MIKE's POV

I arrive home a few minutes after the girls. They are already inside the house by the time I finish putting my car in the garage along sides Kate's. I'm so pleased now we have a large two car garage or there be no way both cars would fit, not with Kate's vehicle being a 4 wheel drive. I pick up the mail I have collected from the coffee table at Ryan and Jessica's place and walk inside. I can hear Kate talking as I walk through from the garage down to the lounge and place the mail on the kitchen table before going into the kitchen and making hot drinks for us all. It is starting to get late and both my girls really should be in bed getting some sleep, god now I calling Jess mine. Well she is my son's partner and I know for a fact he wouldn't be impressed with me if I let anything happen to her. I do treat her like she is my own daughter now, how else can you treat her. She makes my son happy and she is a really nice girl as well, plus Kate seems to enjoy mothering her. She's going to make an excellent mum even if she thinks she won't. The way she is with Jess shows it.

I make them their hot chocolates, adding extra chocolate to both of them before taking them out to them. The smile on Jess's face after tasting it makes me smile and to be honest it is nice to see a smile on her face. Tonight is going to be a long night for us three, I would prefer not to talk about what is sitting in that envelope on my kitchen table but it needs to be done so that first thing tomorrow we can get the ball rolling. I just hope she doesn't hate me for picking it up and bringing it and then talking to her about it. I know she loves her privacy and to do things on her terms but this is something she is going to need help with, support with. I walk over and pick up the documents and then bring them back I sit myself on the coffee table in front of them, and she sees what I am holding. I wait for her to speak, hoping it might help her feel like she has some power over this.

KATE'S POV

I arrive back at our house with Jessica; she has been quiet the whole time. I try and encage her in some small talk but it doesn't work. I wondering if she is worried about how I might react to Mike holding her while she cried. OR weather she feels like we are trying to control her in some form? I do know there is a lot to talk about and it will need to be done today so Mike and I can get our lawyers involved to help them both.

We both hop out of my car and head inside the house as I go to disarm the alarm I notice Mike never set it in his haste to exit the house. At least he locked the house up, as I check the front door.

I start talking to Jess, I ask her if she is worried about how I might react to Mike comforting her and she sort of nods. I tell her it is fine, and that we both think of her as our own. This makes her smile, and then I start to think of when I starting thinking like that. As I sit beside her talking to her, I hear Mike close up the garage and walk down our hallway towards us, I hear the sound of paperwork hitting the kitchen table and I can tell by the way it hits that he is not impressed, and I know why. Someone wants to take our girls baby away from her. Our girl when did I start thinking like that, thinking like a mother. Mike asks us if we want a hot chocolate and we both reply. Though her response is very quiet and weak.

I sit there comforting her while Mike is in the kitchen making our drinks; I wrap my arm around her and whisper to her that it is going to be ok, that we are here for her. That we will make sure she gets to keep her baby. Maybe Mike is right, maybe I will be an ok mum. I think to myself as I comfort Jess. I notice she starts to carm down and moves gentle out of my embrace, but she still stays sitting beside me. Before I realise Mike has brought us our hot chocolates and mmm they smell good, I take one small sip and I know he has added extra chocolate, as I watch Jess take a sip of her one a smile spreads across her face. Mike sure does make the best hot chocolates. I watch as Mike face breaks out into a smile after seeing Jess smile. I can tell from his eyes that he is worried for her, for our grandchild, but I can also see that he is going to fight this we lock eye's and we both can tell that we need to talk about this tonight with her get everything out in the open so that tomorrow we can start fighting this for her. Yes for her right now she needs to worry about her medic training and her own health. Mike, Maxine and I will worry about her parents. If I have to I will call in the great grandparents into this and I know as soon as both our parents hear about this they will not be impressed at all. I wonder if Dad knows a good lawyer who is used to dealing with this sort of thing. I'll talk to Mike about that later on.

I notice Mike going to the table and picking up the documents that Jess has received from Perth of course Mike would find them and then bring them here.

He comes back to us and then sits down in front of both Jessica and I holding the envelope, he says nothing as I notice Jess looking at what he is holding. I can see he wants to say something to her but he is trying to give her the power the control like he does with me when times are hard or I'm struggling to say something. I put my arm around her to provide her with some comfort and I tell her that it's ok to talk and that we're not going to bite, plus she can take as much time as she needs to tell us. I see his smile that he directs at me afterwards, such a loving smiling, that I can't help but return one back at him.

"My parents they had a lawyer send me those." She finally gets out as she points to what Mike is holding. She takes her time before speaking again and we allow her to, both of us knowing she needs to do this on her terms at her time.

"When I told them I was pregnant they weren't happy I thought over time they would come around, but when I asked them about past medical history for the midwife dad went off his tree at me, told me I was unfit to be a mother, to young and the navy is no life to bring up a child not their grandchild. Dad said I'm only a child myself and that no child should raise a child." She says tears streaming down her face. My arm tightens around he, my hand gentle rubbing up and down her forearm trying to comfort her, my heart breaking as she tells me this and I think back to what I nearly put Mike through, god this must have been what he felt like when I told him I was going to terminate, how could I have put him and my family through this.

"In there are documents from their lawyers stating what they are planning on doing. I got it today, they've already put in to action the paper work to say I'm unfit to be a mother, I did finish reading it, and it hurts too much to think they would do this to me. I thought they loved me?" She gets out before her body is racked with sobs again. I pull her in to my chest and I hear Mike telling me to take her to the spare room and put her to bed, that she needs to sleep and that we all will talk more tomorrow about this.

I do as he asks how can I not. The young women in my arms is in an emotional state and this will be very draining on her and with a baby growing inside of her, her body is already working extra time with the added stress of this. As I tuck her in as if she is a child not a twenty year old woman, I tell her not to worry, that Mike and I will help her out. No I promise her that I will do everything I can to make sure that she gets to keep her child. I know I shouldn't promise her something I'm not total sure I can deliver on, but if this child has any chance of being born alive and on time I need to get her to relax and calm down.

I walk out to the lounge where Mike is sitting down reading, god he looks sexy when he puts those glasses on and I know how much he hates wearing them too, well they are only something new he has gotten. He catches me looking at him and he knows what I am thinking, man my hormones are running wild all I want to do is make love to this man all the time. I move over towards him and sit beside him taking a look at what he is reading when I see so much writing on the page no wonder he pulled the glasses out, tiredness mixed with loads of words on the page. Those glasses they just. Damn it, I learn and kiss him when he turns to look at me, I slide my tongue over his bottom lip and his happily opens his mouth for me and our tongues start to duel inside each other's mouths, passion building as the kiss deepens, when he pulls away I feel the loss of contact. He smiles at me as our breathing slows down. He tells me that we really need to go through this before the morning.

Yep its true I do truly love this man more than anything else on this earth, well maybe not as much as the chid we lost and the one I am carrying. But still he is my soul mate, my other half; he is the one that makes me feel complete.

After the kiss Kate gave him, his brain was side tracked from the documents in his hand to the passion Kate sets off in him.

What do her parents thinks he is some 15year old child, living on the streets. This shouldn't be hard to fight. Mike thinks to himself as he goes back to reading the documents that have been sent to Jessica.

The more he reads the more confident Mike feels. All the major issues are easily can be turned in their advantage. But one question does remain unanswered and only Jessica can tell them the truth or not over it.

Once he had finished reading the first lot of stabled documents he passed them over to Kate to start reading while he started reading the other documentation that was in the envelope. As he reads it his blood starts to boil and he throws it on the coffee table before getting up and walking out the ranch slider to the deck outside, hoping to use the cool night air to calm his nerves down.

Kate sees him throw some papers down on the coffee table before walking out of the house. She puts down what she was reading and follows him outside, slipping her arms around his waist when she reaches him, his arm going around her shoulders. They both stand there in silence.

"I think we have a good chance of winning this for them." She softly says.

"I think so." He says back, she hears his voice it sounds sad

"Baby what's wrong?" she asks so gentle to him.

"I was reading the terms of the adoption, they had the documentation for that in there as well. I can't let my son and her go through this. They have a right to know their child, not have that right taken off them. And their child has the right to know them." He says his voice cracking as he speaks.

"Baby what was in that document?"

"Her parents want her and Ryan to have nothing to do with the child, they are not visit, have any contact, or send anything and the child will never know who they are. It will think that its grandparents are its real parents. They don't even use Ryan's name they have down the biology baby's father. Surely they would know it is Ryan they been going out for a while before this happened."

"We'll can and will fight this, I'm not going to let your son and Jess go through the pain of losing a child. They have everything they need here to support themselves and the baby."

"I know they do. I just can't understand why her parents think this of her. Surely if they been in contact like you said they would know she has a vast array of friends here, even people who class her as family. I just don't understand their thinking over this?" his voice low and full of emotion.

"I don't know either maybe they worried that she will miss out on things that a young adult should be doing at her age? Maybe they worried they'll never get to see her or their grandchild cause she is staying here?"

"Yea maybe but I would really like to know the root cause of all this, find out why they're doing this to her. She is such a lovely person that you wouldn't expect this from her parents."

"Don't worry we will get through this."

"I know we will." He says as he places a kiss on Kate's forehead.

"Why don't we go to bed? I'm sure you and my little sailor need some rest and sleep. It's been a long stressful day for all of us."

She nods her head in agreement and he leads her back inside before closing and locking the ranch slider, and then both head off to bed to get some sleep before they are faced with another busy day.