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Chapter 6: I am interested in her

FRIDAY AFTERNOON

MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE 1655

DALLAS TEXAS

"Gunny, you wait here. I'll go check the body." Mac said. "I'll go with you." Trivette volunteered. "I'll wait here and keep the Gunnery Sergeant company." Walker added. "Good idea." Mac said as her and Jimmy walked into the morgue to view the body, leaving Walker and Gunny in the waiting room.

"So how long have you and Sergeant Lighthorse been together?" Walker asked. "Were not together. Why do you ask?" Gunny asked in return as his ears turned red.

"You look at her the way I look at Alex and the way that Gage looks at Syd. If you're not with her, you're at least interested in her. Which leads me to wonder why the hesitation on asking her out?" Walker asked in his knowing

way.

"I am interested in her." Gunny admitted. "She's beautiful, smart, funny and can be a wildcat at times. Problem is that we work together, plus we're good friends. I don't really want to jeopardize not only our friendship, but our working relationship as well, if we got together and it ended up not working out between us." Gunny explained to Walker.

"Alex and I not only worked together, but were friends, before we got together and now we are happily married with a beautiful two year old daughter." Walker told the younger man. "Syd and Gage were partners

before they got together, now they are engaged and it hasn't hurt their working relationship at all, if anything it's

strengthen it." Walker added.

"If she feels the same way about you that you do about her then go for it." Walker suggested. "I know Gage and I both did and neither one of us regrets the chose we made to go after our girls." Walker added as a gentle prod.

"Maybe I will, but I don't know." Gunny said in a noncommittal voice. "At least think about it son. It can't hurt to think about it, and all the good things that could come of you two getting together." Walker gently pushed at the younger man to get him to think about him and the young Sergeant together.

While Walker and Gunny discussed Gunny's feelings for Holly Mac and Jimmy inspected young Cara McLintock's body. "This is where young Cara was bit." Medical Examiner Maggie Thompson said showing the Marine and the Ranger the bite marks on Cara's neck.

"I'm afraid to say that young Cara suffered a lot while being bite. She also struggled violently for her life but in the end it did her no good. She had bruising on her upper chest as well as what you can see on her face. The manic held her down and beat her before ending her life by draining her blood." Maggie explained to Jimmy and Mac.

"I hope you catch this creep, no one deserves to die like this. In all my years as a M.E. I've never seen someone who was put through such pain. Thankfully in the end she felt no pain, because the more blood she lost the less she felt." Maggie added as she once again pulled the sheet over Cara's face.

"I've never seen anything like it, I hate to say it but I may actually believe in vampires now." Jimmy said in amazement looking visibly shaken as he and Mac stepped into the waiting room. "I know what you mean." Mac said looking just about as shaken as Jimmy. "But we have to remind each other and remember that vampires don't exist. Plus Maggie Thompson never said a vampire killed Petty Officer McLintock, she just said it was a manic."

"Vampires may not exist, but evil does and we have to remember and remind each other of that as well." Walker said. "Now let's head to C.D.'s to meet our friends and remember that good exists as well." He added.

Now That Gunny's admitted his feelings for Holly lets move on to the next chapter and find out what Holly feels for Gunny.