First I want to say that I'm disappointed that there are not a lot of Nav/ET stories. I think they are a great couple I like them a lot so I thought id try writing a fic not to sure how it will go but can only try my best. I wasn't exactly the best person ever at English; I hated it but must go on.

Don't own anything recognisable.

Nav & ET

As she walked along the top deck of the HMAS Hammersley, the patrol boat she had been assigned to she thought to herself, 6 months, that's how long her holidays were, 6 months and she didn't even meet one single guy that she could see a second date with let alone any sort of a future. Gem, her best friend, said to her before she left, 'You will probably meet a guy onboard your new boat' and she hated to admit it but she was right again as always. This 'guy' that she had met was the electrical technician or 'ET' as they all knew him as. His name was Josh Holiday, and he was all she could think about. She felt like one of those silly teenagers who would squeal whenever the boy they had a crush on would look their way or even say hello, she didn't know how this one guy she had only just met could have such an effect on her, but she didn't care, she liked it. As she rested against the railings of the ship she thought about how any relationship between herself and ET would work, for one it would have to be a secret, the Navy doesn't allow fraternisation between crewmembers on board the same ship, this caused conflict between her mind and her heart, her mind said forget him, stay focused on your career, when her heart told her, throw caution to the wind, live a little. She stood against the railings of the ship with a vacant stare on her face so that anyone who was looking at her wouldn't have the slightest idea what she was thinking.

ET walked along one of the decks onboard the patrol boat he spotted her leaning against the railing staring blankly out into the ocean. 'Her long brown hair was in a pony tail as usual, his brother thought it was weird that he noticed those sorts of things about the women he liked, the little things, like how she wore her hair, how she could have different smiles for different things, Nav, for instance, had 4 smiles, one when she thinks someone is really funny and making her laugh, one when she is just trying to be polite and doesn't really think their joke is that funny, one when she is talking about her family, not that he got to see that smile very often, she only really talked about her family with Buffer, and the last smile she had was when she looking at him,' he felt excited that he had one of her smiles all to himself but he wondered what she was thinking about when she was looking and smiling at him, 'Were they good thoughts?, Were they bad thoughts? Or were they thoughts of his division officer thinking that he was doing a good job?' As he noticed her standing against the railing of the large ship he wondered, 'What was going through her mind, he hoped it was thoughts of him, because that was all that was going through his mind all most all day every day.' She looked up at him and she smiled the smile that was just for him, he smiled back wondering if she knew he had been staring at her from afar.

Nav turned and looked around and to her surprise and happiness she looked straight up at ET, she smiled she couldn't help it; whenever he was around she was always smiling. She walked up the stairs to meet him, they both were scheduled to be on the bridge at any moment now so she though, 'What's the harm in walking there together.'

"ET" she said as she reached him, he must have had the same idea about walking together because he met her halfway.

"Nav" he replied back

As they walked to the bridge together their shoulders were almost touching but they never quite made it their hands were so close together, Nav thought to herself what would happen if I just held his hand right here, right now what would he say? Would he think she was crazy? Nav thought to herself 'Does he feel the same way? Does he long to be near her when they are apart, as she longs to be near him?'

"Beautiful" he said all of a sudden which snapped her out of her thoughts, she looked up at him and wondered 'Did he mean her or was he talking about the terrific day they were having?' she longed for him to have been saying that to her, but he was staring off into the distance when she looked up at him.

He looked down and saw her looking up at him smiling 'his' smile, he smiled back with his own unique ET-ish smile, he started to walk towards her, they both were due to report to the bridge anytime now so he was going to walk with her, she met him halfway which made him think 'Did she have the same idea, to walk together to spend more time with him as he did so he could with her, or was it because they were both due to be there at the same time and nothing more.' The day was beautiful but not as beautiful as she was, he was looking at her and it just escaped his mouth, the word 'beautiful', he realised what he had done even before the word had left his mouth so he quickly looked up at the horizon and pretended that he was talking about the day not her.

When they got to the bridge, the CO was there as well as the XO, Nav always thought that the CO was stuck to the XO because he always seemed to be around her whenever Nav saw her. The CO explained the situation that they were faced with, a call had com through from NAVCOM, while ET and her were making their way towards the bridge, two kids were missing, they had taken a dingy out yesterday afternoon and had gotten lost it was their job to go find them. There was an island that the kids could have taken refuge on, in the cold of the night before. The CO decided that everyone was going to help with the search, and told Nav to plot a course based on the direction the dingy had come from.

ET looked on as Nav did her thing; she looked so good when she got caught up in trying to plot a new course, he couldn't help but notice that whenever something eluded her when doing this the tip of her tongue would creep to the corner of her mouth, he thought she look wonderful when this happened, but he could never tell her that. ET had to shake his head to get the thoughts of her out of his mind as he tried to focus on the task at hand, the CO said that everyone would be helping with the search, he wondered how the search teams would be split up, he was silently hoping that Nav and himself would get to be one search team, but then he though how would he be able to do his job properly if she was around distracting him, he thought he could do it and hoped that they were put together as a search team so he could prove to himself that he could still do his job just as effectively with her as his search partner as he could if he had Buffer or Swain or even Chefo has his partner.

"ET" the CO said breaking his thoughts, "when we get to the island you and Nav will be a search team".

He wasn't sure but he thought he saw a little smile pop onto Nav's face when the CO said that.

"I want you to try and find these two kids before it's too late to help them." The CO continued.

On the island there wasn't much other than trees, trees and more trees, she couldn't see a thing any further than half a metre in front of her. ET was walking just behind her and she had a feeling that someone was staring at her and since it was only her and ET out here at the moment he had to be him, she wondered why he was staring did she have something stuck to her clothes that no-one had told her about, or was it something else, could he not keep his eyes off her as she couldn't when she was walking behind him places.

"I can't see anything with all these trees in the way" ET said snapping her out of her thoughts about him,

"I'm going to climb up and see if I can see anything".

The tree he was climbing was so large she was scared he might fall, when he finally reached the top and had settled into a spot in the tree Nav let out the breath that she had been holding subconsciously and stopped worrying, ET would be fine up there she thought. She continued to look around the area under and around the tree for the kids but couldn't find any trace that they had been there. Nav was looking off into the distance when she heard a sound; she turned around to see ET falling from the tree at an alarming speed and from a dangerous height.

"ET!" she shouted, she couldn't believe that he had fallen he was fine a minute ago, searching for the kids, he was a stable as could be what could have made him fall?

"ET!" she shouted again when he didn't respond to her first cry, "please ET, look at me". His head moved slightly but she wasn't sure if it was for real.

"Josh please, Josh wake up" she said quietly, she had never called him Josh before but she realised now for the first time how much the name actually suited him, she heard a cough and a splutter and then,

"The last time someone called me Josh, I was also getting hugs and pinches on the cheeks from my grandmother" he said while laughing

She could have hit him but didn't she wasn't sure if he could move yet, she tried to sit him up and in doing so was the closest they had ever been to each other, she breathed in his scent, he had such a good smell she loved it, it was across between the ocean and aftershave.

He was close to her as well and could smell her scent he took a deep breath to show her that he was fine but he really just wanted to breathe in her wonderful, gorgeous scent, she smelled of vanilla and blueberries an odd combination he thought but it worked for her, he could have stayed this close to her forever but he thought that he should try to move to make sure he was ok, which meant leaving the closeness they were sharing at this very moment. He thought to himself this is your own fault if you hadn't been trying to follow her with your eyes when you were supposed to be looking for the kids this wouldn't have happened, and you might have found the kids by now.

When ET suddenly moved away from her she started to wonder if his feelings matched hers at all or was she just a fool in thinking that there could be something between them?

Nav got ET back to the ship easily, he hadn't hurt himself to bad but she insisted that he lean on her the entire way back to the ship for support, he agreed quite quickly, to Nav's surprise. Nav insisted that he go straight to his cabin and lie down and the CO agreed with her, Swain checked him out and said that he would be fine, just sore for a few days, Nav insisted on staying with him, which was a nice surprise for him because he had been thinking how wonderful it would be having her fuss over him while he lay in bed, her making sure that he was alright, her showing him how much she cares and if her feelings mirror his own. He was laying there with his eyes closed but he wasn't asleep he wanted to see if she would call him Josh again, he liked the sound of his name coming from her lips, he couldn't put his finger on it but he loved something about it. Then all of a sudden out of nowhere she lent in, he knew she had because suddenly he could smell vanilla and blueberries as clear as day, she whispered in his ear,

"Goodnight Josh, sleep well" and he acted without thinking, at the sound of her saying his name and he opened his eyes and pulled her down towards him for a kiss.

As she got ET back to Hammersley she thought what would have happened if he hadn't been alright? She insisted that he go back to his cabin and rest and was relieved when the CO agreed with her, then she insisted that she stay with him and when the CO agreed to that she had to contain her excitement she would be with ET in his cabin alone, she knew he had just fallen out of a tree but she couldn't help get that teenage feeling again she had that morning on the deck. She sat next to ET's bed in the chair from his desk while he lay there quietly asleep. She lent in to say goodnight to him and breathed in his scent, the whole cabin was full of the scent but it was strongest on him, she forgot why she was leaning in for a moment then remember, she said goodnight to him and called him Josh, then out of nowhere came his hand pulling her toward him for a kiss.