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Chapter 4
"Yeah I'm just a little shocked about the news, I mean what if something goes wrong whilst I'm in there" Kate replies.
"Come on Kate don't think that because I couldn't bear to see you in pain if something went wrong" Mike tried to explain.
"I know it's just a little frightening that's all, though I know you'll be right beside me the whole way" Kate smiled at Mike
"Yes and I'm even considering asking Maxine for extended leave over your resting period to look after you" Mike said
"Oh Mike I couldn't ask you to do that because Hammersley is everything to you and I know it always will be" Kate sad looking at Mike
"That may be so Kate but you are way more important to me than Hammersley and besides it might do me good to be off her for a while" Mike said
"Yes but I'm going to be resting and getting well again for round about 6 weeks and I can't ask you to spend that much time off her and away from work" Kate sympathised
"Well let's not worry about that now because you have to go into theatre in 45 minutes" Mike said looking at her longingly.
Kate lay in the bed talking to Mike for a while discussing how she was going to tell Maxine and everything. Before they knew it Kate was about to be taken to theatre, the Guy which was taking her came and knocked on her door.
"Ready to go miss?" he asked
"Um, yeah I suppose so" Kate sighed
"Come here" Mike said leaning in and giving Kate one final hug and Kiss, which caused the man waiting for Kate to feel queasy.
"Remember I love you will be waiting on the other side, good luck" Mike said
"I love you too and I'll see you soon" Kate said before moving to the other bed before being wheeled out of the room.
Mike sat in Kate's room and started to wait for everything to be over and he could go home with the love of his life Kate. Kate however was wheeled into the surgery still wide awake though beginning to feel a little nervous.
"Now Kate we are just going to inject this liquid to help you sleep" Dr Hindberg said before placing the needle in her arm. That unfortunately didn't work so they resulted to the gas and shortly after Kate was fast asleep and the surgeons could get to work on her head. Dr Hindberg found the lump and quickly did the tests on it before removing it completely to send it off to the lab for further tests.
Mike was still waiting in Kate's room when he saw Dr Hindberg enter, he didn't look that happy so Mike began to worry.
"How'd it all go?" Mike asked
"Yes well it was a great success and they are just finishing up now before she will be wheeled out into intensive care for about 3 days just to check it all went well" Dr Hindberg explained
"right, may I see her" Mike questioned the doctor
"Yes as they should be finished now and she should be in the room, come on I'll take you myself" Dr Hindberg said before leading the way to Kate.
Kate was lying on the bed sleeping; mike was shocked at how pale she looked. Oh Katie, after all this I am going to take you away Mike thought as he dismissed the doctor and sat down next to Kate, holding her hand. Mike was sitting deep in thought when he heard someone knock on the door, he looked up to see swain standing there absolutely amazed at Kate's transformation because when he left her she was just fine.
"Sir, what happened?" Swain said
"first, we are on shore leave so it's just mike and second they found a lump on her brain and had to remove it" Mike said
"Do they know whether it was cancerous" Swain asked
"No, well they haven't told me and so maybe their waiting till she wakes up to tell her" Mike said looking back to Kate sleeping.
"Wow, that's situation has changed since I last saw her, does Navcom know about this because she can't sail until she recovers" Swain quizzed
"well I was going to ring them when she was in surgery but I guess I never got round to it, before she went in I was saying how she is ordered to rest for 6-8 weeks and how with her condition like this I was going to ask for some service leave so I could take care of her but she was saying that Hammersley means a lot to me and so she couldn't ask me to leave whilst she was recovering. So I don't know what to do because Yes Hammersley is important to me as my job but I would leave any day if something was wrong with Kate because this is the woman I love with all my heart and can't bear to live without, she's the one I'll marry someday" Mike concluded
"well sir I think you should ring Maxine and tell her about Kate but also I think you should ask about if your eligible for service leave but come up with another reason" Swain said
"Okay but I don't want to leave her by herself especially in case she wakes up, I promised her I would be here when she wakes up" Mike complained
"well I'll stay here and if she wakes up then I'll get someone to get you" Swain suggests, Mike nod's and heads out side to call Maxine.
"Hello Commander White speaking"
"Maxine it's Mike and I have an update on lieutenant McGregor for you"
"Okay Mike"
"She was examined at the hospital and they found she had a lump on her brain so they took her into theatre to remove it, she has just come out and the doctors said everything went well, though they also said that she would need 6-8 weeks off work and so I was told to ask you for that"
"Right well you can tell her that she has as long as she needs in order for her to recover"
"Oh and for personal issues I am going to apply for some leave as well, about 6-8 weeks also"
"right, okay then with all this leave I have one condition for you"
"Which is?"
"You have to come out to dinner with me, strictly work based"
"Okay then give me a date and a time"
"Sunday at 6 and I'll pick you up"
"okay bye then Maxine"
"bye Mike"
Mike walked into the hospital only to see Swain walking towards him,
"Sir I have to go now and also Kate is beginning to wake up" Swain said
"Right, thanks again swain" Mike said before briskly walking towards Kate's room. He sat down and saw Kate beginning to wake up, so he just held her hand.
Kate opened her eyes and saw she was in a different room than she was before they took her to theatre. She groaned as she had a slight headache form her operation, she turned to see a drip attached to her arm and someone holding her other hand.
"Hey Gorgeous" Mike said as she saw him looking at him
"Hey" Kate replied
"You did it, they said it all went well and they will come and talk to you later" Mike smiled
"okay" Kate said groggily
"I rang commander White while you were asleep and told her about the situation and she said you can have as much time as you need off" Mike said
"That's good" Kate said as she moved to get comfortable. Mike decided he would leave the second half of the conversation till Kate was more awake and better to talk to.
*2 days later*
Kate had been progressing well and so the doctors moved her back up to her room, Mike had popped home several times over the last few days to feed and spend time with Honey. Mike had explained to honey about Kate though Honey was a dog so Mike didn't think she really understood that well. On His way back to the hospital Mike decided he would go and get Kate a bunch of flowers though she already had 2 bunches from Swain+ Sally and the Crew which was nice.
\Mike walked into the flower shop and picked the bunch he thought most reminded him of her. He payed the cashier and walked back to the car, he picked up the pen from his front seat and the little card which he bought with the flowers. Mike put down the card on the dash board next to the wheel and began to write in the card. Five minutes later he was done and continued to drive on towards the hospital.
Kate sat in her room eating some of the biscuits Sally and Chloe had made her when she saw Mike walk in smiling.
"What are you smiling at sailor?" she said sarcastically
"Just seeing you sitting in that chair reading a magazine whilst eating biscuits, which reminds me where's mine?" Mike began to pout
"Your such a big baby but here you go" Kate smiled handing him a biscuit
"A big baby I might be but you love me for it" Mike said taking the biscuit
"You got that right" Kate said moving to go and sit on the bed to allow Mike to sit down.
"Honey was fine and I took her out the back to go to the bathroom whilst I was home" Mike smiled
"That's good, now what's behind your back?" Kate said trying to see what he was holding
"Well I went to the shops on my way back and bought you these" Mike said handing Kate the big bunch of flowers.
"Oh Mike they're beautiful, you didn't have to" Kate said smelling the flowers
"But you see I did because everyone else has given you a gift of flowers and I didn't want you to think they loved you more than I do because that is simply not true" Mike said going all mushy.
"I wouldn't think that ever because you mean more than the whole world to me" Kate said
"And you to me but now read the card" Mike ordered. Kate nodded and opened the card, which read;
To My darling Kate
I saw these and instantly thought of you and how brave you were with the whole head situation. I don't know what I'd do if you weren't in my life as every morning I wake up you are the first thing I think off and the last thing before I go to bed. You make the sun shine and the rain fall in my world. I love you more than you will ever know and when all this is over we are going on a holiday, I promise with all my heart.
Love you forever and Always
Mike xxx
Kate finished reading it and was in tears of happiness; Mike saw this and moved over to give her a hug.
"That's Beautiful Mike" Kate said wiping away the tears
"Every single word on that is true" Mike said
"Come here then" Kate said leaning up to lock lips with Mike. Mike couldn't say no to that because he loved her more than anything. Mike's hands found him lying her down and he felt her hands begin to run through his hair. Mike smiled as he felt her tongue begin to fight with his, his hands came to the bottom of her top, but that's where she broke apart.
"Are you alright?" Mike said beginning to get worried
"Yeah it's just the fact that we are in a hospital and everything" Kate said seeing Mike's worried look
"well I guess now would be the right time to tell you what else I asked Maxine" Mike started
"Mike you didn't" Kate groaned
"Yeah I did, I asked Maxine about service leave for me because I wanted to be here for you whilst you recover from this and the doctor said a couple of days ago when he told you it wasn't cancerous and probably wouldn't grow back again that you weren't to be alone. I can't promise the doctor that you won't be alone with still being on the boat because I could be called out at anytime" Mike explained
"Yeah but now Maxine knows about us and so one of us is going to have to take a shore posting" Kate complained
"well actually I told her you needed time off for your head and then I said I needed time off for personal reasons and that could mean anything, besides she said there was one condition for me; to go out to dinner with her tomorrow night" Mike said.
"well this just gets better, in a relationship with me yet agree to go out to dinner with her" Kate said looking away
"Yes, but I'm Ryan-her son's God Father so I couldn't exactly say no to it because what if Ryan is going to be there" Mike said
"You don't get it do you, she likes you and obviously you can't see it though I can by the way she looks at you and touches you like you did before we got together. Her being that way well it makes me feel uneasy because with me in here it would be the perfect opportunity for her to get you wrapped around her little finger and then goodbye to me and you'll run off to play happy families" Kate argues
"Come on Kate you know that's not fair, like I said in the card and just before you are the only one who is right for me, Maxine and I are simply going out to dinner for work related stuff" Mike said
"Sorry I just… With you telling me you are going out to dinner with Maxine after all the looks she gives you it just makes me feel a little unwanted and everything just got out of control especially as she asked you after you told her about me" Kate said trying her best to apologise
"I'm sorry too, I didn't know this was how you felt about it though I can assure you I will let nothing out of the ordinary happen and too make sure I'm not out to the world I will not drink. Also if it is not to late then I will come and see you but if it is too late then I will call you just to talk and everything" Mike said sitting down on the chair opposite. Kate smiled and moved over in her bed just to signal that she wanted him to join her. Mike got up again and sat on the bed beside Kate; after Mike was comfortable Kate rested her head on Mike's chest.
The next evening Mike was at home doing up his tie because Maxine had told him it was a formal place. He couldn't quite get it straight and wished Kate was there to fix it up for him because he just couldn't get it right. Mike quickly combed his hair and then he heard Maxine pull up in his drive,
"Here goes nothing "Mike said before walking out the front door and getting in the car with Maxine.
After they had finished their dinner at this fancy restaurant in the next harbour down Maxine heard her favourite song on the radio and instantly wanted to dance.
"Come dance with me" Maxine said before pulling Mike towards the dance floor.
"Maxine I'd rather not" Mike tried to stop her but couldn't. Luckily unaware to Mike Kate had put a recording device so everything which he does is being recorded. Little did he know how much it would help him later?
What trouble will Maxine cause? Guess you're going to have to wait for the next chapter. Hope you enjoyed this and next chapter should be up soon please review.