TITLE: Through The Eyes Of Love
AUTHOR: Clairisant and Brenda
CLASSIFICATION: AJ/Other
FEEDBACK: Always welcome.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: For the purposes of this story, AJ has not retired.
CREDITS: A special thanks to our beta readers, Qupeydoll and Mary.
Chapter 1
Monday, May 23, 2005
0745 EST
JAG Headquarters
Falls Church, Virginia
"Did you hear that Sebring's replacement would be here today?" Commander Harmon Rabb asked his partner, Colonel Sarah Mackenzie, as they rode the elevator up to JAG Headquarters that morning.
"Yep, I did," Mac responded. "Did you know she's a woman?"
"Well I would guess that a 'she' is a woman, Mac, how dumb do you think I am?"
With a snort Mac asked, "Is that a trick question, Harm?" Mac thought that she heard a stifled noise from the elevator's other occupant, but when she turned to look, the blonde woman was staring straight ahead like she hadn't heard a word that the other two were saying, even though it was a very small space.
"Funny, Mac. Did you hear that her name is Miranda Love? With a name like that I bet she's an old, bun wearing, horn rimmed glass biddy!" he laughed.
"She's a Judge, who cares what she looks like Commander Hormone?"
"Hey!" he protested at the cut down just as the elevator doors opened on their floor and the two of them got out, leaving the blonde Captain alone.
A short time later Bud and Sturgis walked into the bullpen and talk once again turned to the new Judge that none of them had ever met. Speculation seemed to be the order of the morning, and even Jen Coates was not immune to it. At the morning staff meeting Mac and Bud found out that they would be the first of the JAG lawyers to meet up with the new Judge. Harm was a bit disgruntled to find that the new case he had been given would take him out of the building for most of the day.
Late in the afternoon, Bud and Mac were in the break room having just finished up in the courtroom. Mac was complementing Bud on what a fine lawyer he was becoming and he was teasing her back that she was just saying that because he had beaten her on this one.
"No, Bud you are really impressing us all with your skills these days," she said as Harm came in looking for a cup of coffee.
"So was I right about Judge Love?" even as Harm asked that he snickered over the name.
"Right about what Commander?" Bud asked.
"He was predicting that she was an old biddy this morning in the elevator," Mac offered.
"I heard that she has a kid in college," Bud volunteered.
"See! I told you that she was old!" Harm chimed in.
"Harm, technically you are old enough to have a kid in college!" Mac teased.
"I am not!" he protested.
"Sure you are, Commander," Bud assured him. "If you stop and think about it, kids go to college today at seventeen or eighteen and if you were about that age when you had them, then you would only have to be thirty four or five to have a child in college, and you're forty, right?"
Trying to hide her laughter at the expression on Harm's face in her coffee mug, Mac nearly choked on the sip she took when he grumbled, "Well at least tell me if the rest of what I thought was true or not."
"What was it you thought, Commander?" asked Bud with a frown.
"That she would have a bun and be wearing glasses," Mac offered.
"Well, then you were right, Commander. She had a bun and glasses," Bud told him.
"See! I'm always right!" Harm crowed.
Just then Sturgis came into the break room also looking for coffee. He smiled and asked Harm, "Did you see the gorgeous new blonde upstairs?"
"No! Details man, details!"
"Well, she's about six feet tall with golden blonde hair, legs that just won't quit and eyes the color of sea foam green!" Sturgis informed his best friend and wondered why Mac started laughing.
"Good god how could I have missed her? What office does she work in?" Harm asked franticly.
"That sounds just like Judge Love. Is that who you mean Commander Turner?" Bud asked
"You have to be kidding!?" Harm exclaimed.
To Be Continued….