Title: Why Not Now?
Author: Amanda M. Daugherty
E-mail: country_girl_2003@Yahoo.com
Rating:
Classification: (Harm/Mac)
Spoilers:
Summary: Sequel to Why? and Why Not?
Disclaimer: Don't own anything.
Archiving: Don't care as long as you tell me where
and my name stays on it.
******************************************
Sarah Mackenzie's
Georgetown
"Hi, I'm unable to come to the phone right now
so leave your name and number and if you're lucky
I'll call you back." The voice of Mac's answering
machine played through the apartment.
"Mac it's me. Listen if you're there pick up the
phone I really need to talk to you." Harm paused for
a minute and waited to see if Mac would pick the
phone up. "Look Mac it's an emergency." Harm paused
for a second again. "Okay listen when you get in go
to JAG right away something's happened."
Mac sat on her couch, her hands resting on her
stomach where her child was growing. It had been
seven months since Mac had the conversation with
Harm where she told him that she never wanted to see
him again and see didn't want him to be part of her
child's life again. Even though it was a month Harm
lived up to his promise. He didn't leave Mac alone.
She resigned her commission and rarely went out.
Harm still came by and called on the phone. Mac
explained this to one her friends that she met at
the doctor's and the woman suggested that Mac file a
law suit against Harm, but no matter what happened
Mac knew she could never to that because deep down
she love Harmon Rabb Jr. and this life that he gave
her.
In the message Harm told her there was an
emergency at JAG. She wondered what had happened. As
far as she knew Harm stopped working there two
months ago so she wondered why he was calling about
an emergency there unless something happened to Bud,
Harriet, or the Admiral. Grabbing her keys and her
jacket Mac started on her way to JAG to see what was
possibly wrong with one of her friends.
As Mac drove her car along the road that would
take her to the Falls Church area she hopped nothing
was wrong with Harm. She treaded him like dirt since
that night at her apartment when she kicked him out
and denied him the right to his child. Mac told him
that she never wanted to see him again, but she was
glad Harm didn't listen.
Two weeks after the fight
Sarah Mackenzie's
Georgetown
Mac had finally gotten everything out of her
office at JAG. She had put in her resignation two
weeks ago and it was now final she was no longer Lt.
Col. Sarah Mackenzie, marine, she was now Sarah
Mackenzie, single mother to be. Gunnery Sergeant
Victor Galendiz had insisted that he carry up all
the boxes of stuff that Mac had in her office.
When the elevator finally stopped at Mac's floor
her and the Gunny walked to her door where a
delivery Mac was knocking and waiting.
"Can I help you?" Mac asked the young delivery
man.
"Sarah Mackenzie?"
"Yes."
"I have a delivery for you ma'am. If you'll just
sign here." The man held out a clip board. Mac sat
her briefcase down on the floor outside her
apartment and took the clipboard. Quickly Mac signed
her name and handed it back to the man whose tag
read John.
"Here you are ma'am." The man gave Mac a box
wrapped in light blue paper and left.
"Come on in Gunny." Mac unlocked her door and
let the Gunny in.
"Where do you want these ma'am?" The gunny asked
lifted up the boxes slightly.
"Anywhere's fine Gunny and thank you for doing
this."
"My pleasure ma'am. Just let me say that we're
going to miss you."
"Thank you Gunny. Tell everyone...well not
EVERYone that I'll miss them too."
"Commander Rabb?"
"How did you know?"
"Well I heard Commander Rabb talking about it
with Lt. Simms. Now if you don't need anything else
ma'am I'm going to get back to headquarters."
"Sure Gunny go on."
After the Gunny left Mac sat down on the couch
with the box that had been delivered. Mac gently
took off the paper that the box was wrapped in.
After getting all the paper off of the box Mac
lifted the lid and found a baby marine uniform
similar to the Sailor one she and Carylon gave
Harriet when she was pregnant with AJ. After getting
the complete outfit out of the box Mac found a note
at the bottom. She noticed Harm's hand writing.
"Mac-
Sorry for how I've been acting lately. I was
shocked and didn't know what happened. Please
forgive me and let our child grow up with both
parents.
-Harm"
Mac took the note and crumbled it up. She threw
it toward the trash can just as the phone rang.
"Hello?"
"Mac. It's me. Harm."
"I know who you are. What do you want?" Mac
asked not being friendly at all.
"Did you get the gift?"
"Yeah." Their conversation was short and choppy.
"Thanks."
"Mac can we go somewhere and talk."
"I don't think that's a good idea."
"Why?"
"Because Harm. I don't feel like seeing you."
"Mac I want to explain somethings to you. Please
I made a mistake. You used to say that people
deserved a second chance when the screwed up. Don't
I fit that?"
"Okay meet me at McMurphy's in one hour."
"Thank you Mac."
"Don't think me yet." Mac hung up the phone and
went to change into a pair of jeans and a lose
fitting top.
McMurphy's Bar
Georgetown
Mac walked into the bar and just like the night
when she told Harm that he was the father of her
baby Harm was leaning up against the bar watching
the door.
"Hi." Mac walked up to him.
"Hi. Why don't we go sit down."
Mac didn't want to, but she felt that Harm
deserved to explain himself. They walked over to a
table in the back far away from everyone else. A
waitress approached them but Harm waved her off.
"Mac I need to explain the way I acted the other
night when you told me that you were pregnant and
that I was the father."
"Go on. I'm listening." Mac said coolly.
"When you told me the other night that you were
going to have my child it scared me. I have wanted
this for so long and now that it happened terrified
me. I wasn't sure if I could be a good father and
plus I never expected to have a child like this."
"What did you expect?"
"I expected me being married and living in a
little house, Mac I never expected to have a one
night stand with my partner, the woman I love, but
can't tell her that." That's when Harm realized what
he said. "Oh I'm sorry Mac. I never meant to say
that."
"It's okay, but we need time."
"I'll agree with that. I talked with my mom the
other night before I came over to your place and she
told me that when my dad found out that she was
pregnant with me he accused her of having an affair
with another man. I guess that's the way Rabb men
react to their dream's coming true. Mac what I'm
trying to say is that I'm so sorry for the way I've
been acting and I'd like to make it up to you and
the baby."
"Harm you don't expect for me to go on like
nothing happened."
"No, but Mac you know I grew up with out my
father and how important a father is to a child.
Don't make our child go through that. Our child
deserves to grow up with both parents." Harm
pleaded.
"This won't be easy."
"I didn't expect it to be."
"Alright."
They talked the rest of the night about the baby
and how they were going to handle the situation.
"Harm do you want to have a DNA test?" Mac asked
knowing how Harm reacted when she told him. He
thought it was Brumby's.
"I would like to know if the baby is mine or
not, but it doesn't matter."
"Harm trust me it's yours. Mic can't have
children." Mac told Harm slowly.
When they were finished talking it was 11:00 and
Mac still hadn't completely forgiven Harm, but she
was willing to l;et him be part of there child's
life.
JAG Headquarters
Falls Church, Va.
Mac let Harm be part of her and their child's
life. Harm went shopping with her for baby furniture
and he went with her to all her doctor's
appointments. Harm even went to Lamaze with her.
He'd been supportive through the entire thing. They
even agreed to moving in together after the baby was
born so that the child would know both it's parents.
She pulled into the parking lot and noticed
that everybody's cars where there. Curious she
walked in and noticed that all the lights where off
in the bullpen. She quickly turned on the lights and
to her surprise everybody had thrown her a baby
shower. All her friends from JAG were there, Harm
was there, along with some of his new friends from
his new law firm.
"Guys you didn't have to do this." Mac told the
groups as she walked around and looked at the
decorations.
"We wanted to ma'am" Bud said where his was
standing beside Harriet.
"Thank you." Mac said as she began to dig in the
food that was set up on a couple of the desks.
After eating Harriet made Mac open all the gifts
they had given her. About an hour after Mac had
finished opening all the gifts Mac began to feel a
pain which she quickly realized that was labor.
Four Days Later
Roberts Residence
Alexandria, Va.
Bud was sitting at the kitchen reading the
Sunday paper when he ran across the birth
announcements. He noticed one picture at the bottom
right corner.
"Harmon Rabb Jr. and Sarah Mackenzie are proud
to announce the birth of their daughter Harmony
Patricia Rabb and Harmon Patrick Rabb III on
September 10, 2001..." The article continued on, but
Bud didn't finish reading it. He already knew the
whole story. Above the article was the picture taken
at the hospital, Harmon and Harmony were laying in
their bassinet facing each other asleep with their
thumbs in their mouths.
Rabb Residence
Georgetown.
Harm, Mac, and their twins moved into Mac's
apartment until they picked out a house. Harm and
Mac were sitting at the kitchen table enjoying the
piece while it lasted.
"Mac we never talked about marriage?" Harm asked
taking a sip of his coffee as Mac almost spit out
hers.
"What?"
"You know I love you Mac. We're living together,
we have two children, there's not better time so why
not now?"
"Harm you don't just get married because you
have children."
"I know that Mac, but I love you and I want us
to have more children and I want us to grow old
together."
"No."
"No?" Harm asked shocked. This is what he
thought Mac wanted.
"No Harm. I love you, but I don't want us to get
married because of the children. Maybe someday, but
not right now?"
"Someday." Harm let it roll off his tongue.
"Someday." Mac repeated. As Harmon began to cry.
"I'll hold you to that." Harm told Mac as he got
up to go get his son.
THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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FEEDBACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thanks for all the feedback I've gotten so far. You
guys are great.
Amanda
Author: Amanda M. Daugherty
E-mail: country_girl_2003@Yahoo.com
Rating:
Classification: (Harm/Mac)
Spoilers:
Summary: Sequel to Why? and Why Not?
Disclaimer: Don't own anything.
Archiving: Don't care as long as you tell me where
and my name stays on it.
******************************************
Sarah Mackenzie's
Georgetown
"Hi, I'm unable to come to the phone right now
so leave your name and number and if you're lucky
I'll call you back." The voice of Mac's answering
machine played through the apartment.
"Mac it's me. Listen if you're there pick up the
phone I really need to talk to you." Harm paused for
a minute and waited to see if Mac would pick the
phone up. "Look Mac it's an emergency." Harm paused
for a second again. "Okay listen when you get in go
to JAG right away something's happened."
Mac sat on her couch, her hands resting on her
stomach where her child was growing. It had been
seven months since Mac had the conversation with
Harm where she told him that she never wanted to see
him again and see didn't want him to be part of her
child's life again. Even though it was a month Harm
lived up to his promise. He didn't leave Mac alone.
She resigned her commission and rarely went out.
Harm still came by and called on the phone. Mac
explained this to one her friends that she met at
the doctor's and the woman suggested that Mac file a
law suit against Harm, but no matter what happened
Mac knew she could never to that because deep down
she love Harmon Rabb Jr. and this life that he gave
her.
In the message Harm told her there was an
emergency at JAG. She wondered what had happened. As
far as she knew Harm stopped working there two
months ago so she wondered why he was calling about
an emergency there unless something happened to Bud,
Harriet, or the Admiral. Grabbing her keys and her
jacket Mac started on her way to JAG to see what was
possibly wrong with one of her friends.
As Mac drove her car along the road that would
take her to the Falls Church area she hopped nothing
was wrong with Harm. She treaded him like dirt since
that night at her apartment when she kicked him out
and denied him the right to his child. Mac told him
that she never wanted to see him again, but she was
glad Harm didn't listen.
Two weeks after the fight
Sarah Mackenzie's
Georgetown
Mac had finally gotten everything out of her
office at JAG. She had put in her resignation two
weeks ago and it was now final she was no longer Lt.
Col. Sarah Mackenzie, marine, she was now Sarah
Mackenzie, single mother to be. Gunnery Sergeant
Victor Galendiz had insisted that he carry up all
the boxes of stuff that Mac had in her office.
When the elevator finally stopped at Mac's floor
her and the Gunny walked to her door where a
delivery Mac was knocking and waiting.
"Can I help you?" Mac asked the young delivery
man.
"Sarah Mackenzie?"
"Yes."
"I have a delivery for you ma'am. If you'll just
sign here." The man held out a clip board. Mac sat
her briefcase down on the floor outside her
apartment and took the clipboard. Quickly Mac signed
her name and handed it back to the man whose tag
read John.
"Here you are ma'am." The man gave Mac a box
wrapped in light blue paper and left.
"Come on in Gunny." Mac unlocked her door and
let the Gunny in.
"Where do you want these ma'am?" The gunny asked
lifted up the boxes slightly.
"Anywhere's fine Gunny and thank you for doing
this."
"My pleasure ma'am. Just let me say that we're
going to miss you."
"Thank you Gunny. Tell everyone...well not
EVERYone that I'll miss them too."
"Commander Rabb?"
"How did you know?"
"Well I heard Commander Rabb talking about it
with Lt. Simms. Now if you don't need anything else
ma'am I'm going to get back to headquarters."
"Sure Gunny go on."
After the Gunny left Mac sat down on the couch
with the box that had been delivered. Mac gently
took off the paper that the box was wrapped in.
After getting all the paper off of the box Mac
lifted the lid and found a baby marine uniform
similar to the Sailor one she and Carylon gave
Harriet when she was pregnant with AJ. After getting
the complete outfit out of the box Mac found a note
at the bottom. She noticed Harm's hand writing.
"Mac-
Sorry for how I've been acting lately. I was
shocked and didn't know what happened. Please
forgive me and let our child grow up with both
parents.
-Harm"
Mac took the note and crumbled it up. She threw
it toward the trash can just as the phone rang.
"Hello?"
"Mac. It's me. Harm."
"I know who you are. What do you want?" Mac
asked not being friendly at all.
"Did you get the gift?"
"Yeah." Their conversation was short and choppy.
"Thanks."
"Mac can we go somewhere and talk."
"I don't think that's a good idea."
"Why?"
"Because Harm. I don't feel like seeing you."
"Mac I want to explain somethings to you. Please
I made a mistake. You used to say that people
deserved a second chance when the screwed up. Don't
I fit that?"
"Okay meet me at McMurphy's in one hour."
"Thank you Mac."
"Don't think me yet." Mac hung up the phone and
went to change into a pair of jeans and a lose
fitting top.
McMurphy's Bar
Georgetown
Mac walked into the bar and just like the night
when she told Harm that he was the father of her
baby Harm was leaning up against the bar watching
the door.
"Hi." Mac walked up to him.
"Hi. Why don't we go sit down."
Mac didn't want to, but she felt that Harm
deserved to explain himself. They walked over to a
table in the back far away from everyone else. A
waitress approached them but Harm waved her off.
"Mac I need to explain the way I acted the other
night when you told me that you were pregnant and
that I was the father."
"Go on. I'm listening." Mac said coolly.
"When you told me the other night that you were
going to have my child it scared me. I have wanted
this for so long and now that it happened terrified
me. I wasn't sure if I could be a good father and
plus I never expected to have a child like this."
"What did you expect?"
"I expected me being married and living in a
little house, Mac I never expected to have a one
night stand with my partner, the woman I love, but
can't tell her that." That's when Harm realized what
he said. "Oh I'm sorry Mac. I never meant to say
that."
"It's okay, but we need time."
"I'll agree with that. I talked with my mom the
other night before I came over to your place and she
told me that when my dad found out that she was
pregnant with me he accused her of having an affair
with another man. I guess that's the way Rabb men
react to their dream's coming true. Mac what I'm
trying to say is that I'm so sorry for the way I've
been acting and I'd like to make it up to you and
the baby."
"Harm you don't expect for me to go on like
nothing happened."
"No, but Mac you know I grew up with out my
father and how important a father is to a child.
Don't make our child go through that. Our child
deserves to grow up with both parents." Harm
pleaded.
"This won't be easy."
"I didn't expect it to be."
"Alright."
They talked the rest of the night about the baby
and how they were going to handle the situation.
"Harm do you want to have a DNA test?" Mac asked
knowing how Harm reacted when she told him. He
thought it was Brumby's.
"I would like to know if the baby is mine or
not, but it doesn't matter."
"Harm trust me it's yours. Mic can't have
children." Mac told Harm slowly.
When they were finished talking it was 11:00 and
Mac still hadn't completely forgiven Harm, but she
was willing to l;et him be part of there child's
life.
JAG Headquarters
Falls Church, Va.
Mac let Harm be part of her and their child's
life. Harm went shopping with her for baby furniture
and he went with her to all her doctor's
appointments. Harm even went to Lamaze with her.
He'd been supportive through the entire thing. They
even agreed to moving in together after the baby was
born so that the child would know both it's parents.
She pulled into the parking lot and noticed
that everybody's cars where there. Curious she
walked in and noticed that all the lights where off
in the bullpen. She quickly turned on the lights and
to her surprise everybody had thrown her a baby
shower. All her friends from JAG were there, Harm
was there, along with some of his new friends from
his new law firm.
"Guys you didn't have to do this." Mac told the
groups as she walked around and looked at the
decorations.
"We wanted to ma'am" Bud said where his was
standing beside Harriet.
"Thank you." Mac said as she began to dig in the
food that was set up on a couple of the desks.
After eating Harriet made Mac open all the gifts
they had given her. About an hour after Mac had
finished opening all the gifts Mac began to feel a
pain which she quickly realized that was labor.
Four Days Later
Roberts Residence
Alexandria, Va.
Bud was sitting at the kitchen reading the
Sunday paper when he ran across the birth
announcements. He noticed one picture at the bottom
right corner.
"Harmon Rabb Jr. and Sarah Mackenzie are proud
to announce the birth of their daughter Harmony
Patricia Rabb and Harmon Patrick Rabb III on
September 10, 2001..." The article continued on, but
Bud didn't finish reading it. He already knew the
whole story. Above the article was the picture taken
at the hospital, Harmon and Harmony were laying in
their bassinet facing each other asleep with their
thumbs in their mouths.
Rabb Residence
Georgetown.
Harm, Mac, and their twins moved into Mac's
apartment until they picked out a house. Harm and
Mac were sitting at the kitchen table enjoying the
piece while it lasted.
"Mac we never talked about marriage?" Harm asked
taking a sip of his coffee as Mac almost spit out
hers.
"What?"
"You know I love you Mac. We're living together,
we have two children, there's not better time so why
not now?"
"Harm you don't just get married because you
have children."
"I know that Mac, but I love you and I want us
to have more children and I want us to grow old
together."
"No."
"No?" Harm asked shocked. This is what he
thought Mac wanted.
"No Harm. I love you, but I don't want us to get
married because of the children. Maybe someday, but
not right now?"
"Someday." Harm let it roll off his tongue.
"Someday." Mac repeated. As Harmon began to cry.
"I'll hold you to that." Harm told Mac as he got
up to go get his son.
THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
***************************************
FEEDBACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*****************************************
Thanks for all the feedback I've gotten so far. You
guys are great.
Amanda