CH 5

The next morning there was big talk about the night before when the ones who were at the party were telling the others about what had happened the previous night. When Nav heard about what had happened, she went looking for Kate or MacGyver, to find out if it was true or not.

That night there was a knock on Nav's and Kate's door. "Yeah?" Kate said and then the door opened.

"MacGyver," Nav said.

She walked in closing the door behind her. then showing them bars of chocolate. Nav to jumped out of bed, "give me!" MacGyver passes Nav her bar of chocolate, laughing, and then the second bar to Kate before sitting down on the chair.

"Where did you get these from?" Kate asked.

"Shop in town."

"Thank you!"

"Your welcome. We can tell Nav about last night since the guys already told her what they saw."

"Yes! Tell me! Is it true?"

"Is what true?" Kate said putting a piece of chocolate in her mouth.

"That you and Mike were dancing really close and it looked like he kissed you."

"What?" Kate said, MacGyver laughing.

"Those guys had a bit too much to drink," MacGyver said.

"So, it's not true."

"I'll tell you what happened, after all, I was close by," MacGyver said grinning.

"Ok, did he kiss her?"

"Not on the dance floor," Kate look at MacGyver in stunned.

"What? When?"

"After the dance, they went outside for some fresh air, and while there he pushed her against the house and kissed her passionately. Then... they went into a shed around the back of the house, where they ripped each other's clothes off and made wild passionate love for over an hour before they returned to the party with their hair all a mess, and ripped uniforms to match." MacGyver said trying to remain serious.

"MacGyver, that never happened," Nav said causing Kate and MacGyver to laugh.

"No, but I got you."

"That was mean, so there was kissing?"

"No kissing at all, Mike was a perfect gentleman,aye Kate?"

"Yes, he was."

"Damn those guys."

"Don't worry about it," Kate said.

"I guess so. But what about captain Roth he was there?"

"Yes he was," MacGyver said

"He danced with MacGyver here, and asked her out on a date when we return back to home port," Nav was interested in this.

"Really, oh my gosh, I'm trying to think of the last time you went on a date."

MacGyver grins, "Never."

"What?" Kate and Nav said at the same time surprised.

"That's right, I was too busy studying and being out at sea, I didn't have time to date."

"Now you have? Oh my, do you know where you going for your date" Nav asked.

"No, we're waiting until we're both back in port at the same time."

"Ahhh," Nav said grinning. MacGyver shook her head at her.

They talk, laugh and giggle until there was a knock on the door, "Say this…. Come in if your good looking, stay out if you're not" MacGyver said making Nav laugh.

"Go on, or I will," Nav said.

"Come in if your good looking, stay out if your not," They all laugh just as the door opened and they saw that it was Mike, causing Kate to blush, and MacGyver and Nav to laugh even harder.

"Sorry, Sir," as he steps into the cabin.

"X, why did you say that?"

"Well you are good looking Sir, don't you agree Kate," Nav said while laughing.

"Nav, MacGyver, control yourselves."

"Yes Sir, sorry Sir," they both said still giggling.

"What is it, Sir?"

"I came to talk to MacGyver since she wasn't in her cabin, I thought she might be here."

"What is it, Sir?"

"This," he passed her sheet of paper.

Looking at it, "Damn it!"

"Sir, what is it?" Nav asked.

"Ray Walsmen's been digging into my past."

"What? Why?" Then Kate thought about it, "Oh."

"Yeah, he hasn't gone far, but if he ever finds out, people I care about, their lives would be in danger."

"What's going on?" Nav asked. MacGyver stood up and pass the sheet back to Mike.

"What do you want to do?" Mike asked.

"Make a phone call in the morning, I'm going back to my cabin, night all."

"Sir" Kate said. Mike passes her the sheet of paper…

"OH No!"

"All we can do is keep an eye on her."

"Your right, Sir."

"Sorry for spoiling your girls night."

"It's ok, Sir," Nav said as she got up to her bed. "Night, Sir."

"Night Nav, X," he said looking at Kate.

"Night, Sir," he walked out closing the door behind him.

"X, what's going on with MacGyver and what she said?"

"Nav, don't talk about it to anyone on board."

"You know what's going on?"

"Yes, I do and so does the Captain, night Nav."

"Night, X." they turn off their lights and try to get a few hours sleep.

The next morning, after MacGyver made the phone call, she went to look for Mike. She found him on the docks talking to Kate. "MacGyver," Kate greeted her.

"X, Sir."

"How did the call go?" Mike asked he had let her make the private call from his cabin.

"He was alerted to the background check without approval. He wanted to know who Ray Walsmen is and why he was interested in me. I said to contact Commander Marshall from NAVCOM and he can fill the agent in. He also is going to get approval to let Nav, Charge, Buffer, and Swain know just as a backup. He'll be letting me know through NAVCOM in the next couple of days. So, in the meantime…. Spider stop clowning around and get those boxes on board, ET! stop encouraging him," she shook her head at them.

"Things back to normal?" Mike asked.

"Normal? What's that sir," MacGyver said grinning before walking over to where the boxes are and picking one up.

Two days later, while on the bridge the phone rings and RO answers it. "MacGyver, it's Commander Marshal for you."

Taking the phone from RO, "Leader Mcguiness… yes, Sir… yes, Sir, so he knows… Yes, Sir, and the approval?… yes, Sir, I'll let the Captain knows… thank you, Sir" then she hung up and walk over to the Captain's chair. He looked at her

"It has been approved."

"When do you want to do it?"

"There is no time like the present."

"Ok, ship's office."

"Good place, Sir," she left the bridge while Mike gives out the orders and called Nav and Buffer over the PA system.

When they were all in the ship's office and the door was closed, MacGyver looked at them all. "What I'm about to tell you all no one else on this ship must know. Captain and the X know about it."

"You know you've got our support." Charge said.

"I know. Plus you know the old saying…. Calling the old pot kettle black… in other words, you know I don't like liars."

"Yeah," they all said in chorus.

"Well my life is one big lie," she looked at them with stunned looks on their faces.

"You're in the witness protection," Swain said.

"Yes. My real name is Gina johnson. I'm from a country town called Mount Thomas which is a three-hour drive north of Melbourne." She tells them what happened back in two thousand, about the disk, Maggie and PJ, the dirty cops, her being shot, everything. They were all shocked by it.

"I remember that I was down in Melbourne doing my medical training when I joined the Navy. It was all over the news" Swain said

"Now you all know, and the reason you have to know now is that Ray Walsmen is trying to find out who I am. If he does it can spell trouble not only for me but for others, like Maggie and PJ."

"Meaning what, what kind of trouble?" Charge asked.

"He will let the Victoria Drug Syndicate know that I'm alive and where I can be found, everything, there's only a few people who know that I survived the shooting. Because of what I did, there would be a bounty on my head if they knew that I was alive."

"How much drugs were seized because of the information?" Swain asked.

"Over three billion dollars and over four hundred were put behind bars. But, there is one guy who is still on the wanted list, and that's the drug lord himself. He disappeared two hours before the police raided his house, he was tipped off, he could be anywhere now."

"Does he know that you broke the code?" Nav asked.

"Yes, that is why he sent his top hitman after me."

"Sounds like this guy's got to be stopped," Buffer said.

"I agree, but no one knows where he is or if he is still alive."

"Now you all know the truth about MacGyver, heard what she told you and keep it to yourself," Mike told them all.

"Yes, sir," they all said.

"Sir, X, how did you two find out about it?" Buffer asked.

"When I first met X here, I was shocked, I called her Maggie," MacGyver explained.

"Why?" Nav asked

" 'Cause she looks like her, a twin but not a twin."

"When I went to meet X at a coffee house before the decommission of the old Hammersley, I sat down across from X here, and started talking to her only to find out it wasn't X."

"Maggie Doyle," Swain said.

"Yes, and her husband showed up wondering why I was talking to his wife, then X arrived, we were all a bit shocked. So I texted MacGyver and she arrived five minutes later. She greeted both Maggie and PJ. We all talked and they then they know that X and I know about what happened." Mike said

"They didn't know that I was in the witness program until I told them what had happened. They now know what happened to me and they know that I'm happy."

"Are you keeping in contact with them?" Nav asked.

"Sadly no, it's too much of a risk, but at least I know that they are happy too. They married and have kids of their own. I miss everyone from my family and friends from Mount Thomas."

"It's hard for anyone who has to leave everything and everyone they know and love behind," Swain said.

"Yes, it is," MacGyver says sadly.

"Captain to the bridge, XO to the bridge" sounded over the PA system.

"Sounds like we might have a Mayday or an FFV" Buffer said.

"Or a mother ship," MacGyver said.

"That too." they all walk out of the ship's office and head to the bridge.

When they return to homeport, the crew was looking forward to the next three days off. MacGyver texted Jim to let him know when Hammersley was due in port and he asks her out on a date, he was going to be in Cairns at the same time.

They met up at a restaurant for dinner where they enjoyed themselves then walked along the marina afterwards until they stop at the car park where his bike is.

"I had a wonderful evening Jim, thank you."

"Same here, would you like to do it again?"

"Sure, but I don't know when we've got a long patrol coming up."

"I understand one day, wherever we meet up again."

"Sounds good to me, but I'll talk to the Captain if and when it happens."

"I'm sure he will."

"Yes, I'm sure as well," then the taxi arrived.

They walk over and he opens the door for her. "Until next time," he smiles at her and kisses her.

"Until next time," she said before getting into the taxi and he closed the door and the driver drives away. Jim got onto his bike and rode home himself.