This story starts twelve years after the explosion of the dirty bomb in Cairns. Bomber works as chef for the Chief of the Navy at the Navy Headquarters. When she follows the admiral to Sydney, she meets an old friend... Thanks to Gisou1950 for beta reading.

This story begins directly after the bomb goes off in 'One Perfect Day'. Any character you don't recognise is from my imagination; everyone else belongs to the McElroys and their company etc.

Mike and Kate was almost caught by Steve Marshal

Mike and Kate was almost caught in XO bathroom

What if Mike tells Kate more about the list for the new CO

what if Mike and Kate talk more before he left for dinner with Maxine and Ryan.

Mike is hit by a drunk driver outside NAVCOM and is critically injured. He wakes in hospital where he finds he is paralysed from the waist down. Doctors aren't certain he will walk again, and Mike's former Hammersley crew come from far and wide to offer support. Each person has a story of hope to tell, to encourage Mike, but it's the least likely of them who comes through - Robert

Dylan had never thought that he would be reunited with his Princess to his Lancelot on Hammersley's bridge. After 14 years of no contact, it seemed that he finally got his second chance. But there were problems. He was broken and she was under the enchantment of the King. Would they be brave enough to rescue each other and finally live happily ever after?

2 Dads/RO. A sequel to 'To Better Luck with the Ladies.' OC POV. After Buffer moves on, the local pub's bartender has a new Hammersley crew member to befriend. 2 Dads hangs around and talks through his romance woes before mysteriously disappearing on holiday, leaving Robert and Lindsay worrying about what happened to him.

Jim and Swain do to die. Different take on how Mike and Kate first meet, and how they all deal with the unfolding events.

On ANZAC Day 2026, Kate McGregor is thinking about past and present colleagues, alive and dead. I don't own Sea Patrol or any of its characters, but am very grateful they were imagined by someone. Anyone you don't recognise in this story is probably a product of my imagination.

Buffer makes friends with a bartender (original character) and tries to figure out his love life. Eventually, it becomes clear that Kate is the one for him. Told from an original character point of view.

What if Dutchy hadn't stepped back gracefully in 4.16 and had instead decided to fight for her?

Campbell Fulton has been tried and sentenced for the murders of eight divers, including ET. Fulton and another prisoner break out of jail and plan to go to New Guinea. They head north in a stolen vehicle, but Fulton has another agenda- revenge. They reach Cairns where he kidnaps Mike and Steve Marshall, to get to Hammersley. He wants Nikki as surety to get to New Guinea.

Welcome to a world where the show's epilogue is a suggestion rather than a firm reality, where our favorite coxswain doesn't die, and where Spider and Bomber have fallen in love a decade after they left the Hammersley. They invite the old gang to their wedding and we get a glimpse into what they've all been up to in the past few years. I just want them all to be happy.

Charge has discharged from the Navy and is working as Chief Mechanical Engineer for a mine in NW WA. He is bitter over the death of Swain and severed all ties with Navy. Buffer has discharged and gets a job in the same mine. He meets Charge by chance in a pub. The other crew have posted elsewhere in Navy and are called upon, when Hammersley is attacked and Kate goes missing.

Kate's life seems perfect, but is it only because she can't remember it?

When Kate didn't get her promotion at the end of episode 5.02, she had to reconsider her career trajectory and her romantic relationship. Meanwhile, the increase of terrorism threat in Australian soil returned Jim Roth and Madelaine Cruise to Hammersley's orbit once more. Can the Hammersley's crews stay strong and united in the face of these challenges? And would everyone survive?

Whilst on shore leave, Robert Dixon is catching up on some much needed reading. Unaware that a single ring of his doorbell would turn the life he's so accustomed too, completely upside down. RO must face unlawful trouble, love and the foreign concept of heartbreak in order to regain something he didn't even know he desired.

Alternate ending to a scene from s2 ep 4 'Heaven Born Captains'.

Dutchy is sent to the royal navy on a secondment and is staying with the family of a young woman he met two years previously when she was rescued by the crew of HMAS Hammersly and the is more to their relationship as they fell in love but fate tore them apart and now has it brought them back together.

I Think I Can Get My Hands Free: Dutchy and 2 Dads are taken hostage and try to escape. (Whumptober 2021, Day 1 Prompts: you have to let go, barbed wire, bound)

Spider's had a hard day and Buffer comforts him (no, not like that). Head's up, there's some toxic masculinity at play here. Written for Whumptober 2021, Day 3 Prompt: Who did this to you, taunting, insults

2 Dads uses his holiday to play poker at all the hot games around SE Asia. Singapore is his final stop. His last night there doesn't go well. Did he really go AWOL or did something more sinister occur? Written for Whumptober 2021, Day 2 Prompt: Talking is overrated, choking, gagged

Mike Flynn has two great loves: Kate McGregor and patrol boats. He is incapable of choosing one over the other. - Set during season 4 Episode 2. The dialogue is all copied directly from the show soooo there's that.