Navy Love

13 Shot Down

A year later

Harley is still numb. She barley smiles or visits with people. She's pushed everyone away. She tried pushing me away but by doing that she'd lose her chance to talk to Ivan. Ivan uses my body all the time when I'm over there. I'm fine with it because I get to kiss Harley. We only have three months left of our deployment. I think I might buy a house by Harley's. She loves when i come home with her. I've been learning Russian, waiting to surprise Harley. I'm not fluent I know how to say basic things and I love you. I'm going to tell her soon. Next time we have a moment I'm going to confess my love to her. "Bagans, we need you to take your pilots and go flying to Russia and nuke them." "What happened? I thought we were at peace with Russia." I say confused. "Were you not listening to this whole meeting? They just bombed the shit out of New York." "NEW YORK? WHERE?" I freak out. Mayk is there! "The upper region." He tells me. "Okay." I sigh relieved. Mayk is down at the lower country part of New York. "I want you taking all of your pilots and bomb the shit out of them." General Bruce tells me. "How many pilots do you have commander?" Captain Johnson asks me. "Twenty-three." I answer. "Very well. How many bomber jets do we have and how many heavy bombers do we have?" "Two bombers and one heavy bomber." I answer. "Who is flying what?" "I have pilots assigned to specific aircrafts. "Rawson and I fly the heavy bomber. Groff and Goodwin fly fighter jets along with the rest of our pilots." "Decided tomorrow you fly." He tells me. I look over at my crew. "Very well." I nod my head. "You are dismissed." Chief says. I get out and head to Harley's room. I knock on the door waking her up. She opens her door tiredly. Her hair was everywhere. She looked terrible yet beautiful. "What Zak?" She leans against the door. "Tomorrow we are bombing Russia." I tell her. "I'm not bombing Russia." She tells me bitterly. "You don't have a choice sweetie." I tell her softly. "What part of Russia?" "Section two." "Okay, when are we flying?" She asks me. "1000." I answer. "I understand. What will I be flying?" "You and I will be flying the heavy bomber." I tell her. "Okay." She nods her head. "Well I'll see you tomorrow." I walk away. "Zak?" She calls after me. "Yes love?" "Never mind." She closes the door. I go to my room and hop into bed.

I get up and go over to Harley room. I open the door and look at her sleeping. I bend down to her and kiss her sweet lips. I pull back and smile. I lightly shake her awake. She opens her eyes looking at me. "Time to get ready." I tell her softly. "Okay." She sits up rustling the sheets. She gets up and gets dressed then goes to the bathroom.

We go to breakfast and eat. I stand in line next to Harley. She looked at me then at her plate. I ignore it and finish getting my breakfast. I sit down as Harley sits next to me. The rest of my pilots sit down with us. "Whats the plane?" Tony asks me. "We are flying high out of them reach of the radars. Then when we get to section two we are nuking them." I explain. "Yes sir." They nod their heads. "Say your good byes to your brothers. This mission we might not come back." I say then look at Harley. " Mayk." Was all she said. I take her hand and hold it. "Don't worry he'll be fine." I tell her softly. "Zak we could die." She's tells me with pain in her eyes. "Don't worry we will be fine." I lie to her. I don't know whats going to happen. I cant promise anything. "Ill take care of you." I promise her. "Thanks." She eats her food. We finish up then go back to our rooms. I sit in Harley's room with her. "Can I call Mayk?" She asks me. "Yeah, go ahead." I scoot closer to her. She pulls out her phone face timing Olga. She picks up handing the phone to Mayk. "Hi baby boy." Harley smiles. "Mommy!" He smiles at her. "How are you doing buddy?" She asks him. "Good, when are you coming home?" He says softly. "I'll be home soon. Then I'm there to stay." She smiles at him. "I love you mommy." He tells her sweetly in his sweet innocent voice. "I love you too, Mayk." "I love you daddy Zak." "I love you too buddy." I smile into the camera. He is precious. We talk for awhile then hang up."well my dear it's time to fly." I sigh. "Alright." She exhales heavily. We go out to the planes suiting up in our gear. All the pilots where doing the same thing. We finish up then get in our aircrafts. I hope we make it back alive.

We lift off heading to section two. "Zak, I have a bad feeling. Last time I had this feeling Ivan died." She tells me scared. "We'll be okay." We finally make it to section two. "Time to drop." I tell Harley. "Detonating now." Harley says dropping the bomb. We dropped it watching everything being destroyed. "We have company." A guy radios in. "Let's go let's go." I tell Harley as I take control. We fly away from the area but we were merged by their air force. "They are every where." "We have company." Harley tells me. They were firing heavily at us. "Surpitene." Harley does advanced flying. I look out the window to see one of our planes go down. "We are losing men!" I exclaim. "Soon there was three plans surrounding us. I watch as Nick and Aaron took them down. An alarm starts going off followed by a shake in the plane. "We've been hit." Harley panics. "We will be okay." I tell her. I felt the plane shake again followed by smoke. The plane started going down quickly. "Zak!?!" Harley screamed. We were a few thousand feet Above the ground. We are going to crash. "ZAK!" Nick and Aaron yell in. I hit the ejection button and we fly out. Planes were still around us. I watch in horror as they start shooting at Harley. They seemed to miss at the most part but Harley didn't move. I pull her parachute then mine. I grab her hand holding her tightly to me. "Harley? Harley you okay?" I yell so she could hear me. We land on the ground in some Forrest. I take my shoot off racing over to Harley who laid still on the ground. I take her helmet off and look at her. Her eyes were wide open. "Zak, help me." She mumbles. I open her shirt and look to see she was shot in her stomach and arm. "I hurt." She mumbles weakly. "Harley stay with me. Don't you DARE leave me." I beg her using her words she once told Ivan. "Tell me what to do. I don't know what to do." I beg her as tears run down my cheeks. "Get the bullets out." She tells me. I carefully pick them out. "Ahh." She sucks in air through her teeth. "I'm sorry baby girl. Now what?" She was then silent. "HARLEY! Please don't leave me. Please, I love you. I'm in love with you. Please don't leave me." I beg her. "You you love me?" She mumbles softly. "Since day one. I've always been in love with you." I confess. "Zak, all this time?" She mumbles. "Yes, ever since I met you. That's why I was hard on you." I tell her. "I love you too." She closes her eyes. "Harley!! Harley stay with me." I beg her. "Wrap me up putting pressure on the wounds." She mumbles. "Okay." I race over cutting her parachute. I then race back wrapping her up tightly. "Mayk." She mumbled. "He'll be okay. We will get out of here." I promise her. "Your such a great dad to him." "I try." I say as I finish tying her up. "Zak, he loves you. I think you should move in." "How about you move in with me?" "Yeah, I like that." She smiles with her eyes closed. "We will make it out of here." I promise her. I look up to see planes still fighting up there. A plane then starts coming down towards us. I grab Harley throwing her in my arms. I run deeper into the Forrest. The plane comes down with a loud crash. I protect Harley keeping her from getting hurt. I look up to see it was one of our planes. I race over to see if there was a pilot. Empty. I turn on the radio to see if it would work. Nothing. This plane is toast. "Zak?" Harley called me. I go over to her to see what was wrong. "My leg, it hurts." She breaths heavily. I sit her up and take her suit off carefully. Sure enough she was shot on her. leg. I cut more fabric and wrap her leg up after taking the bullet out. She's a wreck. She was lite up. "I need water." She mumbles dryly. "I'll see what I can do." I run over to the plane. I look to see a canister. I run back over to Harley. "I have water." I put it to her mouth. She starts drinking. She stops then pushes it to me. "Drink you'll need it." I follow what she says. "I'm going to see if I can fix that radio so we can get picked up." "Don't leave me please." She begs me. I put her clothes back on and carry her to the plane. I set her on the ground and start messing with the radio. This is our only chance to make it out of here. I work all day on the radio with no success. Soon night was upon us. I look down at Harley to see she was sleeping. I go over to her checking her heart rate. Normal. "I'm alive still." She mumbles. "Just checking." I chuckle. "I find it funny at how I'm the doctor and now I'm your patient." She smiles at me. "Well I'm the worst doctor ever. I don't know what to do." I sigh. "Your doing good." She smiles at me. "Please fight for me. Fight for Mayk." I beg her. "Zak, I'm going to live." "You sure?" "Yes." "Good." I still have my doubts I pray to God she makes it. She's my world. "ya lyublyu tebya." I tell her in Russian. (I love you) she looked at me shocked then a smile spread across her face. "Harley, I know I can't speak perfect Russian, I'm not the father of your child, I just want you to know I love you and I'll give you my love and help raise Mayk. Can you please give me the chance of loving you?" I tell her from my heart. She looked at me thoughtful. "Yes." She smiles. "Great." I smile at her. "We should have made shelter. " Harley tells me. "You can't do anything. You can barley even move." I correct her. "Then you should have made shelter." "I was busy fixing the radio." "Zak it's starting to rain." I soon felt the rain drops on my skin. I pick her up and get into the plane. We sit in the plane while Harley sat on my lap. "Looks like we are going to have to cuddle." I chuckle. "Not the first time." She smiles. "Sleep well Harley." I yawn. "You too Zachary." She lays her head on my shoulder drifting to sleep. She's finally mine. I can't believe it. My Harley.