Chapter 4: there's no time now!

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"Sonny we need to get out of here! "Jason turns and looks at him checking Tony's body
"what you wanna do with him?"

He thinks for a moment and rubs his head sighing. He looks at the safe, he looks at the body and then he looks at Naomi sat on the floor
"We're just gonna have to leave him ...we were cutting it fine before, now we're seriously running out of time, we're gonna have to go…."

He bends down to where she's sitting with her back propped against the wall
"Naomi, we're gonna have to go, and there's only one way to get you out of here quick enough…" He frowns as she looks at him then he puts his hands under her legs and takes a deep breath "...Ready?"

Realising what he means she swallows hard and nods "Okay!... Phewwww!" she lets out a long sigh then locks her arms round his neck as he picks her up
"Awwwwwwwwwwww!...Oh Shit!" she buries her face into his shoulder and clenches her teeth as she tries to deal with pain as he moves her

"Okay?" she nods not looking at him "I'm really sorry but this is the only way as seriously, we have to go now!"

Sonny picks Jason's weapons up and takes the lead back down the corridor to the office where they find Trent still attending to Clay's wound.

Jason sets her down on the floor and relaxes his arms "He alright?" he frowns at Trent as he sees him changing the dressings again

Trent nods "for now! but I do need more first aid supplies!"

Jason shakes his head "Sorry there's no time for that now, we need to get him up and get out of here!"

"Jason, he's not gonna be able to walk out?!... and.." he looks over at Naomi "we've only got one litter with us!"

Sonny looks over "Jason, we can't carry both of them?"

Jason rubs his head thinking as everyone looks at him waiting for some direction "Trent you and Sonny prep to carry Clay like I said!"

"but Jason"

"Sonny!" he glares at him " just do it!...BRAVO 7 this is BRAVO 1 I need a sit rep…Kairos give me some good news"

"Yeah! yeah, I'm almost done .. they were on a loop, which is.. the good news, once I get this one disabled it should disable them all"

"How long?"

"Yeah that could be the bad news! 20 mics or so?"

"SHIT!...You need to find a way to speed it up. I can give you 10 then you need to be out of there! You copy that?"

"BRAVO 1 did I hear you right 10?... seriously there's no way ...I can't do it in that"

"Then find a goddamn way!" He sighs "Kairos you got no choices, you need to speed it up" he sighs again trying to think "We gonna load up at the laundry chute, soon as you're done, you and Brock meet us there .. 10 Kairos!...then whatever... you at you leave it and come. Copy?"

Kairos closes his eyes and sighs reluctantly "Copy that!" he looks at Brock "you hear that?" Brock nods " let's do this then! Pass me those pliers!"

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"Trent how we doing with Clay?"

"I'm doing what I can…but what you gonna do about her?"

He takes a moment trying to weigh up his options "Okay!... Me and Ray will manage her between us.. at least shes awake we just have to keep her up on her feet for now we'll work with that!"

He takes a minute to gather himself as he smiles at her as he sees the apprehension in her face
"I know!... look..it's not ideal .. but we gotta try. This is out of my hands now!"

"Jace she's never gonna make it down that service tunnel" Trent shakes his head

"Look!... let's just take one step at time alright?... Let's get off this floor first! …Now just Goddamn pack it up and get ready to go!"

He looks back at her again, sitting on the floor her head leaned back against the wall and eyes shut. Trent sees her lip quiver, he looks at Jason they both know she's in pain, both sharing the same concerns about shes going to cope on the long journey back

"You alright?" Trent furrows his brow concerned

She nods at first trying to work through it then starts to shake her head "No!" she cries "it hurts so much"

"I know..look" he sighs "I'll see what I can do to find something to help" Jason looks at him he's all out of ideas and rubs his head "alright...everyone empty their medipac let's see what else we've got"

Trent looks at what they empty out on the floor, which is not a lot now
"BROCK!"
everyone looks round and frowns at his exclamation

"Brock's medi kit ..I didn't use anything from it. He wasn't here he was with Kairos … also he's got extra dressings for the dog"

"alright there we go …things are looking up already" Jason tries to remain optimistic " BRAVO 5 this BRAVO 1 you copy"

"Copy BRAVO 1 "

"How's he doing on those explosives?"

Brock looks back at Kairos still concentrating "yeah he's doing good"

"Okay you need to wrap it up and meet us at the laundry chute ..and we need your medi kit we're running out of supplies here"

"Copy that BRAVO 1 on our way" he looks at Kairos again "Hey Summer, we gotta wrap it up, they need us back up there"

"2 minutes .. that's all I need"

"come on Man we need to go!"

"2 minutes!"

"Kairos man... Jason said to wrap it up we NEED to get out of here"

"You go .. I'll follow.." he looks round at Brock "I said go!...Brock just go you're wasting time"

Brock looks at the stair exit then back a Kairos "SHIT man! Make sure it's 2 no more!"

Kairos nods and Brock nods back apprehensive at leaving him, he knows he's needed back "you know Jason's gonna chew my ass for this!"

"Blame me! I'll see you in 2 minutes" he turns back to his task

Brock shakes head and sets of with Cerb ahead of him on the staircase. He arrives back at the Laundry chute and hands his medipac to Trent

"thanks" he looks inside its still un-used he lets out a sigh of relief. He can see the blood coming through her dressing probably brought on as the wound has been disturbed by Jason carrying her and the stop start over the explosives that Kairos didn't have time to make safe

Trent sits down next to her on the floor "I'm gonna re dress that before we go down there…Alright?" he frowns as he looks at her face. She looks tired and pale and he tries to get her to smile but even that's an effort now
"then I'm gonna give you this" he holds up Brock's morphine shot "but not till we head into the tunnel okay? so you're gonna have to stick with it till then… I want it to last as long as it can" he sighs " it's gonna be a long journey back"

She nods "Okay! But what about him?" she frowns as she looks at Clay lying there on the floor

"He'll be alright.. he hasn't gotta walk!" he smiles "this is for the best .. I know it's gonna be tough, but it will make you a bit more comfortable"

She nods again and he puts his hand to her cheek "you're doing great just need to hold in a bit long"

She looks at Clay "how's he doing? "

"I told you don't worry about him .. he's gonna be alright"

Trent notices Sonny watching him as he speaks, he looks up. "he is!.. He's gonna be fine!" he tries to reassure them, and himself.

They load Clay into the fold out canvas litter and get prepped to carry him.

"He's still out of it" Sonny frowns "Why won't he stay awake?"

"Yeah that's alright .. means he's not complaining!" Trent tries to laugh off Sonny's question but inside his head he's more than concerned than he'll let on to Sonny, who's still fussing around him.

"Trent tell me he's gonna make it?"

"Sonny, he's gonna be okay!" Trent puts his hand on Sonny's arm trying to reassure him "Let's just concentrate on getting out .." he watches Sonny who's deep in thought miles away just staring at Clay
" Sonny, he's fighting an infection that's why he keeps sleeping … don't worry I've got it in hand"

"You better .. if he dies"

Jason puts his hand on his shoulder "Sonny, just get geared up to go, we haven't got time for this now!" he sighs "HAVOC this is BRAVO ONE we're preparing to head to exfil we'll need CASEVAC for two casualties in place when we exit the tunnels Copy"

"Copy that BRAVO one we're working exfil plan this end"

"Eric what do you mean working on it? I thought exfil was in place… Eric for god sake .. I've got two serious casualties here..don't tell me you're working on something …you better have a plan in place when I get there?!"

"Jason….."he sighs " you're not even meant to be there.. it's not as simple as just telling someone to pick you up …..we're working on it!"

"SHIT!" Jason looks at the ceiling and takes a breath "what a fuck up this mission is!" he runs his hand through is hair and sighs again

"Awwwww!" She grimaces closing her eyes. Jason stands and watches her wondering why he can't think of anything else to help her "You think you're ready to go?"

She nods "yeah I guess!" she shrugs "like you said we got no choice"

Jason sighs again "No we don't!...Ray you got her?"

"Yeah I got this!" he loads his backpack and weapon on his arm and prepares to pick her up

"Okay let's do it!... I'll take the lead ..we go back the same way we came!"

he looks round checking with each and everyone of them. Sonny and Trent take the strain on the straps as they carry Clay

"BRAVO 7 copy?" he waits but gets no answer "Kairos!... I need an update!"

"5 mics"

"Shit!... Alright .. Okay!… Kairos I want you back at the laundry chute in 10mics total do you hear me?... we'll be there waiting for you!...Trent you go down first with Sonny .. We send Clay down ... you get him stable then we'll send her and Ray down, then Brock and the dog. I'll wait for Kairos"

"Jace let me wait!" Ray looks at him "Jason.. you need to be downstairs, Team leader is needed down there to keep things in order. I'll wait for BRAVO 7"

Jason looks at Naomi slumped against the wall with her eyes closed he sighs again "Alright I'll go with her, Trent get ready we need to speed this up, like it or not the SAS are coming and they're not waiting for us!"

Brock shakes his head and sets of with Cerb ahead of him on the staircase. He arrives back at the Laundry chute and hands his medipac to Trent

"thanks" he looks inside its still un-used he lets out a sigh of relief. He can see the blood coming through her dressing probably brought on as the wound has been disturbed by Jason carrying her and the stop start over the explosives that Kairos didn't have time to make safe

Trent sits down next to her on the floor "I'm gonna re dress that before we go down there…Alright?" he frowns as he looks at her face. She looks tired and pale and he tries to get her to smile but even that's an effort now
"then I'm gonna give you this" he holds up Brock's morphine shot "but not till we head into the tunnel okay? so you're gonna have to stick with it till then… I want it to last as long as it can" he sighs " it's gonna be a long journey back"

She nods "Okay! But what about him?" she frowns as she looks at Clay lying there on the floor

"He'll be alright.. he hasn't gotta walk!" he smiles "this is for the best .. I know it's gonna be tough, but it will make you a bit more comfortable"

She nods again and he puts his hand to her cheek "you're doing great just need to hold in a bit long"

She looks at Clay "how's he doing? "

"I told you don't worry about him .. he's gonna be alright"

Trent notices Sonny watching him as he speaks, he looks up. "he is!.. He's gonna be fine!" he tries to reassure them, and himself.

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Sonny and Trent are at the kitchen service area waiting for Clay to arrive down in the laundry hamper. They gently lower him out

"Clay? ..Clay can you hear me?" Sonny checks on him

He groans "Hey!"

"you okay?"

"No! that was one of the worst experiences of my life! I'll never forget the smell of dirty wet towels"

Sonny laughs "ah well… at least you still talking!"

"Anyway, what the fuck am I doing trussed up like a chicken in this thing?"

"Keeping you alive is what we're doing, so stop moaning you're just being ungrateful now"

"Stop moaning coming from you?" Clay laughs

Jason and Naomi are next down. They all assist trying to get her out. It was hard with her leg getting her in and now to make things worse cramp has set in.
"Awww owww!... oh SHIT! that's not good now!"

Jason sits behind her and helps lift her round as Sonny takes her weight and lifts her out

"Come on we need to speed it up guys!" Jason looks as they struggle to get her sorted "We need to keep moving….. BRAVO 7 do you copy?"

There's silence on the Radio comms "BRAVO 7?...Kairos do you copy?... Kairos you better be headed back"

"Copy BRAVO 1 one more minute and I'm done"

They send the laundry hamper back up for Brock and Cerberus

"Kairos it's an order get out of there now .. there's no more time … we need to move!" Jason can feel the tension inside him rising they are so close to safety but he needs the rest of his team back first
"KAIROS… that's an Order! Do you copy?"

Kairos clips the last of the wires and sits back on his heels as he smiles "finished" he wipes his forehead "BRAVO one this is BRAVO 7 its done! explosives are disarmed!"

"Nice one! Now just hurry the fuck up and get your ass back here!"

"Yes sir, I'm on my way"

"BRAVO 2 do you copy?"

"Copy BRAVO 1"

" Kairos is on his way back, be ready to get down here. We're gonna start loading them into the tunnels"

"COPY that BRAVO ONE. He's already back we're ready to come down now!"

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"Alright Trent you head down first. Sonny, me and you will lower Clay in"

"Okay …"

Trent sits on the edge of the drain cover "Oh shit!... nearly forgot!" he hands Jason the morphine injection he took from Brock's pack "..you need to give her that .. hopefully it'll make her a bit more comfortable"

Trent frowns before he jumps down into the hole below. They get some strapping round Clay and start to lower him over the edge of the drain

"it's tight to get him in like this" Sonny frowns as he looks back with concern to Jason

Clay cries out in pain "Awwwwhh!... shittt!" he groans

"Just hold in there Clay!" Sonny has hold of him as he lowers him down to Trent waiting below.

Clay shuts his eyes and grits his teeth as a pain surges up from the wound on his side as they clip him against the concrete side of the drain hole "Fuck!"

"Clay?.. you okay?" Sonny frowns as he checks again with him "What happened?"

"Don't worry!" he lets out a deep breath "just keep going"

Sonny looks at Jason. They don't say a word but they know getting down the full length of that tunnel and back out the other end is going to be hard going

Jason looks at Naomi she has her head leaned back on the wall and her eyes closed again"You okay?"
she doesn't answer. Lost in her own world of pain "Naomi!"

"Yeah Sorry!... I'm fine … just feel tired"

"Alright!" as Clay disappears into the dark below and Sonny climbs in behind "lets get you ready to go now"

She reluctantly nods her head and her breathing starts to increase as a feeling of uneasiness and slight panic comes over her

"Okay I'm gonna give you this… it's not gonna help on the tiredness score but .. should make you feel a bit more comfortable" he looks at his watch

"Whats wrong?" She frowns

"Nothing..don't worry … just we haven't got long and I still need to get Ray and Kairos down here"

she nods and puts her hand reassuringly on his arm "it's gonna be okay!" she smiles "you know this Navy SEAL guy told me that"

"Did he… we'll I hope he's right!" He smiles back at her "Right you ready to do this?"

"Yeah!" closing her eyes as he puts the injection in her leg. She leans back and runs her hand through her hair "Awwwww god!" she takes as sharp breath in as she feels the scratch on her leg "that hurt!"

"Just give it a minute! It'll be okay!...BRAVO 2 this is BRAVO 1 whats your sit rep?"

"Just waiting on 7 to sort himself then we on our way down"

"Come on Kairos get it together!" he sighs to himself and rubs his head. Naomi closes her eyes "Okay! Wake up!... no sleeping now… we need to get you down this hole!"

She laughs as he helps her shuffle forward to the edge of the hole

"BRAVO 1 this is BRAVO 2 we're on our way down"

"COPY that BRAVO 2!"

Sonny's now at the bottom waiting to help her down. Jason has hold her under the arms as she sits on the edge then as gently as he can he lowers her down into the darkness below.

Sonny tries to get hold of her by the waist but accidentally catches the side of her leg "Awwwhh!... SHIT!.. Oh my god!.. Fuck!"

"Shit!.. Shit…I'm Sorry! .. Sorry! You okay"

"Sonny what's the problem?" Jason calls down

"sorry! I'm so sorry! That was an accident .. I didn't mean…."

"Nothing!" she calls out "it's fine! I'm okay!" she looks at Sonny "It's not your fault… it's fine! I'll be okay" she grimaces while the pain subsides and she closes her eyes holding her leg as they get her to the bottom of the drop they they sit her down, trying to keep her out of the running water below.

Trent gives her a quick look over "You alright?"

"Yeah! Feeling a bit better now"

He looks at her. He can see her eyes glazing over as the morphine is starting to take hold. The pain has lost some of its sharp edge now and she smiles at him.

Jason hears the sound of the laundry hamper clunk at the bottom of the chute. He gets ready to drop down in the hole when he hears a sound of voices
"Shit!... BRAVO 2 …this is BRAVO 1 stay where you are ..we got a problem here!"

Jason drops down into the Hole "Sonny we got incoming tangos!"

"Shit! that's all we need where's Ray and Kairos?"

with out saying anything else Jason points to the chute. They carefully and quietly drag the cover over the hole as they hear the muttering of accents they don't recognise.

They all go quiet as they hear noises of cupboards opening and the fridges being raided.
Jason looks at Sonny in the dark

Ray can see from a gap in the laundry chute what's going on in the service area. Him and Kairos click the safety off their weapons and lay silent

Suddenly the sound of gunshots ring out. Everyone is on edge. Jason whispers in his comms "BRAVO 2 you copy? Ray is everything okay?"
Ray checks the gap and whispers back "copy! We're good!"

"What was that?" Sonny frowns and Jason shrugs

"BRAVO one this is HAVOC do you copy?"

"HAVCO copy… we have a situation here!"

"BRAVO one sitrep our end. They just killed another hostage. Special air Service are stepping it up now. Jason there's no more time... You need to be out of there.. I've just been informed they're going in!"