Title: Harm and Mac Songbook: You're Still The One

Author: Rising Sun

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

Classification: Story

Summary: Mac reminisces over the last 31 years.

Spoilers: JAG Season 2 - 6 and the Harm and Mac Songbook 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:

Shania Twain sings "You're Still The One"

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 trio:

* HMS23a: You're still the one

* HMS23b: The Rose

* HMS23c: Angles

Story Written September 2001

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0101 LOCAL

RABB RESIDENCE

Mac sat in bed and listened to Harm's steady breathing as he slept. Who would have imagined... who would have laid odds on she and this man getting together. But they had done it somehow, somewhere they had recognized their feelings for each other: got married had four children and managed to reach the milestone of twenty-five years of marriage.

What a quarter century it had been!

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(When I first saw you, I saw love.

And the first time you touched me, I felt love.

And after all this time, you're still the one I love.)

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It all began that first day. Taken of a double murder case no less! There he was in the Rose Garden getting a medal from the President. Suppose I should have thanked Uncle Matt for stealing the

Declaration of Independence...

[FLASHBACK]

"Permission to come aboard?"

"Permission granted." there was no turning back from then on.

+ + +

"Where did you get this Sailor Sarah?"

"In a Rose Garden Uncle Matt."

[END OF FLASHBACK]

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Then there was that dance...

[FLASHBACK]

"Harm, I know this is like dancing with your sister, but maybe you could pretend to like it."

"Mac, I don't think of you as my sister."

"You don't?"

"No, I don't."

[END OF FLASHBACK]

I suppose I continued slipping but also continued denying as well. What a mess! With more to come. Lots more.

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Looks like we made it

Look how far we've come my baby

We mighta took the long way

We knew we'd get there someday

They said, "I bet they'll never make it"

But just look at us holding on

We're still together still going strong

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He always looked good but he was so cute as a Marine. The man had potential even as he said to me "You are loving this new relationship aren't you?"

"Not as much as you are loving your new infantry career."

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Of course the tattoo would come up one day: "Back up, Mac! You have a tattoo? Why haven't I seen it? Now where would somebody find this...tattoo?” He scanned me. And I replied, "That's classified."

That was a great answer if I say so myself.

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As for Russia ... we stole a MiG for heaven sake. If my kids do that I'll die! But then at long last Harm found his father. As if that were not enough I had to go in again to follow him in a taxi no less to Chechnya and foil the assignation of the Russian President. I really got him though with his pajamas story HA! "I'll wait in the bathroom while you change to your pajamas." The look was worth the "What pajamas?" come back.

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In Iran we have to go get Keeter. There I have to dress up like an Egyptian Mummy and on top of that get left behind as collateral for a downed plane!

In Ireland the baby got stolen by the Ulster Police who made it look like the IRA father had done it.

In Panama as the Commanding Officer we busted a drug ring.

In the Appalachian Mountains I got shot by poachers.

In Korea the damn plane got hijacked during an investigation!

I should write my memoirs!

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Seems everything we did had significance even getting a damn car. "Mac, you pick out a new car with your girlfriend, you might as well buy her a ring." Seems he was right after all I did pick a car out with him and here we are married!

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He tried to cover though. Oh but he tried but slipped constantly "No man is interested in being friends with a woman who looks like you! Well, except for me, of course, cuz I'm more like a brother..." Yeah right!

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The watershed had to be JUST HAD to be Australia. "What a mess!" Lucky for me after I got back I met Beth and she helped me come to an obvious decision regarding Harm and Mic. Wonder what happened to that Church though.

Mac shuddered as she remembered Mic's violent reaction to their break up. She had never told Harm the details but that had been too close for comfort.

The echo of the terror was replaced with a smile as she remembered how clumsy Harm was as he tried to declare his feelings. "You don't understand."

[FLASH]

"Oh contraire I understand all too well. Get out."

"Oh God Mac you don't understand." He wailed, "It is you. Only around you can I mess up a confession!"

[END OF FLASHBACK]

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(You're still the one)

You're still the one I run to

The one that I belong to

You're the one I want for life

(You're still the one)

You're still the one that I love

The only one I dream of

You're still the one I kiss good night

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The proposal was classic Rabb/MacKenzie: There I was peeping at the gunman when Harm placed something in my hand it was not the purse I had asked for. I knew instantly what it was "Now?"

[FLASHBACK]

"You know of a better time? I sure as hell don't. Our lives are such that there will never be a proper time. Just look at the results. A romantic evening that was supposed to end in a proposal of marriage and we are here crouched behind a table with one popgun between the two of us. Like that guy out there I came here with an agenda and like him I am following through. So will you marry be before I die here in this place?"

[END OF FLASHBACK]

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Then there was Harriet and her continual social calendar for JAG. I have had men orgasmic at Mc Murphy's, had my house turned into a chamber of horrors for Halloween even had men lose money at Toys for Tots Auctions and had Harm accuse me of an affair for the self same TFT.

Lordie I am now notorious in the Armed Forces.

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Ain't nothin' better

We beat the odds together

I'm glad we didn't listen

Look at what we would be missin'

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But there had bee some tests too. Got a medal for that injury in the Caribbean.

Harm and Renee. That one still hurts even after eighteen years. His mother ... God rest her soul ... had actually hit him for that one!

The final outcome of that was the arrival of the twins. Some monument to infidelity! Only at the Rabb House.

Only at the Rabb House is there a resident ghost who is as much a part of the family as any one else. Hell she even takes sides in arguments!

[FLASHBACK]

"What are you doing!" Stevie demanded. "Why are you hurting Harm?" The young African American woman tapped Mac on her shoulder. Mac was sent flying across the room, hit the wall and crumpled to the floor.

Mac stood up and up and up as Stephanie Woods; resident spirit elevated the Marine. "You are cheating on Harm! I heard him say so!" She accused.

[END OF FLASHBACK]

When all is said and done Mac acknowledged that the spirit had in fact protected her family when most needed. When that evil force of nature Clarke Palmer had come calling Stevie had taken care of him and sent him back to the hell he had escaped from.

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The years 2002 and 2016 were hellish years for us. My first pregnancy gave forth death and not life and every one dear to us seemed to die in 2016. GOD that's a time I wish it on no one.

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I was made JAG. Me with an article 32 on my record. Me with a court martial for murder. Me having left JAG to "Spread my Wings". Me the Judge Advocate General! Singer must have choked on that one. Me - General Sarah Rabb first female JAG.

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I'm so glad we made it

Look how far we've come my baby

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She suddenly realized that Harm was watching here. "Hey." She whispered, leaned over and kissed him.

"Hey ... what time is it?"

"0215 local" came the instant and accurate reply.

Harm smiled "Haven't lost the touch Marine."

"Damn straight." She confirmed.

"What you doing. I've been watching you and you were no where near here."

"Reminiscing over the last thirty one years. With the big twenty five coming soon I got nostalgic."

"It's been a hell of a ride hasn't it?"

"Damn straight." She repeated.

"Come cuddle with me." He opened his arms and she slipped in.

"Been a hell of a life with you General, and I loved you every step of the way."

"I love you too.' She replied.

THE END.