Maybe Today
Summary: Take a step, jump a mile. Twenty in-season and post-ep drabbles- Mac, Harm and a relationship that can't quite keep up with its participants.
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Set: Along the series, especially the later ones. Drabbles that belong to a certain episode will be indicated.
Disclaimer: Standards apply.
A/N: Merry Christmas to all of you! (Dez 2013)
#1 – Maybe Today
She needs three minutes in the shower and two to dry herself and get dressed. In that way, every morning is similar.
Sarah MacKenzie regards herself in the mirror quickly: short, auburn hair, a pale face, the tight fit of her Marines uniform. The scent of coffee rises from her small kitchen, it tastes like every day. Morning as usual and yet something is different today. A strange tension is growing in her chest, something she thought she left behind long ago. She feels giddy: like there is something that will happen today that she can't wait for to happen. At the same time, she burns to get back to her own investigation.
Calm down, she tells herself half-firm, half-desperate. Calm down. It will be alright. She hasn't felt like this since… ever. It's not anticipation or dread, not even nerves. But whatever it is – she has no time for this. The sun outside is warm, a reminder of a summer yet to come. The door of her apartment closes with an audible sound. As she walks down the stairs she thinks she imagines the finality in it.
Today, Sarah thinks. Today. Who knows what will happen. She's a marine and a lawyer. She has faced everything thrown at her by life until now and she intends to continue doing so. While she leaves the house her tension turns to elation, t anticipation, even joy. She walks down the street, her car keys already in her hand, and suddenly feels very, very calm.
(At the end of the day she is reassigned. A new chapter begins.)