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I hope you enjoy this chapter.
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So far, the day had been great for Catherine and Steve, Sawyer had slept until almost one while the Admiral and Tricia had slept until two. Steve had gotten out of his meeting and was home by noon, Danny had picked up Catherine's finished reports before going back to headquarters, and Catherine had made a nice lunch for Sawyer and her parents. The team and their families were due at the house at six.
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After lunch, Steve and Cath showed her parents the house before Cath changed Sawyer into her bathing suite, the adults all changed quickly, before they took Sawyer outside.
"The ocean is in the backyard!" she said looking between Catherine and Steve.
"Yes." Steve smiling
"Can we go swimming now?"
"Yes, but first we need to tell you the rules." Catherine told her.
"Okay."
"The most important rule is that you are not allowed to go in the ocean by yourself. Daddy and I must be with you, if not us another adult." Catherine explained to her.
"You must always ask and unless you are with mommy or me you have to wear a life jacket."
"I can swim." She stated.
"Yes, but swimming in the pool is very different then swimming in the ocean." The admiral replied.
"Papaw is right. Until you get used the ocean you will wear a life jacket." Steve told her.
"Bet I don't have to wear them long." She mumbled.
Tricia shook her head while laughing.
"More like the two of you every day." She told Steve and Catherine.
"Can we please go swimming?"
"Yes, come on." Steve picking her up.
Catherine smiled as Steve ran down to the beach, with Sawyer over his shoulder laughing.
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Two hours later.
Catherine sat in the chair on the beach talking to her mom, they were watching Steve and Sawyer in the ocean while the Admiral was making phone calls to finalize the move.
"She's going to be okay here. Steve and you are great parents." Tricia told her daughter, as they watched Steve throw Sawyer in the air, catching her before she went under.
"I feel like we missed out on so much. We are grateful for everything you and daddy have done for us and her."
"But?"
"It feels like we are finally her parents and not just people who she talks to one the phone or visits in between deployments or cases. I want her to be happy and know that we have always loved her, it's a weird feeling."
"Catherine, you have both always been her parents. She knows that both of you love her and she is happy to be here. It's going to be adjustment but all of you are going to fine."
"How are you and daddy doing with her being here and the move?"
"It's going to be adjustment for us too."
"The move or not having Sawyer?"
"Both. We are thrilled that the three of you can be together and we both understand the reason that the two of you chose not to bring here until now. However, we are going to miss her and her antics. I am ready to move to Italy, you know the culture interests me but it's going to be hard being away from our family."
"We are going to miss you too. Steve and I both wish you could stay longer."
"I was hoping for a longer visit as well but maybe the three of you can come to Italy for a visit. I hear fall is perfect time to visit maybe for a honeymoon."
"Mom, Steve and I are happy the way our relationship is. We are not talking about marriage."
"I know but you can't blame me for hinting."
"I guess."
"All I want is for you to be happy, Steve makes you happy and I love him. However you chose to live is up to you."
"Thanks mom."
They were interrupted by Sawyer yelling for Catherine.
"Mommy, come swim." She called out.
Catherine smiled.
"Go join them. I'm going to check on your dad." As they stood up.
Tricia watched as Catherine joined Steve and Sawyer in the ocean, smiling at the small family.
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A couple of hours later.
Catherine had convinced Sawyer to put on shorts and tank over her bathing suite, while she did the same thing. They were waiting for the team to arrive at the house, Steve and the Admiral had started the grill while Tricia and Cath had finished the prep and Sawyer carried things in between her parents. When the doorbell rang, Sawyer went to Catherine standing behind her, she suddenly became shy, Steve went to the door opening for the whole team and their families.
"Come in guys." As he moved out of the door way.
Danny, Grace, Gabby, Charlie, Kono, Chin, Leilani, Max, and Kamekona all came in the house.
"Everyone meet Cath's parents, Admiral James Rollins and Tricia."
Hellos were being exchanged, as Catherine walked in Sawyer following behind her, still trying to hide from the group.
"Steve did you introduce everyone?"
"Yes, except one person."
Catherine turned around to look at Sawyer before picking her up. She whispered that it was going to be okay in her ear. Sawyer put her head on Catherine's shoulders.
"This is Sawyer." Catherine told them all.
"She is apparently shy for the first time in her life." Tricia told them laughing.
"Sawyer, this is your ohana." Steve
Gracie stepped forward, remembering that Charlie was trying to get used to everyone, she wanted her cousin to be comfortable.
"I'm Gracie and this is Charlie, we are your cousins."
Sawyer looked at Catherine before looking back at Gracie.
"Hello."
"Hi." Charlie smiling.
"She is beautiful." Kono told them, Gabby and Leilani nodded in agreement.
"Thank you.' Catherine replied smiling at Sawyer.
"Good thing she looks like Cath." Danny smirking.
Steve shook his head before telling Sawyer who everyone was, she smiled at each of them before turning her attention back to Gracie and Charlie. Catherine suggested they move outside letting the kids play in the yard.
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The adults sat in the chairs that Catherine and Tricia sat around the yard watching the kids play in the sand.
"How was your flight?" Gabby asked Catherine parents.
"Interesting." Tricia repeated the same words that her husband said earlier.
"Daddy said the same thing but we didn't get the story."
The Admiral shook his head, they were used to Sawyer's imagination and stories but today had been a new a whole new thing.
"She may look like Steve but she is so much like you at that age it is scary." He told Catherine.
Steve started laughing.
"What did she do?" he finally asked.
"She heard me talking to the flight attendant, who looked nervous, it was her first flight to Hawaii and she was nervous flying over the ocean and was hoping for a smooth flight." Tricia started the story, looking at James.
"About an hour after take-off, Sawyer realized there was a little boy sitting behind us. She turned to talk to him because sleep was not going to happen for either of them. At first, it was normal things kids talk about." James told the group, before Tricia took over.
"Then out of nowhere, she tells him that the plane is going to crash in the water because it's the pilots first time flying. We both tried to stop it there and explain that it was not the pilots first time but the attendants. However, she was insisting that the plane was going to crash into the water and had the little boy convinced it was going to happen."
"To give her credit, she has a lot of faith in her daddy's abilities to swim and the Navy."
"What?" Cath asked.
She looked at her friends, who were ready to laugh and shaking their heads.
"She continued to tell him that it was okay if the plan crashed because her daddy was a SEAL and could swim fast and that the Navy would save us. That brought on two different conversations with the little boy, Tommy, whose mom was laughing almost as much as we were." Tricia explained, taking a drink before finishing the story.
"Tommy told her that her daddy couldn't be a seal, which of course Sawyer replied that he was, he finally said a seal was animal and could not be her daddy because she didn't have flippers."
This caused everyone to laugh.
"See even Tommy knows you're animal." Danny laughing everyone to laugh harder.
"I'm sure she corrected that."
"She did, however the mother explained that it was a Special Division of the Navy like his dad was a Ranger." James told them.
"Then the two argued over who was going to save them the Navy or the Army. After twenty minutes of arguing, Tommy gave up and Sawyer was very proud that she won that argument. We finally convinced her that the plane was not going to crash but if it did both her daddy and Tommy's daddy would save us."
"She decided that would be okay but Steve would get there first. A couple of minutes later, Tommy's mom leaned up and said I have to ask is she Catherine Rollins daughter. That threw both me and your mother."
"She knew Cath?" Kono asked.
Catherine and Steve looked at each other, before looking out Sawyer.
"We didn't answer at first but then she said I went to the academy with her and Steve. She introduced herself as Michelle Miller but said you both would know her as Michelle Jacobs. She said to tell Smooth Dog that she would make sure Mooch knew that he would come in second place." James told them.
"Mooch?" Chin asked.
"I'm not really sure, we worked together in a joint operation."
"I can't believe she married Frank. How did she know Sawyer was mine?"
"She said that Sawyer argued like you but looked like Steve. She also said to look them up, Mooch was stationed here." Tricia told them.
"She is going to keep you on your toes." Kono laughing.
Before anyone else could comment Sawyer came running up to them.
Please let me know what you think. I am going to start the next chapter were this one ends.