Chapter 14

You guys are seriously the best and I'm so glad you all are enjoying this story. I'm enjoying writing it and I'm glad it's making sense because sometimes I feel like my mind is a thousand steps ahead of my typing lol. Enjoy another chapter! Also, I'm not a doctor so sorry for any medical inaccuracies. It's fanfiction so anything is possible lol.

Bravo team and others on base were making head way on the enemy attacking them on base. They had started forcing the enemy back where they came from. Clay was still up top taking out as many big targets as he could.

All of a sudden the enemy started running for their vehicles as if they were retreating. Different trucks started driving away as some shot off a few more rounds.

"What the hell," Jason muttered as he tried to take out a few more before they left.

"That's right, run bastards," Sonny yelled.

The guys all kept in their positions to make sure it wasn't a trick of some sort where they'd all be ambushed.

"Guess they're plan didn't work out and they decided to retreat," Trent said.

Jason watched as the vehicle lights got further away. "Something isn't right."

"You guys good?" Blackburn said running out towards them seeing as things had become quiet.

"Yeah, we're good. You?" Jason asked.

"We're good. Where's Clay?" Blackburn said.

"Right here," Clay said jogging up to the group. "What the hell was that?"

"No idea," Blackburn said.

Jason looked around at the team grateful everyone was okay yet something was missing. "JSOC?" he asked.

Blackburn hesitated before answering, "We can't seem to get a hold of anyone there. Mandy and Lisa were both in interrogation with al-Hazred when everything went down as far as we know."

"What do you mean you can't get a hold of anyone?" Jason said as thoughts started running through his mind. He looked back at where they saw the cars retreat. "They got him. They got Asim al-Hazred."

"If they have al-Hazred and you can't get in contact with anyone at JSOC, what does that mean?" Sonny asked thinking of Lisa.

"Maybe everything is fine and they just don't have a way to communicate," Ray said hopefully.

"Gear up, we're clearing JSOC," Jason said determined to get to Mandy. He couldn't lose another person close to him, especially her. Mandy was a fighter and knew Jason would come for her. She had to be okay.

The team geared up and headed for the JSOC part of base. Blackburn had decided to join them as well since he was worried about Mandy and Davis.

"Heads on a swivel. We don't know if anyone is left behind," Jason said as the team entered the JSOC area.

Everything was quiet. As they approached the JSOC building they saw parts of it had been blown up but the building was still standing. Looking away from the building they could see one of the exterior walls protecting base had been breached.

"They must have had a second get away plan. Keep us distracted by fighting them one end while they came in through here to get to al-Hazred," Trent said.

"These guys were well prepared. They knew our entire base and what we'd do," Ray said as they swept the area for any combatants.

They got to the JSOC building door way. They could see someone had already breached the door way to get in.

"They probably headed for the holding cells area. The building is solid there and there's only one way in and out," Blackburn said to Jason.

"Alright, we head for the holding cells," Jason said.

The team entered the building clearing the hallway and each room they came across. One of the rooms they opened to find a bunch of analysts and other department personnel.

"Everyone okay in here? Anyone need medical attention?" Trent asked in a calming tone. Everyone in the room seemed relatively okay but was clearly shaken up emotionally.

"Just need you guys to sit tight here for a little bit longer until we clear the area and then we'll get you out, okay?" Ray said.

Once they reached the hallway towards the holding cells, Jason had the team stop against the wall. Ray ran across the hall to the other side of the entry way. They both gave each other a look and counted to three to take a look down the hall. They both saw a body of a dead guard at the entrance way to the holding cell area.

"I see one body," Ray said looking at Jason.

"Yeah," Jason breathed shakily thinking about what they could be walking into. "Okay, I lead down the-," Jason was cut off by the sound of a gunshot.

"What the hell was that?" Sonny whispered loudly.

"Ray, you and the guys clear the rooms. Blackburn, you're with me and we head straight for the holding cells," Jason said. "Ready?"

Blackburn tapped Jason's back as they started heading down the hall and the guys cleared the other rooms.

In Jason's head he prayed to every god in existence to please not take Mandy away from him.

"You really think you can just kill me and get away with it?" Mandy asked while putting a hand to her side and seeing the blood run through her fingers. "Why not just let me bleed to death?"

"Can't risk it," Reiss said raising the gun. "Don't worry, I'll tell them how you heroically died."

Mandy looked him right in the eyes and waited for the shot to come with a glint in her eyes.

All of a sudden the sound of a gun went off and Mandy let out a breath.

Reiss had a gunshot wound to the shoulder and was taken off guard. Lisa stood with the gun in her hand. She quickly shoved Reiss to the ground in his dazed state.

"Zip ties, get the zip ties off the guard," Mandy said. She could feel the adrenaline rush slowing down and the pain of her stab wound and effects of the concussion were coming through.

Lisa got the zip ties and secured Reiss across from them. He was groaning in pain from the gunshot wound. She then rushed over to Mandy's side with the gun back in her hand.

"What do I do?" Lisa said panicking as she too put her hands over Mandy's wound. Her hands were now becoming sticky with Mandy's blood.

Mandy reached out to grab the top of Lisa's vest, "Listen to me, I'm pretty sure I'm going to pass out. You only talk to Director Thomson and you tell him Roman. Got it?"

"You're going to be fine and you'll tell him yourself," Lisa said trying to apply pressure to Mandy's wound. She wanted to get help but she also didn't want to leave Mandy alone.

"Lisa," Mandy said urgently. "Did you hear me?"

"Yeah, yeah. Director Thomson and tell him Roman. Just hang on okay," Lisa said desperately as she saw Mandy's eyes start to flutter. "Stay with me Mandy okay?"

"Good," Mandy said taking a deep breath. "He'll know what to do okay. You only trust him and Bravo," Mandy said through breaths.

Out of the corner of her eye, Lisa saw movement at the door way and drew her gun up ready to shoot. "Oh thank god," Lisa said.

Jason and Blackburn were at the doorway looking in ready to shoot if necessary. Jason froze for a moment taking in the scene.

"TRENT!" Jason yelled while rushing down to Mandy's side seeing her covered in her own blood. "Mandy! Look at me. Open those eyes up for me."

"What happened here?" Ray said following Trent in.

"Reiss was in on it. I got him tied up over there. Al-Hazred is gone," Lisa said as the rest of the team came into the holding cell area. "I don't know what went down in here. Reiss knocked me out down the hall."

"Oh my god," Clay said looking at the state of Mandy.

"Lisa, you okay?" Sonny said coming on her side.

"Yeah, got hit in the head but Mandy," Lisa said trailing off. "I didn't know what to do," Lisa said in desperation.

"Okay. It's okay. Lisa, I need you to move your hands so I can take a look at Mandy's wound," Trent said as calmly as he could.

Lisa moved her hands and Trent went to check the wound area, which caused Mandy to moan.

"Mandy? Look at me," Jason said cupping the back of her head to look at him. He felt a sticky substance on his hand. It was Mandy's blood. "I think she's got a head wound to the back of her head too."

Jason had seen his fair share of combat. He'd seen friends wounded and die. This was a whole different experience. They had decided they'd try the relationship thing out. He didn't want another loved one taken away again.

"Hang on, hang on for me Mandy," Jason pleaded quietly as he took her head under his chin.

"Jason?" Mandy mumbled.

"I'm right here," Jason replied.

"Knew you'd come," Mandy said.

"Always," Jason said.

"You son of a bitch," Sonny said going at Reiss. Brock and Blackburn both went to pull Sonny off Reiss.

"Easy Sonny, we need him alive," Blackburn said coldly as he looked at Reiss.

"We need to move her. Looks like the wound is about an inch deep. I don't think anything major was hit but she's lost blood and probably has a nasty concussion."

"Building is clear," Full Metal said walking in. "Base is clear as well."

"Alright, I'm gonna take her," Jason said. He started lifting Mandy up and she groaned at the pain caused by the movement. "Sorry, just hang in there alright."

Mandy was going in and out of conscious. The people in the room were blurry. "Roman," Mandy kept mumbling.

"I know, I got it," Lisa said as she rushed alongside Jason to medical.

Once they reached medical Jason burst in yelling, "I need some help over here!"

Trent started rattling off his medical assessment to the doctors and nurses attending to Mandy as she was led away on the gurney. Lisa and Jason tried to keep following but a nurse stopped them telling them they couldn't go any further. The two stood there covered in Mandy's blood as the rest of Bravo team came in behind them.

"You guys should clean up," Blackburn said as he took cautious steps towards the two. "Come on Lisa," Blackburn said reaching to lead her away while shooting a look at Ray to take care of Jason. "Davis, you need to get checked out too."

Lisa looked down at her hands. They were red. Mandy's blood was all over her. She'd never been in a situation like this before. Her breathing started to take a panicky pattern. "I, I, I need to-," she stuttered.

"Come on Lisa," Sonny said softly while taking her into an embrace. "Just breathe. Follow my breathing." He started leading her away to get checked out and cleaned up.

"Roman. What does that mean? Mandy kept saying it," Jason said while looking down at his hands covered in Mandy's blood.

Lisa turned back to the group, "She said to only trust you guys and Director Thomson. She said to tell him Roman and he'd know what to do."

"I'm going to keep Reiss separated from everyone," Blackburn said. "We don't talk to anyone outside this group. If Mandy said to only talk to Director Thomson then we bring him in. No one else. Mandy knows something more about all this. We take a moment to breath and then we'll get to work. We'll pull the security footage and see what we have to work with. We'll be there for Mandy like she's been there for us. They attacked one of us, they attacked all of us."

"Damn right," Full Metal said.

Just then Trent came back and everyone was waiting eagerly on news about Mandy.

"She's okay. The stab wound didn't hit any vital organs. She has a nasty head wound causing a concussion. The wound wasn't as deep as we thought. She's probably on some strong pain killers to help her recover. They're going to monitor overnight."

The entire room let out a sigh of relief. Jason leaned back against a wall thanking every higher power being for letting Mandy be okay.

"If you want to sit with her, you can," Trent said turning towards Jason who nodded.

"First, you're getting cleaned up and we all should get checked out," Ray said taking command.

Everyone nodded and started heading to get checked out. It was just Ray and Jason in the waiting area now. Ray knew his friend needed a moment. Jason bent down trying to catch his breath and Ray stepped close to bring Jason back up and hug him. Jason let out a gasp as he grabbed onto Ray and let his emotions of worry and relief come out.

"Oh god," Jason gasped.

"She's okay, Jason. She's a fighter," Ray said reassuringly.

"Yeah," Jason nodded as he pulled back from Ray.

"Let's go get you sorted and then you can go be with her," Ray said as they started to walk off.