Chapter 7: Kate

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Kate awoke to voices around her. She slowly opened her eyes and saw Swain standing in front of her, with his back to her, talking into phone. She lifted her head a little and saw that she was lying in the wardroom, she realises that she is hooked up to a drip and looks down at the needle in her arm. She goes to stand up but a surge of pain travels up her back and up to her head. She lets out a loud groan and lowers her head back onto the pillow.

Swain hears a groan behind him and turns around to see the XO awake.

"X!" he exclaims rushing to her side. "Are you ok? Where does it hurt?" he asked.

"Mmm" she mumbles, nodding. "My head" she whispers "what's happened to me".

"We don't know ma'am, we think we were in some sort of coma" Swain explains.

"Coma?!" Kate asks disbelievingly clearing her throat and looking up with wide eyes at Swain. "How?" she asks.

"We don't know ma'am, we think you just went to sleep last night and we weren't able to wake you. When Nav found you, you had almost no pulse and we had to give you CPR at one stage because we couldn't find a pulse. The doctors back at base couldn't tell us anything. We are heading back for base at best speed now so when we get there, you will need to get to hospital straight away and get tested".

Kate nodded, trying to take all this new information in. Her head was throbbing and her whole body was stiff and tired.

"Relax and rest up ma'am, I'll inform the CO that you are awake" Swain said softly.

Kate nodded and leant back, resting her head on the pillow and closed her eyes.


Swain walked out of the ward room and made his way to the bridge.

Swain felt relieved as he stepped on the bridge and walked over the CO, who was sitting in his seat, talking softly to Nav.

"Swain" Mike acknowledged with a quick nod of his head when he saw the coxswain walking over to him. "How's it going?" he asked.

"Actually its good sir, the XO has regained consciousness" Swain explained.

Mike's eyes widened in disbelief and he stood up quickly from his seat and turned to go down to the ward room. He was glad to hear that Kate was better and wanted to see her for himself as soon as possible.

Swain saw what the CO was doing and stopped him "Sir, she is weak and in a fair amount of pain, just keep her calm and relaxed, make sure she doesn't get up. We don't know what caused the coma and we don't wanna bring on another one with stress".

Mike nodded quickly and walked past Swain, down towards the ward room.


Kate was lying in the wardroom staring up at the ceiling. She felt weak and exhausted, and her head was pounding.

"Coma?!" she thought, "How did I fall into a coma? Sure I was tired yesterday and I didn't feel that well, but a coma!?"

Her thoughts were interrupted by a knock on the door. She looked over at the door and saw her CO standing there with a gentle smile on his lips, looking over at her.