Heart Of a Volunteer -Pearl Harbor

Prologue

I'm on a roll right now. And I'm on sick-leave for the rest of the week, and when I'm sick, I tend to watch movies like Titanic, Pearl Harbor, or my all time favorite movie: Wimbledon. 

Anyway. I remembered that I started writing this story last year but I never thought it was good enough. So now, I'll try again. Inspired by watching the movie yesterday.  

Enjoy, and let me know what you think! 

I do not own "Pearl Harbor" only my Oc.

*cathrineoriginal*

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Kentucky, Blue Grass Region, 1923

Four-and-a-half-year-old Ava Marie Johnson has always been a good girl. She did everything her father taught her to do. Still, Ava was a free spirit and never cared about her surroundings, about the ethics that followed womanhood. From birth, she has always been a daddy's girl. She would go to the garage with him and spend hours trying to make their plane functioning or helping her father with the horses. She was a resourceful little girl and she loved the plane rides with her father.

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One warm summer evening, Ava kept her eyes closely to the harmonic sky and her mind just wandered like always. Ava couldn't stop thinking about the things happening outside her world. How things worked, how the people treated each other, and if she ever good be as good as her father. Her dad was a good man, served the Army during the World War before she was born. Her 2-year-older sister, Evelyn, were born during the war and Ava were born in December 1918. Ava's mother died during birth, so she didn't have a mother to grow up with. Her mother's sister, their Aunt Anna, decided to move in with them on the farm to help. Evelyn grew attached to her Aunt but Ava remained attached to her father and that's how it's always been.

Ava loved being outside with her father, Ray, at sunset. Just lying out in the fields with the horses around them, but Ava always had a yearning towards the sky. She wanted to be like the birds; flying around, doing something good in the world.

"Papa?" Ava said with a whisper as they laid in the fields as they did every sunset.

"Yes, my little Aviator." Her father said, turning his head to look at her.

"I want to be a flyer when I grow up." Ava told him firmly and it made the older man laugh.

"Why doesn't that surprise me?" He muttered under his breath. "Now, why do you want to do that?"

"Because you do, Papa. And I want to go visit Mama in heaven." Ava told him honestly. "That's where Mama is, right?"

"Yes, my sweet little girl. Your Mama is in heaven."

"So, when I fly a plane like you, I can go up there and visit her, right? And maybe I can help fighting the bad guys like you did, Dada." Ava asked, believing like an almost five-year-old would.

Ray looked down on his youngest daughter with amazement. She was more like him than he ever thought. He brought his daughter tighter into his embrace.

"Of course, you can, Ava. Of course, you can." Ray whispered and kissed his daughter's forehead.

"If only you could." He said mostly to himself after his daughter fell asleep in his arms. He didn't want to move an inch to wake her but then little beautiful Evelyn came towards them with Aunt Anna.

"Did you finally get her to sleep?" Anna whispered as they sat down next to Ray and sleeping Ava.

"Yes, finally. She would not stop talking about being a pilot and fighting bad guys and visiting her mother." Ray told them and Evelyn just snorted. She couldn't believe that her little sister acted like a boy.

"Does it surprise you?" Anna asked with a little laugh. "She has her mother's love for the greatest adventures and the bravery from you."

"What about me?" Evelyn asked, not trying to sound too jealous towards her little sister.

"You have the compassion of your mother and your stubbornness from your father." Anna answered her truthfully. Both of the girls was one of a kind, even though they looked different.

Evelyn had their mother's brown hair and eyes. Ava had her dad's features with reddish-blond hair and warm eyes. Little Ava was special with one brown and one blue eye. A perfect combination of both her parents.

Both Anna and Evelyn sat down next to Ray silently. He looked down at his sleeping daughter before looking at his oldest one.

"I know that you're going through a difficult time right now, that makes you jealous of your little sister, and she may be young, but as she'll get older, she will need you and you'll need her." Ray told his oldest daughter.

"I can try." Evelyn sighed truthfully. Ray hugged his oldest daughter close.

"That's all I'm asking." Ray said softly.

They all ended up staying out on the field for the night. Ray missed his wife so much but he wouldn't trade his daughters for anything in the world to get her back. He had anything he could ever dream of having.

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The first years after that went by smoothly but when Ava turned 13, she turned around completely. She started to spend more time with her Aunt and sister, and less time with her father. She still was a daddy's girl but other stuff became more important as she became older. But still, Ray's little girls turned out to be the most wonderful young women. Ava looked up to Evelyn and that was the only thing Ray wanted. His two daughters were as close as they could get and still, Ava never missed a day with her father when he was about to go out flying. As she grew older, Ava helped her father by flying the plane by herself and she loved the feeling of being free. Up in the clouds, was the place she felt most at home.

Ava loved her life and couldn't ask for anything else. She loved her Aunt Anna, her sister Evelyn and she simply adored her father, and no matter what, they would always be there for each other.

But what Ava not expect, was when her father got sick.

Just before Ava turned 18, Ray got cancer and died within a few months. Evelyn and Ava used all their time on taking care of their father and Ava even took him out for one last ride on his precious plane. After that, both Ava and Evelyn decided they wanted to do good and started training to become a nurse. They wanted to help other sick people after the devastating loss of their father. Ava took it so hard; she never looked at or worked on the plane ever again. The memory was too painful. But to honor her dad, Ava decided to become a nurse for the army along with her older sister.

This was where she belonged but what Ava didn't know at the time, was the fact that she would honor her father in a scarier way than she ever predicted.

The scary way was; when the Second World War reached Pearl Harbor, the day before her birthday on December 7, 1941. The day that changed history and their lives forever.

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