A/N - Heheheheh..sorry about leaving you guys in the dark last chapter, I
just felt like being real evil.I'm not normally like that.: P Anywho.so
where were we.oh yes..I wanted to say this in my last chapter but totally
forgot so, those of you that were hoping for a major Brumby killing
spree.its not gonna happen.sorry (I'm really liking these dots aren't I?)
So yeah I decided to try and make up for the absolutely DISGUSTING
performance he put in on Australia's behalf and make him into a nice
person.kinda. Because we all know that Australian's are the nicest people
in the world, and Australia is the coolest.. (Currently hottest) country in
the world, so naturally being an Australian, I wasn't too pleased with how
the writer's of JAG made Brumby out to be. Once again sorry to those of you
that were anticipating a bashing but I really love my country.(
So here is the fifth chapter and after this there will be only a few
more.but please have patience because I don't like the ending and am
planing on changing it slightly.
Later, Misty
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Previously on 'I can love you like that'
"Good morning Mic!" Mac said to Brumby cheerfully as she entered the bullpen, but her cheerfulness vanished when she noticed his ashen face. "Mic..?" she asked worriedly. "W..Whats going on?" "You need to come with me Sarah, there's something you should know." Brumby said, leading her to the Admirals office. Tiner buzzed the Admiral to tell him that Mac had arrived and a weary sounding AJ told him to send her in. Brumby held the door open for her and she walked in. In her confused state she didn't notice Webb until he sat down in the chair next to her while Mic stood by the door. "Admiral?!" Mac asked, while hundreds of worst-case scenarios were running through her mind.
Same time, same place
"Mac I.." Admiral Chegwidden started, "Webb, you got us into this trouble, you can explain it to her." He said angrily. Webb nodded his head in acceptance before turning to face Mac. "Mac when you went to Indonesia not long ago a leader of a small terrorist group was killed and they blamed you for it." Clay started. "We were afraid that you would be their prime target and so as to not endanger you at all, we sent a team over to dig up some dirt on the group that would enable us to arrest them." He explained. "Now Commander Rabb was part of the team, with his sole job being to act as a distraction or decoy to the group to get their sights away from you and allow us to capture them." He said while watching Mac's face grow in horror. "Now all was going well and we had arrested one of the two remaining leaders when Harm was taken by them." He stopped when Mac gasped in shock. "He is alive," Clay quickly assured them, "but.." he waited for the Admirals permission before continuing. "We received this tape and these pictures along with a demand to return Filando to his brother, Janen. There is a team in place now to get Harm back when we supposedly make the switch, but instead we are going to take them down at the same time." He finished. Meanwhile, Mac had opened the package Webb had handed her and tears fell down her cheeks as she looked at the pictures of Harm tied to a chair and slumped over, passed out. He was covered from head to toe in blood and his clothes had gashes all over them. She fumbled with the tape player on the Admiral's desk while trying to insert the tape. Placing his hand over Mac's the Admiral said carefully, "You might not want to hear that Mac." "Please sir," she begged, "I have to know." AJ silently agreed and handed Mac the box of tissues while he put the tape in and pressed play. They were met with a series of loud screams and whipping sounds mixed in with thuds and cries for mercy. Mac was alarmed at the noise until she recognised the sobbing voice as Harms. She gasped sharply and her eyes filled with tears as she imagined what he was going through. The Admiral turned the player off and addressed Webb. "When the hell are you getting him out of there?" "They are going in.in two hours." He answered. "So we should have him back home by late tomorrow morning." "He better not be seriously injured Webb or you will be paying for it dearly." AJ growled at him. "I assure you we WILL get him back, but they haven't told us what state he is in. If I could have stopped this from happening I would have but at the moment we can only hope he'll be alright." Webb said grimly. "Fine. Until then Colonel you are dismissed to go home. We will inform you as soon as there is anything to tell." The admiral dismissed Mac, who had remained silent throughout the entire conversation. Dropping by her office on the way out, Mac noticed the tape Harm had left for her and putting it in her bag she left. When she got home Mac had a warm shower and changed into her pyjamas, then sitting down on the couch with a warm cup of coffee she put the tape in her player and pressed play. Out of the player floated the gentle voice of Harmon Rabb Jr, the man she loved with all her heart. "Hey Mac," he said "I wanted to do this in person for you but unfortunately I have an assignment and need to leave tonight so this will have to do. I've been trying to explain to you just how much I care about you, but my stupidity has got in the way again. I'll understand if you don't want anything to do with me after what I said to you but I need you to know exactly how I feel about you and what I would do for you. This is the only way I can think of telling you how I feel so.here goes." Harm said before the soft tunes of his guitar could be heard and he started singing softly to her in his gorgeous voice. "They read you Cinderella
you hoped it would come true
that one day your prince charming would come rescue you
you like romantic movies
and you never will forget
the way it felt when Romeo kissed Juliet
and all this time that you've been waiting
you don't have to wait no more."
Mac smiled with tears in her eyes as she thought of how well Harm knew her. Even with the marine image she put up around her, he knew exactly how she felt.
"I can love you like that
I would make you my world
move heaven and earth if you were my girl
I would give you my heart
be all that you need
show you you're everything that's precious to me
if you give me a chance, I can love you like that."
She started to sob now with tears coursing down her cheeks. 'If only I'd listened to him that night.' She thought.
"I never make a promise
I don't intend to keep
so when I say forever
forever's what I mean
I'm no Casanova
but I swear this much is true,
I'll be holding nothing back
when it comes to you
you dream of love that's everlasting
well baby open up your eyes..."
'He never did make promises he didn't keep.' Mac thought with a smile.
"I can love you like that
I would make you my world
move heaven and earth if you were my girl
I would give you my heart
be all that you need
show you you're everything that's precious to me
if you give me a chance, I can love you like that
If you want tenderness
I've got tenderness
and I see through to the heart of you
if you want a man
who will understand
you don't have to look very far."
Mac thought about what Harm had said while the tape continued to play his song, as he went over the chorus a few more times. 'He's so right,' she thought, 'I must be blind not to have seen it. Now I just hope he comes back to me in one piece.' And with that she grabbed a photo of Harm from the mantelpiece and curled up with it on the bed in one of his Navy shirts she had stolen once while the tape played softly in the background.
I can love you, girl I can
oh baby oh...
I can love you like that
I would make you my world
move heaven and earth if you were my girl
I would give you my heart
be all that you need
show you you're everything that's precious to me
I can love you like that
I can make you my world
move heaven and earth if you were my girl
I would give you my heart
my heart my heart my world
show you you're everything
love you like that
I can make you my world
move heaven and earth if you were my girl
I would give you my heart
my heart my heart my world
show you you're everything
Mac awoke from her dream of Harm holding her tightly in his embrace at the exact time Webb had said they were getting him out. It was 1:23pm and Mac dressed quickly into her uniform. Just as she was about to leave the phone rang and she picked it up quickly. "Mackenzie." She answered. "Mac, they're going in.," the Admiral said. "Thankyou sir I'm on my way." She said before hanging up and sprinting out the door. When she arrived at the JAG headquarters, Admiral Chegwidden was pacing the floor of his office. He motioned for Mac to sit down and informed her that they would call as soon as they had recovered Harm and gotten to safety.
********************************************************************* That's the end of chapter five, I hope you enjoyed it. Next chapter will be The Rescue.but I'm not going to actually call it that. Oh and since I'm from Australia and have never been overseas, I have no idea the times it takes to go from Indonesia to wherever in the US JAG is.so yeah.if it seems a little weird that is why. OH yeah!! The song.its called 'I Can Love You Like That' and by All 4 One. Lyrics curtesy of me listening to it over and over again.(
Previously on 'I can love you like that'
"Good morning Mic!" Mac said to Brumby cheerfully as she entered the bullpen, but her cheerfulness vanished when she noticed his ashen face. "Mic..?" she asked worriedly. "W..Whats going on?" "You need to come with me Sarah, there's something you should know." Brumby said, leading her to the Admirals office. Tiner buzzed the Admiral to tell him that Mac had arrived and a weary sounding AJ told him to send her in. Brumby held the door open for her and she walked in. In her confused state she didn't notice Webb until he sat down in the chair next to her while Mic stood by the door. "Admiral?!" Mac asked, while hundreds of worst-case scenarios were running through her mind.
Same time, same place
"Mac I.." Admiral Chegwidden started, "Webb, you got us into this trouble, you can explain it to her." He said angrily. Webb nodded his head in acceptance before turning to face Mac. "Mac when you went to Indonesia not long ago a leader of a small terrorist group was killed and they blamed you for it." Clay started. "We were afraid that you would be their prime target and so as to not endanger you at all, we sent a team over to dig up some dirt on the group that would enable us to arrest them." He explained. "Now Commander Rabb was part of the team, with his sole job being to act as a distraction or decoy to the group to get their sights away from you and allow us to capture them." He said while watching Mac's face grow in horror. "Now all was going well and we had arrested one of the two remaining leaders when Harm was taken by them." He stopped when Mac gasped in shock. "He is alive," Clay quickly assured them, "but.." he waited for the Admirals permission before continuing. "We received this tape and these pictures along with a demand to return Filando to his brother, Janen. There is a team in place now to get Harm back when we supposedly make the switch, but instead we are going to take them down at the same time." He finished. Meanwhile, Mac had opened the package Webb had handed her and tears fell down her cheeks as she looked at the pictures of Harm tied to a chair and slumped over, passed out. He was covered from head to toe in blood and his clothes had gashes all over them. She fumbled with the tape player on the Admiral's desk while trying to insert the tape. Placing his hand over Mac's the Admiral said carefully, "You might not want to hear that Mac." "Please sir," she begged, "I have to know." AJ silently agreed and handed Mac the box of tissues while he put the tape in and pressed play. They were met with a series of loud screams and whipping sounds mixed in with thuds and cries for mercy. Mac was alarmed at the noise until she recognised the sobbing voice as Harms. She gasped sharply and her eyes filled with tears as she imagined what he was going through. The Admiral turned the player off and addressed Webb. "When the hell are you getting him out of there?" "They are going in.in two hours." He answered. "So we should have him back home by late tomorrow morning." "He better not be seriously injured Webb or you will be paying for it dearly." AJ growled at him. "I assure you we WILL get him back, but they haven't told us what state he is in. If I could have stopped this from happening I would have but at the moment we can only hope he'll be alright." Webb said grimly. "Fine. Until then Colonel you are dismissed to go home. We will inform you as soon as there is anything to tell." The admiral dismissed Mac, who had remained silent throughout the entire conversation. Dropping by her office on the way out, Mac noticed the tape Harm had left for her and putting it in her bag she left. When she got home Mac had a warm shower and changed into her pyjamas, then sitting down on the couch with a warm cup of coffee she put the tape in her player and pressed play. Out of the player floated the gentle voice of Harmon Rabb Jr, the man she loved with all her heart. "Hey Mac," he said "I wanted to do this in person for you but unfortunately I have an assignment and need to leave tonight so this will have to do. I've been trying to explain to you just how much I care about you, but my stupidity has got in the way again. I'll understand if you don't want anything to do with me after what I said to you but I need you to know exactly how I feel about you and what I would do for you. This is the only way I can think of telling you how I feel so.here goes." Harm said before the soft tunes of his guitar could be heard and he started singing softly to her in his gorgeous voice. "They read you Cinderella
you hoped it would come true
that one day your prince charming would come rescue you
you like romantic movies
and you never will forget
the way it felt when Romeo kissed Juliet
and all this time that you've been waiting
you don't have to wait no more."
Mac smiled with tears in her eyes as she thought of how well Harm knew her. Even with the marine image she put up around her, he knew exactly how she felt.
"I can love you like that
I would make you my world
move heaven and earth if you were my girl
I would give you my heart
be all that you need
show you you're everything that's precious to me
if you give me a chance, I can love you like that."
She started to sob now with tears coursing down her cheeks. 'If only I'd listened to him that night.' She thought.
"I never make a promise
I don't intend to keep
so when I say forever
forever's what I mean
I'm no Casanova
but I swear this much is true,
I'll be holding nothing back
when it comes to you
you dream of love that's everlasting
well baby open up your eyes..."
'He never did make promises he didn't keep.' Mac thought with a smile.
"I can love you like that
I would make you my world
move heaven and earth if you were my girl
I would give you my heart
be all that you need
show you you're everything that's precious to me
if you give me a chance, I can love you like that
If you want tenderness
I've got tenderness
and I see through to the heart of you
if you want a man
who will understand
you don't have to look very far."
Mac thought about what Harm had said while the tape continued to play his song, as he went over the chorus a few more times. 'He's so right,' she thought, 'I must be blind not to have seen it. Now I just hope he comes back to me in one piece.' And with that she grabbed a photo of Harm from the mantelpiece and curled up with it on the bed in one of his Navy shirts she had stolen once while the tape played softly in the background.
I can love you, girl I can
oh baby oh...
I can love you like that
I would make you my world
move heaven and earth if you were my girl
I would give you my heart
be all that you need
show you you're everything that's precious to me
I can love you like that
I can make you my world
move heaven and earth if you were my girl
I would give you my heart
my heart my heart my world
show you you're everything
love you like that
I can make you my world
move heaven and earth if you were my girl
I would give you my heart
my heart my heart my world
show you you're everything
Mac awoke from her dream of Harm holding her tightly in his embrace at the exact time Webb had said they were getting him out. It was 1:23pm and Mac dressed quickly into her uniform. Just as she was about to leave the phone rang and she picked it up quickly. "Mackenzie." She answered. "Mac, they're going in.," the Admiral said. "Thankyou sir I'm on my way." She said before hanging up and sprinting out the door. When she arrived at the JAG headquarters, Admiral Chegwidden was pacing the floor of his office. He motioned for Mac to sit down and informed her that they would call as soon as they had recovered Harm and gotten to safety.
********************************************************************* That's the end of chapter five, I hope you enjoyed it. Next chapter will be The Rescue.but I'm not going to actually call it that. Oh and since I'm from Australia and have never been overseas, I have no idea the times it takes to go from Indonesia to wherever in the US JAG is.so yeah.if it seems a little weird that is why. OH yeah!! The song.its called 'I Can Love You Like That' and by All 4 One. Lyrics curtesy of me listening to it over and over again.(