Chapter 11

Mac gave a start of surprise when she came around to face her, "I gather you must be Darla."

Seeing the woman that AJ had lusted after in front of her Darla replied, "Yes, and I have a date with AJ for lunch. Can you tell me where he is?"

More upset than she had a right to be about the fact that AJ had a lunch date with this girl, Mac said, "It doesn't work that way in these offices. I'll go and let him know you are here. You can have a seat at that empty desk."

With a condescending nod, Darla walked over to the chair indicated and sat down, crossing her legs in such a way that the short skirt she was wearing rode up to reveal quite a lot of her shapely legs.

Mac headed off to AJ's office "I need to talk to the Admiral for a minute," she said to Jen.

Pushing the intercom button PO Coates said, "Admiral, Colonel Mackenzie would like to see you for a minute."

AJ's disembodied voice replied, "Send her in."

Mac walked through the door and trying to hold her temper check, she told him, "Sir, Darla is here saying she has a lunch date with you. How can you have a date with someone who looks so much like me?"

"First off, I don't have a date with her, but it is none of your business whom I date, no matter who they look like."

"She seems to think you have a date with her, so you must have given her the impression that you did! And it's just not right!"

"Mac, she stayed in my home for an entire week, of course I was friendly with her, but as I said before my private life is none of your concern."

"But Sir, she is way too young for you!"

"Colonel you are out of line, you need to stop this now," AJ told her knowing that she was right, but also knowing that what happened on Friday was something he would always regret.

"But Sir, it's like you're dating a younger me."

"Colonel DON'T go there. This is none of your business," AJ said becoming extremely frustrated at this line of questioning.

"But Sir, what are people going to think if you're going out with someone who looks just like me?"

"Follow me Colonel and we'll get this straightened out," AJ said as he left his office with Mac following close behind him.

Meanwhile out in the bullpen, Harm had come out of the break room when Mac left to tell the Admiral that Darla was waiting for him. He saw Darla sitting where Mac had left her and his coffee mug slipped through his fingers hitting the floor. He exclaimed, "Diane!"

"I've been mistaken for Sarah this week, but I haven't been mistaken for my Aunt in a long time."

"Diane was your Aunt?" he asked, approaching her slowly.

"Yes, she was Daddy's younger sister."

"WOW, you really do look just like her."

"And how would you know?"

"Because we were engaged before she died."

Darla looked up at Harm thinking 'Aunt Diane didn't do so bad here, maybe I should give him a shot!' She said to the handsome man, "It's too bad I have a date with the Admiral or we could go out to lunch and talk about my family."

"How long will you be in town? Maybe we could go out to dinner or lunch tomorrow," he said giving her his famous Flyboy grin.

"I'm supposed to leave today. Maybe I could break my date with AJ and go out with you instead," she was telling Harm just as Mac and AJ arrived within earshot.

"Since you didn't have a date with me to begin with Darla, that wouldn't be a problem."

"How can you treat me this way after what happened on Friday?" she asked.

"As I told you then, it was a mistake and it certainly doesn't need to be brought up here."

"But we were so good together."

"Darla," he growled.

Stepping up to him and running her hand up his chest, "That's not what you called me on Friday...darling."

To Be Continued...