Wherever You Go

by Clairisant2000

This time it is AJ in a coma and Mac has to deal with the fact that he is there because he was saving her life. Now the question is, 'Can someone in a coma hear what is being said to them' Read the story and find out!

1. Chapter 1

TITLE: Wherever You Go

AUTHOR: Clairisant

CLASSIFICATION: AJ/Mac.

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

CREDITS: A special thank you to my beta readers Qupeydoll and Cyndi.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Conversation will be in double quotes and thoughts in single ones.

Chapter 1

Yesterday had started out as normal as any other day for Sarah Mackenzie. She woke exactly on time without the insistent ring of an alarm. She rolled out of bed directly into her morning fitness routine. After her nineteen minute work out she took a six minute shower, spent four point five minutes dressing, and used another thirteen minutes to have a cup of coffee, a bagel, and refill her briefcase. She locked her apartment door and headed for her car forty-three minutes after waking.

Her drive to work could take anywhere from twelve to seventeen minutes depending on the traffic, but by 0730 she was in the break room starting a pot of good strong coffee. Unless it was one of the mornings that Admiral AJ Chegwidden arrived just before she did, and then she would find him making the coffee. The two of them would chat casually about the weather, a current case, or the latest movie or book either of them had seen or read until the coffee was ready then both would fill a mug and head to their own individual offices to start the day.

She was already busy at work when the rest of the staff started arriving and kept hard at it until 0855 when she picked up the files she would need and headed to the conference room for the morning briefing. As usual, everyone updated the Admiral on current cases and then he passed out new ones. The meeting broke just before 1000 and both she and the Admiral headed to the break room to get another cup of coffee. Harriett had brought brownies for everyone and they both grabbed one before once again going to their individual offices.

Because it was a beautiful spring day, Mac had decided to have her salad outside in the small courtyard near the building. It seemed like most of the staff had the same idea because everyone from the bullpen was there eating as well. The only ones missing were PO Coates and the Admiral.

Just before 1300 everyone cleaned up their tables and headed back into the office. The trials and hearings would start again shortly so those heading to court needed to stop by their offices to gather up appropriate paperwork.

Mac rode up in the elevator with Harm since they were due in court together for the Ryan sentencing. Captain Jerrod Ryan, age fifty-two, had been found guilty of abusing his wife and two step-daughters. Those three would never have had the courage to come forward on their own however, so it wasn't until his girlfriend, Lieutenant Commander Peggy Dalton, had filed charges of physical abuse against her lover who was also her boss, that his home life was investigated. Ryan was now facing the sentencing portion of his trial on all four charges. Mac, as the prosecutor, was pushing for the maximum sentence since during the entire trial, Ryan had shown no remorse for his actions or desire to seek counseling.

They had shared the ride up with one of the court reporters, a Lieutenant JG that Mac later regretted not even remembering her name. The three in the elevator heard shouting as they were moving up, but had no idea of the turmoil that they would be walking into.

Jerrod Ryan wasn't going to prison because he had simply put four broads in their places! Women were put on this earth to service men and if they didn't, they needed to be disciplined! He was sure his defense attorney felt the same way he did. Jerrod had seen Commander Harmon Rabb nod a couple of times while listening to his story and had even smiled once. Jerrod had been sure that the Commander would be able to get him off, that was until they had gotten into court and he got a taste of that damn Marine Colonel that was prosecuting his case!

Oh, and taste her was just the tip of the iceberg of what he had wanted to do to her until she started presenting her case against him. Then all he could think of was putting Colonel Sarah Mackenzie in her place just like he had with the others! She was relentless in court, getting his wife and his girlfriend to testify and even presenting statements from the counselors treating his two step-daughters. Just because they were ten and thirteen, you would think that they should somehow be treated differently? 'One should train them early!' Jerrod believed. One day their future husbands would thank him!

To be continued….