Fighting Her Father's War by M L Maki

Author:M L Maki [Maki, M L]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rose Hill Press
Published: 2017-12-04T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 25

ORDINANCE OFFICE, 3RD DECK FORWARD, 1510, 23 DECEMBER, 1941

Lt. Jackson stands outside the door to the ordinance office, lifts his hand to his ball cap, puts his hand down, puts it back to the cap, and grabs it, “Jesus, man, it isn’t the prom.” He Knocks on the door and walks in. Ensign Severn is sitting at a desk in a fairly large office crowded with more desks that are occupied by chiefs and petty officers. When she sees him, she says a guarded, “May I help you, Lieutenant?”

Crushing his cap, he says, “Um, yes, I owe you an apology. I was a…an, um, my behavior like sucked. Anyway, this is for you,” and pulls a bar of Cadbury chocolate out of his pocket, giving it to her.

Startled, she takes it, “Thank you, Lieutenant? Um?”

“Jackson, ma’am, Thud Jackson.”

She laughs, “Right, I remember now, like James Bond.” He stops crushing his cover and laughs. “Did you come all this way just to give me some chocolate?”

Turning red, “No, I mean, yes. I needed to apologize, ma’am, and ask for your help with something.”

She unwraps the chocolate and gestures to the coffee pot in the corner, “Okay, apology accepted. Do you want to share? There’s coffee over there?” Thud gets his coffee and sits in front of her desk. She hands him a piece of chocolate on a napkin, “Here you are. You need my help?”

“Yeah, you see I’m a member of the brain trust, and we, well, um…”

“What brain trust.”

“Oh, Captain Johnson’s. We’ve been figuring things out for him, like what is going on with the war and how good the Japanese planes are and stuff like that. Did you know the long lance torpedo uses liquid oxygen?”

“Everybody knows that.”

Thud smiles, “Exactly, that’s what I said, but I guess they didn’t know. Anyway, do you know anything about missile propellant?”

“Sure, I mean, I have a degree in chemistry and I work with them here. You have to know what you’re handling, right?”

“Yes, I knew you could help.”

“Help with what?”

“We need to make new missiles because we’re running out of the ones we have.”

“No one knows how to make missiles correctly in 1941. They can’t do it.”

“You know how.”

“Yeah, but, um, oh jeeze.”

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