He looked her over and smiled as he shrugged. 

"If you wish. I'm Aaron."

He looked at the boxes trying to figure out which ones weren't the heavy ones.

Danielle nodded as she didn't mind she walked over seeing him trying to weigh them out a bit as she looked at him thinking a moment.

||Danielle Castillo||- I'm a lot stronger than I look. 

She said as she saw a really heavy box that would typically take at least two... She was easily able to lift it though.... He looked a bit shocked as she didn't look like she was built to do so but she was able to as she easily carried it into his home for him..

He watched her and just shook his head before following with another box.

"That one goes in the office. It's my legal books."

He pointed out the room he planned to use for his office.

She nodded a bit as she heard what he said... Putting the box of books where they belonged... She sat them near a shelf he had set up just in case they went there.. She went getting other boxes he said went in the same room... Then started carrying other boxes up staris for him.  After a few hours everything was unloaded as she smiled a bit looking around.

||Danielle Castillo||-  Well it we got everything in before it got too dark. 

She smiled happy that he didn't have to do all that in the dark.

He smiled as he sat down the last box.

"Thank you a lot. You okay to stick around for dinner? I'm going to order from whatever is available around here."

He gave her a smile.

"It would be my way of thanking you."

Danielle smiled as she nodded as she didn't have any plans or no need to rush off.  Dinner did sound nice as she was more than happy to know her neighbor. 

||Danielle Castillo||- I'd like that, thank you.

She smiled as he was asking her about places.

||Danielle Castillo||- Mama Mia's delivers. 

She said thinking about it..

He used his phone to look up the place's menu and number. Once their order as placed he looked at her.

"I probably should have asked if they could send plates and stuff. I'm not sure which box mine are packed in."

She thought about it a moment.  

||Danielle Castillo||- How about you come over next door to my place?  We can eat there... I have juice and soda in the fridge too.

She said thinking about it as she didn't mind.

||Danielle Castillo||- A nice comfy couch to set on.

She said laughing softly seeing if he wanted to do that.

He nodded thinking about it.

'We should stay here until it's delivered though. Maybe I can unpack some things while we talk?"

She looked at him as she nodded as that was fine with her.  

||Danielle Castillo||- Alright, sounds good to me... 

She smiled a bit as he told her to sit down on one arm of a couch he had loaded... She did as he said as they were talking a bit.

||Danielle Castillo||- Oh, that's nice, you're a lawyer.  Must of been a lot of studying.

She smiled as she was thinking about it, listening to him talk about himself a bit.

He nodded remembering his years at school.

"It was. I did take a break for a few years."

He saw the questioning look in her eyes.

"I had joined the army."

She looked at him impressed when he said that as she was thinking about it. 

||Danielle Castillo||- Nice, very cool. 

She smiled as she was thinking about it..

He shook his head.

"It wasn't very cool. It was actually pretty brutal."

It wasn't something that he ever talked about. It was days he prefered to forget.

Danielle looked at him when he said that as she was thinking about it... Feeling bad that she had brought it up.

||Danielle Castillo||- I'm sorry.

She said as she was sitting there thinking about it..

He shook his head.

"it's okay. It's all public record anyway. Just wasn't the highlight of my life."

He opened one of the boxes and pulled out one of the pictures laying on the top. His mother. He gave a little smile then sat the picture aside.

"What about you? Did you attend college?"

She nodded as she looked at him. 

||Danielle Castillo||- Yep, Archaeology and Genealogy are my thing.  Spent a few years in Egypt and in Ireland... Was planning on going back to Egypt this year but things got a little messed up, and plans changed a bit... 

She shrugged thinking about it,  she didn't let it get her down. 

||Danielle Castillo||- So for now I'm teaching at the college.

She said as she liked it for the most part..

He thought that was really cool.

"I've never been to Egypt. What is it like there?"

She sat there thinking about her last trip to Egypt.  She couldn't help but smile as she did love her last stay there.

||Danielle Castillo||- It's amazing, so very beautiful.  It has to be on of my favorite places to travel.

She said as she was thinking about it...

He listened to her talk about it and smiled.

"I'll have to add it to my places to visit some day."

She looked at him as she was thinking about it. 

||Danielle Castillo||- Well, if we are ever there at the same time, I'd be happy to show you around... Show you all the real sweet spots.

She smiled warmly as she was thinking about it...

"Thanks." 

He knew it would be a very long time before he got the chance to travel anywhere again. That was if he ever did. He wasn't sure if he would ever be able to leave this area again.

"How long have you lived here?"

She shook her head a bit as she was thinking about it.  As it hadn't been all that long really.

||Danielle Castillo||- Not long, only a few months.

She said as she was thinking about it

||Danielle Castillo||- It wasn't a planned on long stay but things kind of changed and I got stuck here a bit longer than planned.

She shrugged a bit as it happened...

He looked at her when she said that.

"What kind of things? Is it something you can talk about it? I'll understand if you can't."

She didn't really mind talking about it. 

||Danielle Castillo||- I was a witness to a crime... So I have to testify.   The trial isn't going to happen until next year though.

She said remembering what she had been told...

He wasn't sure if it was the one he was asked to take over on or not and didn't want to take the chance of messing it up.

"I think it may be best if we didn't talk about that." 

He explained to her that it could be a bad thing if it was the same case.

She nodded as that was fine with her as she didn't want to talk about it if she didn't have too... What she had seen the man do was horrifying... It still gave her nightmares... She was lucky to have gotten away unharmed... 

||Danielle Castillo||- That's fine.. 

Once the food got there, they went heading over to her place as she went getting the drinks, plates and forks as they sat out on the couch eating and talking some more...

He smiled as he watched her. He was enjoying spending time with her.

"What is there to do around here for fun?"

She looked at him as she was thinking about what there was to do around here.

||Danielle Castillo||- Well there is a theater here that is always looking for volunteers, though they aren't open to the public they do a lot of virtual stuff right now. 

She said thinking about it.

||Danielle Castillo||- A lot of great hiking trails as well.  A bit cold to swim but the beaches are amazing.

She said thinking about it....

One thing she said really got his attention.

"Theater, huh? I haven't done that since high school."

He thought about his days in the drama club and smiled. He had a lot of fun doing it.

"I may check that out."

She smiled as she was thinking about it. 

||Danielle Castillo||- Nice, It is a lot of fun.  I help out with costumes and make up.

She said as she was thinking about it...

He smiled when she said that.

"Then I will definitely check it out."

They talked while they ate then he helped clean up.

Once they were finished cleaning up she looked at him as she was walking him back towards the door.  After having such a good time getting to know him.

||Danielle Castillo||- Thank you for dinner.  It was a lot of fun.

She smiled warmly as she looked at him thinking about it...

He nodded and smiled softly at her.

"It was. If you need anything...well, you know where I live."

She smiled when he said that as she was thinking about it, as she held the door for him as he stepped out.  After a moment she started to speak.

||Danielle Castillo||- Thank you, and same goes for you... If you need me, I'm here.

She said smiling warmly at her new neighbor..

He nodded and smiled softly.

"Have a good night, Danielle."

He started heading across the yard to his own house.

She waited until she watched him walk into his own home before she closed her door.   She then walked into her kitchen as she finished cleaning up and then went getting herself ready for bed as it was pretty late now....

He looked at all of the boxes he still had to unpack and sighed. He hated moving. He moved way too often in his life.

"Guess we better get started."

As Danielle was getting things ready for bed and locking up she just happened to be looking out her window to see someone breaking into Aaron's place... She called the cops as she was reporting it... She heard the struggle then watched as he was taken out in a large van... She ducked down so she wasn't seen when one of the very large men looked up into her windows while she was waiting on the police... 

By the time the police got there though, he was gone as well as the van and the men... She felt bad, wishing she would have seen it sooner...

He looked around at the people in the van.

"You know this is not a smart idea, right? I'm the one who has been getting you idiots out of jail."

Tyrone just looked at him rolling his eyes a bit.

Tyrone: Talk less... 

He said with a grin then stabbed him with a needle...It wasn't too long before he was at the hide out and taken down to the basement for Luke to work on him... Knowing he was the new Lawyer in the city, so they wanted to get him under control and working for them first....

Aaron was still pissed when he woke up.

"You are all fucking idiots. I was already one of you. All of this was unnecessary."

Sophia was bringing him some food when she heard him.

Sophia: It's nothing personal, they make us all do it.  

She said as she had always been loyal to, and the same thing happened to her... He looked at her.

Sophia: I'm Sophia.. 

She smiled warmly as she sat the food down...

He filed the name away in his mind. 

"I'm Aaron. I need to get out of here. I have shit I need to do."

She just nodded a bit knowing that as soon as he had all the drugs in his system like everyone else... He would be allowed to go... He would want to be loyal always, would want to have a wife and family, and would always think everything the hideout was doing was right, and it wouldn't just be about the pay check... 

After a few weeks though he was allowed to leave.. And was dropped off... Danielle happened to see him as she ran out to him seeing he looked a bit worn out.

||Danielle Castillo||- Aaron... Are you alright?

She asked looking him over, helping him up on her porch, as she got him to set down..

He looked around a bit then looked at her.

"Hey. That was some interesting vacation. I don't recommend that hotel at all."

She looked at him a bit confused for a moment, as she was rather worried about him.  She had no idea what he was talking about, then again she had no idea that he was willingly working with the hideout either.  He had been informed that she was someone who had seen them in action and she was going to be either silenced or brought in herself.  

||Danielle Castillo||- come on, lets get you to the hospital.  I'll call the police on the way so they know that you're not missing any longer. 

She said as she was worried about him, but glad that he was back...

He knew the best way to get the attention away from the hideout was to go along with it and pass the blame elsewhere. He had to keep up the act.

He pushed her hair gently from her eyes.

"Where you worried about me?"

She nodded as she looked down at him as she was thinking about it. 

||Danielle Castillo||- I was very worried.

She said honestly as she helped get him in the car.  She didn't tell him yet that the police were going to be moving her tonight, as they were wanting to put her into witness protection.  Once at the hospital she got him inside as they were getting him in a room they made her wait out in a waiting room as one of the nurses said they would call the police and for her to not worry about it, she just nodded a bit as she stayed where she was told...

He held out his hand toward her.

"I need her with me. I want her."

He frowned when the door was shut between them.

"Let her in or I'm leaving."

The doctor was looking him over a bit as he shook his head some.

||Doctor||- Let us get you changed, and let you talk to the police, then she can come in... It won't be long. 

He said as he knew the police would want to speak to him alone anyways..

He shook his head.

"Let her in. Please. I will do anything you ask if she is with me."

The doctor looked at him a moment, as he was ordering some blood work as he saw the signs there, but then nodded after a moment, telling the nurse to let the woman in.  After a few the nurse lead Danielle in as she smiled a bit looking at Aaron.

||Danielle||- Hey.

She said as she walked in...

He calmed down when he saw her.

"Don't leave me alone with anybody. Please. I trust you. I only trust you."

Danielle was a bit confused when he said that, as she looked at the doctor, then back at Aaron as she nodded her head.  Willing to stay with him as she moved next to him as he was holding his hand out to her, wanting her close to him.

||Danielle Castillo||- Alright, I'll stay here with you.

She said not wanting him to be worked up...

He kept his word and did as they asked. He never let go of Danielle's hand though. 

"I was afraid I wouldn't ever see you again."

She watched as the doctor was taking some blood samples from him, and handed them to the nurse wanting them looked at right away.. He then was looking him over as he was asked some questions but was rather dodging them as he wasn't sure what to think.

||Danielle Castillo||- He's probably just  needing rest.

She said as she was holding his hand still, willing to stay with him.. After a bit the doctor came in and gave him something to counter the drugs in his system, not knowing that it would no longer work but it did put him out... She sat there while he slept.  After awhile she was told she did have to leave as she nodded a bit, leaving her phone number next to him so he could call her when he woke up if he wanted too.  She then went heading home for the night.

He slept for several hours and was not happy to be alone. He sent a text to Sofia, then he called Danielle.

"Where are you? You okay?"

Sophia sent him a text back, telling him not to worry, she was on her way to pick him up... Not wanting to risk him sticking around in the hospital, and to sign himself out... 

He was now talking with Danielle.

||Danielle Castillo||- I'm  home, they told me I had to go for the night, I'm fine. 

She said as she just went home when they told her to leave.  She knew the police were due tomorrow to move her to some place new.

He listened to her voice and knew that this was the woman he wanted for himself.

"I'm signing myself out. I need to be home close to you."

She was a bit shocked when he said that as she was thinking about it.

||Danielle Castillo||- You need to make sure you are healthy.  Don't do anything that can hurt yourself.

She said worried..

He smiled when he heard the concern in her voice.

"I'll be okay. I promise."

He was getting dressed as he talked to her.

"I'll be home soon. Will you meet me?"

Danielle thought about it as she didn't mind meeting him.  This way if he needed help she would be able to help, not knowing that he was going to be having people from the hideout with him... 

||Danielle Castillo||- Of course.

She said after a moment..

He looked up and put his finger to his lips when Sophia came in.

"One of the nurses is going to bring me home on her way home from work. I'll be home soon."

Sophia stood there in the room while he was on the phone as he was talking to Danielle.  After a bit when he hung up she looked at him , seeing the look he had.

||Sophia Wood||- Tell me about her.

She grinned a bit, seeing who ever he was talking to on the phone meant something to him...

He smiled as he told Sofia about Danielle.

"She's beautiful and really sweet. Smart too. Very smart. I think that's what attracts me to her actually."

Sophia smiled as he was talking about this woman.  She could tell that he was taken by her.  She thought a bit as she knew he had made his choice. 

||Sophia Wood||- I see that you have made your choice.

She smiled thinking about it. 

||Sophia Wood||- Let's get you to her. 

She smiled as they went out to the car... Once they were going they went driving him home.

||Sophia Wood||- Do you want me to wait so we can drive her in, or are you going to bring her in yourself?

She asked as he knew she would have to come in, and she was wanting to do it what ever way worked best for him...

He already knew that she was going into the witness protection program. He knew that this was going to be the only chance he had to get her.

"We need to do it tonight. We won't get another chance."

Sophia nodded as she was thinking about it, reaching into her coat pocket as she pulled out a needle and handed it to him.  

||Sophia Wood||- It will not hurt her.

She promised as she wouldn't hurt her.  He took it from her as they were pulling into the drive way.

He smiled when he saw Danielle waiting for him. He got out of the car and walked over toward her.

"Hi. I'm glad you are here."

Danielle smiled as she watched him walk away from the car as she walked down her steps.  She was glad to see him.  She saw the woman getting out, but staying near the car.  Her attention going back to Aaron.

||Danielle Castillo||- Are you alright, are you sure you should be out of the hospital.

She said as she kept walking to him,  but stopped a bit when she saw what he had in his hand... Her smile leaving as she looked at him confused... 

||Danielle Castillo||- What is that?.

He looked at the needle in his hand and shrugged.

"Just something they gave me to help me out."

He reached his empty hand out to her. 

"Come inside with me?"

She thought it was strange that they would just give him that, but she didn't want to stress him out, knowing he had already been through a lot.  She nodded a bit after a moment.

||Danielle Castillo||- Oh, alright. 

She said as she took his hand to follow him inside..

He smiled and looked back at Sofia and nodded then followed Danielle inside. They were  barely inside the door when he jabbed her in the back of the neck with the needle.

"I'm sorry, Danielle. I have no choice."

She yelled out a bit as she tried to move, his arms when around her holding her against him as she couldn't move... He then scooped her up in his arms as he carried her to the car as Sophia opened the door... She looked at Aaron weekly as he carefully laid her in the back seat... She looked at him feeling heart broken and betrayed, before passing out... 

It was much later before she started to wake up... Groaning out a bit as she tried to move but her hands were tied... She opened her eyes trying to move looking around scared... ..

Aaron sat on a chair nearby with his head in his hands. He hated what he had to do to her. He knew she most likely hated him now and he wouldn't blame her at all.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry."

She could hear him, as she opened her eyes again, turning her head looking at him.  Pretty freaked out at the moment... 

||Danielle Castillo||- Aaron.. 

She called for him scared... She then heard the door open as she watched two people walk in.  One large man, and the woman... The so called nurse... She looked scared as she was trying to get free. 

{Sophia Wood}- Relax, you're going to be just fine... Better than fine I promise. 

She smiled as she leaned down, moving her hair out of her face, keeping focus on her, as Danielle looked at her scared and confused... Then felt another stab as Luke jabbed her again... Danielle had tears in her eyes.. 

||Sophia Wood||- It'll be all over soon, and you won't remember any of this... I promise... Nothing but happy thoughts, after all this.

She said as she kept her calm while Luke injected her again, making her groan out this time... Which made Aaron raise a brow a bit, as he watched what they were dong to her... Danielle closed her eyes, as she was feeling over whelmed with all kinds of feelings and emotions...

Aaron stood up and moved closer. 

"You said you were done. What are you doing?"

Sophia looked her over, checking her vitals just out of habit.  As Luke explained this is what all the ladies in the house got... As she wouldn't be able to leave until the trial was done and over with.  So she was going to stay here and be cozy.

Luke Wood: She can be taken to the rooms now... She'll be good to go when she wakes up.

He said simply as he started to leave.  Sophia looked at him.

Sophia Wood: If you don't intend on being with her... Lock her in.

She said not wanting anyone to bother her if he wasn't going to. 

Sophia Wood: I'd take her now before she wakes up and makes it hard for you to get her upstaris.

She warned him...

He knew what some of the men were like in this place and had no intention of leaving her alone for even a second. He gently lifted her into his arms and carried her to the room he knew was to be theirs. He carefully laid her on the bed then went into the adjoining bathroom.

"I'm a fucking idiot to do this to her."

He was in the bathroom a bit, as he was trying to figure out what he was going to do... Danielle did wake up as she sat up a bit, looking around... She heard the shower running as she smiled... She stood up as she stripped down and walked into the bathroom... By the time she walked into the bathroom she was fully naked... 

||Danielle Castillo||- I think you need some company.

She said simply as she stepped in the shower with him, smiling as she looked at him, seeing his shocked look as she had joined him in the shower....

He felt his body beginning to react to her already. He had thought she was beautiful the moment he had seen her, but hadn't expected her to ever want him like this.

"Danielle..."

She heard him say her name as it made her feel good.  She brought her hands up as she touched his chest and his shoulder as she pulled herself to him, liking how she felt against him.

||Danielle Castillo||- Aaron.

She moaned out his name, before she pulled him down to her as she kissed him.

He deepened the kiss as his arms wrapped around her. He pulled his head back and looked down at her.

"Just so you know, I am not a one night kind of guy."

She looked up at him when he said that. 

||Danielle Castillo||- Good, I don't plan on letting you go.

She pulled him back down as she kissed him again.

He reached around her and shut off the water then lifted her into his arms as he stepped out of the bath.

"I love you."

Danielle smiled when he said he loved her... She liked hearing him say that... 

||Danielle Castillo||- I love you, Aaron. 

She said as she felt she did, she felt it deep inside, as she looked at him as he carried her back to the bedroom..

He laid her gently on the bed and kissed her deeply. 

"I'll never understand why you love me, but I'm glad you do."

She looked at him when he said that as she laughed softly thinking he was silly for saying that.  Feeling he was easy to love.. 

||Danielle Castillo||- I love you because I think you are amazing, smart, caring, loving.

She said as she looked up at him thinking about it...

He kissed her softly and settled between her legs. He slowly and gently slid himself inside her as he deepened the kiss.

"Good?"