4. Lay low
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The army vehicle they were driving was easy to spot on the road. Even though it wasn't a long stretch to drive back to Coles Point. They thought it was best to find a place to stay low for the day and drive when it was dark. The less people that saw them, the better. In case the people that had come after them from the base would start asking around. They had lost them for the time being and had located an old warehouse just slightly off from the heading they were going.
"Soldiers?" Burk gave a look at him as they were sitting inside the truck. He shook his head, they didn't look like soldiers. More like.. "My guess is some gang members." Wolf then added. "Yeah. It does fit the description." He gave a glance at the two men sitting by his side as he was on the wheel side. "So the world is ending? If the roads were as chaotic as we saw yesterday.. People are doing some desperate things." Burk stated. "And some bad guys turn up." Wolf said taking a sip of water from his bottle.
After a moment of stillness in the group Wolf broke the silence "So how do you all know each other?" Sensing Burk glance towards him, he nodded to Burk. Letting Burk take the lead on filling Wolf in on the details.
"I met Danny on our last training mission, and he knew Frankie and the others." Burk explained. Might as well talk or else the day would be long. Glancing at his clock, it was 9 am. "And Burk knew Kara." He smiled and glanced at Burk. "Yeah, this one got this huge crush on her." Burk chuckled. "I'm sure there's a story there.." Wolf gave a smirk to the two of them. Well he wasn't going to kiss and tell, so this was Burk's lead on the matter.
"All I know that when I was showing him around the ship with his group the first day, we ran into Lieutenant Foster and her bunkmate Granderson." Burk began the story..
"And here is the CIC, which most likely won't require your presence there during this trip." Burk showed briefly the doorway to the CIC. "And here come two of our hardworking ladies on board, Lieutenant Foster and OOD Granderson." Burk saw the two come towards them. "We've already glanced at them." Burk heard Frankie say with a low voice all the while smiling towards Danny. And Danny's response seemed to be a kick on Frankie's leg. Hmm.. So he likes Foster. Going to be a tough shell to crack, he thought to himself. "Lieutenants." Foster acknowledged their presence in the corridor. "Lieutenant Kara Foster works in the CIC and OOD Alisha Granderson here is on the bridge, helps navigate the ship." Burk introduced them. Hearing a small chuckle from Kara beside him at his introduction. "And here is the group of Navy SEALs placed on the James." Burk then gestured towards the four men.
"Franklin Benz. Nice to meet you." He saw Frankie smile at the ladies. Rookie, always thinking about the ladies, he thought to himself.
"Ma'am's. Nathan Smith." Well at least this guy was decent in his manner. Seeing the ring on his finger, no wonder. He's married.
"Jack Berchem." He saw the over confident smile on his face. Must be the ladies man of the group.
And then he eyed the last one of them.
"And this is our fierce leader, one Daniel Green. He lost his tongue back in Afghanistan." He saw Frankie making his introduction with a rather big smile on his face. He recognized that look, the man was smitten. Huh, he glanced towards Foster. He never had thought about Kara that way. She was beautiful, but there was just something missing, he thought. Then he noticed Danny scowl at Frankie about his little stunt.
"Danny Green, pleasure." He finally got around to say.
"Seems like he still has his tongue." Alisha had chuckled and Kara smiled towards her.
"So love at first sight?" Wolf reasoned and gave a look at his way. He never had thought about it like that. Had he fallen in love with her? He thought he knew what love felt like. He thought he had loved his ex-girlfriend. But if it had been love, shouldn't he have felt more hurt and discomfort? "I'm not in love with her." He had the urgency to deny. "Yeah right, keep telling that to yourself." Burk took Wolf's side. Chuckling at the situation, it was going to be a long day before it was dark. But he could play the game too. "How about we talk about you and Ravit." Danny looked at Burk, raising his eyebrows a little. Seeing the look of uneasiness on Burk's face.
"Yeah, I've seen your looks and attempts." He stated and Wolf nodded. He hadn't been blind either.
The evening before. "Is this seat taken?" Burk had asked looking at Ravit as he was asking a permission to sit on the couch beside her. Noticing Wolf give a rather strange glance at his gesture as he was sitting on the other side of her. Getting a smile out of Ravit and as she shook her head, he had then sat beside her. As they were sitting there on the couch, he saw Wolf engaging in a discussion with Danny and Kara. Frankie seemed to have his attention with the guys. He felt nervous, he thought she was hot and cute. He didn't know how to charm her, she didn't seem like the kinda woman that would fell immediately over. So he gave it a go "8 Planets, 1 Universe, about 1.735 billion people, and I end up sitting beside you." Hearing her burst out in a laugh, he thought that had been pretty bad. "Not the best line, but I like it." She had then said giving him a smile and left him a little puzzled. Huh, didn't know that would work.
"Hey, it's not easy to make the move." Burk stated with irritation in his voice. "We know. I feel with you." Danny patted Burk on the shoulder. Thinking back to the conversation with Kara during their trip.
"I was actually quite relieved that you didn't open with a cheesy pickup line." He heard her say as they were sitting in a motel room. "I almost did." He chuckled, he had to admit he had thought about it. Especially when he knew there was obvious chemistry between them, but she didn't know it. Thinking quickly back to the storage room incident.. "What was your line then?" She looked at him. "You look familiar, didn't we take a class together? I could've sworn we had chemistry." He felt the blush on his cheeks and heard her laugh at his line. "Seriously?" He heard her hardly say as she was still amused by his comment.
It was starting to get dark and they thought they could try and get back on the road. As they were preparing to leave, they were alerted by the sounds of a car driving by. Hoping it would drive by. There had been several cars that had gone by today, but this one was going a little too slow. "Definitely stopping." He heard Wolf say. Burk was readying the Jeep and they heard the doors open. People were getting out of the car. "We need to leave. Try and aim for the tire's." Danny gave a firm look to Wolf and he nodded.
As they drove out of the warehouse and came around the building, there were shots fired at their truck.
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