Three Diamonds
By: allie. (CfSbIi)
Disclaimer: I don't own them, but DBS shouldn't either because he is will to get rid of Harm.
Pairing: Mac and Harm (As if there was every any doubt)
Summary: Six People, three stories, three diamonds and one family.
CHAPTER ONE: Past.
3:22 pm
La Jolla, California
Boardwalk By The Ocean
Trish Montgomery was sitting on a bench at the boardwalk next to the ocean, hanging out with her friends. School had just let out for the summer and Trish and her friends weren't wasting anytime in enjoying the sun.
"Oh! Look at him," said Molly, one of Trish's friends. "Doesn't he look amazing? I haven't seen him around before. I wonder if he's new?" Molly kept talking but Trish just blocked her out. Whenever Molly found a guy attractive she just kept going and Trish knew that the only way to stop her was to let Molly out talk herself. "...Trish! He's coming over here! Look!" And sure enough the handsome guy was walking over to them.
"Hi," he said when he was standing in front of them.
"Hey," said Molly eagerly. But he was just looked past her to Trish.
"I was wondering," he continued, "if you would mind holding my books while I took a swim," he said looking at the ocean and then back at Trish.
This made Trish look up, and when she did she was staring into a pair of deep blue eyes. And she couldn't say no.
"Sure," said Trish smiling.
"Thanks," he said and smiled back. At once Trish knew that with that smile she would do anything for him. "Would you also mind holding my cloths?"
"Not a problem," said Trish. She was awe struck by this man and she didn't even know his name.
Looking at the books that he had given her she noticed that they were all about aviation. Inside the front cover of all the books she saw that they had all been taken out of he Annapolis Naval Academy Library. 'So he was in the Navy' she thought, impressed. That was a big deal. To go to college, let alone one that was out of the state, and for the Navy. Trish was suddenly struck and at once she knew that she needed to know all about this mystery man, and she didn't have to wait long, because he was headed back her way.
"Thanks," he said when he was in front of her. "If you give me a second to change, I would love to buy you diner."
Trish looked at him unsure, after all they had just met, but one look into his eyes and she knew that she could trust him. "Sure," she answered with a eager smile.
"Great," he said and smiled. Turning on his heal he headed in the direction of the changing rooms. Five minutes later he returned and offered her his hand. She took it.
"I'm Harm Rabb by the way," he said looking at her.
"Trish Montgomery," Trish supplied.
Harm and Trish settled into a nice diner, they talked about everything, including his dream of graduating Annapolis and flying F-4s for the Navy. Afterwards Harm insisted that he walk Trish him because it was dark. Trish didn't fight him. She was captivated.
When they reached her door Trish turned to Harm and asked him the question that had been playing through her mind all night.
"Harm?" she said quietly.
"Yes," he said facing her.
"Why me? Why not any of the other girls I was sitting with?"
"Honestly?" she nodded. "You have long legs."
Trish had to give him credit. That wasn't what she was expecting.
"... but that wasn't it," he said.
"Oh really?" she said casually. "What else," he said taking a step towards him so that they were toe to toe.
"I saw your smile and I needed to know what it tasted like," and as he said that he was slowly bringing his face closer to hers, and at the last moment pulled away teasing her.
"Oh no you don't," said Trish as she pulled on either side of his face and planted her lips on his. And she just smiled.
Exactly one year after Harm and Trish met on the boardwalk they married. One year and two months into their marriage Trish discovered that she was pregnant, and nine months later Harm and Trish welcomed Harmon Rabb Jr. into this world. When Harm Jr. was five years old, Harm Sr. went MIA in Vietnam.
Harm never fully recovered and when he was sixteen went to Vietnam looking for his father, but didn't find anything on him. Trish remarried a man name Frank Barnett. Harm never liked Frank believing that his father was still alive.
When Harm turned eighteen he attended the same Naval Academy as his father. He graduated with Honors and joined the Navy as a distinguished pilot.
On Harm's third tour at sea, he was diagnosed with night blindness after crashing his F-14 into the landing deck, aboard a carrier. Killing his RIO, and leaving his chance at walking again unlikely.
Harm then spent the next year at his grandmother's farm slowly healing, and proved all his doctors wrong by walking again and then passing the physical to stay in the Navy.
Realizing that he couldn't fly again for the Navy, Harm attended law school and earned his law degree, so that he could still be in the Navy.
He is now working at the Judge Advocate General Corps (JAG) in Virginia.
Every six months Harm travels out to a carrier to do his quals (qualifications) to still be a Navy pilot, like his father.
Along with his partner, Sarah "Mac" MacKenzie, Harm and Mac battle both in and out of the courtroom...
... and this is one of those times.
TBC.