Title: Harm and Mac Songbook: This Is It

Author: Rising Sun

Rated: PG-13 (NC-17 version available)

Classification: JAG Story/Humour

Summary: Mac and the JAG Ladies let their hair down.

Classification: Best series

Disclaimer: JAG characters portrayed belong to JAG, CBS and Paramount Television. No copyright infringement intended. All other characters depicted are purely fictional and any similarities to actual people are purely coincidental.

Performing in this saga: Melba Moore sings “This Is It”

Feedback: Would be nice.

Author's note: The HMS series is written in a manner that allows for each story to be read as a self-contained story or as part of an arc. This story is part of a potential quintet:

· HMS13a: Kiss

· HMS13b: This Is It

· HMS13c: There Is Love

· HMS13d: It Should Have Been Me

· HMS13e: Top of the World

Thanx to the shipperhm e-group for helping me compile the list of Harm's Women and Mac's Men.

Story Written - 2001

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1937 LOCAL

AJ CHEDWIGGEN"S HOUSE

"This was a good suggestion Harriett. A bar-b-que instead of some stuffy gathering for the wedding shower." Carolyn Immes said; "Yeah this was a good idea." she nodded.

"Why thank you ma'am." She replied and smiled.

"How she managed to not only get the Admirals place but to throw him out too is beyond me." Jackie Matoni said.

"I for one will be happy if I don't get called to bail my own fiancé and his pals." Mac said to chuckles.

Most of the invitees had gone home leaving the JAG ladies. They were all lounged out on the deck. Someone switched the backlights on.

"Anyone need their drinks refreshed?" Harriett asked.

"We know where the cooler is Harriett." Mac said.

"Well I for one had grave doubts on a romance for these two much less a wedding. But I am glad to be around to see it." Lauren confided.

"Hear hear." Carloyn raised his bottle of beer at Mac.

"Anyone remembers their first meeting?" Jackie asked.

"None of us were there but Bud told me that the Admiral warned them. Told them straight off no hanky panky they had to work together!" Harriett revealed.

"I had to be pulled of a double homicide to work with a squid." Mac related. "I couldn't believe it! Anyway I traipsed off to the Rose Garden to meet this Navy person and there comes Adonis with an

Admiral and an Ensign on his six. He looked at me and I start melting. Turns out what he saw was a ghost and not a savvy Marine."

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This is it - this is it

Oh this time I know it's the real thing

I can't explain what I'm feeling.

I'm lost for words

I'm in a daze

Stumbling amazed while you look that way

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"Apparently he did see a ghost so did Bud."

"Is that why he took so long to shake my hand?" Mac replied? "Anyway the Admiral did warn us. It seems that he saw all that and more in five seconds and it took us five years to catch up."

"You really fell in love at first sight?" Harriett sort confirmation.

"I suppose I can confess. He smiled at me you know that flyboy smile of his and my heart skipped a beat. I took one look at Harmon David Rabb Jr. and knew that this was it! No turning back and that some serious mission planning was needed. Fat lot of good it did me ... we had so many ups and downs and close calls. But I knew then it was he. Doubted the logic of that later but at that moment in the Rose Garden I couldn't explain what I was feeling."

"And if you can believe he was lost for words. He just stared at her." Harriett dropped another tit bit.

"You sure you weren't there Harriett?" Lauren asked. They all chuckled.

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Ooh you smiled at me yeah

And suddenly the wheels of love began to turn inside of me

You said hello

I felt the glow

Right then and there I knew I'd never let you go

Cause I know

Yeah I know

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"I tend to have great difficulty in seeing Harm lost for words." Jackie Matoni said.

"Join the club." Carolyn laughed.

"Despite the number of girlfriend he went through..." Every one groaned. "... in those five years. He finally realized that it was me."

"He has had some doozies." Carolyn informed them.

"And if he wasn't chasing her was being chased!" Harriett agreed.

Mac marked them out in her mind:

1. Gym from Laos

2. Diane Schonke

3. Maria Elena Carmelita Moreno Gutierrez

4. Meg Austin

5. Kate Pike

6. Angelique, the Thai ambassador's wife

7. Megan O'Hara

8. Annie Pendry

9. Jordan Parker

10. Lt. Shipperelli

11. Elizabeth Lane

12. Renee Peterson

13. Francesca Paretti

14. Princess Alexi

15. Bobbie Latham

16. Theresa Coulter

Oh yes he HAD been busy even in fighting them off as in the case of Alison Krennick, he even had to fight off the dry cleaners daughter. What is it about the man?! Then there was Dar-lin. My heart breaks for that child still. Had he not got Charlie I swear we'd be in another obsessive cycle. Not that I have been leading the life of nun or none for that matter. After all there has been men in my life both real and fantasy. In fact there were times the fantasy men actually seemed better than the real ones. Lets see there was...

1. Eddie from High School

2. Chris Ragle

3. Dalton Lowne

4. John Farrel

5. AJ Chegwidden

6. Jack Keeter

7. Mark Falcon (aka Sokol)

8. Alexi

9. Mic Brumby

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The touch of you

Is something new

Nobody ever made me feel the way you do

It's heavenly

Ahh its ecstasy

The way you make me feel when you make love to me

Can't you see

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Carolyn got real comfortable. "So Mac I asked you a couple of years ago how was the man in bed and you dogged with a 'we are just friend' answer. That you cannot claim any more ... GIVE!"

She snapped out of her daydream. "I should have known that the conversation would eventually end up there." Mac blushed. How to answer diplomatically enough to satisfy this group? "Does the word energetic suffice?"

"Hardly!" Jackie grinned.

"Ma'am you are a lawyer. Chief of Staff at JAG no less and you can't explain to us the Commander's expertise?" Harriett couldn't resist.

"Ete tue? Harriett!" Mac said, "I plead the fifth."

"Awwwh!" they all groaned then burst out laughing.

"I'll say it again I'm glad to be around to see the two of you FINALLY get with the program." Carolyn said.

"Amen" they all chorused.

THE END.