Disclaimer: I don't own Sea Patrol

I'm kind of stuff on the Sleeping Arrangement fic at the moment, I'm going to finish it soon though, but the idea for this came along and I had to write it down

By the way, for this story Kate never comes to the pub with the boys, as soon as she gets ashore she disappears.

This is dedicated to my best friend. You know who are

She'd always had life planned out; she was going to be rise high in the ranks of the Navy, she been determined of that from day one. She'd never really thought much about family, about finding a nice guy and settling down. After her childhood, and the relationship she'd had with her mother, she knew that if she had ever had children, she'd be a better mother than her mother had ever been. Five years ago, all her plans she had ever created for herself changed.

First, she fell in love, with a man named Mike Flynn. He was perfect, the only man she could ever seeing it work with, but they had a problem, they were both in the Navy and if there was one thing the Navy looked down upon, it was fraternisation. He left her, for no apparent reason, one warm November night. She found a letter on her bed side table, with an apology and a sincere goodbye.

She was miserable for weeks after, emotional and throwing up all the time. She tried to place the blame on stress, but she knew that wouldn't cut it, and when she finally dragged herself out to the doctors, she found out a secret that, at the time, almost tore her apart. She was pregnant, with Mike's child.

She decided to keep the child, because she believed everyone should have a place in this world, and nine months later, she had a beautiful, healthy baby boy. She named him William Michael Flynn. From the moment he was born, he became her world; she loved him, perhaps more than anything else in the world, even his father.

Five years later

'Will, come in here and eat your dinner' she called after a blond headed boy, with boundless energy, 'then we can go for a walk along the beach,'

'Okay, Mum,' the young boy said, as he finally flopped down to the kitchen stool and began eating. Kate loved times like these, shore leave, the freedom to spend time with her son. She really had gotten her life together in the past five years. Her career in the Navy was fantastic and while she was out at sea, she son stayed with her friend, Nicky. Nicky was more like a mix between a sister and a mother. Kate had met her just after Will was born, and they immediately became friends. Nicky had always longed for children of her own, but was unable to have any, and so when Kate had first asked her to look after Will, while she was away at sea, she'd jumped at the chance. She was part of their family now, almost a surrogate mother to Will.

Her life was perfect, well that was until she was posted to the Hammersley, to Mike. She'd always believed that she was over him, but after being on that boat for two days and receiving her first real smile from him that made her knees go weak, she realised she was far from over him. His presence had also brought up the fact that she had never told him about their son. She wanted to get to know him again, to make sure that he wasn't a threat before telling him. She'd realised that he was no threat soon after, but she couldn't bring herself to tell him, it still hurt thinking about how he had left her, and she didn't want that for her son.

He'd always wondered where she went when she got off the ship. She never came to the pub with the rest of the crew. He'd heard them talking the other day, most of then suspected she had a boyfriend ashore, and so that's where she went. That didn't feel right to him though, he couldn't stand to think of her wrapped in anyone else's arms. He knew something was up, but he'd never get it out of her, so he left it. In his cabin, though away from everyone else, it began to eat him away.

TBC