Just a Little Bit of Magick • ONC 2020 • ✓

Stars and Hay Slides

I stepped into the SOE meeting room, William right behind me. Alex sat up, swinging off the couch he'd been lying on.

'Cinderella! How have you been?'

William raised an eyebrow and I sighed, 'Just don't ask. I don't know where he got it from either.'

I turned back to Alex, 'Chucklehead! fancy seeing you here.'

His face twisted into a glare, 'Chucklehead? I'm not an idiot.'

I grinned, blowing a kiss at him as Cap entered the room.

He went red and I chuckled, turning back to the table.

'Our mission two weeks ago was a success and the bridges went down without any incident. Therefore our superiors are sending the whole team back in to assist the Dutch resistance in blowing up a Submarine Control Base in the Netherlands. Anti-aircraft guns mean that there will be no air support. Any questions?'

No one moved.

Cap clapped his hands together, 'Well then Team MOS. Let's get to work.'

Leaning over to William, I whispered, 'Still think it's a stupid name.'

»--«

The mission was just over a week later. We had spent the whole time planning and training as a team. Our superiors found us a nice forest somewhere in the middle of nowhere.

Well, as far into nowhere as you can get in England.

I think it was an army training camp or something as when we walked in, the whole area was filled with muscular men in uniform who stared a lot. I tripped several of the worst up secretly with fé, smirking as their friends laughed.

We then pretended to storm a base using rubber bullets. The soldiers we were 'attacking' were also getting trained; at being utterly destroyed by a team of six, including a girl. They very indignantly stated that they were going easy on me.

Pffffft sure.

Only a couple of us got 'injured', Captain Walker's nephew, David and Alex, which I would not be letting him forget anytime soon.

Two days before the mission, we tacked up, storing extra bullets and miles of wire and explosives. Then, after going over the plan about ten thousand times, we climbed into a motorised boat and set sail for the Netherlands.

»--«

The trip over was quite nice, the warm June nights meaning that the sea wasn't as rough as when I crossed the Atlantic in December. William however was still sat inside the cabin, looking very green and chewing a large chunk of ginger.

I sat outside on the deck, watching as the sun went down over the dark outline of England. Alex sat down next to me, both of us staring up at the faint stars that were just appearing.

The night was quiet, the only sounds the gentle slap of waves on the hull and the murmuring of voices from the cabin. I swung my legs out over side and pulled my gun into my lap, taking it apart and cleaning each piece carefully.

Alex just watched, eyes hurriedly darting back out to the horizon when I glanced at him, a small smile appearing on my lips.