Molly had thought that all of this had just been a dream that Charles hadn't come to her asking her to be his medic on a mission but nope it hadn't been a dream it had been real and now she was awake Molly wondered what the hell she had been thinking when it came to accepting his offer. She could've demand more that he went for someone else because of the fact that they were married but she hadn't really given up much of a fight.
So when she got her stuff together and talked to her family she hadn't told them that she was underneath Captain James and honestly she had been underneath him quiet a few times, she would rather not tell them that her ex husband had come calling and she had accepted his offer.
Molly wasn't sure if Charles had told the rest of the team that she would be joining them but she would rather he kept it a secret so she asked another female medic to check the equipment or look as if she was checking it so that she could come in and give the others a big surprise.
It seemed to be going well because when the rest of 2-Section arrived to help out with the supplies Mansfield Mike was swaggering up to the new female, Fingers was checking her out as he usually did and Brains was talking to someone else on the team she had to laugh because Mansfield's voice carried over to her and she heard him say..
"You must be the new medic, nice to meet your acquaintance darling, my name's Mansfield Mike though I'm not actually from Mansfield"
Molly had to laugh because of the fact that it was mostly what he had said to her the first day that she had joined the team when they were going to Afghan. She then came out and sighed before she said loudly "Are you still pushing that drivel, everyone knows you're from Mansfield"
At that Mansfield turned around and so did the rest of the team and the three that had been with her in Afghan actually came over to her. "Oh jesus" she said and then suffered through the hugs of these three sweaty men.
"No one said that you would be joining us, Dawesy" Brains spoke as he pulled away from the hug to look at her. "I mean you are joining us on this mission, right?"
"No, I thought that I would come up all this way to just wave you off" She said sarcastically and then spoke once more "Can you at least let me breathe properly?" Molly was pretty much being squeezed by these two guys and while they were actually taller than her they were still bigger than her in size too and she needed to be able to breathe.
"Sorry, Molly" both Fingers and Mansfield said at the same time before Fingers actually started talking again. "Don't be silly, Brains, she's come all this way to see me ain't that right Molly" he winked at her before grinning once more.
"Oh, good one" she rolled her eyes before looking at the three guys that she did know, and then started to reply to them "Yes I am joining the mission," she then moved on to Fingers "No, I'm not here to see your ugly mug," then on to Mansfield "You're still not from bloody Derby"
"So the other female?" Brains nudged his head to the other female that had been going through the equipment "You asked her to take over so that you can surprise us"
"Not just a pretty face" Molly said and patted his chest before she moved over to where the other woman was and relieved her from pretending and then picked up the clipboard.
"Well it's nice to have the team back now that Dawesy is back" Fingers muttered to the other two.
"And if you don't get on with loading this stuff up then it'll be three less, move" Captain James had said to the three that had been standing around talking to each other after Molly had actually moved over to the kit.
Monk, who had been watching the exchange, nudged Brains when he came over to help said to him. "Who is the new medic?"
Brains who was putting the boxes in the back of the lorry didn't even look up because of the fact that he knew who he was on about anyway. "That is Molly Dawes, she was our medic when we first went in to Afghan"
"Is that...?"
"Yep, but I wouldn't actually say anything about that around them not sure just how much they have talked about it so it's probably best that you don't mention the fact that that was Captain James' wife"
"His wife?" Maisie raised an eyebrow and looked over at Molly who was checking things off on her clipboard before Maisie looked back over at the two guys who had been talking about the new medic. "So is this like a favourite thing or no?"
"Actually I think I mentioned that Molly was his ex wife and no it's probably not a favourite thing but with Georgie not going abroad then he probably had to improvise and now they have got a divorce it's probably easier to have her on the team but again don't mention it."
Maisie looked over at Molly and wondered what was so great about this woman, in the beginning she hadn't got on with Georgie and then they became some sort of friends and now there was a new medic and she had been hearing a lot about a Molly and if this is the woman that Captain James was married to then she wondered what was so great about her and why she would even be allowed to go with them now.
"Don't even thing about it" Brains said looking over at Maisie, it was like he could pretty much read her mind on what she was going to do and Molly didn't need that some sort of shit going on while they were on mission. Richards had already given Georgie a hard time in the beginning they didn't need her going after Molly too but Brains did have to admit that she would give as good as she got so if Maisie did go after her then god help the girl when Molly got hold of her back in the UK.
"I don't know what you're even talking about"
"You're thinking about giving her a bloody hard time and trust me we already gave her one in Afghan and it wasn't our proudest moment and she made sure she stuck it out and in the end she turned out to be one of the best damn medics we've ever seen"
"How did she prove herself?"
"She crawled on her stomach in a minefield to get one of our team members so if she can handle that then she's certainly going to handle you"
"Bloody privates" Maisie muttered, even though she was a private too, but it was loud enough for Captain James to hear when he was standing behind them.
"Actually Richards she's a Lance Corporal and Brains is right, she will give as good as she gets so I wouldn't try it if I were you" he looked over at the other female on the team and then nudged his head towards the work "Carry on, we have only a bit of time to do this before we're heading out"
Molly wasn't deaf and she definitely wasn't stupid because she knew what they had been saying behind her back but it was something that she would rather not deal with right now. They had divorced and that had been that and now they were working together she hoped that it wouldn't actually be all that awkward for them. She wanted to get this mission done and give her work one hundred percent and then get back to the UK to do what she had been doing before.
She glanced over at the other girl on the team and knew that she would be getting trouble from her because it just seemed to radiate from her. Sierra Leone was going to be challenging enough without some gobby little mare coming at her. Molly shook her head and then ticked off the last item she had been looking at before she then called over to the guys who were loading the stuff in to the trucks. "Another one to go in"
The other supplies would already be at the plane waiting to be loading on, it was just the kit that they would need themselves that was being checked before they headed out.
"This one going in Molly?" Fingers pointed to the box that she had just finished.
"Yeah, thanks" she said and then nodded before she then looked at him properly "Are people talking about the divorce a lot here?"
Fingers was actually a little taken back by that because he was sure that he hadn't been talking about it with Mansfield but there had definitely been a bit of gossip that had gone through the lads especially when they found out that Molly was single once again. They hadn't seen her that much since her wedding actually mostly because of the fact that when Captain James was actually in the UK sometimes Molly had been on another mission and the other way around. "It's been talked about but after a while it became old news" he admitted.
"I hope so" Molly really didn't want this to be the talk of the whole mission, they had things to be doing and people to be saving and she wanted to keep their heads in the game rather than have them focusing on her love life which at the moment was none existant.
"Congratulations on the promotion by the way, you deserve it"
Molly smiled "Thanks, it was definitely something that I wanted" she definitely wanted this promotion. "If you could with that box, thanks Fingers" she smiled and watched as he picked the box up and took it over to the truck.
"Everything going alright?" Captain James came to her side after Fingers had walked away.
"Yep, just making sure we have everything and then we can put it in the truck and be heading on our way and you don't have to keep an eye on me all the time you know"
"I'm hoping that you will look after me Dawesy, you know I need someone to keep me in check"
Molly scoffed "I'm sure you have someone to do that for you, but I will crack the whip if you're getting out of hand"
"Oh please do!" He teased before he too walked away and Molly looked after him and sighed once more.
This was going to be a little bit harder than she thought because Charles definitely hadn't changed and if he was teasing her in this way then he thought she hadn't changed either and sometimes she thought so too but trying to keep a level head when it comes to her ex husband was going to be harder than she thought it was. Not because of the fact that she still felt something, that ship had probably sailed but she couldn't deny that she didn't sometimes think about him and now working with him again was just going to take her a bit of time to make sure that she didn't fall for him this time either.
That was going to be easier said than done. He was still a very hot man and he really did have a nice arse.
Molly rolled her eyes before she went back to her work.