Airwolf is somebody else's, probably Universal's or Bellisarius', and I freely admit that whoever's it is, I'm borrowing their show and they retain all rights, etc. This story also has flashbacks to the episode 'Fallen Angel' and whoever owns the rights retains them.
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This is the seventh story to cover the period between the end of the 3rd season and the beginning of the 4th. If you have read the other six, (Single Parent Hawke, The Jade Wolf, The Truth About Caitlin, Old Friends New Enemies, Hawke's Wolf and Father Figures), you can skip straight to the story in the next chapter…or read this brief recap of the story so far…Stringfellow Hawke has said farewell to Le, the boy he incorrectly believed to be his nephew. Le is now living in Seattle with his newly found mother, Ana. After Caitlin O'Shaunessy almost dies saving Hawke's life, Hawke initially asks her to stay in Texas where she is safe away from him and Airwolf. However, the time apart makes both of them realise what they mean to each other and the couple reunite to happily begin a relationship even though Hawke remains worried that he'll lose Caitlin like so many others in his life.
Having seen off a challenge to get Airwolf from a task force led by the power hungry General Bening, Hawke's long lost uncle Alex turns up claiming to have found Saint John. Hawke's history with his maternal uncle is littered with bad feelings; Alex chose his work as a spy over raising the orphaned Hawke brothers and on the pretext of a reconciliation used Hawke to get to a remote prison in Siberia, leaving him there for dead in a cell with Michael Coldsmith-Briggs III; a meeting that introduced the spy to the pilot. Hawke still acquiesces to the mission although he is suspicious of his uncle's motives. It is with good reason…the mission turns out not to be a rescue of the missing Saint John at all but of his uncle's son, a cousin Hawke never realised he had. The rescue mission is a success but Alex dies saving his son's life.
The mission evokes a lot of memories for Hawke particularly the loss of his own parents and a renewed appreciation for his relationship with Dominic Santini who raised him and his brother. He turns to the older man for advice on how to handle Caitlin's parents who disapprove of the plans the couple have to move into together and Dom also assures Hawke that Hawke's parents would have liked her. When Dom suffers chest pains, a warning sign of a heart attack in waiting, Hawke is more than aware of how much the older man means to him. But his constant nagging at Dom results in a heated argument and the two men ruefully agree that they need a break from each other. Dom heads to Italy to recuperate leaving Hawke watching Santini Air…
And now the next instalment: Personal Business