2237 HRS - Post Season 5
Australian Embassy - Office of the Assistant Naval Attache
Wellington, New Zealand
Lieutenant Commander (Breveted) Nikki Caetano finished her last page of paperwork, slapping her signature on it and setting it aside for her secretary to look at in the morning. She was just about to grab her jacket and purse and walk out when she heard the window behind her open. Reaching into her purse, she pulled out her RAN issue .9mm handgun and clicked the safety off. Turning, she hid the gun behind her back and watched as the intruder pulled out a gun a pointed it at her.
The intruder looked up into her eyes, and Nikki let out a gasp as the man she had hated for years prepared to kill her. She started to bring her gun up, but she was a second too slow. A blossom of red appeared on the white material of her uniform, the bullet passing through her and lodging in the wall behind her.
Her assailant watched as she crumpled to the ground, and satisfied he had completed the first part of his mission, ran away as her blood pooled around her.
Ambassadorial Problems
A/N: Custom Story request from Rebekah, here's chapter one.
Disclaimer: I don't own Sea Patrol
2350 HRS
Wellington General Hospital
Downtown Wellington, New Zealand
Able Seaman Billy "Spider" Webb rushed down the hallway of the hospital, elbowing his way through the Emergency Room to get near his friend and boss. A nurse stopped him a few feet from where he thought he saw them trying to save Nikki.
"I'm sorry sir, you can't go ba-" The nurse was cut off as Nikki's heart monitor let out a mournful wail, before the sound was drowned out by doctors shouting orders. He heard the shout of "Clear!", followed by the sound of a defibrillator discharging. The monitor continued it's cry, and Spider felt a pang of dread start to twist in his stomach.
"Clear!" A doctor shouted, and Nikki's pale, limp form twitched as the defibrillator discharged again, and then Spider heard the most wonderful noise in his life. The heart monitor stopped it's cry, interrupted by what could only be a heartbeat. He sighed in relief, slumping against the nurse.
"Sir, you still can't go back there."
0430 HRS
House of Captain Mike Flynn
Cairns, Australia
Mike sat up in bed and reached for his phone, trying to silence it before it woke Kate. Sighing, he squinted at the caller i.d. and hit the answer button.
"Flynn." he whispered, glancing at the clock.
"Hold please, sir. Long distance call from Wellington, New Zealand." The line went silent for a moment, before the voice of a person he had never thought he'd see again came on the line.
"Sir? It's Spider. Nav's been shot." Mike snapped bolt upright, jolting Kate awake, who sat up and turned on her bedside light before turning to glare at her husband.
"Is she alright?" Mike asked, oblivious to the look Kate was giving him.
"She's still in surgery. I'm back at the embassy with the Ambassador and Captain LaFollet. Sir, she was shot in her office. Someone had to know she was working late and the guard rotation to get near enough to get to her."
"Major Harrington and his cronies have been in her office and they found a bullet lodged in the wall opposite of the window." Spider reported, pacing back and forth in the large room in the basement of the embassy Major Harrington, the commander to the RAA detachment guarding it, had dubbed "The Bunker".
"Alright...I want hourly updates to NAVCOM, and I want to know when she gets out of surgery. Inform Captain LaFollet i'll be dispatching a patrol boat with a forensic unit." Mike said, swinging his legs over the side of the bed and standing, listening to SPider's last comments before he ended the call and looking at Kate.
"Nikki's been shot."