Disclaimers: I wouldn't be writing fanfic if they were mine

Feedback: it's be nice

Spoilers: Pretty much from Boomerang up to Adrift.....only the outcome is

different

Summery: Just a sad, cute Harm and Mac story





AUSTIN

Harm's Apartment

1900 local

Harm sat there on his couch in awe. He didn't think that she'd really

do it. He didn't think that she'd really marry him. She was there now. She was

saying goodbye. They were going down under for a while. She didn't know for how

long, but she wasn't going to leave JAG. It was like she was going on vacation.

Only longer. He tried to controll his emotions as she talked. "Mac, don't go."

He choked out. "I don't want you to go. I need you, Sarah." Their tears mixed

on the floor below their feet. "Harm, I have to go." Harm nodded his head.

"Goodbye Harm. I'll be in touch." He engulfed her in one last hug. "I love

you, Sarah." She pulled away and walked out. She left him standing there in

his door way, tears constantly falling. She never looked back.

The months went on slowly. Every weekend she would call. They would

talk for hours. Each time after each call, Harm would cry himslef to sleep.

He still couldn't believe that she was gone.





Firday evening

1900 time for Mac's call

It had been a year now, since she left. They got further away. Mac stopped

calling every weekend. It tunred to everyother weekend to once a month and

so on, until they barely spoke. Harm still, everynight Friday night, sat

by the phone awating Mac's call. Tonight, he had the raido on. A song came on

the caught his attention.

'She left without leaving a number

said she needed to clear her mind

he figured she'd gone back to Austin

Cause she talked about it all the time

It was almost a year before she called him up'

He listened to the words. They struch way to close to home, but he didn't

shut it off. Tears formed in his eyes as he heard the chourse

'Three rings and an answering machine is what she got

If your calling about the car I sold it

if this is Tuseday night I'm bowling

if you got something to sell you're wasting you time

I'm not buying If it's anybody else wait for the tone

you know what to do and PS if this is Austin I still love you'

That's when he heard a knock on the door. He didn't want to answer it.

He thought that if he didn't answer it, the person would go away. He had his

back to the door, so he didn't see the lock turn and the person step in. In fact

he was so into the song, he didn't even know that who ever was at the door

was now entering his house. That's when she heard the words to the song as

well.

'The telephone fell to the counter

she heard but she couldn't believe

What kind of man would hang that long

what kind of love that must be

she waited thress day and then she tried

again she didn't know what she'd say

but she heard three rings and then'

Mac quietly closed the door. She listened to the song, all the while watching

Harm. He looked like he was crying. He was now facing to where she could

see his face, but he didn't realize she was there. He was sitting on the couch

now, staring at the floor. The song played on.

'If it's Friday night I'm at the ball game

and first thing Saturday if it don't rain

I'm headed to the lake and I'll be gone

all weekend long but I'll call you back when

I get home on Sunday afternoon and PS if this

is Austin I still love you'

Then Harm spoke to what he thought was an empty room. "PS if this is Sarah,

I still love you." He mummbled to himself.

'Well, this time she left her number but not another word

then she waited by the phone and Sunday evening and this is what he

heard'

Mac knew the song very well. This was her moment to get to Harm. She walked

over beside him and sang with the song.

If youre calling about my heart it's still your's

I should've listened to it a little more and it

wouldn't have taken me so long to know where

I belong and by the way boy this is no machine you're

talking to can't you tell that this is Austin (Sarah. as Mac said)

and I still love you. I still love you.'

Harm looked through the tears in his eyes and saw the thing that he'd been

longing to see. The person that he saw in his dreams, every time he closed

his eyes, every time he saw a happy couple walking down the stree holding

hands. "Mac?" He asked, some what confused. "What...what are you doing here?"

Mac smiled. "I came back to you. That is, if you'll have me." Harm smiled

like he hadn't in a long time. "I wouldn't have it any other way." Tears once

again fell from their eyes as they hugged hello. That's how they stayed the

rest of the night. Happy and in each others arms.