The idea for this story comes from the movie Black hawk down, a movie based
on true events that happened to American soldiers in Somalia.
I do not mean any disrespect to the men who fought there and may have lost
their lives there. The names in this story are purely meant for reference
to the story and genre of the movie.
I do no own any of the characters and all events in my story are made up,
all names and such are copyrighted to their owners.
Welcome to the dessert.
Our 2 main characters are 2 sisters by the name of Simone and Lucy, being the daughters of a 4 star general they are what you could call army brats. Being moved from base to base all over the world made sure they stayed very much to themselves. As their father was a very strict 6th generation army man, natural consequence had decided that the girls would be as rebellious a possible...... For the 5th time in the girl's lives their father had been transferred, they had to get used to a new house and environment again. The only good thing about this move was that they were going back home.
Their first morning back, their father had left at "stupid o'clock" a Lucy liked to call it to have meetings with his staff. "Now girls, you will try your best to behave here" their mother said to them. "Let's not have a repeat of Germany shall we" Simone almost chocked in her coffee trying not to laugh out loud. "What did we do in Germany that was so bad?" Lucy asked trying not to grin as well.
Their mother took her "you know what im talking about pose" hands in her sides. "Don't try that with me young lady, you could have gotten your father into a lot of trouble with the parties in the armory and the joyrides with the hummers" Simone raised her eyebrows "Well the armory was the only place big enough to hold that particular party and that thing with the hummers would have never happened if dad had given us the jeep."
The discussion carried on for a bit until the girls left to go out and explore the base........
"I swear to god! I think dad actually asked for this transfer to the absolute dullest place on earth. We haven't seen anything but sand all around!" Lucy said very annoyed. "Hey, look at it this way at least we can go swimming in that lake over there!" Simone said pointing to a small but very blue lake a few miles of....
As there was nothing else to do they decided to go swimming that afternoon.
The sun was hot and burning brightly, Simone sighed and turned around once more. "Ok this is good for today but we so need to find something to do for tomorrow, there must be something to do out here in the middle of nowhere?"
Lucy just moaned in agreement, she was to sun struck to say anything or even move. "We'll go out tonight and see if we can't at least find one descend bar out here in Dullsville."
Just when Lucy reached for her bottle of water she heard a loud bang. "Jeesus what the fuck was that!" She shot up and started looking around, but she couldn't see anything.
"Just calm down will ya! We're probably close to the trainig grounds or something." Simone said. "I heard the have some great equipment here, maybe we can have a play with it some time." She grinned as she lay back down.
Lucy sat back down but was still looking around sure that something wasn't right.
A few miles a way 2 soldiers were in front of their group scouting the environment. "Ok if we want to beat Grimsy at this exercise we'll have to cut trough this bit of open land." The soldier next to him nodded his head. "We'll just have to find the best and safest route." The soldier got out his binoculars and looked around. "I think the best route we can take is past the lake, we'll pas it from the left and that will take us....." he was silent for a few seconds "Right past those 2 sunbathing girls!" His buddy grabbed the binoculars and peered trough them.
"Jeesus what are they doing there! Don't they know were they are! We have to get them out of there. Not only will the colonel have an aneurism the general is coming by later as well! If he sees 2 civvies sunbathing on the training range we'll all get latrine duty for the rest of our careers" He turned around to the men behind him. "Ok listen up! Me and Blackburn will get the 2 civvies out of there; the rest of you will proceed towards the target area. Whoa?!" The rest of the men responded in a singular "Whoa!" and took off. The 2 guys grabbed their gear and headed towards the girls.
Lucy was still a bit edgy but lay down and closed her eyes. After a few minutes she fell asleep, Simone look over to her and decided it was a good idea to have a little snooze, so she also closed her eyes. Not seeing the 2 figures coming up past one of the sand dunes in the distance.
Blackburn was running next to his buddy Hoot, actually Hoot was his Sergeant, he himself was a 1st class private, but he and Hoot had been friends since the first time they met. "Sarge, don't you think we might get into trouble breaking up formation like that to go get these girls out of there?" he asked unsure.
Hoot turned his head towards Todd. "What do you think will get more frowned upon? Us breaking live ammo exercise? Or 2 civilians getting shot during that exercise? You know they are looking for any excuse to shut the base down... and im sure as hell not going to give them one!"
They kept on running and after a few moments they reached the girls. Blackburn called out to them but they didn't answer, his stomach made a funny jolt. They couldn't be to late he never heard any guns go off! He looked over to Hoot, he had a semi worried look on his face, but he had always been better about keeping his cool.
Hoot dropped his pack and sank to his knees, the face of the girl was resting on her arms and it was covered with thick black curly hair. He reached out to her and softly stroked some of the hairs out of the way; he was now looking into a pretty face with dark eyebrows and a very pretty mouth. He couldn't resist and let his fingers slide past her cheek.
Blackburn bent over Simone and looked at her; she was very pretty with thick dark hair. He reached out to touch her shoulder but before he could a scream came from the other side.
Lucy woke from something touching her cheek; it was a soft and gentle feeling. She slowly opened her eyes and stared straight into the darkest pair of eyes she had ever seen. Quickly she recovered herself; this guy was wearing army fatigues and had a gun in his hands. Not quit awake and thinking she was being attacked, in one flowing movement she got up swiped her foot across the ground end leveled the man. She quickly picked up his weapon loaded it trough and pointed it at his head. (The training her dad always insisting on finally paying off) "Fuck! Simone will you get up!"
Simone awoke from her sisters yelling at her and opened her eyes. She was now looking at a dark blond man with light brown eyes smiling at her. She turned to her left and saw her sister pointing a weapon to another mans head. Wit out thinking she shot up swung her arm round and punched the blond man full in the face.
Blackburn was caught by surprise and was knocked of his feet; Simone grabbed his weapon and pointed it at him.
The girls now moved towards each other and stood back to back each holding a man at gunpoint.
Hoot had sat up but didn't attempt to get to his feet, he just sat there and looked at this girl holding HIS weapon, and she looked good! The fact that she was wearing a bikini could have something to do with that but she looked really good.
Lucy shook her head to get her hair out of her face. "Ok so who the HELL are you and what do you want! Don't even think about getting up, I've had trainig, know how to use this gun and I will!"
Hoot got on his knees "What did I just tell you! Move again and I will shoot you! And I won't be nice and shoot you in the leg either." Lucy was getting pissed off, where the hell did he get off not listening? She was the one holding the gun here! "I want your name and rank!"
Hoot was surprised by her firm response; she was not kidding either, by the look in her eyes he could tell she would shoot him if she had to.
"My Rank is Sgt. 1st class Gibson and that is Private 1st class Blackburn." He said pointing at Todd. "Our last names and ranks should do for now. Might I know who you two are exactly miss?"
Lucy straightened out her back. "My name is Lucy MacArthur and that is my sister Simone."
Simone watched Blackburn get white in the face. "MacArthur? Like General MacArthur?"
Now both girls turned to him and Simone replied. "Yeah he's our father, does that make any difference?"
Now Hoot did get to his feet. "It does miss, you see we are rangers' quad and are under direct command of your father. We don't have any wrong intentions; we just came to warn you."
Lucy sneered at him. "What on earth do we need warning for? What someone is going to attack me? You tried, and I overtook you with out a problem, fine ranger you are..."
Hoot felt anger rise up in him. "You only overtook me because you caught me of guard, and anyway what could one girl do?"
Lucy let out a gasp. "Well he's army alright, chauvinistic pig! And it's not just me; my sister is here as well."
"She might be but you are forgetting that Blackburn could have taken her at any moment if he wanted to." Hoot looked at his friend who was still quietly on his knees looking up at Simone. The look in his eyes told Hoot that he was probably thinking about another kind of taking her than he had meant.
All of a sudden the comm.'s on his and Blackburn's shoulders started making all kinds of noise.
"All divisions ABORT training exercise! I repeat all divisions ABORT training exercise!" Sgt. Gibson! This is General MacArthur, would you like to tell me what in name of Marry and Joseph is going on during my training exercise??"
Hoot looked at Lucy. "Sorry miss, but am I allowed to move to speak to your father?" he couldn't help smiling a little. Lucy really starting to get fed up with him, as a threat se pointed the gun to his head again, but before she could say anything the comm. started off again.
"Sgt. Stand at ease we have a visual of you and I am on my way, General MacArthur out!"
Lucy's hart sank. "Fuuuuuuuck Simone, did you hear that?! The old man is coming and we have guns pointed at two of his rangers! How much house arrest are we going to get for that do you think?"
Simone laughed out loud. "Well look at it this way, it can't be worse then the time we blew up his car by driving it over a minefield. Remember the old Toyota pick-up? Toughest car in the world my ass! One little claymore mine and it was in pieces!"
Lucy doubled over from laughing. "Naw more fun was the way dad turned in to a tomato when he found out" she snapped into a tight position and started imitating her father. "This... this... how could you two?? I will not have insubordination! You .... Punishment...... severe retribution....." Simone was crying from laughing so hard, the memory of her father looking at the pieces of his car was just too much...
Hoot saw his chance now that the girls were turned to each other, he signed to Blackburn that he wanted to disarm them. Within seconds they each grabbed on of the girls by the arm, took their guns back and twisted their arms behind their backs.
"Ouch, that is not a most comfortable position im in here!" Simone said while looking at Blackburn over her shoulder. "If you wanted to pin me, I can find another position that would be way more comfortable....." Blackburn felt him self flush but didn't say anything.
Hoot couldn't help grinning, she is no match for me he thought by him self. "Are you uncomfortable as well miss? Cause if you are I could loosen my grip" he said close to Lucy's ear.
Goosebumps shot over Lucy's arm, the feeling of his breath in her neck made sure of that. He had strength in his arms alright because she could hardly move, but although it did hurt a bit she wasn't about to ask him to loosen his grip on her wrist. "No thank you, im quite comfortable sgt. But I would like to see the look on my fathers face when he sees one of his rangers holding one of his bikini wearing daughters so close to his own body. My father is a very conservative man; he might not like the vision of us standing so close to you both and wearing so little..." She felt him seizing up and letting go of her immediately, as if her skin was a very hot object that was burning him.
"Miss I do think it would be advisable for you and your sister to put on your clothes before the General arrives." Hoot stepped back and waited for her to move, what was he thinking? He never even held any man he had in an arm lock so close? He looked at her again; she just stood there taunting him, hands in her side. As if she wanted him to say it again. "Put on your clothes ok! If the General catches you looking like that it will be our asses in a sling!"
Blackburn let go of Simone, although he didn't really want to. She rubbed her wrist. "Did I hurt you miss?" he ask kind of concerned. Simone smiled at him. "No not really, but you could if you wanted to." She winked at him, picked up her clothes and started putting them on. Lucy hadn't moved. How dared this idiot order her around? Who died and made him like her father?
It wasn't until Simone urged her that she put on her clothes.
Just when she had put her shirt on a jeep came to a screeching halt next to them.
Their father came out of it took one look at them and then said; "I should have known you two couldn't stay out of trouble long...."
Hoot and Blackburne both snapped into full salute when their father had gotten out of the jeep, and didn't get out of it until their father dismissed them with a short snap of his hand.
"Girls you promissed that your behavior would be better here. This in not exactely what I would call better."
"Dad listen, it's not like we came out here on purpose. There is not much to do here and we saw the water from a far, so we decided to go swimming. How am I supposed to know im walking arround on a training range if it has not fence arround it?" Lucy said sweetly and produced a shy little smile.
Simone knowing what she was up to backed her up, pulling an innocent face. "Yes daddy, things were so much more clearly stated at the base in Germany... We just have to get used to this place that's all..."
Their father took their hands. "I know girls you just have to be more carefull that's all." He hugged them both.
Lucy had to hold back a little smile, she had known they could play the "you uprooted us with out our consent" card a few times before her dad would see trough it.
"Lucy what is wrong with your wrist?" her father had still got hold of her hand when Lucy looked down at it. Then she saw the red outline of fingers wrapped roud her wrist. "Aw that's nothing, just a little blue mark, it will fade soon." She shot a look at the Sgt. To see his reaction at her saving his ass from getting in a sling. But his face was clear of emotion.
Her father followed her look and saw the two men still stand ing there. "Men, your chalck came into the checkpoint and informed me about the fact that you two took off after two civilian girls. I was going to put you trough the wringer for that, but as you only broke formation to keep my girls here safe I will let it slide this once..."
Hoot nodded and replied. "We only had their safety in mind sir." Again giving her father a salute.
Lucy's jaw almost dropped to the floor. My god! What a little brown noser. "We only had their safety in mind sir!" God I need a bucket so I can trow up! She thought. She looked at Simone for support but saw that Simone was making eye candy out of Blackburn.
"I know Sgt. Thank you, now lets all get out of her shall we?" their father said and he made for the jeep.
Half an hour later they were at the commandpost were their father got out of the jeep. "Gentlemen if you would be so kind as to take my daughters home." Blackburn jumped in the driversseet and responded with a fast. "It would be our pleasure sir." Put his foor on the gass and took off. Simone was quite happy sitting in the front seat next to Blackburn, he was kind of a hottie a bit of fun would definitely cheer her up. "So private Blackburn, what is it you guys do for funn arround here?" she said to him putting extra emphasis on the word funn. As they started to talk about what ever. Hoot looked at Lucy's wrist. It was indeed very red at the places were he had held her.
"Did I hurt you?" he asked. Lucy couldn't help but overhearing a guilty tone in his voice.
"No you didn't trust me a can take a lot more than you can dish out." It did hurt but she was not about to admit it to him, she rubbed her fingers over her wrist.
He grabbed her hand to see the mark for him self and felt a jolt of guilt trough his stomach. It was really red and would probably turn dark blue by the end of the day. "You should put som ice on that later to keep the swellign down." Without himself even noticing he kept her hand in his and soflty let his thumb slide over the top of her hand.
Lucy tried to ignore the feeling she got when she noticed him doing that.
Luckely they came to the hous quick enough so she could get away from him.
Simone got out of the jeep but really didn't want to. "So mabey I´ll see you arround then Todd." She said and lookd at Blackburn in a way that could not hide her intentions. "And Goodby to you to Sgt." She smiled and walked of.
Hoot jumped out of the jeep to help Lucy out, but she refused to let him help her, arrogant idiot. She smiled at Blackburn and then turned to Hoot said; "Sgt" and wanted to walk of. But was stoped by the soud of his voice. "Miss MacArthur" She turned around and looked at him. "Welcome to the desert!" and with these words he jumped into the jeep and they were off.
Welcome to the dessert.
Our 2 main characters are 2 sisters by the name of Simone and Lucy, being the daughters of a 4 star general they are what you could call army brats. Being moved from base to base all over the world made sure they stayed very much to themselves. As their father was a very strict 6th generation army man, natural consequence had decided that the girls would be as rebellious a possible...... For the 5th time in the girl's lives their father had been transferred, they had to get used to a new house and environment again. The only good thing about this move was that they were going back home.
Their first morning back, their father had left at "stupid o'clock" a Lucy liked to call it to have meetings with his staff. "Now girls, you will try your best to behave here" their mother said to them. "Let's not have a repeat of Germany shall we" Simone almost chocked in her coffee trying not to laugh out loud. "What did we do in Germany that was so bad?" Lucy asked trying not to grin as well.
Their mother took her "you know what im talking about pose" hands in her sides. "Don't try that with me young lady, you could have gotten your father into a lot of trouble with the parties in the armory and the joyrides with the hummers" Simone raised her eyebrows "Well the armory was the only place big enough to hold that particular party and that thing with the hummers would have never happened if dad had given us the jeep."
The discussion carried on for a bit until the girls left to go out and explore the base........
"I swear to god! I think dad actually asked for this transfer to the absolute dullest place on earth. We haven't seen anything but sand all around!" Lucy said very annoyed. "Hey, look at it this way at least we can go swimming in that lake over there!" Simone said pointing to a small but very blue lake a few miles of....
As there was nothing else to do they decided to go swimming that afternoon.
The sun was hot and burning brightly, Simone sighed and turned around once more. "Ok this is good for today but we so need to find something to do for tomorrow, there must be something to do out here in the middle of nowhere?"
Lucy just moaned in agreement, she was to sun struck to say anything or even move. "We'll go out tonight and see if we can't at least find one descend bar out here in Dullsville."
Just when Lucy reached for her bottle of water she heard a loud bang. "Jeesus what the fuck was that!" She shot up and started looking around, but she couldn't see anything.
"Just calm down will ya! We're probably close to the trainig grounds or something." Simone said. "I heard the have some great equipment here, maybe we can have a play with it some time." She grinned as she lay back down.
Lucy sat back down but was still looking around sure that something wasn't right.
A few miles a way 2 soldiers were in front of their group scouting the environment. "Ok if we want to beat Grimsy at this exercise we'll have to cut trough this bit of open land." The soldier next to him nodded his head. "We'll just have to find the best and safest route." The soldier got out his binoculars and looked around. "I think the best route we can take is past the lake, we'll pas it from the left and that will take us....." he was silent for a few seconds "Right past those 2 sunbathing girls!" His buddy grabbed the binoculars and peered trough them.
"Jeesus what are they doing there! Don't they know were they are! We have to get them out of there. Not only will the colonel have an aneurism the general is coming by later as well! If he sees 2 civvies sunbathing on the training range we'll all get latrine duty for the rest of our careers" He turned around to the men behind him. "Ok listen up! Me and Blackburn will get the 2 civvies out of there; the rest of you will proceed towards the target area. Whoa?!" The rest of the men responded in a singular "Whoa!" and took off. The 2 guys grabbed their gear and headed towards the girls.
Lucy was still a bit edgy but lay down and closed her eyes. After a few minutes she fell asleep, Simone look over to her and decided it was a good idea to have a little snooze, so she also closed her eyes. Not seeing the 2 figures coming up past one of the sand dunes in the distance.
Blackburn was running next to his buddy Hoot, actually Hoot was his Sergeant, he himself was a 1st class private, but he and Hoot had been friends since the first time they met. "Sarge, don't you think we might get into trouble breaking up formation like that to go get these girls out of there?" he asked unsure.
Hoot turned his head towards Todd. "What do you think will get more frowned upon? Us breaking live ammo exercise? Or 2 civilians getting shot during that exercise? You know they are looking for any excuse to shut the base down... and im sure as hell not going to give them one!"
They kept on running and after a few moments they reached the girls. Blackburn called out to them but they didn't answer, his stomach made a funny jolt. They couldn't be to late he never heard any guns go off! He looked over to Hoot, he had a semi worried look on his face, but he had always been better about keeping his cool.
Hoot dropped his pack and sank to his knees, the face of the girl was resting on her arms and it was covered with thick black curly hair. He reached out to her and softly stroked some of the hairs out of the way; he was now looking into a pretty face with dark eyebrows and a very pretty mouth. He couldn't resist and let his fingers slide past her cheek.
Blackburn bent over Simone and looked at her; she was very pretty with thick dark hair. He reached out to touch her shoulder but before he could a scream came from the other side.
Lucy woke from something touching her cheek; it was a soft and gentle feeling. She slowly opened her eyes and stared straight into the darkest pair of eyes she had ever seen. Quickly she recovered herself; this guy was wearing army fatigues and had a gun in his hands. Not quit awake and thinking she was being attacked, in one flowing movement she got up swiped her foot across the ground end leveled the man. She quickly picked up his weapon loaded it trough and pointed it at his head. (The training her dad always insisting on finally paying off) "Fuck! Simone will you get up!"
Simone awoke from her sisters yelling at her and opened her eyes. She was now looking at a dark blond man with light brown eyes smiling at her. She turned to her left and saw her sister pointing a weapon to another mans head. Wit out thinking she shot up swung her arm round and punched the blond man full in the face.
Blackburn was caught by surprise and was knocked of his feet; Simone grabbed his weapon and pointed it at him.
The girls now moved towards each other and stood back to back each holding a man at gunpoint.
Hoot had sat up but didn't attempt to get to his feet, he just sat there and looked at this girl holding HIS weapon, and she looked good! The fact that she was wearing a bikini could have something to do with that but she looked really good.
Lucy shook her head to get her hair out of her face. "Ok so who the HELL are you and what do you want! Don't even think about getting up, I've had trainig, know how to use this gun and I will!"
Hoot got on his knees "What did I just tell you! Move again and I will shoot you! And I won't be nice and shoot you in the leg either." Lucy was getting pissed off, where the hell did he get off not listening? She was the one holding the gun here! "I want your name and rank!"
Hoot was surprised by her firm response; she was not kidding either, by the look in her eyes he could tell she would shoot him if she had to.
"My Rank is Sgt. 1st class Gibson and that is Private 1st class Blackburn." He said pointing at Todd. "Our last names and ranks should do for now. Might I know who you two are exactly miss?"
Lucy straightened out her back. "My name is Lucy MacArthur and that is my sister Simone."
Simone watched Blackburn get white in the face. "MacArthur? Like General MacArthur?"
Now both girls turned to him and Simone replied. "Yeah he's our father, does that make any difference?"
Now Hoot did get to his feet. "It does miss, you see we are rangers' quad and are under direct command of your father. We don't have any wrong intentions; we just came to warn you."
Lucy sneered at him. "What on earth do we need warning for? What someone is going to attack me? You tried, and I overtook you with out a problem, fine ranger you are..."
Hoot felt anger rise up in him. "You only overtook me because you caught me of guard, and anyway what could one girl do?"
Lucy let out a gasp. "Well he's army alright, chauvinistic pig! And it's not just me; my sister is here as well."
"She might be but you are forgetting that Blackburn could have taken her at any moment if he wanted to." Hoot looked at his friend who was still quietly on his knees looking up at Simone. The look in his eyes told Hoot that he was probably thinking about another kind of taking her than he had meant.
All of a sudden the comm.'s on his and Blackburn's shoulders started making all kinds of noise.
"All divisions ABORT training exercise! I repeat all divisions ABORT training exercise!" Sgt. Gibson! This is General MacArthur, would you like to tell me what in name of Marry and Joseph is going on during my training exercise??"
Hoot looked at Lucy. "Sorry miss, but am I allowed to move to speak to your father?" he couldn't help smiling a little. Lucy really starting to get fed up with him, as a threat se pointed the gun to his head again, but before she could say anything the comm. started off again.
"Sgt. Stand at ease we have a visual of you and I am on my way, General MacArthur out!"
Lucy's hart sank. "Fuuuuuuuck Simone, did you hear that?! The old man is coming and we have guns pointed at two of his rangers! How much house arrest are we going to get for that do you think?"
Simone laughed out loud. "Well look at it this way, it can't be worse then the time we blew up his car by driving it over a minefield. Remember the old Toyota pick-up? Toughest car in the world my ass! One little claymore mine and it was in pieces!"
Lucy doubled over from laughing. "Naw more fun was the way dad turned in to a tomato when he found out" she snapped into a tight position and started imitating her father. "This... this... how could you two?? I will not have insubordination! You .... Punishment...... severe retribution....." Simone was crying from laughing so hard, the memory of her father looking at the pieces of his car was just too much...
Hoot saw his chance now that the girls were turned to each other, he signed to Blackburn that he wanted to disarm them. Within seconds they each grabbed on of the girls by the arm, took their guns back and twisted their arms behind their backs.
"Ouch, that is not a most comfortable position im in here!" Simone said while looking at Blackburn over her shoulder. "If you wanted to pin me, I can find another position that would be way more comfortable....." Blackburn felt him self flush but didn't say anything.
Hoot couldn't help grinning, she is no match for me he thought by him self. "Are you uncomfortable as well miss? Cause if you are I could loosen my grip" he said close to Lucy's ear.
Goosebumps shot over Lucy's arm, the feeling of his breath in her neck made sure of that. He had strength in his arms alright because she could hardly move, but although it did hurt a bit she wasn't about to ask him to loosen his grip on her wrist. "No thank you, im quite comfortable sgt. But I would like to see the look on my fathers face when he sees one of his rangers holding one of his bikini wearing daughters so close to his own body. My father is a very conservative man; he might not like the vision of us standing so close to you both and wearing so little..." She felt him seizing up and letting go of her immediately, as if her skin was a very hot object that was burning him.
"Miss I do think it would be advisable for you and your sister to put on your clothes before the General arrives." Hoot stepped back and waited for her to move, what was he thinking? He never even held any man he had in an arm lock so close? He looked at her again; she just stood there taunting him, hands in her side. As if she wanted him to say it again. "Put on your clothes ok! If the General catches you looking like that it will be our asses in a sling!"
Blackburn let go of Simone, although he didn't really want to. She rubbed her wrist. "Did I hurt you miss?" he ask kind of concerned. Simone smiled at him. "No not really, but you could if you wanted to." She winked at him, picked up her clothes and started putting them on. Lucy hadn't moved. How dared this idiot order her around? Who died and made him like her father?
It wasn't until Simone urged her that she put on her clothes.
Just when she had put her shirt on a jeep came to a screeching halt next to them.
Their father came out of it took one look at them and then said; "I should have known you two couldn't stay out of trouble long...."
Hoot and Blackburne both snapped into full salute when their father had gotten out of the jeep, and didn't get out of it until their father dismissed them with a short snap of his hand.
"Girls you promissed that your behavior would be better here. This in not exactely what I would call better."
"Dad listen, it's not like we came out here on purpose. There is not much to do here and we saw the water from a far, so we decided to go swimming. How am I supposed to know im walking arround on a training range if it has not fence arround it?" Lucy said sweetly and produced a shy little smile.
Simone knowing what she was up to backed her up, pulling an innocent face. "Yes daddy, things were so much more clearly stated at the base in Germany... We just have to get used to this place that's all..."
Their father took their hands. "I know girls you just have to be more carefull that's all." He hugged them both.
Lucy had to hold back a little smile, she had known they could play the "you uprooted us with out our consent" card a few times before her dad would see trough it.
"Lucy what is wrong with your wrist?" her father had still got hold of her hand when Lucy looked down at it. Then she saw the red outline of fingers wrapped roud her wrist. "Aw that's nothing, just a little blue mark, it will fade soon." She shot a look at the Sgt. To see his reaction at her saving his ass from getting in a sling. But his face was clear of emotion.
Her father followed her look and saw the two men still stand ing there. "Men, your chalck came into the checkpoint and informed me about the fact that you two took off after two civilian girls. I was going to put you trough the wringer for that, but as you only broke formation to keep my girls here safe I will let it slide this once..."
Hoot nodded and replied. "We only had their safety in mind sir." Again giving her father a salute.
Lucy's jaw almost dropped to the floor. My god! What a little brown noser. "We only had their safety in mind sir!" God I need a bucket so I can trow up! She thought. She looked at Simone for support but saw that Simone was making eye candy out of Blackburn.
"I know Sgt. Thank you, now lets all get out of her shall we?" their father said and he made for the jeep.
Half an hour later they were at the commandpost were their father got out of the jeep. "Gentlemen if you would be so kind as to take my daughters home." Blackburn jumped in the driversseet and responded with a fast. "It would be our pleasure sir." Put his foor on the gass and took off. Simone was quite happy sitting in the front seat next to Blackburn, he was kind of a hottie a bit of fun would definitely cheer her up. "So private Blackburn, what is it you guys do for funn arround here?" she said to him putting extra emphasis on the word funn. As they started to talk about what ever. Hoot looked at Lucy's wrist. It was indeed very red at the places were he had held her.
"Did I hurt you?" he asked. Lucy couldn't help but overhearing a guilty tone in his voice.
"No you didn't trust me a can take a lot more than you can dish out." It did hurt but she was not about to admit it to him, she rubbed her fingers over her wrist.
He grabbed her hand to see the mark for him self and felt a jolt of guilt trough his stomach. It was really red and would probably turn dark blue by the end of the day. "You should put som ice on that later to keep the swellign down." Without himself even noticing he kept her hand in his and soflty let his thumb slide over the top of her hand.
Lucy tried to ignore the feeling she got when she noticed him doing that.
Luckely they came to the hous quick enough so she could get away from him.
Simone got out of the jeep but really didn't want to. "So mabey I´ll see you arround then Todd." She said and lookd at Blackburn in a way that could not hide her intentions. "And Goodby to you to Sgt." She smiled and walked of.
Hoot jumped out of the jeep to help Lucy out, but she refused to let him help her, arrogant idiot. She smiled at Blackburn and then turned to Hoot said; "Sgt" and wanted to walk of. But was stoped by the soud of his voice. "Miss MacArthur" She turned around and looked at him. "Welcome to the desert!" and with these words he jumped into the jeep and they were off.