As Kate arrived Mike's dad opened the front door of the house and looked had who had just entered their driveway. A smile crossed his lips because he expected Kate to come over, though the smile left his face straight away, as he saw how tired and exhausted Kate looked. The whole situation took its toll on her and she was still dealing with the miscarriage. Since this day her whole life had been turned upside down and he was truly worried for her.

"Kate how are you doing?" he asked and only got a shrug of the shoulders from Kate as an answer.

"I need to talk to Ally please?" Kate said, as she walked closer to Mike's dad, though he didn't let her enter the house, he guided her to the backyard and offered her a chair and something to drink.

"You need some rest, before you talk to Ally. You will need all your strength, do you have any idea what to tell her or how to explain everything to her?" Kate only shook her head and looked at him.

"I have no idea how to explain it to her. Though I think I will start with the truth. It's about time, that she hears the whole story and I hope she is not going to hate Mike or me after she knows the truth.

"Kate, hate is such strong word and Ally could never hate you or Mike, therefore she loves you two way to much. Since she met you, she could feel that there is something you two have in common. That invisible bond which only mother and daughter share." Kate smiled at his words and sipped from her water.

"I just wish Mike would be here as well so we could explain this together to her."

"It's going to be tough and Mike would be a great support for both of you, but you will be fine and if you need a hand Helen and I will be there as well. There is nothing to worry about Kate. Just to let you know, since Ally knows you she wishes you would be her mum." With that he left Kate alone and walked back in the house to his wife, who was watching them from the kitchen.

"Is Kate alright?"

"Yeah she will be fine." He placed a kiss on his wife's temple and left. One minute later Kate entered the house and made her way to the kitchen, where she knew Helen would be. As she talked to Mike's dad, Kate knew Helen was watching them, but didn't mind it at all. She always felt welcome at their place and she liked that Mike's parents did look out for her.

"Hi Helen, where can I find Ally?" Helen just pointed upstairs and smiled encouraging at Kate.

"You two will be fine." Kate hoped that Helen would be right but still had her doubts about that. Slowly she started to make her way upstairs, she knew where Ally's room was, but found it empty. So there only was one other room, where the girl could be. Gently Kate knocked on the other door but didn't get a response, so she entered the room and saw Ally sitting on Mike's bed with pictures and papers scattered all around her.

"Hi, can I come in?" Kate still stood on the door, looked around and waited for Ally to approve Kate's request. After what seemed like hours the girl looked up with tears in her eyes and it broke Kate's heart to see her baby like that. Silently she walked over, took a seat on the bed and wrapped her arms around Ally. No words where needed and Ally just started crying after Kate had her in her arms. Kate let her hand run over Ally's back and waited until the girl had calmed down.

"Can I talk to you?" Kate asked after several minutes and Ally nodded, while she handed a picture to Kate. "That's you, just two hours old. The nurses took it for me at the hospital. They knew, that I gave my baby away for adoption and after the staff of the youth welfare office left with you one of the nurses handed me that picture. They must have taken two, so your dad got one as well." Kate explained while she looked at the picture that showed her with Ally in her arms.

"Why did you give me away? Why didn't you wanted me in your life? Didn't you love me?" Ally sounded sad and that tugged on Kate's heart. She put her arms closer around her daughter and tried to find the right words.

"I loved you from the bottom of my heart. I loved you back then and I still love you. It was so tough to make a decision. Though your dad left me before I even had a chance to tell him, that I was pregnant and my childhood was cruel. So I decided to give you the chance to have a sheltered childhood. Because I love you so much I made that decision. I wanted you to have a better childhood than I had." Kate explained and could feel that Ally nodded in her arms.

"Why did daddy leave you?" Kate knew that this question would come and had prepared herself to answer that.

"He left because he loved me." Ally's head shoot up and she looked questioningly at Kate.

"I don't understand that."

"I didn't understand it back then, but I finally understand it now." Kate said, but Ally still had no clue what Kate meant and looked questioningly at her mother. "I was pretty young at the time and just started with the Navy and had so many dreams and my ambition was to become the Chief of Navy. Your dad and I broke the rules by having a relationship at the time, because he was my instructor. If anybody would have found out about us we both would have been in a lot of trouble." Kate answered and looked absent out of the window. Her mind travelled back in time as she remembered that time.

"So daddy broke up with you to protect you? But why didn't he tell you, that I'm with him, when you started to work together again?"

"Good question Ally. Before someone could adopt you I had to fill in a lot of paperwork and one page was just about, if I would like to have contact with you one day or not. I said I didn't want to have any contact, so I think that's what your dad respected, even under the circumstances." Kate gently stroke through Ally's hair and could feel, that the girl in her arms had calmed down.

"I don't understand it, but maybe you are right. What's with the other baby?" This time Kate didn't understand Ally and looked accordingly at her daughter. "I heard nana and grandpa talking about the baby you lost and dad sounded angry about it as well. Though I didn't understand everything they said. All I know is that they did talk about you." Kate breathed hard. How do I explain to her, that I was pregnant to Mike again?

"What you heard is correct; I lost a baby the day we found you and your grandparents out there. I just found out a couple of days before that I was pregnant."

"Who where you pregnant from?" Ally was to noisy for her own good, but now Kate had to explain everything and stayed until she felt, that Ally was breathing even and so she knew the girl was asleep. It didn't take long until Kate fell asleep as well in Mike's huge bed.

Helen walked into the room and was happy as she saw mother and daughter sleeping peacefully.

In the meantime Mike was lying awake in his hospital bed until his mobile phone received a message. If he was honest he was worried about Kate and Ally. He had hoped, that Kate would call him, but so far nothing has happened and as his phone buzzed to life he felt relieved. He opened it and saw, that he received a message from his mum. Mum is sending me a text? Hopefully everything is alright with my girls. He opened the message and a picture popped up. It showed Kate and Ally peacefully together in his bed. The message his mother wrote read: There is just one person missing and then the picture would be perfect! Love you son and don't worry, they talked for quite awhile and everything is alright with them.