Title: What Do You Want to Know
Author: rooster dawn
Pairing: Harm and Sarah
Spoilers: none
Disclaimer: The characters of JAG are the property of Donald Bellisario and Bellisarius Production, Inc. Used without permission. No copyright infringement intended. May be reproduce if unchanged, author given full credit, and no financial transaction is involved.
Summary: Harm and Sarah answer the questions the JAG staff always wanted to know.
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part two
Ten minutes later it was time to get started. Several people moaned that they hadn't finished, but to no avail.
"Is everyone ready?" asked Sarah.
Everyone yelled out "Hell Yes Ma'am!"
"Jen, will you do the honors of being the official score keeper." asked Sarah.
"Yes Ma'am." replied Jennifer as Harm gave her a sheet of paper with everyone's name on it.
First question:
"There are four people here who should have a pretty good idea when that was." smiled Harm. "All four of them were present that day. Of course most of you weren't around then."
"That's not fair!" whined Harriet.
"I didn't come up with the question Harriet." replied Harm as Harriet looked down dejected.
She had picked a day well after she and Bud had started dating. After everyone had given them a date or how many days after Sarah had arrived at JAG, Harm and Sarah looked at the answers.
"Let's see." began Sarah. "What was the date I arrived here at JAG?" she murmured as though in deep thought.
"Bud, what was that date?" asked Sarah.
"22 June 1996 Ma'am, the day Commander Rabb received his first DFC." replied Bud.
NOTE: I don't know the real date. It had to be in the summer, roses were in bloom and Harm, Bud, and the Admiral were in their summer white uniform.
"Why did I arrive here Clayton?" asked Sarah.
"To recover the Declaration of Independence that your uncle, Colonel O'Hara had stolen." replied Webb sounding a bit offended that Sarah was bringing up that piece of information.
"Which you lost." declared Sarah.
"That's all interesting history Sarah, but what does that have to do with what's going on here today?" asked Jack.
"Everything Jack, It was the day Sarah came into my life and turned it upside down. It started everything rolling." replied Harm.
"So what was the right answer?" asked Harriet sullenly.
"To be honest with you Harriet I'm very surprise that no one answered it correctly. The Admiral, Bud, Webb, and even Jason should have known the answer." replied Sarah.
"Particularly Webb since he brought us together." smiled Harm.
"You don't know how thrilled I am to hear that Harm." Webb lashed out.
"Well who was the closest Harm?" asked Jack.
"Bud, he was off by a week." answered Harm.
"Well are you going to tell us what day it was?" asked Carolyn beginning to become a little annoyed.
"I thought we gave you all enough hints." sighed Sarah.
"I took her to my place the first day I met her. We were going on a mission with Webb. I needed to change out of my dress whites and get a change of clothes." grinned Harm.
The Admiral whack himself in the head. "I should have known that."
"I was kind of shock at how his apartment looked. The only way I can describe the decor was, early disaster. Nothing work, he was using his refrigerator as a container to store his cooler in." smile Sarah.
"It wasn't my fault. A Thai Assassin had shot up the last place I lived. I had only recently moved into my new place. I got a break on the rent if I fixed up the place." replied Harm.
Question two :
"What's so funny Harm?" asked Webb.
"I wonder how close you have to come to the actual answer to be awarded the points." replied Harm.
"Why Harm? How far were we off?" asked Sturgis.
"No one guess within three years." replied Sarah.
"You didn't say anything about being close Commander. The two of you have been an enigma to all of us for too many years to know anything for sure. You both have always denied being involved." argued the Admiral.
"We never lied to you Sir. We weren't involved at the time most of these questions refer to." answered Sarah.
"But the answer will surprise you. It happened soon after the first fight we had." replied Harm.
"Bud knows when that was. He mentioned that he didn't like to see us fighting, it was like ... " offered Sarah.
"Watching your parents fight. It was about the time the Commander fired the shots that were heard around the world." finished Bud.
"You mean the time he fired the automatic weapon in the courtroom!" yelled the Admiral. "You mean to tell me that you have been sleeping together since then?"
"What? No Sir. We're talking about when was the first time Sarah was in my bedroom." responded Harm.
Jack looked over to Sturgis. "Did you know about this?"
"Yeah, Shortly after I got here. Harriet told me not to get him mad. Harm likes to fire guns off in the courtroom." grinned Sturgis.
"Then what does your firing the weapon in the courtroom have to do with anything Commander." asked the Admiral.
"Nothing Sir. You need to consider the source. Bud liked to give excess information about everything. He has the tendency as you know to ramble on. He doesn't know when to stop." replied Harm.
"Isn't that the truth." mumbled the Admiral.
"And anyway it was really quite innocent the first time I invited Sarah to my bedroom. I had recently moved into my new apartment as I had mentioned before and I was renovating it." started Harm.
"His apartment was a disaster. It looked like a tornado hit it." smiled Sarah.
"I had been mad at him because he sandbagged me in court a few days earlier. I decided to go over to his place after the trial that weekend with lunch as a peace offering."
"You can probably guess where the food came from." smiled Harm.
"Where?" a few people asked before everyone who knew Sarah yelled "Beltway Burgers!" Then everyone laughed.
"Hey! Marines need raw beef in order to deal with soft bellied squids." responded Sarah defiantly.
"Anyway as usual his place was a pigsty." continued Sarah.
"She looked around the loft with her nose up in the air like a snob. I thought she would like it, you know how marines like to get dirty. But in this case I was wrong. So I told her the only clean place to eat was the bedroom." smiled Harm.
"Testing the waters early I see." laughed Jack.
"Yep, had to see what she was made of." replied Harm.
"So what did she do?" asked Carolyn.
"She said works for me and walked straight to my bedroom leaving me to get the drinks." smiled Harm.
"Squids can't intimidate a Marine. Always have to keep them in their place." smiled Sarah.
"So what was the date all of this happen?" asked Meredith. "20 July 1997." replied Sarah. (assuming they met in June)
"So who was the closest Sarah?" asked Meredith.
"Keeter was the closest. He was only off by three years. Most of you were off by five years or more." laughed Sarah.
"Of all the people to guess that right, I don't understand buddy?" asked Sturgis.
"It's a man thing Sturgis, you'll understand someday when you grow up. Besides I have met Sarah before. We spent a couple days together in the desert in Iran. I could see how much they were in love with each other.
I thought the only thing that would keep Harm from getting Sarah to his bedroom was how much she looked like Diane, his academy sweetheart." gloated Jack as he high five with Gunny.
"You know how much a hound dog he is."
"Yeah, she does look like Diane. It was the first thing I mentioned to Harm when I saw her, but they weren't getting along too well back then." replied Sturgis.