Looking around the little room she had been using at Nikki's since she first arrived in Cairns, she sighed looking at the amount of stuff she actually had. Packed away in to the boxes she sighed at how little her own possessions actually came to. She had always kept things to a minimum because of being in the forces and she had condensed everything down for the move up so she could fit it all in to the one trailer she had hired.

Grabbing her phone, she sighed Mike must still be at NAVCOM despite saying he should only be an hour Maxine must be keeping him talking. Rather than have that drink and cake she had decided to head back to Nikki's and box up the stuff she had unpacked. she had been hoping to have all the stuff in the new place for when the girls finished school which would be at 3pm as they had no additional clubs that they attended.

Hearing a knock at the door she walked towards the door pulling it open she smiled seeing Mike Stading on the step

"i am so sorry I am late. I thought it might be best to change out of my Whites and Max wanted to talk to me about Ryan" he smiled

"Ryan?" she said confused

"yeah." he paused "my son."

"i umm I didn't realise you were that close" she said although now it did make since as Maxine had been hard on her of late and was rather frosty when she walked in to them both when they went to get coffee.

"it was 15 years ago we had been friends since ADFA but it was a drunken mistake which we both regretted, but I only recently found out Ryan was mine. He was and I suppose technically still is my Godson but Stewart, Maxine's ex and who we thought was Ryans father was ill and needed a bone marrow transplant anyway they were not a match but me and Ryan were. Stewart got a paternity test on the QT. And discovered Ryan wasn't His so Max told him about us 15 years before."

"its fine really" Kate smiled with the awkward silence. She was still processing the information "i mean we both have a past don't we" she said

"right so what needs moving" he smiled

"just all of this" she smiled indicating to the stack of boxes just in the door of her room.

Loading the trailer was like a giant game of Tetris. Moving boxes and wedging them against other stuff. It seemed like nothing wanted to fit in even though she knew it would because she brought it all up in the one trailer.

Eventually after an hour they managed to get everything in apart from the odd few bits that she would go back and collect later. It was only some of the girl's toys that she knew they would want to sort out themselves as they were the cuddly toys that they went everywhere with.

40 minutes later they removed the last box from the back of the trailer and carried it in to the house.

Looking at the huge mountain of boxes Kate sighed. Somehow, they seemed to have multiplied in the van and the short drive across town. Flopping down on the sofa Kate sighed looking at the amount of stuff she had to move and put away.

"brew?" Mike smiled

"that would be good but I can't remember which box the kettle is in" she sighed looking at all the boxes Marked kitchen

"well, we best get moving through these boxes then" he smiled

Lifting one of the boxes that was unmarked Mike smiled "so where does this one go?" he smiled,

"umm not sure. If it hasn't got anything on it then dump it in the spare room" she smiled turning one of the boxes around to see what was written on it.

As Mike lifted the box the bottom fell open emptying the contents on to the floor. Putting the box down he tried to tuck the flaps of the box back in so the stuff could at least go back in to the box so it could be moved. eventually he managed to tuck the flaps in so they could hold a little bit of weight.

Bending down he began to put the fabric back in to the box. It was mainly clothing like joggers' vests and several pairs of knickers. Scooping them in to the box he picked up a pair of knickers. Holding them up they were huge Bridget jones style full briefs.

He turned to Kate who had gone as red as a tomato at the sight of him picking up her smalls

"very sexy" he grinned

"excuse me lieutenant commander Flynn I thought you were helping me with boxes not rifling through my undies" she grinned reaching over grabbing them off him. "anyway, they are super comfy especially at certain times of the month" she said stuffing them back in to the box.

2 hours later they had managed to get the stuff in to some sort of order. All the boxes had been placed in the right rooms and most of the important ones (the kitchen) had been sorted

Flopping down on the sofa Kate looked around the bright airy room, it was open plan right through to the kitchen.

"so now we have that sorted what do you want to do now" Mike grinned snaking his arm around her waist

"its almost 3. I have to go pick the girls up" she said scooting away from him.

"don't they have some club tonight?" he asked

"not tonight its that start of the holidays so they finish at 3" she said "but you could always come over tonight and maybe I can show you how sexy big pants can be" she whispered leaning in teasing him with a slow drawn-out kiss

so sorry this is a litte short but again my brain seemed to not want to write and i couldn't get it to work for ages. really hope you like it and hopefully my brain kicks in soon and lets me write :D