Chapter 3: Jason you need to get your team out of there

"BRAVO 4 this is BRAVO 1 can you give me an update"

Trent has to ignore Jason as he injects the adrenaline into Clay. Within 5 minutes it starts to take effect and he takes a deep breath and comes around

"You with me?" Trent looks at his face and frowns

Clay nods slowly and hesitantly "Yeah I'm good"

"Geez!... you gave me a scare!.. Don't do it again " Trent runs his hand through his hair "How bad is the pain?"

"Bad!" Clay gulps

"Okay! well I'm gonna start some antibiotics... I think you many have an acute infection setting in. I'll give you some pain relief as well"

Naomi looks at them both "You good?" she smiles at Clay

He nods "Yeah!"

She nods as she now starts to cry, overwhelmed by the situation "you gave me a fright!" She gulps "We're not gonna get out of here are we?"

"Hey!.. come on Jason will come back for us .. he won't leave us that's for sure!" Trent puts his hand on her shoulder to reassure her

She nods "I'm okay!… I'm good!... sorry!... Do you need me to try to help?"

She looks at Trent as he starts to uncover Clay's wound and clean it again "You think you're up to giving me a hand to clean and dress this?"

"I can try"

"BRAVO 4 this is BRAVO 1 do you copy?"

"BRAVO 1 Copy .. I got a bit of a situation .. Clay's not good and errmmm… we lost Tony!"

"Say again? ….Lost Tony? BRAVO 4 update…. What happened? What's wrong with Clay?"

"Yeah he's gone while I was dealing with 6. He disappeared from the bathroom"

"BRAVO 4 Hang in there we're coming back copy"

"Copy that"

"They're coming back" He looks as Naomi as she looks for a reaction

"Where do you think Tony went?" she asks him

"I don't know he must know a way out of here?"

She nods "I think he would have used the laundry shoot? The way you came in?"

Trent frowns "I guess there's no other ways off this floor?"

She shakes her head "not if the exits are all blocked as Jason said earlier"

Clay looks at her " you think he's part of whats going on?"

"No .. No, I don't think so … just about saving himself. I guess he got scared?" She leans back "Awwwww! …Shit!" as a wave of pain travels down her leg again

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Jason looks at the team "Trent's got a problem .. Clay's not good and that Tony has disappeared so .. Sonny you …."

"HOLD UP!" Kairos puts his hand up "Don't move!"

"Oh shit, man… you know what Kairos don't speak!... It seems when you speak it means things just get worse! Did they just get worse?"

"Yeah they got worse man"

"See I told you.. don't speak to me!" Sonny frowns

"Kairos speak to me!" .. Jason looks at him "What's going on?"

"They've rigged this floor. I just notice the explosives on the support beams they're spaced apart but looks like on a loop… it's enough if they detonate to bring this floor down… in turn… it would bring the building down!"

"Can you diffuse them?"

"Given enough time…maybe but.. I don't know for sure till I get a better look!"

Jason looks up as the explosives strapped to the supports "So What you think if we make an assault on the targets they'll blow the building?"

"Yeah that's exactly what I think"

"Oh shit!" Jason rubs his head " just another problem to add to the shit list that's building! I had a bad feeling about this op from the beginning"

He squats down for a moment still rubbing his head and has a drink of water from his flask "Okay! we need to get Trent, Clay.. and Naomi back down off that floor.. they bring this down.. they got no chance... Sonny you head up there get them prepped to move!"

Sonny nods "sure thing" he turns to head back up the stairs the Idea of leaving Trent and Clay up there if something happens fills him with dread

" Sonny just wait!..."

"BRAVO 1 this is HAVOC do you copy?"

"At last .. HAVOC this is BRAVO 1 go ahead"

"BRAVO 1 the SAS are prepping to make an assault on the building. They're saying they can 't afford to lose anymore hostages while they sit back and do nothing.. you need to get yourselves out of there…there's no time to get to the Ambassador now"

"HAVOC we've got a situation here …. they've rigged the building to blow. They make that assault they gonna bring the building down. We need some time for Kairos to assess the situation. copy!"

"BRAVO 1 copy that. You sure?"

"Yeah Kairos is looking at the explosives now. But He needs more time!"

"Jason time is something we don't have.. we just had our asses kicked for you being there and not telling them as it is, they giving us a small window to get you out…..Jason we gotta call it off an get out now!"

"HAVOC I got another problem Trent and Clay are stuck on the 4th floor we need to go back and get them out. Clay's not good…. I need time to work our exfill"

"Jason you don't have time. once they prepped that's it times up, they're coming in"

Jason sighs

"Then Mandy needs to work some magic and stall them till we sort this explosives problem. I'm sending you some data .but you need to buy us some time! Copy that "

"COPY that BRAVO one! we'll do what we can but .. it's not our call!"

"SHIT!... SHIT!... SHIT!"

"Jason calm down brother .. do what we said!... one problem at a time!"

"Yeah!... Yeah you're right Ray!" he sighs "Okay Sonny you head back up help Trent … see how bad the situation is and get ready to move them!"

"What about that Tony guy?"

"We'll worry about him later! If he isn't out of the building then he's on his own!" he shrugs "Kairos you check your stuff see what you think you can do. Brock you stay with him. Cover him"

Brock nods

"Ray you come with me … we'll go down see if can find a way to get out of here this way. Kairos you get to work see if you can get a plan together that doesn't involve bringing this building down on our heads!"

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Sonny runs back up the stairs two at a time and heads to the office

"Hey!"

Trent looks up at him "Hey!"
he's checking Clay's pulse again as he looks at Sonny and shakes his head

"What the hell's going on?" Sonny frowns "I thought he was okay?"

" he was but he's not now! …..he's got an infection setting in it's taken hold fast. I've started some Antibiotics ..but he needs medical treatment ASAP!"

"Shit! … Clay its Sonny how you doing ?" he watches him laid out on the floor with his eyes shut

"Yeah I'm okay man!"

"Yeah there you go with the bullshit again .. if you didn't keep this Bull up from the start Trent could have treated you sooner .. once we get out of her I'm gonna kick your ass to make sure you don't do it again!"

Clay laughs a little then sighs a tired exhausted sigh

"Don't you give up on me Clay…. CLAY you hear me man?"

"I hear you Sonny! just stop yapping I need some rest!"

Sonny looks at Naomi who looks like she's asleep on the floor

"How's she doing? "

"Yeah she's holding up … I'm letting her sleep for a bit, that morphine's making her drowsy now.. rest is the best thing!"

Sonny spots the cut zip tie on the floor and picks it up " so we know where this asshole went?"

Trent shakes his head "Guess he lost his nerve and got out of here"

Sonny laughs "just glad he weren't my protection officer" he frowns "losing his nerve at the first sign of trouble .. he better hope I don't find him!" he shakes his head disappointed "anyways Jason sent me…. we gotta start prepping to move these two!"

Trent frowns "I don't think we can do that?... I only just got him stable and we can't carry them both out!"

"We gonna have to …..the Hippy's playing with some new toys he found!" sonny raises his eyes "and they're not fun! Trent it don't look good!"

Clay looks at Sonny " Whats going on?"

"We re gonna need to get out of here ..Kairos says the buildings rigged to blow… and the Brits are coming in the front door at any minute!... Trent just do what you need to do to make him stable enough!...we need to move him!"

Trent rubs his head he's getting tired himself "SHIT!" he sighs

Jason and Ray come back to the second floor "it's no go down there. It's cut off from the explosion we're not going out this way that's for sure!" he takes a minute trying to think about options "we can try another route?"

"Jason we don't have time to keep finding other routes" Ray frowns at him "we don't' know if Blackburn's gonna get us any more time. We need to get them down off that floor"

Jason rubs his head and lets out a long and deliberate sigh "Okay we need to go back the way we came then!"

"Jace… even if we get them down the laundry .. we'll never get the two of them down those service tunnels?"

The stress of all the problems to over come is starting to tell, and he snaps back "Don't you think I know that Ray!... but we might not have any choice" he sighs and rubs his head as he cools down a bit "We'll work it out…I just need some time to think .. now let's get back upstairs"

Ray shakes his head and sighs "time seems one thing we haven't got!"

Jason frowns as at him "I said we'd work it out Ray… just leave it at that!"

Brock and Ray look at each other they can both tell the stress is starting to tell on Jason now

"Kairos just keep working on what we got here… see you what you think … I'll check with you when we get upstairs… Brock you stay with him .. any problems you come back up. Once I get an update we'll take it from there" He looks at his watch "Ray lets go"

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Jason comes to the doorway and watches the scene in front of him .

Trent's once again re-dressing Clay's bleeding wound, while he lays on the floor with his eyes shut.

Sonny comes in from behind them from the corridor.
" Hey boss!" he has first aid kits in his hand that he's been gathering up from the nearby offices.

"We're running out of supplies here!" Trent looks at Jason

"Are they gonna be ready to move?"

Trent shakes his head "not yet"

"Damn!...How long?" he grinds his teeth thinking " Trent we need to get off this floor this building rigged to blow and if Mandy doesn't pull it out the bag that's whats gonna happen I just don't want us here when that happens!"

"Jace calm down Brother…. Everyone's doing what they can"

Jason nods "Yeah!.. Yeah, I know…Okay Sonny take Ray go back to the laundry check it out see if you think we can get these two down there"

"Jason even if we get them down the shoot there's no way we'll get hem all the way though those service drains" Sonny frowns

Ray shrugs "that's what I said"

"and yeah I said we may have no choice … now go and check it out!...just remember those trip wires"

Sonny looks up and frowns as he remembers the explosives along the route

Ray looks at his concerned face "Its' okay!... Kairos marked 'em. Come on brother let's get this done!"

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Jason calms down for a minute "Hows she doing?"

Trent nods "yeah… she's holding up. She's been sleeping on and off and she's a bit emotional now but that's understandable with everything .. though that morphine's gonna be wearing off soon and I gave the last to Clay .. so….. she might be in trouble then if we don't get her out of here… and she's certainly not gonna travel well!" he shrugs

Jason nods and sighs "Well we'll have to live with that …. we gotta get out of here! We've got no choice"

Jason takes a drink of water and as he does Naomi opens her eyes

"Hey"

"Hey you!.. you want some?"

"Yeah!... that be good" she nods as he sits her up and hands her the water bottle

She takes a minute as the water goes down and sighs "mmm! that tastes good!"

Jason smiles and brushes her hair off her cheek

Feeling a bit embarrassed and thinking about what a mess she might look; she runs her hands through her hair trying to tidy it.
"Jason can you pass my bag under the table … oh and could you get my passport and phone off the desk… I errrrm…. better take them with me.. If I heard you say we're leaving?"

He nods and hands her the items which she puts in her bag.. then takes out the small mirror compact from inside and looks at herself.
"SHIT! What a mess!"
She laughs and wipes the blood she can see off her cheek and tries to tidy her hair

Jason smiles watching her "you don't need to worry… you look fine!"

"I look like shit!" she laughs "but thanks…" she smiles at him "how to make a girl feel good about herself!" she laughs again and zips the bag up.
She looks round at Clay's rucksack laid there "I'll put this inside here is that okay?"

Jason nods and un-clips the backpack and she stuffs her bag inside "thanks! I owe you guys so much" she tiredly smiles

"you don't owe us anything alright.. it's our job. Just glad we were here!" They both look at each other, just staring into each other's eyes not saying a word

Suddenly she sits up frowning "Oh SHIT!...you know I need to check something!"
she tries to adjust her position her breathing become rapid as she hands the water bottle back to Jason "Can you get me to the office at the end of the corridor .. I think I know what Tony was doing!"

"I don't think you should move!" Trent looks round

"I need to. I need to go to the Commissioner's office can you get me there …. Jason please, its important!"

"Where is it?"

"just at the end of the corridor I wouldn't but l need to check something"

Jason looks at Trent who shakes his head

Jason frowns and reluctantly agrees "alright!"

Trent frowns again and Jason gives it a few more moments consideration "only if you think you're up to it?"

"Yeah! I can do it"

He helps stand her to her feet

"Whoa!" she holds her head as she's feeling dizzy and lightheaded from standing up "shit!" She shakes her head trying to get rid of the feeling

"You sure you're okay?...you wanna sit down for a minute?"

"No!...No, I need to do this…I'll be okay in minute"

Jason shakes his head as he looks at Trent again. He knows like him they both think it's a bad idea, but she seems so determined

She leans her weight round Jason, and he helps, almost drag, her along the corridor.
About halfway down she cries out in pain "Whoa ….stop!... I need to sit down"

She's out of breath only the short way they've walked. If you can call it walking. It makes Jason wonder how they're going to get the two of them down the service tunnels

"Naomi this is a bad idea.. let's go back?

"No!... I need check this!...seriously … I think I know what he was doing!"

"what? What do you need to check?"

"Come on I'll show you!"

"Alright fine" he helps her get up again

Jason sits her down outside the office door while he checks the room is clear.

"Alright! There you go!"

They enter the office and large safe in the corner stands with its door wide open

"SHIT!" she rubs her head "Oh my god!"

She can't stand and slumps down the wall gently lowering her leg which is outstretched in front of her "Oh God! .. fuck!" she grinds her teeth now starting to regret walking down here. She leans her head back against the wall "fuck!"

"I take it that's not meant to be like that" Jason says as he investigates the open safe door

"No!" she shakes her head still trying to get a grip on the pain she's in

Jason flicks the papers and files that occupy three of the shelves in the safe, but he runs his hand over the open space of the two shelves in the middle that are empty "something was meant to be on these shelves?"

She nods "Yeah!"

The wave of pain in her leg flows over her again and she closes her eyes taking a moment to try and breath through it "Phewwww!"
she can feel the nice drunken feeling of the Morphine wearing of now and the pain comes in much more sharp waves "Oh Shit!"

Jason frowns "so what's gone?"

She closes her eyes "about £8 million worth of jewellery "

"what?!" Jason laughs her turns round and looks at her "you're joking right"

She shakes her head as she opens her eyes

"you're not joking?... What the hell? What do you mean £8million .? why the hell were they here?"

"They're loaned to the Embassy staff from the Kenyan government for charity event.. you know to promote tourism in the country … the wives and partners wear them as part of the event.. they get photographed for the PR Come to Nairobi look at our Diamonds…..that's how it works " she leans back and takes a deep breath

"But most of the jewellery is too heavy for them to wear all night…. so, once the photo shoots are over .. they go back in the safe till they're collected by the Diamond companies tomorrow"

"Why the hell would they let that much jewellery be in one place?"

"The same reason they let that many VIPS in the same place.. It's a charity event…. this is a top secured consulate building .. there's more security in this building than … well anywhere in Nairobi so why wouldn't they be safe?... Oh my god" she runs her hand through her hair "Awwwwww! Shit!" she sucks in a deep breath and holds her leg

"you in pain?" he furrows his forehead watching her.

"Yeah!.." it's hard for her to get her words out now "don't worry it'll pass…. Phewwww!.."
she takes a moment to absorb the wave that comes over her "I'll be okay!"

"I'll see if Trent's got any more pain relief before we leave"

She shakes her head
"I think he gave the last to Clay.. It's okay!... errrmm .. where were we…Yeah..I brought the last necklace back just before the explosion… it was the one the American ambassador's wife was wearing"

She bites her lip as she still struggles with the pain tearing through her leg
"hers was the centre piece of the event…. £4million all on its own! She always has to go one bigger than everyone else" she laughs " she errrmmm… wore it most of Dinner…. But….. I told her for security" she laughs and shakes her head "to let me bring it back to the safe!…That was it .. they were all here… and now they're all gone.. SHIT!"
she puts her hand to her mouth as tears well in her eyes then she drops her head into her hands as another sudden wave of pain comes over her and she grimaces and leans forward rubbing her leg

"let me look" Jason kneels down beside her and gently massages the top of her thigh trying to help her ease the pain "does that help"

"y..yeah!" she nods her face showing the agony! "I …errrmm .. I think it was Tony!"
she looks up at Jason she's bereft and in pain ""He would have known they were all here .. he brought his principals necklace back earlier in the evening… this is my fault Jason!"

"How is it you fault? … Hey, come on!" he puts his hand on her cheek and tucks the long strand of her hair back behind her ear
"Someone stole them .. it's not your fault"

"…I was busy and let him bring it back!... I should have done it myself … awww!... Fuck!...Jason what am I gonna do!"

"Hey, come on… don't worry about that now… jewellery is the last of our concerns at the moment"

She laughs through her tears "yeah I guess you're right "

"Come on let's get you back… we'll find him!"

She nods "I hope so Jason.. I hope so!" she rubs her head crying "awww! .. my leg!" she cries leaning her head back "we're never gonna make it out of here"

"Yes!... yes, we are .. come on.. Get up! I'm not leaving you here so come on!"

He helps her to her feet

"No! …. Oh my god! … the pain… that's not taking the edge off anymore" she grinds her teeth ."I can't get up!...shit!"

"Naomi you're gonna get out of here…I'm gonna make sure of it… just trust me" he bends down and looks at her, then takes a look at her leg "its bleeding again .. we need to get you back to Trent"

She nods as tears roll down her cheeks and he gently wipes them away

"Ahhhh!... this is touching!" Tony stands at the door with a gun

Jason looks up "What the hell!"

"TONY!?" she frowns confused "what the hell's going on ?" she looks at him but then she shakes her head as she suddenly comes over dizzy " Oh god! I think I'm gonna be sick!" she drops her head in her hands.

"where are they?"

She just sits with her head leaned in her hands feeling like she's about to pass out.

"Hey!" Jason gets his attention "you need to put that gun down .. we need to get out of here or you're not going to need those necklaces… this building is rigged to blow! Give me the gun and we can get out "

Tony laughs "Yeah well I'm not going anywhere till I get that jewellery… so you need to put your weapons down! NOW!" he glares at Jason and holds the gun tighter

Jason takes a deep breath and starts to lift his pistol from its holder by his side… "you know I'm not kidding…. we really do need to get out of here"
he looks down at where Naomi is sitting "She's not good I need to get her some attention. Tony … put the gun down"

Jason gently lays his gun slowly onto the floor and puts his hands up

"Naomi get up!" Tony points the gun at her "I said GET UP! You're coming with me"

"I can't .." she looks at him hopelessly "Tony I can't get up.. I'm sorry.. I'm in too much pain… my leg.. please.. please just put the gun down! Listen to Jason. It's not too late"

"Look she needs medical treatment .. why don't you let me take her and you can do whatever you want, I won't stop you!"

Tony laughs "yeah right…. cos you're just gonna let me walk out of here?"

"BRAVO one this is HAVOC do you copy?" Jason closes his eyes as he hears Blackburn in his ear "Tony you can do whatever you want .. I just need to get my team and her out of here!"

" BRAVO ONE do you copy? Jason are you there ?" He still doesn't answer

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"BRAVO 2 this HAVOC do you copy. What's going on Ray I'm not getting any response from BRAVO one?"

"this is BRAVO 2 .. we're just checking the sit rep on that "

"BRAVO 1 this is BRAVO 2 do you copy?... BRAVO one come in?"
Ray frowns and looks over to Sonny "BRAVO ONE is there a problem?" Him and Sonny both frown
" SHIT!...Sonny get down the corridor, there's something wrong with Jason he's not responding"

Sonny hurries back. He stops at the office "Where's Jason?"

Trent frowns he went down the corridor with Naomi "Why? Sonny what's wrong?"

"I don't know"
Sonny leaves the doorway and carries on further down the corridor.
As he gets closer to the end he can hear voices and he tucks himself in close to the wall, trying to get an idea of whats going on.
He listens intently and a confused frown comes over him as he sees what he makes out to be "Tony?" standing in the doorway.

Then he hears Jason say, "put the gun down!" and he lifts his pistol from its holster. He takes a deep breath and fires at Tony's leg.
As the bullet hits the back of his thigh, Tony turns round and lets a shot off from his gun.

It misses Sonny completely but as he fires, Jason picks his gun up of the floor and lets off a shot of his own which hits Tony squarely in the chest and he drops backwards dropping his weapon.

Sonny picks the gun up from the floor and checks for a pulse in his neck

"he's dead!" he looks up at Jason "you okay?"

Jason nods and lets out a long thankful sigh "Pheww!..." but he doesn't have time to dwell on his actions and he moves on to the next problem
"HAVOC this is BRAVO ONE copy"

"BRAVO one, Jason…. " Blackburn sighs "you need to make your way to exfil ASAP … the Brits are saying the SAS are prepping to go in. We have a 1hr window to get you out of there.. if not they're going in any way!... Jason this isn't' my call .. there's no more time.. we did what we could. BRAVO ONE you need to get your team out of there "