Alpha, Delta by RJ Scott

Author:RJ Scott [Scott, RJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-01-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

The battery light flickered red and Niall had never felt such a keen sense of relief in anything before. A red light wasn’t enough to use it but at least the phone was charging. He just had to hope that whoever had decided to attack Forseti hadn’t somehow affected communications and he could get a clear line out.

What would Finn do, what would Finn do…

A sound had him shrinking back behind the crates but it was nothing more than buffeting wind and rain smashing into the thick walls. Whoever was hijacking the platform would know he was still alive and that he’d gotten away. And was it just one man with a gun, or was this more than one. Niall had only seen a single man with a gun face to face, but there was another armed in the drilling deck control room. At least two.

If they were worried about finding him, if they thought he was of any use, or hell, if they just wanted him dead, then he wasn’t safe wherever he was hiding.

Worst comes to worst you could jump in the sea.

And die in seconds, slammed against the superstructure, or pulled underneath the tumultuous waves, freezing in seconds.

No jumping into the sea unless you have to.

The red light flickered for a second from red to green but then settled back on red. What happened if he used the phone? Would the unknown attackers pick up the comms, find him? Niall was an engineer, give him sixty-three thousand tons of steel and concrete and he could imagine every inch of it and know it like it was his own, but electrics and telecoms were something he couldn’t get his head round. Hell, he could twist a few wires together in a rough approximation of fixed but the phone looked like it was going to last about three minutes.

Maybe I should try for the accommodation block. That was self-contained and could be shut off from the rest of the platform in case of fire. It would be safe in there. Unless the hijackers were in there.

Frustrated at the turn of his thoughts he banged his head against the wall and winced when it fucking hurt. He pushed his glasses back up his nose and huddled into an even smaller ball, shivering with cold, and waited.

He imagined Finn next to him, holding his hand, telling him everything was going to be okay. Keeping Finn in his thoughts was a good move; the strength he admired in his lover was enough to keep him calm. At least until the light flickered to green and stayed that way.

Niall immediately picked it up, not knowing who the hell to call. This wasn’t a two-way radio, this was a phone and the only number he remembered off the top of his head was Ewan’s, and Ewan was in hospital.

Fumbling in his tight pocket he pulled out his cell and peered at the screen. It was soaked through, water behind the screen, but when he pressed the power it worked enough for Niall to get a number for Grane Terminal.

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