Title: Harm and Mac Songbook UC1/3: Last Night
Author: Rising Sun
E-mail: jag@lucianstuff.every1.net
URL: http://www.geocities.com/jagrslc
Rated: PG-13 (N-17 version available)
Classification: Story
Summary: Mac and Harm go undercover and must use their
heartache to solve a case. In the
process they heal a fresh emotional wound.
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: AZ Yet sings "Last Night"
Feedback: Would be nice.
Author's Note: The HMS series is usually written in a
manner that allows for each story to be read as a self-contained story or as
part of an arc. This is not so with
this story line this is a definite trio:
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HMS26a: Undercover 1/3: Last Night.
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HMS26b: Undercover 2/3: Practice What You Preach.
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HMS26c: Undercover 3/3: One Minute Man.
Story Written September/October 2001
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1625 LOCAL
JAG HQ
MAC'S OFFICE
Harm popped his head into Mac's office. "Hey
beautiful."
"Hey sailor. Come in."
He entered and sat in the offered chair.
"What brings you here."
"What indeed ... Webb." He replied. "I'm here early so I thought I'd say hi."
Mac rolled her eyes. Her intercom buzzed. She picked up the
handset. "Hello? ... Yes
sir." She hung up. "Seems I'm
wanted too."
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1636 LOCAL
JAG HQ
THE JAG'S OFFICE
Webb, AJ, Harm and Mac sat around the coffee table in the
Admiral's office.
"Colonel... Webb here is requesting your assistance
again." AJ folded his arms "He has already received permission of
the Captain's boss but for it to work he needs you. I've told him that the yea or nea is yours to call. Some of his
missions have been too hair brained for my liking."
"The Congresswoman can spare you?" Mac enquired.
"Apparently so." Harm replied.
"So what's the mission Webb?" Mac prompted.
"We suspect the Millennium Center..."
"The Millennium Center?" Mac interrupted.
"They provide getaways for couples but we think it's a
cover to recruit persons to assist them in the sales of small arms. They target military folk with their mumbo
jumbo and somehow get them to assist in the theft of arms for the Center to
sell."
"And Harm and I are to go in as a vacationing couple
and an easy mark?"
The room suddenly went quiet. Mac felt the room temperature change. She looked from man to man to man each looking away and suddenly becoming
shifty as if the seat had suddenly got hot.
AJ passed her the case file. She
scanned it then said softly. "It's
for couples who have recently lost a child?
That's what you call mumbo jumbo Webb?"
"Mac" Webb said.
Mac ignored him and looked to her CO. "Sir I know I ..
we are uniquely qualified having lost a baby ourselves but ..."
"I know Mac which is why I leave this decision to
you." AJ said, "This is strictly a voluntary mission."
"When do you need an answer?" She inquired.
"Tomorrow this time." Webb supplied the answer.
She nodded "Sir with your permission."
"Dismissed Colonel." She left.
In her wake each man somehow felt unclean.
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1740 LOCAL
JAG HQ
MAC'S OFFICE
She stood at the office window and stared at nothing. She had actually been feeling upbeat when
Harm had visited her but one hour fifteen minutes seventeen second
earlier. After that encounter with Webb
and his mission she felt numb. God I
miss my baby! A tear ran down her cheek. She had been in this state of grief
for months now. She ignored herself and Harm and all she could think of was
that she had given birth to a stillborn.
Harm stepped in. "Mac..." he stopped as she held
up a hand.
"Not now Harm."
"Mac we need to talk this can't go on."
"We will but not now." She repeated.
He stared at her for a couple of seconds, when she refused
to face him he stormed out of the office.
She continued to stand at the window and to relive the
memories of the last fourteen months.
The joy of finding out she was pregnant, the agony of losing the baby
eight months into the pregnancy and the wall that seemed to have come between
herself and Harm.
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Last
night there was no blood in it
It was
so special and, so very innocent
As we
explored, our visions of love
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DAY ONE - FRIDAY
1634 LOCAL
THE MILLENNIUM CENTER
Mac and Harm had first flown and then driven to the
Millennium Center in silence. The wall
was getting taller and thicker.
Harm pulled up to a large gate. After being checked in by
security they proceed up the long drive to the main building. They were checked in and placed in one of
many cabins. The clerk at the front
desk informed them that breakfast was from 6:00 to 7:00 lunch 12:00 to 1:00 and
dinner 6:00 to 7:00. Their first session was at 9:00 that evening.
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1700 LOCAL
THE MILLENNIUM CENTER
RABB'S ROOM
"They move quick don't they?" Harm observed after
tipping the porter. "An
appointment tonight!" He began checking for bugs.
"Well we are on the weekend package." Mac pointed
out as she assisted in the search.
"You realize that that is the most you and I have said
for this whole trip?" He indicated that he had found one in the telephone
at the bedside table.
"Yes." She nodded to indicate that she understood
and continued the search. "Harm I have hopes for this sabbatical. I do love you but since the death of HR I
don't know how to snap out of this depression." She signaled to him that she had found no additional devices.
He moved over to her.
"I know sweetie. I'm in
pain too. Together and with the help of
these folks here we will find the path back to each other."
He hadn't touched her; he just stood close. She took the
final step and hugged him. "Oh
Mac." He breathed and hugged back. There had been very limited physical
contact between them after the death of Harmon Rabb III HR to his parents. It
felt good to just touch.
"Let's unpack." She said then explore this place.
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1738 LOCAL
THE MILLENNIUM CENTER GROUNDS
"Seems we'll have to discuss the case out on the
grounds." Mac said.
"How sick can a person be?" Harm observed.
"Those folk expect to hear us doing what...?"
"I don't think they want to hear you and me doing the
wild thing. I think that by bugging the rooms they get information they need
for leverage or at least an idea of where to look."
"OK assuming that to be so which one of is to be the
weak link?"
"Me." Mac said. "And before you start. I have the Article 32 I have the court
martial and I lost the baby."
"I lost him too." He whispered.
"I know we both did but for this mission I am the weak
link. OK?
"Mac in all seriousness do you know how to play
weak?" Harm asked. They both chuckled. "Do you realized that this is the first
time you and I have smiled at anything recently? If nothing else this place seems to be working in our
favour."
"Yeah." She angled her head. "Did I hear the
gong for dinner?"
"Let's go check out the other couples. Oh maybe I'll do
that and you eat."
"Droll sailor droll."
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Sunlight,
(sunlight) red roses (red roses)
The
scent of you it calms the heart
Moonlight,
the things we noticed
Oh we're
in love, that's when it comes
And I'm
so, I'm so in love
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2300 LOCAL
THE MILLENNIUM CENTER
RABB'S ROOM
Mac stood and stared out the window at nothing in
particular. Actually she saw nothing
for her mind was focused elsewhere. The
counseling session had not told her anything she did not know, what it had done
for her was show her that it was time for the Marine to return.
It had been six months since the death of their first-born
and although she would never completely be over the loss she had got to the
point where she could finally go on with her life. She'd only needed to be in a place like this to finally realize
it.
+ + +
Harm emerged from the bathroom and spotted Mac at the
window. His heart ached.
Ached at watching Mac struggle with the loss of their son
Ached with love for her.
Ached at feeling so helpless.
He moved over to her and stood behind her as close as he
could without actually touching.
She leaned back.
+ + +
Mac heard Harm emerge from the bath. She never turned but
she sensed his movement across the room and his body heat as he stood behind
her. She leaned back and rested against
him.
He wrapped his arms around her.