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Chapter 3
Mike walked into Kate's bedroom with a tray of food for her in his hands because Mike thought it might be nice to be able to treat Kate and he kind of wanted her not to take the promotion on the Kingston but instead stay on Hammersly for the near future and then when it came time she could consider taking a shore posting. Mike heard Kate begin to stir and gently crept into bed beside her gently placing the food next to Kate careful for her not to knock it off.
"Morning" Kate said as she slowly woke up
"Morning Gorgeous, I brought you breakfast" Mike replied indicating to the breakfast
"Oh how nice of you and I think that you should come here as I need to thank you" Kate replied before leaning up to give Mike a quick kiss on the lips.
"well how about you help me eat this" Kate said as she started eating
"If you require help I will" Mike said before leaning over and stealing a piece of bacon.
"Hey" Kate said trying to sulk and put on her best puppy eyes
"well you said I could help" Mike explained but then realised Kate was upset
"It's okay I was only joking with you" Kate said as she began to eat her breakfast with the assistance of Mike.
Kate finished of the piece of toast and got out of bed to take the tray downstairs. Mike got up and decided he should probably go home and change into different clothes. Kate placed the tray in the cupboard and quickly rinsed the plate before hearing footsteps down the stairs.
"Kate sweetie" Mike called as he walked down the last step
"Yes Mike?" Kate appearing in the doorway looking like she had just done the drying up
"I think I need to change as I have been in these clothes for a few days now and so I was planning on going home to change" Mike explained
"Yes okay that's fine and if you want to come round later as far as I know I'm not going anywhere" Kate replied
"Alright and don't you think your getting away with it I'll be round later because there isnot a single person I would rather spend time with then you" Mike said before giving Kate a quick kiss and heading out the door.
Kate was sitting on her deck chair out the back when she felt the chair vibrate and realised that it was Marshall ringing.
"Hello Kate McGregor speaking"
"Kate it Commander Marshall"
"Sir, what can I do for you"
"well I need to know wether ou are going to take the offer I gave you yesterday"
"um sir I discussed it with Mike and personally I'm going to decline the offer and yes I know that I'm technically fraternizing now because Mike and I are on the same ship and everything. But at the moment it's all we want and it's not like the crew don't know as they were at the wedding"
"Alright for now I am going to pretend that I didn't see what happened at the wedding"
"Thankyou sir"
"Also Kate I need you to let the crew know that they are to report to NAVCOM at 1000 hours tomorrow as I am retiring and handing over the reigns to someone else"
"Oh sir I will be sorry to see you go, may I ask who is going to be taking your position?"
"Um you will have to wait till tmorrow"
"Yes sir"
"Bye Kate"
"Bye Sir"
Kate put her phone down and was going to go back to read her book but then realised she had to let the crew know about NAVCOM and how they had to go there tmorrow. Mike walked up the driveway after going home to change and then popping into the shops whilst he was out to grab Kate a little present. The present was a cute puppy because Mike knew how Much Kate wanted one.
"Ready to go meet Mummy, hey puppy" Mike said to the cute honey coloured Cocker-Spaniel who had the cutest features and really when Mike looked at her he was immediately reminded of Kate and how amazing she was.
Kate sat down on her couch inside after ringing the whole crew to let them know about tomorrow's procedure when there was a knock at the door. Kate got up and when she answered the door instantly her heart melted at the sight in front of her; Mike was standing with a puppy in his arms. Kate walked up and Kissed Mike before taking the puppy out of Mikes hands and walking to the lounge room.
"So do you like her?" Mike asked
"Yes I do, I absolutely adore her" Kate replied
"well I have obviously been outranked" Mike complained
"I may adore her but she could never out rank my amazing boyfriend" Kate replied as she put the dog on the wooden floor and brought Mike towards her.
"Well that's good, now have you thought of a name yet?" Mike questioned
"um I was thinking Honey because of her colour" Kate replied
"Sounds perfect to me" Mike replied remembering that he still had the rest of her essentials by the door.
Kate finished filling up Honey's food bowl and placed fresh water in her water bowl before walking back to the couch to relax with Mike.
"Thanks for Honey she is perfect for me though how she'll be when we are out at sea I just don't know" Kate said as she snuggled up to Mike.
"Well there are kennels in this area" Mike said stroking her hand
"yeah but look at honey she is too young to go to the kennels and besides she's to precious to go to the kennels" Kate replied before picking up honey and placing her on Kate's lap.
"well then I dunno especially as we have to go out tomorrow afternoon" Mike complained
"well actually we don't go out till the next day" Kate replied
"Why is that?" Mike questioned
"well we have to go to NAVCOM for Commander Marshalls retirement" Kate answered
"Okay well I get to spend another day with you" Mike answered before kissing Kate on the lips
"I love you" Kate whispered between kissing Mike again
"I love you too and I always will" Mike answered.
Kate placed Honey in her knew bed in her room and snuggled up to Mike on the bed. Mike quickly took off his top and trousers whilst Kate went and changed into her nightie in the bathroom and before Mike knew it they were cuddled up under the sheets kissing passionately.
"Mike" Kate groaned as she broke apart
"Yes" Mike answered, Kissing Kate deeper than before signalling he wanted something to happen
"What are you doing?" Kate asked as she pushed Mike off her
"I want you" Mike answered
"No I'm not doing it now, especially as Commander Marshall is retiring tomorrow so I'm not in the mood and who knows what mood I might be in tomorrow after saying the man whom along with his wife have been like family to me so not tomorrow either and besides you're not protected anyway" Kate replied rolling over to go to sleep. Mike sighed and lay staring at the ceiling.
what can I do to show her exactly how much I love her without her complaining about it Mike thought as he dozed off to sleep.
The next morning Kate was up and out of bed before 0730 and the proceedings at NAVCOM weren't till 0900 which meant she had one and a half hours before they needed to be there. Kate decided that she really needed to keep fit so she went for a run whilst mike was still sleeping in bed. Mike woke to an empty bed and thought maybe after being too frisky yesterday he might have pushed her away. However that was not the case when he heard Kate shut the front door and walk into the bathroom, mike let out the breath which he didn't know he had been holding. Mike decided he should gt out of bed and start on breakfast because he needed to eat before they were to go to Navcom. Kate walked into othe kitchen an hour later after finishing getting dressed and putting her make-up on. She smiled at the image of him sitting there at the breakfast table with his bowl of cereal in his boxers.
"Um you do know we have to be at NAVCOM in half an hour from now" Kate said ringing herself out of her little moment.
"Yeah and it won't take me long to get ready" Mike smiled before leaving the table to go get dressed. Kate just sighed as she went to wash up the bowl and feed Honey because she knew they would be out for a while.
Kate walked up to meet with the crew who were casually talking in the shade of one of the buildings.
"Hey, where's Mike?" Nikki said walking up to Kate and handing her a bottle of water.
"Oh he's coming I think because I left whilst he was still getting ready, honestly Men can't get ready on time" Kate replied.
"Right okay" Nikki said
"Mind you he got me the cutest present the other day" Kate said
"really, ohhh what is it?" Nikki questioned
"well he bought me the cutest puppy, it's a honey coloured Cocker-Spaniel and she is absolutely adorable" Kate replied ooking out to sea
"aww how cute, I will definetly have to come round one day and have a look"Nikki said as she sa Josh walking over. Niki turned and gave him a quick peck on the lips
"Nik your lucky the captian isn't here otherwise I would have to let him know of that" Kate smiled and Nikki knew he was only joking
"What would you have to tell me" Mike questioned as he walked up to the group
"Oh nothing that someone who is two minutes late should know" Kate joked
"Do I have to punish you X?" Mike asked
"and how were you planning on doing that sir?" Kate quizzed
"Oh you know just a little Holding and kissing the day light out of you" Mike joked beforewrapping his arms aound her waist
"Look it's starting so we should go over" Kate said before wriggling out of his grasp and walking over to the stage and standing watching.
It was a 34 degree day and where the proceedings were being held had absolutely no shade, even though Kate kept drinking her bottle of water to keep herself hydrated it wasn't helping how she felt. Just as the proceedings drew to a close Kate saw her world begin to spin.
"Sir, I don't feel…" Kate said before collapsing. Swain instantly kicked into gear checking what's wrong with Mike on the otherside of Kate.
"Mike what is wrong with lieutenant McGregor?" Marshall asked as he walked over to where a crowd was gathering.
"Sorry sir I do not know?" Mike replied
"Sir, It appears she has collapsed from heat exhaustion as it is very hot here" Swain butted in
"Oh right okay" Marshall said still getting his mind around the terms
"Permission to take inside to the airconditioned rooms and monitor her" Swain asked
"Permission granted, you and lieutenant Caetano can take her into my office where I will come and see her later" Marshall ordered. Swain and Nikki took Kate ito the airconditioning and lay her down on the couch, Mike wanted to follow but he heard a familiar voice calling him.
"Mike?" Maxine called
"Maxine, congratulations on the promotion" Mike replied
"Thanks well I was getting itchy feet down in Canberra" Maxine replied
"Um, How's Ryan?" Mike questioned
"Yeah he's Good actually he wsa asking about you the other day maybe you should come round or dinner one night" Maxine asked
"Yeah you give me a day and then I will come round" Mike replied looking up into Navcom wondering how Kate was. Maixne continued to have good discussion with Mike.
Kate slowly opened her eyes and saw Nikki was looking down at her. She looked around and saw she was inside Marshall's office and she had a splittling headache.
"Ouch my head" Kate said as she rubbed her head
"Ma'm you fainted from the heat so you are requested to just take it easy" Swain said
"Right that would explain the head, where's Mike?" Kate asked
"He Must still be outside" Nikki said before implying she'd go see where see where he was.
Kate just sighed and went back to dozing hoping to get rid of this awful headache because she really wanted to have a talk to Marshall before his retirement began.
Swain was checking Kate over again whilst she dozed when he felt something wet on his hand which he put behind her head. Swain looked down at his hand and saw blood, this situation had suddenly gotten worse because Kate was bleeding form her head which meant she had a head injury. "Ma'm, Ma'm can you please open your eyes" Swain asked and Kate slowly opened her eyes and Swains eyes look in shock.
"Swain, What's wrong?" Kate asked groggily
"well um we kind of need to get you to a hospital because you kind of have a head injury" Swain explained.
"Right but what about…Mike?" Kate asked
"well Nikki has gone to get him and we will let him know but you need to take you to a hospital and quickly" Swain said before ringing the ambulance.
Nikki walked out the doors of NAVCOM in search of Mike, Bomber walked up to her and looked at her with worry.
"How's Kate?" Bomber asked
"Yeah she's a little dazed and wondering where mike is, do you know where he is?" Nikki questioned
"He was talking to Commander White and Marshall last time I saw him" Bomber said before pointing her towards the commanders and Mike. There is sound of Sirens and everyone turns to see two paramedics run into NAVCOM. Mike goes to follow but someone else from his old ADFA days calls him saying that they need to catch up, Mike's heart sinks.
"Mike, Kate isbeing taken to hospital as she has a head injury and keeps asking for you personally and saying, she'll be fine don't worry and if she doesn't see you before can you feed Honey" Nikki says after coming up to mike with the New information from Swain. Mike smiled at kets comments and turned back to the conversation with his ex-classmate.
Kate was wheeled into emergency and immediately was attached to different chords before hearing a doctor telling her to open her eyes. Kate opened her eyes and looked into the eyes of the doctor.
"Kate I'm Doctor Hindberg and I will be the doctor looking after you, it appears that you have a slight bleed to the head which we will not be able to fix out of surgery and so in a couple of hours when we have run some tests and scans odds are we will be sending you to hospital and there we shall fix up the bleed to the head of yours" Dr Hindberg said before he wheeled her up to a ward room for her to get into surgery gear and settle in.
Mike walked into the hospital 2 hours later after finishing up at NAVCOM and then popping home to feed Honey and make sure she was okay. Mike was told of her room number and so he quietly walked in and sat down waiting for Kate to come back from having a scan. Kate saw a worried Mike looking at her as she was wheeled into her room again.
"Hey, don't look so scared I'm fine except for the fact I have to have surgery on my head in an hour" Kate smiled trying to cheer Mike up.
"Why!" Mike asked and just as Kate was about to respond Dr Hindberg walked in.
"Kate I have the results of your scans, it appears that you have a slight lump on your brain so we are going to take a test on it to check if it is cancerous or not and then if not I shall remove it, but if it is then I will have to check how far along it is before seeing how to remove it" Dr Hindberg said as he watched Kate's face process all the news. Dr Hindberg quickly said he'd got other patients to see but he would see her in surgery and then he left the room.
Kate sat looking like a stunned Mullet at all she had just heard, Mike didn't know exactly what to because he was kinda gob smacked as well just at thinking Kate going to had bran surgery which had so many risks and he didn't like the sound of that.
"You okay?" Mike eventually piked up the courage to ask.
Is Kate okay with everything? Will the Surgery go okay?
Your just going to have to wait for the next chapter, I shall post again soon but only if YOU leave a review