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Toby looked down into green eyes, pulled Gavin into her side and smiled. "I have all I need."
She limped towards where they hoped their trucks still where with the help of her lover's
strength. She couldn't help but chuckle when she heard Bevis whining.
"Ohh my ass!" She let out a loud yell, turned and punched Butkis in her stomach. "That hurt you
idiot!"
Gasping for breath, Butkis nodded and held the wiper out to her. "At least& ya can& sit down
now."
They never made it to the hospital as they expected, the carnage that the tornado caused was
devastating. Cars, trucks, parts of houses and other foreign objects were tossed everywhere in the
small town. Finding an ambulance, they were treated and then started helping the citizens look
for lost friends and relatives. Gavin was beside herself, she had only seen this kind of thing while
on the air. She looked around her and saw how these people's lives would be forever changed
and knew how Toby must feel and have felt when her world was torn apart. She wiped the tears
from her eyes, placed the video camera she had been using on its tripod and walked over to
where her lover was helping lift part of a wall that had fallen over a storm shelter door.
When they had done everything they could to help, they went over to where the Red Cross had
set up an aid station and got bottles of water to wash the down the dust. Gavin leaned into Toby's
side and rested her face against her upper arm. "Did they even know it was coming their way?"
She asked Toby.
"No, they never heard. They had no idea that they were in danger, the call you made to the news
station helped those people but these ones found themselves caught unprepared."
"What can we do to make sure this never happens again?"
Toby turned to her side and pulled Gavin into her arms, placing a kiss to her forehead she sighed
and shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know, they have tornado spotters but the problem is getting
through to the news stations. They had the same problem that Andy had, they were not taken
seriously." Gavin wrapped her arms around Toby and thought of what she could do to help.
"I have an idea, but it'll mean that I have to go back to Atlanta." She felt a lump form in her
throat at the idea of leaving Toby even for a little while. "It may take me a while to get
everything together." She felt Toby stiffen. "I don't want to leave you& "
She felt her heart stop beating for a second, she wanted Gavin by her side but knew that her lover
had a life in Atlanta and what ever she had planned couldn't be done here on the road. She
wanted to be selfish and ask her to stay but knew it was wrong. "Gavin, this is important to many
people, what ever you have planned could save thousands of lives."
"Will you go back with me?"
Toby dropped her head down to rest on her lover's shoulder. "I wish I could baby, but with us out
here maybe we can make a difference. We still have the data from the turtle to go over and that
has to be done in our lab." She felt tears fill her eyes when Gavin nodded her head and a soft sob
came from her. "When we're done I could fly to Atlanta or you could come to Oklahoma."
"Or I could just quit my job as anchor."
"No baby, you have an important job that reaches many people, I couldn't nor wouldn't ask you
to do that. We'll figure something out."
"I hate this Toby, but I promise you when I get my idea sold, I'll come back to you." She lifted
her head, pulled Toby down to her and kissed her with every ounce of love she felt in her heart.
When the kiss ended, she looked into tear-filled eyes. "I love you Toby Storm."
Toby wiped the tears from Gavin's cheeks and hugged her close. "I love you too Gavin, when
will you leave?" She didn't want to hear the answer but needed it all the same.
"If I leave tomorrow, I'll be back that much sooner."
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The Storm Troopers and Gavin stood at the United Airlines counter in Dallas, Gavin didn't give a
damn what people thought of her as she clung to Toby. With each second that went by, she felt
her soul tear. She knew the minute she left her lover's arms and boarded the plane to Atlanta that
she would be leaving a part of her behind. She pressed her face into Toby's chest and let her tears
flow freely. A sob tore from her when she heard the boarding call. "I don't want to go Toby."
"I know and I don't want you to but this is important and we'll be together soon. I promise." She
stood up and held onto her lover, she looked over to her friends and saw the tears in their eyes.
Letting Gavin go, she nodded to the Troopers and watched as they each gave Gavin a hug. No
goodbyes were exchanged among them, that was one of the rules that they had in the small
group. Gavin gave Toby one last hug before she walked towards the Jetway door. She stopped
and ran back into Toby's arms, pulled her head down and kissed her passionately. "I love you
Toby with all my heart."
"You are my soul Gavin, I love you." She placed a gentle kiss upon her lips, watched her walk
down the Jetway, and then disappear. Dropping her head, she covered her face and felt her
friends give her a group hug. Andy whispered into her ear and then placed a soft kiss on her
cheek.
"She'll be back Toby."
"Gods I hope so." She sobbed into Andy's shoulder. "I can't live without her."
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Gavin walked into the news station the next morning dressed in Levis, T-shirt and work boots,
her fellow employees gave her funny looks and whispered behind her back. She ignored them
and headed to her producers office. She knocked and walked in to find Shelly rubbing her
temples.
"Can't be that bad Shelly." She said in a low voice and dropped into the chair across from the
desk.
Shelly's brown eyes shot wide and her jaw dropped. "What are you doing back so soon, I thought
you weren't coming back for another month and a half?"
"I need a favor and you're the only person that can help me." She rubbed her temples trying to
get the headache she had to ease up.
"You're kidding me right?" Shelly said as she leaned back in her chair and took a good look at
her anchor.
"Nope, I'm not kidding at all." She slid a video tape across the desk to Shelly along with a CD.
"That's from the last storm we chased, what I saw out there with Toby and the others was
something that rocked my foundation." Shelly turned in her chair and popped the tape into the
VCR, after about two or three minutes of seeing the wreckage that the tornado had caused, she
turned with a curious expression.
"What I saw and experienced scared the living shit out of me and that tape you're watching was a
small quiet town at one time. Six people lost there lives there because they had no warning of the
tornado, I made a call myself to a news station miles away to send out a warning because Andy
was blown off."
"And what do you need help with?"
"I want all the news stations in the areas where tornados, hurricanes and tropical storms occur to
have a special line for the storm spotters to call. Right now, they use the same number that every
nutcase calls and they get blown off before they can say anything. You have connections that I
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