Sally Fletcher Tribute
2005
Sally and Flynn started the year afresh in their new home with Pippa now christened and Flynn giving up his surgery for his job at the hospital. However their relationship soon began to buckle when Flynn firstly botched an operation on Leah and then under the strain began to suffer from lack of sleep and was self prescribing. This included Sally finding Pippa crawling around the house unsupervised. When Alf's grandson Ric returned to the bay, Alf took him in, but it was soon obvious to both that it wasn't going to work so Sally and Flynn fostered their first child. Their relationship was still under strain and it took words from Ric about his troubled childhood to show them that they had a good thing going and they soon reunited.
Things went swimmingly for about a week until attending a meeting at The Surf Club regarding the stalker, Sally and Flynn returned home to find that their home had been ramsacked. A few weeks later Sally was again the target of the Summer Bay stalker who caused her to have an accident at home. Sally soon recovered and not long after, Sally and Flynn took in their second foster child, Cassie Turner, whose gran Joy Foxton had recently died of a stroke caused by Colleen.
The troubles weren't over for Sally as she soon get into a struggle with the stalker and was held hostage, as it was revealed Zoe McCallister, who recounted everything that had happened over the past few months. After a struggle, Peter managed to rescue Sally from the abandoned warehouse, literally seconds before the whole place exploded. Sally was briefly haunted by what had happened and hoped that she would at last get some resbite. That was however not forthcoming and she found herself in more strife.
A kid named Diesel had moved to Summer Bay and he ended up being infatuated Sally and ended up taking Pippa hostage. Whilst Sally had wanted to see the best in Diesel she was unable to and he was carted off to some institution for troubled kids.
Flynn and Sally decided to go camping with Dan and Leah. However, the girls weren't cut out for the bush life and returned home. Whilst they were there, Flynn fell off a cliff and injured himself pretyt badly and began having visions of his death. He tried to talk Sally into them writing a will. Sally began to plan a holiday with Flynn when Flynn returned home with bad news, he had terminal skin cancer and over the last few weeks off the year his condition gradually worsened. Sally and Flynn renewed thier vows during which Flynn's condition led to him collapsing and he discussed with Sally that he might end it early.
Cassie overheard his suggestion and ran out of the house into a storm. Ric went after her and both ended up trapped in a caravan with a power cable on the roof. Flynn attempted to free them and ended up seriously injuring himself. The year ended with Cassie and Ric still trapped and Sally leaning over an unconscious Flynn.
