Don't own Sea Patrol so don't sue me!
This morning the HMAS Hammersley had pulled into harbour and my crew had discovered that the HMAS Cairns and the HMAS Kingston were in port.
This meant that, to their delight (and mine although at this point I'm certainly not going to admit it to them), that everyone was in port. It's been a few months since we all managed to get together since every time we tried it one or the other of our ships would end up being crash sailed. Lucky for us, when 2-Dads managed to get a hold of Bomber she was able to tell us that she'd already spoken to Nav and both the Cairns and the Kingston had a few days shore leave-we'd already discovered that with all of us spread out like this the trouble that Mike had usually been reserved to finding had been spread out between the boats. Apparently the Cairns had just had a week long stint dealing with the Feds since they'd managed to find a dead body (Bomber had assured us that as long as she stayed in their kitchen the crew didn't mind dealing with strange situations now and then) and the Kingston had been on aid work in one of the island chains around Australia (Nav had apparently promised a good story for tonight).
I knew personally that we had no chance of being crash sailed since we had just returned from our own small dramas regarding arms smugglers (it was interesting, at least until Dutchy decided to take two of them on by himself) so when 2-Dads said that Nav wanted to meet up and would it be alright for us all to get shore leave I had no problem with giving into the request and leaving my new XO on watch. As long as all of their work was done before hand of course. Of course, once faced with the prospect of actually managing to catch up with everyone my boys (because over the past few months the original sailors that I started out with before Mike left Hammersley for good have managed to become 'mine') finished up their work in record time and were ready to leave before I was. By the time I finished Dutchy was the only one waiting for me although since he was talking to our new navigator I'm still not sure whether he was waiting for me or flirting with her (the whole crew reckon that he's sweet on her, so much so that there's a betting pool that I'm not supposed to know about going on to do with when he's going to convince her to sleep with him) even after he assured me that he had been charged with my safety since the other guys had claimed that I was taking too long to get ready. I was contemplating reminding him that I was a trained member of the Navy who had managed to take care of myself on countless boarding's even when he himself put me in danger but decided against it when I realised that he was more than likely just going to laugh at me anyway. It would have been better if he had laughed at me rather than anyone else because he would at least keep it to himself whereas anyone else (2-Dads!) would have it spread around the crew by morning.
Anyway by the time we arrived at the bar the two of us had gone from Dutchy and Ma'am to Kate and Dylan (we had become friends over the past few months since he had become the one watching my back after I had let slip that I didn't trust my new XO). We had walked in and were assaulted by the singing coming from the front of the room. Dutchy and I shared a look before cautiously making our way to the large table that was mostly occupied by our friends. The boys rose to greet us but were out shadowed by Bomber and Nav who flew towards us with an (extremely loud!) squeal. After the requisite greetings and the hello kiss from Mike (which garnered an "Ooh" from everyone else) the most pressing question was what we were doing in a karaoke bar to which Nav replied that she thought it would be 'fun'. I wasn't sure whether she was talking my idea of fun or her idea of fun but I had a feeling it was probably her idea. We talked a little, drank a lot before it was announced that a "Mr Kosov-Meyer" was going to sing. We all looked up as the music started and the only thing running through my head was Oh my Goodness and then "I'm going to kill him".
So what did you think? I still need songs for pretty much everyone and bonus points to anyone who can guess what song 2-Dads is going to sing and why Kate is going to kill him (they have something to do with each other). Bonus points already to Sea-Patrol-NCIS-freak who gave me a great idea to do a couple of group numbers so I need a song for the ladies. See you next time.