Disclaimer: I do not own sea patrol or the characters; they are all owned by channel 9 Australia and created by Hal and Di McElroy. I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING
Sorry for the late update, i've been stuck on how to write this chapter, so it proberly won't be any good, but heres hoping that it is! x
CHAPTER 4
Bird fell back asleep again holding Spiders hand. Buffer, 2DADS and Dutchy waited in the cubicle too. It hit 6:00am in the morning, Kate and Mike came into the cubicle to find Spiders head sleeping on Birds lap, 2DADS on the floor lying next to Dutchy and Buffer sitting on a chair. Bird was sort of awake but didn't want to wake up the boys, she looked up and saw Mike and Kate walking into her cubicle.
"Hey Bird" Kate said whispering to her
"How you feeling?" Mike whispered
"I've got a massive headache" Bird whispered rubbing her head
"Has the doctor checked you out this morning?" Kate asked concerned looking around
"I only woke up a few minutes ago" Bid whispered
"How long were the boys up with you?" Mike asked
"Um..I woke up at 2:00am and fell back asleep a few minutes later I'm not…I'm not really sure" Bird said confused
Spider started to wake up, noticing that Bird was awake, he reached up and gave her a warm long hug. He noticed Kate and Mike standing beside him.
"Hey Spider what's the doctor said?" Mike asked
"Um… When we arrived, She had so many tubes around her and needles in her arm, she had to have a tube down her throat they put charcoal in it to clear her system out of the drugs. She woke up at about 2:00am, she threw up a few times then nurse said that was normal and that she would be discharged today later in the afternoon so we can get back to port" Spider said rubbing Birds hand, she fell into another light sleep.
"Oh okay" Kate said while rubbing Birds head
"What's happening with Lacie?" Spider asked angered
"Since where not in our usual port, she has to sail back with us. But her role on Hammersely will be terminated to HMAS Sydney if they approve, which I doubt they will" Mike said
"You mean to say that she is still on the boat with Bird!" Spider shouted. He woke up the rest of the boys in the process.
"How's Bird?" Buffer said stretching
"She's stable and doing good" Spider said grabbing a seat on the bed
2DADS and Dutchy got up and went to the hospital cafeteria
(…..)
The hours passed and it was soon time for Bird to be discharged, Spider had stayed with her all day, The doctor came in to discharge her, he gave some medication to Spider to give to Swain for Bird. Dutchy had been to Bird's cabin to get some clothes for when she had been discharged. They headed to back to the port and boarded Hammersely.
"Hey Bird" Kate said
"Hey X" Bird said saluting as she walked across the gangplank
"I want you to rest and stay in my cabin, Swain will monitor you" Kate told bird
"Ah Ma'am will all respect I'm fine to continue my work in the galley" Bird said
"You have only been out of hospital for a few hours Bird, your still very sick" Kate said to Bird "Spider, can you please tell her that she can stay in my cabin" she added looking at Spider
"Come on Bird, I'll take you to X's cabin" Spider said softly pushing her towards the doorway
"Fine" Bird said walking down the stairs
Spider took Bird into X's cabin and settled her in, a few moments later Swain walked in
"Hey Bird, good to see you doing okay" Swain said
Bird smiled, she still felt a bit groggy and nauseous from the drug, what she didn't know is that Lacie was still on the boat
"How you feeling?" Swain asked checking her blood pressure
"I feel fine, seriously I just want to go back to work" Bird said
"Well you're not" Spider said grabbing a seat next to Bird
"Great" Bird mumbled
2DADS knocked on X's cabin door
"Come in" Bird said loudly
"Hey" 2DADS said peeping his head around the door
"2DADS!" Bird shouted jumping out of her rack and ran towards him giving a hug
"How are you?" He asked pulling her in tight
"I'm fine and I won't to work, but they won't let me" A dissapointed Bird said pulling away and scowling at the boys
"Sorry, I have to agree" 2DADS said
"Gah! I hate you boys" Bird said slumping back into her rack
"You love me" Spider said elbowing her arm
"Maybe" Bird said joking around
"Alright enough you two, Bird needs rest. Out" Swain said pointing towards the door
"I'm fine, please Swain, I want to go back to the galley" Bird said with a tone like a 5year old
Swain breathed in silently and breathed out loudly sounding sounding annoyed "Fine-"
"YES!" Bird shouted getting up
"Let me finish, only under one condition. That someone has to help you and make sure that your fine" Swain said concerned
"Okay, Okay! Spider can help me" Bird said with a cheeky grin
"Go tell CO and XO that Spider will be with you" Swain said unimpressed
Bird was going to tell XO and the CO, she was walking down the corridor when she saw Lacie step out from her cabin. Bird rolled her eyes and turned on her heel heading back away from the bridge to keep a safe distance from her.
"Scared are you?" Lacie asked snarling
"Excuse me?" Bird asked turning around
"Can you not walk down the same corridor as me?" Lacie asked walking towards her
"I'm not supposed to talk to you, or even be next to you" Bird said
"HA! What are you 5? Lacie asked bitchy
"You could have killed me!" Bird shouted
"Oh honey. Don't think like that" Lacie said
"Why don't you just shut up, notice how no-one likes you? You thought you had 2DADS against me" Bird said coming face to face with Lacie
"Why don't you shut up you dirty bitch" Lacie snarled, giving Bird a push
"PISS OFF!" Bird shouted, pushing Lacie back
Lacie pushed Bird against the wall and vise verser, they conitinued to call each other names and were shouting and screaming at the top of their lungs.
"What's that?" CO asked hearing the distant shouting of crew members
"Will have a look" Dutchy said pulling Buffer along with him
"Whoa, Whoa Whoa" Buffer shouted seeing Lacie and Bird going for each other
"Settle down!" Dutchy shouted pulling Bird away from Lacie, while Buffer pulled Lacie away from Bird
"Calm down" Buffer said as he held Lacie back
"What the hells going on" Dutchy said as he tried to restrain Bird without hurting her
"Let go of me" Lacie shouted trying to pull away from Buffer
"Are you settled?" Dutchy said
"Yes, let go" Bird said pulling away from Dutchy
"Let go" Lacie said pulling off Buffer
"You think your so great" Bird said snarling to Lacie
"Oh shut up you scrawny piece of shit" Lacie said
"I'll smash you bitch" Bird said lunging for Lacie pushing herself and Lacie onto the ground
"I'd like to see you try to" Lacie said pushing Bird of her and slapping her across the face before Bird re-lunged pushing Lacie against the wall hitting her making Lacie smash her head against the wall
"Get up!" Dutchy shouted pulling up Bird and restraining her, while Buffer did the same to Lacie
"Stop it NOW!" Buffer yelled
"Geez Bird, what the hells gotten into you!" Dutchy shouted pulling her towards him so that she was facing him
"Let go" Bird snarled
"What the hells going on!" CO said shouting through the corridors alongside XO
"Is everything okay?" XO said seeing Dutchy restraining Bird
"These two were going for each other" Buffer said pushing Lacie towards them
"You four, my office NOW!" CO said angered
"Dutchy care to explain what you saw?" CO asked unimpressed
"We walked down the corridor and saw these two shouting at each other pushing each other against the wall, next they were fighting on the floor we restrained them twice but they wouldn't stop at each other" Dutchy said
"Who started it?" XO asked unimpressed
"Lacie" "Bird" Bird and Lacie said in sync
"What were you doing out of your cabin..Both of you!" An angered Mike said
" I was walking to the bridge to tell you Swain said I was able to work.. Spider will be waiting for me, I better go, or lunch will never be served" Bird said starting to open the door
"Leave it" CO said unimpressed "You shouldn't have left the X's cabin like you were told"
"Swain authorised me to go back to work" Bird said
"HA!" Lacie laughed
"I havent even started with you yet!" Mike shouted
Lacie rolled her eyes and scowled at Bird
"Lacie, you will be taken by the Police when we arrive at Port in approximetly 4 hours, and you will not be working on this boat, you'll be lucky if you even get transferred to the other boat" Mike said
Dutchy was staring at Bird unimpressed, he'd never seen Bird fight or become angry in his life. Buffer was just as shocked but also proud of her at the same time for sticking up for herself.
"Bird go to the galley and stay with Spider" Mike ordered
"Thankyou sir" Bird said before turning and leaving the room and heading for the galley
"Yeah go, you cant even get a decent job in the navy" Lacie shouted. Bird snapped and with all her anger left inside and slapped Lacie across the face, infront of Dutchy,Buffer,XO and Co. They were all shocked
"Bird, out NOW!" Mike shouted
"Buffer can you take Lacie back to Birds cabin, make sure she stays there" Mike ordered "And Lacie, don't leave. I will get someone to bring food to you at lunch"
Lacie rolled her eyes "Whatever"
"Change your attitude Sailor" XO said unimpressed
Bird walked into the galley and saw Spider cutting up some vegetables
"About time" He said placing the knife on the chopping board "Where'd you get to?"
"No where" Bird said smiling and starting on the pizza she wanted to make for lunch
"YOU HIT HER!" 2DADS came rushing through the galley excited as anything
"Hit?" Spider asked
"Is it true? You smashed her?" 2DADS said eagerly
Bird rolled her eyes "Let me guess..Buffer?"
"Yes YES! So, what happened?" 2DADS asked
"Wait, Bird what's going on?" Spider asked concerned
"Her and Lacie got into a fight" 2DADS said rubbing his hands together with excitement
"WHAT" Spider shouted "Are you hurt?" Spider added placing his hand on her face
"No, im fine" Bird said annoyed
"Apparently our young Bird here, pushed Lacie into a wall" 2DADS said excited
"Is he right Bird?" Spider asked
"Yeah, well she went for me first, I was just protecting myself" Bird said covering up her actions
"We've trained you well" Spider smirked
(...)
"20 minutes till we arrive in Port we have 24hours shoreleave, you are requested to be back at Port at 9:00am" CO's voice said across the ships P.A system
"Have you seen Bird?" XO asked walking into the galley
"Ah no Ma'am, she went to pack her bags in your cabin" Spider said cleaning the bench
"Oh okay" Kate said before turning around and walking to her cabin
She knocked on the cabin door, just incase Bird was getting changed and heard no reply.
"Bird?" Kate asked slowly opening the door
"BIRD!" Kate shouted as she saw her Gap Girl lying on the floor with blood on her head "ohmygod, Bird wake up for me" Kate said shaking Birds shoulders. "Swain! Somebody help!" Kate shouted at the top of her lungs, luckily Swain was walking down the corridor when he heard her cry for help
"Shit, what happened?" Swain asked when he saw Bird lying on the floor
"I don't know, I just found her like this" Kate said while Swain crouched down beside her
"looks like she's taken a fall, must of hit her head on the rack or something" Swain said checking out the cut "I need to get her into the ward room, she could have a concussion"
Swain lifted her and carried her into the ward room, with X by her side. She went to tell the captain what had happened and walked back into the ward room with the CO, to find Bird awake.
"How you feeling?" Co asked
Bird cleared her throat and rubbed her throbbing head "Not too bad for being hit across the head with a metal tray" Bird said
"Who hit you?" XO asked concerned
"...Lacie" Bird said looking around
"That girl" Kate said unimpressed
"Can i return to packing my bag?" Bird asked hoping for a yes answer
"Yeah, you vitals are fine, just take it easy..yeah?" Swain said concerned
"I will" Bird said getting up, she hopped of the bed, but became light headed and felt like she was about to collapse, she grabbed onto the closest thing to her which was Swain, he grabbed her as he saw her about to fall
"Whoa, maybe not" Swain said as he helped her back on her feet
"You okay?" Xo asked rubbing Birds back
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine" Bird said sitting on the bed
"I'll get one of the boys to pack your bags, then you need to go to the hospital to get a CT scan" Swain ordered
"I don't need a CT scan" Bird grunted
"Do you want to return tomorrow? Its protocol, you need authorisation" Swain said
"Fine" Bird said annoyed
(...)
Spider came racing to the wharf when he heard what happened to Bird, he had been cleaning out the galley and had had no communication the the boys
"Is she okay?" Spider asked Swain while running his fingers along the side of her bruised face
"Yeah she will be" Swain said handing her bags to Spider
"You had me so worried" Spider said to Bird concerned
A police car had pulled up to the wharf, and Dutchy walked Lacie out while she kicked and shoved him.
"Will take it from here, do you have Jessica Birds statement?" Policeofiicer Tyrone asked Dutchy
"Ah yeah, I'ts here" Dutchy said rumaging around in his bag and finally finding it and handing it to the police officer
"Thanks, tell your CO we will be in contact with him and Jessica too" Tyrone said
"Thanks" Dutchy said before walking off
Not sure if i'll write another chapter, sort of stuck with school and stressing out about that. review please:)