The Ring Of Love
The sequel to 'It's Not Always How It Seems'
The morning after the big misunderstanding and Harm finally discovers
Mac’s tattoo and the meaning behind it…
Author
Name – Michaela aka Michi
E-mail – mp111275@yahoo.de
or
catherinebellfan@gmx.de
Rating
– IM15
Spoilers
– This story is based on Gum & Shoe’s story ‘It’s Not Always How It
Seems’, but other than that there’s no spoiler that would matter… and
let’s just say the Admiral’s still the JAG…
Disclaimer – JAG belongs to DPB, CBS, and
Authors Notes-
–
This story is based on Gum & Shoe’s story ‘It’s Not Always How It
Seems’ (but it could stand on its own too). It is my version of how INAHIS
should have been continued. It’s about Mac’s tattoo and the story behind it.
My first plan was it to make a steamy version out of it, but for now I stick to
this milder one.
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I don’t know how many times I’ve been asked about Mac’s tattoo and what
she added to it… Back then, when we worked on INAHIS, I didn’t know the
answer either but one thing was for sure… I wanted to work with a symbol that
I haven’t read about in any JAG FF so far. It took some time (and I’m sorry
for that) to come up with something special, and I hope that I finally found a
unique one and that you readers like it.
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A big thanks to my beta reader JJ for her great work and support. You are great,
girl! And may I add that I at least tried it?!?!? :) I know. I know… I failed
the test ;) Next time… maybe lol… Any left mistakes are mine…
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Feedback is always welcome and very encouraging. That’s why I want to take the
opportunity to thank you all for your great support and encouragement in the
past… I hope I can continue to write stories you enjoy and like to read.
Thanks again!
Thursday
Harm’s
bathroom
Mac
stood under the shower, enjoying the feeling of the hot water running down her
tired body. She felt slightly exhausted and even a bit sore from all the
lovemaking last night, but she didn’t mind nor care. The feeling of happiness
and satisfaction trumped everything and just spurred her on.
She
sighed and closed her eyes. Mac really wanted to go back to bed. Back into
Harm’s protecting arms, just so she could savour the warmth of his body for a
bit longer. But since she had no uniform here at his place, it was time for her
to go back to her own apartment, so she could get ready for work in time.
She
suddenly could feel his watching eyes on her and chuckled. Mac slowly turned her
head so that she could look to the doorway of the bathroom, knowing that her
best friend, the man of her dreams and now finally her lover would be standing
there. “Will you ever stop staring at it?”
Harm
just shook his head, gave her his best flyboy grin while leaning in all his
glory against the doorway. “No. Never ever! It is simply too beautiful and too
meaningful to be neglected or even ignored,” he told her and once more let his
prying eyes wander to the object of his desire.
“What
is, my butt or the tattoo?” Mac asked with a smirk and turned fully around
when Harm finally joined her in the shower. She slowly let her hands wander over
his solid body, enjoying the feeling of his dancing muscles under her soft
fingertips. ‘Oh and how they were dancing last night,’ she thought with a
grin and gently kissed his chest, letting her tongue caress one of his nipples.
“Hmmm,
I would say both are very beautiful and desirable,” Harm answered while his
right hand softly roamed over Mac’s backside and near her left hipbone.
That’s where he finally had found her famous tattoo yesterday.
Last
night he had been totally amazed by the symbol and the meaning behind it. And he
had to admit that this feeling was still very much intact. Harm closed his eyes
and remembered the moment Mac had professed her love to him. The moment she’d
professed her ‘Ring of Love’.
Flashback
A
few hours earlier
Harm’s
bedroom
Harm’s
forefinger tenderly ran over Mac’s backside near her left hipbone, going over
the beautiful tattoo he’d discovered just a few hours earlier. Mac’s hand in
the meantime gently caressed his chest, feeling the soothing beating of his
heart under her fingertips.
It
was way past
Harm
looked up from Mac’s tattoo and right into her shining eyes. He could see in
them the love and desire she felt for him and knew that they were reflecting all
the feelings he had for her.
He
continued to caress the spot where he’d found the symbol earlier. “What is
the meaning behind this?” Harm softly asked her. He was sure that Mac’s
tattoo was telling a story and hoped that she would share it with him. “I’ve
seen this symbol before but I have to admit that I don’t know what it
means.”
“It’s
a ‘Yin and Yang’-symbol,” Mac started to explain. “It’s a Chinese
symbol which describes two primal opposing but complementary forces found in all
things in the universe. Yin is the darker element. Passive, feminine,
downward-seeking, and corresponds to the night, while Yang is the brighter
element. Active, light, masculine, upward-seeking and corresponds to the day.
Yin and Yang are complementary opposites rather than absolutes. I got it shortly
after I joined the Corps because it presented the two parts of Sarah MacKenzie.”
Harm
nodded his head in understanding and once more looked down at her tattoo. “And
what is the meaning of the letters surrounding the symbol?” He wanted to know
while his finger started to make circles around it. “Is that Farsi?”
Mac
looked astonished at him and then smiled. “Yeah, it’s Farsi. How’d you
know?”
Harm
just shrugged his shoulder and softly kissed her lips, which were still swollen
from all the kisses they’d shared during the night. “It was just a hunch.
What does it say?”
Mac
looked down at her hip and watched Harm’s forefinger dancing over her
sensitive skin. She then let her hand join his, interlocking their fingers.
“The
lettering is the addition
Harm
took a deep breath and smiled. “I love you, Sundance,” he tenderly told her
and then gave her a long loving kiss before he quickly moved so that he now was
lying on top of her, settling in between her legs. “And I gladly will be your
Yang if you’ll be mine,” Harm said after they broke their kiss and suddenly
a roguishly smile came over his lips. “But please without the masculine part,” he added with a
chuckle.
Mac
took his head in her palms and started to pull him closer to her so that their
lips were nearly touching. “I love you, Butch,” she lovingly whispered and
then their lips finally met for a kiss full of passion and desire. Slowly she
let her hands wander down his back while she hooked her left leg over his right
one, trying to bring him as close as possible to her. “You know,” Mac
continued seductively and cupped his buttocks to get him even closer to her.
“Yin also could stand for cold water and it can be boiled and eventually turn
into steam. Yin would transform to Yang. Make me boil, Harm. Let us make some
steam,” she huskily said with a raised eyebrow.
Harm’s
groan echoed through his bedroom as Mac started to rock against him. His lips
immediately crushed down on hers and soon her wish was his command when they
literarily ended up in a room full of steam.
End
of Flashback
Back
to presence
Harm’s
bathroom
Harm
opened his eyes again, looking straight into Mac’s laughing ones and was sure
that she knew exactly where his thoughts just were. He took her face in his
palms and kissed her with all the love and passion he felt for her. “Good
morning,” he whispered as soon as they broke their kiss.
“Hmmm,
now it is,” Mac huskily said and this time she was the one initiating the kiss
between them. This one was full of hunger and desire. “Good morning,” she
murmured and took his earlobe into her mouth, slightly sucking on it. “You
should go back to bed, Harm, and try to get some more sleep. It’s still too
early for you to be up.”
Harm
moaned when her tongue followed the line of the pulse on his neck. “And miss
the most beautiful woman standing in my shower? No way,” he answered, wrapping
his strong arms around her to crush her slender body against his solid one,
trying to get her as close as possible.
His
arousal was more than evident as he rubbed it longingly against her. Mac gasped
and lifted up her long leg to hook it over his hip, trying to bring them into an
even closer contact. Harm cupped her buttocks in his hands and lifted her up and
against him so that she could wrap her legs around his waist.
Harm’s
mouth hungrily descended on hers, kissing her hard and needy while Mac’s lips
immediately parted. Her fingers were running through his hair and she held his
head in place while Harm’s tongue slipped into her warm mouth. Their tongues
duelled, probing and seeking more.
Mac
loudly moaned when Harm started to kiss and suck along her jaw and down her
throat. While one of her hands was still placed on the back of Harm’s head,
the other one was slowly moving between their bodies, seeking to touch the
evidence of his desire for her.
Harm
tore his lips from hers, knowing what she wanted to do. “No! Wait,” he
whispered into her ear, sounding totally out of breath. Blindly he reached for
the knob to shut off the shower before quickly making his way to his bedroom,
still holding her firmly against him.
Mac
tightened her grip on him even though she knew that he wouldn’t drop her.
“Harm? Where are you going?”
“Bed,”
Harm only answered and once more captured her swollen lips with his, giving her
a quick but hot kiss.
Mac
giggled and slightly bit his earlobe. “We’re all wet, Harm,” she told him
between the giggles but then felt the cool sheet sticking on her wet back when
they fell onto his bed.
“Don’t
care,” Harm started to say and loudly groaned when one of Mac’s hands
finally reached the goal, she’d sought just a few seconds earlier in the
shower. “Too soon, Baby,” Harm huskily said and tried to get out of her
reach. “Want more time.”
He’d
intended to go slow, to take them both to the very ragged edge of control. But
before he could say more, Mac once more grabbed his head and pulled his face
down to hers, kissing him passionately. “Don’t have time, Honey,” she
started to explain and moaned when Harm pressed his lips to the base of her
neck, darting the tip of his tongue so that it pushed against the heavy pulse
there.
Mac
gasped and lost her thought about what she wanted to tell him, only able to
enjoy the feelings Harm was giving her. He was making her skin tingle everywhere
he touched her.
When
his tongue circled her belly button she whimpered his name while her back arched
up, trying to get even closer to him and his touches. Her hands desperately were
trying to find something to hold onto, finally grasping for the sheets.
Harm
took his time to caress, pleasure, and touch her with all the tenderness and
desire he felt for her and for Mac it seemed like hours before they finally came
together.
He
drew her hands up over her head only to weave his fingers through hers. Then his
fingers squeezed hers while their bodies finally joined in the most intimate
way. They immediately found the perfect rhythm, their joining and lovemaking
being just as tender as the foreplay while the only spoken words were ‘I love
you’.
Everything
around them was forgotten and the only relevant thing in their world was their
love and about them being together. With the rest they would deal later, much
later, even if it was one angry Admiral yelling about his two top lawyers being
way too late for work.
The
End… maybe…
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