CH 45

An hour later Jim and Macgyver came back downstairs and into the kitchen to make themselves a late breakfast.

"What would you guys like to do today?" Jim asked.

"Go sightseeing, the last time we were here it was raining," Tom said.

"The gardens are a good place to start," MacGyver suggests.

"We were thinking the same thing," Jamie said. Then MacGyver's cell phone rings, looking at it she sees it's a text message.

"You gotta be joking," she said as she closed her cell phone. Looking at Jim,

"crash sail." He said,

"Yeah, and what's worse is that most of the crew will be suffering. I'd better go and get my seabag. Sorry guys, as we always say... the Navy's got no sense of timing." She turns around and walks out of the kitchen.

"We're used to it," Jim said.

A few minutes later MacGyver walked downstairs in her DPNU and carrying her seabag. She gives Jim a kiss, "I'll text you to let you know how long I'm away for."

"Hopefully not too long."

"Yeah, same here, love you."

"Love you too." They hug and kiss once more before she leaves the house.

"What do you want to do son?" Tom asked.

"Go to the gardens," Jim replied.

"Ok, when you finish eating we can go."

"Thanks."

When MacGyver arrived on Hammersley she went to find out what was going on. She saw a hungover RO, "morning RO. You guys must have had a great time last night."

"We did."

"So what's with the crash sail?"

"Pleasure boat with a fire on board. They managed to put it out but now they don't have power. Nothing, so they activated their emergency beacon. We are the closest boat."

"How far?"

RO showed her the sheet of paper with the coordinates, "three hours and three hours back."

"Ok, I'll pass this on to the Captain if you like."

"Thanks.''

She walked out of the comcen and went looking for the Captain when she saw him just walking onto the ship.

"Sir it's a mayday call," she passed him the sheet of paper RO had given her as Nav, buffer, Swain and the XO showed up. Fifteen minutes later Hammersley left port heading towards the mayday call.

Arriving at the coordinates, they saw smoke coming from the pleasure craft. The boarding team went over with the fire extinguishers to make sure the fire was put out and to check on how bad the damage was. Meanwhile MacGyver deals with the wounded. A half an hour later Hammersley returned to homeport towing the boat while the crew took care of their guests on Hammersley till they reached port.

MacGyver returned home, she got changed, and started getting dinner on since it was now after four in the afternoon. When Jim and his family walked inside they could smell roast pork.

"Mmm roast pork ' Tom said

"June must have been cooking," Jim said as they walked into the kitchen to see June chopping up fruit.

"Hey how was your day?" she asked them as Jim walked over and gave her a kiss then picked up a grape and popped it into his mouth.

"It was wonderful. Jim showed us around and we had lunch at a cafe near the waterfront," Jamie said.

"That's great, sorry I couldn't join you guys."

"We understand dear. I hope everything was ok," said Jamie.

"Yes, it was a mayday call."

"Oh. Is there anything we can do to help?"

"Yup, just relax, I'm almost finished with the fruit salad."

"What about the vegetables?" Val asked.

"Already on."

"Oh," they all got a drink and walked out back and sat down to talk. Jim stay behind with MacGyver. "Was it a simple mayday?" Jim asked.

"I had to be there Jim, the engine room caught on fire, the people on board managed to put it out but for three of them they received burns to their hands and one got burns on his legs."

"That would hurt like hell."

"It did, he was the worst of the three and was med-evac to hospital. We towed the boat back in."

"I understand why you had to be there.'' She leaned over and kissed him and then put a slice of watermelon in his mouth. When she was finished and everything was cleaned up, the last thing was to check on the vegetables. Jim pulled her into his arms and kissed her passionately until they came up for air.

"How long until dinner?"

"An hour."

"Shall we go and join my family?"

"Why not," and they kiss once more before walking outside to visit with the family.

She checked on everything every ten minutes until it was time to dish up. When everything was on the table she walked outside, "dinner's ready!"

"Ok, we can help dish it up?" Jamie asked.

"Already done." They were all shocked except for Jim. Walking inside they all sat down at the long table and looked at all the food that was on the table. Then they started helping themselves to the sliced roast pork, homemade apple sauce, gravy, roast potatoes, beans, carrots and sweet potatoes. Everyone talked while enjoying their dinner.

"This is a great meal, June."

"Thanks, Jamie."

"Where did you buy the sauce from?" Trish asked her.

"I made the applesauce myself from the apples that I bought."

"You made it yourself? Wow, I usually just buy a tin of it."

After dinner, she got up and started taking the dishes into the kitchen. Jim joined her. They both took care of the dishes and leftovers, then they brought out the spoons, plates, and the big bowl of fruit salad and the ice creams. Everyone helped themselves. Afterwards,they all sat back with a sigh, "Wow, that was a great meal," Tom said.

"I agree" (burp) "Oops, sorry" Ben said.

"Thanks, I'm pleased you all enjoyed it," then standing up she took care of the ice cream and cleaned up the plates. Again Jim helped her with the dishes and also got everyone a cold drink.

"You did an amazing job with dinner tonight, I'm proud of you," he gives her a kiss.

"Thanks, the family seemed to enjoy it."

"Yes, they did. I'm glad that there is some ice cream leftover," he gave her a certain look which made her grin and then made her giggle.

"Like last night."

"Yeah," he stood behind her wrapping his arms around her waist and kissing her neck while she was finishing washing the dishes.

"What would you like to do tonight?"

"Just relax and spend it with your family since they're leaving tomorrow."

"We can do that," lifting her top and putting his hands on her breasts as they sway back and forth.

"Jim," she said with a moan.

"Yes, dear?"

"You're torturing me."

"I know, that's the idea," he continued to kiss her neck until they heard a whack making Jim jump and pushing MacGyver into the bench. He turns to see Trish there grinning. He removed his hands from under her top.

"Trish, did you have to do that?"

"Well I thought you were drying the dishes."

"Very funny," moving to pick up a pot and tea towel and started drying it.

"Is there anything I can do to help?" Trish asked.

"Just relax, I'm almost done and Jim's got to catch up."

"I was distracted," Jim said.

MacGyver shook her head, "some captain you are Jim, I thought the SAS taught you about discipline and distractions."

"Well, they did."

Trish laughed at them.

"Looks like all that training went flying out the window" MacGver said.

" I believe that you're right, June," Trish said.

Everyone was relaxing while talking in the living room. They all decided to have an early night since they were still recovering from the night before and the long walk they had today.

The next day after hugs from Jim and MacGyver they left in taxi vans to the airport, looking forward to the wedding which was in less than three weeks.

After they left, Jim and MacGyver took off on Jim's bike to spend the rest of the day riding up the coast. They had lunch in Palm Cove and then went and sat under the palm trees that lined the beach looking out to sea while in each other's arms.

The next day Jim had to return to base to check on his men as well as how they were dealing with Jason Black because of what he tried to do to Jim. When the others from the platoon found out about it, they were shocked and not happy with what Jason tried to do to Jim.

That night when Jim arrived home, MacGyver looked at him, "what happened?"

"I had words with Jason for what he tried to do on Friday night. I've asked to have him transferred to another platoon. My men had found out about the stunt that he pulled and they were not impressed. Also his girlfriends weren't happy either after they found out from their partners about what he had done on Friday night.

"What did your CO say?"

"He's going to talk to Jason and then let me know in the next couple of days what will happen."

"Ok, I received a letter from the Navy."

"What is it?" Jim asked.

"I've been assigned to Melbourne when we return from our honeymoon"

"That's good news, isn't it?"

"Yes and no, I'll be away longer than when I'm on Hammersley so there won't be as much shore leave. Also, I've been accepted to further my medic training while on board."

" June, that's great news except for the shore leave. But no matter what, when you are here, we are going to spend as much time as we can together during those shore leaves."

"It's going to be hard on us Jim, are you sure?"

"Yes, I am," then he kisses and hugs her. He pulled back, "so what would you like to do tonight?"

"I don't know what you have in mind?"

He smiled, "dinner and a movie?"

"I like that idea," she said smiling, they kissed once more before he went to get changed.

They went out to dinner and saw a movie before returning home for the night. Hammersley was leaving in the morning for its patrol and it would be MacGyver, Buffer, Nav, Spider and three others last patrol. Jim dropped MacGyver off in the morning in front of Hammersley. They hug and kiss before she walks up onto Hammersley. Jim waved to some of the crew before he got back into the car and drove back the way he came. Three hours later Hammersley left for its patrol.

The crew was talking about the hens and bucks night while they were cruising on a heading north.

Hammersley tended to several mayday calls and FFV boardings over the next few days. When they returned to Cairns on Thursday night, they had made plans to go to the pub for farewell drinks and dinner for the ones who were moving on.

MacGyver arrived home, she did her normal post patrol routine. Jim arrived home a short while later he walked upstairs to their bedroom and found her waiting in bed for him.

"Welcome home,'' Jim said as he went over and sat on the bed as she sat up wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing him.

"Missed you," she said.

"I've missed you too." They kiss once more with her undoing the buttons on his jacket. Jim managed to remove his clothes and got into bed and made love to her.

Later that night they showed up at the pub for drinks with the crew. Everyone was enjoying themselves like they always do when returning from patrol. Jim and MacGyver left just after ten because Jim had an early start in the morning. They would see them all at Fitzroy Island for the wedding on Saturday.

The next day while Jim was at training, MacGyver went to Fitzroy Island to check on everything as well as go into the suite that she and Jim had booked for Friday and Saturday night. Once she was settled in she looked around the island as she looked forward to the wedding the next day.