Chapter 340: Umm al-Dira
Finn POV
Lucky grabs me and hugs me "She loves you Finn and she's the sweetest little girl ever. She'll have questions but she loves you for you and not how you look."
Nate walks up and puts his hand on my shoulder "She's got her mommy's temper so just don't piss her off. Ohh and she can flip a grown ass man!" They all laugh.
"He knows from experience. She flipped him on her first try." Jasper laughs.
"This isn't who you are." Lucky says motioning his hand up and down my body "This is who you are." He says putting his hand over my heart. My eyes fill with tears and I hug him tightly.
"Thank you Lucky. Thank you for coming for us." He leans down to the ground and pats his back handing Nate his pack.
"What?" I say confused.
"Get on. Your malnourished and you just held Mumford for god knows how long. I won't risk you falling behind! I'm making sure that you get home and this is how we're doing it." Lucky says.
Nate puts his hand on my back.
"Just wrap your arms around his neck and your legs around his waist." Nate says in his serious voice.
"Look brother this isn't a pride thing or anyone questioning your strength. This is me giving a hero a minute to rest his body and let somebody else do the job for once." Lucky says patting his back again. I sigh heavily and Sheldon reaches for my hand. He pulls me to him, I lean down to him "Please Spence, it will make me feel better." He kisses my hand as he puts his wrist stump to my face. I nod and kiss his head, for a minute I forgot that there's men here who wouldn't be used to this kind of affection between us.
I clear my throat and swallow my pride as I hop on Lucky's fucking back. He stands with ease and waits while Burks covers me with a military sand colored poncho. I take a deep breath as we start our walk to a undisclosed base to catch a helicopter out of here.
Lucky POV
It's getting later in the day then we planned, we might need to stop for the night. We're still too far to make it there in the dark. We need a new plan and fast. Finn wiggled and fidgeted on my back for a while but his alseep now. I noticed his hold slipping and his breathing slow about a hour ago. He didn't even wake while we made like a backpack type rig to keep him up on me while he sleeps. Nate and Jasper have both offered to take him for awhile but I'm not letting him out of my sight till he's safe in River's arms.
I hold up my hand signaling everyone to stop. Burks and Jasper jog up to me.
"We missed our deadline. We're going to need a camp fast before it gets any later." I say catching my breath.
"Burks." Mumford says waving him over. Burks goes to talk to him and looks back at me and smiles. He jogs back to us.
"Mumford said about a mile more then stay to the right another mile in and there's a small town there, they know a few people that will give us safety for the night."
I nod and smile looking back over at Sheldon.
"Alright let's get going just a little further guys then we'll eat and rest." I wave my hand forward.
I can feel Finn getting restless as start our turn to the right. He's whimpering like he's hurt.
"We're stopping here soon brother hold on." I say quietly trying to calm him.
I feel him jerk awake breathing heavy. He's really still but he's awake.
"Finn, it's Lucky brother just take a few breaths your safe." His breathing starts to slow some and he squeezes my shoulder.
"Thanks." He says quietly.
I can feel him take a few deep breath.
"I can smell.. Quzi. I know where we're heading ask for Umm al-Dira" he says quickly.
"Mother of the village?" I say back in english making sure I'm saying it right in my head.
"Yes. Trust me we'll be well received."
"Okay then hold on a little bit longer."
I hold my hand up stopping everyone as we slowly cover our weapons.
"Tell everyone to put their hands up." Finn says.
I signal to the men. We all pull our hands in the air.
"Umm al-Dira! Umm al-Dira!" Finn says loudly as a dozen men come running up on us with their guns drawn.
"Spencer?" A man asks in english as he jogs up.
Finn pulls the poncho down showing his face.
The guy whistles and five men run towards the town as the rest run up to our group taking Mumfords stretcher and helping grab some gear from my tired men.
"Khalid, Mustafa we need rest and food just for tonight we'll be gone with the light." Finn says. They nod but then start taking to him fast in Arabic. Way to fast for me to keep up but I understand some. Something about making Umm al-Dira mad if we're military because of a incident last time and something about drinking and breaking the town apart.
Him and one guy laugh. Finn says "Ex military some, others private hire Nunzio papa." Finn says laughing.
"Nunzio!" Six men cheer loudly.
The man closest to us Mustafa I think yells "Umm al-Dira! It's Spencer and Mumford!" More cheering and then people come from everywhere. Candles start lighting up all over the small village. Food and drinks are being shoved in our hands as we're ushered to a bonfire in the center of town. Cushions are scattered all around the fire.
"Please sit..sit" The other one Khalid says waving us all towards the fire. Two men come and help Finn from my body. Helping him stand and stretch out his legs. I stretch my back out as I drop to a cushion pillow, my feet and back are killing me.
"Eat. Drink. I get you women or man to touch?" A small man asks. I almost choke on this delicious rice chunk with meat I'm shoving in my face. I quickly shake my head.
"More please." I say pointing to my cup. It tastes like ass but it's wet and I'm sure I have like thirty pounds of sand in my mouth. It's like some backwoods type moonshine and I sure as fuck don't want to know what's in it.
Two women bring over three bowls of different food in them and I start shoving my mouth full.
I look at Finn as he is eating slow but he's eating.
I wave them to bring Mumford over by us.
"Let's get some food in your belly brother." I tell him as Kenny holds his head up for some of the drink. Some women come and bring him some broth pushing the food we're trying to feed him away back to us.