A British Affair

by Mirandaforever

when Terrorists take over a British High commission Bravo are sent in on a covert rescue, which could put them in danger but is someone out to take advantage of the Hostage situation? and when Clay gets injured will they have to abort their mission?

1. Chapter 1

A British affair Chapter 1

Jason's putting his jacket on in the living room as he gets ready to leave with the kids. He picks up the remote to turn the TV off and as he's about to hit the button he looks up and catches the end of the news footage

*** A MASSIVE explosion has rocked the Upper hill area of Nairobi.
Details are unconfirmed at this time. But it is believed several people are dead. We are receiving reports from local sources that terrorists have taken over what is believed to be a government building, but we are awaiting confirmation and full details on casulaties**********

"DAD!" Emma yells from the driveway

He frowns "Yeah just hold on I'll be right there.." his frown deepens as he continues to watch

Emma comes back to the living room "are we going Dad?" she looks up at the news. Watching him watching it. She now frowns
"I guess not!… I'll tell Mikey to get out of the car and call grandma"

"errrm.. No should be okay…" he looks at her and her back at him

"Dad!" she frowns

***Bleep*** bleep**** bleep*** he looks at his phone

She shakes her head "Told ya!...it's okay Dad.. Just go! I'll wait for Grandma to take him"

"Emma I'm sorry" he sighs and takes off his jacket. "Call your Grandma! Emma... I love you!"

Phones are vibrating across BRAVO team and they all head into the base and meet at the briefing room.

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"You want one?" Jason turns to Clay with the coffee pot in his hand

"Yeah sure" Clay yawns as Jason stands a mug down in front of him

"Late night?"

"yeah could say that!" Clay smiles

"what was her name?"

"right heads up Ladies! I need your immediate attention. We'll be Wheels up in 1hr"

"One hour?" Jason looks at Blackburn "What the hell? That's barely enough time to get changed!"

"Yeah I'm sorry about that but we have an urgent situation developing and a long flight.. we'll do the briefing on route"

"On route? … Nairobi you mean?" Jason questions "I saw it on the news before I left"

Blackburn nods "Situation at the British High commission"

"The British?... what the hell?...what's that got to do with us?" he frowns slightly confused by this sudden urgent rush "surely the Brits will send the Special Air service not us?"
he looks round the room with frown as everyone shrugs thinking the same thing as him.

"It's to do with us…" Mandy steps into the room "….because half the American embassy staff including the Ambassador are attending a function there!" she sighs " a demand has just been issued by a breakaway faction of a group affiliated to Al Shabab in exchange for the hostages lives including the American Ambassador…. and that's what it's got to do with us!"

She throws her files down on the desk
"This will be joint operation.." she pauses and frowns "also involving the Nairobi military" she raises her eyes and shakes her head

"Please remember technically this...the British High commission is ... British soil ..their jurisdiction but you are correct,… the special Air Service will be dealing with this on the ground….. at the moment they don't even know we're coming.. we have our own op orders …" she looks at Blackburn "that's to get the US Ambassador out, alive!"

Jason frowns "that complicates things"

Mandy nods "just don't question it for now"

"they made any demands?... the terrorists?"

"yeah the British are dealing with those as the High commissioner for UK is also a hostage!"
She sighs "They want political prisoners released, cash and arms the usual stuff.. from what I understand British Terrorism experts are speaking with them to stall for now"

"Negotiating with them!" sonny frowns

"No Sonny... stalling their demands!"

"Okay so what do we know?" Jason drinks his coffee

"So far not much… I'm calling some favours to get us sitrep before we get there but… we're flying in the dark at the moment" she pauses flicking through her file " I have managed to muster up some plans for the building .. as basic as they are" she looks at Davis

Blackburn claps his hand "Gentlemen the C-17 is loading as we speak so .. make your calls and get geared up and get ready to leave at 11:00hrs.. that gives you 50minutes by my calculation"

Jason folds his arms and sighs .

"Whats wrong?" Ray frowns at him

"just don't like hurried ops like this.. especially when we're not gonna be in charge… I don't like it Ray .. I really don't like it"

"It'll be fine .. Mandy will get us more intel before we get there you know that… come on... call Emma and Mikey"

o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o

The C-17's in the air

Mandy lays the big sheet of plans on the table " we believe they are holding the bulk of hostages here in the main function room.. During the explosion several support staff scattered … believed many were also killed"

"so, what we looking at for infill?" Jason folds his arms as he studies the plans with Ray

Davis points to a spot on the map "There are some old service tunnels under the building here and here!"

Ray looks "could be a consideration we could use them to come up under in here? Is this the kitchen area?"

"Yeah but surely the Brit guys are gonna be using that to infill too?"

Mandy looks at Davis

"Not necessarily" She bites her lip and thinks before speaking " the buildings been recently refurbished. The tunnels were bricked up a few years ago for security …. on the new plans we believe they removed them from the site plan… ours are older maps that still show them. The downside is that until I get a copy of the new building plans, which the British are keeping under wraps at the moment … we have only a guess as to what the layout inside is like now"

Jason sighs " Mandy I don't like this .. it's sketchy at best plus we're gonna have to get through this bricked up tunnel!" he points on the map " Kairos what you got for me?"

"hmmm!" he looks at the plans "could depend how thick they have bricked it up but we can't use too much explosives or they're gonna know we're there… so we need to blow some small holes and dig through"

Jason sighs " lot of work. No quick infill they know we're there and we could start losing hostages?" he sighs again "Okay Kairos, you and Ray work on that. whatever it takes we need to get through that tunnel as quickly and quietly as possible…." He shakes his head "…this is not good Mandy .. we're walking in blind at this rate"

"Jason I'm sorry but it's all I've got at the moment … Look I wouldn't have gone this quick, but this is being pushed from on high to get him out.. obviously he's not gonna be the Brits first concern .. that's why you're being sent!"

"so, what makes him so special?"

"I don't know… I'm working on finding out"

"looks like you've got a lot to find out then cos you not giving me a lot here"

"Jason...! oh!" she sighs as Jason walks away to check on Sonny and Clay.

Blackburn looks at his watch "We have a Nairobi military platoon waiting to drive you to the tunnels when we land that's in two hours so get some rest!"

"Eric do we trust these guys?" Jason frowns

"as much was we can" he raises his eyebrows "given the location we're in" he shrugs

Jason shakes his head "Shit… I got a bad feeling about this!"

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They abseil down inside of the 6ft wide tunnel. The service shaft its Dark, Hot, Cramped and the smell is foul

"Jeez!" Sonny moans again for about the tenth time "Okay this is the worst thing I've done since well…. the last worst thing I did ten minutes ago" Sonny frowns as he trudges through the foul-smelling water

"Sonny Shut up" Clay shakes his head and looks at Trent " you haven't stopped moaning for the past mile"

"Past mile?" Trent looks at Clay "he hasn't stopped moaning since we touched down!"

They all laugh

"you should know .. I don't moan" Sonny frowns as they all look at him

"What? You don't moan?" Trent looks at him in disbelief

"I don't! … I just point out facts"

Sonny "shut up!" Clay laughs and kicks some of the water at him

"Shhhh!"
Jason puts his hand up as they get to the bricked-up wall " Okay!.. Kairos time to earn your keep!"

Kairos sets to work with the small explosives charges him and Ray prepped earlier

"BRAVO 1 this is havoc do you copy? Comm Check!"

"Copy this is Bravo1. Comms are good! We're in the tunnels now. I'm not sure how long these comms will last though our EOD is setting the charges now"

"yeah copy that .. Jason just to update on a sitrep.. we've had a communication from inside the consulate…. there's a woman, Naomi Bridger, says she's an assistant to the British High commissioner .. we aren't able to confirm that at the moment… she says she injured but out of harm's way and able to give us on site intel"

"So where is she?"
" she says shes locked in an office on the commissioner's office floor which is the 4th floor.. which is also confirmed on our plans… she also says there are dead and injured support personnel on the 1st to 3rd floors where the explosion took place at the front of the building ….Jason she's on a cell I'm gonna patch you through she's gonna talk you in when you get to the kitchens"

"Copy that .. Okay let's get this wall down now. Havoc this is one I'll give you the heads up when we at the service area"

"Copy that"

After Kairos detonates his small explosive charges there are several small holes in the brick work. They then use the pickaxes and tools to pull out the bricks and gain access. Luckily its not a deep wall only one brick and one block layer.

They continue through the tunnel on the other side of the wall and come up at a manhole cover in the kitchen area.

Jason looks through the heavy steel grill.
He can't tell if anyone's in the room above "Shit I can't see anything" he sighs "Okay!... on 3 I'll go up and you cover me"

Sonny nods

"Ready… " he looks back at everyone and they all take their safety off
"3..2…1 "
they push the heavy grill and Jason climbs out weapon ready. Sonny quickly climbs out behind him followed by the others.

"It's all clear! Phewwww!" Jason sighs. It's nice to breath some fresh air after the hike through the tunnels

They take a few moments to get their breath and bearings

"Havoc this is BRAVO 1 .. we've made it to the service area.. Okay patch me into this Naomi now.. just before you do, Davis have we confirmed she is who she says she is yet?"

"Negative bravo one we're still trying to get an update on official support staff. remember no one knows we're here! Mandy's still fighting to be kept in the loop at the moment"

"Okay!.. let's do this!... see what she gives us"
He takes a breath "Naomi….. can you hear me. Are you able to speak …" there's a long silence "Naomi… do you copy?"

Jason hears some deep breathing in his ear "Ahhhh! Shit…. Errrm….. Yeah I hear you!" this low British whisper comes over the comms which takes him a bit by surprise

"Okay… can you tell us where you are?"

"Owwww!..." she takes a deep breath before she speaks again forcing her words out "I'm errrrm...I'm owwww!.. ..on the 4th floor… the commissioner's office floor…. Ahhhh!"
She sucks in a deep breath again trying to control the pain she's in
"The high commissioner got injured in the first explosions and I couldn't get to him, I don't know how injured he was … ahhhhhhh!...oh Shit!" she grimaces in pain

"Okay .. that's alright.. you sound like you're hurt"

She cries "Yes!… yes, I am!... owwww!" she cries again " Sorry!... I took a shrapnel from the explosion to my leg .. ahhhh! I've …." She closes her eyes in pain "It's bleeding badly… I've managed to stem it for now… but .. I'm struggling with the pain"

"Okay Naomi listen to me .. we're gonna get to you okay? .. but you need you to help us… do you understand… do you know your way around the building"

"Yeah.. yeah I do!"

"Okay that's good!" he looks at Trent and Sonny "we're in the kitchen area how do we got you from there?"

"Okay ... let me think .. you can't use the main floors cos they're everywhere but … owwwww! Oh god!" she holds her breath till the pain passes

" listen to me I need you to concentrate .. Naomi we need to get to you.. then we can help you!"

"Yeah… yeah sure… errmm… there's a laundry shoot it takes you up to all floors. It'll .. awwww! ssshitttt!... sorry …it hurts"
She closes her eyes in pain " it'll only take 1 or maybe 2 of you at a time I would say it's like a box that goes between the floors"

"Okay!... Do you know anything about the hostage takers?"

It goes silent for a few moments "Naomi are you there? Shit!" Jason looks at the others "Okay we're just gonna have to go for it find the laundry shoot!"

Suddenly her voice comes back on

"Yes... sorry they've done their initial sweep of the floors and taken the hostages to the main function room or that's where I'm guessing … as that's were everyone was assembled..it is one floor above where you are now!"

"do you know where the American ambassador is?"

"I think he was already in the main function area… If you can get to me….. awwwwwww!" she cries out in pain now "Oh god!.. ohhhhh!"

"Naomi? Are you okay? …..Speak to me?"

"Yes! She cries Yes .. I'm okay…. If you get here.. I've got a detailed building plan and the guest list"

"Okay you hold on… we're gonna be with you as soon as we can… alright? I promise you .. just hold in there"
He looks at the team "Right stay awake .. we don't know for sure she is who she says she is so just keep focused!"

Brock looks in the laundry shoot "Looks like it'll take two"

"Right Brock you and the hair missile first then check out the floor when you get there then send it back down… Clay you're up with Sonny!"

"Oh, great!" Clay frowns "can't I go on my own, you go with Sonny ?" he frowns

Jason laughs "no now stop stalling and get ready!"

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They're all outside the fourth-floor service shoot now
"Naomi ..you hear me .. It's Jason?"

there's a long silence again "Are you there? .. we're at the fourth floor!"

"I don't like it Jason " Ray looks at him "they confirm who she is yet?"

"No … but something says she's telling the truth I don't know what but something in her voice"

Ray laughs and shakes his head "What cos you're a shmuck for a cute British accent?...I don't know Jason this whole thing is off! We're working off no intel here.. never a good thing!"

"Yeah I hear ya Ray…but let's just work one problem at a time" he sighs
" HAVOC this is bravo 1 Have we lost communications… we getting any update …..Come on Havoc we're blindfolded here"

"STOP!" Kairos puts his hand up "We got another problem!" Kairos is down on the floor "trip wire IEDs I'm gonna have to diffuse them!"

"SHIT!" Jason rubs his head

"Jason?..… are you there?" The small timid, British, voice comes over the radio

" .. yeah! I'm here!..We're up on the fourth floor now … we just got some things to take care of then we'll be there!... How you holding up?"

"well.. I'm gonna need to replace this first aid kit after this that's for sure .." she laughs as she takes deep breaths grimacing in pain "Awwwwww! …..How long?"

"Not long! Just hold in there!" he looks at Kairos "Not long Right?"

Kairos shrugs "I'm not sure!"

"Okay let's just do this … we need to get to this intel …. Naomi Where are you?"

"can you see the lifts … err mm" she corrects herself remembering he's American "… elevators….can you see the elevators…. then take a right down the corridor and you'll see a photocopier … xerox machine" she laughs and so does Jason "….ahhhhhhhhh! Oh god…sorry!" she bites her lip "Shit!...past the glass office there some panelled doors….. I'm in the second office along"

"Okay hold in there!...We'll be with you soon I promise… just hold on….. Kairos we need to speed it up!"

"errmm …well we can go slow use Cerb and step them for now?" he shrugs " and I'll mark them … come back diffuse what we need?"

"Alright let's do that!"

Brock uses Cerberus to stop and Kairos marks each IED

They step over the trip wires that are random along the corridor" about 3 in this section" Kairos marks " all in front of the elevators and stairways These people know what their doing .. whilst these are basic IED even crude in design .. they'll more than do their job and their locations .. well thought out!... they've also rigged them to the doors and elevator … we open those doors and we're history ….. " Kairos nods to Jason

"so, what you're saying…. We either gotta go back the way we came or… ?"

"or wait for me to diffuse them! Yeah… but they could be on every exit for all we know … I just won't know till we get there"

"Okay let's get to this girl first… we'll work our exfil from there!"

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They get to the corridor where she described

"Naomi?" Jason calls out by the door "can you hear me?"

"Yeah!...err mm… Yeah! I can hear you" her voice sounds faint now

"which door?"
" errrmmm!... ohhhh!... second on your right .. … awwwwww! Oh.. oh shit! Please hurry….." She grimaces as pain tears through her leg "I can hear you ….. I just can't get to the door!... sorry!"

she lays back her leg is starting to bleed out "Oh shit .." She closes her eyes

They make their way checking either room either side "Clear!"

" Clear!"

Suddenly random shots ring out

"Shit!"
Clay drops to the floor as a bullet grazes his hip "SHIT! Arrrggghhhh" I took a hit!" he buckles in half holding his side

Ray takes out the tango responsible as Jason turns and takes out one behind them

Trent starts to choke as someone grabs him by the throat with a knife.

Brock sets Cerberus free and he takes him down, before Trent picks up the knife and plunges it in the side of his throat

Brock calls Cerb back "good boy come here!"

"Where the hell did they come from?" Jason looks round "Brock get the dog to check for more! What the hell were they doing up here?"

Brock sends Cerb down the corridors. Whilst not finding any more Tangos he stands and waits at another trip wire by the next set of stairs Jason looks at Kairos "Yeah I thought so! Okay I'll get to work"

Ray and Trent start to tend to Clay

"How's he doing?" Jason frowns "Sonny make sure you stay awake. Give them cover"

" the bullets clipped his side . I need to patch him up!" they stand him up between them and drag him towards the door of the room they need to get in

Clay holds his side "I'm good .. don't worry about me!" he says as he doubles in pain

"We need to get off this corridor .. we need to get in this door". Jason tries the handle but its locked

"Naomi can you hear us?" he listens but hears nothing ""Get this door open Sonny!"

She can't move from her hiding place under the desk.
She's feeling faint and unwell. She can't get her words out now and even taking breaths to control the pain is overwhelming her.

"I errrm…." she struggles with her words " I errrm…." She sighs "I can't get there …."
Her eyes start to glaze over just as they bust the door after several attempts.

Sonny look around the room "Clear!"

Trent drags Clay in and props him by the bookcase pulling his legs round

"where is she?"
Jason frowns as he looks round the room.

"There!" Sonny nods in the direction of the blood trail and the discarded first aid supplies as they find her half hidden under the large solid desk

Jason squats down beside her checking her over as she lays with her closed. He notices how badly her thigh is bleeding and the several shards of metal sticking out. For a moment he's not sure if she's still alive and he feels for the pulse in her neck

"Pheww! She alive!" He nods as he feels the faint vibrating of her heart beat against his fingers
"Naomi?" he smiles "It's Jason .. can you hear me?"

She slowly opens her tear-filled eyes, nods and smiles as she lets out a sigh of relief

"how you doing?" he smiles at her

She grimaces in pain as tears of relief roll down her cheeks "I've been better to be honest .. I'm not good.." she tries to smile at him and not cry

Jason takes a look at her brushing her hair away from her face and noticing how pretty she is. He smiles and she smiles at him back full of relief now.

"It's okay … we gonna sort you out now!"

Her face is pale as the colour starts to drain from it, as she closes her eyes to the pain again.

Trent bends down beside her now "let's get a look at you shall we"

Trent and Jason help move her round from under the desk.
She groans out loud with the pain as they do

"Sorry just need to make some room… I'm Trent .. I'm just gonna take a look if that's okay"

She nods. "Yeah sure.. thank you!"

He smiles at her very British accent.

She has a large piece of metal shrapnel sticking out of her thigh and several smaller pieces

"Shit.!". Trent looks at Jason worried as he starts to unpack his kit
"she's lost a lot of blood.. she's going into shock I'm gonna have to get some fluids up" He looks back at Clay then at Jason. "Jason there's only…"

Clay interrupts "Give them to her… Jason I'm okay you need the information she's got!...You can't afford to lose her"

Jason bites his lip … "I can't afford to lose you either"

Sonny looks round "whats the problem?"

Trent looks up … "She's gonna need all the fluids and blood we've brought" he gulps. " your call Jason?"

Jason looks at Clay "hows he doing Ray?"

"It's not too bad but .. "

"But what?" Sonny's keeping an eye on the door and trying to understand the problem in the room "If Clay needs it give it to Clay… he's BRAVO he comes first!.. Jason?!"

Trent looks at Jason again "Give her one bag of each for now!"

"Jesus!" Sonny looks away

"Sonny shut up!" Jason looks at Trent "Do it !"

Trent rolls her sleeve up and puts the first line in her arm and attaches the fluids bag.

Ray looks at Sonny, who looks back down the corridor
"SHIT!... Hey! Kairos how you doing with that? we gonna get out of here soon?"

"Shhhhh! Not now" Kairos frowns, as he nervously and steadily removes the cover plate for the Explosive device.

Sonny watches him as he sits really still. To Sonny it doesn't' look like he's even doing anything "I hope you're working and not sat there having some hippy moment of reflection?"

"HAVOC this is BRAVO 1 Copy "

"Copy Bravo one"

"Yeah HAVOC I'm gonna need medical exfil I have two casualties on site I need evac ASAP"

"Negative BRAVO 1 we can't assist with that at this time"

"What the hell?... Blackburn. What the hell's going on there?.. I got Clay injured as well as one of the commissioner's staff.. HAVOC do you copy? Did you hear the sitrep?"

"BRAVO one hang fire I have a sit rep update this end!"

"SHITT!" Jason pulls his comms out "what the fuck is going on!"

Ray sits with Clay and starts to get his clothes out of the way to look at his wound
"SHIT!" he looks at the torn flesh on his side and the blood soaked T Shirt "That don't look good Clay!"

"I'm Okay… just patch it up!"

Sonny keeps an eye on the corridor with Brock and Cerberus. Jason looks at them " let's get this corridor secured. If we've gotta be holed up here I don't want no more surprises!"

"Yeah sure thing boss"

Jason paces he hates waiting when he doesn't know what's going on "Naomi is there anything you can tell us?"

She's out of it now and very dazed and lays with her eyes closed. She's slumped against the base of the office chair and Jason gently lifts her head off the metal stand and lays her back on the floor he folds his jacket up and puts it under her.

Trent cuts away the fabric on her trouser leg to get the wounds "SHIT!"he looks at Jason as they look at the wound several fragments of metal including the large pieces

"We're gonna have to get these out!"

Jason nods "How long?"

"I don't know half hour"

"Okay let's get on…we're not going anywhere till we hear back from HAVOC.. hows he doing?" he turns and looks at Ray and Clay

Trent starts to prepare some medical tools and cleaning things he also looks back at Clay who smiles at him

"Yeah it's more a graze" Ray looks at Clay " Like a large graze.. but it's holding" he sighs

"I'm fine!... Really… I'm good!" Clay grimaces

"well Just lay still" Trent frowns at him

"Ray's patched me up I'll be fine!"

"Yeah well I'll be taking a look myself when I sort this!"

"Hey!" Jason looks at Clay "just do as your told! till we work out whats going on here and how the hell we're gonna get out!"

"BRAVO 1 this is havoc .."

"Finally…. Yeah HAVOC this is BRAVO one what you got for me!"

"We have a problem.." Jason closes his eyes and waits "yeah go ahead!"

"they just killed their first hostage…we think it's a British diplomat .. the cake eaters here are …. Well...errmmm .. they're getting impatient! Do we have a sitrep on the ambassador?"

"we're working on it.. we gotta get these casualties stabilised first"

" Jason do I need to remind you" Blackburn looks over his should at the Commander standing by his shoulder "Your objective is to get the ambassador out alive!"

"Yeah I know what the mission is .. that's what I'm working on will update ASAP this is one out!" Jason shakes his head and sighs " You getting anything out of her yet?"

Trent shakes his head

Jason sits down beside her "Naomi …Naomi can you hear me? ….We need to know if you know anything.. anything you can tell me about the situation downstairs!"

She comes around slightly dazed… and smiles at him before closing her eyes again

"You give her some morphine?" Jason frowns "before you..?"

"Errrmmm..No!.. No I didn't want to till you … till you spoke to her"

"Just give her it…"

"But Jason she won't be able talk for a while…."

"Just give her it …. She needs it"

Trent nods as he injects the morphine in her other leg.

Jason sighs and slumps down beside her.

He takes her hand as Trent starts with removing the metal shards from her leg.