Chapter 2: we've got a bit of a situation here

"Okay!..." Trent looks up a Jason "...that's most of the smaller pieces removed"
Trent takes a moment from concentrating and taking a deep breath he checks with Naomi "Sorry that wasn't pleasant... How you feeling?"

"Yeah! I'm okay.. bit uncomfortable but ermm.. " she shrugs

"I know... Just this bit to deal with now" he frowns

she closes her eyes and gulps at the thought as she nods at him. "I just need a minute"

Jason nods he can tell from the look on Trent's face it's not going to be easy "Alright ... so, what you want from me?"

He takes a deep breath as he looks at the thick metal shard embedded deep in her thigh "I need you to hold her steady, then as I start to pull…..you need to apply as much pressure around the wound as you can … then when it comes out…" he bites his lip as he thinks. He looks at her face as she intently looks at him.
He tries to smile to reassure her but he's not convincing anyone " well... we'll see what happens...but just incase.. be ready to apply a lot of pressure"

He checks on the fluid bag which is nearly empty then looks back at Jason again. Jason nods "give her it" he sighs

Trent frowns and looks back at Clay "let me just check on him first"

"Awwww!" Naomi groans. The morphine is starting to relax her body and the fact that Trent has stopped pulling at her leg and causing her pain gives her some momentary relief, but she knows not to get too relaxed as the worst is still yet to come

While Trent checks on Clay Jason tries to keep her calm
"Hey!" He peaks quietly "how you doing?"

She opens her eyes "oh yeah!... I'm great!" she says sarcastically as she smiles "Never been better"
She swallows hard trying not to cry
"Ahhhhh! " she takes a deep breath "Oh god! I don't think I can do this!" she looks at the large piece of metal still sticking out of her leg

"Hang in there… Trent's got this...you can do this" he puts his hand on her cheek reassuring her when truth is he knows it's a big ask.

She nods apprehensively "This is gonna be bad… isn't it? Am I gonna die?" the tears roll down her cheek

"No! no not on my watch….. I'm right here with you..Okay?... Trent's gonna give you some more morphine .. it'll be fine .. you can do this"

She nods trying to agree with him "just don't leave me.. please!" she grips his hand

"I'm right here.. not going anywhere" he smiles trying to cover his own apprehension.

"Clay.. speak to me .. How you doing?" Trent frowns

"Yeah! I'm good"

Trent frowns again as he checks his pulse and feels his head "he feels a bit clammy"

Ray nods "Yeah!.. he keeps going hot and cold"

As Clay grimaces Trent lifts the blood covered T-Shirt from the wound
"That's not looking good Clay" he shakes his head and looks back at Ray "lets clean it again and re-dress it"

Ray and Trent remove the blood-soaked dressing and clean round it. It's actually more a gaping hole where the bullets ripped the flesh away from his side than the 'graze' Clay described.

"let's get some thicker dressing on it and tape him up tight!.. Hold some pressure on it … we don't need it getting infected"

He looks at Jason "I'm gonna need to give him that bag of that fluid"

Without saying a word Sonny looks back in the room. Looking first at Trent then at Jason wondering what call Jason will make

"Alright! if that's what you think" he sighs "Do it!"
he looks back at Naomi her face is pale and she's sweating. Her head's laid on his lap. He closes his eyes .. trying to do the right thing by both of them but with limited supplies

"Ray get that drip line up"

Ray nods. Sonny relaxes at Jason's decision

"Sonny what's the sit rep with Kairos?"

"I'll check...Hey hippy..." Sonny calls down the corridor ".. you awake?"

Kairos doesn't speak as he's concentrating hard on the wires to the IED

"Kairos! Wake up man!" Sonny shouts again

He puts his hand up "Yeah be with you soon!"

Sonny shrugs at Jason "well we're all still here so I guess he's doing okay!"

"HAVOC this is BRAVO one do we have and update on the sitrep"

"BRAVO ONE this is HAVOC.. Jason we've got a bit of a situation here. I'll get back to you ASAP"

"What the hell? You've got a situation? What the hell do you think we're doing? Sitting on our ass's in the dark here… Eric get it together and get me something I can use!"

"Copy that Jason... as I said I'll get back to you ASAP"

"SHIT!" Jason rubs his head "See… this is why I hate joint operations. Tail wagging the dog. Cake eaters all vying for top slot!"

"Hey!" Ray frowns at him "just stay calm brother… lets deal with what's in front of us. We don't need to be worrying about politics behind the scene .. you got people who need your focus here! you get me"

"Yeah!" he closes his eyes gathering his thoughts "Yeah, you're right one problem at a time!"
He looks back down at Naomi with her eyes closed.

He notices another deep scar on her leg where Trent's cut her trouser leg. "What's that?"he mouths quietly to Trent as he sits himself back down

"Don't know.. old ... looks like it was quite bad!" he frowns at Jason

She opens her eyes

"Hey! you still in there?" he smiles

"Hey!" she tiredly swallows her mouth is dry "I'm thirsty"

"Oh sure .. hold on" Jason reaches for his water and gently lifts her head to give her a sip spilling more down her than he gets in her mouth

"Okay!" she laughs "I think I got some!"

While Trent's prepping himself, Jason starts to question her

"Do you know anything about what's happening downstairs? You see anything that might help us? like do you know how many?"

"Yeah!" she nods weakly "errrmm .. there was about 10 men with weapons and errmm... wearing S vests… that I saw. I was just coming down the stairs" she takes a breath
"I'd errrmm... been up here putting something away … and saw them.. they didn't see me" she swallows "Hmmmm!...can I have some more of that water?"

"yeah sure" Jason helps her to sip some more

"thanks … They were heavily armed" she points " … my phone…on the charger!... Awwwww!" she closes her eyes as she indicates to where the phone is plugged in.
She takes a breath " there are pictures on there that I managed to take!" she closes her eyes for a moment

"Naomi try and stay awake!"

"Yeah errmm…. sorry!...Then I….. ermmm.. I went back up and as I got to the top of the second staircase …over the other side of the building .. there was just this massive explosion sound and the guard rail just shattered" she looks at her leg and closes her eyes
"Ahhhh! Awwwww!" she bites her lip till the pain passes "I managed to crawl my way up here. This is my office...I just locked myself in.. I could …" she closes her eyes again

"Naomi come on!... Please just stay awake!" he taps her cheek and she opens her eyes again

"errrm …..yeah …errrmm… oh … I could hear them up on the floor here... they tried the door … I just hid under here that's all I remember till some picks my call up and somehow I spoke to you guys!"

"Okay that's great.. you're doing great… Trent's gonna sort your leg … we gonna do this.. I'm gonna be right here! everything's going to be fine so just relax"

She smiles but she knows he's just trying to reassure and that in reality it's not good and its gonna really hurt getting that large piece out.

Trent looks a Jason "we ready"

As he looks at the large shard of metal embedded in her leg he can imagine for himself the pain getting it out is going to give her "Give her another shot of morphine first!"

Trent frowns "you sure?"

"Yeah! … yeah that's not going to be easy for anyone!"

Trent nods in agreement "No it's not!"
He sighs as he looks at Naomi "I'll try to make it as quick as I can okay?. .but I'm not going to lie …It's gonna hurt...a lot " he injects another shot of the drugs in her leg "You ready?"

She looks at Jason and nods as she take a deep breath in bracing herself

"Good Girl" Jason smiles as he looks at her. He's trying think of something positive to say to take her mind off it while Trent gets himself ready to go but all he can manage is "you're doing great!" he looks at Trent he's not quite ready yet

"so anything else do you know that might be useful?"

"Errmm ..."she frowns "the main function room … there's two entrances to the room but there…. there is a service corridor that runs around it .. basically, so staff don't get seen on events!"

While she's talking Trent gently takes hold of the metal
" ahhhhhh! ...Geez!" She closes her eyes tight again

"Sorry .. I'll do my best to be quick"
Trent takes hold of the end still sticking out and starts to apply pressure to pull

"Awwwwwww! Oh my god!... Shit!" she grimaces in pain. "Jesus!"
She shakes her head trying to relieve some of the pain "NO!...No Stop! I can't do that!... I feel sick!"

"Okay just calm down" Jason looks at Trent "you need to go easy"

Trent nods "I'm trying" he breathes deep and eases up on the pulling for a moment "Ready?" he frowns

"Please….I can't …I'm sorry I can't do this" She squeezes her eyes shut. Jason holds her hand which she grips hard

"Naomi listen to me… we need to do this.. we need to get that out"

She nods again and holds her tears as she looks at his face "I know but..." she gathers herself "Okay!.. okay just do it"
she reluctantly agrees as she cries then leans her head back against Jason's lap.

He puts his arms round her head and holds both her hands together as she shuts her eyes and braces herself

Trent looks at Jason as he nods "Trent just get it done!"

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!... GODDDD! Shit !"
she grinds her teeth together and her breathing becomes fast and erratic "Oh my god!" She sucks in air trying to counter the pain then she starts to shake uncontrollably as she tries to get through it

"you're doing great!" Jason grips her tighter as the metal starts slowly to slide out of the flesh

"NO! … please Just stop! I can't! … Please give me a minute"

Jason looks Trent "keep going"

"No!" she shakes her head, but Trent ignores her and keeps pulling. He looks at Jason again for confirmation "Just keep going!"

She's crying now. Jason looks away catching Sonny's attention he's routed to the spot where he stands he's got his teeth clenches as he listens to her cries.

Ray swallows hard and looks at Clay who's also closes his eyes.

They're all trying to block out the sounds of her cries as they can all in their own ways imagine the pain. Clay more than all of them, as though he hasn't said anything, he's trying to cope with his own pain from the wound on his side

She feels hot and like she's going to pass out. She's shaking her head the whole time that Trent pulls

Trent has to apply more pressure to pull as the metal moves slowly millimetre by millimetre till finally it's just about out of her thigh.
He looks at Jason "be ready to apply that pressure "

Jason nods and lays her head back on the floor as he moves round to sit by her side holding the gauze dressings ready. His hand side by side with Trent's and as he seems Trent's expression relax and the metal exits the wound Jason pushes down hard on the now bleeding hole.

"OH Shiiitttt! Oh my god! ….aarrrrrrghhhhhhhh!" she cries as Jason presses down more

"SHHH! Come on... we've got this. it's out now… Just a bit longer!"

The sudden rush of air to the wound and the pressure Jason is applying is making her head spin

"Oh fuck!"
She collapses back closing her eyes

"I'm sorry" inside her head she feels pathetic for making all this fuss, but the pain is unbearable even with the morphine whizzing around inside her.

Trent sits back for a moment taking a breath after removing the large piece of metal but now he has to stop the blood that starts to pour from the wound
"Oh Shit!" Trent has a controlled panic as he grabs pieces of equipment and more gauze dressing "Hold down on that tight"

There's a sudden panic in the room as they see all the blood start to flow

Then suddenly during their emergency, they hear another sound which makes them all stop for a moment.

It's the sounds of gunshots

"shit! Jason looks up

Sonny looks down the corridor "Kairos you okay man?"

Kairos nods though he has to admit to himself the sound caught him off guard and he takes a moment to relax as he looks at the wires on the charge in front of him. After taking a breath he switches all his focus back to his task.

Clay groans and Ray looks round "Hey brother was sup?"

"it's just hurting a bit that's all .. more than it was . I'm Okay though"

Ray looks at Trent who nods "I'll be right there .. we just need to stop this bleed" He looks at Jason in a way that tells him it's not good

Jason sighs so many things happening around him from all sides "Trent what you want me to do?"

"Just keep the pressure on when I tell you"

"HAVOC this is BRAVO 1 .. you got anything for me yet? We just had gunshots.. you got any sitrep update"

"BRAVO 1 this is HAVOC"

Davis's voice come on the comms "Jason they just killed another hostage .. like they said they would. Jason it's a nightmare here. Eric and Mandy have been dragged in with the Commander . I don't know what's going on as soon as I have more I'll get back to you"

"yeah well make it quick will you! we're hemmed in here till Kairos cuts us free. BRAVO ONE out!"

Her face has gone a deathly pale in colour now and Trent checks her blood pressure again "I'm gonna have to give her the other bag.. she's not gonna make it otherwise!"

Jason looks at Clay "Hey Golden boy. How you holding up?"

Clay nods "I'm okay"

"Okay? That's not good enough Clay .. I need more than Okay!"

"Yeah I'm good.. just do what you need to do… I'll be fine"

Jason bites his lip and rubs his head
"Shit!... Alright we got no choice.. just get on with it we need to get out of here"

Ray looks a Trent as they organise the last blood bag

She's hardly conscious now and her breathing has slowed from the rapid breathes when they were removing the shards to very slow and shallow.

She opens her eyes for a moment and smiles at Jason "I'm sorry!"

"Hey, its fine!" Jason looks at her "you're doing great .. you don't need to be sorry!" he holds her hand tighter

Sonny comes back "Okay!.. this floor is secure my end! How's she doing? You giving her that other blood?" he frowns "what about Clay"

"Clay's fine"

Sonny looks at him "he don't look fine to me" he shakes his head but goes back to his position keeping watch at the door

Brock comes back with Cerb

"you find anything?" Jason looks up as Brock dumps a zip tied guy on the floor

"Yeah him!"
Brock hands his weapon, a 9mm handgun over to Jason "says he's a protection officer for one of the UK diplomats, found him in a cupboard"

Jason frowns " You sit down over there I'll deal with you in a minute"

"Look I told you there's no need for these I'm on your side" He holds his hands out to indicate the zip tie.

The guy is British also and Naomi opens her eyes as he speaks
"Tony?" Naomi frowns "why are you up here?"

"I err mm….. heard the noise downstairs …. There was nothing I could do so … errrm…I came up here to see if I could make any communications for help"

Brock looks at him and frowns "what from a cupboard?"

"I heard you guys….Look I didn't know who you were! So, I hid"

Jason looks round. He looks at Brock then at the guy sat on the floor "Sonny, how's Kairos doing?"

"I don't know I'll go check on the hippy see if he needs anything!"

Trent starts to finish up what he's doing "the bleed seems under control and she's responding to the blood and fluids .. her heart rates coming back up"

Jason slumps back and takes a breath for a minute "we gotta find out what's going on"

Kairos comes back with Sonny
"Okay!... that stair exit clear now … how many more there are I don't know!"

Ray looks at Jason "we can't move these two…and we're never gonna get them in that laundry bin not with these injuries."

Jason thinks "Okay this is what we do…. Trent you stay here with these two keep them stable … we'll go do a recccy, see whats going on. Then we'll take it from there! Work one problem at a time"

She opens her eyes hearing them talking. They look at each other and smile "well you look better!" he brushes her hair off her face

"well that's good .. I because I feel like shit" she laughs "Jason….get my iPad .. on the desk. I can bring up some floor plans and some photos that might be of use for you to get your bearings"

He smiles as he gets the tablet and with his help she gets the information on screen

"Can I take this?"

"Yeah sure"

"Alright Sonny, Ray …you're with me. Brock bring the dog .. Clay you holding up?"

Clay picks his weapon up which makes him grimaces in pain "Yeah I'm good"

"The hell you are!" Sonny shakes his head "Clay just admit you're struggling man"

"I'm good Sonny!...Now just go.. you to find a way to get us out of here!"

Everyone starts to sort their gear taking drinks and a moment to clean up.

Trent takes some air in the corridor "you did good " Jason pats him on the back "she holding up?"

"yeah but we're not out the woods yet… and I'm still worried about Clay… that's more than a graze "

"he's gonna be okay though?"

"I hope so .. I'm nearly out of supplies"

Jason sighs "You're okay though?... to hold up here?"

"Yeah sure.. they're not going anywhere very fast" he laughs

"Okay…. keep the door shut.. I'll keep in radio check with you.. let you know what's going on .. Hopefully Blackburn will have some update for us soon!"

He turns around and looks at everyone in the corridor getting set to go "Alright let's get it together!"

Jason goes back into the room which is all quiet now

"You gonna take these off before you leave?" Tony asks putting the zip ties forward in the air

Jason looks at him then at Naomi "you know this guy"

"yeah!" she nods "one of the protection officers

Jason frowns thinking for a minute
"Sonny cut this guy loose!...you stay here through. Any funny business ...Clay you shoot him first"

Clay laughs as Tony looks at him concerned

Jason squats down next to Naomi. Leaning across her he wipes some blood off her cheek "how you doing now?"

"Yeah… I'm okay .. the pains not great but thanks to you and Trent I'm still here to complain about it. That's gotta be a good thing right?" she smiles "Hey!... I guess I owe you drink"

"or two!" he smiles at her "you hang in there…we'll be back to get you out of here, I promise"

She nods. She gets this faint buzz of excitement at the way he talks to her and as he gets up to leave she calls him back catching his hand with hers
"Jason..." she pauses and smiles " be careful.."

he nods "Roger that!"

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

The four of them sit quiet in the office. Trent has helped her to a more sitting position the pain comes and goes in waves now.

Clay's sweating lots and hasn't said much for a while
"Clay you okay?" Trent frowns "yeah I'm good just l…..I don't know…just tired"

"Yeah well don't go to sleep!" Trent's frown deepens more as he looks at Clay's face. His worry grows quietly inside him.

Tony sits quiet watching them all
"you think they'll come back for us ? or you think they'll leave us here"

Clay looks at him "they'll come back for us .. you can count on it .. there's no way they will leave us so don't worry about that!"

"I just think maybe we should think of a way to get ourselves out of here.. I mean it's not safe"

Trent looks at him "Jason told us to sit tight, so we sit tight"

"I'm just saying…. we don't know whats going on maybe we should make our own plans?"

"There's no way we can move these two, so we sit tight till Jason tells us different!"

Tony stands up and Trent stands up in front of him "you got a problem?" Trent frowns

Clay moves himself to sitting up "Hey Tony.. it was Tony wasn't it? How about you sit down!"

Tony sighs "I'm just saying… I think one of us should go check out what's happening … see if we can find a way out?"

Trent stands more upright "Sit down!" He looks at him insisting tone about the way he speaks "I said ….SIT DOWN!"

Clay looks at him as l well.

He shrugs "Okay if you say so .. I'm just saying … this is not the safest place to be!"

Trent watches him till he sits himself back down
"BRAVO 1 this is BRAVO 4…. how's it going? "

"BRAVO 4...we're just making out way to the second floor now .. how you doing?

"Yeah we're good." He looks over at Tony "We'll sit tight till we hear from you Copy"

"COPY that BRAVO 4 this ONE out!"

Trent frowns as he looks at Tony. Naomi looks at them both feeling uneasy herself

"So, what happened to your leg?" Trent asks "the other scar? I saw it earlier"

She smiles "Oh errrmm …. I was.. errmm.. in the army before I joined personal protection unit.. "

Trent frowns

"Oh, nothing like you guys.. more support staff really ..it was roadside bomb!... I was lucky it was just minor .. there was other guys not so!"

Trent nods "So how long you been doing this?"

"18 months .. I was errrm…. Royal protection.. after I left the army… before this!... well till I needed contacts!" she points to her eyes " .. then I got moved assignment to this hell hole"
she laughs "It's okay… Champagne Charlie diplomats milking the freebies what more could a girl want?" she laughs again. She's not sure if she's laughing at the situation or the morphine making her high

"So, what was going on downstairs with all the VIPs here at once?" Clay frowns " .. bit of a security nightmare? I mean in Nairobi … to have that many VIPS in one place?"

"Tell me about it … but they do it once a year … a big charity do .. you know grease the wheels with the Nairobi government!...Awwwwww! "
She stops as wave of pain comes over "Oh shit!" she leans her head back

"You okay?"

She nods "Yeah!... just give me a minute .. awwwww!.. Jesus!… sorry" she rubs her head "awww!... god! that hurts so much!"
she grimaces and lets out a deep breath trying to breathe through the wave of pain travel down her leg

She nods at him as she gets it under control again
"Sorry! .. " she tries to continue "one year they have it here, the next across the road at your embassy ….it's just an excuse to dress up and drink and out do each other!" she pauses "So do you know who the terrorist are ? I mean what they want?"

Trent looks at Clay "No we don't know much … prisoners released; weapons the usual things I guess? Things they're not going to get!"

"You know I thought they'd send the SAS not errm .." she looks at them both " .. a SEAL Team?" she frowns

Clay looks at Trent, but they don't answer her

"So how come they sent you then?" she frowns

Trent stands up still not going to answer her question
"You know what I'm gonna get some air for a minute .. I'll be right back!"

"Why don't I come with you?" Tony looks at him "I could do with stretching my legs!" he coughs "if you know what I mean?"

Trent's apprehensive and looks at Clay then reluctantly nods " alright come on!... You two sit tight"

She closes her eyes and shudders

"You alright?" Clay frowns

"I know it's silly but .. I'm cold!"

"Hold on!"

Clay gets himself up and picks up Jason's jacket from the floor. He brings it over and slumps down beside her before he covers her over "That better?"

"Mmmm!... will be!" she closes her eyes

"Awwww!" Now it's Clay's turn to groan in pain

"What's wrong?" she frowns worried

"Oh, nothing just where I moved… it just hurts that's all I'll be fine!.. Don't worry!"

She nods as she closes her eyes again and takes a moment to get some rest

She knows it wasn't long but when she comes to she feels this weight on her arm and side

"awwww!... errrm can you move…Please… Hey Clay?... hey! Clay wake up you're lying on me.."
she frowns as he doesn't respond

"awwwww!" She tries to move but Clay is too heavy "Clay?... Clay what's wrong? … Shit!" She notices his eyes are closed but he is still breathing "Oh Shit! TRENT!...Trent!" she calls out
"awwwww! She frowns, her own leg is hurting again making it difficult for her to move and she can't get Clay off her arm

Trent's soon back in the room he wasn't far in the corridor
"what is it? …..Oh Shit!" he looks at Clay slumped beside her

"I don't know! He must have just passed out I just closed my eyes and then … aawwwwww! Awww! oh my god …my leg! shit!"

Trent's in a dilemma which patient to treat first but she's awake and making a noise, even if it is due to pain, so he turns his focus to Clay who's silent and not responding

"SHIT! Clay!... Clay can you hear me? Wake up!... oh SHIT!..." Trent rubs his head "BRAVO1 this is BRAVO 4…. I've got a problem here! Copy?"

He lays Clay flat on the floor and starts to look at his wound. He gets some adrenaline out of his bag

She looks up "Where's Tony? I thought he was with you?"

Trent looks round "he was just there at the bathroom…" Suddenly Trent has a bad feeling and he leaves Clay for a moment as he looks out the doorway and down the corridor "Shit! He's gone!... Oh fuck!"

he rubs his head "I'll have to worry about that in a minute"
he drops down beside Clay and starts prepping to inject him.

Trent's breathing fast and while he's not actually panicking, he is concerned and needs to act fast.

"BRAVO 1 this is BRAVO 4 I need some assistance do you copy"