Team Work [Sink or Swim Book 2]

Chapter 16 - Alone At Last

Romain jumped up to his computer - it had pinged him an alert - the tracking software had picked up movement in Japan. "Oh, so they are on the move. Haneda International Airport - I wonder where they are flying off to?"

Within a few hours Romain found out. "The plane is heading across the Philippine Sea - possible destinations could be The Philippines,  Indonesia, Papua New Guinea or Australia."

The Russian called up the flight desks for each of the possible destinations to check the passenger flight manifests and discovered that Darwin, Australia was the intended destination. 'I guess that makes things easier' he thought to himself picking up the phone, "Hello, Dimitri, it's Romain, the tracker has placed the group on a plane and they are heading your way toward Darwin. I will keep you in the loop when the reach their final stop."

Another phone call followed, "Ivanna, yes, you can inform Robert that we will know the whereabout of the targets shortly. The Braithwaite kid is on a flight to Darwin - he will be falling right into the hands of Dimitri. Yes, I know the shipment is due there too but nobody knows about it - only the three of us."

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Leanne sat talking with Jessica, they had hardly seen each other in the past six months.

"It is so romantic here," Leanne said, "I think you and Paul should head up to the wooden cabin. I am so sure Mitch wouldn't mind."

"I guess we could, you know I think I'm ready. I want to be with Paul." Jessica responded. 

Leanne gave her best friend a hug, "It will be perfect up there, that's where Mitch and I..." she stopped mid-sentence.

Jessica gave a quizzical look, "Mitch?"

"Oh, err yeah, we kinda got close. He is so perfect." Leanne replied.

"What about Drew?" Jess asked.

"We're just good friends, we can't really be any more. We don't have any common interests - besides, I think he has his eye on someone else now. Look..." Leanne pointed towards Drew, he had his arm around Abi and they were laughing and smiling, joking around in a couple like way.

Jessica smiled, "I kinda guess they are suited! I noticed he is quite protective of Abs."

"Hey guys, what's going down?" Paul asked as he approached the two girls. 

"Oh, not much, just thinking that Abi and Drew have something going on between them." Jessica said laughing.

"Wow - it does look that way..." Paul replied.

"Hey I'm gonna see if I can stoke the flames," Leanne said getting up. "Good luck Jess."

Leanne left Jessica and Paul to talk and made her way over the camp to Abigail and Drew. 

"What was that meant to mean?" Paul asked Jess, "Good luck?"

"Oh, yeah, I wanted us to get away from the others for a bit. I've missed sleeping next to you. Lea suggested we could borrow Mitches cabin. Would you want to?" Jess replied.

Paul smiled, "Yeah, sure - but we are meant to be in a protected group bubble here! I'm not sure Barney and Juliette are gonna approve. Although, I guess I am technically their boss so I guess I could make it happen!"

Jessica threw her arms around her boyfriend, "I really want you to make it happen. I love you." she kissed Paul on the cheek.

"I guess I'll better go and find out if it's ok?" Paul laughed and got up, he made his way across the camp to the control tent where Juliette and Barney were in conversation. Jessica made her way over to Leanne to find out if Abi and Drew were 'a thing'.