19. Where do we go?

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"Does the Commodore know about the sleeping arrangements?" They could hear the half teasing and half amused tone of Tex from behind them. He was feeling much better now and oh boy was he a talker.. He had gotten his own cabin on the same corridor as all of them were staying and he had seen as they had exited the rooms in the morning. Ravit and Burk from one cabin and he with Kara from another.

"We're married, I don't know what their excuse is." He thought to answer. They hadn't exactly run the room switch plan with the Captain, but did it matter right now?

Hearing Burk and Ravit chuckle at his comment. He did wonder if they were solid. Burk was head over heels for the girl. That much he knew. When they had been at Gitmo and Ravit was on her way back to the ship, Burk had felt relief. Although Ravit can most certainly handle herself.

"You'll get used to it." He had said to Burk as they were moving on the base. Checking the area. He saw the touch of fear in him and it was gone immediately when Ravit had returned to the ship with Tex. "Used to what?" Burk was puzzled. "The fear, although it will never go away completely." He sighed to himself. Even though Kara was on the ship, he still had a crumb of fear nagging in the back of his mind. He saw that Burk realized what he had meant. "Just don't tell her. She'll kick my ass." Burk stated in frustration. Chuckling at the words. Yeah, she would kick his ass if she found out. She wasn't someone to mess with.

"The evacuation plan didn't involve moving Hayward." He heard Chandler state out loud as they were sitting around the table in the wardroom.

"Did you talk with Lucas? Does he know anything?" He heard Kara ask from beside him.

"He said he saw the ship leave the harbor. From what I concur it must be shortly after our last communication with the base." Chandler informed them.

"But why move the ship?" He asked glancing around in the room.

"They know we have the monkeys and assuming Dr. Scott still needs them.. Slattery must have left a clue behind. That is if they survived.." Burk said and the mood saddened in the room.

They hadn't found their bodies either, so they could only hope for the best. But there was nothing left of the base. How were they going to find a clue in there? He thought. As they all sat still, pondering about it all. He noticed Kara get up and get Alisha's backpack again. Sighing to himself. There was nothing there, he thought.

"Sir. What if it was Slattery that rescued Alisha?" Kara looked at the Captain and emptied the backpack on the table again.

"Perhaps he thought we heard the distress call too? Alisha would know that I would recognize the shirt, the backpack. It's a long shot, but if there is threat to us out there.. He doesn't wanna risk it by contacting us." Kara eyed everyone.

"Sounds just a little too crazy." Ravit gave a look at her.

"And what if we haven't heard the call? What then?" Burk asked.

"But we've gone through the items. There's nothing there." He was stating the obvious. Thinking if he was too negative in his thoughts, was he giving up too easily?

"Thank you." He heard Frankie's voice when he had made it through the night. "For what?" He asked. Not really understanding what his friend meant. "For not giving up on me, even when I did." Frankie had made a point.

So even now when it might seem he was giving up hope, Kara wasn't. She had something to fight for. Their baby. So why didn't he feel the same? He had Kara and the baby..

Chandler stood up and took a look on the items, not sure what he should look at. Three sheets of blank paper, shirt and a pen.

"Hell of a long shot." Chandler said out loud and looked at the blank papers, turning them around in his hands, like there was something to find in them. But as he was turning the papers, something caught his eye.

"Well, I'll be damned." Holding a paper towards the light. There was a watermark on it. Going through each one of the papers. There were markings in all of them.

"It's a map." He stated as he figured it out.

"Bells Cay, an island in the Bahamas?" Burk chuckled.

"Looks that way." Danny replied as they were in the helo bay organizing supplies around.

"Hello boys." They heard Ravit enter and she went straight to kiss Burk. Which startled Burk as they were supposedly on duty.

"Get a room, will you?" Tex said amused as he glanced at the kissing going on in front of him.

"Maybe we will." Ravit broke off the kiss and she raised her eyebrows to Burk as she then took hold of his hand and departed from the helo bay with him. Burk seemed a bit embarrassed that they knew what was going to happen.

"Young love? It's sweet ain't it?" Tex gave a look at Danny's way.

"Yeah." He replied, should be in the same phase him too. He was a newlywed for christ sake. But somehow something had changed. He just didn't quite know what.

"Why aren't you snuggling with yours then?" He heard Tex continue on. He didn't even know the man and he was asking about private things.

"We are both busy." He gave as an answer.

"Bullshit." Tex retorted.

He felt like he should shout at the man for digging his nose into his business. "Look, it's none of your business." He said firmly. Hoping it was the end of it.

"Something's bothering you. Why don't you talk about it?" Tex looked at him and he met the man's gaze.

"She's pregnant." He let it out so easily and he didn't really understand why he was talking with Tex about it. They hadn't even told the Captain yet.

"Aah." Tex said like he understood the problem.

"Your worried. Don't know what's going to happen, how on earth will you make it through this. Not to mention how to care for the baby." Tex said.

Hearing Tex name the things made him realize that it was just that. He did feel joy about the baby, but the worry about if they would survive was greater. The heavy burden of another being depending on you to keep her or him safe. He knew he would do anything to keep Kara and their future child safe, but in the state of the world, it seemed at times impossible. Sure Dr. Scott was working on a vaccine, but would she succeed in her task?

"I got one of my own. Kathleen." The old man told him.

So he knew how he felt. And he didn't even know if his daughter was alive. And here he was worrying over a child that wasn't even born. A child that was barely the size of a peanut if even that.

"I'm sure she's fine." He said, hoping it would be true.

"Me too." Tex said, hearing from the sound of his voice that he wasn't sure if he did believe what he was saying.

"Thank you." He gave Tex a nod and left the helo bay. He needed to find Kara.

He tracked her down when she was leaving their cabin. Hugging her before she had a chance to say anything. "I'm sorry." He whispered to her ear. "For what?" She asked. "For not having hope." He said as he then looked at her. "I've been too negative and I'm really scared of what will happen to us." He held his hand on her cheek and saw that she smiled at him a little. Feeling a little puzzled by why would she smile. "I'm scared too." She admitted. "You're not alone." She added and kissed him. And as they were kissing they could here some interesting sounds coming from the cabin next door.

Chuckling to each other. "You think the Captain knows?" She whispered to him smiling.

"I think the entire ship knows." He chuckled.

"I'm sure I can make you scream too." He smiled that teasing smile that he knew she loved and raised his eyebrows a bit.

"Danny!" She exclaimed and he could see she was blushing. "Not now. But you can try later." She kissed him quickly as she left him standing alone in the corridor.

He did feel a little better that she felt the same as him. That she was equally scared of the future as he was.

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