TITLE: Hazard Pay
AUTHOR: Clairisant and Brenda
CLASSIFICATION: Harm/Other
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CREDITS: A special thanks to our beta readers Qupeydoll and April.
Chapter 1
Monday, October 4, 2004
0900 EST
JAG Headquarters
Falls Church, Virginia
Admiral AJ Chegwidden walked into the conference that morning and as usual all eyes turned to him. "Good morning everyone," he said as he took his place at the head of the long table. "As you all know Harriett is starting her maternity leave soon and this week she will be training her temporary replacement. I'm sure that you will all give her every assistance. Please meet Ms. Sinthea Hazard.
The beautiful platinum blonde with the intense peridot eyes stood to her full 5'9" and gave everyone a dazzling smile.
"I am happy to be here and looking forward to getting to know all of you in the coming weeks."
Introducing her to everyone at the table AJ could tell from the look on Commander Rabb's face that he was enthralled by the blonde beauty. From the smiles around the table everyone else could tell the same.
As soon as the staff meeting was dismissed Harm pushed back his chair and approached Ms. Hazard. When she looked up and smiled at him, Harm gave her his famous 'fly-boy' grin and said, "Hi, I'm Harm."
"Yes, I remember," she answered, thinking, 'It was only an hour ago that the Admiral introduced everyone!'
"I just wanted to let you know that if you need any help at all you can call on me."
"Well, thank you! Everyone here is being so nice to me. I think I will like it here."
"I would like to make sure that happens," he assured her. "Do you have any plans for dinner this evening?"
"I think I'm about to!" she gave him a winning smile, and thought, 'He's the most handsome man in the office so he will be my new Boy Toy for this job!'
"Wonderful! Shall we say 1800?"
"You can say that all you want, but unless you translate it for me, I won't know what time to be ready."
With a laugh, he told her, "That's six pm. Sorry, I forget that not everyone functions on military time."
Grinning back at him she answered, "Most of the world doesn't! But I'll be ready at 6pm."
The day passed quickly for both of them with several chances to smile at each other as Harm passed through the bullpen on his way to court and other appointments. Harriett was happy with how fast Sinthea caught on to the things that needed to be done, but she found her personality a bit on the shallow side.
Sturgis managed to find a minute after lunch to question Harm about his progress on the new blond front. Harm reported that they already had a date for dinner that evening. Sturgis shook his head in disbelief. Women fell into Harm's lap way to easily, in Sturgis' opinion. If his friend had to work a bit harder to get the girl, he might be inclined to keep her longer when he did get her.
Just before leaving for the day Sindi went looking for Harm. Finding him in his office she said, "I have several errands to run why don't I meet you at the restaurant tonight?"
"Sure, have you ever heard of Callisto's?" he asked
"Yes, it's one of my favorites, she grinned, but thought, 'Not as expensive as I would have liked for a first date, but I guess it will do.'
"I'll meet you there at 6:00 PM if you're sure you don't want me to pick you up."
"No, I need to run these errands and will be at Callisto's at 6 PM," she said, thinking, 'There is no way I am going to let you see where I live, Boy Toy!'
Harm was waiting for Sindi at Callisto's when she breezed in at 6:l6 PM. "I'm so sorry, but things took longer than I thought," she said as Harm seated her. But she was thinking, 'It's good to keep them waiting for me to show them I have the upper hand.'
"No problem, I just got here myself."
"Good, have you ordered a drink yet?"
"No, but we can now," he said, motioning to the waiter to come over to the table.
"Why don't we have champagne to celebrate our first date together?" she smiled a dazzling smile at him.
To be continued…..