PART 7
10:20 Local
Harm's Apartment
North of Union Station
Mac woke up to the feeling of someone's arms around her. She took a deep breath, inhaled Harm's scent and smiled. Last night was the single most wonderful time of her life. They'd made love four times more before the both of them finally fell into an exhausted slumber. 'He was incredible.' She thought, 'Best I've ever had.' Grinning, she felt his unshaven cheek rub against her neck before he proceeded to place soft kisses whenever he rubbed. "Mmmm. . . Good morning." She said, wrapping her arms around his own.
"Yes it is." He said, turning her over so that he could kiss her lips fully. Harm ran his hand slowly up her body, stopping at each curve and running a circle around before bringing his hand to the side of her face. "Last night was. . ."
"Incredible." She answered for him before the two chuckled. Mac ran the back of her hand over Harm's face. She topped at his lips and traced them before she placed a kiss on them. "Harm. . ."
"Sarah. . ." He said, kissing her again, deeper this time. "I love you." He whispered in her ear before pulling the blanket off of them so that he could have access to her body.
"And I love you, Harm." Mac said, closing her eyes as his lips moved to her throat and downward. She giggled when his hands grazed her sides, tickling her.
Harm grazed his chin over her abdomen, leaving goose bumps as he went. "God, Mac, you are so addictive. . ." He licked her bellybutton and placed a kiss under it. ". . .I am going to do things to you that you only dreamed about." He promised, but a knock on his door cut his momentum short like a needle scratching a record. "Shit. . ." He cursed, and looked up at Mac who was laying there with a confused look on her face. ". . . On Sunday I make breakfast for Jen and Mattie." He sighed, gave Mac a quick kiss and got off the bed. He slipped on his boxers, flannel pants and one of his undershirts. "I'm sorry."
"Rain check." Mac yelled, chuckling at their predicament. Wincing that her things were in the living room, she put on whatever she could find in Harm's room.
"Ya know, Harm." Mattie began, walking through the door and propping herself up on one of the stools in front of the kitchen island. "Maybe Jen and I should make breakfast next week?"
Jen, who walked in at that moment agreed. "Or we could go out? Denny's or something like that."
Harm looked at the two of him and shook his head. "How is it that the two of you are soooo spunky in the morning?"
Jen chuckled. "We, unlike you, sir, are morning persons." She grinned at Harm and leaned against the island.
"Can you two set the table?" Harm nodded towards it and added. "Set it for four."
"Ah, where's Mac?" Mattie said with a grin, watching as Harm gave her that 'don't go there' look.
Jen, who had started folding paper napkins to put on the table, stopped and looked towards Harm's bedroom and over at Mac who was coming down the stairs dressed in one of HIS shirts. The glowing expression on Mac's face didn't go unnoticed by anyone in the apartment.
"Mornin' Jen, Mattie." Mac smiled at Jen and Mattie and then headed over to Harm. "Need any help?" She asked in a soft voice.
Harm used *that* smile that he used only around her. The one that everyone in JAG ops had noticed he gave Mac and only Mac. "You can start the coffee." He said in a very soft voice. His eyes drank the site of her in his shirt and he grinned. "That shirt is pretty familiar." Though it was some mundane task of putting breakfast together, the sparks of comfortable intimacy between the two was not lost on Jen and Mattie who just stood their, watching Harm and Mac interact as if they'd been a couple for years.
Mattie and Jen exchanged looks of shock, before Mattie exclaimed, "Finally! You two are together?"
Harm jumped and managed to tear his gaze away from Mac. "Mattie… I ah. . . ."
Grinning, Mattie moved from the table and over to the two adults who were now blushing. "Harm! I am a big girl. . ." She noticed the blushing and frightened looks shared between the adults. ". . . you two ARE together. . ." She confirmed and looked over at Jen who was smiling at the uncomfortable situation that kids seemed to magically put adults into. "This is sooo cool!"
Harm and Mac stared at each other and then looked at the two who were grinning at them. "Yes, we're together." Mac confirmed, leaning a head on Harm's shoulder as he wrapped an arm around her waist.
"Sir, Ma'am" Jen began, nodding at the respective persons. "Permission to speak freely?"
Mac chuckled. "Jen. . . out of uniform you can call us Mac and Harm."
"Well then, Mac. . . It's about damned time." She said matter-of-factly before turning to help Mattie finish setting the table.
Harm looked at Mac and sighed happily. "I have to agree." He leaned down and gave her a quick kiss before trying to finish their breakfast.
During their meal, the girls sat discussing the latest adventures of the kids of the OC. Harm, who doesn't own a TV, was extremely confused. It took him a good three explanations before he found out who was who.
"Yea. . . but it was totally Ryan's fault, I mean instead of going to Marissa, he goes around ACTING guilty! And with his rep. . ." Mattie trailed off and looked over at Harm.
"Ryan is the juvie kid and Marissa is his girlfriend?" He was slowly, but surely catching on, though, he couldn't honestly see how anyone could watch a show that was THAT much like a soap opera.
Mac nodded. "And Oliver is the rich kid that is trying to take Marissa away from Ryan."
Harm sighed. "Well, now I am not so confused."
"So when are you two getting married?" Mattie said, effectively bringing the OC conversation to a close.
"Mattie!" Harm shouted, attempting to reprimand her with his shocked expression.
Mattie just shrugged and looked over at a shocked Jennifer Coates. "According to Jen you two have known each other for a long time."
"Nine years." Harm and Mac said at the same time.
Mattie grinned. "Well, so there! You guys know each other already."
"Normally people date before they get married." Harm said looking over at Mac who just nodded in agreement. "You can't call working dinners, dates."
Mac chuckled. "Though, some of our times together were better than those dating shows. . . Like you hanging out of the helo?"
Harm immediately started laughing. "Permission to come aboard?"
Jen looked at the two of them. "He hung out of a helo?"
Mac laughed. "A little over 24 hours after we met, I was sorta kidnapped. . ."
"Sorta!" Harm exclaimed, pushing himself a bit farther from the table. "Mac, they were holding you at gun point and leaving me behind when they shoved you and your uncle into the helo."
Mac glared at him and smirked. "So. . . I was sorta kidnapped and put inside a helicopter. Harm was going to be left behind in the middle of the desert. . . So, he ran, hooked himself onto the legs of the helo and between the two of us, we managed to disarm the bad guys. . . ." She grinned at Mattie and Jen's shocked expressions. "So, he is left hanging outside and when I am helping him he asks for permission to come aboard." She chuckled remembering how stupid it was for him to ask for permission. It was something that she liked about him since the beginning, his cocky attitude even in the face of danger.
Hours later, after Mattie and Jen headed off to the movies, Harm and Mac wound up in the bedroom once again. She was straddling him, moving her hips against his own. He moaned when she picked up the pace. Opening his yes, Harm saw the look on her face. Her eyes were closed, but there was a grin of satisfaction. Both of their bodies were covered in beads of sweat, some of which he had licked off of her breasts. The saltiness of her sweat, combined with the sweetness of her skin, made him want to devour every inch of her skin. They held on tighter to each other, eyes closed, mouths fused together and soon they were spent. Mac laid her head on his shoulder and sighed happily. Minutes later she released him from her and stood, dragging him into the shower with her. Harm just grinned and followed along.
She started the shower and Harm just watched with an amused look as she dipped her head back and let the water run down her body. He stepped into the shower and her hands linked around his neck as they kissed. "You're addictive too." She said with a chuckle when she found him ready for her again.
"It's been a while." He confessed shyly.
Grinning, she brought him up against her. "Like I am going to complain? We have eight years to make up for."
Harm chuckled. "Well, time to start making them up then." He said, before their mouths fused again.