Kate had come home late in the afternoon. She had picked up James from his grandparents and taken him home to find an empty house and a note from Robert on the table telling her that there was an emergency at the hospital and that it could be late before he would be back home. She had waited up for Robert as long as she could but she was knackered. Even if Robert had been home, she wanted to have an early night. After a long hot bath she had curled up underneath the blanket and had fallen asleep like a log only to be woken up by wet, soft kisses.

"Kate, sweetie, I'm home," someone whispered in her ear and kissed her on her cheek.

Kate opened her eyes and saw through her eyelashes that it was Robert who had kissed her.

"Hey," she moaned. "What time is it?" she pulled herself up on her elbows and tried to look at her alarm clock but she couldn't see the time so she let herself fall back into the pillow.

"It's only nine o'clock," Robert answered her question. "So I was a bit surprised to come home to a darkened house. Has the past week been so tiresome?" he asked.

"Yeah," was all she could answer.

There was a lot more she wanted to tell him about but she was still only half awake and wanted nothing more than to keep her eyes closed. When she opened her eyes again she saw Robert's worried look on his face. Did she look that bad? He was about to place his hand on her forehead when she thought it was going too far. There was nothing wrong with her, she simply needed another minute to wake up!

"I'm not sick and that scratch on my chin will heal perfectly fine," she grunted, a bit more aggressively than she had anticipated before she pulled the sheet over her face.

"Sorry," she said from underneath the sheet, realising Robert might not understand what was going on. She pulled the sheet down again so she could see him and when he smiled at her she sighed out of relief.

"Can I get a hug?" she pleaded.

Robert pulled her up and placed his arms around her body. He had missed this, he had missed her, even more than usual, and he couldn't figure out why. She had been away before and he had been away before so what was so different this time? It couldn't be that she was away with Mike Flynn. Of course he knew about the relationship Kate and Mike had shared, but that wasn't a threat to their relationship, he knew that. Kate had never given him the impression she doubted her choice for him. That said, he had been happy to hear Kate was less than pleased with Mike after the first day in Sydney.

"I love you Kate," he stated.

Kate smiled at his declaration and kissed him passionately.

"You better or I'm not going to marry you," she teased him. She was fully awake by now and loved having Robert in her arms again.

"Not going to marry me?" he exclaimed. "Oh please Kate, please," he played along.

Kate chuckled. If she played this right she could get a lot more than passionate kisses.

"Well, I don't know sir," she tried to sound serious, failing miserably. "You weren't very nice to me and I could get a lovely offer from an old friend," she teased.

"One Mike Flynn?" Robert asked as if he had nothing to lose if it was Mike he was up against.

"Him?" Kate grouched. "No I'm talking about Finn," she corrected.

"Finn?" Robert asked, forgetting about their little act and seriously wondering about who Finn could be.

"Yes, Finn," Kate stated again but then she hit him playfully at his chest.

"You know how silly you look?" she asked him.

Robert suddenly remembered again that Kate had told him about Finn, or Mike and his anagram, and smiled sheepishly.

"That'll teach you," she said. She sounded playful but there was a serious undertone to what she was saying.

"What did I do?" he asked as innocently as he could.

"You know very well what you did," Kate replied with a smile. "I went to Malcolm and Terry's and saw James sitting at the couch with his book in his hands. He looked up and said: 'oh no, now I won't get any more fish finger dinners!' before he even hugged me!" Kate exclaimed.

"Terry couldn't stop laughing and Mal was having fun as well. When they finally stopped they told me you had ordered my son to be unkind to me," Kate pouted.

She didn't sound angry and now he wished he had been there to see her face.

"I did take a picture of every dinner which James shoved inside him," he said, letting her know they didn't only eat fish and chips in the past week.

"Shoved?" Kate disputed his choice of words but he simply kissed her and hugged her again. It was time to stop teasing and debating each other for a while and be serious.

Kate was glad James was responding so well to Robert. The boy had never been difficult around others but this was different. To her it was really important that James accepted Robert in his life and so far there were nothing but good stories to tell. Robert did question her on a few parenting skills and eating habits were one of them. He hadn't just picked the word 'shove' for nothing but it seemed Robert didn't want to discuss it right now.

"Did you see the brochures I put on the table?" he asked curiously, changing the subject radically.

Kate hadn't seen anything special when she had come home, other than the mail and some stuff which James or Robert hadn't put away yet.

"Brochures?" she wondered.

"The travel brochures I got from the travel agency," he clarified.

Kate shrugged and tried to remember what she had seen on the table. "I don't remember. I think I've mistaken them for advertisement. Is it really important?" she asked.

"Wait, I'll get them," Robert said without answering her question. He got up from the bed and left the bedroom.

"Robert! Wait!" Kate yelled, while getting out of the bed and slipping her feet into her slippers to follow him.

Kate went downstairs and walked into the living room where Robert was looking for the brochures. They weren't on the spot where he had left them because he was lifting different stacks of papers and exhaled irritably.

"What's so important about them now?" Kate asked while she put her arms around his waist and put her head against his back.

"I thought we said we wouldn't go on a trip for a while," she said against his shirt.

He smelled so good, sometimes she still couldn't believe she was lucky enough to have him in her life.

"Oh here they are," he said, bending forward making it impossible for her to hold on to him so she let go of him.

Robert showed Kate the brochures he had gotten from the travel agency. He had gone to Navcom and arranged some time off for Kate. At the hospital he had done the same for himself and now he could proudly tell her that they did have two full weeks to do whatever they wanted.

"I know we hadn't really planned a honeymoon but I'd love to take you somewhere, even if it's just for a few days, so I went to the travel agency and got an option on three ten-day trips. After the ten days we come back and pick up James and go to Movie World on the Gold Coast for two more days. You just tell me where you would like to go," he said, showing her the brochures.

Kate was perplexed. He had done all of this in the one week she had gone away and the only thing she had to do was to pick out the destination? Could it get any more luxurious?

"Which destinations do you have in mind for our honeymoon?" she asked excitedly.

Robert gave her the papers and walked towards the couch and sat down, spreading his arms to show he expected her to sit down as well.

"I know you like warm weather and, just like me, you want a little bit of culture," he started to explain. "So I got brochures on the Seychelles, Tahiti and Fiji."

Robert got excited all over again, seeing Kate being so eager to go on a holiday with him after all.

"Where would you like to go?" he asked her. She was still looking at the different pictures but he wanted to know so badly.

"I don't know," she replied. "Which one is your favourite?" she asked him in return.

He pulled her closer to him on the couch and kissed her on her forehead.

"I was wondering the same thing," he teased. "I was the one who picked those three destinations, well, OK the travel agent told me these are the only three available right after our wedding, but I want you to decide," he answered.

Kate put her feet on the couch and leaned against him. "Well, that's not fair," she said. "It's your honeymoon as well. Why don't we both say which one is our least favourite?" she suggested.

Kate looked at the pictures of Fiji which were very appealing. Robert was looking at pictures of a hotel on the Seychelles. She hoped it meant he wasn't in favour of Tahiti. She would love to go to that island one day, but not on her honeymoon. After all these years it still was the island that was attached to Mike and the relationship she broke off.

"My least favourite is," he started, but he stopped and looked at her in pity. "Fiji," he finished.

Kate was surprised but would ask him why in a minute. First she had to give him her least favourite choice.

"Mine would be Tahiti," she stated without any doubt.

"Why?" he almost exclaimed.

Robert wouldn't mind any of the three choices but the accommodations on Tahiti had looked the best. He had never been there before nor the Seychelles, so Tahiti had been a little bit his favourite up until now.

"It's a long story," Kate sighed. Robert didn't mind a long story, he simply wanted to find out why she didn't want to go to Tahiti.

"It has to do with Mike," she started to explain.

Robert didn't understand it and Kate didn't seem to be very forthcoming with her answers.

"Whatever there was between you two has been years ago, hasn't it? Why would that still be a problem?" he wanted to know.

Kate put down her brochure and put her arms around Robert and curled up on the couch.

"We were going there to start off our relationship. The relationship that didn't happen," she explained. She saw the disappointed look so she tried to explain it a bit further.

"I would love to go to Tahiti one day, but on my honeymoon I don't want to think about Mike Flynn and all the things I could have seen with him or done with him etcetera. Can you understand that?" she asked.

The way she explained it all made sense but he was still a bit disappointed about her choice.

"So, which one is your favourite?" he asked her.

Kate looked from one to the other brochure and shrugged.

"On a practical point I would say we should go to Fiji because the distance, but that one is your least favourite. Oh I don't know Robert, I've never been to either of the countries. All I want is to enjoy those extra days with you," she stated.

"Let's go to the Seychelles," she finally decided.

"Really? Are you sure?" Robert asked but Kate started to laugh now.

"Dearest fiancé, half an hour ago I didn't even know I was going to make a trip in the first place. How sure do you want me to be?" she teased him.

Tomorrow he was going to get their itineraries fixed and also the promised trip to Movie World. He had already told James who was really excited and looking forward to it.

"I think I'm done with my to-do-list for the wedding. The only thing I need to do is wait for you at the beach. Do you already know what you're going to wear?" he asked her.

The dress! It was the one subject she wouldn't tell him anything about and it made him extremely curious.

"I'll wear something, I promise," Kate laughed. "You just have to wait and see," she added.

He kissed her on the top of her head and dropped the brochures on the floor. All he wanted was some quality time with his soon to be wife. She had put her head on his chest and kept her eyes on one of the brochures.

"I can't imagine myself there yet," she murmured. "Or the fact that you've arranged this for us. Thank you Robert," she continued.

He had woken her up and for the past half hour she had been excited but now it looked like she was almost falling asleep again.

"It's a pleasure," he told her. Kate was worth every cent he had!

"Let's go to bed, sweetie," he suggested when she didn't respond to him anymore. She opened her eyes and lifted her head a bit to nod.

"Hey Robert, did you know we only have fifteen more sleeps and then we're married!"