Disclaimer in chapter 1. Thanks for the reveiws, keep them coming, and please no flames. It's a little bit longer, but the characters are really out of character.

Episode 3

Hide and Seek

Chapter 7

Mac sat screaming out of the corner of her eye she saw Harm walk in, and for a fleeting moment she was relieved, but the next moment she was gritting her teeth as sweet trickled down her temple. As Harm approached she gripped his hand and squeezed as hard as possible.

"Ok Colonel on the next contraction I want you to push as hard as you can." Mac nodded, she glanced sideways at Harm, he gave a reassuring smile.

"Push Colonel, push." The doctor ordered Mac let out a scream as she gave on long hard push, she then collapsed back against the pillow.

"Very good, I see the head I need you to give one more long, hard push now." Mac screamed again as she gave another push. This time she heard the lulling cry of a baby.

"It's a girl." The doctor announced. Mac laughed. "Alright Colonel we got one more in there." Mac leaned forward tears rolled down her cheek, her hair flattened to her head. "I see the head, just one more push Colonel and it's all over." Mac leaned forward giving it all she had, then collapsed back against her pillow, loosening her grip on Harm. She then heard the reassuring cry of her second baby. "It's another girl." The doctor exclaimed. Mac laughed in relief.

"Oh Harm look they are so beautiful!" Mac exclaimed she outstretched her arms so she could embrace her newborn girl. The daughter born first was laid gently in Mac's arms.

"Oh this is definitely Lucy. Lucy Marie Rabb." Just a few seconds earlier Mac had been flooded with thousands of emotions, but time seemed to stand still as Lucy looked right into Mac's eye and there was nothing Mac felt other than pure joy and love. The second girl was handed to Harm.

"Then that means this little one is Natalie Harriet Rabb." Harm could not believe that this little precious angel was his and Mac's.

For a few minutes the Rabb family sat in total bliss, reality had slipped their minds and for those few moments they were enjoying being first-time parents. Reality hit Harm first.

"I don't think the nursery will be safe enough for them, I'll make arrangements so that the girls are with you as long as you guys are in the hospital." Mac looked at Harm, her smile shrunk a little as she remembered Lt. Jenkins' threat, her gaze fell back on Lucy.

"I know." Was all she said her attention then fell back on the twins as she began talking to them.

"Is it alright if the admiral comes in?" Harm asked placing Natalie in Mac's arms.

"Sure." She said Harm slipped out into the corridor.

"Admiral." He called out.

"Twin girls, most adorable things you ever saw." His voice lowered, his gaze nervously shifted.

"I have to make a few calls, and ask a couple of favors from the staff can you stay with Mac and the girls?" The admiral smiled.

"Of course I would." Without another word the admiral slipped past Harm and down the hall toward Mac's room. Harm went towards the nurse's desk. A list of things to do racing through his mind.

Hey it's longer, what do y'all think?