Title: Harm AND MAC SONGBOOK: Your Honor
Author: Rising Sun
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Rated: PG
Classification: JAG Story/Adventure
Summary: AJ
and Mac reminisce on past cases.
Spoilers: We the People, Heroes,
The Good of the Service, Act of Terror, Life or Death, Baby, It's Cold Outside
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: “Your Honour” is sung by Pluto Shevington
Feedback: Would be nice.
Story Written November 24, 2001
SUNDAY 1835 LOCAL
AJ CHEDWIGGEN’S RESIDENCEMACLEAN, VA AJ Chedwiggen’s opened his front door to find General Sarah “Mac” Rabb at his door. “Well if its isn’t the JAG herself about time you got here.” He admonished. “Good evening AJ. Reporting as ordered.” She smiled at her former CO. “Where is that husband of yours and your kids?” “La Jolla. I join them later in the week.” Mac explained. “So how is retirement?” “Mac I am going stir crazy. Francesca has been at me to visit her in Italy and I’m about ready to go.” “Do it AJ the break will be good.” “I’m already on break… I’m retired. Wait till it’s your turn. He chucked as she pulled a face at him. “So how is JAG anyway.” “Being the first female Judge Advocate General gave me a buzz at first but now it’s a job I love and I do it with no more fuss than when you were the JAG. This week Harriett has been clearing the place of closed cases to forward to the Archives. The cases we have gone through are unbelievable!” “You mean like the two midshipmen dueling in Washington Park?” “Who would believe… two Naval Academy students dueling in a park because of family history that reached back to the Civil War!” “The one for the history books is the firing of the HNK in the Court. I knew Rabb was a loose cannon I just never expected him to go off in Court.” AJ said. “He certainly got the Court’s attention on that one.” “I hear folks went ducking left and right.” “What is it with the Navy and duck?” Mac wondered. “I had to put Harm straight on that.” [Flashback] Harm: I wasn't being cute. I was being funny.
Mac: Yeah, like the way you fired that HNK in court?
Harm: Well, I thought it was pretty funny when you ducked under the table.
Mac: I'm a Marine, Harm. Marines don't duck.
Harm: What do Marines do?
Mac: They take cover, but they never duck.
[End of Flashback] “Come to think of it my ever loving husband has been a royal pain.” Mac confessed. “Glad you know that.” AJ said “The usual?” He held up a glass at her. She nodded. “Remember the court-martial of John Farrow for defying orders and rescuing his men who are being held and tortured by a Haitian warlord?” “Yeah.” He handed her the drink of tonic water with a twist of lime. “He locked me out completely.” [Flashback] Mac: You've been running this case without me from the get go.
Harm: I knew you were emotionally involved.Mac: When have my emotions ever stopped me from doing my job?
Harm: Well, they certainly did not stop you today. Nice save on that side bar.
Mac: Thank you.
Harm: Maybe I did not give you the benefit of the doubt.
Mac: No, you didn't.
Harm: Well, I know one thing. I'd rather have you on my side than opposing me.
[End of Flashback] “I agree… you are a hell of a lawyer Mac. Seems you and Rabb had some interesting times on those cases.” “Yeah Harm said that once… I think.” [Flashback] Mac: "She's good. I'll give her that.Harm: "Yeah, she is good, Mac. You're better than she is."
[End of Flashback] “JAG may have been many things but dull it was not.” AJ said. “Not for me anyway. AJ you gave me some cases that defied all reason. Take that distasteful task of representing that Marine Farmer” She could still feel the foul taste in her mouth “… and there was Harm giving me pointers. HA!” [Flashback] Harm: So where's the problem anyway? You fry the guy's legal smarts in court; hope you dent at least one judge's sensibilities, win your appeal. All in a day's work! Mac: Fry the guy?Harm: Yeah, the original counsel---- we know the other counsel.Mac: Cdr AJ Chegwidden. [End of Flashback] “Consider those cases character building. You have to be able to argue all sides of a case. Remember that there are three truths. Yours, theirs and THE truth. Sometimes we get it and some times we don’t.” AJ lectured her. “Hence the turns at Acting JAG?” She asked. “Didn’t hurt did it. In fact you did a damn good job if I recall.” [Flashback] AJ: (to Harm) Well, I didn't read your name in any police blotter.Mac: Sir, the Commander was actually a model citizen.
AJ: How come he obeys you and not me?Mac: (laughing) Lucky, I guess. [End of Flashback] “You do realize that his compliance had nothing to with luck. The man was completely lost and in love with you by then. In fact by my reckoning he was lost the first day he laid eyes on you.” “Hence your comment that day?” She arched an eyebrow at him. “My comment?” “UH huh the **Don't get too familiar. You've got to work together.** comment. Don’t play dumb.” “I call them as I see them.” AJ reclined further into the couch. “Did I ever tell you about an adultery case of mine?” AJ had told the Rabb kids many stories and she had eaves dropped but this one did not sound familiar. “No I don’t think so.” “I was a Commander at the time and a request came in for assistance from the JAG corps… and to hear him tell it”
Your
honour
I was
inside the closet
Minding
I and I own business
Your
honour
It was a
complete stranger
Causing
these disturbances
Him
claim say me touch him wife
Which is
a wicked and awful lie
Me shirt
in me left hand me pants in me right.
Me two
them was occupied
Me shirt in me left hand me pants in me right.
Looked at AJ in disbelief. “That was a letter to the JAG?” He held up his hand is if taking an oath. “I kid you not.” “It seems to me that by his own admission he was guilty.” Mac observed. “It got better. He then wrote to the Judge.”
Dear
Judge
Can this
Court accept this story from me heart
Why
Judge?
If by
change you don’t believe me tale
Ask him
why she will not fail to agree I was a better man than he?
Just in
case she refuse to answer
Ask de
maid downstairs Agatha
She’ll only be too glad to testify for me
Mac got suspicious “AJ you are kidding me.” “I am not.” He was adamant. “I am serious and so was the Private. Getting nowhere with the first two he had one last resort. He wrote the guard.” “The Guard.” Mac giggled but from the glance he gave her she sobered up.
Dear
Corporal
As you
lock me in this prison
Pray for
I
Please
Corproal
Please
don’t leave me hear to wonder
Why de
Court has made this blunder
Grant me
for a crime that wasn’t here!
Corporal
When you
going to send me dinner
Send you
mother or you sister
One more day of this I cannot bare
“So what happened in the end?” She asked. “He did his time and I became Admiral.” Mac was still suspicious “AJ you are pulling my leg.” “I am not!” he protested. THE END