AN: I guess this part is kind of boring too, but with what's to come I
think you should appreciate it as long as it lasts. Thanks again Cria for
beta-reading these parts.
Redecorating
March 9th 2003
Harm was the first one to wake up. He was trying to be as quite as possible so he wouldn't wake her, he knew she needed all the sleep she could get. After a visit to his bathroom he stopped and just looked at her sleeping. He thought she must have sensed him watching her because her eyes suddenly fluttered open.
"I didn't mean to wake you up," Harm apologized.
"You didn't. Are you making breakfast?"
"Hungry?" Harm smiled at her. She got up and followed him out to the kitchen. He started making toasts and Mac found some eggs to boil. All of a sudden Mac grabbed his hand and put it on her stomach. He could feel a small kick from the inside. Too astonished too say a word he just kept standing behind her. Mac hadn't been able to see how he reacted. Her insecurities about how he felt in this situation blossomed up. She released his hand and her head sunk.
"I'm sorry about that. I just wanted to share that with someone. I don't really know how you feel about me being pregnant. You're always so good about it and I don't want to bother you with it more than I have to if it makes you uncomfortable," Mac was struck by another thought "Yesterday I just assumed you wanted to. I didn't think about that you'd might want to wait with intimacy like that until I'm not pregnant anymore." she would have continued to ramble if he hadn't stopped her.
"Hey Mac," he moved over a bit and nudged her to turn around so she would face him. "You are so beautiful and being this close to you is such a wonderful thing. What we just experienced together was one of the most beautiful things I've ever been through. I feel so honored you wanted to share that with me," he bended over to give her a small kiss on her lips. "You must have misunderstood me yesterday. There are few things I want more than to. make love to you, but one of them is to have a long meaningful and loving relationship with you and if that means I have to wait, that's what I want to do, but you should know that we won't be waiting because I don't desire you," he bent over to kiss her again. "The pregnancy has really only made you more beautiful to me.
Mac put her arms around him "I don't know what I did to deserve you," she whispered in his ear. She kept her arms around him and they stood like that until the baby was so out of patience and started kicking again.
"You should be nicer to your mommy, you know," Harm kneeled down in front of Mac's belly and kissed it too.
"Let's have breakfast," Mac said. The hunger was getting hard to ignore. They both continued to do what they had been doing before.
"Was that the reason you didn't ask me to come with you yesterday to your Lamaze-class? You didn't think I wanted to be involved in your pregnancy and the baby," Harm asked her later.
"It would be understandable if you didn't. I didn't want to put you in a position that you would be uncomfortable with."
"You can ask me the next time," he smiled at her and she met the smile with an equally warm one. 'I don't know what I did to deserve this man?' she said to herself silently this time.
Forty-five minutes later they had finished their long breakfast. Mac had told Harm about her plans to start redecorating the guestroom to a nursery the same day and he had offered to help.
"So you're planning on painting it in a million different shades of pink since it's a girl?" Harm asked not quite seriously.
"No, I'll make it marine-green," Mac talked back at him.
"And what does Sturgis say about that?" Harm asked playfully. Mac liked the fact that they could now talk about Sturgis like this when they were joking with each other. It would probably help a lot in normalizing the relationships between all three of them.
"It's my apartment," Mac stated.
"But she's his daughter too. He won't mind you corrupting her."
"For your benefit I'll just ignore that last comment. Besides I'm sure he'll only let her play with submarines, so it evens out," Mac took the last bite of her toast.
They went over to her apartment and looked at the different color samples she had brought from the store yesterday. The room didn't really need to be redecorated; she just wanted to change the look of it so that she would think about it like the nursery and not just like the old guestroom.
"You never told me what Chloe said when you told her about the baby."
"She was quite shocked and then told me she thought I would have been smart enough to use protection," Mac answered him, but knew as soon as she had said it that this wasn't a conversation she should be having with Harm.
"Oh, and how did you defend yourself," he couldn't really understand why he was asking her that, but maybe it was his unconscious mind that had wondered about this and saw its chance to find out. It wasn't really a question he wanted to hear the answer to, it wasn't something he wanted to think about at all frankly.
"They aren't 100 %," Mac decided to answer him just to settle the issue once and for all. Now they were looking into each other's eyes and an uncomfortable silence was between them.
"Chloe." Mac wanted to tell him about her upcoming visit.
"This color." Harm said at the same time. They had both tried to break the silence and talk about something else.
"You go first, Harm."
"No, you do."
"You go first."
"No, you do."
"You want to fight me," Mac dared him.
"Always and never," he leaned in to kiss her.
"What about this color?" she evaded the kiss and pointed at the color sample he was holding in his hand.
"You're trying to trick me, but I won't fall for that one." he tried to kiss her again and succeeded this time. He went out to the kitchen and started to make lunch.
"Really original evasion tactics, making food for a marine," Mac had followed him to the kitchen a few minutes later.
"I decided on a color even without your help," she then said proudly.
TBC
Redecorating
March 9th 2003
Harm was the first one to wake up. He was trying to be as quite as possible so he wouldn't wake her, he knew she needed all the sleep she could get. After a visit to his bathroom he stopped and just looked at her sleeping. He thought she must have sensed him watching her because her eyes suddenly fluttered open.
"I didn't mean to wake you up," Harm apologized.
"You didn't. Are you making breakfast?"
"Hungry?" Harm smiled at her. She got up and followed him out to the kitchen. He started making toasts and Mac found some eggs to boil. All of a sudden Mac grabbed his hand and put it on her stomach. He could feel a small kick from the inside. Too astonished too say a word he just kept standing behind her. Mac hadn't been able to see how he reacted. Her insecurities about how he felt in this situation blossomed up. She released his hand and her head sunk.
"I'm sorry about that. I just wanted to share that with someone. I don't really know how you feel about me being pregnant. You're always so good about it and I don't want to bother you with it more than I have to if it makes you uncomfortable," Mac was struck by another thought "Yesterday I just assumed you wanted to. I didn't think about that you'd might want to wait with intimacy like that until I'm not pregnant anymore." she would have continued to ramble if he hadn't stopped her.
"Hey Mac," he moved over a bit and nudged her to turn around so she would face him. "You are so beautiful and being this close to you is such a wonderful thing. What we just experienced together was one of the most beautiful things I've ever been through. I feel so honored you wanted to share that with me," he bended over to give her a small kiss on her lips. "You must have misunderstood me yesterday. There are few things I want more than to. make love to you, but one of them is to have a long meaningful and loving relationship with you and if that means I have to wait, that's what I want to do, but you should know that we won't be waiting because I don't desire you," he bent over to kiss her again. "The pregnancy has really only made you more beautiful to me.
Mac put her arms around him "I don't know what I did to deserve you," she whispered in his ear. She kept her arms around him and they stood like that until the baby was so out of patience and started kicking again.
"You should be nicer to your mommy, you know," Harm kneeled down in front of Mac's belly and kissed it too.
"Let's have breakfast," Mac said. The hunger was getting hard to ignore. They both continued to do what they had been doing before.
"Was that the reason you didn't ask me to come with you yesterday to your Lamaze-class? You didn't think I wanted to be involved in your pregnancy and the baby," Harm asked her later.
"It would be understandable if you didn't. I didn't want to put you in a position that you would be uncomfortable with."
"You can ask me the next time," he smiled at her and she met the smile with an equally warm one. 'I don't know what I did to deserve this man?' she said to herself silently this time.
Forty-five minutes later they had finished their long breakfast. Mac had told Harm about her plans to start redecorating the guestroom to a nursery the same day and he had offered to help.
"So you're planning on painting it in a million different shades of pink since it's a girl?" Harm asked not quite seriously.
"No, I'll make it marine-green," Mac talked back at him.
"And what does Sturgis say about that?" Harm asked playfully. Mac liked the fact that they could now talk about Sturgis like this when they were joking with each other. It would probably help a lot in normalizing the relationships between all three of them.
"It's my apartment," Mac stated.
"But she's his daughter too. He won't mind you corrupting her."
"For your benefit I'll just ignore that last comment. Besides I'm sure he'll only let her play with submarines, so it evens out," Mac took the last bite of her toast.
They went over to her apartment and looked at the different color samples she had brought from the store yesterday. The room didn't really need to be redecorated; she just wanted to change the look of it so that she would think about it like the nursery and not just like the old guestroom.
"You never told me what Chloe said when you told her about the baby."
"She was quite shocked and then told me she thought I would have been smart enough to use protection," Mac answered him, but knew as soon as she had said it that this wasn't a conversation she should be having with Harm.
"Oh, and how did you defend yourself," he couldn't really understand why he was asking her that, but maybe it was his unconscious mind that had wondered about this and saw its chance to find out. It wasn't really a question he wanted to hear the answer to, it wasn't something he wanted to think about at all frankly.
"They aren't 100 %," Mac decided to answer him just to settle the issue once and for all. Now they were looking into each other's eyes and an uncomfortable silence was between them.
"Chloe." Mac wanted to tell him about her upcoming visit.
"This color." Harm said at the same time. They had both tried to break the silence and talk about something else.
"You go first, Harm."
"No, you do."
"You go first."
"No, you do."
"You want to fight me," Mac dared him.
"Always and never," he leaned in to kiss her.
"What about this color?" she evaded the kiss and pointed at the color sample he was holding in his hand.
"You're trying to trick me, but I won't fall for that one." he tried to kiss her again and succeeded this time. He went out to the kitchen and started to make lunch.
"Really original evasion tactics, making food for a marine," Mac had followed him to the kitchen a few minutes later.
"I decided on a color even without your help," she then said proudly.
TBC