Jaded heart

Back to work

Gabriella pov 

Next stop is Nepal and I can honestly say I haven't been here before, I look forward to helping where ever I can as its my job however I would like to be mainly where my father and his platoon was killed but nevertheless I am happy to serve my county. I know there is a lot happening in Nepal as thats where some of the platoons are located helping out where's needed but with my certain set of skills I don't know how I can be located here. Nepal is mainly humanitarian mission with their earthquakes but terrorist are more likely to try and carry out attacks and I guess thats why here to prevent that getting a higher casualties than normal. Nepal to this day are still trying to rebuilding whats left of there home but I cant help with that unless they have been taken down by bombs and I have no problems searching around the houses that still stand for any trace of terrorism however my speciality isn't rebuilding sure I can put wood together but surely thats not the reason why I am here. 

Being driver to the location of camp I follow the directions of where I am supposed to be and make contact with my leading commander and I know its written down somewhere here, I didn't get much out of a commander when he told me I'll be spending months here but I would have wished I got the reason why my tour was being changed to a earlier date. Finding my bunk without a problem I get settled in making sure I have everything I need on me, knowing its already pretty late I think about whether to search for my commander tonight or in the morning but I use the correct decision and head towards where I think they be may hoping I am correct like I usually am. 

"I'm Gabriella Lockwood looking for my commander for this tour" I ask hoping I have just entered the right room, I wouldn't be the first time I have got lost and made a fool of myself it happens on almost every tour I go on but what can I do, we are all human after all. 

Looking around the room I spot a commander stand to his feet and make him way to me, with his large leg it only takes a couple of steps to get to me from where he was sat and he gives me my orders written, I look them over knowing this could be worse. Nodding my head I walk out the room and decided to get myself known to this place. Walking around camp I get myself comfy making sure I know where everything is which doesn't take me long, I like to know my surrounding incase anything happens like an attack on base or just outside. We may be safe in this zone but anything could and can change, if terrorist want to do something to us, they will find a way, nothing is impossible in this day and age. Finished with my walk around I get comfortable with my surrounds before heading back to my bed, it feels like I can sleep for days right now. 

My first day here and all I am doing is looking around for anything out of order, places people would uses bomb and then searching them out, considering I am the only person here pretty much with bomb training I continue to search everywhere. I don't really trust places that are too clean as everything can be hidden. Walking into empty houses that are barely standing I watch my footing and be on the look out, I know anything can happen to me if a house collapse but rather me then a by stander. Going though the houses I find myself standing on the edge of a cliff top and before I even admire the view I look down at the bottom to where there are temporary houses underneath and my first thought is, if anyone wanted casualties they would have more luck causing a land slide with the cliff. 

What feels like months here has only been maybe a week and when I first arrived I didn't think much off it but boy was I wrong, everyone can learn something new everyday and thats what I am doing, I'm a quick learner and picking everything up but teaching some of the Nepal men about bombs is a little harder then done. I am warning them everything I know but watching some of these practice bombs go up because they touched the wrong thing isn't what I need, bombs are getting more popular and some are quite advance while there is other bombs where it looks like a child did it and those are the ones everyone needs to be careful with as it can either go two ways; first way is you can disarm it but it was faulty and could have gone off or second way is you can breath on it and it go off. I don't know how many times I have watched the practice bomb go off but at this point I am getting slightly annoyed it going off in my face, sure everyone may not be as quick as me but at time point that have to get it surely. 

"Don't touch that" I say to one of the men getting annoyed at this point unsure how long we have actually been going over this, it feels like I am getting no where and I have to admit I suck at teaching then but as I carry on looking, I feel like this person is finally getting it. They had one glance at the clock and instead of watching it tick down they are looking at the wires trying to understand which one to cut. I think I may have a winner here so I am happy, even if only one person seems to understand I am doing ok. 

"Yes" I say high-fiving the only guy to disarm a bomb even if it took a couple of tries he has finally done it and now he has to try and understand it to know how to move forward, not all bombs are the same. 

I have no idea how long I have stood on this field but I can barely feel my feet now as the longer I am stood on the same spot I feel like I am a stick in the mud, my feet are starting to hurt now and the daylight is disappearing , hopefully I can get some sleep but my ears are ringing from the bombs, even though I was wearing ear buds the bombs still manage to get though and I have this ringing in my ear, I think I may just be tried. Finishing up I pack everything away and all I want to do is go home but it feels like I am the only person on this tour who knows every bomb and how to disarm it. Shaking my head I grab my belonging and head back to base needing to feel that pillow under my head or I would just pass out where I am, this women needs her beauty sleep or she wakes up cranky and thats not someone anyone wants, no especially when I am around bombs.