Chapter 7
The patrol was going quietly as they left international waters entering Australian waters; they had 52 hours left on patrol until they hit Cains. It was almost spooky how deserted the radar had been only 3 contacts since they had left Indonesia, all legitimate boats.
"Mayday mayday mayday this is the Coral Sunshine we need urgent assistance over" the voice broke the silence of the bridge
"This is the Australian Warship the Hamersley, what is the nature of your emergency" RO responded
"My daughter she is ill, I need help" the man sounded frantic
"What is your position?"
"We are at 453, 675" the man responded, Kate wasted no time
"Dutchy plot it" she ordered,
"Turn 135" Dutchy ordered, 2dads was steering
"Turning 135" he repeated
"Charge can we get full engines" she asked
"I'll give us all we got" he promised
"CO to the bridge" Kate piped over the intercom,
"Were about 30minutes away" Dutchy offered, Kate grabbed the phone to talk to the man
"We are about 30minutes away,"
"I don't think she has that long, come on petal wake up" the man told them.
"Get life jackets on everyone and make sure the life raft is useable." Kate ordered him, Mike walked onto the bridge, Kate filled him in,
"Sir if we use the RHIB we can be there in 12-15 minutes" she offered, Mike considered the proposal before he reached for the com system.
"Boarding party to RHIBS" he ordered "X take both RHIBs,"
Kate nodded as half the bridge emptied, leaving only Mike and RO.
They geared up as quickly as they could before climbing into the RHIB's speeding out into the night. It didn't take long before they lost radio contact with the Hamersley and in to time at all they were at the boat. It was a small boat that would normally run fast but it sat stationary,
"Let's go, Swain upfront" Kate ordered aware if this girl was as ill as her dad had said she would need Swains attention sooner rather than later.
Boarding was straight forwards as the man came out the cabin crying in relief
"She is in here please hurry" he begged, Swain headed below, Kate behind it took them seconds to realise it wasn't legit as they were faced with 6 heavily armed, well trained men. Both Kate and Swain had guns pointing at their necks before they could even shout a warning.
Wasting no time they were tied up and gagged as Dutchy came down below with Bomber. Again they were both taken down, Dutchy with a swift blow to his head and Bomber with a gun held against her neck. This left just 2dads above deck, they took Bomber as a hostage above deck, it worked as 2dads surrendered.
"Right tie him up and off load them" The man who appeared to be in charge ordered,
"Fred, get the key to the RHIB, George, Ron load them up, Harry, Neville stand guard make sure none of these bozos try anything if they do shoot them,"
"Yes Dumbledore" they all muttered. With that sorted and the Navy being lead off his ship he turned his attention to his prize. She lay there tied up her eyes wide with fear struggling against her bonds
"Hello Lucy, remember your favourite uncle do we?"
The engines to the boat started as Kate was roughly hauled off the floor and dragged into the bedroom, a quick glance out the window showed her team sat tied up in the RHIB which lay motionless. Kate sighed with relief, at least her team was alive.
As she was nearly dropped narrowly missing the floor to land on the corner of the bed she heard a shout
"Careful, we don't want to damage her for the surgery" the man she remember as her Uncle Doug said. She shivered this was worse than a nightmare. This boat was fast faster than the Hamersley and the RHIBs with a good head start and a busy boating lane nearby the odds of them finding her were slim, unless they could track down the port they were going to or got a coast watch plane up. Neither seemed likely. She would have to get herself out of this.
She lay on the bed her mind whizzing of thoughts on how to escape.
