Kate lay on her rack trying to read her book but was struggling and fast losing interest. She couldn't get in to it. It was a new one by an author she hadn't heard of before and it wasn't her cup of tea. Events on Samaru were also playing on her mind. They showed no sign of calming down and were escalating quickly, becoming more hostile by the day. She was stuck on light duties having been shot in the back. The Kevlar had done its job and stopped the bullet but had left a nasty purple bruise down most of her back.
"hey" Nav smiled opening the door walking in.
"hey" Kate replied wincing as she pushed herself up on to her elbow
"you okay?" Nav asked
"yeah it's just this damn bruise it hurts when I move" she smiled weakly. "how long till we're home?" she asked just wanting to go home have a nice hot bubble bath and a cheeky glass of wine.
"6 hours" Nav said pulling her pens from her pockets.
"here there. Captain speaking all crew not on watch muster boat deck. That is all" Mikes voice echoed across the ship.
Groaning Kate rolled her head back in frustration. This was not going to be good she could feel it. Swinging her legs round she stuffed her feet back in to her boots before making her way up to the boat deck.
"sir?" she called walking up to mike. "what's going on?"
"all in good time X" Mike smiled walking up on to the main deck.
As the rest of the crew made their way slowly out Kate took her place standing next to want like him to not tell her what was going on especially when it warranted calling the crew all together as that usually meant something drastic happening. Everyone slowly milled out all equally confused as each other.
"Everybody here?" mike asked looking at them all. "Good." he smiled "now I know everything has been a little tense lately and with everything that is going on, I thought we could have some fun. So, tomorrow night we are going to have our very own Hammersley's got talent. I thought we could do duets.
There were groans from across the deck. This didn't sound like fun it sounded like toucher.
"come on. This is going to be fun" Mike smiled "I have names in this bucket whoever you pull out will be your partner and songs in this one whatever you pull will be your song. Nav do you want to go first." he held out the name bucket to her
Closing her eyes Nav stuck her hand in, rummaging around she eventually grabbed a piece of paper. Pulling it out she opened it. a huge smile grew across her face. "ET" she grinned turning to him
"ET you get to choose a song now" Mike smiled holding out the second bucket. "dig deep there are some classics in there" Mike called.
Pulling out his slip of paper he read the name of the song. It wasn't his idea of a good karaoke song.
"so what song did we get" Nav asked
Holding out the paper Nav took it, a huge smile grew across her face. "i love this song" she said excitedly. "dirty dancing is like the best guilty pleasure film ever"
"Okay Nav" Mike smiled "swain your next" he held out the bucket.
Putting his hand in Swain pulled out Charge's name.
"Charge song time" Mike smiled holding the other bucket to him.
Putting his hand in charge made no effort in choosing the song and pulled out the first piece of paper his fingers touched. "you can't be serious" he swore loudly holding it out for swain to see. "islands in the bloody stream. Sir if this is what's on your playlist then you have a real bad taste in music"
"don't worry Swain, I'll let you be Kenny and I can do my Dolly impression" Swain grinned.
"Bomber, your turn" Mike held out the bucket.
digging her hand in to the bucket she looked at the name she pulled out. "RO" she half smiled "Robert you had best pull out a half decent song and preferably one from this century" she said turning to Robert.
Reluctantly RO stuck his hand in the bucket, pulling out his choice "yes!" he cried "i love this song" he grinned
"what song is that" Bomber asked looking at the title
"seriously you don't know" RO said looking at her. "it is brilliant and it is a male female duet so we can sing our own parts" he smiled
"if you say so" Bomber muttered
"okay" mike called trying to bring them all back on task. "Buffer your next" he held out the bucket. Sighing Buffer stuck his hand in pulling out Spiders name.
"Spider you best make this good any girly crap and I will make you pay" he smiled over at buffer.
"no pressure then buff" Spider called sticking his hand in hoping he would get a good song. Pulling out a bit of paper he read the name of the song "wicked!" he smiled "PJ and Duncan" he smiled
"Who?" Bomber called
"PJ and Duncan. Better known as Ant and Dec nowadays. It was a big annoying hit in England in the 90's" Buffer smiled looking at Spiders shocked face. "what who says I can't know this stuff" he said slapping spider gently round the head.
Kate stood watching as everyone pulled their names from the bucket. "Sir" she half smiled "what about me?" she asked
"ah well as we are the last ones left It is a given that we are partners" he smiled "so you can choose the song" he held the song bucket out.
Looking in to the bucket there wasn't many pieces of paper left. Putting her hand nervously in she pulled one out. Reading the name of the song she scowled at mike.
"i hate you" she hissed so only he heard. Shoving the piece of paper in to his chest she turned heading to her cabin. He had fixed this she was sure of it. How could he do this to her.
Taking the paper Mike looked at it. He smiled it was a good song although he could see why she had reacted in that way and why she had ran off. Given everything that had happened between them it was a hard song to here let alone sing.
so this just came to me last night. I love the got talent. and we get the auditions for Britain's got talent starting soon. (the lives have been postponed) also watching the videos on Ian Stenlakes Facebook page of him singing to his baby daughter. (so cute) anyway hope you enjoy and let me know what you think. (I perpously have not included the name of Mike and Kates song)
enjoy x