7. Just another day

x

Waking up to a knock by the door, Danny sighed. "Come on lovebirds!" Burk raised his voice through the door. Glancing towards Kara who was sleeping beside him, still asleep. He wanted nothing more than to just stay in bed and hold her the rest of the day, feel her warm body against his. To fill the emptiness he felt. It felt so surreal that there was a virus spreading around the entire world, infecting people. Deadly virus. He was worried about his family, would he ever see them again?

"Hey.." He heard her voice. "What are you thinking?" She asked moving to snuggle under his chin and he tightened his arms around her. "My family." Was his short reply. "I worry too." He heard her whisper quietly. Only thing he saw as a beacon of hope was her. Even though they had just gotten together, she felt so much more to him already. "I'm glad you're with me." He kissed the top of her head. "Me too." He heard her reply. It made him smile. To know she wanted him.

As they came downstairs a half an hour later everyone was gathered around the kitchen table to eat late breakfast. It seemed such a normal situation and why couldn't they just stay at the cabin? He thought. But they couldn't deny what was going on around them.

"We gotta find some more ladies to the group." Frankie stated, looking around him as Kara was beside Danny and Ravit was sitting next to Burk, but they didn't seem that close. Although he had heard some noises from Burk's room during the night. "2 chicks coming right up." Ravit said with a chuckle, getting a smile out of Burk. "I'm good for the time being." Wolf said with a smile.

"Hey, you never finished the rule breaking incident." Ravit gave a look towards Kara and he wondered what had they been discussing about. "Well, there really isn't much to tell. We just kissed." He saw her glance at his way. So they had been talking about the storage room incident. Thinking quickly back at the moment.

He had felt the heat in the moment and the chemistry between them. And she kept her eyes closed the entire time. As they broke off from their kiss, heavily breathing, feeling that they both wished they had the courage to go on. As he was leaving, he heard her say "Thank you." Her eyes were still closed as he exited the room.

And that kiss was the only thing he could think of for the rest of the trip.

"But I didn't actually know it was Danny." Kara added slightly embarrassed and he saw the redness on her cheeks. He had been quite surprised that she had indeed kept her eyes closed the entire time.

"Really?" Ravit looked a little surprised and glanced at his way.

"Found out about his identity just a few days ago." "But my brain was going pretty crazy after the incident, thinking who the guy had been. Could it be Miller, Cruz.." He heard her explain.

"Definitely not Miller. He wouldn't have the guts to talk to you ever again." Danny chuckled. Everyone laughed a bit at the comment. Then his thoughts went on to Miller. Hoping he was alive. He liked the guy.

"So you fell for him even though you didn't know it was him?" He heard Ravit ask and thought back to the second night on their trip.

He was lying on the bed under the covers and thinking. He had told her that he thought she was cute and might like her just last night. Her only reply being that she thought he was handsome too. So he did wonder if she liked him. They were getting along great and it was nice to talk with her, he enjoyed their conversations.

After his breakup just a few weeks before he had left to the Arctic, he wasn't really thinking of finding anyone to date. But seeing her that first day in the wardroom, talking to Alisha and smiling that amazing smile, he was hooked right away. She was all he thought about and might have mentioned a couple of times to Frankie as they were waiting around in the Arctic when Dr. Scott had her field trips. But he didn't want to jeopardize their careers by going after her and he didn't think it was fair either as he had just gotten out of a relationship.

As he had then seen her go in to the storage room the day of the blackout drill, he had tried to come up with something to say to her when she would come out, hoping that she wouldn't think he might be stalking her. And then the blackout drill was in motion, it's not like he had planned it, but he had then entered the storage room and told her to close her eyes.

Startled from his thoughts he saw her come out of the bathroom wearing a navy shirt and rather short sleeping shorts, hair all moist and he could tell she wasn't wearing a bra. Her nipples were poking through the fabric of her shirt. He suddenly felt like he was staring at her boobs and tried to focus on something else. Feeling that he was turned on by her like he had been that day in the storage room. This was torture, he thought.

"You nervous?" She smiled at him as she laid down on her side of the bed, under the same covers he was lying. "A little bit. Sharing a bed with a woman I haven't had any physical contact with.. a little awkward perhaps." He gave a quick reply sounding a little nervous too, he thought. Because he had kissed her and he knew there was definitely chemistry between them and he could almost imagine the way she had touched him in the storage room. "Me too. But I gotta ask, was it true, what you told your family about seeing me in the wardroom?" She was moisturizing her hands with a lotion she had with her. "Every word." He turned to meet her eyes. "So exactly how much do you like me?" She was teasing him. "I don't think I should tell you." He chuckled. "If I am to trust to sleep with you on the same bed, I think I should know the truth." She leaned a little closer to him and he was seeing those nipples again through her shirt and he wasn't sure how he would survive the night with her in the same bed. "I have a crush on you, a pretty bad one." He admitted, thinking it was best to be honest. Seeing her smile at him "I never thought to say this, but I like you too."

He was lying awake beside her as she had already fallen asleep. She liked him back, he was smiling at the thought. Hoping he wouldn't screw things over with her. He would have to tell her eventually about their first kiss.

"Seems that way." She gave a glance at him. "But I owe a big thanks to Alisha." He could see the sadness on her face. Alisha. They didn't know anything about her. She was all the way in France.

"So when do we leave?" Burk asked, breaking the moment. Bringing everyone back to reality. Back to the world where there was a deadly virus spreading.

"With all the equipment from the base there isn't much room in the Jeep for the six of us. We need to go and look for a second car." Wolf said glancing everyone by the table.

"If we find a car today, we can leave tomorrow." Danny said looking at the group. He felt like somehow he had gotten the role of the leader in their group. A position he was used to, but they were not on the job right now. They were a group of friends.

Thank you for reading!

All feedback is appreciated, so if you have any thoughts about the story, let me know. :)