Ok Sorry about the posting issue. I am hoping that has been fixed so please let me know if there are any other issues. I apologize for the long delay in posting new chapters. I has been a rough year for me. I hope you all enjoy the story.

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Harm returned to JAG HQ the next day in uniform for his interview with Admiral Fitzwallace. Admiral Chegwidden was none too happy Harm had that interview. He need Harm now more than ever that Mac had gone crazy, how would they handle the load, to top matters off he had approved Singer switching to judicial because Admiral Morris wanted her. Some how Rabb would pay for this. He wasn't certain how he knew he would.

Harm was walking to his office when he was suddenly pulled into another office. Loren and Meg were in there together and Meg said "Sir, right now you want to stay here. Your office is not safe. She's back!"

"Meg who's back?"

"Krennick!" Meg warned

Harm closed the blinds quickly to avoid being seen. Loren couldn't help but giggle at him. "What the hell is she doing here. I thought she was overseas or retired by now." Harm moaned

"Mac's lawyer!" Meg and Loren said in unison

Harm thought the old man had lost it now. Well thankfully Harm really had no reason to be involved in the case so no reason to deal with her. Once his interview was done with Admiral Fitzwallace, he and Loren were running off to get their marriage license. In two weeks they would have their house.

Meg agreed to stick by Harm until his interview. She didn't have court and could actually use his knowledge of flying on a case to help her understand it. Meg needed him to explain the terms used because well Harm was faster then looking them up and seeing it was normal flying or hot dogging.

Before they could get into that there was morning staff call. Loren saw the way Krennick eyed Harm and she wanted to rip the woman's eyes out and feed them to her. This woman did nothing by eye her man and wasn't bashful about it. Loren was beyond pissed and if Harm and Meg weren't there to keep her calm after staff call then likely Loren would have ended up in the brig.

Loren had to go meet with Admiral Morris and Meg dragged Harm into her office to answer questions about the case she was working. About the time Krennick was going to make her move to get Harm alone the Chairman of Joint Chiefs walked in with the JAG. Harm was summoned and sent off to the conference room with Admiral Fitzwallace.

Harm entered the conference room to meet with Admiral Fitzwallace. It was highly unusual for the chair of the Joint Chiefs to go over to JAG to interview someone but Fitzwallace wanted to go by and see his goddaughter as well. Harm reported in to Admiral Fitzwallace, who said "At ease Commander. We are going to have a little chat. Now explain to me how with everything you have done in the Military I have yet to have your name go across my desk." He motioned for Harm to take the seat next to him.

"Sir that is above my pay grade. I just do my job to the best of my ability."

"Does that include shooting a MP-5 into the courtroom ceiling?"

"That was an accident, I didn't think the gun was loaded and I should have followed rule one of weapons. Always assume they are loaded."

Fitzwallace laughed at that and said "Alright let's see two distinguished flying crosses. I have to ask how a lawyer pulled that off?"

"Well I wasn't always a lawyer. I was originally a Naval Aviator. I briefly changed back to that after I discovered I was missed diagnosed with night blindness. I was later told I had no future in flying because I was too old and not enough hours in the sky." Harm answered

"Well that experience may come in handy for me. I have heard you aren't a fan of paperwork but I will give you an assistant to help with your paperwork. Don't worry I will let you pick but I will request the transfer so it will happen. Now I am going to get a little personal with you. Loren is like a daughter to me. I was honored when her father asked me to be her godfather. That was a big deal back then because most senior officers would not ask a junior officer let alone a black junior officer to help raise their daughter should anything happen. Now Loren will kill me for going this way but I haven't looked up much about your family tell me about it."

"Well Sir, my father was a naval aviator like his father. I swear my family is cursed because both my father and grandfather went MIA during war. My grandfather in WW II and my father in Vietnam. I have given up my flight status which I had kept as a reserve pilot. My time in a F-14 cockpit is over. My mother lives out in San Diego with my step-father. Other than them I am the last of the Rabb's. My grandmother died last year and left me her farm in Va. I am letting a neighbor rent the fields and hope to retire there. I am in the process of becoming a guardian of a teenage girl, I met while I thought I was out of the Navy. She is a special girl and I want to help her. Loren seems to feel the same way about her so far."

"Tell e more about this teenage girl, like how you met her?"

"I went to fly my Stearman biplane and I saw a sign for job as crop duster. I thought my time in the Navy was over and needed something to do while I figured out my next step. So, I went in to the shop to see about the job and this teenage girl was running the office. She said her dad was out of the office and hired me after learning I flew tomcats. Three days later after still not meeting the father I confronted her and managed to get her to tell me the whole story. I have applied for emergency guardianship or I should say Loren and I have. "

"Interesting, have you ever wanted to know what happened to your father?"

"Yes sir! I still do. I know a few things from searching for him. First when I was 16 in Vietnam one summer. Later I went to Russia and learned he was sent there and escaped and had another son. He served in the Russian Army as a Helicopter pilot. Loren actually dated him while he was living with me trying to immigrate here."

"Wait! You brother was the one she thought she got pregnant by?"

"Yes sir!"

"Does he know you are really the father?"

"Yes, I called him. He is happy for us. He is married with a child on the way."

"Alright, Last question who should I ask about you for the most nonbiased opinion?"

"Easy my god father, Retired Admiral Thomas Boone!"

"I know Tom Boone. Good man."

Chairman Fitzwallace told Harm he would be in touch. Harm asked if he would like to see some pictures for Alex and if He would like to meet him since Loren was being slow.