okay guys sorry i have been radio silent for a while but i have just started a new job and lost focused on my fan fic. but seen as it is the Easter break and i have a little time on my hands i thought i would start a new story. and i have lost focus on my last one :( please enjoy this one it is from both molly's and Charles' points of view at the same time. enjoy Duckmadgirl xx
Charles POV
Shit. It was all going so well. The awkwardness between me and Dawes... i mean molly had all but melted away.. after Sohali had told us that Basheria's farther wanted her dead i had to keep her close. I don't want anything to ever happen to her. She has woken me up and made me engage myself, made me become a better soldier. Why did i have to mess everything up...
Earlier
I saw her sat there in the mess tent chatting to Quaseem. The sun catching her chestnut hair. She ended her conversation when she saw me and came over. The sun glairing in her eyes. She had to shield them to look up at me. "sometimes i don't know how i can keep my hands off you". I smiled at her trying to think of a appropriate answer. The one of Ditto although it is appropriate she did say she was hoping for something a little more romantic than ditto. I think it is romantic as no one knows what it means really only us and i have to stay focused and get them all home safe. Especially molly.
The only reason i went to look for her was to tell her that we were needed as the ASF had thought they had located Badrai. When we went off the lads were playing volleyball with some of the American lads. Molly said she was shitting herself and that she was able to do this on her own but there is no way on gods earth i am letting her out of my sight. She took one last look at the lads playing and climbed in to the truck after me.
When we got to the suspect compound we me and molly that is were made to wait outside until the ASF had secured and detained all inside. When we eventually went in we found two men lying dead on the floor in the first room. They ask molly if any of them were Badrai and they weren't so we were lead in to the next room where they had 3 men detained in handcuffs and blindfolded with blacked out goggles. They removed the blindfolds one by one and asked if they were Badrai which molly said they weren't. One of the men lunged at molly knocking her to the floor. Even though she was in physical pain and judging from the blood pouring from her nose, she was surprisingly calling for this insurgent to not be hurt after helping her to her feet i could see she was doing her best not to cry.
We had a debrief and even though the hospital had done a good job of patching molly up it was still obvious that some one had smacked her in the mouth as her lip was still swollen and her nose was all bloodied. We had to talk about the next steps on what we were to do. I think the only way forward is a joint mission involving 2 section
I find molly in the stores with the rest of 2 section they were tasked with packing up things that were no longer needed so as it can be shipped over to Cyprus so we are prepared for draw down. They all jump when i walk in. To be fair i don't really care if they are lazing about. I only need molly. She is up a ladder joking around with smurf and she hands him the clip board she was holding and climbs down the ladder. We are both wanted in the detention centre. When we get there it is over run by yanks. They ask molly if she knows the man who attacked her which she doesn't. And i don't know of him but it has to be connected to this tour. They showed us footage of the pervious interviews he want answering any of the questions until asked why he attacked molly. He answered with a name we both knew. Basheria. He kept saying it was all her fault and even Basheria . she asked to go in and talk to him, considering he as already broke her nose and given her a fat lip i don't think that that is a good idea but the American major thinks he might say more so i was over ruled.
I have to hand it to dawes she was amazing she didn't flinch once in front of him and stood her ground staring him down. Even when he went for her again and was pulled back by the ANA. The only time she showed real emotion was when he said Basheria was no longer safe.
There was a mission planned to intercept Badrai before he could do his damage. I looked over at molly who was starting to crumble.
All the way back to our quarters she was rambling on how it was all her fault and if she hadn't befriended basheria then her section would be fine. We reached the officers quarters and my tiny office come bedroom. I pulled her inside so i could talk to her with out her causing a scene. She was letting everything that was said undermine her confidence even when i said she was wrong it wasn't her fault and she wasn't the epic fail she thought she was she still wouldn't listen to reason .
She has taught me so much in these past few months of being on this tour than the year i spent at Sandhurst and i told her as much. She eventually came round and believed in the solider she has become. She was humble with her thanks but puzzled when i mentioned that i wouldn't always be her boss. Not when we got home. It was going well i told her about Bath and how lovely it was at Christmas and how magical my parents house was at Christmas, and i wanted to show her how much. Then Smurf knocked on the door. We weren't doing anything wrong but it may be hard to explain especially as molly looked like she had been crying. She hid in my little sad excuse for a wardrobe. She heard every word of what was said including smurf asking how i had proposed to my ex- wife. That i hadn't gotten chance to tell her about. She just stormed out not saying anything. I have to go after her.
Molly POV
I hate him. He lied to me. I wish i had never come on this tour and i wish i had never met him. He broke my heart. And i shall never forgive him for what he has done. I just cant wait for this tour to be over so i can go home and never work with the under 5's again or him.
Earlier
We were all getting some scoff. The lads were seeing how many sausages Mansfield could eat in 50 minuets. Why? They are so immature as it will be me having to deal with the consequences of this later when he is sick all over the place and complaining of belly aches . Qaseem will be leaving us soon and going back to Kabul. He tried to convince me to convince me that basheria will be okay
I see Captain James talking to Kinders so i go over and talk to him. Seeing him stood there in his uniform looking all stern and sexy i don't know how i can keep my hands off of him and i tell him as much. He responded with Ditto. Bloody Ditto, i mean i was expecting something a little more romantic than that but he claimed it was as we agreed to wait out. We haven't done anything and i agreed but he is still being careful and not wanting to get distracted and i respect him for it. But i hope he isn't saying this as he is regretting us. I mean we are not the sort of people that would mix in the normal world.
The only reason he came over was the special forces think that they have located Badrai and where he is hiding. I was bloody bricking it about this mission, the man wants me dead. The boss promised that everything would be alright even when i told him i could do this on my own but he said that he wasn't letting me out of his sight even though i can do this on my own i am grateful he came with me.
We had to wait outside whilst the ANA secured the compound. When we eventually went inside we found 2 men that had been killed who i was asked to identify if they were Badrai which that went. We were then taken in to another room where there were 3 insurgents blindfolded. One by one they had their blindfolds removed and i was asked if they were Badrai. Non of them were but the last guy knocked me flying. I think he may have broken my nose. The ANA pinned him down and restrained him. I know he hurt me but i don't him hurt.
The boss helped me to my feet and i must not cry. He asked if i was okay. I lied and said i was fine but my nose was throbbing and i feel like i have a killer hangover with out going on the lash.
I am sat in the hospital waiting for someone to come and see to my nose and it is Jackie who comes to deal with it with a bowl of antiseptic wipes. She was joking about secret missions. She did sound a tad jealous and she said as much as i got to go off and be some sort of superhero and she was the one left back at base to clean up afterwards. I know i go off and that but did superman or batman get socked in the face because they were too slow to react. No. She said i also seem to find trouble which i don't, it seems to find me, i would be happy in the hospital with the antiseptic wipes but it never really works out like that.
I now have a fat lip and a bloody nose to show the lads. Ode to joy. They are going to love this the bunch of piss takers. But after a debrief i head back to our quarters. The lads actually show concern when i say i can take a punch but when i say i fell off the treadmill down the gym in front of the yanks they go back to taking the piss.
The corporal came in asking for volunteers to unload a shipment the lads just lounged about and not bothered and i picked up my magazine. And Kinders picked me . i so don't want to unload a shipment on my own, it will take forages.
Smurf caught up us and started asking what really happened and taking the piss saying we were best friends. I told him what happened and by then the rest of the lads had joined us saying they felt guilty for not helping and then they said it was because they didn't trust me and smurf alone. They are never going to stop taking the piss in that sense. Smurf is just my friend and that is it.
Smurf keeps asking me if i am alright. He is rather annoying me actually. It is every 5 seconds. He then shows me a slutty red dress and says that is what i will be wearing when we go to Vegas. In to the casino and then to the Elvis wedding chapel. There is no way i am marrying him and never in the drive through wedding places in Vegas.
The boss came in and called the lads up on sitting around. Then he looked up at me and smurf he seemed annoyed we were talking. He called me over and said we were wanted. We walked in relative silence looking at Bastian being dismantled around us. He said he wasn't looking forward to going home. He said we were wanted over in the detention centre
When we get there the American Major quizzed me on weather i knew the guy who attacked me. I have never seen him before in my life yet he some how seems to know me. It all becomes clear when they show us the interrogation video. The only thing he says is it is all my fault everything is all my fault. Then he mentions a name that makes me freeze. Basheria.
I have to talk to him. The boss thinks it is a bad idea but i have to talk to him and the major thinks he may say more if i talk to him.
When i go in i don't take my eyes off of him. He says i have ruined everything and pulled his family apart. He revels that basheria is his sister and that their farther will have his revenge. Basheria was no longer safe where she was. How did they find out where she is. He tried to lunge at me but was restrained. If they hurt this little girl i will never forgive my self. What have i done he is right it is all my fault
All the way back to out quarters the boss tried to convince me that it wasn't my fault and i did help her have a better chance. But it is because i couldn't obey a fucking order i have put my section in danger. I have put a innocent little girl in danger. We came to a halt outside the bosses quarters . he looked around then pulled me inside. He looked in to my eyes and told me that it wasn't my fault and that i had taught him more in the few months of being on this tour than a year at sandhurst ever did. This has to be bull shit i mean sandhurst is the officers collage. He said i should be proud of the solider i have become. When i said thank you boss he said he wouldn't always be my boss. Not when we got back home. He started talking about Bath and how magical the city is. Sounded a bit shit to me but i listened. He said that his parents old Georgian house at Christmas was magical. I aint being funny but them old houses creep me out. Reminds me of the Oman.
It was so calm and perfect when there was a knock at the door and smurf's voice called out. Though we hadn't done anything wrong we both still jumped. He made me hide in his little wardrobe and then let smurf in. Smurf couldn't get his words out and then just pulled out his mums engagement ring that she had sent him. He wanted to give it to me. The boss shut him down fast saying he was endangering us all but then he asked how the boss had proposed to his wife. I was speechless i hate him. When smurf left i came out of my hiding place. I just grabbed my gun and left with out looking at him. I just ran i had to get out of there.