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Date Posted: 21:46:30 06/26/03 Thu
Author: Yarvarni
Subject: Chapter 1
In reply to: Yarvarni 's message, "Endings and Beginnings" on 21:44:30 06/26/03 Thu

A scratching noise woke Sara, she slid out of bed following the sound to the fire escape. "Ian, you will freeze out there, how many times have I told you to use the door." She watched as he crawled through the window and stood at that ever annoying parade rest before her. "Are you trying to work a nerve tonight? We've talked about this submissive kicked puppy thing too..." She trailed off when she got a good look at his face. "Jeez, you look like Hell, what is wrong."

"My sister and her husband were killed last night when a car bomb went off outside the hospital they were at."

"Oh, Ian, I am so sorry." She pulled him into her embrace he accepted her comforting hug but was still not so good with personal space and she wasn't surprised when he pulled away.

"Sara, can you go with me to Ireland? I have to bury them and I have to take care of their affairs."

"Ian, I can't just take off work like that, I'm sorry." She was a bit puzzled by his request, they were friends, having settled all their differences months ago after Kenneth Irons had finally been laid to rest, but they weren't that close. She had been surprised when he told her about his sister Kaileen who unlike Ian had refused to accept her father's tyranny and made her own way. She and her husband were both doctors working with Doctors Without Borders but had recently taken positions in an Irish hospital.

"I would not ask but Kaileen was at the hospital to give birth not work. Sara, I know nothing of children much less infants. Please, I ask not for me but for her. She has come into this world only to lose her parents and be given over to an inept uncle. She deserves more, please. I have no one else I would trust to ask. I will be making difficult decisions concerning an innocent life over the next few days, I need your council."

"Let me call Joe, see what I can do, ok."

"Thank you."

Sara pulled her suitcase from beneath the bed as she called her captain and surrogate father. "Joe, hey, its Pez. No, I'm ok, sorry for calling so late but something has come up and I need to take a couple of weeks off. No, I'm fine, but a friends sister has died leaving behind a infant daughter and he's pretty overwhelmed. Yeah, they were close. No, her husband was killed as well, they lived in Ireland, a car bomb exploded outside the hospital. No, the baby is fine. No, there is not other family its all up to Ian to deal with. I'll tell him. Thanks Joe. Can you tell Danny I'll call him soon. I don't want to wake Lee and the kids. Yeah, I love you and Marie too. Night."

"Ok, Joe's got things covered. When should I be ready to leave?"

"The jet is ready now."

"Oh." Being a billionaire has its advantages. She filled her suitcase and within minutes they were on their way to the airport.

Sara jolted awake, "Ian, I don't have a passport." Nice thought 4 hours into the flight.

"One will be waiting for your when we land."

"How you doing?" She sat down beside him.

Ian shrugged, "I had lost so much time with her, I had hoped after Father was dead she and Keith would return home. You would have liked her, she was so free and untamed."

"What did they name the baby?"

"I have no idea. I didn't think to ask. The doctor who called rattled off a bunch of numbers describing her but all I heard was that Kai was gone. I didn't even know they were expecting." A sad little smile played at the corners of his mouth, "knowing them both they were planning on not telling me and just showing up saying ‘oh, by the way, your an uncle now'. Knowing Kai she would have dumped the baby in my arms and said see ya later and disappeared in a heartbeat leaving me terrified holding something I had no idea how to deal with."

Sara laughed at the image.

"As I said, you would have liked her."

"So you've never been around a baby?"

"I've seen them in strollers on the street, that is the extent of my experience. I can drop from a helicopter into enemy territory and take out a small army without breaking a sweat but I am totally unprepared for this. You see why I need you with me. A puppy I could raise..."

"Ian, your sister did not give birth to a puppy."

"If she truly loved me she would have."

Sara patted him on the back and laughed at the petulant forlorn look on his face, he could look so much like a lost little boy at times, "you need to get some rest, you're getting silly."

"Sara."

"Yeah?"

"Thank you."

"You're welcome, Ian."

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