Sighing Kate curled up reaching for her book. Thankfully the rest of the evening went smoothly and without any more drama. Unless you counted Chris having a meltdown because the juice from the tomatoes had run on to his chicken and he refused to eat it.

Leafing through the pages she tried to find the right page as her bookmark had gone walkabout. Hearing the door open she glanced over to see Mike walk in.

"thanks for sorting that" she smiled turning back to her book.

"no problem" he smiled sliding in to the bed next to her watching as she continued to read. Snaking his arm around her waist he pulled her close kissing down her neck.

Leaning in to him she could feel his breath warm and tickling her neck

"so the kids are all asleep" he whispered continuing to kiss down her neck

Turning slightly their lips met. Allowing her book to fall to the floor she turned fully wrapping her arms around him pulling him close. She could feel his hands toying with the hem of her shirt. Smiling down at her Mike reached across turning the lamp off plunging the room in relative darkness.

Giggling softly as mike pushed her back against the pillows, she grinned running her hands under his shirt before pulling him closer. He slowly brushed the straps of her vest off her shoulders kissing along her collar bone as he went. Moaning softly as he continued to run his hands under her top, she could feel her skin fizz with the delight of his touch.

The door crashed open banging loudly on the wall behind it. Sitting up Kate reached for the light, they both could see Chris standing at the door. Half asleep he was dragging his blanket behind him. He plodded over to the bed pulling himself up he crawled along settling in-between his parents and was soon snoring softly

Sighing softly Kate ran her fingers gently through her son's blond curls, as Mike went to lift him to carry him back to his own bed.

"leave him" Kate whispered "its fine and he will only wake up if you move him" she said switching the light back off.

Lying down on her pillow watching as Chris slept. He was at a wonderful age. He had nothing to worry about and stress about the current situation. He was only annoyed he couldn't go and feed the ducks in the park. Kissing him softly on the top of his head she slowly fell asleep herself.

She awoke the following morning with the alarm peeping in her ear. Despite the children not being at school due to the lockdown she had make a point of still having to get up at the same time to keep some sort of order and maintain the routine they had built. Reaching over she hit the snooze button 10 more minuets wouldn't hurt and it was only 6:30.

Trying to stretch out as she and moved in to a uncomfortable position whilst sleeping she found she couldn't move. Opening her eyes, she could see Chris was gripping on to her shirt like a little spider monkey. She also found Grace had joined them at some point and was lying on the bottom of the bed starfish style with her foot practically shoved up her mother's nose. Lying back against the pillows she looked up wondering how she was going to get out of bed she could see 2 large green eyes staring down at her. It took her a few seconds to realise it was the cat who was lay across the headboard at the back of the bed. smiling up she watched as midnight jumped down and managed to navigate the tiny gap between everyone batting Kate in the face with her tail as she went.

"thanks cat" she shook her head as she heard her mobile vibrating on the side. Pulling it towards her she sighed as she saw the number. "Kate Flynn" she said trying not to sound like she had just woke up. "okay I can be there in 3 hours" she said "yeah okay …. bye" she said hanging up.

Looking over she could see Mike was awake and looking over at her. "Crash sailed?" he asked although he already knew the answer.

"Yeah" she sighed "notice for sea" she replied un-hooking her son's hands from her top.

"wakey- wakey" she whispered softly stroking behind his ears

He slowly stirred with a slight cry annoyed he had been woken but he soon smiled seeing Kate.

"good morning" she cooed as he dived on her "are you going to go with daddy get some breakfast" she smiled

"Come on Mr Monkey" Mike smiled lifting him up in to his arms "let's let mummy get ready" he smiled as Chris began giggling

"Thanks" Kate smiled "now for this one" she indicated to Grace.

This was going to be easier said than done. Her youngest daughter normally could sleep like the dead and it would take a lot to wake her.

"Gracie" Kate whispered "time to get up sweetie" she cooed tickling the soles of her daughter's feet.

Grace shot up pulling her feet under her out of reach of whatever monster was attacking them.

Trying not to laugh Kate smiled as Grace turned to look at her. "good morning" she smiled

Grace flopped forward letting out a small moan at being woken up so early.

"come on please time to get up." she said to no response. "i think daddy is making pancakes" she smiled knowing that would work.

"yay" Grace bounced off the bed heading down stairs.

Shaking her head Kate slid from the bed heading over to the wardrobe. Pulling her sea-bag from the top shelf she began pulling out her uniform and the other things she would need on the ship. Grabbing her shore uniform, she lay it on the bed before heading for a shower. She hoped that it would be a short patrol or incident she didn't know exactly what was wrong but with everything going on this was a slim chance and things never worked out how you planned. One thing she did know is there were going to be several unhappy faces after breakfast once they found out

thank you to all have reviewed so far. it is really keeping me going. as I said this is just my jokey little take on what lockdown for Kate and Mike could be like. anyway I hope you like this and please let me know what you think. huge love and we will all get through this. xx