A/N: Based around JAG season one episodes each chapter is an episode not all episodes will be represented. Ab Initio means the beginning.
Pilot
She's glad and sad for Harm at the same time. She's glad he found out a bit more about his father that his mother would never have known about, but she's annoyed that he still feels like he has to prove himself. If not to himself or to his father's illusory shadow, to her but she's long since been impressed. She knows who he is and there's nothing that's going to change that.
She hopes.
But hearing his early thoughts on Bud and Bud's career bring a smile to Mac's face, she wonders briefly what Bud thought of Harm when they first met. Though she thinks it's pretty clear from the tone of Harm's written words, amusement and a tickled ego she reads between the lines easily. In fact in one line she doesn't even need to read between them.
The kid's eyes shone when he told me he could make sure that it was ready for me, I've never seen that near anyone's face other than in post-coital bliss.
Mac smirked, at a younger Harm's words. She'd try and see if she could make his eyes shine like that when he got back from work later today, she smiled to herself as she closed the diary and stood up to get some dinner cooking.