For the past two weeks Flint and Lady Jaye had been at each other's throats. Which wouldn't have worried Hawk too much because they were known to have some knock down drag out fights. Their fights were legendary. What worried him the most was that they were taking their anger at each other out on everyone else and even snapped at him and Duke. That was not like his Third-in-Command or his Head Intelligence officer. He had to get to the bottom of this, and to do that he would have to do the one thing he swore he was never going to do—counsel them about their relationship.
There was a knock at his solid oak door to his office and knew his two soldiers were behind the door wondering why they had been summoned. He smirked and let them wait for a few minutes before he called for them to enter. He leaned back in his high back, black leather chair with his fingers steepled against his chin and watched them enter.
Flint took a perfect at attention pose to the left of the desk and Lady Jaye took the same pose to the right leaving a good two-foot clearance between the two of them, which was unusual. Usually they stood right next to each other.
"Flint and Lady Jaye reporting as ordered, Sir," Flint said respectfully, staring straight ahead.
"At ease and have a seat," Hawk waved at them dismissively. He watched them intently as Flint and Lady Jaye took seats on opposite sides of the room. "Yep, definitely not a good sign," Hawk thought to himself. "Alright enough of these childish games. You two have been acting like a couple of teenagers having a lovers' spat."
"With all do respect sir…" Flint started but was cut short by a glare from the higher-ranking officer.
"Can it. You two have been bickering and fighting like two year olds over the last balloon at a kiddie carnival." Hawk stood up and walked around the front of his desk and leaned back against it. "I was just going to leave you two alone, but when you started taking it out on the others and your Commanding Officers I couldn't stay out of it anymore."
"We're fine," Flint argued, crossing his arms across his broad chest and looking at the wall beside him.
"Shut up Flint!" Lady Jaye growled. "We are not fine and you bloody know it. But like usual you are too pig headed to realize it."
"Well you are to stubborn to listen to me when I tell you not to do something!" Flint growled back at her, now looking right at her with anger blazing in his gray eyes.
Lady Jaye started yelling in Gaelic at a rapid fire pace at Flint. Neither man in the room knew what she was saying, but from the sound of her voice and the look on her face whatever she was saying was not very pleasant and they probably wouldn't want it to be translated to the English language.
Hawk stood up between the two of them and put up a silencing hand. "Quiet!" He looked at both of them to make sure they would obey before he went on. "Alright two weeks ago something changed and you two became bitter enemies. Now I didn't want to do this but I'm going to have to separate you two." He walked around to the back of his desk and sat down again and picked up a pile of papers, tapped them against the desk and looked at Lady Jaye. "So I'm going to reassign Lady Jaye to Joe sub-base 365 in Guadalajara."
"NO!" Flint yelled moving to sit on the edge of his seat.
Lady Jaye sat there in stunned silence, staring in shock at Hawk.
"Excuse me Chief Warrant Officer Faireborn?" Hawk asked in an annoyed voice and looked at Flint harshly.
"I'm sorry sir, but I can't keep an eye on her down there." Flint said in a rush and Hawk could swear he heard a hint of panic in his voice.
"I don't need looking after!" Lady Jaye spat hotly.
"Yes you do! In your condition…" Flint's eyes widened when he realized in his haste to set Lady Jaye straight he let out something they didn't want Hawk to know yet.
"Her condition?" Hawk asked looking from Flint to Lady Jaye who turned away immediately, letting Hawk know what he suspected after that revelation was true. "How far along?"
"Six weeks," Lady Jaye said in almost a whisper, still not looking at either man in the room.
"This all makes sense now." Hawk said mostly to himself then looked at Flint. "You better do the right thing or I will personally throw you in the brig. You're so lucky that you are on this team and not in a normal military unit."
Flint looked down. "I know sir and I will."
Hawk looked at Lady Jaye who was now looking at Hawk curiously. "And you, young lady will not go into any combat situations or into the field. You will do all your intel gathering from here at the base." Lady Jaye was about to object but Hawk once again gave her a silencing hand. "That is my final word. Now the two of you make up for the sake of your little one. Dismissed."
Flint and Lady Jaye left Hawk's office and went back to Flint's quarters to work things out.