Steve's last mission had taken far too long. He had been away from home for far too long. Most importantly, it had been far too long since he had seen Cath; touched her skin, caressed her lips, heard her voiced, smelt her, run his finger through her hair and god did he missed her. It had been months since he had last seen Cath in person and been able to have any physical contact with her. He had been stuck with a complex mission whilst Cath was miles away in Hawaii. They of course exchanged letters whenever they could but Steve wasn't necessarily always somewhere letters could reach. If they where lucky Steve was able to call in or even really lucky and videoconference, yet that was rare.
Steve's last mission had taken far too long. He had been away from home for far too long. Most importantly, it had been far too long since Cath had seen her Super SEAL; touched his skin, caressed his lips, heard his voice, smelt him, run her fingers through his hair and god did she ever miss him. Sure she had the letters back and forth, which always brought her to tears. Whenever the doorbell rang Cath hoped that it wasn't uniforms with a notification saying Steve wasn't coming home.
Cath found out she was pregnant two months after Steve had left for his mission. She was eight weeks along when the tests came back positive. A bittersweet smile spread across Cath's face and a tear slid down her cheek. Over course she was over the moon, but Steve wasn't there with her to celebrate and she didn't know when he would be home if he even would. No he had to. She instinctively put a hand over her abdomen and the other over her mouth and cried for Steve. Wishing he where home save with their unborn child. That was three months ago. Steve had been gone for five month, corresponding exacting with her pregnancy. She couldn't help but find humor in the fact that their child was conceived the night before he left for duty. Cath hadn't told Steve about that baby because she wanted to do it in person. As bad as it may be she didn't know if it would be worse for Steve to die never knowing he was a dad or to die knowing he would never get to see his baby. So, as hard as it was for Cath to go through every thing for the next few months by her self and to keep the most valuable information secret from Steve she did.
Cath didn't know how much longer she could hold out for. She then received the letter from Steve that she had been waiting for, for five months and more attentively these past three. Cath tore into the letter and sobbed tears of joy.
Dear. Cath,
Mission accomplished. I miss you so much. I'm coming home. Now, once and for all.
I love you,
Steve
Cath read and reread the letter with a huge grin on her face. Still clutching the letter in one hand she rubbed her rather swollen abdomen with the other and whispered with happy tears in her eyes.
"Yeah, baby. Your daddy's coming home."