I am finally back from Europe and have just about finished moving. Everything happens at one time. Now, to write!

I do not own any of the characters and am just taking them out to play.

Chapter 15

Michael came to the door of the room where Dom, Cait, and Nicky were and went in.

"Any word yet?" Dom asked right away.

"We have a fix on the other homing beacon. It's located down somewhere in Brazil," Michael imparted to them. "We've got a team on the way to see what's going on."

Dom groaned, "What do you think they'll find?"

Michael thought for a minute before he answered, "I don't know. Right now we don't even know where in Brazil they are, but the team will narrow it down and find out for us." He looked at Dom and Cait before he said, "If you want to follow along with what's going on as it happens, you can come up to my office. Otherwise, I'll send someone down with an update."

Dom got up, "I'm coming up. I want to know what's going on as it happens. Cait, you coming or staying down here?"

"Can I bring Nicky with me?"

"Sure you can," Dom told her.

"Okay. I'll be up as soon as I get Nicky's things together."

Dom and Michael left the room together and continued on toward the elevators. Once they were inside, Dom turned to Michael, "What haven't you told us yet? I know that you know more than what you said."

Hiding a smile, Michael replied, "What makes you think that?"

"I've been around you too long. So what's up?"

"We think that the helicopter either landed or crashed because the beacon hasn't moved since we located it about half an hour ago," Michael answered.

"Is that good or bad?" Dom queried.

Michael thought for a minute, then replied, "It could be either way. Until we get down there and see the situation, we won't know for sure. If it was landed, Hawke may have overpowered Horn's man that was with him. If it crashed… I don't know what we'll find."

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Michael, Marella, Dom, Cait, and Nicky had been sitting in Michael's office for about five and a half hours when the call came in from Zebra Squad. Michael immediately put the call on speaker phone. "What do you have to report?"

"We've located the homing device and we're closing in on it. We should be at the site in about an hour," Commander McKinley reported.

"Keep in touch with us and let us know what you find," Michael responded, then turned to everyone else and said, "We'll know what happened to Airwolf and Hawke in a little while."

Cait went over and picked up Nicky, then hugged him to herself as she said, "I pray that Hawke is all right. He saved Nicky. He's just got to be all right," she said as she started to cry.

Dom immediately went to her and tried to soothe her by saying, "He'll be fine. You know him. You just wait and see." Dom glanced at Michael and Marella to see if they agreed with him. They both nodded to him.

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Just over an hour later, the phone rang again. Michael picked it up and put it on speaker phone so everyone could hear. "What did you find?"

"We're just coming up on the helicopter. It looks like she crashed, but the damage isn't too bad."

Dom spoke up, "Any sign of String?"

"No. We're just getting to the helicopter and we'll let you know what we see."

The phone went silent as they heard men moving about in the distance. Unfortunately, they couldn't decipher what anyone was saying.

"Commander!" Michael said with impatience. "Commander! What's going on?"

"Oh, sorry. I forgot that you were still with us. We've got two men climbing up the side of the helicopter because it's down on its side. We'll let you know what we find out in just a minute."

Everyone was holding their breath waiting for the condition of the men inside Airwolf. They could hear the men talking in the background, but again they couldn't make out what was being said. Finally, Commander McKinley came back on the phone, "My men have reported that one of the men in the cockpit is dead. They're taking him out right now before they can get to the other man."

"Is it Hawke?" Cait asked breathlessly. "Please don't let it be Hawke."

McKinley came back on the phone, "No, the first man they brought out is not Capt. Hawke. I don't recognize the man."

Marella said what everyone was thinking, "It must be Horn's man. He must have gotten killed in the crash."

Again they listened to the talking in the background trying to figure out what was being said. Then McKinley was on the phone again, "They brought Capt. Hawke out. He's still alive, but not in very good shape. We need to get him to a hospital as soon as possible."

Michael turned to Marella, "What's the nearest hospital down near where they're located where they can get emergency care?"

Marella was already searching on her computer and found a hospital nearby. "Here, tell them to transport him to the Good Samaritan Hospital in Brasilia. That's the closest hospital that will be able to treat him."

"I got that," McKinley yelled. "We'll take good care of him and let you know when we get there."

"We're coming down to check on him," Michael told McKinley as he nodded at Marella to get working on arranging the details.

"All right. I'll see you there."

"Make sure that there are guards on him at the hospital. We don't want Horn anywhere near him," Michael reiterated.

"Copy that."

Michael hung up the phone and turned to face Dom and Cait. "We're flying down to Brasilia. Do either of you want to come with?"

Dom looked at Cait as he said, "Yeah. I'm coming with you. Cait, do you and Nicky want to come?"

Cait looked embarrassed when she said, "No. I don't think it's safe to take Nicky out of the country. I'll stay here and keep in touch with you by phone."

"Okay. I'll see you at the plane in half an hour," Michael said as he left the room.

Cait seemed uncomfortable now that Michael had left. She picked Nicky up and walked to the window facing the airfield. "Dom, I just don't feel safe leaving here even if it is going someplace with Michael and Marella. Horn is still out there somewhere and he could turn up anywhere."

"Cait, I know how you feel. You want to be both places at once, but you can't. You stay here and I'll keep in touch by phone and let you know what's going on," Dom said as he went over to her.

"Please tell him that Nicky and I love him," Cait said as she started to cry.

"He knows that," Dom said as he gave Cait a hug and then turned and left the room.

"I just hope that you get to tell him," Cait said with a heavy heart.