Title: Lily

Author: Tempus Meum

Rating: M

Disclaimer: The characters and premise used in this story are unfortunately not owned by me. If JAG was mine…the possibilities.

Summary: Mac has a beautiful little girl, friends and a great job but for six years she has been anything but happy.

Lily 9: - Back to JAG

0830 hours

MacKenzie Household

Alexandria, Virginia

"Hey Harm, we're all ready!" Mac called as she walked from the garage into the spare room. She found Harm rifling through a box.

"I couldn't find any of my photo's in here." He said signalling around to the other open boxes in the room.

"Oh…sorry…I ah…forgot to tell you…they are out here." Mac took his hand and led him into the sitting room, with all of the expensive furniture. Stopping in front of the bookshelf she turned back to him. "I didn't think they belonged in a box." Harm looked at the photos that Mac had arranged on the shelves, there were photos of Bud & Harriet's wedding, and of the boys, there were a few of him and Mac at different times over the nine years that they were partners at JAG, and on the top shelf were his family photos; Trish, Frank and his father. Picking up the photo of Harmon Rabb Senior sitting in the cockpit of an F-4, Harm ran his fingers over his father's face.

Only when Mac laid a hand on his shoulder, did he remember where he was. "Sorry!" he said putting the frame back on the shelf.

"No…it's okay, come on lets go and surprise everyone." Mac's hand fell from his shoulder to his hand. Squeezing her hand Harm gave her a weak smile.

"I've got to go it sooner or later don't I?"

"You do!"

"Well let's go…I guess." With his hand on her back he led her to the door where Lily and Mattie were waiting.

Half an hour later, after dropping Harm's hire car off at the dealer, they pulled up outside AJ's house.

"So what's the plan?" Harm asked as he leaned forward from the backseat.

"Well if you follow me up the path, I'll knock on the door and then…think of something."

"Hmm…sounds…like a plan." Harm smiled.

"Well if you have a better idea!" Mac said as she opened the door.

"No…no…your idea is good, let's go."

They walked up the path towards the front door, Harm trailing two steps behind Mac. When Mac got to the door she took a deep breath and rang the bell. It took AJ about thirty seconds to answer the door, when he opened it a smile grew on his face, "Mac I wasn't expecting you today."

"Hi…ah…AJ, there's no easy way to do this so…" Mac stepped aside to reveal Harm who was standing at the bottom of the steps.

"Migod…Harm…Harm you're alive."

"Hi Adm…AJ"

AJ took a couple of steps forward, and Harm walked up the steps to meet him. "It's good to see you son."

"Good to see you too sir!"

"Enough with the 'sir' Harm." AJ took another step forward and pulled Harm into a manly hug "Where have you been."

"It's a long story, and I want to tell you but instead of repeating myself again at JAG would you mind if I told all of you together."

"I understand. Why don't you both come in."

"Oh…um…Mattie and lily are in the car. We were going to head over to JAG if you…ah…wanted to come with us."

"Sure why not! Just give me a minute and I'll tell Tess where I'm going."

"I heard about the wedding, congratulations."

"Thankyou, look…I'll just call her and you can meet her."

"You don't have to do that."

"Its no problem," AJ replied before turning into the house "Tess, Kaitlyn can you come to the door, there is someone I want you to meet!" AJ yelled into the house.

Ten seconds later a young girl came bounding down the stairs, followed by a woman with short dark hair.

"Tess…Kaitlyn I want you to meet…"

"Harmon Rabb Junior." Tess finished the sentence for him. "Sarah you were right." She said staring at him in shock, she looked at Mac, who stepped forward. "It's nice to meet you Harm, I'm glad you are alive and well." She said extending her hand to him.

"It's nice to meet you too Tess." Harm shook her hand and then looked down at Kaitlyn. "Kaitlyn it's nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you to Harm." Kaitlyn was staring up at him the whole time her eyes wide.

AJ turned to Tess then. "We are going down to JAG to…break the news to everyone."

"Ok…well…take your time."

"See you in a couple of hours." AJ kissed his wife and then grabbed his coat before following Harm and Mac towards the SUV.

0930 hours

JAG Headquarters

Falls Church, Virginia

"When we get to the floor, you all stay near the elevator and I'll go in and get everyone together. Then I'll give you some sort of signal and you can make an entrance." Mac said to the group as they rode up to JAG ops in the elevator.

When the elevator dinged to signal their arrival on the right floor, Mac looked down at Lily. "Do you want to come with me Lil?" Lily nodded enthusiastically. Taking her hand and stepping out of the elevator she turned back to Harm, "here goes, are you ready for this?"

"As I'll ever be." Mac gave him a small smile before turning and walking into the bull pen with Lily at her side."

"Hello Ma'am, we weren't expecting you today. Good morning Lily."

"Morning Aunt Harriet." Lily replied enthusiastically before Mac lifted her up to sit on the corner of Harriet's desk.

"Hi Harriet…are Tiner, Bud and Sturgis around?" she got straight to the point. The longer Harm, AJ and Mattie were standing out in the corridor the bigger the chance of someone spotting them…well him.

"Ah…yeah Captain Turner is in his office." She pointed towards the door of his office, Harm's old office. "And Bud and Lieutenant Tiner are discussing a case in Bud's office."

"Could you ask them to come out here please, I'll get Sturgis."

"Of course, is everything okay ma'am." She glanced at Lily who was swinging her legs back and forth with a big grin on her face.

"There is nothing wrong Harriet." Mac replied as she turned to Lily, "We will be back in a minute", she gave her a quick wink, which Lily returned.

Mac knocked on Captain Sturgis Turner's door and when she heard the reply to enter, she opened it and poked her head in. "Have you got a minute?"

"Sure, Colonel…Sorry Brigadier General, come in." Sturgis looked up and motioned to the chair in front of him.

"Actually could you come out here?"

"Um…sure." He got up hesitantly went around his desk and followed Mac out of his office; Tiner, Bud and Harriet were waiting for them.

"What's going on Mac?" Sturgis asked as Mac walked around to stand behind Lily. With her hands on her daughter's shoulders she faced her friends, not knowing exactly what to say.

"Um…well…" She started.

"Just tell them mummy." Lily turned slightly to look up at her mother.

"What…tell us what?" Bud asked.

"Ok," Mac took a deep breath, "for the last six years we all have had to live without one of our closest friends." She stopped and whispered something in Lily's ear. Lily jumped from the table and ran out of the doors. "Well… we don't have to do that anymore." Her smile changed into a broad grin as

AJ, Mattie and Harm walked through the door. Lily ran up to her mother and jumped back on to the desk, before being wrapped up in Mac's arms. Harriet was the first to react, her mouth hung open as she grabbed onto Bud to hold herself up. "You're alive." She stammered before Bud helped her into a chair. He then took a few steps towards Harm, and hesitantly reached out to touch his chest.

"Sorry I just had to make sure I wasn't seeing things."

That's all right. I'm really here Bud."

"It's good to see you si…Harm." Harm pulled Bud into a hug before pulling back and clapping him on the shoulder.

"It's great to see you Bud!"

Harm then moved onto Sturgis. "Decided to come back from the dead did you? The world does turn without you, you know?"

"I know." Harm looked to the floor.

"Well, I'm glad your back mate." Sturgis pulled Harm towards him and gave him a hug.

"Me too. And congratulations on the marriage, and also the little girl that I am looking forward to meeting, Alexis isn't it?"

"Yeah, and I'm sure she would love to meet you too."

"Tiner good to see you again, and congratulations on becoming a lawyer, getting married, and the pregnancy."

"Thankyou sir!" Tiner extended his hand. "Good to see you!"

"Enough with the sir, Jason, its Harm." Harm took his hand and used it to pull Tiner into a manly hug..

When he came to Harriet he knelt down in front of the chair she was sitting. "Sorry for the shock." He gave her is best flyboy grin.

"Don't be sorry it was a good shock after all." He wiped the tears from her cheeks, that had slowly started to fall, "We all missed you around here Harm."

"I missed being around here." Harm replied as he stood her up and gave her a hug.

"What's going on out here." Came a voice from behind the group, which had grown in size and now consisted off almost the entire JAG ops staff. "Brig. General MacKenzie, A.J., nice to see you but why are you disrupting my office.

Harm stepped away from Harriet. "That would be my fault Admiral."

Admiral Summers stared at the man standing before him for several seconds before recognition finally dawned. "Harmon Rabb Jr., migod you're alive…who would have thought…Mac…all this time we didn't believe you…but you were right…I've heard a lot about you son."

"I must say I haven't heard a lot about you sir, but I am sure I will."

"And it all better be good." The Admiral replied and looked at Mac.

"It will be sir." Mac replied before the Admiral turned and headed back to his office, and the crowd dispersed.

"Well I wanted to tell to why I have been gone while you were all together, so I didn't have to repeat myself five times, so if you all aren't too busy for the next half hour?" Harm spoke to the small group.

"Nothing that can't wait." Sturgis replied and everyone nodded their heads in agreement. "We can use the conference room."