Harm's Mom, Part II
1900 ZULU
HARM'S APARTMENT
NORTH OF UNION STATION
Harm was almost finished cooking dinner and was expecting Mac at any minute. He knew what he had to do. Mac had had court after they came back from lunch so she didn't have the chance to talk to his mom.
Knock, Knock
"Mac, hey, come on in."
"Thanks, I hope you have dinner done."
"Yeah, it should be done in about five minutes."
"Good, I'm starving."
"When are you not? I mean, I don't get how you can eat so much of the wrong thing and continue to look as great as you do."
"I'll take that as a compliment, flyboy."
"Good, it was meant to be one."
They both sat down to eat dinner and Mac was patiently waiting to see if Harm was actually going to give her, an explanation to the comment he had made earlier that day. After a while, she knew he might need some pushing. "I uh, got a call from your mom before I came over here."
"Yeah, she wanted to talk to you after we came back from lunch, but you were in court."
"Yeah."
"What did she want?"
"Oh, she just wanted to tell me some stuff."
"Right, anyway, I didn't tell you to come over here so we could talk about my mom so I'm just going to put this out in the open."
"Alright, shoot."
"Please don't interrupt me or say anything until I'm done, okay?"
"Got it."
"I didn't think that you would want to actually act upon our deal because of me. Sarah, I have caused you too much pain. You are much too important to me to just end up like the rest of my exes. I care about you a lot, a lot more than in a friendly way. I don't want to cause you any more pain. You've always been so good for me and been there whenever I needed you, unfortunately I can't say the same for myself. I don't doubt you ability to be a great mother, because I see it in you everyday, and I don't want to do this just because I promised you I would. If I'm going to do this, it's going to be because I want to spend the rest of my life with you. I mean I dream about you every night, and I love you. I'm not going to mess up what we have because of a promise unless you feel the exact same way about me too."
"Harmon Rabb, Jr., I can't say that I feel the same way about you…" She stopped in mid-sentence and looked at him. His facial expression was one of being crushed, he looked like he had died so she thought that she should hurry up and continue. "I feel more for you. You have no idea. I don't know why things are so difficult for us, but I love you. And how can you say that you haven't been there for me? You were there for me through Dalton's death, Coster's stalking, you saved my life then, and even when we first met, you didn't let me go to help my uncle on my own. You trusted me. Harm maybe you don't understand, but I love you and I always will. Every since you made that promise I always held out that it would actually happen, that you wouldn't just chalk it up to the moment…and I'm glad you didn't."
"So is it safe to presume that we are going to pursue an actual, what the rest of the world would call a relationship?"
"Yeah."
"Okay, and I'll do this under one condition."
"Name it."
"We take this one step at a time."
"No problem."
"Sarah, you're too important to me and you deserve to be treated with the most respect. You're not just any woman or any girlfriend of mine, but you're my soul mate and I'm going to treat you like it. You mean the world to me. There's absolutely no telling where I would be if you wouldn't be in my life. I love you Sarah, with everything I am."
"I love you too, Harm. Just don't think that you mean any less to me." Mac leaned in closer to Harm, and they finally met to have their first real kiss. Mac knew he wasn't seeing anyone else, they weren't saying good-bye, and it wasn't under the mistletoe.
"Hey Mac?"
"Yeah?"
"Would you come with me to my mom's for a week? She and Frank are going to some art convention in the Bahamas and they wanted to know if we would want to come out there."
"Sure, but we have to clear it with the Admiral. She already did. We leave tomorrow morning at 1015."
"You were pretty confident I was going flyboy."
"Well I had some convincing arguments planned if you didn't want to go at first."
"Really?"
"Yup. I really hate to do this, but I'm serious about this going slow so what do you say I take you back to your apartment to pack and I'll meet you back there in the morning."
"Alright."
"Okay, I'm going to load my stuff in now so I won't have to do it in the morning."
"Okay."
2106 ZULU
MAC'S APARTMENT
GEORGETOWN
"Okay flyboy, I'm all set."
"This is gonna be great Mac. Well I guess I should get back." He leaned down and gave Mac a quick kiss. "Goodnight ninja girl. I love you."
"I love you too, Harm. Harm?"
"Yes?"
"Could you please stay? We don't have to do anything, I just want you to hold me."
"Sure."