„Angela! Where are you? Angy! "Chrissy yelled as she was looking for her teammate.
Angela had promised to check their infirmary, if they had all the supplies they would need to give the soldiers a good back up. Chrissy, who was the one in charge to make sure everything on base was checked got very impatient on her friend, she promised Mac to prepare the base till he and the 141 arrived. She had managed to create enough space in the living quarters so that every soldier had a place to sleep and could get some privacy. She had called everyone from the old team, asked them if they would join again and organized the transport for them. She also purchased groceries and coordinated the roster for the kitchen staff and she created the training schedule for the soldiers. The only thing that she did not check by herself was the infirmary; her main activity area. She trusted Angela that she would check it till Mac arrived but right now she couldn´t find her friend.
Going outside the base Chrissy met Michael, the Captain, and asked him if he had seen Angela and he gave her the information that he saw Angela walking to the training course. Wondering what her friend wanted there, Chrissy thanked the Captain and made her way to the course. As she got there she saw Angy standing in front of the climbing tower.
"What are you doing here?" Chrissy asked and stood next to Angela.
"I just wanted to check if the tower´s got fixed. You know Derek damaged some of the lower handles as he tried to climb it up but as I can see someone had fixed them." Angela answered and turned around to go back inside the base.
"Yes, I made sure it got fixed before someone gets hurt by climbing up. Have you checked the infirmary already?" Chrissy asked and followed her friend back inside.
"Yes, I have. We´re running out of Adrenalin ampules but I called the doc. He´s taking some with him." Angela answered and both women entered the base again.
"Well, then it´s all done. All we can do now is to wait till everyone arrives." Chrissy said and placed herself in a chair in the rec room. Angela did the same and for a few minutes both sat there in silence, unsure what they should do next.
"Has Julia decided to come back?" Angela finally asked and Chrissy shook her head.
"No, I called her and Caro yesterday but she said she needs at least one more night to think about it. Caro´s coming back definitely even if that means Chris finds out that she isn´t working in the hospital she always told him. She said if he wouldn´t know it now, she never gonna tell him, that she watched him on every single mission in the last three years." Chrissy said and got up from her seat again to get herself something to drink.
"So the others are all joining again?" Angela kept on asking and heard Chrissy say yes.
"That´s good to hear. I started to miss them all."
"Yes, me too. I never thought I would miss them but somehow we´re like a family don't you think? A very crazy and weird one but the best you could ever imagine." Chrissy came back and sat down again, looking at Angela, who smiled at her and nodded.
The two blonde women sat in the rec room for the next hours and talked about the old times and that they were really excited to meet the 141. They knew some of them; both had saved some of the men, but they were curious how their personalities were. For example Angela and Chrissy were part of the team who saved Ghost and Roach from burning alive. Angela was the one who gave Ghost the kiss of life and she was more than excited to meet him. Sure she had talked to him on the phone as they were looking for Andrew´s hideout but she hadn´t tell him that she saved his life; she thought it wasn´t the right time to let him know. She wondered how he would react if she tells him that she is responsible for his survival; would he be mad at her? Would he yell at her and tell her he didn´t want to survive? Julia had told her that Ghost was very depressive as he awoke from his coma and kept on telling her for weeks that he wished to die in the flames.
Headshaking she closed her eyes and tried to relax a bit; maybe he wasn´t mad at her anymore. To Angela he seemed really nice; as far as she could tell from her calls. She had talked to him just six days ago, as he called her and wanted to have information from her about Vitaly Makarov. She knew she broke Mac´s rule to not share any information she had about this man with the 141 but she told Ghost everything she knew; she thought she owed him so, owed him for not telling him she saved his life. She didn´t know how she should explain to him that she was afraid to tell him but what should she do? All she could do now was to wait till he arrives and pray that she would get along with him.
"Are you all ready to go?" Mac asked as every member of the 141 stood outside of the base, waiting for their transport. He heard a few short agreements, earned a few nods and some thumbs up. All of them were ready to leave this place and head to the secret base. Looking down on his watch Mac recognized their transport would be here every second. He turned his gaze up to the sky and looked out for the pave low, which was coming to get them. Soon his attention got caught from the noise of rotor blades, with a little smile he saw the aircraft showing up in the sky. He watched it come closer and closer, till it finally started to land on the compound they were waiting.
He turned his attention back to the soldiers and nodded at them as a sign to board in and leave the base behind. Wistful all of the men grabbed their bags and slowly made their way into the aircraft, sitting down till the pave low was filled with the whole 141. Mac boarded at last and closed the door behind him. He looked around and could see sad expressions on the faces of his companions. He closed his eyes and heard Price ask who was flying the aircraft. Mac just smiled and told him without opening his eyes, he should go to the pilot and see who it was. Puzzled Price got up from his seat and walked up to the pilot. As he got closer to the man he already had a feeling who was flying but as he heard the man´s heavy accented and familiar voice he smiled a little.
"Good to see you again. I started to wonder what happened to you." Price said and took a seat next to the pilot, which smiled at him.
"So you´re part of Mac´s Force too?" Price kept on asking and returned the smile.
"Da, before he got you out of the police department in Abu Dhabi, he asked me to join." Nikolai answered and concentrated on the flight. Price just nodded silently and looked out of the cockpit, he still wondered where their trip was going to.
It didn´t take long till every soldier on the pave low started to come up with the wildest theories, where the base could be. Some said it was in a mountain region, far away from any civilization, some assumed it was on a little island with nothing else than oceans around it and some assumed it was right in the middle of a big city, too good hidden, to get known as a military base. Mac just sat there and smiled as he listened to the soldiers, none of them was completely wrong. You could say the base was a mix of all their theories. The base was on a small island, camouflaged as a cannery and the island was surrounded by hills and mountains. As Mac thought about the base now, he wondered if the life there would be too boring for his soldiers. The base was really separated from any civilization; but who knew, maybe they could go back to their base faster as they thought.
The flight soon was over and Nikolai announced they would land now and the tenseness in the pave low rose. Everyone was chatting around, excited to meet Mac´s team. The aircraft jerked a bit and touched the ground. Slowly Mac got up from his seat and looked out of the window, seeing his Captain standing in front of the Pave Low, ready to welcome them. Breathing heavily Mac pushed the door open and got out of the aircraft, followed from the whole 141. Mac smiled and walked up to his Captain, standing next to him he began to speak.
"As you all can see we´re at our small base. I hope you can get along with the fact that this isn´t the 141 base and that you enjoy your time here with my other team. The man next to me is the Captain, Michael Winters, he´ll show you the base and will answer all of your questions. When he´s done we´ll all meet in the rec room to plan our next steps. Captain, they´re yours." Mac said, turned around and headed inside the base, leaving his Captain alone with the new arrivals.
Sighing the young man gave the soldiers a smile and began to explain the setting of the base. He told them that they had to share their bedrooms, that they had made a training schedule for them, what they could do in their free time and the times for the meals. He asked if the soldiers had any more questions and as no one had one, he let them inside the base and showed them where they could sleep. As everyone had a room and he was sure they would find the way to the rec room by themselves he told them they had 30 minutes to relax and meet with the others at the rec room.
"Do you think we have to stay here for long?" Roach asked Worm, with whom he shared a room, as they unpacked some of their stuff.
"I don´t know. At least we have to stay till we found out what Vitaly Makarov indents to do. Why do you ask? Don´t you like it here?" Worm answered and sat down on his bed.
"I don´t know. It seems like living here is pretty boring. We´re on an island with no other buildings around us and we have to share rooms. No offense Worm, you know I like you but my own room would be better." Roach answered and sat down on his bed too.
"I know what you mean but we can´t change it now. We have to life with it and make the best of it but don´t worry. I won´t interrupt you if you want to be alone with your little girlfriend." Worm answered and winked at Gary.
"What do you mean? Anna´s not coming here." Roach answered confused.
"Only she´s not here doesn´t means you two can´t have a little privacy. You know you can get some love even if she´s not here. Both of you have cell phone´s don't you?" Worm asked and smirked as Roach face heated up.
"You´re an idiot Worm. I would never do that." Roach yelled embarrassed. Worm really had a colorful phantasy.
"We´ll talk about it next week." Worm said still smirking.
"Come one. We should go to the rec room." He added and stood up from his bed, opening the door.
Headshaking Roach followed him out of the room and on their way to the rec room they met all of the other members of their team. All together they entered the rec room, where Mac and his team were already waiting for them. Mac waited till everyone had took a seat and started to introduce the members of his team, which were there. Michael, the Captain, they met before, was a young man with short dark brown hairs and blue eyes. His face was unshaved and he had a scar on the left side of his upper lip. He was thin but had very muscular arms and he was as tall as MacTavish. Next to the Captain stood a man, who was slightly shorter than him, with blonde hairs and brown eyes, he looked like he was in his early twenties. Mac introduced the man as Sergeant Jason Curtis.
The next one who Mac introduced was Chrissy. She was about 5"3 tall, had long blond hairs, which she wore as a ponytail, blue eyes and was tanned. The woman next to Chrissy was Angela. She looked a lot like Chrissy, was as tall as her and had long blond hair. Angela had brown eyes and had a beauty spot near the right side of her upper lip. She was also tanned, but not as much as Chrissy was. As Mac had introduced them he told the 141 that his Force had more members but that they were about to come here later or that they were watching Vitaly Makarov. Ghost, who had thought that Julia wouldn´t come back got a little hope back as Mac told them about the other members. Maybe she would come here later.
"Are all members of your old team coming back?" Roach broke the silence they were in.
"Yes, the only one who wasn´t sure is Julia. We called her yesterday but she said she needed to think about it." Chrissy answered and Roach recognized that Ghost had turned his gaze down to the floor. To comfort his friend Roach laid a hand on his shoulder and as Ghost leered up to him Roach gave him a smile and a nod. Ghost let out a deep breath and returned the smile, turning his gaze back up.
"So all we can do now is wait." Angela said and looked at every man in the room. Her gaze got caught a few seconds by Ghost, till she quickly looked away from him as he stared back at her. Somehow embarrassed Angela felt how she blushed and quickly turned her gaze to Toad, who was talking with Archer and hadn´t paid much attention as Mac introduced his force. With a smile Angela walked up to him and placed herself in front of him, waiting for him to recognize her.
Archer who recognized first that the women was staring at him and Toad shut up immediately and looked at her questionings. He wondered why she was standing in front of them and smiled at Toad. She sure didn´t know that Toad had a girlfriend but this was Archer´s chance. To him Angela was an unbelievable attractive young girl and he would be stupid if he wouldn´t try to flirt with her. He thought about the right words to break the ice between them as suddenly Toad had recognized the woman in front of him and stared at her with a surprised look. Angela returned his look and smiled even wider as she recognized Toad didn´t know what to do, she needed to support him.
"Nice to see you again Chris." Angela said and Archer looked at his partner in disbelief as Toad laughed nervous and hugged Angela lightly.
"Nice to see you too Ang. What are you doing here?" Chris asked and scratched his head.
"I´m working for Mac. What did you think?" She answered amused.
"I don´t know. It´s just weird to see you here." Chris answered and laughed nervous.
Unsure what was going on here Archer looked from Angela to Chris, back to Angela and again to Chris.
"You know her?" He asked Toad somehow shocked. Where did Toad always meet such beautiful girls?
"Yes, Angela and Caro were in the same education class." Toad answered and looked at his partner.
"So she´s a friend of your girlfriend?" Now it was Meat who asked very interested.
"Yes, they are something like best friends, right?" Toad asked Angela and she nodded.
"Whoa and the best friend of your girlfriend, who is also a nurse works for MacMillian? That´s great." Meat said and smiled at Angela before an idea crossed his mind.
"Wouldn't it be strange if your girlfriend´s working for him too?" Meat now smiled at Toad who seemed to lose all of his expressions in his face.
"But wait. Your girlfriend is not made to work in the military. Least of all in a backup team." Meat continued and laughed.
"Why not?" Toad asked him a little angry.
"Come on Toad. I met your girlfriend twice. She´s egoistic, rude and extremely huffy. If she would see a wounded soldier and isn´t in the right mood, she would let him die instead of helping him out. I wouldn´t trust your girlfriend. She´s the one who would put a knife in my back, if I´m already dying." Meat said and began to laugh, not noticing how Toad bristled with anger.
"Do I want to know what you told them about my daughter Chris?" They heard a voice coming from the door and everyone turned around.
"What…." Toad stammered and looked at the man in horror, who was standing in the doorframe and shot him a killing glance.
"Who´s that?" Meat asked and shivered as the man turned his gaze towards him.
"I´m Caroline´s dad." The man answered and stepped inside the room, followed by an elderly woman and Toad´s girlfriend.
"You´re here?" Toad asked in disbelief as his girlfriend approached him and kissed him gently on the lips.
"What are you doing here?" Toad asked her still shocked but Caroline just smiled at him and rolled her eyes as Toad didn´t calm down his attitude.
"She´s working here." Toad heard a familiar female voice and turned his attention back to the door.
Ghost looked at her and smiled; so she decided to come back.
