Hello? Hello? Anyone there? I am so sorry I haven't updated in a while. I would like to thank my beta for encouraging me to continue writing this fanfiction, if my beta is reading this, I would like to say thank you again, you know who you are. I will try and update more regularly. I know this is a short chapter, but I hope you like it anyway. Please enjoy :D

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"Nav, how lo…" Mike was saying but cut off by Nav.

"Sir, no offense but before you ask again go and see Bird and your son." Nikki smiled.

"Thanks Nikki, you have the ship." Mike said, walking to the bridge door.

"Navigator has the bridge." Nikki ordered before Mike left for the wardroom. Mike smiled and walked out of the bridge doors. He was soon outside the wardroom door so he knocked on the door and entered.

"Ryan, how are you doing?" Mike asked with much emotion in his voice, mostly sadness, worry and concern for Bird and Ryan.

"I'm fine." Ryan cried, not able to hold back the tears again.

"I came to see if you were okay." Mike said as he placed a muscular shoulder on Ryan's back trying to comfort him as best as he could.

"Does mum have to know about Bird and I?" Ryan questioned, not taking his eyes off his pale looking girlfriend.

"No, not if you don't want her too." Mike declared, knowing well he wasn't ready to tell his mum about their relationship.

"How long until we get to port?" Ryan asked looking at Mike with sadness still lacing his voice.

"About 2 or 3 minutes." Mike replied looking down at his watch, and then looking back at his son with worried eyes.

"Thanks." Ryan expressed.

"There's an ambulance on standby for her when we get to port." Mike replied, trying to relieve the tension in the room.

"Can I go in the ambulance with her?" Ryan asked hopefully. He didn't want to leave her side.

"If you do that, people might figure out you're together." Mike stated the obvious in the calmest way possible way in that situation.

"Oh right." Ryan remembered.

"I can drive you." Mike offered. His car was at port because he left it there when they left.

"Thanks. Will X come?" Ryan asked.

"Yeah, probably, I'll ask her." Mike replied.

"Thank you for everything you're doing." Ryan expressed, truly thankful to have such a wonderful and caring CO and dad.

"That's okay. It's what parents are supposed to do, after all." Mike replied, but before Ryan could respond, there was an announcement over the P.A.

"CO to the bridge, CO to the bridge, CO to the bridge." Nikki's voice blared over the P.A system.

"I better go." Mike sat patting Ryan's back for support, before he left the wardroom and walked back up the bridge, where he was requested seconds before.

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