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Chapter twelve – telling the crew

The alarm clock woke them at zero six hundred hours, Mike was the first up to get showered and left Kate in bed for a bit. Once Mike was showered and dressed he went downstairs to make breakfast.

Half an hour later Kate showed up, washed, dressed and looked amazing.

"Morning gorgeous," Mike said to Kate, "Morning my three little tea cups," He added.

Before Kate could get a chance to say anything, she covered her mouth and ran to the bathroom.

Mike followed behind slowly, and loosely grabbed Kate's hair to stop it falling in the toilet.

"I thought this is supposed to stop soon, I don't think morning sickness can get much worse than this," Kate said annoyed.

"Well, chicken you are carrying three babies, maybe that has something to do with it?" he asked.

"Yeah, maybe," she said.

It was coming up to seven o'clock so Mike said we would drive to port instead of Kate or getting a taxi, he thought he would leave it in the long stay car park considering they would be out for two weeks.

As they drew closer to port, Kate seemed to get more nervous.

"When are we going to tell the crew about, our engagement, me leaving and the babies?" Kate asked.

"Aren't you forgetting something? And I thought today before we set sail, what you think?" Mike asked in reply to her question.

"Yeah that sounds okay with me, but what am I forgetting?"

"The fact that I am leaving in a few months as well!" Mike said laughing.

"Are you really sure you want to do that, Mike?" asked Kate.

"Of course I do, I'm also up for that promotion that I keep turning down, maybe you have just given me the excuse I needed to take it."

"So, what is the plan? What do we tell them first?" Kate said looking at Mike.

"Erm...well I think we tell them about the triplets last, we firstly tell them about you leaving, then me leaving and accepting the promotion, then the engagement, then about our tea cups, that sound okay to you, chick?" Mike asked.

"Sounds good," Kate replied as they pulled into the parking space.

Mike carried his bag and Kate's bag to Hammersley, a few of the crew were stood outside Hammersley wondering why the CO was carrying the X's bag. That wasn't usual. The X always seemed so determined to prove she was capable of anything.

The CO shouted to the crew that were stood outside, "Meeting, 5 minutes, spread the word,"

There was a synchronised, "Yes sir," that came from the sailors.

Mike looked at Kate and said, "Are you ready?"

Kate nodded to agree.

Everyone was gathered in the meeting room ready for their daily duty meeting like they have every morning, after the formalities were over, Mike announced that had been some news concerning everyone on the ship.

Everyone seemed very intrigued by this and all started to listen. Kate thought that someone would have noticed that she was pregnant because she seemed to put more weight one every day.

So like they had planned, Kate started the conversation, "Well I don't know how to put this but this will be my last patrol abroad Hammersley."

"What?" everyone said shocked.

"Are you being transferred to another ship, Ma'am?" 2Dads asked.

"If you would all quiet down I will tell you," everyone quietened down, "I am moving to a shore posting," she said as she answered 2Dads question.

"Okay," the captain said, "that isn't the only news, in a few weeks, I also will be leaving Hammersley as I have finally accepted the promotion that Commander Marshall has been pushing me to take over the last few years."

"But boss, we will be losing both our CO and X, who will take over?" Charge asked.

"Charge I'm not sure yet, I will tell you as soon as I find out," the CO said.

Everyone seemed disheartened that the CO and X were both leaving the ship was incomplete without them.

"Another thing is," the X announced grabbing again everyone's attention. Nav knew exactly what was coming now, she was the only one onboard that knew anything about it. Kate held up her hand for the rest of the crew to see the huge diamond sat on her left hand.

The girls screamed with excitement while the lads cheered.

"Yeah, me and the captain are also engaged with has given us one reason to leave the ship."

"Congratulations," the crew shouted.

While everyone was talking Bomber remained quiet. "Bomber is everything okay?" Kate asked.

"Oh yeah, everything is fine, but you said that is one reason for you leaving the ship, what is the other reason for you both to leave Hammersley?" Bomber asked now grabbing everyone's attention again.

Kate looked at Mike and then back at their crew, Nav smiled knowing exactly what Kate was going to say, little did she know about the triplets.

Mike put his arms round Kate and placed her hand on top of his on her stomach.

"I'm pregnant," Kate announced.

There was cheers coming from all the crew.

"Our first Hammersley baby," Buffer said.

Mike interrupted buffer, "Hammersley babies."

"What? Your having twins?" Nav said shocked.

"No, triplets," Kate laughed.

"Oh My God, you're having triplets? Congratulations you really are going to have your work cut out you two, no wonder your both leaving," Bomber said laughing.

"How far gone are you?" Nav asked Kate.

"Nearly three months," Kate smiled.

"I'm surprised you aren't fat yet," 2Dads added.

Kate looked down at her showing stomach and placed her hand on it. Everyone including Kate and Mike burst out laughing at 2Dads comment.

They all started to make their way towards their duties, Bomber and Nav followed Kate towards her cabin.

Kate invited Bomber in, Nav just walked in considering that it was her room too.

"Triplets, hey?" Nav said.

"No I couldn't believe it until they had doubled checked. You should have seen Mike's face though, he was bursting with excitement!" Kate added.

Bomber sat smiling to herself. Kate started to wonder what she was thinking.

"What are you thinking about now bomber?" Kate asked.

"Every child has to have amazing god mothers, so I nominate me and Nav," Bomber said as they all burst out laughing.

"Don't worry, I was going to ask you not only would you be their god mothers but would you also be their adopted aunties, considering that me or Mike don't have any brothers or sisters. Like every child needs a god mother, every child needs aunties like you," Kate said smiling.

Nav jumped in first, "Oh course I'll be their adopted aunty Nikki."

Bomber started getting excited, "I'm going to be an aunty!"

They all fell about laughing.

"What are you even doing back on Hammersley if you are three months pregnant with triplets?" Nav asked.

"Well I wanted to come back and tell you personally about the news, I couldn't just disappear without saying goodbye or asking you to be aunties now, could i?" Kate replied.

"So, do you know what you're having yet?" Bomber asked.

"Apart from three babies, I really don't know, I don't want to know. Mike thinks they are three boys, whilst I think three girls. But I really don't mind, so far they are my three tea cups." Kate laughed.

"Tea cups?" Both girls questioned.

"I liked it and I wasn't going to start thinking about names yet, so tea cups it is," Kate laughed.

The next two weeks passed quickly, Kate's morning sickness slowly started to subside, it was still present but it wasn't as bad as usual. Her cravings were starting to show more, but again this was normal. And like she said when she first got back on Hammersley it felt to her that she got bigger every day.

She had quite an obvious bump now, but what do you expect with triplets.

It was her last trip on Hammersley and she loved every minute of it, she would have prepared it to be more hands on, but she wanted the babies to stay safe and oh she was ordered by Marshall to be on light duties only so she had to comply.

She had her babies to think about, not just herself now.

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