Title: Harm and Mac Songbook: There is love

Author: Rising Sun

Rated: PG

Classification: JAG Story/Romance: Harm/Mac

Summary: Harm and Mac finally get married.

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: Captain and Tennille sing “There is love”

Feedback: Would be nice.

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

Story Written - 2001

For Harm's proposal read HMS13a: KISS

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0500 LOCAL

T-3 HOURS

HARM'S APARTMENT

NORTH OF UNION STATION, WASHINGTON DC.

Harm didn't really sleep last night. He missed Mac, he was used to feeling her soft contours snuggled up against him. He missed her regular breathing when she was in a deep sleep. He missed the change in rhythm, which indicated that she had woken up.

Damn it he missed her!

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0500 LOCAL

T-3 HOURS

MAC'S APPARTMENT

GEORGETOWN, WASHINGTON DC.

Mac hadn't slept. Not that she didn't miss Harm she did! But Harriett had spent the night and they had nattered most of the time away. She stretched and doubled over.

"You ok Mac?" Harriett was instantly concerned nothing could go wrong not today she would not stand for it.

"Yeah I'm fine, just a tight muscle. I'm going for quick jog see you in a few."

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0530 LOCAL

T-2.5 HOURS

HARM'S APARTMENT

Harm was moving about the apartment in his Fruit of the Loom briefs imitating their latest commercial. He had already stayed on his back looked at the ceiling and said "I DO"

He tried it out in the bathroom mirror "I DO" and giggled. "I like the sound of that!"

Kitchen window, living room sofa, CD player "I DO" "I DO" "I DO"

He finally headed for the shower where he informed the showerhead "I DO"

He finally gave in and broke into song "I DO I DO I DO I DO I DO" The Rabb version of the ABBA classic.

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He is now to be among you

At the calling of your heart

Rest assured this troubadour is acting out his part

The union of your spirits here

Has caused him to remain

For whenever two or more of you are gathered in his name

There is love

There is love

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0600 LOCAL

T-2 HOURS

MAC'S APPARTMENT

Harriett was on edge. Finally Mac returned. "Mac!" she admonished. "I know you are most efficient but today is not a day to be giving your friends nervous breakdowns."

Mac chuckled. "Harriet this is my coping mechanism. If I don't do this I will be the one with the breakdown. So did you sit here biting your nails? Or were you the great matron of honor that I know you are and prepare me breakfast?"

"You want food." Harriett could not believe her ears.

"Yes." Mac drawled in amusement.

"I was too nervous on my wedding day to drink much less eat."

"I know I was there remember? I guess that means no food."

"No ma'am I mean yes ma'am ... Mac. Your appetite is infamous I was just surprised that you actually wanted it."

"Lead on Harriett lead on."

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0900 LOCAL

T-1 HOUR

HARM'S APARTMENT

Harm answered the knock on the door. "Bud! Come on in." He took AJ from him "Hey there buddy." The child giggled as Harm tickled him.

"Sir! Sorry Harm! You're not ready! We have to be at the Church before the Colonel! The Colonel is a stickler for time! If I don't get you there in time she will have my hide! And Harriett will hang what's left out to dry! Sir! You don't know how these women get!"

"Bud" Harm tried to speak.

"Bud" Harm tried again.

"BUD!" He shouted and finally got the young man's attention.

"Sir?"

"Breath Bud breath. I want to go to the Church for a wedding not a funeral. You'll give yourself a heart attack. Come on AJ come help Uncle Harm get dressed."

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0930 LOCAL

T-30 MINUTES

MAC'S APPARTMENT

"Mac! You need any help in there?" Harriett was getting concerned the Limo was due at the apartment in fifteen minutes and there was not a sound from the bathroom.

Finally Mac emerged in her underwear and smiled sheepishly. "Don't cluck so Harriett." She sat at the dresser.

"I don't understand how you can be so calm! It's not my wedding day and a bundle of nerves."

"I am marrying the man I love and have loved for years. It feels so right it just feels natural. But maybe you are right about the nerves. With twenty-five minutes thirty seconds to go I am beginning to feel a bit queasy."

"Now that sounds more like a bride to be."

"Oh good." Mac said as she collapsed.

Harriett froze. She blinked then ran to the living room for the phone. Not there. Think Harriett think where's that blasted phone! In the bedroom. Mac had spoken to Harm the night before. She ran back to the room and had to toss the place to find it.

She dialed 9-1-1.

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1002 LOCAL

T+2 MINUTES

THE CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

"Something is wrong." Harm paced in the alcove.

"Harmon David Rabb Jr. get a grip. It is the prerogative of a woman to arrive slightly late to her wedding. It's the only time you men will wait on us." Trish admonished him. "And stop gripping your stomach you are going to ruin your uniform. What is the matter with you!"

"Sorry mom."

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Well a man shall leave his mother

And a woman leave her home

They shall travel on to where the two shall be as one

As it was in the beginning is now until the end

Woman draws her life from man and gives it back again

And there's love

There is love

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1010 LOCAL

T+10 MINUTES

THE CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

Harm could not be contained.

"Bud call Mac's place." AJ ordered.

"Aye sir." After a few rings he reported "No answer sir."

"They must be caught in traffic." AJ suggested.

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1017 LOCAL

T+17 MINUTES

THE CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

Bud's cell rang.

"Harriett! Where are you! Why aren't you and the Colonel here yet! The Commander is having a fit!" Bud began his tirade.

"GIVE ME THAT!" Harm grabbed the phone from him. "Harriett this is Harm talk and talk fast." He flung the phone at Bud and took of at full sprint out of the Church to his SUV.

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1057 LOCAL

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

"Commander!" Harriett spotted him.

"What the hell happened!"

"We were getting ready and she just collapsed. I called 9-1-1 and they brought her here. It's her appendix they had her in surgery I assume that she is out by now but no one has been out yet."

"Her appendix?"

"Appendicitis if not treated can kill sir." Harriett reminded him.

"No one has been out yet huh!" Harm snarled, "We will soon correct that."

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1107 LOCAL

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

When he returned his mother, Commanding Officer and Bud had caught up with him.

"Report Commander." AJ said.

"The doctor will be out soon seems it's her appendix."

"Can't you and this woman not even marry without a hitch?" AJ was relieved.

The doctor arrived before Harm could answer. "I'm Dr. Andrews who is here for Sarah MacKenzie?"

"We all are." Trish interjected.

"OK. We got Ms MacKenzie in the nick time she had appendicitis. We got her into surgery and now she is in recovery. She'll be ok in the end but that was close. She'll have to stay her about five days and then back to work in eight weeks."

"May I see her?" Harm asked.

"And you are?"

"Commander Harmon Rabb fiancé to Colonel Sarah MacKenzie."

"Of course. This way."

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1127 LOCAL

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

MAC'S ROOM

"She will sleep most of the day because of the anesthetic. May I suggest the you go home change out of your dress whites and return wearing something comfortable?"

Harm was reluctant but eventually nodded but kissed Mac on the forehead before leaving.

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THE NEXT DAY

0711 LOCAL

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

MAC'S ROOM

Mac stirred.

"Hey." Harm whispered. "Welcome back."

"What happened?" She was still gorgy.

"Instead of showing up at the Church you collapsed and had to be brought to the hospital."

"I what?"

"You heard me. But both you and the baby are fine."

"What!" She sat up sharply and fell back just as abruptly. "Ahhhh!!" she screamed in surprise.

"Take in easy Mac! I was only kidding! You had appendicitis!"

She glared at him. "Am I married to you?"

"No" he settled into his chair.

"Now you know why .. you and your bad jokes will kill me. Oh my side! So what did the quacks hare have to say for themselves?" Her mood was foul.

He told her.

"Nine weeks at home? Harm I'll go mad."

"Well we could get married and go on the honeymoon during that time."

She looked at him as if he had a second head. "The purpose of a honeymoon is not for the sick to recuperate. At least NOT IN MY BOOK. What is it with us?"

"What do you mean?"

She breathed in deeply. "You proposed to me under fire and now I collapse on the wedding day?"

He shrugged his shoulders. "So we live exciting lives .. marry me anyway."

"Here?"

"Here."

"What the hell. What ever happens at least the medical staff will be on hand to deal with the fall out."

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Well in what's to be the reason for becoming man and wife?

Is it love that brings you here?

Or love that gives you life?

For if loving is the answer

Then who's the giving for?

Do you believe in something that you've never seen before?

Oh there's love

There is love

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1507 LOCAL

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

MAC'S ROOM

In the presence of GOD, Trish, Frank, AJ, Bud, Harriett and Little AJ. Harmon David Rabb Jr. married Sarah Catherine MacKenzie.

There were no medial emergencies or gunfire.

THE END.