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Oscar cussed as he realized he was stuck and had to radio Freddy who was a hundred yards ahead of him.

"Fred."

He saw Freddy stop his snowmobile and a few seconds later he heard him answer over the radio. "Yeah?"

"Turn around a bit. I buried this piece of shit."

". . . You're stuck?"

"Yeah." Oscar sighed, "And I won't be able to lift it out on my own… Unless I want to spend more than a day on the task."

"Coming…"

Oscar could hear the smirk on his partner's lips as he prepared to turn his snowmobile around and head back to him to help him get unstuck.

"Go screw yourself…" he glared as Freddy came close enough to see and speak to without relying on the radio.

"What? Why?" he chuckled, as he stepped off his snowmobile and sank a little into the snow. "Whoa, you really sank it in there…"

"Shut up…" Oscar frowned, "Help me out of this hitch and then we can go save those guys."

"Pretty sure it's just the one guy that needs saving…"

"We're picking up both of 'em…" Oscar rolled his eyes.

"Okay, so… I'm gonna try to lift this side, you hang your weight on the other side and give a little throttle. NOT MUCH, cause you might run over me with the belt and I'm not a fan of that. It has happened once and I have no plan of repeating that incident."

"Ouch, did you get hurt?"

Freddy shook his head, "Actually no. But it was scary."

"Okay, copy that. Not full throttle."

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Mac went outside and picked up Jack's frozen clothes that he had hung on a wire outside of the cabin. They were frozen solid. Mac picked one and one item down and gave it a good couple of whacks against the outside of the cabin, the lumps of ice shattered around the fabric. Once he was sure that there weren't any larger lumps of ice left.

Then he went in and hung the clothes items over a chair in front of the stove. It didn't take long after that before the clothes were dry.

"Well, now we just have to wait for rescue…" Mac sighed and nodded towards the clothes.

"Hope they'll get here before tomorrow…" Jack muttered and let out a controlled breath.

"Even if they do, we probably won't move out before tomorrow anyway."

Mac could almost feel Jack frowning, without even looking directly at him, "Why? Why can't we just get going towards home as soon as the opportunity arrives?"

"You've been on rescue missions yourself…" Mac started, "Your condition isn't life threatening, even though there is no doubt that it's painful. And the rescue team will probably be tired from being out in these weather conditions. It's safer if we just take an extra night here. It's almost dusk anyway…"

Jack nodded reluctantly. "Okay… Yeah… Get it…"

Mac studied Jack, almost on the verge of asking how he was holding up, for the nth time since Jack took a tumble down the hill and messed up his leg. But he decided not to, because it would likely annoy his partner to be asked if his most likely broken, definitely messed up, leg was still bothering him.

"I just wish I could be back home already. Hell, I'd even be willing to spend a few nights down at medical…"

"Don't tell me you have a fever too…" Mac mock frowned, "I get it though. That leg ain't no joke…"

"It's a bad joke, that's what it is." Jack returned, rolling his eyes.

Mac nodded, "Yeah, nothing funny about it…"

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"Okay, if we manage to make it the rest of the way without getting stuck and spending a couple of hours on getting a snowmobile loose, we'll be there before it's time to turn in for the night." Freddy sighed as he collapsed back on the seat of his snowmobile.

Oscar nodded, "Sorry, didn't mean to…"

"Of course you didn't." Freddy almost chuckled as he breathed heavily. "Getting stuck is inevitable, especially in this snow."

Oscar nodded, "Yeah, it is. Isn't it?"

Freddy nodded again, "Just please… Next time…"

Oscar nodded slowly, waiting for Freddy to finish.

"Next time you get off the snowmobile and I get the easy task…"

Oscar chuckled, "Okay, let's try to avoid getting stuck a next time then…"

Freddy nodded, "Yeah… Ready to get going?"

Oscar nodded, "Yeah, we spent too much time on this."

They both straddled their respective snowmobiles, turned the key, pulled the pull cord. Freddy checked his map and compass, and decided on a line to drive, he tucked it away again and headed off. Oscar followed suit.

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Hope you enjoyed this tiny chapter…