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and ate with them. I hadn’t had the chance to discuss all of what had happened the night before with Babs yet, but I filled her in on a lot of it. After breakfast Gav and Lia went to start their duties, they were able to take the children with them, there were no child care facilities, not that I was surprised. Gav said that it wouldn’t be long before me and Babs were approached to be given our duties, apparently we would be given a few days to settle in first.
    To be honest, I could have done with being given something straight away; it may have given me more access to information and a quicker way out. I couldn’t help but think they weren’t just going to drop us off somewhere without a fight, after all, they had already invested quite a bit of time in getting us through quarantine and I didn’t think they’d do that just to let us off at the next stop.
    Chapter Eighteen
    It was mid-morning and we were out in the outside area with the children, there was no one else there, all of them were probably working, then the door opened and David walked out. Oh my God Babs cried out and she and the two children ran hugged him. It turned out he was on the same corridor as ourselves, just had different meal times, so our paths hadn’t crossed yet. He said Paul and Sophie were on our corridor too and on the same meal times as himself.
    I told him everything that we’d learned so far and about the other guys down below. He agreed that we had to act now to get them out. I told him about the meeting I had arranged later that day with Gav and Keith and he said he’d speak to Paul and Sophie at lunch and they’d meet up with us too.
    Chapter Nineteen
    We all met up after lunch as planned, Babs volunteered to look after all the Children in our quarters and the rest of us met in Gav and Lia’s.
    Keith said that the girls were working in the officer’s mess, serving drinks and waiting on them. He also told us what this usually led to after a while as many of the young women ended up “serving” the single officers. We needed to get them out of there now.
    He’d had a word with the Lieutenant and I was to start work in the navigation room the following morning, apparently my mathematics degree was finally useful for something. Babs was to help in the kitchens. David and Paul were to take charge of the up keep of The Hope and were to man it on missions. Sophie was to work with Gav and Lia in the medical Bay. We were all issued with our Blue sashes and David and Paul were to be issued with weapons the following morning.
    I wanted to see how the other guys were doing, but was told it was too risky. Even though I was now a sash, it would still be seen as suspicious as I had no need to be down there.
    Keith had asked if anyone had wanted to leave before and had been told no, people wanted to come aboard the Somerset, not leave it. He had asked if someone wanted to leave, could they? Apparently any none Navy personnel were free to leave whenever they wanted. However, as sashes, we were now considered to be Navy personnel and our boat, The Hope, was now considered to be Royal Navy property. If any of us did leave, we would be considered deserters and since we were under martial law, this could result in fairly severe punishment if we were to be recaptured.
    Keith had learned that we were two days away from Faslane in Scotland where they were planning to dock and see if the safe zone was still secure. Anyone of our other guys would be free to leave to the safe zone or take their chances alone.
    We all decided that we would start our duties the following day as planned. Babs was to take the children with her as apparently they weren’t allowed above decks and we would meet up again the following evening when we would have a clearer idea of where things stood.
    Chapter Twenty
    My day was fairly uneventful; it was more of an induction to what I was to be doing. Basically charting what the Navy had discovered so far and where. It was all