A/N Thanks for the reviews and suggestions, as always everyone is the best ever. Now let's see what the plot bunnies have in mind for our favorite pair.
Harm and Mac just stood in each other's embrace, at that moment Mac desided that she never wanted to be without this man again, no matter what she had to give up to keep him. The fact is that she's in love with him.
Grandma Sarah walked back into the living room and watched Harm and his Sarah, she knew it wouldn't take much on her part to get her grandson moving in the right direction, little did she know that Harm was thinking along the same line.
"Ahh there you two are.. I made lemonade and put out homemade oatmeal cookies in the kitchen."
"You had me at lemonade." Mac said - she took Harm by the hand and followed grandma Sarah into the kitchen.
"You know Sarah ,Grandma Sarah's oatmeal cookies are legendary."
"Oh Harmon stop filling this poor girls head with nonsense."
Harm looked innocent..."I'm not, I'm telling her the truth. Here judge for yourself." Harm picked up a cookie and handed it to Mac for her to take a bite. She took a bite of the cookie in Harm's hand.
"Oh my god this is delicious, give me the rest of that." Mac said as she grabbed the rest of cookie out of Harm's hand.
Harm smiled watching Mac - "I told ya.."
"I'm going to need some of these to take home with me, that is if you don't mind of course."
"Not at all, in fact I'll make up both of you a care package each to take home. Now Harmon why don't you take those bags up stairs, put them in the guest room at the end of the hall. It has the bigger bed in it."
Harm and Mac looked at each other, unsure of what his grandmother had in mind, after all they hadn't come right out and told her that they're a couple.
"Harmon are you deaf? "
"No ma'am... it's just that..."
"I know what you're thinking, just because I'm old doesn't mean I'm blind. I know Sarah is important to you otherwise she wouldn't be here. Now get your six up those stairs and put those bags where I told you too."
Mac just burst out laughing, watching Harm walk up the stairs.
"Grandma Sarah, I love the way you handle him."
"I've had years of practice, plus I had his grandfather and his father. Once you learn how to handle one Rabb man, it's easy to handle the rest."
"Your going to have share your secret with me, I'm still trying to figure mine out." Mac put her head down.
"Walk and talk with me dear." Grandma Sarah took Mac by the hand and they walked into the den. Once there they sat down on a big old sofa . Mac looked around the room. She saw lots more photos of what she figured was the Rabb Men though the generations.
"There's so much history in here, I never thought about it. I didn't grow up like this, I can see so much of why Harm is like he is. It's like opening a door to his whole personality. I see where he gets his since of honor and integrity from."
"I've come to believe,it's instilled in them from birth. Come with me." Grandma Sarah took Mac by the hand over to the wall of photos. "See this one up there ( she pointed to a photo near the top ) that's Harmon's grandfather David Harmon Rabb - I met him when I was 13 years old, he was a spit fire, determined to fly planes. I told him he was nuts. And full of horse crap, he told me one day I would eat those words. He was right, he did become a naval aviator. Drug me along with him, not a day goes by that I don't miss him. It was fine when I had Harmon - Harm's father here with me. He helped to keep his father alive for me, and now Harmon comes to vist,so I've still got a piece of my David in him."
Mac looked at the picture of Harm's grandfather real close, it was like looking at carbon copy of Harm. "He looks exactly like Harm"
"Your right dear, it seems like all the Rabb men tend to look alike. Even their personalities seem to all be the same. That's why you have to force them to open their heart up, once you do that. They will be yours for life, I know my grandson loves you, if he didn't you wouldn't be here."
Mac smiled at grandma Sarah - "I love your grandson with everything in me, I just didn't think he did - till he wacked his head. "
"Well sometime it takes a good wack to clear the noggon up..."
Both woman laughed - Harm looked puzzled as he walked into the den. "Now what could you two possibly be talking about ?"
"Your stubborn six"
"Me what did I do?"
"Well to start with , you need to come see your old grandma more, after all I'm not a spring chicken. Oh and I want to live long enough to see my great grandchildren."
Harm looked shocked - Mac just smiled...
"Oh and I think you've made this poor girl wait too long for you to get your six in line."
"Grandma"
"You heard me Harmon... Now I'm going to leave you kids alone, Super will be ready at 6pm... Have fun..."
Grandma Sarah smiles as she left and headed towards the kitchen.
"Sarah I'm sorry for her..."
"Shhhh..." Mac said as she placed two fingers on his lips.."She's right, we've wasted to much time apart, I don't need you to romance me, I know now what I want. I just want you. That's all, just you.."
"Sarah I just wanted to treat you the way you deserve to be treated.."
"And I love you for it, over the last few days you've showed me who you really are , and by bringing me here to meet your grandmother, that means the world to me. I'm ready for this to be our time. Our new beginning..."
Harm took Mac's hand and kissed it.. "Our new beginning - I like the sound of that...So where do we go from here?"
"The sky is the limit Flyboy!"
Grandma Sarah smiled as she watched from the doorway, she thought - Now was time to give Harm the ring to take home with him, but it would be up to him to figure out when to give it to his Sarah.