San Diego NAS
Harm smiled when he saw his family waiting for him as he taxied up to his parking spot on the tarmac. However, he cursed when he saw Spider standing in the shadows waiting for them. He was also pissed when he noticed how anxious it seemed Mac was to get out and see the spook. "Mac, hold your fuckin' horses. You can see your boy toy in just a few minutes!"
Mac stopped and watched Harm, slightly stunned at his harshness and wondering what he was talking about. She couldn't see who he was talking about.
Harm was fuming as he finished shutting down the engines and opened up the canopy and climbed down. However, he soon forgot his anger as he was bear hugged by Mattie.
Mac smiled as she saw Harm and Mattie's exchange and then hurried down herself glad to be back on tierra firma. Then she was surprised when Webb came up and gave her a huge kiss in front of everyone and tried to lead her away from everyone else. "Come on Sarah, I have reservations for us at a fancy seafood restaurant by the bay before we retire to our suite at the Hilton."
Trish then stepped in, "Mr. Webb, Sarah already has plans to come stay with us for the next couple of weeks. I'd offer you to stay with us, but we have no more spare bedrooms."
"Mrs. Burnett, I'm sure you could spare Sarah a few days while we catch up."
Mac turned to Webb, "Clay, but I've already promised to stay with them."
"But Sarah!"
"No Clay, you didn't discuss this with me before hand. Once again, you just presumed I'd drop everything. We can meet up for lunch tomorrow."
"Well how about I come with and we can share your room?"
Grams then stepped in and coughed loudly, "Young man, unless you two are married, I don't condone such things as that."
Harm laughed quietly in the background knowing Grams was making this up in hopes to get rid of the spy.
Trish turned to Mr. Webb, "Well I guess we could make room for one more at the dinner table if you'd like however."
Webb sighed, "Ok, Sarah and I will follow you to your house."
Trish grinned, "Sorry Mr. Webb, but we have some catching up to do with this Marine about my son. You'll have to follow us alone."
Harm just laughed and turned to everyone, "Ok guys, lets go get changed and then we can leave."
An hour later
After everyone had showered and changed out of the flight suits, everyone, save Mr. Webb, climbed into the SUV limo Trish had borrowed from Frank's company. Bud, Harriet and the kids sat up front by the drivers so they could talk. On the right sat the Admirals, Frank, Skates and Beth. On the left sat Sturgis, Harm, Mattie and Keeter. In the back sat Trish and Grams with Mac between them. Immediately, once they started the hour and a half drive to the Burnett house, Trish and Grams started grilling Mac about Harm. Trish was also formulating a plan on how to rid of Mr. Webb and texted Harriet to talk to the driver about the tail.
Harriet who was up front and could see out the back window to see Mr. Webb following them, turned to the driver and asked him to lose Mr. Webb. The driver complied and turned a few times and ran a red light before they finally lost the spook. Harm who had noticed the exchange between his mom and Harriet, laughed as he saw Webb pound on the stearing wheel as they lost him. Mattie looked to where her dad was looking and smiled up at Harm and Harm winked at her and returned to his conversation with his friends. He knew they hadn't completely lost him, but was happy to have for a least a short while.
Webb was furious and figured Rabb's mother and/or grandmother had a hand in losing him. He furiously punched in the phone numbers to his office to get directions to the Rabb residence. He swore that Rabb would pay for all the bullshit and trying to come between him and Sarah. He fingered the ring box inside his suit pocket. He knew he had to figure a way to get Sarah alone to ask her to marry him. Once he had his directions, he punched on the accelerator and took off towards Rabbs'.
Rabb residence
Trish had the whole bedroom layout pre-planned. Harm, Keeter and Sturgis already had their old rooms. They occupied the 2nd story South wing of the house. Harm's room was on the oceanfront corner, with Keeter and Sturgis in the two rooms across the hall. Trish put Mac in the room next to Harm's. Beth and Skates had the two rooms below Harm and Mac's rooms. Trish then put the Admirals and Mattie in their own rooms on the North wing, next to her and Frank's room. She put the Roberts' downstairs from them, with the children sharing a room next to Bud and Harriet.
After everyone was settled in, dinner was served. It was at this point as everyone was sitting down to eat, that Webb finally showed up. Mac had noticed that he wasn't following them anymore about halfway home, but figured he had business to take care and didn't worry about it. Webb came in still slightly pissed off, but was even more furious when he walked in the dining room to see Mac sitting next to Harm. Trish had most definately plotted this since they were in the middle of the table and Webb couldn't sit between them since it'd force everyone else to move around, so he took a seat at a corner between Trish and Grams.