CH 36

When their time was up on the island, while they were on the beach waiting for their pick up, Two Dads and one of the guys were walking over by some rocks when Two Dads spotted a boat.

"Get down!" Two Dads shouted.

"What is it?"

"That boat."

"What about it?"

"It's not supposed to be here, this is a restricted zone. We need to head back and warn the others."

They move staying low until they reach the beach and then run towards where the others are waiting.

"Captain Roth, we need to get into the tree line, there's a boat heading this way and it's not Navy." Two Dads informs him.

"Alright, everyone grab your gear!"

Gathering up everything they headed into the shrubs.

Jim got his binoculars and went to take a closer look with Two Dads next to him.

"It's a dive boat from Robson Marines," Jim passed the binoculars to Two Dads.

"Something's not right. I see only one person on board."

"One? Are you sure?"

"Yes," passing the binoculars back. "I recognised him from the photos, that's Campbell Fulton. What is he doing out here by himself, there should be two or more if he's diving."

"We better radio this in," then grabbing the radio, Jim contacted Childers about the dive boat and who they saw on board so they could pass the information on to Hammersley. They would need to change their pick up as they've got the boat on radar.

"Captain, I remember that there's that pipeline Spider found not far from here." Two Dads said.

"Ok, let's get moving." Jim orders. They return to the group.

"We're going to a second rendezvous point, it's not safe here."

"What's going on captain?"

"Can't say, let's go." Gathering up their gear they head out to the next pick up point.

When they got there the two RHIBS were there waiting for them. They all got in and put on a life vest on before returning to the ship. Once onboard, Childer headed back to Cairns. Two dads and Jim went to the bridge to talk to the Captain and find him on the phone.

"Kate, I've got captain Roth here now… ok," he passed the phone to Jim.

"Kate, it's Jim." Jim talks to Kate for a minute before hanging up. "They're going to check out the area in a couple of days," Jim said to Two Dads.

"Who knows, they might find the pipeline."

"Who knows."

Two days later everyone on Hammersley watched as MacGyver and Swain went diving. When they were close to the bottom. Swain pointed to something that was on his left. They were several many meters apart so MacGyver swam over to him and gave the hand signs and they swam over to the pipeline together.

Swain took photos of it while MacGyver swam in one direction along the pipeline. Stopping and turning around she waved Swain over and pointed down. He swam over and saw that MacGyver was pointing a valve, so he took photos of that as well. Once done they both surface and the RHIB went over and picked them up.

"Find anything," Buffer asked.

"Fish, coral, pipeline," MacGyver said grinning.

"That's great!"

When they returned to Hammersley, MacGyver looked up to where Baxter and Kate are, "Call NAVCOM, we found the pipeline and a valve."

"Good work, MacGyver."

"Thank you, Sir."

Returning to Cairns three days later, the crew got some shore leave. Baxter, Kate and MacGyver were in Steve's office talking to him and Mike about what was found and showed them the photos that Swain had taken. They talked for five minutes before they left Steve's office and NAVCOM.

When MacGyver arrived home, she went to have a long hot shower when she heard the door open. Turning around she smiled, Jim steps forward kissing her as he closes the door behind him.

When they broke apart, "I love this type of welcome home kiss," she said.

"Same here," he kisses her once more.

"How did the dive go?" he said as he pushed her against the wall kissing her throat and neck while his hands were roaming over her body.

"We found the pipeline."

He moved back and looked at her, "You found it."

"Yep, all we need to do now is find the tanks."

"That would be perfect, but for now..." he kissed her passionately and they made love in the shower. Later that night they went out to dinner enjoying being together and then home for an early night as Jim has to work in the morning.

While in bed Jim looked down at June after they made love.

"Jim, what's wrong?"

"I've been thinking..."

"About what?"

"What you said to me weeks ago."

"Care to elaborate?"

"Moving in here, with you. Oh... do you still want me to move in?"

"You know, when I asked you about it you told me you needed to think about it."

"Yeah."

"I said to you whenever you decided that you were ready, and I wasn't going to push you, and I haven't."

"That's true."

"So, you decided then?"

"Yes... I have," he kisses her. "We're going to need a new bedroom suite for starters."

She laughs, "so then it's a…."

"Yes! Yes!" Then he kissed her once again.

"Well, we'll need to go shopping."

"Yes, and move my things here."

" All, true, but for now..." she rolled them both and kissed him.

The day before Hammersley left for its patrol, Jim and MacGyver went shopping for a bedroom suite. They found one that they both liked and bought it.

The day Hammersley set sail for its patrol the crew was talking about what they did on their shore leave.

One day they boarded an FFV and found Semtex hidden under a green tarpaulin with fish and ice on top. That caused them to have to head to the nearest port giving the crew a night of shore leave.

MacGyver went with them to a nightclub where they all enjoyed themselves. She had glasses of mineral water in between drinks. She was watching everyone relaxing and having a great time. When the others were starting to leave, Charge went over to her, "Hey we're heading back now."

"Where's RO?"

"In the corner," Charge tossed his thumb in his direction.

"Ah, I'll stay for a bit."

"Ok," then he went over to where the others were waiting and they all left half drunk. MacGyver stood up and walked over to RO.

"RO?"

He turned to her, "MacGyver, what can I do for you?"

"We're heading back now."

"OH, ok see you in the morning, then."

"RO, now, come on."

"Why can't he stay?" someone at his table asked.

"He's got an early morning shift and he needs to get some sleep and to sober up before he starts his shift."

"She's right, I better go." MacGyver kept a straight face while RO kissed the person he was with then stood up, "bye Danielle."

"Bye Robert."

Then they walk out of the bar and start walking back to the ship, "Enjoy yourself RO?"

"Yeah, you?"

"It was ok."

"Where are the others?"

"Charge, Swain and Nav went back to the ship and Buffer and Spider went to get a tattoo. The others are around somewhere so it's just us."

"Ok."

"Hey, the tattoo parlour's not far from here. Let's go and see what tattoo Spider got." They looked around until they found it and then walked in.

"There's Buffer and Spider." They were listening to what Spider wanted the guy to give Buffer and he even paid for it. When the artist saw two new customers, MacGyver put her finger to her lips as she stepped forward. She watched Spider falling asleep then snoring softly.

Stepping forward. "I heard what Spider asked you to do. What did Buffer want?"

"Big angry snake."

"Hmm, got a pencil and paper?"

"Sure but why?"

"Trust me."

He passes her a pencil and paper. She drew a snake design shaped like an anchor. When finished, she showed it to the artist.

"Hey that's not bad, you want me to give it to Pete here?"

"Buffer, yeah. As for Spider..." She did up another design and showed it to him.

He chuckled, "Ok."

MacGyver turns to see RO sitting down next to Spider who is sleeping. Then she turned around and watched what the tattoo artist was doing to Buffer while they talked. When Paul finished with the two tattoos, she woke them up and got them to stand up and they walked slowly out of the guy's shop.

MacGyver was making sure that they returned to Hammersley when she notices that something wasn't right with the way two vans were facing so she went to take a closer look. She overheard them talking about Hammersley and another boat when the bottom of one box fell open and the block of semtex fell out of it. MacGyver got her phone out and took photos of it and the two men before returning back the way she came and headed to Hammersley where the three guys were slowly holding each other up as they tried to walk so she made a video of them until they were back on Hammersley. She saved it and made sure that they all got to bed ok before she went to see Baxter.

She told him about what she had overheard and showed him the photos from her phone. He was alarmed by it as he had just received the orders about the boat they were going to be escorting to the line in the morning and its dangerous cargo.

After speaking with Baxter she went to her cabin, changed for bed and set her alarm. The next morning there were a few hungover crew members showing up for breakfast. A couple of hours later boxes of food were brought aboard then Hammersley left port an hour later.

When they reach the ship that they are escorting, they keep an eye out for any boats. MacGyver was down in the laundry room putting a load of her stuff through so while she was waiting she started sorting the boxes that had been brought on board and then moved them to their proper spot. Then she noticed how heavy the paper towel box is. She placed it on the floor and moved three rolls aside. Something wasn't right, she carefully removed all the paper towel rolls.

She saw what it was, "Oh boy." Went to the door and opened it and yelled out "Anyone up there?"

"MacGyver, what is it?" Spider asked.

"Get the Captain down here now, we've got a big problem."

"What is it?" He walks down the steps, looks inside the laundry room, and saw the box on the floor. "Oh crap! Is that…?"

"Yep."

Then he took off back upstairs and onto the bridge. "Sir! We've got a bomb on board!"

Everyone on the bridge looked at Spider, shocked.

"What?" Baxter exclaimed.

Spider repeated, "A bomb! Macgyver found it in the laundry room!"

"Sir, we've got to get it out of there the ammo is just next door. If that bomb goes off..." Buffer said.

"RO! Get me NAVCOM on the line!" Baxter orders.

When word got around about a bomb being on board, the crews training took over and everyone knew what they had to do.

NAVCOM connected MacGyver to a bomb expert on the phone. Baxter evacuated the ship using the RHIBS and tinny. The two RHIB's were to carry on dealing with a boat that was heading toward the ship that they were charged with escorting. Captain Baxter and RO stayed on board with MacGyver. She was looking the bomb over while talking to the army expert.

"I can see the wires... everything, whoever built this did a good job of it," MacGyver said as she unscrewed the caps from the battery and untwisted both wires. After that, she unscrewed the casing that held the bomb.

"Why do you say that?" the engineer asked.

"Well, whoever built it used a backup from what I can see."

"Back up detonator?"

"Yep," Then she removed both wires at once and removed the battery. Next, she cut the antenna and removed the wiring from the detonator, and then pulled the rest apart

"Are you still there MacGyver?"

"Yep, I'm still here and Commanders Marshall and commander Flynn you both can let out that breath you've both been holding, Hammersley's safe."

" Can you be sure, MacGyver?" Mike asked.

"The bomb has been disarmed and in pieces on the floor."

"That's great, you had everyone worried here."

"I bet, Sir, and so the good news is that there is no other bomb on board. I checked the other boxes."

"Good!" Steve said.

"Sir, can you find out how the hell those men found out about this mission before we did? There's got to be a leak somewhere" she said.

"I've already started looking into it and I've let Fleet Command know."

"Good, Sir, I'll go and let the Captain know."

"Another job well done, MacGyver."

"Thank you, Sir. I'm signing off now, Sirs."

"Fair winds MacGyver," Mike said, then she cut the link.

She stood and took care of her washing then went up to the bridge.

"What's the situation, Sir?" MacGyver asked when she arrived on the bridge.

"They got on board the boat, there are three wounded. What about the bomb?"

"In pieces in the laundry. Let's go and get our crew, Sir," as she walks over and sits down at the helm waiting for instructions. The coordinates were called out and then they were on their way.