Sorry for being away for so long. I promise to be updating this story more often. I am trying my best to get this story up to date. I wanted to start off where the last episode ended in season 2. So many opportunities to make a great love story.

I do not own the last ship

Enjoy (:

Both men ran as fast as their legs could take them. Sailors in the p-way moved to let them pass. Everyone on the Nathan James was panicking as news got out their trusted Rachel Scott had complications. Worry was plastered on every face.

As the door came into view Tom and Mike slowed down to catch their breath. Tom couldn't move another muscle. He was frightened. He thought of every worse scenario, Rachel not making it or worse the baby not making it. HIS child.. He corrected. His heart was beating so fast he swore Mike could hear it. Beyond the closed door he heard ruckus the female nurse's voices, the medical equipment scraping against each other, Quincy deep voice. Everything was happening so fast.

What felt like hours were only seconds. Mike grabbed his arm and pulled him into the room. The sight was very disturbing. Nathan was on the table with two nurses trying to help him breathe. On the other side of the room Rachel was having the same problem. Quincy was putting an oxygen mask on the exhausted female. Her brown eyes were having trouble staying open. Everything went silent for Thomas Chandler. Both heart monitors were the only thing echoing in his head.

Everything was moving so slow now. He saw Quincy order the nurses to get them out. Tom didn't even feel the girls push them out. He just saw his family suffering a second time. Mike grabbed his shirt and pulled him towards the closet set of chairs nearby the medical ward. Mike was waving his hand in front of the dazed man. While Thomas could still hear the heart monitors in his head. Tom dropped his head in his hands to hide his emotions the best he could.

"Why? ….Why them?"

Mike knew his feelings all too well. Being by Rachel's side her whole pregnancy had made him learn all her pains. Now this was a time where he couldn't be by her side. To be up with her at this hour of the day like he normally was. Mike threw his head back and slouched in the chair he was occupying. Yup he knew his feelings all too well.

"Just stay strong. Nothing is going to make sense. It's a learning process. Nathan is going to be fine. I read in a birth book that these things happen. He was moving a lot so that's a good sign. Plus he's your son no doubt he's going to be just as hard headed as you are."

Tom was catching on his way of helping but not even his comfort was taking away his pain that he was feeling.

"And what about Rachel? What if Nathan is sick? What if Rachel doesn't make it past this?"

Tom was on full panic mode. Mike had to think of something fast before he lost full control of his emotions.

"She was like this her pregnancy. At night she would sometimes cry because she was afraid Nathan wasn't going to know you.

Those little words caught Tom's attention. Mike saw and continued on.

"Due to her stress she made herself hurt. Physical and emotion pain I guess you could say. I was with her at all weird times of the day. She would always wonder how you would be with Nathan or with her as a matter of fact. She put herself through emotional suffering. This should be nothing."

Tom was fiddling with his fingers and threw his head back like Mike was. His head was hurting. His body was aching. His eyes slowly closed as exhaustion was taking over. Everything was coming at him all at once. His ship was in good hands but his family was hurting. His kids were recovering from their mother's death and now his other child was having complications coming into the world.

"Please let them be okay… That's all I ask.."

Tom whispered out ask as he fell into a slumber.

Stay tuned for the next chapter! This was a short chapter because it'll make sense in the next chapter (: Review