If either of them said they weren't absolutely bricking it, they'd be award winning liars.
"We're absolutely fucked you realise that don't you?" Georgie reiterated for the 100th time "It all means nothing without him. You can go back, but I'm not leaving him out here to die. Or Brains, I just hope they're together" Molly snapped.
This was new ground for both of them. Both broke rules and ignored orders. It was probably why they'd been such great friends in the beginning. They both followed their hearts and were lead by 'the right thing' to do rather than army regulations, much to the annoyance of several commanding officers. Georgie knew this character trait would be the end of her army career eventually. She'd been lucky to keep her position by the skin of her teeth after her and Charles were exposed. But Molly had settled down, knuckled down and been promoted. Charles and Smurf being shot had damaged her in a way that meant she never wanted to live with guilt of that magnitude again. She had too much blood on her hands she felt. Her budding special forces career was all she had wanted and she'd worked hard for it. Now it was most certainly lost and dishonourably too.
But this was Charles' life on the line - The love of her life and Brains who was one of her best friends. If anyone was worth giving it up for, Charles would win every time. She cursed herself for allowing it to come to this before she realised.
The short amount of training she had under Bones made this feel a little easier as she guided Georgie through the thick jungle. "We need to head towards the river" Georgie whispered "Maria told me they have some kind of shack they use. They could be holding them there"
"Who the fuck is Maria?" Molly spat "And we don't even know they've got them. Where's the cliff?"
They stopped dead in their tracks, the noises around them seemed deafening in the fading light.
"We're so fired after this. Court martial and all sorts.. guarantee it" Georgie was thinking out loud now "yep" confirmed Molly "But like fuck was I leaving him out here all night. That leg, I bet it's that leg"
"You don't know that. He might just be completely out of it somewhere" Georgie tried her best to reassure her but she knew in her heart things didn't look good. The rest of 2 section had been found too quickly. Where had Charles and Brains disappeared too?
They wasted no time moving deeper and deeper into the Jungle. Time dragged but in just a few hours they had covered a considerable amount of ground.
"Bones is probably spitting feathers" Molly said, the magnitude of just what they had done hitting her.
Georgie raised her hand "Ssh. Did you hear that?"
The sound of someone wailing echoed through the trees around them causing them both to take cover and prepare to shoot.
"It's Charles" Molly climbed to her feet and ran in the direction of his cries.
"How can you be sure?"
"I've never managed to forget the sound of the man I love crying in agony. It's Charles!" Molly bolted.
"Fucking hold on Molly. Sound travels differently in the jungle"
They stopped to listen again, Molly's heart racing, the sound of his pain hurting her. "Georgie I need to get to him"
"This way. And be careful, if we heard him, they heard him" Molly followed Georgie willingly, following the sound of his cries until at last they found them.
"I can't help him" Brains panicked as Charles clung to a tree for dear life. My arm is fucked from the fall. So are me ribs. They beat fuck out of us"
