Dear Carly,
I've seen so many places, met so many new people, visited so many interesting sites, traveled a lot. Started from Seattle, traveled with planes, passed by the Russians, went over oceans, saw the most beautiful things, there was no place on earth where I didn't come at least once. I've seen the Washington Monument, the Eiffel tower, the Kremlin… and so much other places, but now, Carly, I see only this white sheet of paper. The oxygen is getting rare, some of us are already… gone, Carly, I feel the submarine sink. The small, nuclear cigar sinks slowly to the end of times. I hope you're all right, you and Spencer, your friends also of course. I hope so many things, I also hope that I'll survive, Carly, I really hope that I will see you and Spencer back. Water is slowly making it's way though the whole submarine. Colonel Morgan and I are the only one who are still conscious here. I'll probably want to know what had happen? I don't know what happened. But wait Morgan waves to me, he perhaps found something, an exit perhaps. I hope that this letter reaches you Carly. I love you. Say to Spencer I love him too.
Captain Shay folded the paper and put it in his pocket. Colonel Morgan sat down next to him:
-The technicians think that there is only one way out.
-What is it?
-Drop the ballast and emptying all the water tanks.
-Where are we gonna find the air to put in the place of the water?
-From here.
-Of course.
-And where do we go?
Captain Shay asked when one of the technicians came in.
-I've found twenty diving suits.
-Twenty? What happened to the rest?
-They drowned.
-Diving suits?
-You may be lucky there was nobody in them.
-That's…fine, very nice.
Captain Shay said. When Lucas Abblewy came in.
-I say, we are in a nuclear submarine aren't we?
-Yes?
-We turn the ship around then and some of the rockets we open the…
-Lounge silos, we fire the rockets and we're all dead?
-That wasn't what I had in mind, but your idea is better.
-How deep can we go?
-60 meters more?
Captain Morgan stood up. And walked to the diving suits.
-We have twenty diving suits and there are forty of us. Everybody who is married and has kids gets one. The rest? We've got some breathing devices. Enough for everybody. So.
Colonel Morgan looked at every single one of them. He expected them to comprehend. Captain Shay soot up and said:
-We don't have any choice folks, those who don't have anybody to support come over here. Twenty of the whole surviving crew stepped forward. Colonel Morgan gave to them a diving suit. Everybody was silent. Some waved silent goodbye. Others cried a little. Some shook there heads. Colonel Morgan shook hands with Captain Shay. Then those who had a diving suit left.
What happened next? I guess that they did the plan the intended to. As far as I know only two of those who stayed on board survived. Colonel Morgan and John Kaufman, one of the technicians. Tree of them who left didn't make it.
Normal POV, the Pentagon, Washington.
-We lost them.
The admirals shook their head, folded their hands before their faces and bowed their head in defeat.
-Well what's next?
-Start searching for them and the submarine.
-We don't have any ships in the area.
-What is in the area?
-Tree Russian destroyers.
-Why did we have to send them in Russian waters? Why.
-I don't know. It doesn't make any sense. The CIA asked us to.
Normal POV, the ocean.
Dear Carly,
This is our third day on this little boat. If they don't find us soon the we will run out of food. I don't know what happened with the rest of us.
I just can't remember the last time I saw your smile. It will have changed. You'll certainly have become a young woman now. I hope Spencer is behaving well. I hope everything is all right over there in Seattle. I wished now that I stayed home. I wished that I resigned after that your mother died. If I could I would turn the clock on the wall back. I really would. Just to see what I left behind. You, Carly, you and Spencer. I should have stayed home and watch you grow up. But instead I joined the military, went away. No, Carly I ran away. I just ran away. It's the truth and I'm ashamed from it. If I could I would run again, but I can't. It is impossible. I hope that everything is okay. I hope you know I love you, you and Spencer.
Captain Shay folded the second letter and put it in his pocket, with the other one. He wanted to cry but something stopped him.
-Would the others have made it?
Jefferson asked.
-I hope.
Lucas answered him.
-Yes, let's hope.
-Captain, what are we gonna do?
-How do you mean?
-Well we need to find land or a ship.
-In our hurry we forgot to take maps or a compass.
-Hey I've got an idea!
Jefferson shouted.
-What is it?
-Does anyone have his cell.
Some nodded yes.
-Well put them on and let's see if we can catch a signal.
-So if we can catch a signal we can perhaps locate ourselves.
-We already send a signal out every hour. If the don't catch that they won't catch anything.
Normal POV, Carly's apartment, Bushwell Plaza, Seattle.
-You know Spence.
-No
-I'm worried about dad.
-Why?
-He hasn't send anything for a whole week.
-Yeah, it's kinda weird. But why don't you go to bed, it's late.
Spencer said this on a calm tone because he didn't want to show her how worried he actually was.
Normal POV, the ocean.
Dear Carly,
Now that our third day comes to an end I'm getting worried about stuff I forgot a long time ago. It actually makes me grin and sad at the same time. Sometimes I wished that our Army was like that of an small country that doesn't mean anything on the world, calm no dangerous missions. Perhaps only an peace mission in Iraq or Afghanistan or Congo… But none of them really to dangerous, you see Carly? I just have to say to you how much I love you. I just have. It is incredible, when there is much chance that I will never see you again, how much I realize that I love you more then I ever could have imagined. Then we ever could have imagined. It is cold here. Very cold. There's no ship in sight. I hope there will come one to pick us up. And the I'll come home, Carly, then I will come home. I love you with all my heart, you and Spencer.