Chapter Ten

Molly slammed her phone down on the table in frustration and pulled at the neck of her jumper, trying to get some air. She was fairly sure it was hotter in Kenya than it had ever been in Afghanistan. She'd felt like she was melting since she stepped foot off the plane and it was definitely starting to make the little patience she had to wear thin.

Spanner cleared his throat awkwardly behind her and she spun round to face him, having not heard him come in. "Everything alright, Boss?" He asked.

"Just trying to get hold of Charles." She sighed. "You got something?" She pointed at the folder in his hand.

"Well… kind of." Spanner shrugged.

"What's that supposed to mean?" She asked, raising an eyebrow at him.

"Lane is working at the camp." He explained.

Molly raised an eyebrow. "Have you managed to contact her?"

He nodded. "We think we might have an idea."

"Careful," She joked, "you might overdo it with all these ideas you keep having."

Spanner rolled his eyes at her. "Good one, Boss."

"Well, come on then, spit it out. What's this idea?" She asked, looking at him curiously.

"We were thinking maybe you could go into the camp, if we can get you in somehow, and work alongside Georgie undercover to scope it out, see if you can find anything out? It seems like the best option. We don't really want to go in there all guns blazing before we actually know what we're dealing with, do we?"

Molly nodded in agreement. "I'd been thinking something similar. We need to find out what's going on in there, make sure it is actually him, before we can make a better plan on how to deal with it. Guess I'm going to go and see Lane then."

"I'm not sure the Brig is going to be that keen on this idea though. They've already had two doctors and an aid worker taken from the camp and presumed dead. It's going to be pretty risky, even if they don't find out who you really are." Spanner added.

"You leave him to me." Molly shrugged. "What he doesn't know won't hurt him, and I can look after myself."

"Shall we get the ball rolling then, Boss?" Spanner asked.

"Yeah." Molly nodded. "I'm just going to try Charles one more time, I'll catch you up."

Luckily, getting into the refugee camp had been a lot easier than they'd anticipated. She'd slotted in beside Georgie in the medical tent as though she'd been there the entire time, and thankfully no one had really asked any questions. In between patching people up, Georgie filled her in quietly on what had been happening and anything she thought that they might need to know to help them.

It had seemed surprisingly straight forward, Molly already had a plan forming in her head, up until the point four guys had burst into the tent as they were cleaning up at the end of the day. "You two are coming with us."

Molly looked at Georgie and nodded her head a fraction to signal to her to do as she was told. It had taken her a split second to realise that they weren't going to be able to fight their way out of this. The men were all armed and there was no way they could fight all of them off between the two of them. Reluctantly, Molly knelt down beside Georgie and held her hands out in front of her as they instructed, hoping Spanner and Peanut would be listening and know what was going on.

A second later everything went black as they covered her face, cable-tied her wrists and dragged her out to a car along with Georgie.

"Shut up and sit down you lot." Charles barked as he watched two-section load into the back of the trucks. They were loud and excited and he was annoyed and not in the mood to deal with them. They'd been shoved on a plane to Kenya with absolutely no explanation, three days before they were supposed to be going home, which he doubted was going to happen now. He must have asked a thousand times what exactly they were being sent to do and he just kept getting told they were required to support an operation and they had been the closest section available to send, but he still hadn't got a clue exactly what this mysterious operation was.

Two section thought it was brilliant. Most of them were still young enough that the prospect of some action was exciting to them. They wanted the glory of getting involved and saving the day, although he'd tried to tell them the likelihood was they'd end up not even being needed and all it was doing was delaying them getting home.

His heart sank though when they arrived at the base and he was greeted by Spanner and Peanut. "Where's Molly?" He asked.

The two Special Forces soldiers looked at each other for a moment before Spanner spoke. "We didn't realise it was you they were sending. I think we should maybe talk about this somewhere else?" He glanced over Charles's shoulder at Two Section who were watching on curiously.

"Right," Charles nodded, turning back to his section. "Go and get your kit put away. I'll come and find you in a bit." They lingered for a moment before turning and heading off towards the tent Charles had pointed to.

"So, how much do you know?" Peanut asked.

"No one would bloody tell me anything. They just shoved us on the plane and sent us here." Charles answered, getting increasingly annoyed. "So why don't you two start talking and tell me what the hell is going on here?"

Spanner took a deep breath, trying to work out the best way to tell him. "We were looking for this guy… got intel that he was involved in some stuff at the refugee camp down the road from here… Found out Georgie Lane was working there, Molly went in there undercover as a medic to try and get eyes on him. It was going really well and then these guys turned up and took Molly and Georgie. We've tracked them to a compound half an hour from here but we haven't been able to get eyes on. There's a lot of guys in the place and its heavily guarded. We needed extra bodies to get in there, which is where you come in."

"Why did they take her? Do they know she's army?" Charles asked.

"We don't know," Peanut admitted. "We hope not, because if they do then… well, you know. That's why we've gotta get this done quick. We need to do it tonight."

"What was she even doing in there in the first place? You must have known how dangerous this was?" Charles demanded.

"She offered to go." Spanner interjected. "She knew what she was getting herself into, this is what she does. I'm not being rude or anything here but you can ask her these questions when we get her back. For now, we just need to focus on actually getting her."

"What do you need us to do?" Charles asked.

"Briefing in half an hour?" Peanut suggested. "We can run your guys through it then and it'll give us a little bit of time to finalise things."

"Okay." Charles agreed quietly. "Thanks guys." He stood and watched as they walked away, heading off to finish making their preparations. He pulled his phone out of his pocket and looked for a moment at the photo of him and Molly that was the screensaver. He'd been trying to call her back for days after realising he'd missed calls from her but had nothing back. Now it all made sense. He just had to hope that they got there in time.