The next few days went without a hitch Mike was starting to wonder if he infact had seen their target, and it was not helping his mood, he so badly wanted this over and done with so they could get back to their real life.

But Mike was wrong in thinking that what he thought he saw wasn't there, just because their target hadn't made contact like he expected didn't mean he wasn't around, infact they had no idea was that they were the ones being followed their target had always thought they were undercover cops when he last worked with them but the way they were with each other showed there was more to them, that they were truly in love and now seeing them this long later still together acting like they did years ago had him now rethinking what part they had played in his operation years ago he knew things got rough then they vanished off the face of the earth he was unable to find them and of course they were unable to find him he had heard whispers they were navy not cops which meant that they would of been collateral damage if he goes down so do they, cops only save their own arses not anyone else's they were risking a lot to be here together as he could tell even if they were navy they were a couple a couple hugely in love with each other the looks they pass between each other couldn't be fake u just can't fake being totally in love with someone so now there target wasn't sure of what to do and just when he finished opening some mail photos of the two he'd been watching where suddenly in front of him.

Photos of the two in navy uniforms each photo was either them on their own with crew or together and each photo was able to be related to another they were together and by the looks on the same ship it made him realise how well they knew the way through places they were experienced sailors not cops they were dummies for the real cops but why did they use these two or was the navy their way of paying back their debt serve your country or jail time has to be served.

He was left with many questions many more than he started with but the most important was who are they really? the photos showed they had the same names as they do now, so surnames which ones are real, but right now he needed to know more about them and what they were doing out here on the water.

Several days later,

A week after Mike thought he saw the target.

"Kate what are you doing." Comes from Mike as he lays in bed, Kate having shot off to do something.

"God do you need to know my every move...Sir."

"NO, but I do want you back in our bed thank you."

"God haven't you had enough." She says cheekily to him.

"Excuse me weren't you the one that started it last time. I just want to hold my wife while we sleep, too much to ask for?"

"I suppose not." Kate replies as she reenters the room.

"You know this life, out here no worries, no work commitments, just us two is wonderful, why haven't we done this sooner?" Kate asks as she curls up beside Mike, in bed.

"Because of everything else, and anyway living on a boat is no good for having a family."

"I know it's just been nice to get away from it all, just us and nothing else."

"Yep have to agree to that one." Mike says as he pulls her closer to his body, allowing sleep to take hold of both of them.

Several hours later.

Someone mangers to get on board and enter the boat.

Mike wakes the sound of someone on board, he quickly grabs his Gun in the process having woken Kate who does the same thing, they slowly and quietly move.

"Don't move or I will shoot." Mike says to the intruder

"Really you would shoot me Mike."

"OH for god sakes Gary, what the hell are you doing on my boat?" Mike says as the he and Kate both lower their weapons neither feel threatened by the person on board, well they do but they both now he is out number right now.

"Well, is this your boat? or does it belong to the Australian government?" Mike and Kate looked puzzled at him.

"Belongs to me thank you, have owned this beauty for about two years now." Mike replies. Of course Kate knows that Mike truly owns this boat, that this is not been given to them by the cops, that he only got it through a family member dying who had just finished building it, and Mike was left with the boat, as Mike was the only one with any boat knowledge and the only one his uncle felt would look after his pride and joy and not sell it for the money they could make off it.

"Care to explain these photos then?" He asks as he throws some photos on the table in front of Mike and Kate. The two look at each other, a look passes between them and he has no idea what the hell is going on between the two of them. They both know now they need to improvise, and fit in the Navy as part of their work, but how, is the question as you can't deny the photographic proof of them in uniform.

"It's our real life job."

"But I thought you worked for Wes?"

"We do, but we also work for the Navy, it's complicated as shit." Comes from Kate.

"So why different surnames, and which are your real surnames?" he asks and Mike pulls out his phone.

"Dial this number it will tell you." He says as he shows the number to Garry.

They hear the tone of the phone dialing the number then the sound of it connecting and ringing.

"Burns residence."

"Hello my name is Gary and I'm looking for the father of Mike Burns." Gary asks, and they hear silence then voices in the background.

"Sorry but we no longer have a son by that name."

"Can I ask what happened Sir, claiming to be your son."

"Claiming, that bastard and his wife took off, no reason no rhyme. Just disappeared one night, after everything we did for them both, they did this to the family. As far as everyone here is concerned they both dead died many years ago, better than explaining that those two buggered off. So as far as we are concerned we have no son."

"He can't even be bloody honest." Mike whispers to Kate, as they sit there listening to the conversation unfold.

"Honest Mike, you couldn't even be honest with us or contact us."

"Who were the ones who refused to allow Kate to go off to college, that she had to stay and do as you guys told us to do, we weren't asked, we were told. We didn't mind getting married but then..." Mike stops he doesn't want to talk about that day.

"You two still married?"

"Yes we are and planning on starting a family, when god thinks it should happen." Comes from Kate. The act of being undercovered going like it was their real family. She's hoping the sound of grandchild may turn their parents around. Garry even hears this part and looks at them and Mike nods as to say yes we are.

"Look I must go." Mike's father says after a few silent moments and thent he sound of beeping being heard.

"So what are you here for Gary." MIke asks after a few moments of quiet.

"Same thing I was going to ask you two."

"Well we are on holiday."

"You live and breathe the sea and now you're holidaying on it why?"

"Peace, Quiet, go where ever you please, it's just nice and relaxing out on the water." Comes from Mike.

"Mmm, I don't honestly believe you two since it seems you lied to me years ago. I just not sure who is the real you, the ones in those photos or the two sitting here in front of me."

Kate picks the photos up and looks at them, she studies them hard, she sees the longing on both their faces right from the start of them working together. The years lost to the job, years where they already could of had a family, children married for real and now having to somehow play this into their act, with no one knowing what they are saying right now. Hopefully they can get word back to the others before Gary finds out the real truth.

"Honey you ok?" Mike asks and that is one thing Gary knows they not faked, the love the two share, he see's it in those photos, and when he looks at the two.

"When we were suddenly pulled from work, you had disappeared only a couple of days before hand, they thought we were involved with your sudden disappearing act, as we were the last ones talking to you. We got picked up and carted off, separately, no being able to talk to each other, see each other, or even have a lawyer. Which I did state a number of times was illegal to do, but they were trying to break us I think. They promised all sorts of things if we gave up your location, we knew some of what you did but it never involved us as such so we never talked about it." Kate stops then looks up at Mike, before carrying on.

"About ten days later they gave me a choice I could go to jail, or I could go work for the Navy, I decided the Navy was far more interesting than sitting in some cell somewhere, but I only think they offered that to me because of my knowledge of the water, anyone it came with one major downside, surname change and no contact with Mike, my husband at all. No one was to know of our marriage or the money we own, have. Which thank god to Wes is all legal. I had no idea they did the same to Mike, I got put on frigates he onto patrol boats so we never crossed paths until I had to take a course like everyone else, no special treatment for me, infact I had to work harder than anyone else just to get where I am. At that course Mike walks in as our instructor, and all I wanted to do was leap up off my chair and run into his arms, kiss him senseless and never let him go...but I couldn't. There was the man I grew up with, fell in love with then married even if my parents thought that it was arranged we had been in love even before the marriage, them wanting it saved us a lot of issues. Standing there other woman hitting on him and I couldn't do a thing, we broke protocol and spent time together while that course was running, then afterwards we were separated again, no contact numbers changed as someone found out we had meet." she stops as she lets a tear fall down, trying to make this seem as real as possible.

"Four years of knowing he was still out there alive, and in the Navy too, which makes it harder to be together, I would stack him keep an eye out for his name in the Navy news, and alike. Anything to know my husband was ok. People thought I was weird and a hard task master as alI did was work, work and work, any slip up and it was a jail cell for me. Then bang six years ago I'm placed on board his boat, as his XO, how bloody horrible that was as being placed on the same boat meant even more rules that we could not break, shit another patrol boat within Cairns would of been better at least then we could of gone back to living together, nar instead we had to pretend not to love each other, care for the other or let on the fact that hey, we have different surnames and are married, so incase of emergancy guess who you need to contact that is right the CO my husband."

Kate gets up and moves to the back of the boat to overlook the water. She is using the anger at what Mike did to her to express the anger at what they were so called put through, to make it seem so real.

"I was only meant to stay for six months then leave, but my next posting had me in Perth, I couldn't leave, the thought of leaving him again I couldn't so I stayed deciding if we can't be allowed to be husband and wife, and be together then I will be his 2IC, be by his side day in and day out doing what we use to do together, watching each others back, looking after the other. And six years later we still doing the dance as no bastard will separate us, we too damn good at our job, which we already knew, but we decided after our leave is up as we have been on leave doing some work for Wes with the new expansion into Brisbane, that we going to say stuff you to all of them, they not keeping us separated any longer. Personally we both hoping I fall pregnant while on leave as then there is nothing they can do when I want off the boat, and on shore, with Mike."

"Why did they only change your surnames?"

"Too many people know us by our names plus we couldn't get use to new names." comes from Mike. he's hoping just like Kate that he buys their lie.

"At least with being in the Navy it gave us some freedom in a way, we got to live as normal people, eat what we want when we want, without being in a cell. But honestly not sure which would of been harder, the cell or this." Mike says as he pulls Kate into his arms.

"When Wes came to me about opening up his new base we took it, why not. Meant we both got to take time out, we both applied for leave and got it, then we headed off to Brisbane, and have been working on getting it all off the ground. While out here Wes is there, we needed the break away from everyone and everything."

"So what will happen when you return back to the Navy?" Gary asks as he starts to wonder if he can use them to his advantage for getting in and out of the waters unnoticed.

"I will be running Navcom in Cairns the big base, not sure what Kate is planning on doing, she is hoping to have the CO job on Hammersley but that is unknown at this stage and I will bring this baby up to Cairns."

"You do know the crew on Hammersley are going to wonder how the hell we can afford both this boat and the car they saw when you picked me up after my last patrol."

"They can wonder all they like, we earnt this baby, earnt every little cent of this everything we own we have earnt."

"Still rich then I take it."

"Yep." Mike says.

Mike and Kate both want to talk to him about what the hell he is really doing here but with the photos they had to change everything around, the game plan had been thrown out the window and a new one in place, Gary right now had the upper hand and they didn't like it. They know the shit he has been into before, and they know more than he thinks they know. Now more than ever their lives were in more danger than ever before as all it would take is one stuff up from one person for everything to come crashing down and to lose one of them for good. Something that neither wanted to have to go through, so if it meant they had to fly slightly blind, and make stuff up as they go then that is what they will do they, they also knew they needed to get word back to Wes asap about what had gone on, but with Gary around they knew they must be under watch so getting word back would be harder than it had been before. They just hope they can get Steve to have them go to Darwin base or meet them somewhere to do a check up on them and make it look like it's part of their story, their cover that they have to do checks every so often.

"Mike when did Steve say he would need to do a check on us that we hadn't done a runner?"

"I think he said we would have to meet on the 15th, he was going to inform us of where and when a day or two out from the meeting."

"What this meeting and whose Steve?" comes from Gary.

"He's our parole officer you could say in a way but he's Navy. He does monthly catch ups with us and in person, doesn't like using the phone, he will find out where we are located then meet us in a town not far from that area as so not to alert the crew of what is going on."

"Still under their watch are you."

"We will be for the rest of our lives I think. Or until we give them what they want which is you, but we won't." comes from Mike.

The group talk for a bit longer before Gary leaves, Mike and Kate sit on the back of the boat and wait for about 30mins not talking just sitting in each other's arms before getting up and getting out the device to make sure Gary had no bugged the boat.