Author's note:

This is my first story here and I hope you like it. In case the story looks familiar, yes I wrote it it's also published on where I'm known as MacGyverGod. I tried to adjust the spelling as much as I could. Other than that, I would also like you to know that this is a first version of the story. I completed a second one that will also be published here sooner or later. I'm breeding now after I finish the next story or the next few stories to combine both versions into it's ultimate version.

In addition to create a better illusion I placed on several spots in the story music tracks. Meaning that I write the names of the tracks in it. So if you got good filmmusic play it and listen to it while reading the story. For this first story it's mostly music that comes from the series in later stories it's more actual filmmusic.

(The MacGyver theme song starts and goes over to a soft tender tone when we first see the houseboat during the night)

MacGyver – Family in Agony

Chapter I

Nightly memories

1995

It was pretty quiet on the houseboat. The living room was deserted. For the first time in weeks MacGyver was sleeping in his own bed again only this time there was a woman with him. That was the woman that was hoping to see each other more often. It was the woman he went after in East Germany to reunite her with her grandfather. No one else than Maria Romburg was sleeping against his chest. He was keeping his arm around her while he was watching at the moon that shined through his roof window and the few stars that were twinkling around it. He couldn't believe it, that he was sleeping with a woman. It was pretty hard for him to love someone, especially after two unpleasant experiences with Deborah and many deaths in his family. His mother died of a stroke while he was in Afghanistan, his grandmother and father died in a car accident and his recently late grandfather Harry Jackson who died of very serious heart attack. That day MacGyver also almost died too, after Hakim order his security man to shot poison in his I.V. While he was thinking of it, he was glad he survived it and saved Pete's life. The only thing he couldn't was to convince Harry to come back with him. His time was up.

Later on MacGyver received his heritage: the 1957 blue nomad from his grandfather, which was standing now between the Jeep and the yellow pick-up truck on the marina's parking lot. The yellow pick-up truck also belonged to his grandfather. Now he was living happily on his houseboat with Maria and his son Sam Malloy. A happy family.

Well sometimes not so happy and definitely not when the three inhabitants works for the Phoenix Foundation. On occasion the trio are away, sometimes together, sometimes separated, sometimes the other stays home and etc. No matter what, the MacGyver-Romburg-Malloy family were living happily together. After a lot of fights and arguing Maria finally succeeded into convincing MacGyver to finally marrying her, although it wasn't easy and very hard for MacGyver when he brought up the Deborah thing. She tried to kill him by making a boat to explode, knife him down, and shoot him and pulling him of a cliff. It ended in her own death. But Maria convinced him into commitment and finally into marriage.

From as soon this night was over it was the big day. It was like he once said on his birthday in 1987: He was willing to get settled, find someone, getting married and do normal things and that's how it's gonna be. He sighed loudly and was actually thinking of his keys on his keychain. There were 4 keys now. One belonged to the Jeep, the second one of the yellow pick-up truck; the third one of the nomad and the fourth one was the house key. He decided to keep the Jeep for himself, giving the yellow pick-up truck to Sam and the nomad to Maria. Yeah that's how it's gonna be, he figured. He was looking at the clock on his night closet and saw it was already past midnight around one o' clock and was falling back to sleep until something dragged his sudden and undivided attention. Something in black with a black cape passed his roof window.

'What the…' he whispered.

He quickly jumped out of bed without waking Maria and putted his clothes on. The white T-shirt first and then his pair of jeans. On his bare feet he walked outside the door onto the marina. (The music grows wilder and wilder and wilder then it slows)

'Somebody out there?' he asked out loud, of course he didn't receive an answer. He was searching in the light that stood outside of his houseboat. Suddenly from behind him a big shadow came over him and touched his shoulder. (BOO! does the music and fades away)

'Wah!' MacGyver screamed but quickly came back to his senses when he saw the shadow was Sam. 'Sam, darn it, don't do that anymore.'

'Sorry dad,' Sam replied.

'Where have you been anyway?'

'On my date with Sally.'

'Who?'

'Sally. A girl I met when you went after my soon-to-be wicked stepmother Maria in Brazil.'

'I see. By the way Maria isn't wicked.'

'I know, dad, but what I don't know is what you're doing out here.'

'Something passed the roof window in a black cape. Haven't you seen anything out here?'

'Sorry dad.'

'I probably imagined it.'

'Probably. Tomorrow it's the big day.'

'Yeah! Come on son, it's bedtime.'

'Am I gonna have to sleep on the couch tonight again?'

'Sorry son, I only got one bed.'

'Never mind, dad, it's okay.'

Sam went inside the houseboat. MacGyver looked one more time around the houseboat and went inside too. When he went upstairs, Sam asked: 'Dad?'

'Yes, son?'

'Can I bring my girl to the wedding tomorrow?'

'If you like that, son.'

'Dad?'

'What?'

'Thanks.'

'Your welcome.'

'Nighty night, dad.'

'Nighty night, son.'

MacGyver went upstairs and went back in his bed. He still couldn't sleep and half an hour later, he stood up again. He walked from left to right and vice-versa. Then he stopped and opened his drawers of his night closet. He took a small plastic bag out of it with special magic coin in it. (Harry's theme song starts here) He got the coin from his grandfather, three months before he died. He said: 'Bud, I made this coin for you. It's a very special one. If you rub it hard and fast over your arm or your sleeve I might appear. But it'll only work after I died.'

Harry was dead for 5 years now and MacGyver never tried it before. What if it didn't work? There was only one way to find out. He went back downstairs, slowly and silently not the wake the others. He got into the kitchen and putted his hands on the sink, and then he looked into his hands at the coin. He slowly shook his head but decided to try it. He rubbed the coin hard and fast over his bare arm. He knew that it wouldn't work.

'Thought you would never use the damn thing,' a familiar voice said.

'Harry?'

'I'm over here bud, behind the couch.'

MacGyver went from the kitchen to the stairs and saw Harry standing next to the couch.

'Is this my great grand son sleeping here?' Harry asked pointing to Sam.

'Yeah that's Sam.'

'Don't worry, he can't hear me and your bride to be either.'

'What do you mean?'

'Nobody can hear us.'

'Because I'm talking to a dead man here?'

'That's right, bud.'

Harry moved around the couch to the round table, which was standing in front of the kitchen. Harry took a seat.

'Come, bud. Take a seat, let's chat a little and play some chess.'

'Chess? The set isn't complete anymore, you putted those puppies in your pocket, remember?' MacGyver said with a smile.

'And now I'm taking them out of my pocket.'

Harry took those puppies out of his pocket, together with a small chessboard and all the other pieces. They started to play and talk a little of their events together and of what happened after Harry died. 'I was watching you, you know,' Harry said.

'What's that?'

'That I was watching you, together with Celia and your mom and dad.'

'I see. Mom mentioned something like that when I was in that coma. She was so proud of the way I was helping people.'

'Yeah there were two of them in particular.'

'Really, who?'

'When you were in Romania helping that guy from the K-Force.'

'Oh, yes, him. Victor. That was a hell of a tough guy but eventually he saved my life by sacrificing his. And the other one?'

'The old man from the toy store.'

'Otto. He's Maria's grandfather. I bet the two of you would get along.'

'No doubt.'

'Harry, how are mom and dad and grandma?'

'They're fine. Celia was of course a bit disappointed that you didn't show up for dinner.'

'Well if you see her and mom and dad tell them little Mac said 'Hi' for me.'

'I will, bud. It's your move.'

MacGyver made a move and then Harry again.

'I'm gonna put these puppies in my pocket,' Harry said and the game was over.

'Look Harry, I'm so glad you're here but I can't shake the bad feeling that you can't be with me on the wedding, tomorrow.'

'I know bud, but if you rub the coin again before the wedding I can be with you the whole time.'

'But nobody will see you.'

'At least you will and I think that's the most important thing.'

'I wanted you as my best man.'

'Somehow I am bud. I know you asked Pete to be your best man.'

'Yeah. He would make a great best man. At least a better man than Jack Dalton.'

'Oh, I remember Jack. Actually he's not such a bad man after all, is he?'

'No! Jack's all right but he always gets me into trouble to get him out of it.'

'Didn't that happened lesser during the years?'

'Yeah.'

'As I recall, you've asked him a couple times to help too right?'

'Yeah, too steal the Ming Dragon and rescue Pete out of Central America.'

'I tell you what, bud. I'll be standing right next to Pete on your wedding together with Celia together with James and Ellen. What do you say?'

'That would be great, Harry.'

'Now I gotta go, bud, they are waiting for me up there and I think you could use some rest too. Take a look outside, the sun is already rising.'

'I'm indeed going back to bed, Harry. I see you later.'

'Later bud.'

Harry disappeared leaving MacGyver sitting alone at his table. He sighed and went back to bed with Maria. He fell back to sleep right away enjoying his last hours as an unmarried man.

(Harry's theme song stops here and fades out)