"She's awake!" Z exclaimed

"Yes, she is" Jack confirmed

Kathleen went to the infirmary to tell her mother what practically everyone else in the base knew; that she was dating Sky Tate.

Kathleen smiled as she looked at her mother, Kat, weak, but alive.

"Mom, I wanted to tell you something"

"What is it?"

"I started dating Sky a few months ago"

"Exactly how many is months is a few?" Kat asked

"Three give or take a few days"

Kat smiled at her daughter's nervousness; she seemed like a deer in the headlights

"Don't be so nervous, I'm happy you found someone who cares about you" Kat smiled "someone that you love and trust"

Kathleen didn't tell her mother what she told Sky she was still got too when she mentioned what happened to her that day.

She left the infirmary a bit later to allow her mother to rest and recover form her remaining injuries.

Kathleen and Sky's teammates were surprised to hear that Kathleen and Sky had been dating all that time and hadn't told them yet. Jack looked at the teams.

"I can't believe they would keep their relationship a secret from us all this time" Z said after Syd told them the length of time that Sky had expressed that they had been together.

"Think about it…" Alex said "look at the fuss we're making, as loud as we are Cruger would have found out eventually and they would have got in trouble for sure"

"True" Ricardo said, "think about it…"

"Good point" Jessica agreed, "there is regulations about relationships among cadets"

"You have a point there," Z said

Kathleen approached Sky's room that evening unsure why he'd want her to meet him there; it was a little too private for her liking. She was tuned to be cautious of this type of meeting after what her ex-boyfriend did to her.

She got there and the door was standing open, and Sky was sitting on the edge of his bed. Bridge was sitting at his desk which surprised Kathleen a bit.

Bridge left the room just after she arrived; Sky noticed her nervousness and began to try and comfort her, he knew that this circumstance had her frightened.

"Calm down, Kathleen, I'm not going to hurt you" he whispered in her ear as he held her close.

"I know" she said and smiled as she remembered whom she was with

"I told my mom about us today"

Sky smiled, as he knew how hard that must have been for her. He didn't know that her ex-boyfriend had arrived on the base and was waiting to find her alone so he could try to get to her one more time.

A couple of months pass without Evan and Kathleen running across each other and Kat recovers and returns to work.

Kathleen went to the simulator dock to train when she saw Evan waiting for her.

"Hey baby" he said tauntingly

Kathleen thought she was literally going to hurl! She hated what he had done to her and hearing him call her 'baby' literally made her sick.

"Don't you ever call me that again, I broke up with you after you raped me!"

"Okay" he shrugged "How's life treated you"

Sky came in as Kathleen hissed in fury he hurried to her side.

"So you've found someone else to use" Evan said implying that she had let him do it with her then later clamed that he raped her looking for an excuse to break his heart when Sky knew better.

"Evan, you really are a fiend! "Kathleen cried as her mother and Cruger came in after being alerted by a c level cadet to a disturbance in that area. Kat ran to her daughter's side as Sky stepped up in front of her.

"Cadet Tate; Cadet Sanders… is there a problem?" Cruger asked

"N…"

"Yes sir" Sky interrupted Evan angrily "A few months back Kathleen was dating him, but the issue is not the fact that she dated him it is in the fact that according to her he raped her… that is why she left him, and I get the feeling that is the real reason she was scared of me at first"

"Cadet Manx, is this true?" Cruger asked

"Y-yes sir"

Kat's expression hardened in fury and not even Cruger could explain her fury, was it just her mother's instinct to want to protect her daughter, or was there more behind her anger, some secret buried deep behind her green eyes that even Cruger was never aware of? No one could tell exactly.

"When my daughter called you a fiend she didn't even scratch the surface!" Kat said in a rage equal to any rage that Cruger had gotten into.

"Calm down, mom, it's history, no matter how much we want to change it, we can't… all we can do is make sure he doesn't get away with it" Kathleen stepped forward and pulled out her morpher

"You can't prove that I did any thing to her!" Evan taunted Kathleen

"Yes, I can" Kathleen smirked "Judgment!" she exclaimed and ran a judgment scan on him and it came out "Guilty"

"I guess I'm caught" Evan said

"I guess you are… Contain Criminal!"

After containment he was sent on to filing to stay until he had served out his time. After that Kathleen started to feel that she was finally going to recover from what had happened to her and felt that she could truly open her heart to Sky's love and allow the B-squad to really know her better.

The End

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