Med Flight Part 1 of 3

Auggie was in the grocery store of all places when the burner phone rang. He ducked into the less populated cleaning supply aisle, it was quieter and he could smell the bleach, and answered .

"Hello," he said hoping it was Annie.

"Auggie, she needs your help," Eyal sounded strained.

"OK," Auggie said and already abandoned his cart and as he made his way out of the store.

"She's hurt, I have coordinates, but I cannot get to her, I am eyes deep in something else right now and my leaving would raise way too many red flags," Eyal knew he was letting Annie down and it killed him.

"I work in the basement now, no one would notice if I was gone for a few days," Auggie mentioned.

"I have watched you work a master plan, but this one is tricky, she is nowhere Auggie, middle of the jungle in Colombia, she is safe, but she needs antibiotics soon. She left me the protocol 4 hours ago, I just got it, I have no way to reach her but the actual coordinates of the locator."

"Send them to this phone, I can get someone there in 8 hours and I can be there myself by tomorrow," Auggie assured.

"She'll be happier to see you than me," Eyal laughed.

"Oh she'll probably be pissed to see me, but I'll win her over," Auggie grinned despite the knot in his stomach.

"If I can do anything on this end you let me know," Eyal said and hung up before Auggie could thank him.

Auggie was back at his place before he dialed another number, one he was hoping to not have to call. Auggie was literally calling in the troops.

"Cavanaugh, it is Anderson, how quickly can you be in a remote part of Colombia? Good, that was what I was hoping. Can you get your hands on some medical supplies?..." Auggie started rattling off an inventory as he packed a bag.

***555***

Six hours later Captain Matthew Cavanaugh, US Army , was breaking down the door of a small cabin in the Colombian jungle. He had knocked, but no one answered. He found her in a bed, clearly fevered and not-quite-conscious.

"Miss Walker?" he asked and suddenly her eyes went wide.

She reached for a weapon as she scuttled up on the bed in the most defensive stance she could take in her state, her eyes glassy, but alert.

"Captain Anderson sent me Ma'am," he held both hands out to indicate he was not armed.

She still didn't say anything, although she had the weapon at her side and no longer pointed at him.

"He told me to tell you it is never too late for heart-to-hearts," the man repeated the phrase Auggie had told him.

At that the woman in front of him crumpled, her eyes which were glassy with fever became glassy with tears, a subtle distinction and she returned the weapon to the table at her side.

"I'm not really sure who you are, but for Auggie Anderson to start talking about heart-to-hearts I figured you were someone important," the young man smiled and Annie made a noise somewhere between a laugh and a groan.

"May I look at your wounds?" he asked to approach and she nodded.

He unpacked the pharmacy's worth of supplies he had with him and went to work on the bullet wound in her thigh and a nasty scrape on her arm.

"This is going to hurt, a lot, but I promise in 24 hours you will feel like a new woman," he smiled at her and she rolled her eyes, she was already a new woman, she really wanted to be the old one.

***555***

Matt Cavanaugh was awoken by the sound of footfalls and cursing.

"God damnit," the woman said.

"Hey, you shouldn't be up," he reprimanded as he rose from his spot on a very small couch.

"I really had to pee," she said, the first semi-complete sentence he had heard from her.

"You look better," he commented from a cursory look in poor lighting.

"I feel better," she admitted as she sat on the edge of the bed and sipped from a bottle of water he had left for her.

"Thank God, Anderson would have my hide if he found you like I did."

"Auggie's coming?" Annie said it with a mix of surprise and not.

"Yeah, I am just the emergency medic, he'll be in charge of your full time r&r," the guy smiled and Annie shook her head.

"We better clean this place up then," she laughed.

TBC…