I've edited this story slightly after a sudden burst of inspiration, Set during Season three.
Disclaimer; I don't own sea patrol the only thing I own is the storyline and a few of the characters.
On with the opener.
Prologue
It's funny how a few quick drinks can lead to someone's life being changed, funnier still how it affects different people in different ways. Some people with a few will turn them into the most evil of creatures, whereas some take a more romantic route. Stanger still how a few quick drinks can result two different types of people momentarily interacting with another, and how something that seems so small to one person is something altogether unimaginable to another and the same time so real, and how small moments like a few drinks can connect people in ways that one wouldn't be able to comprehend, Two different couples at the same bar.
Couple number one: have their friends it seems intrigued, one moment at each other's throats for something so small and minor, but nothing else raised except voices. Couple number two: has the whole pub's attention fists raised bruises shining. Knuckles sore. Fear in one's eyes range and hatred in the other. The first couple look over at the pair fighting wondering whether to help or not. One knowing all too well of the feeling the other can only imagine. One look into the chaos about to unfold see's the first couple leave. The second couple on the other hand don't fare as easily, one sneaks away while the other is rushed to hospital with their bleeding head now nicely bandaged, thanks to the help of the first couples friends.
The actions of this night will each affect each and everyone differently but more so of the first couple who after heading to the man's cabin the woman finds herself straitening it up the man's and slipping away back to her own as if she'd never even been there. But no sooner that she'd left the man woke up calling out for her but realising after no reply that the alcohol had more affect on him than he had originally realised went back to sleep and entered his dream world.
Couple number two finds the man at the woman's bedside, the doctors say she'll be out for a few more days yet as her child lays on her bed wondering why her mum is not yet awake, while her eyes never leave the man who did this to her mum, if only they knew the truth, but she thinks who will believe a child like her, after all it is what he always keeps telling her. If only someone were to believe her then maybe her nightmare would end, she could only dream and that his boat he had were to disappear too with him on it she could go back to being a normal child with friends.
If only there was some type of hope for them, both of them...
And one month after this fateful night finds the couples paths once again intertwined.