situation. Especially after everything we’d been through.
But the thing that made me feel most uneasy, the thing that made me want to throw up every time I thought about it, was that all this; this whole mission was based on the assumption that my friends were still alive. And that was a huge assumption.
It had been over a week since their call for help. Which means they’d spent just over two weeks right in the middle of Sydney, right in the heart of a warzone, living amongst the infection.
How they even made it from Darling Harbor to another building was a miracle in itself. It means somehow Maria had escaped from those men in black who had abducted her. Or more likely, something had happened to those men. Something bad. And Maria was forced to run. And Jack. Jack had somehow found them. It would’ve been a herculean effort on his behalf. It’s amazing the lengths that people will go to for the people they love.
I shook my head as I thought about the insanity of it all. I wanted to sit in cockpit with Daniel. I wanted to talk to him. I think I needed him to tell me it was going to be all right. That this was just a regular mission for these guys, nothing out of the ordinary, nothing they couldn’t handle. I wanted him to tell me that we were going to find my friends, that they were still alive, this whole mission would be a walk in the park and that we’d be back in LA, back in my luxurious penthouse suite in no time.
But of course, I knew he wouldn’t say that if I asked. So I stayed put, strapped into my seat. And we continued to fly for the east coast of Australia. The most populated area of the entire country. The most dangerous, the most deadly.
Chapter 11
We'd been flying for about two hours. The whole time I'd been buzzing on a seemingly endless rush of adrenalin. I was on the brink of what felt like a cross between a heart attack and an anxiety attack. Probably the beginnings of a nervous breakdown, I thought.
The guys didn't talk much. Ethan had actually fallen asleep. Maybe they knew this was their last chance for some peace and quiet so they were making the most of it. I wondered how Ramirez was doing by herself back at the camp. I don’t know how she did it. I’d be scared senseless all by myself, in the middle of the outback. Especially with killer dogs on the loose and God knows what else out there. I suppose she was protected by automatic machine guns and a super charged electric fence. But still, there was no way I would let anyone leave me alone in a place like that.
Daniel’s voice came over the PA system. "ETA, thirty minutes. Coming up on the eastern seaboard."
We banked sharply to the left and began flying north to follow the shoreline towards Sydney. It was still too dark outside to see anything but I knew that approximately a hundred miles to our right, over the eastern horizon, was the military blockade. They would be waiting and watching, evaluating their position and planning their next move. To our left was the east coast of Australia. A stretch of coast that was overrun with millions of infected. What’s that saying about a rock and a hard place? I think that’s where we were at that point in time.
Griffin unstrapped himself from his seat. "All right! Time to get it on!" he shouted as he started walking up and down the cabin area. He seemed to be stretching his legs, waking himself up, psyching himself up.
"Woo! Yeah," he shouted as he slapped himself in the face."Hey Smitty, wake up the Major."
"You wake him up," Smitty replied, obviously not wanting to disturb Ethan from his slumber.
Griffin made his way towards me. "You look nervous, little lady," he said in his rough as guts voice. "Don't be. We're the best of the best. Ain’t no one or nothing gonna hurt you while we’re around. Check it out. The Osprey here is armed with two M134’s. AKA the mini gun, AKA the gattling gun, AKA Ol’ Painless. Made famous in such movies as Terminator 2 and
But the thing that made me feel most uneasy, the thing that made me want to throw up every time I thought about it, was that all this; this whole mission was based on the assumption that my friends were still alive. And that was a huge assumption.
It had been over a week since their call for help. Which means they’d spent just over two weeks right in the middle of Sydney, right in the heart of a warzone, living amongst the infection.
How they even made it from Darling Harbor to another building was a miracle in itself. It means somehow Maria had escaped from those men in black who had abducted her. Or more likely, something had happened to those men. Something bad. And Maria was forced to run. And Jack. Jack had somehow found them. It would’ve been a herculean effort on his behalf. It’s amazing the lengths that people will go to for the people they love.
I shook my head as I thought about the insanity of it all. I wanted to sit in cockpit with Daniel. I wanted to talk to him. I think I needed him to tell me it was going to be all right. That this was just a regular mission for these guys, nothing out of the ordinary, nothing they couldn’t handle. I wanted him to tell me that we were going to find my friends, that they were still alive, this whole mission would be a walk in the park and that we’d be back in LA, back in my luxurious penthouse suite in no time.
But of course, I knew he wouldn’t say that if I asked. So I stayed put, strapped into my seat. And we continued to fly for the east coast of Australia. The most populated area of the entire country. The most dangerous, the most deadly.
Chapter 11
We'd been flying for about two hours. The whole time I'd been buzzing on a seemingly endless rush of adrenalin. I was on the brink of what felt like a cross between a heart attack and an anxiety attack. Probably the beginnings of a nervous breakdown, I thought.
The guys didn't talk much. Ethan had actually fallen asleep. Maybe they knew this was their last chance for some peace and quiet so they were making the most of it. I wondered how Ramirez was doing by herself back at the camp. I don’t know how she did it. I’d be scared senseless all by myself, in the middle of the outback. Especially with killer dogs on the loose and God knows what else out there. I suppose she was protected by automatic machine guns and a super charged electric fence. But still, there was no way I would let anyone leave me alone in a place like that.
Daniel’s voice came over the PA system. "ETA, thirty minutes. Coming up on the eastern seaboard."
We banked sharply to the left and began flying north to follow the shoreline towards Sydney. It was still too dark outside to see anything but I knew that approximately a hundred miles to our right, over the eastern horizon, was the military blockade. They would be waiting and watching, evaluating their position and planning their next move. To our left was the east coast of Australia. A stretch of coast that was overrun with millions of infected. What’s that saying about a rock and a hard place? I think that’s where we were at that point in time.
Griffin unstrapped himself from his seat. "All right! Time to get it on!" he shouted as he started walking up and down the cabin area. He seemed to be stretching his legs, waking himself up, psyching himself up.
"Woo! Yeah," he shouted as he slapped himself in the face."Hey Smitty, wake up the Major."
"You wake him up," Smitty replied, obviously not wanting to disturb Ethan from his slumber.
Griffin made his way towards me. "You look nervous, little lady," he said in his rough as guts voice. "Don't be. We're the best of the best. Ain’t no one or nothing gonna hurt you while we’re around. Check it out. The Osprey here is armed with two M134’s. AKA the mini gun, AKA the gattling gun, AKA Ol’ Painless. Made famous in such movies as Terminator 2 and
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