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'Captain you need to get out of there NOW!' Neve screamed in to her microphone. She closed her eyes and rubbed the bridge of her nose. Why couldn't we have been paired with Chris and his team dammit? She thought. Right now Neve and her team were assisting a different SOU Unit with a recently promoted Captain by the name of Adrian Morrison who was still fairly wet behind the ears when it came to giving orders. Right now Neve was about to assert her authority and give him a direct command to get the hell out of the mess Adrian and his unit were in. Worst of all, they were currently in Libya. It was dry, far too hot and the building Neve and her team were in had no air conditioning or anything else to keep them cool.
Neve had a recent promotion herself; sort of. She was still a Major, but now she had the authority to give orders to the SOU unit she was overseeing as well as manage the other teams that may have been on site. It was a new scheme that had come in to place in the last few weeks giving some of the higher ranked agents the role of Principle Field Officer and the authority to make important decisions on site instead of bothering the B.S.A.A. higher ups. It worked for her anyway as she got to throw her proverbial weight around even though she had to deal with a lot more paperwork. But right now the Captain she was dealing with was seriously beginning to get on her nerves. He kept insisting that they could handle the sheer amount of J'avo and infected lurching their way, but Neve knew otherwise from their personal camera feeds and hearing a few of his unit shouting that they were swiftly running out of ammunition.
Neve also had two extra members on her team. Two newbies who weren't yet used to her temper which was gradually getting worse every time Captain Morrison tried reassuring Neve that they could handle their current predicament. Michael Kay and Joseph Reid were both ex-Corporals in the United States Army and had recently joined the B.S.A.A. Intelligence division. For the next six months they would be completing their advanced training by gaining field experience under Neve and her team. They soon learned quickly though that Neve's short fuse was just about to hit the gunpowder.
'CAPTAIN MORRISON!' She screeched in to her microphone. 'If I've told you to retreat once then I've told you ten more times since then. I've already told you that back-up cannot reach you time to provide you with assistance so don't think you can handle this on your own because you can't. RETREAT NOW CAPTAIN MORRISON THAT IS A DIRECT ORDER.'
Neve was seething and nearly foaming at the mouth. The radio channel had gone silent for a few seconds before it came back to life with the voice of a slightly ashamed Captain Morrison.
'Yes Major.'
'Good, now that you understand me you get back to base pronto. We're sending in another team.' Neve grimaced in to her microphone. She tapped the button on her earpiece to switch the mic off.
'Fucking idiot.' She growled. 'He must think I'm fucking stupid or something.'
'You chewing him out when he gets back Major?' Matt grinned as he leant back in his chair from his computer to look at Neve who was busy pacing around behind her team.
'Does a bear shit in the woods? Of course he's getting his arse kicked when he gets back.' Neve grunted at Matt who was now chuckling at her. 'How long until Delta Team can arrive?'
'Already put the call through when you were shouting at Morrison Major. ETA in approximately seven minutes, possibly less if the roads are still clear.' Claire announced. At least Neve could count on her own team to have some incentive and actually do their job. Their job would have been finished now if Captain Morrison had listened to Neve and pulled out when she said he should, but his stubbornness and reluctance to follow orders dragged the mission on. They were only there to clear out a huge amount of infected and it only should have taken them a few hours including a final sweep round of their designated area. But it wasn't the first time Captain Morrison had messed up a mission with Neve, their last one didn't go according to plan either because of him. Whatever. Neve thought. It's all going in my report. At least with Delta Team on their way now to finish off the job that Captain Morrison's unit never finished; they could be on their way back to Germany within the next few hours. Her thought's turned to Chris who would be finishing his own mission round about now so he would be back in Germany soon too. Probably a bit before Neve would be there, but she was looking forward to seeing him, especially after today.
The second unit Neve was now watching over was primarily made up of ex-U.S. Marines who were good albeit rather loud. Every time she spoke to them she was replied to with a shout of "YES MA'AM!" In that very typical marine way. While it freaked her out slightly she soon got used to it, at least this team and their Captain actually listened to her. Though Neve and her team wanted to laugh at the Captain's name which was Alan Morgan. So he was in fact Captain Morgan. They did find out at some point that his nickname was "Rum" and all decided that it would be a criminal offence if his nickname wasn't.
The last few dozen infected and J'avo had been taken out and Delta Team had successfully carried out their final sweep of the area before everybody was given the all-clear to head back to base. Neve had already seen Captain Morrison for all of about ten minutes and had given him his first formal warning before notifying him that his actions today would be reported to Neve's superiors, and she hoped that for his sake it never happened again as he would get kicked from the squad. She reminded him several times that he had a unit of eleven other men to look after and that his actions very well could have had them all killed. With Morrison out of the way, she hurried through writing her reports and e-mailed them to her Commanders as soon as she finished them. Her team and the others would be waiting for her to finish up before they were flown back to Germany and she didn't want to keep them waiting nor could she wait to leave herself. She was looking forward to a nice long shower when she got back to the hotel in Germany, along with a big dinner in a decent restaurant followed by an evening of snuggling with Chris.
The flight back to Germany only took around two and a half hours plus an extra half hour to get to the hotel. Neve checked her watch which read twenty to eight. It was still fairly light outside too and it wouldn't be dark for a few more hours. She bid her team-mates farewell for the evening and quickly made her way up to her room which she was sharing with Chris after picking up her key card. The lady she had spoken to at reception said that Chris had already checked in so Neve quickened her pace. She burst in to the room hoping to see Chris sprawled out on the sofa watching TV but he wasn't. Their cases were in the room and Chris's jacket was draped over a chair but he was nowhere to be found. Neve thought she could call him or send him a text message asking where he was but decided against it, so she opened up her case which Chris had kindly retrieved for her from the German branch and took out her shower toiletries. Grabbing her iPod from her handbag on the way, she parked it in the rooms dock and turned the volume up high enough for her to hear it in the bathroom; the sounds of Stevie Wonder filling her ears as she stripped off her clothing and stepped in to the shower. She started singing along to "Superstition" whilst she lathered up her hair and rinsed the suds off.
'You're a terrible singer, but I give you ten points for trying.'
Neve nearly jumped out of her skin as she heard a voice behind her and hands resting on her hips when she had her head under the running water. She scraped the water away from her eyes as she turned around to find a naked Chris grinning at her.
'Holy shit Chris you nearly frightened me to death!' Neve exclaimed as she pushed his chest slightly in retaliation. He laughed at her as he put his hands back on her hips and pulled her closer.
'Feeling a bit edgy Major?'
Neve just rolled her eyes and smiled. 'Not now I know it's you.'
Chris carefully moved the wet slicks of hair out of Neve's face as she looked up at him.
'So, am I gonna be able to get clean or what?' Neve asked Chris.
'No.' Chris simply said as he swiftly picked Neve up and tugged her legs round his waist edging her toward the shower wall so her back was resting against it. 'You'll be twice as dirty once I'm finished with you.' He didn't even give Neve a chance to reply to his statement. He just forced his lips on hers. He felt her lips twitch in to a smile under his own as she wrapped her arms around his neck.
