TITLE: Forever Kind Of Love

AUTHOR: Clairisant

CLASSIFICATION: AJ/Other

FEEDBACK: Would love to hear both good and bad feedback but please try to be kind and constructive. Clairisant

AUTHOR'S NOTE: I want to dedicate this story to Qupeydoll who beta-ed 65 of my 69 JAG stories. I will miss her. The reason that I have not posted this story before now was my sadness at her loss. She beta-ed the first half of the the story so please forgive the mistakes in the second half as I haven't found another beta reader to work with.

Chapter 1

Officer Akaliiani Benet was just about to go off duty for the night when she spotted a vehicle parked on the side of the road and a driver with his head slumped over the wheel. As she pulled her squad car up in front of the vehicle she wondered if the man was drunk or sleeping.

Approaching the driver's window Akaliiani was now able to see the man had a Navel uniform on. If he had been drinking, the problem just got a lot more complicated. Rapping on the window startled the driver into lifting his head. The dazed look on the man's face led her to believe there was something pretty dramatic going on.

The power window slid down and the driver cleared his throat before saying, "Yes, Officer?"

"Is there a problem, Admiral?" she questioned in return, able to see his rank as well as the chest full of ribbons on his jacket now that he was sitting upright.

He attempted a smile that failed as he quipped, "Only if you consider find your fiancée in bed with another man a problem."

"Wow! I would guess so!" she blurted out.

"I'll tell you what, just give me the ticket and I will be on my way home," he told the lovely slightly Asian looking woman with the darkest black hair he had ever seen twisted up in a bun under her uniform cap.

"There's no reason to give you a ticket, but you don't really look like you are in any shape to drive. I'm off duty now and there's a diner just a mile up this road, why don't you meet me there for coffee and we could talk until you are up to driving."

Knowing that the officer was right about his state of mind, and driving, he said, "I am guessing only part of that is a suggestion…"

"Well I wouldn't want to make it official…all that paperwork just as I'm getting off duty…"

This time the smile actually reached his deep brown eyes, "I understand, and thank you. I'll be at the diner in a few minutes."

Akaliiani nodded and walked back to her car. She was already sitting in a booth when the tall good looking Admiral walked into the diner. He came right over and took a seat across from her at the table.

"It seems we skipped introductions," he stated holding out his hand to her. As Akaliiani took it, he continued, "I'm Admiral AJ Chegwidden, Judge Advocate General."

She smiled at him and said, "I'm Lieutenant Akaliiani Benet, but my friends call me Liiani (she pronounced it Lee ah nee)."

"Now why would anyone want to shorten a name as beautiful as that? Where does it come from?"

"Mostly because Akaliiani is such a mouthful. My name is Hawaiian, Dad married my mom while he was stationed there. Now I hope that you don't mind, but I ordered coffee for you. There is cream and sugar here, but you seem like a black man to me."

"Oh really?!" he asked with a crooked grin and an arched eyebrow.

Akaliiani reached across the table and swatted his arm with the back of her hand. "You know what I meant!" she insisted with an exasperated sigh.

"I did, and I do," he told her as he took a drink from his un-doctored black coffee.

She let him take a couple sips from his cup before asking the question that had been burning in her mind since he'd told her the reason he'd been parked on the side of the road. "So, do you have any idea at all why your fiancée would cheat on you?"

He gave her a thoughtful look and Liiani wondered if he might not answer her, however, almost as the thought finished in her head, AJ started to speak, "I'm afraid I had been neglecting her of late. Work had gotten crazy because we were short handed and I had been putting in a lot of extra hours."

Liiani snorted, "That's not a reason to cheat on a man you love! Heck any woman worth her salt would have come up with ways to spend time with you that helped you too!"

AJ couldn't help but admire her grit, he gave her a half smile and asked, "And how would she have done that?"

"Well I don't know about her, because obviously she didn't even try! But I can come up with two ideas off the top of my head of what I would have done!"

To be continued…..