TITLE: When Love Finds A Fool
AUTHOR: Vid Z.
PAIRING: Harm/Singer
WARNINGS: Fluff, Romance, Humor, Hurt/Comfort
SPOILERS: everything until Drop Zone, especially Season 5
TIMELINE: Season 5, before Drop Zone
DISCLAIMER: All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc of the TV show JAG are the property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot are the property of the author of this fic. The author is in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of any media franchise. No copyright infringement is intended.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Recently I looked at the type of fics I've written and decided to write something different for a change. Because I have never written a fic like this, neither are there many such fics out there, I've decided to write one. The motivation was the latest occasion when I was a target of venting the hostile kind of hormones. I know it's weird for a guy to be writing this kind of fics, but I think I earned the right to, by living a huge part of my life with two women in the house, with many times when I couldn't get my ass to safety out of the line of fire. Plus I wanted a tender, caring Harm looking out for Singer when she suffers 'that time' during an investigation and he can't just sit there and let her suffer without trying to ease the pain. I tried to handle the subject as delicately and sensitively as I could, thus there are no gory scenes or graphic descriptions or anything like that, but I'm not perfect and there is a chance of errors, so please tell me if there was something that could've been written better.
!!!!WARNINGS: this fic deals with the biologics of the human reproduction system, with the menstrual cycle and how a man can help an inflicted woman through this difficult and painful time. However it is not described graphically, thus there are no gory scenes. If you are uncomfortable or repulsed by this topic, please do not read any further. Reading this fic is on your own responsibility. If you read this warning, yet ignore it, read the fic and then complain over the topic, you will be branded the village idiot.ACRONYMS AND THEIR MEANINGS:
LT: Lieutenant
LCDR: Lieutenant Commander
CDR: Commander
LtCol: Lieutenant Colonel
CAPT: Captain
RADM: Rear Admiral Upper Half
VOQ: Visiting Officer Quarters
SUMMARY: On an investigation Harm gets involved in helping out a most unexpected person during a difficult time for her.
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It was only his second out-of-town investigation with LT Loren Singer and Harm was sure that somebody up there (or in a plush, comfy office, sitting in a big, expensive leather chair) hated him.
Mac had fallen ill right on the day when they were meant to go to Pensacola to investigate a case of "code red" and so he was suddenly left without a partner.
As he was standing there before the VOQ Harm was wondering if the Admiral had lost his marbles when assigning him Singer as a last minute stand-in. Or perhaps he was still paying for going back to flying? Naaah. The old SEAL understood he had to do it and didn't hold a grudge because of it.
Perhaps Cheggwidden was concerned about something happening to him? Perhaps one or more of the assailants would try to take him out? No, that wasn't it. Were it so, then he would've sent the Gunny with him and not a petite female Lieutenant with no known self-defence training. Even if she was known to be pretty temperamental. Perhaps she was really ONI in disguise and was thus capable of watching his back? Riiiiiiiiight.
OR perhaps the Admiral had finally acted on Harm's idea of pairing someone from the senior staff with Singer, as she was a junior officer and could use the chance to learn something? Yup, that was probably it.
Though Harm had hoped Mac would get Singer and not he. On the other thought... Mac and Singer... Two very similar and temperamental women who couldn't stand each other... They would've killed each other within days, so it was probably better that Harm was partnered with the ambitious LT and not Mac.
Whatever the reason may have been, he was not thrilled over standing here, in the cold, waiting for the LT to finally meet him so they could finally get the investigation started. His dress blues and coat didn't help him much against the biting wind and he was freezing his ears off!
The perfect way to make a Commander grouchy.
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Finally after 20 minutes he saw the slim figure of his temporary partner making her way towards him.
"Nice of you to finally join me, LT." Harm drawled sarcastically once Loren had joined him. He looked at his watch to underscore how late she was and how long she had made him wait.
"Sorry, Commander." she looked suitably apologetic. "I was delayed. A health matter."
He became concerned upon hearing that. They couldn't afford to have her suddenly become sick. "You're not ill, are you?"
"No, sir, it's something else, something that I would rather not talk about." he saw determination in her eyes, it was clear she would say no more.
Wordlessly, he nodded, agreeing with her request.
Seeing that the subject was dropped, they turned and headed for their car, eager to start with the interviews for that day.
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