Sleepless on Hammersley
Chapter 2 - set in Season 4 after "Crocodile Tears"
Rating: K
Disclaimer: I don't own Sea Patrol.
It was long after midnight, but Jessica Bird was wide awake.
"Bomber?" she whispered into the darkness.
"Yeah?" came her cabin mate's reply.
"Sorry, but I can't sleep," Bird explained.
Able Seaman Rebecca 'Bomber' Brown yawned. "It's okay. Wanna come up here?"
A few seconds later, they were sitting next to each other on the upper rack.
"So Bird, what's keepin' you awake?" Bomber wanted to know.
"Well, this morning, I saw the X, uhm, throwing up into the toilet and I don't know if I should tell Swaino... I mean if she wasn't feeling well, she'd go see him herself, wouldn't she? Maybe she's eaten something bad- OUCH!"
"Sshhh!" Bomber hissed.
"Then stop punching my ribs!" Bird hissed back. "I didn't say she's eaten something bad from your galley! We don't know what she ate during last shore leave, for example."
"Shore leave... That's it Bird!" Bomber whispered excitedly. "She's pregnant!"
No reaction.
"Bird?"
But Jessica was fast asleep or at least successfully pretending to be.
The next morning, Leo '2Dads' Kosov-Meyer snuck into the cabin. His plan was to wake Bird by placing a rubber jellyfish on her face.
But instead he found himself running away from a very angry Bomber and thus learned an important lesson:
If you want to survive aboard a ship, never mess with the chef.