Hammersley pulled alongside Port a week later, everyone was in the worst mood.

Dutchy spent the entire time trying to avoid Kate unless he had to do a boarding with her,

Mike spent the entire time taking out his bad mood on everyone and trying to also avoid Kate.

While Kate just spent the time getting familiar with Hammersley again and avoiding any close contact with either Dutchy or Mike.

Maxine was waiting at the docks to see how Kate's first Patrol went as she was waiting a taxi pulled up and Rosie jumped out

"Hey Auntie Max!" she yelled as she ran over to her

"Hey Rosie!" Maxine said as she eloped her in a hug

"What are you doing here?" Rosie asked confused

"Um… I'm meeting the new XO to find out how her first patrol went" Maxine said hoping Rosie wouldn't ask to meet her

"What are you doing here?" Maxine asked her as Rosie pushed her sunglasses on her head

"I'm meeting Dad; he's taking me out for tea" Rosie said smiling

"What's the special occasion?" Maxine joked knowing full well what it was

"It's my birthday Auntie Max, don't tell me you forgot" she joked

"No of course not" Maxine said as she pulled a bag out of her car

"Happy birthday Kiddo" she said smiling as Rosie took the bag from her.

"It's beautiful, thanks Auntie Max" Rosie said giving her a hug as she held up a beautiful bracelet with different charms on it.

"I'm glad you like it" she said smiling at her as she helped her put it on.

Mike made his way off Hammersley first, leaving Kate to finish up he made his way towards Maxine and Rosie

"Dad!" Rosie said as she eloped Mike in a huge hug,

"Happy Birthday kiddo" Mike said hugging her tight

"Look what Auntie Max got me" she said pulling away from the hug and showing her Dad the bracelet

"That's awesome sweetheart" Mike smiled as he looked at Maxine, he was still upset about her knowing where Kate had gone but he didn't want to discuss it in front of Rosie

"Come on let's go get ready for tonight" Mike said placing a hand on Rosie's shoulder

"Can Auntie Max come?" Rosie asked hopeful

"I'm sorry sweetie Max has other things to do right Max?" he asked practically telling her to say no

"Yep, sorry Rosie next time" Maxine said smiling

"Thanks again for my present" she said smiling as her and Mike began to walk towards his car.

Kate made her way towards Maxine as Mike and Rosie were walking off

"Kate how was your first Patrol?" Maxine asked

"Absolutely"

"Yeah?"

"Horrible" Kate said watching the smile fall off Maxine's face.

Rosie stopped in her tracks as she heard the name Kate "Dad, I want to meet the new XO I'll be back" she said turning around and running off

"Rosie wait!" Mike tried to run after her but it was too late….

"Why was it horrible?" Maxine asked concerned

"Doesn't matter, I'm just glad to be having some shore leave" Kate said smiling at Maxine, neither one of them noticed Rosie standing there staring at Kate until they heard a faint

"Mum?!" and a thud.

Did she really just see her Mum or is her mind playing tricks on her, it was too late to clearly see before she knew what was happening she fainted

She was coming through slowly and hearing faint voices

"Rosie, sweetheart can you hear me? She heard the sound of her Dad's voice

"Is she ok?" Kate asked.

The voice was unfamiliar as she started to open her eyes she blinked a few times before her vision appeared "Dad?" she said softly as she looked up there was 3 people looking down at her, she shifted to sit up

"What happened?" she asked confused

"You fainted honey" Maxine said pushing a piece of hair behind her ear

"You okay?" Kate asked concerned

"Don't pretend to care" Mike said biting Kate's head off

"Mike!" Maxine said as Kate moved aside

"I'm sorry… I'll leave you to it…" Kate said moving away.

"Wait!" Rosie said as she pushed herself up but it was too late Kate didn't hear her and had already walked off.

"What did you do that for" Maxine said hitting Mike's arm

"What?" he said confused

"Kate was just concerned you know, Rosie is her daughter too" Maxine said angrily

"She hasn't seen her since she was 7, I wouldn't call her a Mother" Mike said as Rosie walked back over to them disappointed.

Kate arrived home confused at the events that had just happened placing her bag down she made her way into the kitchen where she noticed the collage she made the night before still sitting on the bench. Kate sat down staring at the photos when she felt her phone ring

"Kate McGregor" she said answering it not bothering to look at the caller ID

"Kate it's Max, I'm coming over" Maxine said through the phone

"You don't have to do that, I'm fine honestly" Kate said softly

"Too bad I'm already here and I don't believe you so get off your butt and let me in" Maxine said before hanging up the phone and knocking on the door.

"I told you I'm fine" Kate said opening the door for Maxine to walk through

"I don't believe you" Maxine said walking in with an arm full of food and wine

"When did you even have time to get food?" Kate asked surprised

"I already had food when I met you at the docks" Maxine said walking into the kitchen

"How'd you know I'd need comfort food?" Kate said following her

"Wild guess" Maxine laughed as she placed the food down on the bench.

"So…. Want to talk about it?" Maxine asked handing her a glass of wine

"Only if we can eat first" Kate said pointing at the food on the bench.

30 minutes later and half a bottle of wine and Kate was telling Maxine all about her Patrol, "It was horrible Max, Mike spent the entire patrol avoiding me and practically told me he didn't want my help and Dutchy kept avoiding me unless we had to do boarding's" Kate said placing her wine glass down

"Why was Dutchy avoiding you?" Maxine asked confused, Kate sighed

"We slept together 9 years ago" Kate said softly

"What!?" Maxine said surprised that didn't sound like Kate

"We were drunk and it didn't mean anything, for me anyway" Kate said picking up the wine bottle and filling her glass

"Did Mike know?"

"No it was when we weren't together, one of the many times we had broken up" Kate said taking a big sip of her wine

"I found out I was pregnant 6 months later"

"With Rosie?"

"Yeah, I told Dutchy he thought it was his"

"Is there a chance Rosie could be Dutchy's?" Maxine asked scared of the answer

"No, I slept with Mike a month after Dutchy the date's added up for it to be Mike's" Kate said putting Maxine's mind at ease.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Maxine asked sadly

"Because you were my Boss, you still are my Boss" Kate said feeling awkward

"Kate I'm your friend first" Maxine said smiling

"Can you say, you wouldn't have judged me if you knew about it when it happened?" Kate said hopeful

"It was a mistake and you admit that, I don't judge my friends" Maxine said trying to comfort her.

"And now Mike doesn't want a bar of me" Kate said sculling the rest of her wine

"He'll come around" Maxine said smiling at her

"That was not exactly how I wanted to see Rosie again after all this time" Kate said arising from the couch to get the other bottle of wine

"I think she was a little star struck" Maxine said giggling

"What?" Kate yelled from the kitchen

"Ok don't be mad"

"Why would I be mad?" Kate said walking back into the lounge with a bottle of wine

"When I used to watch her while Mike was out at Sea I'd tell her stories of you"

"What kind of stories?" Kate asked scared as she filled up hers and Maxine's wine glasses.

"You know, when you got shot, when you saved Mike from that Gorski guy or when you saved that little girl Mia"

"Technically I didn't save Mike" Kate said handing Maxine her glass

"That's not the way Rosie knows it, she'll bring her Dad around there's no way Mike will be able to resist the way she crinkles up her nose like her Mother" Maxine said smirking

"I do not do that" Kate said smiling as her nose crinkled up Maxine laughed

"Shut up!" Kate said throwing a pillow at her.

It was late Maxine had left ages ago and Kate had gone to bed as she rolled over to snuggle in there was a loud thud at her door

"Go away, it's late!" Kate yelled when there was another loud thud Kate made her way downstairs towards the front door,

"What!" Kate said as she opened the front door to reveal a red eyes Rosie standing there.

"Rosie?" Kate said surprised

"Can I come in?" she said sniffling

"Ah sure, does your Dad know you're here?" she asked as Rosie entered Kate closed the door behind her

"We had a fight" she said sitting on the couch

"I'm going to call your Dad" Kate said as she made her way into the kitchen

"No… Please can I just stay here?" Rosie said stopping Kate in her tracks

"Um… Ok but first you have to tell me what the fight was about" Kate said moving to sit next to her

"You" Rosie said as she sniffled

"Me?" Kate said surprised

"I wanted to find you after what happened at the Docks, we argued and when he was asleep I found your address and here I am" she said smiling weakly.

"Your Dad's going to be worried sick about you when he finds you missing" Kate said softly

"Please… I just want to get to know you" Rosie said looking at her sadly

"Ok… But we can talk in the morning it's late, um… I've got a spare room if you'd like to sleep there" Kate said arising from the couch, Rosie nodded as Kate showed her to the spare room

"Um here" Kate said handing her an old t-shirt and some pants

"They might be a little big but your more than welcome to have them" Kate said smiling as Rosie placed them down on the bed

"Bathroom's at the end of the hall to the left, my bedroom's just across there if you need me" Kate said smiling as she turned to leave Rosie spoke

"Um... Thank you Mum…" she said as Kate turned to smile before heading downstairs to grab her phone and back to bed.

She texted Mike 'Rosie's here in spare room she's safe, Kate' as she snuggled back into bed her phone beeped 'Thank you' was his reply.