I own Marty and that's about it.

Kate tried determinedly not to cry; not to show Rick or Ursula how scared and frustrated she was. Tears welled up in her eyes as she felt Rick's hand all over her body and watched his hungry eyes travel her body. She grit her teeth together and again regained her composure. Mike was coming.

Mike pulled himself into the small boat, not game enough to get eye contact with Marty.

"Hi, I'm Marty and I'll be your chaperone for today." Marty laughed at his own joke.

Mike clenched his fist to stop himself from doing something stupid. At the moment his main concern was Kate. Mike's thoughts went to everything he wanted to say to her right now. He had so many things that he wanted to apologise for and so many wishes and dreams which all involved her.

Mike stopped himself from thinking anymore about that and concentrated on what lay ahead: The Anchors Way.

"All aboard." Marty said as she shoved Mike from one boat to the much larger one. Mike guessed that whoever else was on board had now been alerted of their presence by Marty's voice. "This way Captain." Marty said harshly pushing Mike towards the deck's stairs.

The room below was dark but with the light coming from the open door behind him, Mike spotted Kate tied and gagged in the middle of the room. Mike was able to catch Kate's eye for a few seconds before the door behind him was closed and the light vanished.

"Kate?" Mike half whispered, groping his way over to where he could vaguely see her outline. "I'm coming honey. Just hold one, everything will be okay." Mike said as he reached her, apparently oblivious to his use of the endearment. Reaching for her gag, he carefully pried it off first before moving to untie her hands. Noticing the handcuff's Mike realised that her hands were going to have to stay there.

"Mike." Kate whispered hoarsely. Seeing him standing right in front of her was enough to break her.

Mike saw the tears glistening in what little light there was. "Oh honey, it's okay. I'm here now." Using his thumbs, he gently wiped the fallen tears off Kate's cheeks. "I'd never let anything happen to you Kate, if I could help it." He gently wrapped his arms around Kate in a hug, allowing her to regain composure against his shoulder.

Having been watching the scene before them from the back of the room, Rick and Ursula chose this moment to make their presence known. Turning on the lights, both crooks came into view.

"Oh how sweet." Ursula said sarcastically as Mike and Kate slowly broke apart. "But you really shouldn't make promises that you can't keep."

Mike squinted in the brightness, the figures in front of him slowly becoming clearer. "Ursula? And Rick?" He said, shocked at the scene before him.

"You didn't really believe that she could actually love you, did you Mike?" Rick said mockingly, referring to Ursula. He put his arm around his fiancé and held up her hand which showed off her engagement ring.

Mike shook his head, not wanting to believe what was happening. He glanced sideways. He had no idea what Kate had been through physically before he had boarded the boat, but he knew that emotionally, she would be shattered. Mike then thought about how much he had hurt Kate in the past and at that moment, as inappropriate as it may have been, Mike realised how much he hated himself for that.

Turning to Ursula, Mike decided to say something. "Ursula, this is between you and me; leave Kate out of this. Please."

Ursula and Rick burst out laughing. "You really have no idea what this is about, do you Mike?" Rick asked.

Mike looked at Kate then back to the two crooks. He shook his head.

"Didn't think so." Rick laughed.

Ursula walked up to Mike, who was still standing next to Kate. "Well let me set you straight and tell you what's going to happen now. It's as simple as this; you and Kate got close, Ricky and I decided to get close to both of you to throw suspicion off ourselves but you still continued to be curious, so now we are going to leave you on this ship together and watch you slowly starve to death. If anyone tries to rescue either of you, you will be shot. If you try to leave, you will be shot. If you don't do what we say, you will be shot. If you don't like that, you will be shot. Understand? Right good." Ursula said before leaving the cabin in search of Marty.

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