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Jonathan Lawrence now looks like a complete a**hole for baiting the Buddie fans. His upcoming episode is pnly so special because his childhood friend Tim Minear wrote it. What an a**kisser. My excitement is completely gone for this episode , i don‘t think i‘m watching it.

I’m gonna wait and see what happens on Thursday. Here’s his post from Facebook

#buddie #911 on abc #Jonathan Lawrence

Scene: a yacht is anchored in a secluded bay on a Greek island. It's the early 1960s. As the camera pans in, you see there are two middle aged blond men sitting in the cockpit. The deck boards are up, revealing the engine, and there are various tools strewn about. A third man, with chestnut hair, is passing cups of tea out to them from the cabin. There is a general air that a difficult bit of work has been done and they are taking a well-deserved break before finishing things off.

"I've always wondered where you learned mechanics," Laurie commented, handing the cup over.

Rob glanced at him. "You've never been on board a submarine. It's one of the entry requirements to know how all the pipes and valves work, and how to apply basic first aid while you wait for the real engineers to show up."

"It's true, they're horribly complicated," Jonathan added from further inside the cabin, "I've visited quite a few, not that I saw much beyond the wardroom. You need an advanced degree just to go to the toilet. They tried to show me once and I decided 'it's ok, I can wait!'" He sipped his tea before adding, "Of course, we were only ever alongside at the time."

"You were inviting him to parties then?" Ralph smiled, leaving back against the gunwale.

"Oh no, I was only First Lieutenant at the time."

"I assume that made you the president of the wardroom?"

"Yes, but ultimately the skipper has control of who's allowed on board." Ralph opened his mouth to respond, but Rob hadn't finished. "It was very awkward, he had no space to host things himself. I suppose technically I could have told him to take his parties elsewhere... Not that I would have banned Reverend Lawrence from joing us."

"I should hope not!" Jonathan said, before adding more thoughtfully, "I don't think I was actually ever on board Sword."

"Poor old thing," Rob murmured.

Ralph glanced at him as Laurie, out of sight, asked innocently "What happened?" His remark was addressed to Jonathan but it was Rob, outside, who responded first

"I don't know if that was ever properly determined. It seems likely we hit a mine and it didn't go off fully. Defective or something." In the short pause, Laurie's face had the stricken look of someone who knows they've put their foot in it. No one noticed. The other two were watching Rob.

His eyes had taken on a distant look. He brought his cup up as thought to take a sip but instead continued, still staring into the horizon and the past, "What I know for certain is I was sat in the wardroom finishing a report when there was an almighty bang. By the time I'd made it to the doorway there was water flooding up the passageway ankle deep. It was clear there wasn't a future in fighting it, so I started herding everyone I could find into the fore-ends." Another brief silence descended. From his seat just inside the door Laurie couldn't see Rob's face and was watching Jonathan's. From his rapt attention it was obvious he'd never heard any of this before.

"You get drilled and drilled in how to escape, but you always hope you'll never need it. Luckily I'd come off watch about half an hour beforehand and had a pretty decent idea where we were." This time, the pause seemed final. Jonathan slowly closed his eyes, taking a deep breath.

Outside, Ralph said quietly, "You were very lucky."

"Yes. Yes, we were." Rob shook himself and seemed to return to the present. "Right. Well. This engine won't put itself back together." He downed the last of his tea, putting the cup to one side. The practical manner his friends were familiar with had returned.

"No, they don't in my experience," Ralph replied, reaching for the same tone. Laurie leaned through the doorway almost sheepishly to take the empty cups.

#i wrote a thing #it's a christmas miracle #submarine boys ww2 au #rob stanton #jonathan lawrence #also some randos i nicked from somewhere can't remember where #hms sword not to be confused with hms swordfish who was a real ww2 submarine #i just needed a name for the fictional one #ralph lanyon #laurie odell #embi writes?