Caitlin stared out of Marella's office window sightlessly. She didn't see the majestic rock in front of her, her mind on her earlier argument with Hawke.

'Hey.' Marella walked over and put a comforting arm around her. 'I made you some tea.'

Caitlin allowed herself to be led over to the seating area and accepted the tea-cup with a murmured word of thanks.

'You want to talk about it?' Marella asked gently. Michael had filled her in on what had happened when he and Caitlin had arrived back from the Company holding centre.

'What's there to talk about?' Caitlin asked sadly.

'Caitlin, Hawke would never cheat on you,' Marella began.

'I know that.' Caitlin said quickly. 'I trust him, Marella, I do. It's just…'

'Just?' Marella prompted when Caitlin's voice fell away.

'He chose her over me.' Caitlin said in a quiet voice. Tears flooded her eyes and suddenly the hurt she was feeling rolled over her. She hurriedly put the china cup down and covered her face with her hands, the tears spilling over her fingers.

Marella moved to sit next to her and put an arm around her shoulders. 'I'm sure Hawke would never choose Angelica Horn over you.'

'No?' Caitlin asked brokenly. 'Then tell me why he has to personally take her to a remote cabin and watch over her until Michael can make arrangements for her to permanently enter some kind of witness protection. Why he would miss his son's christening?'

Marella patted her back soothingly. 'Michael said Hawke gave his word so she'd talk to them.'

'I know and I know how important keeping his promise is to Hawke.' Caitlin admitted. 'But this is Angelica Horn.'

Marella handed her a box of tissues. Caitlin pulled one free and started to rub at her nose and wet cheeks.

'She manipulated him perfectly.' Caitlin said. 'Again.'

'You mean hinting that she knew something about his search for his family and about the Cordelli's?' Marella sighed. 'Yeah, Michael told me about that too.'

'She knew just what would get his interest. Hawke always stops thinking when it comes to finding his family.' Caitlin sighed and blew her nose. 'And she was gleeful about him saying he would protect her, you could see it.' She grimaced. 'You'd think he would have learned from the first time he met her.'

'He would never have meant to hurt you.' Marella said softly. 'Not deliberately.'

'I know.' Caitlin said. 'But he knows how I feel about her – hell, she almost killed me a couple of months ago – and he did it anyway.'

Marella urged her to take the cup back and take a drink. 'Are you guys going to be OK?'

Caitlin took a sip of the tea, letting the warm liquid soothe her throat. 'I don't know.'

Marella didn't know what to say to comfort Caitlin. She took a deep breath.

The office door was flung open. Michael hurried in.

'What's wrong?' Caitlin said putting her cup down and standing up with Marella as he came to a halt in front of them.

'Evan cancelled Airwolf as the escort.' Michael said.

'Hawke would never have agreed to that.' Caitlin said.

'I know.' Michael confirmed. 'My source told me Evan's put a normal Company escort helicopter with them. They left for the cabin thirty minutes ago.'

'God, Michael, that crew could be compromised and if Sterling really wants to eliminate Angelica they won't stand a chance against a gun-ship in the middle of the park.' Caitlin was already moving past Michael and out of the door heading for the new Airwolf in the hangar below.

Michael gestured at Marella. 'She'll need an engineer. I'll organise some back-up.'

Marella nodded and made to follow Caitlin.

Michael caught her arm. 'Be safe.'

She briefly touched his hand before she was gone. He headed for Marella's desk and sat in front of the video-phone. He dialled the Lair.

'Locke.' The face of the other agent filled the monitor.

'Locke, this is Michael.' Michael leaned forward. 'A contact called me and told me Evan cancelled you guys as back-up.'

'That's right.' Locke nodded. 'We were stood down. Evan's going with the usual escort set-up so Sterling won't get alerted that it could be Angelica.'

'Yes and did it occur to you that Hawke would never have agreed to that and he probably thinks you guys are still out there backing him up?' Michael stated furiously.

Locke was pushed out of the way by Saint John. 'Are you saying String didn't agree to the change in escort?'

'I'm saying hell would freeze over before your brother would choose any escort over Airwolf.' Michael said. 'Caitlin and Marella are on their way but…'

'We're on it.' Saint John said.

'I'll send the coordinates direct to the Airwolf computer.' Michael said and reached forward to disconnect the call.

In the Lair, the picture blinked out. Saint John whirled around to head for Airwolf.

'Wait a minute.' Locke said catching his arm. 'We can't go.'

'Locke, my brother could be in trouble. I'm going.' Saint John said angrily. 'And you're not stopping me.'

'If you go, we might lose Airwolf completely.' Locke said forcefully.

'You know something Locke, I don't care.' Saint John said.

'Locke, if Evan did cancel the escort without Hawke knowing, he will be in trouble because he'll think we're still backing him up and he'll make decisions based on that.' Mike added. 'You've got to let us go.'

'You know we've had these discussions before Locke.' Saint John said. 'I'm getting tired of them.' He glanced at Jo and Mike. 'Let's go.'

Mike gave Locke a sympathetic look but he followed Saint John to Airwolf.