Graphic by Steph
Rating
– GS
Paring – Harm & Mac
Spoilers – Season 2 Episode 6: Trinity
Disclaimer – JAG belongs to DPB, CBS, and
Summary- How ‘Trinity’ (Airdate:
Author’s Notes-
1)
Since this series will deal with an episode,
which aired many years ago, it means that we risk having a FF storyline that
might seem somehow familiar. There’s hope that our ideas are unique, but
should that not be the case we apologize and swear to our god and chocolate that
we did not know it and we did not do it on purpose. It’s also possible that we
somehow ‘screw-up’ a little with the dateline. We promise to give our best
to work with the right dateline.
2)
Please don’t forget that the episode we’re
working on is the ‘actual aired episode’. This means, nothing after said
episode happened. Also know that each TTEOAS story is a ‘Stand Alone Story’
in this series.
3)
A huge thanks goes to our beta reader Vered.
However, any left mistakes are ours.
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Plane
en route to DC
1630
zulu
“Really,
it’s no problem. Go ahead and sleep,” Mac muttered to herself as she passed
back and forth in the back of the plane, patting the back of the mildly fussy
baby of Lieutenant Linda Nivens.
Mac
carefully looked over her shoulder and saw the lieutenant passed out in her
seat. “I guess the sleeping meds worked a bit too well.” Mac lifted the
baby, so she could see his sweet little face. “Oh, it’s okay. Your momma
needs the rest.” She placed the boy back to his original position and started
rubbing his back this time.
Harm
turned around in his seat and saw Mac still pacing. He looked at his watch.
“Fifteen minutes. He wasn’t this fussy last time.” He then looked over at
Mac’s seat and saw the little teddy bear that Jimmy had been holding earlier.
“I wonder…,” Harm muttered before he picked up the bear and headed towards
Mac and Jimmy.
As
he approached, Mac had turned around to start pacing back towards the seat. She
smiled at Harm and he held the bear up for her to see. “Think this might
help?” He asked.
Mac
lifted an eyebrow. “It just might.” She turned the baby around, so he was
able to see Harm.
Harm
wiggled the bear in front of Jimmy, who immediately started to giggle at his
friend. Harm handed the bear to him and Jimmy quickly took it in his small
hands. Mac smiled at the bundle in her arms.
“Shall
we go back to our seats?” Harm asked and Mac quickly nodded her head. He let
her pass by first before following her back to their seats. Harm sat down in the
seat by the window. As soon as he was seated, Mac handed him Jimmy and then
settled herself in the seat at end of their row, saving the one in the middle
for the baby’s things. Once she was settled, she took the little boy back from
Harm, who hadn’t mind at all holding the baby.
They
sat in silence; both hoping the baby would quickly fall asleep. After ten
minutes their prayers were answered as the little one fell into dreamland. Mac
ran her hand over the top of Jimmy’s head and chuckled softly. “Some mom
I’ll be. I didn’t even think about his teddy bear.”
Harm
smiled at her. “It was nothing big. I saw the bear and thought that might have
been the reason why he wasn’t calming down.”
“Well,
it was good thinking. He’s fast asleep, having good baby dreams,” Mac
commented, tucking the soft blue blanket around the little baby.
Harm
thought about Mac’s words. “How do you know he’s dreaming about good
things?”
Mac
smiled softly. “He’s a baby. All he knows are good things.” She paused and
thought about the
last few days. This small child had already been separated from his mother and
would probably grow up never knowing his father. “All he knows is that his
blanket is warm, his mother loves him, and his teddy bear is his best friend.”
“Is
that all he needs to know, Mac?” Harm asked.
“Wouldn’t
it be nice to have our lives be this uncomplicated?” Mac asked in return.
Harm
nodded his head. “It would be very nice. Too bad we are adults and know what
the world holds.”
Mac
closed her eyes for a second. “But wouldn’t it be nice to forget for one
moment?”
“It
would.”
“That’s
what I want to give my kids. Hope that everything will be alright and nothing
can ever hurt them,” Mac told Harm with a glint of hope in her eye.
Harm
smiled at her. “How many kids do you want?”
“I
don’t know. Two… three…. I know I want more than one. I hated being an
only child.”
“I
know I always wanted a younger brother or sister.” Harm remembered his
childhood. Even though his mom was there, it would have been nice to have
someone to talk to who knew what you were going through.
“How
about you, Harm? Do you want kids?”
He chuckled. “I think I would settle for having the wife first.”
“Well,
in that case I’m going to need to have the husband.”
Harm
smiled at her. “I hear that the significant other helps the relationship. But
yeah, I think I want two kids.” He paused. “Several of my friends from the
Academy are already married and have a few kids. At times I think that I should
be just like them. You know… having kids to worry about and driving to soccer
games in the mini van.”
“I
know. I have friends who say they could never have my job and be away from their
kids all the time.”
“Would
you give up the Marines if you had kids?”
Mac
didn’t answer right away and took a moment to think about her answer. “I
don’t know. It’s something that my husband and I would have to talk about.
What about you? Would you want your wife to work?”
“It’s
something we would have to talk about. My mom was a single mom and she worked. I
think I turned out relativity well.” Harm looked at Jimmy. “But that’s
something I don’t need to worry about right now. Maybe in the future, but not
right now.”
“Yeah,”
Mac agreed with a yawn. “Sorry, guess I’m pretty tired.”
Harm
softly smiled at her. “It’s been a long few days.”
“Yeah.
I just hate sleeping on planes.”
“I
know. It’s hard to get comfortable,” Harm said before looking around them.
“I got an idea.”
Mac
gave him an odd look. But he quickly reclined his seat and the one next to him
before asking Mac to do the same to hers and so she did. The three reclined
seats gave them a few more inches. Not many but it was, by all means, helpful.
Harm leaned against his seat at an angle.
“Here.
You can sit right here.” He patted the seat next to him. “And put your legs
across both seats. We can both watch the baby and maybe try to get some sleep
ourselves.”
“We
should probably put him in his carrier and not worry about adjusting
everything.”
“Lt.
Nivens has been asleep and if we put Jimmy by her, he’ll just wake her up. I
think this is the best idea,” Harm told Mac and gave her a convincing look.
Mac conceded. “Okay, but if you complain about anything, like your back hurting in
the morning or a stiff shoulder….”
Harm chuckled. “I promise not to complain.”
Mac
grinned and quickly got into her new position. Her back was resting against
Harm, the baby safely tucked on her lap and her legs stretched out across the
seats. Suddenly, Harm wrapped his arms around Mac and she gave him an odd and
questioning look in response.
“To
make sure the baby stays safe.” Harm let her know.
Within
a few minutes, both Harm and Mac fell asleep with a strange sense of being safe
and that something felt very right in the world they had created among
themselves.
A
few hours later
Harm
slowly started waking up. The first sensation he felt was a sharp pain in his
back and a crick in his neck. However, all those pains floated away when he
looked down at the sweet angel in his arms and the little baby-boy in her lap.
Part of him thought that this was right and that it should happen again, only
with another constellation.
Mac
slowly woke up to a warm sensation throughout her body. She blinked her eyes and
saw that Jimmy was fast asleep with his blanket wrapped around him. She felt
Harm giving her a little squeeze. Mac looked up and Harm smiled at her. Then
something came over both of them. Without a second thought they arched their
lips and softly kissed each other.
“Morning,”
they both softly said to each other as soon as they parted.
Then
something broke their attention and they looked at the end of their row where an
elderly woman stood. “Oh, I’m sorry. But you three just caught my attention.
You’re a beautiful family.” She smiled at them.
“Thank
you,” Harm and Mac said to the woman before she quickly walked to the
restroom, which was her destination.
Then
they looked at each other and started to smile while leaving their common
thoughts unspoken between them. Only their eyes spoke volumes.
‘One
day we might be one. We just might be.’
THE
END
Hey
All-
We
would just like to take the time and let everyone know that we are sorry that it
is taking so long to get these season 2 versions of TTEOAS out, but it’s
proving to be a big task. Plus RL is starting to kick our butts again. We do
promise to keep working at them; it’s just going to be a while.
Thanks
for reading and sending us your comments. It means a lot to the both of us when
things get tough in RL.
Smiles-
-Michi and Carol
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