Chapter 5

"Mike this is Lieutenant Kate McGregor" Steve said as Kate stood up from the pram holding Lachie in her arms, her smile dropped suddenly as she saw Mike standing there with his girlfriend once again but she had no clue that they were in fact engaged.
"I don't believe we have meet" Steve said to Alison
"Steve Marshall" He said holding out his hand gesturing for her to shake it
"Alison Jacobz, Mikes Fiancee`" at that Kates Mouth dropped Fiancee` what two maybe three years they knew each other whilst Kate was with Mike 8 years 8 bloody years and he gets engaged to that chick.
"and who's this" Alison asked
"this is Lachie Mikes son" Kate replied hastly
"what! Mike you never told me you had a son, a baby at that" Alison said to Mike
"believe me theres probably alot of things he hasn't told you, one being that I was his girlfriend for 8 and a half years and that he had his girlfriend living with him since he was sixteen"
"is that true?" Alison asked Mike
"ahh umm" Mike stuttered "I'll take that as a yes" Alison replied and stormed off and Kate turned back to the pram where she placed Lachie in
"Bye Dad" she said "Make sure you take good care of him and Julia will be coming up in two weeks"
"okay bye Kate" Steve replied with that Kate picked up her bags and basically stormed onto Hammersley and off to her cabin.
it was five minutes later when Mike angrly oppened her cabin and yelled "Kate my cabin now!"
when Kate entered his cabin he yelled at her to shut the door "what was that?" he said
"what was what?" she replied
"why did you say what you said to Alison"
"what I was only telling the truth"
"so but did you have to tell her"
"what because she is your little slut friend that will solve all your problems"
"Don't you dare say that"
"why because it is that easy for you to forget about me, you know when we first meet you made me feel like I was worth something but you made sure you changed that when you left 3 years ago"
"is it true Lachies my son"
"yer he is, your Mum took me straight to the hospital when she found me unconcious on the floor I was exhausted from grief and wasn't eating or sleeping properly my body had finally taken its toll I was in a coma for 3 days and when I woke I was told i was pregnant so for the next seven months your mum sat by me held my hair off my face everytime I threw up into the toilet bowl and when Lachie was born she was the one holding my hand and helping me she was the one there for me but where were you? you were off having fun with your slutty girlfriend and choosing a career over someone who had been your girlfriend for neally a decade thats a long time Mike a bloody long time"
once Kate had finished she left his cabin heading for her own in need of space

Three weeks later they were back at port Mike walked off the ship to see his mum pushing a pram which Lachie sat in walking straight past him Julia headed over to Kate who walked ever so fastly over to her and hugged her excitingly to be back home and then she picked up Lachie and cuddeled him lovingly Mike watched the scene before him and decided to walk over to where his mother and ex girlfirend stood
"Kate"he began "Kate can we grab some lunch"
"why Mike?"
"because we need to talk"
"why now? why afterthree years do you want to talk?"
"because it's something we need to discuss"
"well you made your choice and no one else had a say"
"come on Kate it was my Job I had to leave"
"yer and I could have cam ewith you but no you left me behind to fall to pieces and when you were out having fun with your slutty girlfriends everybody else was helping put me back together"
"Kate Im sorry"
"you damn right should be and oh just to let you know a couple months ago I found my real dad"
"Kate thats great, who is he?"
"he is walking over here right now" Kate said as Mike turned around and came face to face with Steve Marshall. Steve looked over at kate who was neally in tears and ran over to her "Kate whats up sweetie?" steve asked "he is being a jerk" Kate replied pointing at Mike
"Kate can we please just go grab somelunch and then we can talk" Mike asked
"I thought I already said no" Kate replied and walked off in a huff towards Julias car "Lets go home" kate said once she had reaching the car "yer im guessing thats Janines and Steves place then" Julia replied
"yer well thats the only place I have at the moment"
"you can come back to Darwin"
"no it's alright I have two more patrols till its christmas and then I'll be back home in Darwin"
"yep and Lachie"
"and Lachs"
"Kate I am so sorry about Mike"
"Jules I have been dealing with loss from him for 3 years now the last thing I want to do is for him to say sorry when he is clearly not because he his off with his slutty Fiancee` for the past three years whilst you have been helping me raise his son"
"Kate I know and I can't tell you how disgusted I am of his behaviour but lets just get you home to bed ok"
"okay" and with that Kate took a seat in the front seat of Julias hire car as she watched Steve talk to Mike.