening. The car accident hadn't scared her as much as the drugging did though.

When the man's car ran into her's, the impact wasn't the cause of putting her into a coma. The man had gotten out of his car uninjured and walked towards her. He had held a cloth up to her mouth and soon after she pretended to fall unconscious so he would go away. After he drove away, she weakly called Danny but then moments later she had fallen asleep. She shook the memory out of her mind and got out of bed.

Mary walked out of the bedroom and to where Danny was fast asleep on the couch. Once she stood there for a few seconds he woke up.

"What's wrong, babe?" he asked, half-asleep.

"I can't be alone right now."

Danny motioned for her to sit right next to him. She did as he said and lent her head on his shoulder. He then wrapped his muscular arm around her, just to let her know he would always protect her.

Garrett peeked threw the window of Lt. McCoy's home. He saw McCoy and Mary in a hug. It made him think of Linda. The day before she had left for the war they had spent every minute together; looking through old photographs and watching home movies.

He remembered the last thing he had ever said to her. "Why did you have to sign up to be a Marine? Why?" And after that she never returned home because of a "friendly fire" incident. He wish he could take that statement back and replace it with a "I love you," or a "I'll miss you." If only he could.

Danny saw something flashing near his phone. At first he thought it was his answering machine, but soon realized it was flashing blue not red.

He started to think, Maybe it was a bomb. It would explain why the poker chip guy had wanted Mary to stay with him. He needed to get Mary as far away as possible from it. He couldn't and he wouldn't take any chances.

"Hey why don't we get you a midnight snack or something?"

Mary nodded her head. "Okay."

Danny, thankful that she had said yes, led her into his kitchen and pulled out a chair for her to sit down in. He then walked over to the pantry and opened it.

"So what do you want? I got cereal, microwave popcorn, some stale cookies, or peanut butter crackers?"

"Whatever," she said, staring out the window with her hand supporting her head.

Danny walked over to the small table and sat down. "It's all my fault, Mare," he said as he took her hand. She turned her attention to him, not knowing what he was talking about. "Nothing would've happened to you, if it weren't for me."

"Danny, you didn't do anything wrong."

"I just feel like it's all my fault."

"Well it's not, so stop worrying," she said trying to reassure him. "I bet you don't even know the guy who did this to me," Mary said recalling the horrible memories. "He wants to kill you so bad and I don't know why." A tear slipped from her eyes and traveled down her cheeks.

Danny looked up in shock. "He wants to kill me?"

"Maybe I've said too much," she replied fearing for her life

"Mary, what did he say?" he said sounding more serious. "Please tell me."

"I don't know, he just said something about a girl, Linda and the marines."

Danny started to think for a minute. Did he know anyone named Linda in the marines. "Omigod," he said realizing something.

"What?" asked Mary.

"Lt. Mercedes." Mary looked at him puzzled; she didn't understand what he was thinking. "I killed her. She looked at him in shock. "I didn't mean to, it was by accident. I thought she was the enemy."

Mary sighed deeply, "Why didn't you ever tell me?"

"I didn't think it was a big deal."

"Danny you took a life! How is that not important?" Danny looked away from her.

"I'm sorry."

Mary pushed the issue aside, "So how are we gonna figure out who this guy is without him knowing?"

"I don't know, but we gotta figure out who Linda's husband, father, or brother is."

"That guy couldn't be her father. He was around our age."

"So it's gotta be a brother or a husband. I just wish I could contact Ed or at least Mike."

Mary was confused. "Why couldn't you? Don't you have a phone?"

"About that. Please don't panic, Mare."

"About what?"

"I think there's a bomb in the house," he said straight-out.

"Wh-what?" she asked in disbelief with her eyes wide opened. Knowing that leaving his house was not an option, she asked, "What are we going to do?"

"I have no clue."

"Where's the bomb?"

"In the phone. I'm guessing that if we try to make a phone call it'll go off. Same thing if someone tries to call here."

"So where don't you keep a phone?" she asked looking around the kitchen, her eyes laying upon the phone.

"In the bedroom. If someone calls like at three a.m. I don't want them to wake me up."

"Oh." Thinking that made sense, Mary followed him into his bedroom. Danny yawned but tried to hide it.

"Do you want to go to sleep?" she asked which told him she saw it, in spite of his efforts.

"I'm fine."

"Get some sleep, Danny. I'm serious."

Danny giving in, pulled back the covers. He stopped suddenly. "Do you want me to sleep on the floor?"

"Of course not." She said as she got in on the other side. They both layed back, both of their heads hitting a pillow. They looked at each other, life seemed to stop for just a minute.

Danny inched closer, as did Mary. He tucked a misplaced hair behind her ear, before he closed the gap between the two.

But before their lips touched, they were interrupted by a rock crashing through the window with a note attached to it.

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