Title: Sadik's Revenge

Author: Tempus Meum

Rating:

Disclaimer: The characters and premise used in this story are unfortunately not owned by me. If JAG was mine…the possibilities.

Summary: Sadik is after revenge.

Chapter One

1700 hours

JAG Headquarters

Falls Church, Virginia

The bullpen was unusually crowded for a Friday afternoon; Mac was only there so she could pick up files to work on over the weekend. She had just arrived back in Washington from spending three days in Norfolk dissolving a case. She could not wait to collapse onto her couch, in her apartment, with a cup of hot chocolate.

Walking out of her office Mac finally realised why the room was so crowded, everyone was gathered outside the Admiral's door and Jennifer Coates was trying to get them to leave. Mac walked up behind the group, and immediately Coates stopped talking, it only took her a couple of seconds to realise her place.

"Officer on deck." The ten or so people stood at attention as Colonel Sarah MacKenzie walked passed them, stopping at Coates's desk.

"What is the problem here Coates?" Mac asked.

"The Admiral is on the phone to the SecNav ma'am."

"And why is the phone call so popular?"

"Um…well…ma'am" Coates did not know how to approach this subject with the colonel, so she decided to just let it out "Commander Rabb is missing ma'am?"

"Missing?"

"Yes ma'am"

"Missing from where?"

"Well from what I can gather ma'am he left work last night at around 1630 hours and said he was going straight to Blacksburg airstrip to see Matilda Grace, but she called here this morning looking for him, he never turned up. Bud and Harriet went to his apartment, they called about fifteen minutes ago and said that it looked like he hadn't been there for a couple of days. The admiral has been on the phone ever since."

By now Mac was starting to get worried, it wasn't like Harm to just disappear.

"I'll go and see what I can find out, why don't you all go into the conference room and one of us will fill you in shortly." Mac addressed the whole group and then turned back to Coates. "Thankyou Jen." Mac placed a reassuring hand on her shoulder, if not to comfort Jen it was there to steady herself. She had suddenly got a little light headed. She had just started to get her relationship with Harm back on track, they were finally friends again, she didn't know what she would do if she lost him now.

Mac knocked on Admiral Chedwiggen door and didn't even wait for the call to enter, before she walked in. The Admiral glanced up at her quickly before returning to the phone call. He had his head in his hand as he talked. Clearly he was worried.

Mac sat patiently listening as AJ continued to talk and listen. It was another 15 minutes before he took a deep breath, said "I'll keep you informed…thankyou" and hung up the phone.

They sat in silence for several minutes.

"Colonel…Mac…as you probably know by now…Harm is missing. He disappeared some time last night. You haven't heard from him have you?"

"No Sir…should I have? What is going on?"

"I'm not sure, we think this may have something to do with Sadik."

"Sadik? Why?"

"This was found on Harm's desk." AJ passed her a sheet of paper that read, 'This is not over SHE WILL PAY.'

Mac inhaled a sharp breath, "Oh my god, this is my fault!"

AJ quickly stood up and made his way around the desk. "Don't Mac…don't think this is your fault, because it isn't, you couldn't have prevented this. Now I'm going to take you home and check out your apartment just in case. Okay?"

"Okay…um…everyone is waiting in the conference room."

"Meet me at the elevator, take a minute okay and then get your things."

Mac nodded her head.

He grabbed his briefcase and cover and left his office leaving her all alone.

She sat their stunned for a few minutes, holding the piece of paper that was slowly becoming creased as her worry disappeared and turned into anger. 'How dare he do this', she thought 'Why…why would he do this'. When she became aware of the time and realised she had been there almost 15 minutes she stood, picked up her things and made her way out of AJ's office and to the elevator where he was patiently waiting.

1805

Mac's apartment

Georgetown

They took his car, as he said it would be safer, in case someone happened to be watching her apartment, and in no state to argue Mac agreed.

She even handed her superior officer her keys as they were walking up the steps of her building.

He quietly opened the door, and even made her stand with her back against it as he slowly made his way through each room, with his gun drawn, finding nothing. Walking back toward her he stopped dead, about five metres away, staring at a point just above her right shoulder. The look on his face scared Mac; it sent shivers down her spine.

Walking up to her, he reached his hand over her shoulder and withdrew it holding a piece of paper that he had obviously pulled off the back of the door.

He read it carefully before handing it to her.

Mac read the note to herself twice before reading it aloud, trying to come to grips with what it meant.

Miss MacKenzie,

You may have escaped me once but I will not fail again.

You have been warned; from now on every step you take will result in you looking over your shoulder.

It brings me pleasure to know that you will soon be mine.

Mac moved over to the couch and sat down, still holding the note.

"Have you tried Harm on his cell?" she asked AJ who had sat across from her.

"Yes, several times, it's switched off. Stay here I will get you something to drink." AJ stated as he stood up.

As he was walking away Mac rummaged through her purse, which she was still holding and found her cell phone. Turning it on she immediately hit a few buttons, to find out whether or not she had any messages.

Listening to the automated voices she was surprised to find she had 5 missed calls. The first two were hang ups, but the third, Mac froze as she heard Harm's voice. "Mac…Mac it's Harm…look don't go home when you get this call Sarah and she will tell you where I am."

Dropping her cell on the couch beside her she reached for the phone from the coffee table and hit 6 on the speed dial. Two rings later and elderly woman answered the phone.

"Mrs Rabb? This is Sarah MacKenzie."

Mac darling this is Sarah, I have been waiting for hours for you to call."

"Sorry." Mac got straight to the point she couldn't wait any longer "Where is he everyone is really worried, is he okay?"

He's okay…he's okay dear. He told me to tell you that he seen a man named Sadik waiting in a car outside his apartment when he went home last night, so he went in to hiding, he wants you to go to the wall."

"Thankyou Mrs Rabb."

"Call me Sarah dear, and you just look after yourself and look after him okay."

"I'll try Sarah."

"I suppose that's all I can ask for. Goodbye dear."

"Goodbye Sarah." Mac was relieved that Harm was okay, but it didn't stop her from worrying, she was still very anxious to talk to him.

She stood up and pulled on her gate, meeting AJ on his way out of the kitchen with two cups of coffee.

Before he could speak, she blurted out "I know where he is. He is at the wall."

"I'll come with you."

"No!" Mac normally wouldn't talk to her CO like this but she didn't want anyone else getting hurt because of her. "You go home, if you don't hear from us within the hour then at least you will be able to do something."

He didn't like it but he nodded in agreement.

"Okay, but just be careful Mac, don't trust anyone. And call me as soon as possible." He placed a hand on her arm as he spoke to try and show that he cared. He then followed her to the door. She made a mental check that she had everything that she needed including her gun that was carefully placed in her left pocket, before walking to the car.