Disclaimer in chapter 1.

To the anonymous reviewer I use y'all because I haven't heard other ways to pronounce it recently. (Raised in the south) If it bugs you so much tell me the correct form and if I remember I'll put it in. At your request I will discontinue the "please review and no flames" and "sorry for the gaps"-I was getting tired of writing it myself. Also I don't update daily only on the weekends if I have the time. As I said in chapter 9 I'm aware the chapters are short, and now that I'm past my conflicts I can write longer chapters!! (Yeah!!) Next naturally Harm and Mac are going to be a little out of character considering in the CBS series they are not married nor have children, I'm trying my hardest to keep them in character, but since I don't write the series I don't know the characters inside out. If y'all would like I will devote a little more time to my spelling and grammar, keep in mind though I'm writing this for pure fun. If you want you can be my beta reader but only for the solo purpose for grammar I want to create and publish the chapters. I don't see it as you dissing me, but I have to take a stand and explain myself.

Since so many have requested longer chapters I'm going to write a longer chapter!! I want y'all to enjoy reading this as much as I enjoy writing them.

Episode 3

Hide and Seek

Chapter 10

Harm went straight to Harriet who was sitting at her desk anxiously sorting through her files, as if she had overlooked it the last 46 times.

"Lt. Sims."

"Harm I'm so sorry…"

"Lieutenant Sims."

"If I had just paid a little…"

"HARRIET!" Harm finally snapped. Harriet jumped, her vision squared in on Harm. "Before I arrived, who was the last person you saw?" Harriet sat in deep concentration.

"Tiner." She remembered suddenly. "I went up, because I was told the admiral wanted to see me, but Tiner said the admiral wasn't in…." Harriet drifted off.

"Harriet who told you the admiral wanted to see you?" Harm demanded.

"Singer…and when I left I saw her poking around my desk, but at the time I thought nothing of it…" Harm pranced from his seat….he had one mission…find Singer.

Admiral's house

The admiral placed a plate of pasta before Mac, she sat at the tables, her eyes undivided from where the twins rest in the living room.

"I admit my cooking is probably nothing like Harm's, but you can't go wrong boiling some noodles, and dumping sauce on them." The admiral admitted, trying to break the silence. With the exception of the occasional kitchen noise, and the sound of the sheets shifting under the babies, the house had been quiet for a little over a half an hour now. Mac glanced shortly over in the admiral's direction, she gave a smile as she twirled her pasta around her fork. The phone rang, Mac jumped up from her seat, and raced over to the phone, not wanting the phone to wake up the girls.

"Chegwiggen residence." She answered a little unsure on how to answer the phone.

"Mac…Singer…battery…diner." It was evident it was Harm, but what he was saying was not clear, and broken up, it sounded like one of those cell phone commercials. It would have been funny, but considering the situation it wasn't. The phone went dead on the other line, obviously Harm's battery died, but what did Lt. Singer and a diner have to do with anything. Mac didn't realize but she had been staring at the receiver with a confused expression on her face.

"Mac is everything all right?" The admiral asked.

"That was just Harm, his battery was dying, something about Singer and a diner…" Mac drifted finally placing the phone back, she stood puzzled.

"Let's go." Admiral ordered.

"Go where?" Mac questioned.

"How many diners are there Mac, especially one's that meet Singer's demands?" The admiral pointed out.

20 minutes later

With the twins buckled in the back, the admiral and Mac made there way to their first diner on their list. The admiral was in a hurry at the same time drove as cautious as possible, he had precious cargo in the back. As they pulled into a lot of a local diner that submariners wives met right after their husbands left, Mac noticed Harm's car parked in the lot.

"He's here." Mac exclaimed. The admiral parked, and got out to help Mac with the twins.

"Go ahead." Mac encouraged. "Knowing Harm, he can get himself into a tight predicament, and will need you to bail him out."

"What about you?" The admiral asked, beginning to make his way for the diner.

"I'm a marine, I can handle two little girls." Mac reassured, as the admiral quickened his pace in the direction of the diner.

The admiral walked in to find Harm starring down the barrel of a gun with Lt. Jenkins and Lt. Singer on the other end, the admiral was about to retreat to warn Mac, but Jenkins had spotted him out of the corner of his eye.

"Admiral, just the man I was looking for, please join us." Lt. Singer looked up, for a moment he could have sworn he saw a flicker of remorse, but that was immediately covered up by an expressionless face. The admiral made his way next to Harm, hoping to block Singer's and Jenkin's view of the door. "Come closer I won't bite." Lt. Jenkins chuckled.

"How did you get involved lieutenant." Admiral Chegwiggen demanded, hoping to buy some time. The diner was vacant with the exception of the diner's owner, and cook crouched behind the counter in the kitchen.

"It's a long story Admiral." Singer began.

"I'm not going anywhere." Admiral reminded.

"The lieutenant and I go back to the academy, he made a proposal I couldn't refuse." Lieutenant Singer gave the short summary. The sound of the door opened caused Harm, and Lt. Singer to glance in the direction. Mac came in hauling two twins in carriers one on each arm. She glanced up, and when she did she saw Harm and the admiral with a gun cocked at them, and a satisfied Lieutenant Jenkins and Singer on the other end.

"Now it's getting interesting." Lt. Jenkins snickered, "Lt. Colonel why don't you and your lovely daughters join us." Mac hesitated, trying to contemplate how to get out without harming the girls.

"Leave her out of this Jenkins." Harm said, glancing out the window he saw another car park. "This just gets better and better."

"Maybe you don't remember my threat, I wanted to make you pay, I wanted you to pay. Now this is not how I planned everything to go, but it's just the way it's going to be." Lieutenant Jenkin's eyes were filled with insanity, a vein in his temple quivered, as his finger twitched over the trigger. "Now who first?" His gaze settled on Mac.

"Let's begin with the Lt. Colonel…"

Long enough? Hope so.