Kat woke abruptly… sweating, and breathing rather labored, face was covered in tears and her hands were trembling it was only a dream, a really bad dream. If that was some form of cosmic joke she was hoping who ever came up with it was enjoying themselves at her expense. She wiped her face to find tears present and she looked at her pillow and realized it had more tears on it than sweat.

She went to take a shower and try to shake that nightmare and start her day.

She got dressed and headed into her lab to be greeted by Boom

"Good morning Kat" Boom said as receiving a surprise hug from his mentor, that he returned gently, in the back of his mind he was asking himself who this was and what they did with Dr. Manx she didn't hug, it just wasn't her

"How are you?" he asked

"Fine" she headed out of the lab at a jog, she had to find out about Cruger, if Boom was still here he would be too.

She got to the command center and Cruger was suspicious, and when she made eye contact with him his suspicions were confirmed that something was wrong with her, but what, he couldn't tell.

"Kat, what's wrong?" he asked

"I just had a really bad nightmare" she told Cruger about her nightmare and by the end she was sobbing, he held her near as she cried

"Calm down, Kat… I'm right here" he whispered gently as he held her tightly in his arms… he knew that the dream had been hard on Kat… and she needed him to be there for her.

"Doggie, the reason this dream has effected me so badly is because I thought I had lost my chance to tell you something… something I've never had the courage to say before…" she pushed away to look at him "I love you"

He pulled her near again

"I love you two Kat… I have for quite a while, I just didn't know how to say it" Cruger sighed

Kathleen and Sky walked past the open command center doors.

"Kathleen, look at that…" Sky whispered

"What?" she looked "Awe… about time…"

"You're right… it is, for him and her" Sky put his arm around Kathleen's waist and they left Kat and Cruger to be together in love forever.

The End

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