HMS9 - Knowing Me Knowing You

Title: Harm and Mac Songbook: Knowing Me Knowing You

Author: Rising Sun

Rated: R (for attempted rape)

Summary: The story of how Mac and Harm got rid of Bugme and the Video Princess.

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:

"Knowing Me Knowing You" is sung by ABBA

Feedback: If you want.

Story Written - 2001

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FRIDAY NIGHT - 2200

MAC'S APARTMENT

GEORGTOWN

WASHINGTON DC

Harm and Mac were having a rare moment. No work, no TV, no talk ... just BE.

Then Harm broke the moment. "Mac"

"Mmm?"

"Just how well did Brumby take the break up?" Now that Mac lay in his arms he could afford to be civil and call the man by his rightful name.

"He ... took it." Mac replied as she remembered.

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No more carefree laughter

Silence ever after

Walking through an empty house, tears in my eyes

Here is where the story ends, this is goodbye

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THREE MONTHS EARLIER

SATURDAY MORNING - 0400

MAC'S APARTMENT, GEORGTOWN

WASHINGTON DC

Mac rolled over and saw Mic's face in the pre dawn light and inwardly groaned. This had to stop. This sex thing with Mic was not doing the trick anymore. She sighed and got out of bed, headed for the kitchen for a cup of coffee. Seemed the coffee did more for her recently than the man in her bed did.

"Hello luv" Mic walked in "that for me?" as he took the fresh brew from Mac before she could reply. "Can't stay luv." He revealed got to be on the road early.

"At 0430?"

"Gotta go home first get ready and then be on the road." He grinned.

She shrugged her shoulders, relieved that she did not have to contrive a way to get rid of him. "OK"

"See ya luv." He kissed her goodbye.

She really HATED that "luv" word.

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SUNDAY MORNING - 0700

MAC'S APARTMENT

GEORGTOWN

WASHINGTON DC

Mac had just come in from a late morning jog after all it was Sunday. She was dropping her apartment keys down when the phone rang. The machine picked up - It was Mic. Mac cringed and caught herself in the mirror doing it. Something in her snapped. She grabbed the phone.

"Mic I'm here. I just got in from jogging." She said into the phone. "Yeah ... sure... come on over say around 1000? Great see you then."

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SUNDAY MORNING - 1000

MAC'S APARTMENT

GEORGTOWN

WASHINGTON DC

She opened the door to let Mic in. He spotted the missing ring instantly.

"Mac you removed the ring?"

"Damn no small talk just hit the ground running." She thought, and then handed the ring over.

"Mac?"

"I can't Mic. I don't love you ... not enough to spend my life with you."

"Its Rabb isn't it!" He began to rage. "The man is emotionally constipated and you still want him!"

Mac stopped him "I have had it with the two of you! It's not Harm! It's not you! It is me! OK! It is me! Can it be just about me for once? I am NOT some trophy up for the winner between you and him. I have had it! Can we not have a conversation for once with Harm not creeping into the conversation!"

This gave Mic some pause. "But Mac I love you."

"Oh sweet Jesus" she signed, "you are not going to make this easy are you."

He moved in on her and kissed her squarely on her lips. She automatically slapped him. He slapped back and grabbed her. He began to move to the bedroom.

Mac tried to fight but Mic was a man and a man who pumped iron at that. "Mic what are you doing!"

"You are mine." He ground out.

Her mind was in over drive. This brute she had contemplated marrying was about to rape her. His hold was such that she could not break it. She had to talk and talk fast. "That gives you the right to

rape me? That is what you Aussies call love?"

It worked. Mic felt as if a bucket of cold water had been tossed on him. He took in the scene. He had Sarah MacKenzie in a vice like grip and about to ... about to what? He abruptly let her go. She hit the floor.

"Sorry" He said, turned on his heel and walked out of Mac's life.

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Knowing me, knowing you (ah-haa)

There is nothing we can do

Knowing me, knowing you (ah-haa)

We just have to face it, this time we're through

(This time we're through, this time we're through

This time we're through, we're really through)

Breaking up is never easy, I know but I have to go

(I have to go this time

I have to go, this time I know)

Knowing me, knowing you

It's the best I can do

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PRESENT TIME

FRIDAY NIGHT - 2200

MAC'S APARTMENT

GEORGTOWN, WASHINGTON DC

"He ... took it." She repeated, "Just took it."

"It's not in character for a man that hounded you none stop to just roll over and play dead." Harm knew his opponent.

"What do you want to hear ... that he bawled like a baby? I don't kiss and tell Harm. Leave it be." She snapped "So what of you and the Video Princess. I don't hear you confessing."

"She left over you. They all left cause of you." Harm confessed. "I'm the only one who refused to accept the evidence even when it was in my face. "But it was amicable and having persisted in her chase of me she decided to drop me with just the same touch of determination."

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Mem'ries (mem'ries), good days (good days), bad days (bad days)

They'll be (they'll be), with me (with me) always (always)

In these old familiar rooms children would play

Now there's only emptiness, nothing to say

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TWO MONTHS EARLIER

2100

CHUNG'S CHINESE CHOW DOWN

Renee sat watching Harm.

It was never good when a woman chased a man and this was textbook classic. This man sat there with her but she would bet her next music video he was thinking of Mac. Just how many times did he have to call her Mac before she took the hint? This man would not marry her, would not give her children. If she hung around there'd be only emptiness, nothing to say.

"Harm."

"Yeah."

"It's over."

He almost got whiplash as his head jolted up. "What!"

"Don't call anymore."

"Why?"

"Because."

He frowned and focused on her. "Renee."

She signed "You are not the man for me nor I the woman for you. Mac is single and to her credit has made no move on you."

"Mac? What has she to do with you and me? Renee make sense."

"No I will make in plain. For once do as you are told. When you get back from this mission of yours go to her and say 'Mac I love you.' Simple words that you have never managed to say to me. Say it to her and watch what happens. I guarantee she will marry you within twelve months of that declaration."

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Knowing me, knowing you (ah-haa)

There is nothing we can do

Knowing me, knowing you (ah-haa)

We just have to face it, this time we're through

(This time we're through, this time we're through

This time we're through, we're really through)

Breaking up is never easy, I know but I have to go

(I have to go this time

I have to go, this time I know)

Knowing me, knowing you

It's the best I can do

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PRESENT TIME

FRIDAY NIGHT

MAC'S APARTMENT, GEORGTOWN

WASHINGTON DC

Harm remembered the prediction 'I guarantee she will marry you within twelve months of that declaration.' Add to that the baby pack and he had much to look forward to. "And that was that." He said.

"Ummm forgiving lovers you and I had." She eyed him.

"They knew long before we did and so I supposed they were prepared."

"They knew us the way we know each other."

Harm just hugged her and she responded by snuggling up to him.

They were having a rare moment. No work, no TV, no talk ... just BE.

THE END