1800 Zulu
Jag Headquarters
Harmond Rabb jr. had thoughts about his father and Lt.Colonel Sarah Mackenzie noticed that. Something put him in that retried mood since several days ago. She wanted to ask but for some reason things between them haven't been in a easy way since he came back from the Patrick Henry. She couldn't explain it but their old relationship has lost the way and she regretted that very much
However she surprised herself when she saw how her body went straigth to Harm's office
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- Harm - Mac called him from the door
- Mac – she got in- What's up?
- I just wanted to know if you need something
- No, thank you – Harm still had an odd expression on his face and she really started worried for him.
- I thought i was your friend
- You are
- I don't think so since you're lying to me
- Mac...
- No, listen. I have been watching you and you are not right. You have been edgy and rather absorbed in other things since last Christmas. Please, Harm, trust me.
- I do
- I would like to believe you.
They looked into each other's eyes
Harm started to speak so softly that Mac barely could listen him. He still kept his eyes on her.
- This Christmas Eve I went to the Wall to visit my father...
Mac's eyes filled with tears when she thought in Harm alone
- I met a woman lightening a candle to my father. It was Jenny Lake. She told me a lot of things. She talked to me about her relationship with my father; how he saved her life; how she knew him for a few hours.
- They were closed?
- I don't know how closed anyone can be just in few hours and i couldn't ask her in that moment. I wanted to do that later.
- Did she ask you to call her?
- No, she couldn't because she's dead
- What? It's impossible. Then how...?But you were looking for her...
- I just needed more answers
- Then that's the reason you acted so strange lately?
- Yes. She left a letter to my father with her housekeeper. She said she got married, had a family and she was happy with her husband and children but in that letter...
- In the letter...?
- She said she loved my father
The silence sorrounded them for a moment
- And does it bother you?
- I don't know Mac. It was...weird. She confessed she loved him even tough they were together just a few hours. She talked about him like she had known him her entire life.
- Maybe she had Harm – and Mac recited – "...Chance meeting your perfect other, your perfect opposite - your protector and endangeror. Chance embarking with this other on the greatest of journeys a search for truths fugitive and imponderable. If one day this chance may befall you, do not fail or falter to seize it. And if one day you should behold a miracle, as I have in you, you will learn the truth is not found in science, or on some unseen plane, but by looking into your own heart..."
- What did you just say?
- I only remembered something my grandmother left in her diary. That book was the only thing i took with me when i ran away from my father. I suposse she wrote it and meant a lot to her because she said it was very important i learned it word by word. Jenny met your father, he helped her and even when she knew your father loved with his life to you and to your mother she felt under different circumstances they could have been together and considering what you told me he thought the same too.
Harm just looked at her. Slowly he walked towards Mac and with his right hand caressed her face and his fingers touched her lips. Warm. Flash of desire. Hearts beating. Breathes fast. Eyes locked into one another.
- What? - she asked- Why do you look at me in this way?- his touch was...
- Nothing, Sarah. I just... - he couldn't follow.
He was so afraid; Harm knew he was irrational but he couldn't help but thinking that she was going to be better without knowing his feelings. Harm
He trembled. He thought for a minute in his father and his mother. During the long months without him. In the cold telegram saying his father was MIA. In the Christmas he never had in 1969.In his mother with tears trickling down her cheeks and looking at him. How treacherous he felt cuando he saw his step father for the first time despite of he knew Frank didn't deserve his almost rude remarks
And in that instant he was terrified. Panic because anything could happen to Mac or their baby. And he knew he couldn't stand it.
Meanwhile in her office Mac took one of her books from the little shelf. Very carefully she opened the book and the paper inside it. Then Mac read:
"...Nobody will never ask me to forget you because they all know that it will be impossible. Just remember this when they talk you about me: I will always stay faithful to your memory. My heart tells me I will never love any woman as I love you.
So, my love, till i meet you again, I remain forever yours..."
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Mac smiled. They have waited so much. So many lives. So many centuries awaiting. Two souls so meant to be together. How could she find out about them? How could she know?
She had no answer. She only knew events in their lives tried to keep them apart.
That the forces against them were unrelenting. But so was her determination. To see him again. To regain the comfort and safety they were meant to share for so long in time. Until then, she was ready to wait because souls mate eternal...
Some days later...
Mac went to Harm's office with a big amount of folders in her arms.
- Hey, these belong to you
- Hey, wait!. Let me get them. You should call me Mac. Too much for
you- he got up and went straight to her taking all her folders from Mac.
- Not so- she smiled.
The closeness was enervating
- Harm...
- Ma'am, Sir. Admiral wants to see you both ASAP.
Harm looked at Mac. The akward moment between them was over.
- We are coming Tiner, thank you.
Tiner left.
- We have to go
- Yeah
- Maybe we can talk later
- Maybe
Both seemed a little uncomfortable and both started heading towards their CO's office.
- Colonel, Commander, please have a seat. Next Friday we will have a filmimg crew visiting us. SecNav has just informed me Navy will have a new commercial to get reclutes. He has requested me to ask our entire cooperation meanwhile they are here. And that's what I want to do.
- Are you considering Hollywood lights again, Sir?
- Not in this Millenium, Commander, not in this millenium
And then these three officers laughed cheerfully
THE END
Note: The following Friday they met Renée Peterson and we know what happened next.
Coming Soon: my next story is related to this one.It will talk about decitions human have to take when they face their destiny and how only the greatest love can survive the time.