Title: Academy Murder

Chapter: 2/?

Author: socgrl

Rating: PG-13

Category: Adventure/JAG story

Disclaimer: I don't own anything. And even if I did it wouldn't be worth much anyway. I don't own them and besides I would have had H and M together a long time ago.

Summary: A little trouble at the Naval Academy.

Spoilers: to be as unspecific as possible.everything from season 2 till now.



Last time on JAG:

Harm and Mac watched the retreating midshipman and turned back towards each other. "I think we may have a possible suspect," said Harm.



28 October 2002

1245 EST

Naval Academy, Annapolis Maryland

Harm's phone rang. "Commander Rabb, it's Midshipman Michael Roberts. I was told by Lieutenant Roberts that you wished to speak with me about the murder of Midshipman Myers. I could meet you in the mess for lunch if that is ok with you sir" Mikey spit out in one breath. "At ease Mikey.that sounds like a good idea. Colonel MacKenzie and I will meet you there at 1300 sharp." "Aye aye, sir" and then Mikey was gone. "That poor kid.he's definitely a Roberts" laughed Harm.

Harm and Mac walked into the mess and found Mikey at one of the tables. As he saw them coming forth he stood at attention and addressed them "Commander Rabb, Colonel MacKenzie it's nice to see you again." "And you too Mikey" said Mac. Under his breath so that the other Midshipman wouldn't hear him Harm said, "Mikey, cool it. We are just here to ask you some questions." "Understood sir." Harm and Mac looked at each other and laughed. "So what do you know Mikey?" "Well sir, like I told Bud, I know Midshipman Lock. He's a stand up guy and that's how I met Midshipman Myers and she's perfect for Lock. They were like two of a kind, quiet and hard working, but they were also friendly and funny. See they were seeing each other.well as well as you can see someone at the academy.anyway we had met each other one night at a sort of liberty night that we are granted once a week. So we all went to this movie that was playing on campus in one of the lecture halls. When we left we ran into Midshipman Summers on our way out and he was walking with his 'girlfriend', Midshipman Miranda Baines. See Summers started yelling obscenities at Crystal because on the way out she had accidentally bumped into Baines and she in turn ran into Summers. So he was taking the accident way out of proportion." "Do you think that that incident could be a direct link to the murder?" Mac asked Mikey. "Well not exactly ma'am. You see the week after Summers publicly apologized to Myers and Lock for his behavior. And all was forgiven. In fact I think he was kind of sweat on Myers, cause he broke up with his girlfriend just after he apologized." "Well I know you have to get to class so we'll let you go. Mikey it was good to see you again. Keep up the good work." "Yes sir, will do. It was good to see you both again as well." Mikey got up to leave and then Harm and Mac followed shortly after.

Once outside their conversation started up once again. "What do you say we go get something other then chow that way we can regroup and we'll come back afterwards and take this from a different angle." "Sounds good to me. I'm starving," said Mac. "Is that supposed to surprise me?" questioned Harm. This earned him a glare from his partner. "You think you're cute don't you?" "No" stated Harm frankly, "I know I'm cute" and he followed with a devilish grin. "Shut up would you and feed me already" Mac said and playfully punched him in the shoulder.

20 minutes later

They ate at a nice little tavern that looked out over the Severn River. It was cozy and intimate and the 'now couple' found themselves at ease in their quaint surroundings. Harm reached out for Mac's hand and started up a conversation, "You know I can't believe how well the Admiral took our engagement." "Yeah me too" followed Mac, "Now the only question is how is he going to end up sticking it to us?" "Well I'm not supposed to tell you this so if you leak it I will have to kill you," said Harm with a playful grin at his lips, "I think he's going to put one of us up for judgeship. And at this point I think it's going to be you considering I am being advised due to my conduct lately." "Really?" answered Mac. "I hope this doesn't effect our relationship.that is.if I do end up with the position. I will be running the court.I'll be in control over you," said Mac this time she was carrying the devilish grin. "I hope you don't mind being given orders by a woman let alone a Marine." "Oh, I think I can handle it, in fact it's kind of kinky in a way.you up their in a black robe.hum.But anyway, so what do you think we should do now?" "Well I know what I want to do, but it's too early to go home, and besides we are on an investigation," said Mac, which earned her a flyboy grin from Harm. "We should at least go find this Summers character and see how much of the puzzle he fits into."



1430 EST

Naval Academy

Annapolis, MD

When Harm and Mac returned to the academy the decided that they would go and find Midshipman Summers and question him and then head back to the office for the day.

Harm and Mac found themselves outside of Summers' dormitory. They knocked and in a matter of seconds they found themselves staring face to face with whom they took to be Midshipman Summers. "Are you Midshipman Lucas Summers?" Harm questioned. "Ah yes sir I am Midshipman Summers. Can I help you?" "Yes, I am Commander Rabb and this is Colonel MacKenzie. We are with the JAG corp and we are here to investigate the murder of Midshipman Crystal Myers. Did you know Ms. Myers?" "Yes, sir, well sort of. We ran into each other on occasion. My girlfriend.well ex-girlfriend lived across the hall from her. So I knew her in passing." "Did you find Ms. Myers attractive?" asked Mac making her mark in the questioning. "Well to be honest yes ma'am. But what does that have to do with anything? Am I a potential suspect ma'am?" "Don't jump to conclusions Midshipman, all we are doing is asking questions" countered Harm to calm Summers down.

What they found was nothing. Summers had a corroborated alibi. He was in the engineering building working on a project with two upperclassmen. They defended his whereabouts and so did the engineering professor, who had assigned the project. So they were back to square one. It had been a long day with nothing to show for it. They would make the drive back up tomorrow morning to interview the rest of the girls that lived on the hall with Chase and Myers. But for now they were going to go back to JAG, return the company car, and then head home.

1830 EST

Georgetown

Home of Colonel MacKenzie

Mac opened the door to her apartment and Harm was right on her heels. They went into the bedroom to change into more comfortable cloths. Mac slipped off her shoes and threw them into the closet. "Ugh. I'm exhausted. I can't believe after all that we have absolutely nothing to show for it. It figures, every time the Admiral wants things handled quickly they happen to be the cases where nothing adds up." Harm began to take off his uniform shirt and dug through the duffle bag that he had brought over. "Well what do you say to some Chinese and then we can go over our notes.then maybe.a bubble bath?" "Hum.that sounds nice," said Mac as she took off the rest of her uniform and changed into a silk pajama top and matching shorts. "I thought you might like that idea," said Harm as he to had changed completely out of his uniform and put on a pair of mesh shorts and a Navy t-shirt.

He walked over and stood behind Mac. He could tell she was tense so he began to knead her shoulders. She let out a soft moan, "Please, Don't stop." Harm continued his ministrations and moved the hair from behind her ear to the side. He kissed her neck and her earlobe. "Sarah, do you have any idea how beautiful you are?" "Harm" Mac said and began to blush "I love you so much. How did I get to be so lucky?" "I guess I rubbed off on you," said Harm. "We are getting a little ahead of ourselves. We still have some work that needs to get done and besides I'm getting hungry. Why don't I call in the order and you make drinks and set out the files we need to go over." "Aw Harm.do I have to" Mac whined. "Yes ninja girl you have to. The whining was a nice touch though." "I thought so. All right, you go make the call and I'll set out the work."

Twenty minutes later the delivery boy rang the doorbell. "I have a delivery for Rabb, two orders of veggie lo main, two egg rolls, and two orders of wanton soup." "Yep, that's us. Thank you" said Harm as he paid the kid and went into the kitchen to grab chopsticks. "I see you like lo main now huh" said Mac. "Well it was a hell of a lot better then that Buddha's Delight crap Sturgis suggested. Besides I liked sharing dinner with you. It was kinda romantic." Harm said as he set the food down on the coffee table and gave Mac a quick kiss on the lips. "Ok, lets see where we stand."

After about two hours of running over all of the information Harm and Mac just seemed to be getting frustrated. Harm had gotten up to make some coffee and a short time later he came back into the room with a steaming mug. "Ok the facts, Myers was killed due to a strike by a blunt object. The killer came from behind without warning. We know that our prime suspect now has an alibi." "Speaking of Summers, do you think he could have broken up with his girlfriend in hopes of being with Myers?" "Well it's a possibility, I guess. What are you getting at Harm?" "I think we may be going at this from the wrong angle. You remember that case you prosecuted against Juanita Ressler." "Of course I do Harm, it was complete hell." "Well the defendant killed her husbands mistress, right?" "Yeah, I argued that she was prone to violence due to prior acts." "What if that's what we have going on here?"

A/N: Sorry I have to leave some of the mystery.but you all are smart and you've probably caught on and know where I'm going with this. So anyway read and review, the good, the bad, and the ugly.