The Soldier Who Taught Her To Trust (#2 The Soldier Series)

Chapter Ten - Violence is NOT Helping!

Chapter Ten       Violence is NOT helping

Izzy stood on the side of the seashore, she was feeling nervous, her best friend was doing a demo and it was no easy task. She looked out seeing the choppy waters of the cold north sea, as the waves crashed against the rocks, in the distance was the lone figure of Kyla, bobbing up and down in the cold water her arm stretched upwards, with the black speedboat hurtling towards her at speed. Izzy held her breath as she saw Kermit hanging out the side of the boat, a large metal ring in his hand, approaching Kyla.

She watched intently trying to keep her face a stoic mask and hide her fear from the contestants that had to complete this task, one in the water one holding the ring. As the ring approached, Kyla hooked her arm through it and grabbed onto the side of the boat with her other hand, lifting her leg over at the same time, as Kermit grabbed her back and pulled her to safety. Seeing Kyla had completed the demo to perfection Izzy let out an audible sigh of relief, but knew she was going to struggle once more when it was Stans turn. Izzy thought to herself that it was somehow easier to do the tasks than watch those who you loved doing them, knowing from the debrief just how dangerous the manoeuvre was. The nervousness had not been helped when Cigs informed her, he had to do the sea rescue for real once and did not get his arm through the hoop correctly, and dislocated his shoulder. He laughed about it, shrugging it off like no big deal, and Izzy could have happily punched him when she saw Kyla’s eyes widen until Kermit told her it was only because Cigs was an i***t that it had gone wrong.

As the boat pulled up onto the beach, Kyla got out, then headed over behind a large rock to strip out of her wetsuit and dry off, Tank got out of the boat and began his famous pacing and instructing, as Cigs turned to Izzy and gave her a little wink and half smile, taking over from Kyla in the boat, so that he could help rescue the contestants if anything went awry.

Making her way to stand with the contestants, she paired up who would be going with whom, and organised wet suits for the contestant unlucky enough to be chosen as the one stranded in the water, Izzy spotted Stan as he was joking with one of the other guys on the course. Handing him his wet suit, she told him to strip down and change, a smirk appeared on his lips

“Turn around Staff, don’t want you getting all hot and bothered” Stan joked

Izzy shook her head, supressing the laugh, given Stan was the mole, she needed to bollock him for saying that, so took a deep breath.

“Stop f*****g about number one and get your tiny man parts into that wet suit” she shouted, then moved on to the next contestant.

Kyla arrived hair still wet and gave instruction on how to loop the ring safely, as the contestants listened. Once their jobs were done, Kyla and Izzy stood to one side, as the pairs of contestants were shipped out to sea in order to complete the task.

“How was it?” Izzy asked

“f*****g freezing, but other than that went great” Kyla grinned

“Your knight in shining armour catching you again” Izzy laughed

“Always, actually I was thinking last night, I know we are not getting married till Woof is released and can be best man, but do you think Tank would give me away?” Kyla asked her friend

“I think he will be pleased as punch to do that for you Kyla” Izzy grinned.

“Yeah, I was also thinking of inviting my father, but not my mother, she has not bothered to reach out other than to continue with how much of a failure I am in her eyes” Kyla sighed

Izzy smiled at Kyla, she was pleased her friend was starting to make peace with at least one of her parents and given her dad had reached out and shown remorse for his actions, she knew Kyla would forgive him.

“That is very big of you Kyla, I think it is the right decision” Izzy smiled

“Cool, also next week when we are out of here, fancy popping down to London and go wedding shopping, may as well get some things ready for when we can finally set the date” Kyla asked

Izzy smiled warmly, she would love to help her friend, and a day shopping would be a nice change from all the testosterone filled activities they had subjected themselves to the past nine days.

“Yeah, that would be great, we can do girly s**t” Izzy laughed.

“You know we say that, and look forward to it, but let us be honest, we much prefer doing this crap really” Kyla giggled

She was not wrong, Izzy loved her time here, both the first time as a contestant and now as an instructor, and she would be sad when it ended. As the pair of friends continued to chat happily, watching over the contestants one of the production crew ran over to them.

“Hey, we all need to chat as soon as this is finished” he said looking a little harassed

“What’s up Chris?” Izzy asked, not liking the look on his face one bit

“f*****g s**t is going down, there are massive riots in every major city, the peaceful protest for Woof has turned into anarchy, and we have been contacted to do a live broadcast ASAP for you all to try and calm people down” Chris stated, looking flustered

Izzy sighed, typical, idiots using something that is supposed to be for good and turning into riots, it would not help the cause in any way at all.

“They should not be long, the last two are heading out to complete the task now” Kyla said.

Izzy walked down to the beach edge to make sure all the contestants who had attempted the task were dressed and ready to go at a moments notice, they were supposed to go on to complete a ten click hike with weight, but she knew this would have to be postponed.

“Okay get your kit on your back and head up to the SUV’s as soon as these guys are finished” Izzy ordered.

Looking out to sea, she saw the last contestant getting pulled into the boat, another successful attempt, and thankfully nobody had sustained any major injury, so now they just had to wait for the guys to return to shore so that could tell them what was happening.

As the boat moored onto the beach, Izzy ran over to the contestants.

“Get into your dry kit now and head for the SUV’s MOVE” she shouted

As they ran off, Tank looked over to her

“What’s wrong?” he asked

“The peaceful protests have turned into a s**t show,  every major city is rioting, they need us back at base to do a stand down speech and air it live” Izzy said

“f**k” Kermit shouted the frustration evident on his face.

“Idiots, don’t they f*****g get it, it helps no fucker” Cigs continued shaking his head

“Okay well Kyla is getting the contestants into the SUV’s for transport now, we need to hurry they want us all to do this ASAP” Izzy informed the guys and quick as a flash they were out of the boat, dragging it up to hook up onto the trailer, what would take a normal person hours took them mere minutes, then each of them grabbing their day bags they all headed to the cars, and back to base.

As the camera light flashed red indicating they were live on air Tank began to speak

“I know you are frustrated with the Soldier B case, but violence is not the answer, we ask that you all calm down and return to your homes. This rioting is not helping, so stand down” Tank said to the camera, it then focused on Kermit who stood with his hand on the bottom of Kyla’s Back.

“Nobody understands the frustrations of Soldier B’s predicament more than my fiancée and I, but as Tank said, violence solves nothing. For those who are attacking the police STOP! It is not the fault of the police officers who serve their country, just as we have, they do not make the law, they only enforce it, this is no more their fault than it is mine, or Kyla’s. Show respect, rioting is not the answer, peaceful protest to ask the government to conclude their internal enquiry is the answer, but this violence needs to stop now.” Kermit spoke his voice soft yet still full of power.

The camera then panned over to Cigs

“Soldier B would not want this, none of us want this, use your brains people, and go home,” Cigs said, his voice full of authority.

Izzy stood as Kyla grasped hold of her hand

“We have seen enough madness to last us both a lifetime, please stop this nonsense you are not helping” Izzy said as Kyla nodded her agreement

“Please, do not make this situation worse, go home to your families and live in peace, help Soldier B now by stopping the rioting thank you” Kyla added.

The camera went off and the guys all stood around in a huddle their arms linked around each of their backs.

“Come on guys, lets press on with what we have to do here, the show must go on” Tank said.

The atmosphere that afternoon was subdued, the contestants being made aware of the rioting, many of them fearful for family members that may be caught up in it all, knowing that some of them had gone to peacefully protest.

Izzy understood it was only a few idiots who would start the violent behaviour, and more often than not it was the innocents who got caught up in the backlash of it all. The mountains were quiet, the usual shouts of “Move” were less than on previous tasks, but in fairness all the remaining contestants were putting in the effort, so the motivation was needed less and less as the show progressed. After the ten klick hike with bergens the contestants arrived back to base, all stripping down, and getting themselves sorted for the next day.

“Guys, I need us all in the interview room” Tank said to the instructors.

As Izzy and Kyla entered the interview room, they took their seats, Kermit arrived next followed by Cigs Tank arriving last.

“Okay guys, a couple of things, firstly well done on the live broadcast, not sure if it is going to make any f*****g difference but at least we tried. Secondly, we need to pull Stan out tomorrow, so we have to work out how we are going to do this, the usual speech I give will not cut it, so will have to think of something different, I am open to any suggestions. Thirdly they are bringing in a TV for us, so we can watch the news and find out what the f**k is happening” Tank said.

“I have an idea on how to pull Stan out” Izzy ventured

Everyone turned to listen to her suggestion.

“Normally, you give the whole one of you should be with us speech, well how about having Stan do something wrong, get some one he has bonded with to do the sickener as he stands and watches, then he VW’s in protest, as you have them on parade giving the debrief, tell them there is a new instructor then bring out Stan” Izzy said

“f*****g brilliant girl” Cigs smiled at her

“Yeah, I agree, great plan” Kermit nodded with a smirk

“Yeah, my bestie is a cunning b***h” Kyla giggled

“I agree, let’s do that tomorrow morning, now we need to let Stan know so Cigs can you go bring him in” Tanks smiled at Izzy.

Cigs walked out of the room and into the barn.

“NUMBER ONE!” he shouted

Stan followed, as Cigs placed the hood over his head, then took him into the interview room. He would miss beasting him, but after all was said and done he still liked the man, he was just jealous of him.

“HEY STAN” Izzy and Kyla shouted giving him a hug

Cigs stood back, he still had the sting of jealousy in his heart but chose to remember that Izzy and Stan were like brother and sister, so calmed his natural instincts to lash out by taking a deep breath.

“Okay mate, here are some biscuits” Tank smiled handing over a packed of biscuits for him

Kermit passed Stan a cup of tea, and as normal, he began to dunk the biscuits only leaving them to long in the hot steaming liquid.

“Aww f**k, floaties, every f*****g time” Stan complained as the soggy biscuit dropped into his cup

“You are a f*****g i***t” Izzy laughed.

“And disgusting” Kyla giggled

They proceeded to give him the heads up on what would happen in the morning, and how he would VW to come back and be revealed as the mole, Stan laughed,

“Number 13, get on well with him” he smiled, grateful they were going to pull him out of the barn tomorrow.

“Cool we will beast him for you doing something, have your boot untied” Kermit said

“Only try not to trip over the fucker before we get you on the parade square” Cigs added with a chuckle

“You will be bunking down with me” Kermit informed him

“Okay, so no doubt Kyla will be visiting, and I get live porn every night” Stan chuckled to himself

“Er, NO, just NO” Kyla said shaking her head at Stan

“Spoil sport! On a serious note, what the f**k is happening, any info on the riots?” Stan asked

“No more than you guys have been told, we are going to watch the news tonight, find out what is happening” Tank said with a shrug

“Okay, hope this does not set everything back” Stan sighed.

“Yeah, we all do” Cigs slapped the man who was once his friend, then became his rival, and is now a friend again on the back.

They all said their good buys, and Cigs returned Stan to the barn, before heading back into the interview room, the TV set up, he took a seat next to Izzy, and they all began to watch what was happening around the UK. The news cut to an interview.

“Is that Grace?” Izzy asked as the little old lady and a younger woman appeared

“f*****g dam right it is, she would get in on the action” Kermit chuckled

They watched as Grace said they had started the Free Soldier B campaign but wanted it to be peaceful.

“Bet she is loving her life right now, crazy old bat” Izzy laughed

“Oh, I know she was a nosy parker, and village gossip, but honestly, she had my back, and Kermit’s so let’s be nice” Kyla said in Graces defence

“I am just glad she has her teeth in, and they are not filming from inside that mausoleum she calls a house” Kermit shuddered

Kyla giggled, shaking her head at her fiancé

As they continued to watch, Cigs reached out to grab a biscuit his hand gently brushing Izzy’s thigh as he did so, Izzy gasped slightly, as pleasure rushed through her body from his touch, not wanting to feel this way she quickly stood up.

“Well, I have seen enough for one day, going to bunk down for the night. Laters everyone” she said then hightailed it away from the room, and the embarrassment of her lust for Cigs.