hi all!

disclaimer: the movie pearl harbor and all the characters belong to michael bay and randall wallace. i own nothing (sadly...the things i could do with that delicious boy...) and claim no ownership over any aspect of the movie.

this is something totally new for me, and i would appreciate any and all feedback. this was inspired in part by chapter 6 of my story 'faith walking on broken glass'. i wanted to take the idea a little further and see what happens.

well, enough of my ramblings; the the story speak for itself.

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"I can't find Danny."

"That why you're here? Looking for Danny?" His irritation is clear, but it masks a deeper hurt that she knows is there all the same. "Probably saying goodbye to his squadron. We've been assigned to Doolittle."

"I wasn't looking for Danny. I couldn't have you go away without you understanding something."

"Yeah. You don't have to explain anything." Rafe cuts her off, but it is obvious that he is trying to keep his emotions under lid. He hasn't looked her in the eye since she came here.

"I do, because you're acting like I didn't love you."

He finally drops his packing and turns to her and the pain was so apparent in his eyes that she flinches. "Evelyn, loving you kept me alive. I should've died over there. When l was in that water, I made a deal with God. I told him l was sorry, that l knew I'd been a fool for leaving you, trying to go over there and be a hero and l promised I'd never ask for anything again if l could just see you one more time."

His words tumble out now, faster and faster, as though her prodding has opened the floodgates of emotions that he's been trying to keep in control, and they cut her as much as they cut him.

"And you know what? It was worth it. You kept me alive, Evelyn. You brought me home. So l'm gonna stand by my end of the deal," he pauses for a moment before adding, "I'm gonna walk away and l won't ask you for anything."

Evelyn opens her mouth to say what she came to say, because she cannot let him go without knowing, but he cuts her off again; this time with less anger and cynicism, and she can see that her apparent betrayal has him shaken to the core.

"But l just want to know why. Just tell me that, will you, please? Just tell me why."

"Rafe, you said that I kept you alive. But for all I knew, you were gone. What did I have to keep me alive?" Her voice trembles as she speaks, and Evelyn curses herself for letting her weakness show. "Danny showed me how to live again, and by God Rafe, I love you but I love him too. You broke my heart and he put it back together and that's why."

He shakes his head and looks away, and she takes that as her cue to leave. There was nothing she can say which will have made him feel better; just as there is no simple answer to their problem. If it were anyone else, she would not have hesitated to leave them the moment she saw Rafe on her doorstep, but as Evelyn realised that night, even she did not know the depths of her feelings for Danny. Rafe is her soulmate, if such a clichéd term could be used, but Danny she cares for deeply and the thought of leaving him is something she cannot bear to consider.

Still, it does not matter who she picks now, because they're both leaving her. They are, after all, the heroes of this tragedy and she imagines that there is a bunch of generals in a boardroom arguing over who would get them first. That is the danger of loving military men in times of war, and she is foolish enough to have lost her heart to not one, but two of them.

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