Kate walked up the gangway of her new posting. Saluting she stepped on to the deck, she thought to herself, " how hard can working on a patrol boat be?". She was still angry at navy command for sending her to this boat, ship whatever they call it. Her heart lay with the big ships and she hoped that her promotion would have landed her with one of the larger ships in the RAN fleet, but no. she was told by the commander that it was mandatory to serve 6 months with the patrol boats.
Not looking where she was going Kate collided with someone "sorry" she mumbled before looking straight in to the eyes of a ghost, from her past.
"KATE, you can't be our new XO, are you our new XO?" the ghost exclaimed
"lieutenant… Commander Flynn ," Kate quickly added the commander after seeing the man's epaulets before handing him the file from NAVCOM. Before walking off to find her cabin.
"This is going to be a long six months" she thought, looking back through the photos on her phone stopping on one from five years ago. It showed her smiling at the camera, her head resting on a man's. The same man who now would be sleeping behind one very thin wall.