Disclaimer: Not mine, just having a little fun with them. Pretty Please, don't sue!

A/N: This is my second fanfic ever. And you wonderful readers were so kind last time, I thought I'd have another go. So if you like it and you'd like me to write more...don't forget to click on the blue GO button at the bottom of the page...hint hint!

A/N2: Set directly after Jagathon, because, quite frankly, I hated the whole 'back at the beginning' scenario. I mean, really! DPB takes us through six years (!!) of ups and downs in our favourite duo's lives...and then expects us to go back to the beginning? Seriously!! So this is how I think it should have gone.

Super special thanks to NettieC: my idol in Fanfic World, and fixer of all things pertaining to grammar. (If you haven't read her...why not, I ask?! You can find her wonderful stories on this site.)

AWAKENED – By JagfanNat

Commander Harmon Rabb, Jr. tossed and turned in the narrow rack of his assigned quarters on the USS Seahawk. He couldn't sleep. His mind was back home in DC, more accurately on someone back home in DC. This was his sixth week on the aircraft carrier, replacing the onboard JAG who had broken his leg falling down one of the many stairways on the ship. Harm was due to head home the next morning and couldn't wait. Just before being sent TAD, he finally felt he had made some headway in rebuilding his relationship with a particular Marine close to his heart. They were close again, spending a lot of time together; mostly for work but occasionally socialising. Their friendly banter was back, their competitiveness was back, and their friendship was almost back to where it had been before Australia. Life was looking good.

Until John Farrow showed up out of the blue the day before Harm was sent TAD. John Farrow was now retired and in Washington on business for a week, and thought he'd drop in on Mac, for old time's sake. He'd taken Mac out for lunch. Not a big deal considering their past history together, Harm had thought. But alarm bells started going off in Harm's head when Farrow had taken her out to dinner that same day. The next day Harm flew to the Seahawk.

Mac had emailed him several times during the first few weeks onboard, but something was off. She almost always only spoke of work and the goings on at the office, or how much AJ was growing. She mentioned in passing that it had been nice catching up with John Farrow, but nothing more. Then, last week, Mac dropped a bombshell in the form of announcing her engagement to Farrow. To say Harm was floored, would have been a gross understatement. He'd only been away five weeks and Farrow comes in a sweeps Mac off her feet and proposes to her. Then Harm made the mistake of voicing his concerns to Mac. Alright, maybe he hadn't voiced them in the best possible way, but he reasoned that he was only looking out for her best interest, being her best friend and all. Well, Mac hadn't seen it his way and proceeded to tell him he was only interested in her when he couldn't have her; that he was jealous and needed to get a life. Well, that was the gist of it anyhow. Now, he hadn't heard from her in four days.

Harm was showered, dressed and packed ready to leave two hours before his transport arrived. He couldn't get off that carrier fast enough. He had to get home and talk to Mac before she made a major mistake; a mistake that would not only alter her life, but his also. He had realized that he was in love with Mac at her engagement party about a year ago, which was why he had opted for the 'back at the beginning' option offered on their friendship at the Jagathon. He needed a chance to make things right between the two of them and that seemed the best way to go about it. It was working too, until Farrow showed up and Harm was sent TAD.

The trip back was long and tedious and when they finally touched down at Andrews Air Force Base, Harm couldn't get to his car fast enough. He arrived at JAG Headquarters at 1300 and reported to the Admiral's office immediately upon being told that Mac was still at lunch.

Coming out of the Admiral's office, Harm noticed Mac sitting at her desk and made his way to her office. Her door open, he knocked on her doorframe and said, "Hey, Marine."

Mac looked up and replied awkwardly, "Hey, you're back."

Harm looked down at Mac's left hand fidgeting with her pen. Then he noticed it: her engagement ring. No, wait! There were two rings there. He looked up at Mac in horror. "You're married?"

Mac blushed. "We eloped on the weekend," she explained quietly.

What Harm said next could be heard throughout the bullpen, well into the Admiral's office.

"NOOOOO!"

A/N: Ok, so this is obviously not the end! Wanna know what happens? Let me know by hitting that little Go button. hehe!