Harm just stood gripping the rails,he couldn't figure out how this had all come about. Why Josh, why him? He thought back to when he was told about his own father, the feelings and emotions that went through him. At first he was sad, than angry,angry at God for taking his dad away from him. He knew he'd need to be here for Josh. He glanced over to his side when he felt a hand take his.

She always seemed to know when he needs her. She's the only one that had ever been able to do that. He took her into his arms, holding her tight against him. "I'm going to need you."

"I know; I will always be here for you."

Harm nodded his head, "Josh will need both of us"

"And we will be here for him; as a family."

Nodding he looked up at the sky one more time before he turned to Mac. "Let's go" Together they made their way from the front porch to the garage, Harm opened the door with the remote, both headed inside and to Harms SUV.

Washington Dulles Airport

Delta Airlines Terminal

Once they arrived they had been taken to a staging area that had been set up. Looking around they took in the other families that were experiencing the same as they now where. They both just stood rooted in place, not really knowing what to expect. It was at the moment an older couple approached them.

"Excuse me Sir, you wouldn't by any chance know what's going on?"

"I'm sorry ma'am I don't, myself and my wife just arrived here ourselves."

"I see, myself and my husband have been here about an hour, they haven't told us anything."

"I'm sorry ma'am." Harm looked down towards the ground. The older lady started to walk away. "Ma'am you and your husband are more than welcome to wait with us."

Mac chimed in- "Yes we really don't mind, after all we can all use the company right now."

"Thank you..I'm Joyce by the way."

Harm reached his hand out, "I'm Harm this is my wife Sarah."

"It's nice to meet you both, this is my husband Henry"

Harm extend his hand out to the older man,"Nice to meet you Sir"

"This is all so shocking to us, we've never been involved in anything like this before, neither one of us know what's to feel."

Mac glanced at Harm, unsure what he was thinking, as he was listening to Henry, before Harm could respond. A woman walked up to the podium that the airlines had set up.

"Ladies and Gentlemen may I please have your attention," Everyone in the room got very quite as they all turned their attention to woman. "If I call your name please go to the back of the room." She started calling out names. Harm reached out for Mac's hand. They stood with baited breath. "Harmon Rabb jr" Harm shook his head, this was not happening. He couldn't do this. Mac gripped his hand.

"We can do this.Together " He nodded and they headed to the back of room along with a few more families.

When they reached the back of the room, there was another woman waiting on them. She was reading over the clip board in her hand; Harm watched her; he was starting to grow impatient. Mac picked up on this; fighting her grip on his hand. He glanced at her, "Harm calm down, I know your..."

"Harmon Rabb jr?" He looked up as he heard his name being called, The woman started looking around for him. Taking Mac with him; he made his way up to the woman.

"I'm Harmon Rabb Jr."

"I need to see your ID sir, I apologize sir but it's standard procedure." Harm nodded while he pulled out his wallet, handing over his military ID to the woman.

"Thank you Commander, if you'll follow me..."

"May my wife come with me?"

"Yes that's fine."

They both followed the woman through a closed door and down a long hallway towards what looked to be a rather large holding room. However once inside they saw rows of black body bags. Harm tightened his grip on Mac's hand as they headed towards one of the rows. She had them stop. "Please wait right here."

Another woman walked up, this one dresses in EMT clothes. "Sir; Ma'am, first off I am very sorry for your loss, however we require that a positive ID be made for state records."

Harm nodded, as she unzipped the bag, he took a couple of steps forward looking down into the bag. Lowering his head he reached down unzipping then bag a little more. He took out Annie's hand, placing it in his; leaning down to her ear. "I'm sorry; I'm so sorry for the way things went down between us, I never wanted to hurt you or betray you, I only hope you can forgive me. I'll spend the rest of my life taking care Josh. You have my word on that. He'll never forget you." Stepping back next to Mac he regained his composure. "Yes this is Mrs Annie Pendry."

"Thank you Sir, on behalf of the airlines we're sorry for your loss."

"Tell that to her son"

Harm took Mac by the hand and they walked out.

Rabb Residence

McLean Va

Before they walked into the house Mac knew she needed to get Harm to talk to her, he hadn't said a word on the drive home. Instead he gripped the steering wheel with a deadly grip. After they pulled into the garage, Harm had started to open his door until he felt Mac's hand on his knee. He turned to the side and looked at her.

"I don't want to talk about it Mac."

"We need to. Please let me be here for you."

"MAC; I said I don't want to talk about it, please just drop it for right now."

"Fine." Mac started to open the door when she felt his hand grab ahold of hers.

"Sweetheart; I'm so sorry I snapped at you, that's the last thing you need or deserve from me. I'm just not handling this very well..."

She took her hand and placed it on the base his neck. Than laid her head on his shoulder. "Together Harm; we will handle all this together."