Night fell on the base and Cruger and Kat had now gotten together in one room as they were now considered a married couple it wasn't frowned on for them to share one room.
Kat was seated on the edge of the bed, Cruger sighed, they had never actually shared a room, sure, there was the one night that they neglected the regulations and she spent the night in his bed… Tonight was different, tonight she could be there with him, tonight they didn't need to sneak around to be together during the night, it was allowed.
"Doggie, I hope Kathleen doesn't stay mad at me"
"Don't worry Kat, Jo will do her best to help you" Cruger assured her gently
"I know she will, but Kathleen is as stubborn as I am… I don't know if Joann with be able to get through or not"
"Just try to relax, you know that stress isn't good for you or your baby" Cruger said
"You're right, Doggie" Kat smiled as they laid down in bed
They said their good nights and the lights went out on that day. They went to sleep slowly, the new of this would wear off eventually and it would become normal to them, but now it was something strange and new that they could lay in each other's arms all night and have people knowing that they were there, because they were married, everything changed.
The next day Joshua and Noah arrived at Earth station along with Cadet Katherine 'Katy' Williams to find that Kathleen and Kat weren't talking to each other, at all. Kat told Noah and Josh about what had happened to lead up to her pregnancy and her daughters lack of communication with her and Katy went to talk to her cousin.
"Kathleen, you know you can't freeze your mom out forever," Katy said
"Watch me, Katy…"
"Kathleen, you're being a worse than my mother and you know how bad that is" Katy said angrily
"Don't you dare compare me to Aunt Sarah"
"If the shoe fits…" Katy growled "Kathleen, I know you were hurt when you found out your mother got married behind your back… but it's no excuse to hurt her now!"
"She shouldn't have kept this a secret from me!"
"Kathleen, I'm not going to argue with you there because I know I'd lose that argument, but listen sometimes you just have to forgive and forget"
"You're beginning to sound like Jo!"
"Well, at least one of us is using our brains for once."
Kathleen started to say something, then, Joann walked in.
"Ma'am" both girls saluted respectfully in response to the arrival of their superior.
"At ease" Joann looked at the youngest cousin, Katy "Cadet Williams, do you think you could give Mrs. Tate and myself a bit of privacy?"
"Yes ma'am" Katy saluted and left
"Kathleen, I heard you and your mother were in the middle of a fight, and I wanted to lend my thoughts to the situation" Joann paused briefly. "Kathleen, I know, you're mad at your mother for this, no one can blame you for that, but there is one thing I want you to think about… how would you feel, if say, in the future, Erin or Emily did the same thing to you that you're doing to your mother, how would you feel?"
Kathleen looked at her baby girls as the took their nap under the supervision of the babysitters, who were just younger cadets who volunteered to care for any small children on the base while their parents worked.
"Horrible, I would never want my daughters to do that to me, ma'am"
"Then why are you doing it to Kat?"
"I don't know, ma'am"
"Well, cadet Jewish proverb states that our children will do to us what we do to our parents…"
If that wasn't incentive to change, nothing was, Kathleen sighed
"This has gone on long enough, I guess I need to go talk with my mom, thanks for the advice, Jo" Kathleen said and they headed out of Kathleen's room and headed for the lab, they had to talk to Kat, Kathleen needed to apologize to her mother.
"No problem, Kathy"
They arrived and were surprised when they saw Jasmine standing with Kat
"Hello" Jasmine said
"Jasmine, how are you doing?"
"Fine, and you?"
"Fine" Kathleen smiled and turned to her mom "Mom, is there something going on here?"
"Yes, I found a way to get Jasmine back home"
"But what about Z"
"I have a special device that Jasmine will take with her and she will use it to sent Z back here" Kat explained then turned to her daughter "Kathleen, you're talking to me?"
"I might have been mad at you for not telling me, but it wasn't right for me to freeze you out like that, I should have found out why you didn't tell me, not just get angry like I did, I'm sorry"
"I'm sorry that I didn't tell you" Kat smiled and then turned to Jasmine
"Well, Jasmine, it is time for you to go… but I'm glad we got to know you"
"As am I" Jasmine smiled and took the item from Kat's hands "Thank you, you all made me feel real welcome here" Jasmine said in slightly broken English
"You can speak English?" Kathleen said in surprise
"Yes, I'm just not comfortable speaking English… I am not, how you say, fluent, yet" Jasmine said
"Gokouun o inorimasu" Kathleen said (A/n: for non-speakers that mean 'good luck'… I looked it up I don't speak Japanese myself)
"Arigatou gozaimasu" (A/n: formal 'Thank you', she is acknowledging Kathleen as a superior) Jasmine paused "you speak Japanese?"
"Very little, I just know a few words and phrases"
"That's okay, what you do know is good" Jasmine smiled
Jasmine said her good-byes and walked through the porthole.
Swan gasped as Jasmine appeared in the Lab
"Jasmine?" Swan said in surprise
"Swan-san!" Jasmine gasped
To Be Continued…