Runaway by Anne Laughlin

Author:Anne Laughlin [Laughlin, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781602826892
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2012-01-24T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

David joined Maddy and Kristi’s squad for the afternoon session on hand-to-hand combat. They were covered with mud after a half hour of practicing break and rolls, their cammies still wet from a disaster in the wetlands ambush session earlier in the day. Maddy lay on the ground and thought if she had to stand up one more time, she’d find a way to take a rifle butt to Sergeant Cooper’s head.

David lay sprawled next to Maddy, a smile on his face as he looked over at her. “Isn’t this great?”

“I’d rather be coding,” she said.

“Come on, Maddy. You can’t live your whole life in your head. This is good for you. We’re going to be a cohesive unit out in Idaho.”

She looked at him and shook her head. “If you say so. It seems to me we’d be better off learning how to chop wood and plant seeds than learning about choke holds and pressure points. But call me crazy.”

Sergeant Cooper ordered them up for the next round of exercises. Kristi groaned and hauled herself up. “All I know is I could eat an entire elk right now. I already know how to field dress and butcher it, so I’ve got that covered for us.”

She leaned over to give Maddy a hand up. “Come on, you wimp. Let’s practice some more of that close quarters stuff. It’s fun.”

They lined up facing each other, half the people with dummy knives in their hands, the other half crouched to ward off the attack. Maddy worried a little at the gleam in Kristi’s eye as she stood across from her. Tommy was next to her, standing more slumped than crouched. He stared at David across from him and looked like he was just waiting to be impaled.

Kristi was just moving in with her knife when Sergeant Drecker ran up to their group and pulled David out of the line, holding him by the elbow.

“Sergeant Cooper, dismiss your squad.”

“What?” Cooper said.

“You heard me, Sergeant. We’re bugging out.”

Drecker dragged David a few yards away and began to speak to him. Maddy could tell he was furious. Behind them, they could see Major Jacovich approaching. Something was up.

“Okay, form up. Time to break down and clean weapons,” Cooper said.

The squad picked up their rifles and lined up behind Cooper, who led them back across the field to the weapons van. As they walked near Drecker and David, Maddy saw David look over at her. He didn’t look happy.

“What the fuck is going on?” asked Kristi.

“I have no idea,” Maddy said. But she did. She saw Jacovich look over at her too, and his face was murderous. They must have found out she was a runaway. But how? She couldn’t imagine her parents tracking her to a militia training camp in Michigan. She may as well be on the moon as far as they were concerned.

All around the camp the various small groups were packing up whatever they were doing and moving toward the mustering point.

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