Something that haunted through my mind, just some random stuff :D

Kate McGregor yawned extensively as she left the small bath room that belonged to her cabin. She had passed a hard day of work and just wanted to fall into her rack and sleep. She straightened her top and stretched a bit, as there was a knock on her door.

"Come in!"

She folded back her blanket as she heard the door open and close. She turned and saw her CO standing in front of her. He stroke through his hair with one hand and looked kind of nervous.

"Ahm, hi, Kate..."

"Hi, boss! What is the matter?"

"I... well, I just wanted to make sure you´re okay... This control at the Indonesian vessel – you got hit pretty hard! How does your shoulder feel?"

He took a step forward and carefully touched her naked shoulder what made her twitch.

"Oh, I´m sorry..."

"Don´t mind...", Kate wanted to complain, but Mike objected.

"No, it´s not okay, I hurt you... I´ll make it better!"

The action that followed nearly made Kate jump off the floor. Mike bend over a bit and his lips touched the slightly bruised skin of Kate´s shoulder. He kissed his way over her whole shoulder while Kate was frozen. She was not really able to understand what was going on, but she could not prevent a small sigh to leave her lips.

"Kate... I need to tell you something... I should have confessed you this earlier, but now I am ready to tell you this, I can no longer deny my feelings..."

His eyes with hers and cupped her face, then he said:"I still love you, Kate and every time you´re near me I have to pull all my will together to resist the urge to touch you... But now I can´t stand it anymore!"

And before she could react his hot mouth had was meeting hers with the intensity of a nuclear blast. He shoved her to her rack, his hands touching every inch of bare skin they could reach. As soon as her back met the mattress she had lost the ability to think. She forget where she was, how thin the walls of the Hammersley could be, she even forget who she was. All she knew was that his touches made old memories come alive, memories of the nights they had spent together when they had a affair. She wrapped her legs around his hips and closed her eyes as his mouth and hands wandered downwards...

"Kate! Kate!"

"What?"

Within a second Kate was sitting upright in her rack and hit her head at the downside of Nikki´s rack, totally confused. She touched the aching spot and turned her head. Her room mate was looking down on her from her rack above, grinning widely.

"I just wanted to know if you´re okay."

"What did you mean?"

"Ahm... you were moaning in sleep like... hrm... you were enjoying something. And you murmured a name and that he shall "give you what you missed in the past years"..."

Kate swallowed hard and felt how her face turned red and her cheeks glowed. She did not know what she should answer to that, so she remained silent, but Nikki seemed to be extremely curious and also amused about the situation.

"Kate, you don´t need to be ashamed by the fact that you just had an adult dream..."

Kate rolled her eyes and just wanted to tell Nikki that she did not feel the need to deepen this topic, but then the navigator continued to speak:"... obviously about our CO!"

"WHAT?!"

"Kate, you moaned "Mike", I have really good ears", Nikki laughed. "You know what I am asking myself?"

"What?", Kate asked for the forth time, burying her face into her hands. This was pure embarrassment and she wished the floor would open up so she could disappear in some hole.

"You two still seem to feel a lot each other, in which your feelings are even more plainly, but non of you says anything! Why don´t you confess and... do these adult things in real life?"

"Nikki, I don´t want to insult you, but did you ever hear about this frickin' fraternization rule?!"

"It´s not hard to break it if your heart is willing to take the risk. You just need to stop thinking, Kate!"

"Nikki, I am extremely tired, could you please stop with this nonsense?"

"Okay, X, but don´t come to me complaining about your lonely shore leaves."

Kate lay down and turned on her side. She was happy that Nikki had stopped talking about this whole Mike-thing because she hated it when someone else was right concerning her love life. Being honest to herself she had to admit that it had must have been a hundred times that she was standing in front of his cabin, thinking about entering and kissing this man like her life would depend from it. But she did not do that and the career-Kate inside her was happy about that, but the girly-Kate was lying on the floor, crying over her heart that she herself was breaking. Well, Kate thought, maybe tomorrow I will have the guts to tell him... who knows. But for the moment, dreaming had to be enough. She closed her eyes and hoped that she could be able to return to the point where her dream had stopped, this time hopefully without audible sounds...

Told ya it would be crazy... And maybe I will add some more short stories to this night, if you want...