Title: Reunion

Author: red rooster dawn

Pairing: Harm/Mac

Disclaimer: JAG is property of Belisarius productions, no copyright infringement intended.

Summary: With trepidation Mac returns home for her high school reunion.

part seven

"That reminds me of another story that I believe that Sarah should tell. It's about the time I took a ride in a Russian sub after another Russian sub had torpedoed itself a week earlier. Sarah found a way to be there watching my back even though she wasn't on the sub with me." smiled Harm.

Mac walked up to where Harm was standing to join him and to related the story to her friends.

"Yeah, that was one of our better and more interesting adventures. There are two components to this story. The first component concerns a Russian Army Officer who was sent here to investigate why a Russian sub had been destroyed.

The Russian leadership had told him that it had collided with one of our subs, the Watertown. That's because the Watertown had been in the area and had shown up in port with damage to its hull.

The Russian officer knew Harm from when Harm went to Russia to check out their military laws the year before. They had became good friends. They were hoping that Harm could get them information they needed because of his friendship with the Russian officer that they weren't able to obtain on their own.

But all Harm could learn was that the Watertown wasn't involved in the Russian sub being destroy. It had been following the Russian sub in its baffles. It's a sub's blind spot.

It was reported that the sub actually destroyed itself with one of its new torpedoes that the Russians had developed, it had a malfunction.

Harm managed to get a ride on a Russian sub so that they could prove to him that Russian subs do not destroy themselves." smiled Mac as she saw the interest of all those in the audience.

"The second component of the story involves how I ended up on the Watertown following Harm in the Russian sub. There was a young woman who wanted to serve on a sub like her father, her grandfather, and her brothers.

Unfortunately for her women are not allowed to serve on subs in the Navy. They say it's because there isn't enough space. A few years before I had spent a few weeks on the Watertown so I knew that was an honest assessment on their part.

It's hard to move around on a sub without bumping into someone. Harm and I spent two weeks under the polar icecaps conducting an investigation while going from Norway to Korea. It was the most miserable experience of my life.

The fact that Harm and I weren't getting along very well at the time didn't help matters. The fact I was almost killed made the experience even worse. I was lucky that once again Harm saved my life. He had to give me mouth to mouth because I had stopped breathing." smiled Mac to a round of whistles.

"Anyway I've digressed from the story. I was representing the young woman before a congressional hearing. The hearing was being headed by an annoying congresswoman who was always championing lost causes for women.

She suggested that I should take a ride on a sub to gather information for the committee. I wanted to slap her silly. I had already been on a sub for more than two weeks. It's a miserable existence. I didn't need to take another ride on the sub to confirm that.

But since I knew that this congresswoman wasn't going to change her mind and arguing with her was like telling a month old puppy not to piss on the floor, I decided to make the best of a bad situation.

I knew the Watertown was going to be following the Russian sub that Harm was on or at the very least be in the area. Since I knew the Commander it wasn't too hard to arrange to go with him and follow Harm.

He asked me why I chose him. I told him that Harm was on the Russian sub. He was surely going to get into trouble since he always seems to attract it. I wanted to be in position to help him if he needed it.

It was like killing two birds with one stone. I would be there for Harm and I would be able to write a report about women serving on a sub for the committee.

I asked the commander of the Watertown to follow the Russian sub. He was only three hundred meters behind the Russian sub in its wake. The Russian sub didn't know that we were right behind it. We could also hear what was going on inside their sub.

When the Russian commander told his guests that they were going to fire the prototype torpedo I heard the panic in Harm's voice. He questioned the Russian commander. He had been told what would happen if the torpedo was fired. He didn't want to be there on board when the torpedo hit the sub.

I convinced the Commander to contact the Russian sub and to tell him what would happen if the Russian commander fired the torpedo. If he fired the new torpedo of theirs it would turn back on them and sink their sub.

I tried to convince Russian commander that we could hear everything that was being said on the Russian sub. That we had spies put listening devices into all their subs at the shipyard where they were being built.

I think he was confused because he knew what I was saying to him was true, but he didn't want to believe that it was possible. He also didn't want the civilians on board to know the truth." continued Mac.

"My Russian friend had asked me after he heard Sarah's voice over the two way radio 'Does she follow you everywhere?' You might wonder why he might ask me that question.

She followed me to Russia in 1999 when I went there to look for my father. In 2001 I had gone to Russia to review Russian Military Law when I met my friend. We went to Chechnya to check out a rogue Russian General.

Sarah came over to Russia looking for a Russian Army Officer who had connections to the KGB. He had killed a Naval officer she was defending. Sarah was in Moscow where a CIA agent and KGB agent who were fighting for jurisdiction.

Since they were ignoring her she decided to look for me. The KGB agent told her I was in Chechnya. So she decided to travel from Moscow to Chechnya in a cab just to see me. It was a good thing she did because she saved my life.

The Russian Army Officer she was looking for was in Chechnya and had left a truck filled with explosives right outside a building I was in. I would have been killed if Sarah hadn't shown up.

We found out that the Russian President was going to be there. It turned out the RAO was there to kill him and blame the Chechnens for it. We managed to get out of the building, deactivate the bomb, and saved the Russian President's life.

She met my Russian friend at that time. Even though he was surprised to hear that Sarah had followed me, in the end he was pleased that she did for she was responsible for saving my life when I was on the Russian sub." smiled Harm.

"Like I said trouble has a way of finding Harm. Now is it alright if I get back to my story? The Russian Commander went ahead and fired the new prototype torpedo against the wishes of Harm and the civilians on board.

The torpedo went about three hundred meters before they sent it a command to change directions. Unfortunately for them it changed directions alright, it turned and headed back towards the sub.

The American Commander fired a torpedo at the Russian sub to intercept the Russian torpedo. It was a scary moment as the Russian sub maneuvered out of the way of the torpedo and fired a torpedoes at us.

Decoys were sent out causing their torpedoes to explode before they reached us. Our torpedo intercepted their rogue torpedo and it was destroyed only a few meters from their sub. We all lived to fight another day."

"She saved my life that day. She's my hero." said Harm.

"You have saved my life many times too Harm." replied Mac.

Author's Note: This story is quickly coming to a close, only three more chapters. I am working on four or five stories that are near completion, but may be a week or two away from being posted.

In the meantime I have posted some short stories for other TV shows.

They are: Star Trek Enterprise StarGate-1 Smallville

A Week at the Lake Lost in Another World Before the End

Abandon and Forgotten Welcome Back Daniel Jackson Fairy Tales Can Come True

After the Wedding Where Did Daniel Go

T'Pol Has Visitors

I have also started a Harry Potter story called The Blending,

which will be an epic story (300 pages double space)

I want to thank everyone who have taken the time to read my stories. Some are better than others. Thank you for your kind words.