Title : Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil

Author : Jaggie 107

Disclaimer : JAG characters belong to DPB, CBS and Paramount. Update on 'Sue Thomas, F.B.Eye' – the program is aired on PAX TV – and I still hope all parties will allow me to have fun for a little while, and replace them all when I'm done. Thank you.

Rating : G to PG-13

Author's Notes 1 & 2 : See Default Chapter

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In this chapter the character of Sue uses a mobile device that enables her to talk, but for the responses of others to come up as text on a screen. I have tried to find out what this device is (from Motorola), but wasn't able to do so before I posted this chapter. If anyone out there knows, please tell me! I've tried to be as accurate as I can with objects/locations using the internet, and I'd like to keep consistent! Thanks!

Thanks go to Ninjaturtle, Starryeyes10, Another Tracy, Jtbwriter, Alicia5, CapriceAnn, Melissa, DD2, Cbw, Lisa Brown and Jackie for their reviews so far. I hope you'll all stay with me for the rest of the story. For reviewers I miss out between postings, my apologies, and I'll be sure to add you to my 'thanks' list for the next chapters!

CapriceAnn – You are positively bloodthirsty! ;) Ha, ha!

Jtbwriter – I love the phrase 'mouse-turner' – good one! Thanks also for your x-over idea in previous review. Watch this space!

Lisa – Right!

Cbw – I write it as it comes. WYSIWYG!

Jackie – Thanks for reviewing again, added you to the list – sorry it took so long!

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Mac's Apartment – Georgetown – Washington DC – Wednesday evening

"Very well, answer it. But if you try anything, I will kill you where you stand," Sadiq muttered.

"I know." Mac turned to Sue, mouthed 'Harm' and picked up the receiver.

Harm knew straight away that there was something wrong. Mac's first words were 'Hey, honey! Yeah, Sue dropped by.' All this before he had a chance to utter a word. Then he spoke - "I'm on my way."

"Okay. See you at work tomorrow. Don't forget to give Hudson a call, we said we'd arrange a meeting about Sadiq." Mac kept her voice neutral and businesslike.

"I'm on it. Hang in there, Marine," Harm murmured in a low voice. He guessed from Mac's tone that Sadiq was not listening in. He was sure she would have found a way to let him know otherwise.

"Yes. I intend to. Bye." Mac replaced the receiver and stared at Sadiq. "He's back at his place across town," she said, knowing full well that Harm wouldn't be there for long. There was no knowing what he would do, but she knew that neither she nor Sue would become victims of Sadiq.

"So, you've been talking about me," Sadiq spoke, seemingly pleased to be the object of attention.

"I'd say you were pretty high up on our priority lists right now," Mac admitted, glancing at Sue again. The blood from the graze had smeared and now covered her cheek. Mac turned back towards the kitchen. "I'm going to clean up my friend's face, and then make us a drink. It's your show, Sadiq, but it's my apartment, and I'm not just going to sit here waiting for you to go 'boo'. Or should that be 'boom'?"

"Very good, Sarah. You're still an embarrassment to your heritage. A good woman would not do what you do. Sleeping with a man for your pleasure, or for an assignment, this is not what a good woman would do."

"Well, there you go, Sadiq. I guess it's a good thing, then, that I'm not your woman. It would be an embarrassment for you to find out that what you considered yours had been 'used' by others, and that she found it pleasurable!"

"Mac… Mac, I'm feeling a bit sick. Can I use your bathroom?" Sue spoke quietly, as though not wanting to rouse Sadiq's wrath.

Mac looked at Sadiq and then at Sue. "Sure. It's through there… I'm sorry, of course, you remember."

"I'll clean up my face in there too," Sue added, walking past Sadiq and along the corridor to the bathroom.

"Leave the door open," Sadiq ordered, watching as Sue walked away from him. Mac spoke up quickly.

"Sue can't hear you, she's deaf. Besides, I'm sure you already know what windows I have in my apartment, and where exit points are possible. The bathroom window only backs on to the service shaft, and it's too small for an adult to get through."

"You appear to know how I think, Sarah. However, I do not believe you about your friend. She understood what I was saying."

"She reads lips. I would have thought Davison would have told you about her. I did tell him about my contact in the FBI. How else would you have known to find her outside the FBI building the day you ran her down?"

"Of course. You really do know your business, Sarah. However, it does not absolve you of your sins, pretending as you did to be a pregnant woman. How could you do that? It is the most wonderful, precious gift to carry a life in your womb and deliver it to the world when the time is right. How could you pretend such a thing?"

"It's part of what I do, Sadiq. It's just acting, when needed. Webb needed a wife, a pregnant wife, and I fit the bill."

"It was wrong."

"It's over."

"It will only be over when I say it is over!" Sadiq raised his voice again, and Mac turned away to walk to the kitchen again. He pulled at her hair, causing her to wince and cry out, and put his mouth near to her ear, his next words whispered.

"You are nothing in my world, woman. Go, make your friend her drink, comfort her, but remember that this is your last night on earth."

"You wish!" Mac pulled away as Sadiq released his grip on her hair, and despite the tears in her eyes from the pain she walked away without letting him see her reaction.

Sue, oblivious to the interaction of Mac and Sadiq, had managed to find her cell-phone and tapped in a quick message, sending it to Jack. By now, she thought, Harm would have been in contact with him. Dropping the cell-phone into her pocket, all she had to do now was to find a way to let Mac know what she had done. Flushing the toilet to keep up appearances, Sue was about to run water in the sink to wash her face when the bathroom door was flung open and Sue screamed in shock. Sadiq grabbed her arm and dragged her out of the bathroom and down the corridor to the lounge. As Mac appeared in the doorway of the kitchen Sue pulled herself away from Sadiq and went towards the kitchen. Mac glanced at her, and saw the blood was still on her face.

"You knew she couldn't go anywhere. Why not let her finish using the bathroom?"

"It was taking too long. I need to have you both where I can see you." Sadiq took a step towards them and then thought better of it, and changed direction to pull out a chair and sit at the dining table instead. "I would like something to drink also, but in a can, with the seal intact. I do not trust you, Sarah."

"Why? You think I might drug you?" Mac grinned at the thought, and then laughed. "The worst I could think of using would be Jingo's worming tablets. Wouldn't hurt you, but would give you a hell of a rash!"

"Shut up. If you can only insult me, then don't speak to me at all."

"Fine by me. Sue, let's get you cleaned up. I'll make us some tea then."

"Thanks, Sarah."

"Do not call her that! I alone call her Sarah!"

"Hate to disappoint you, Sadiq, but there's quite a few people who call me Sarah, including the Commander, and especially when we're in bed together."

"Bitch!" Sadiq moved with a speed that even Mac underestimated. As he lashed out at her and caught her on the side of her head, making her dizzy for a moment, his jacket came open, and Sue's next words brought a sudden silence to the room.

"Oh my God, he has a bomb!"

Mac pushed her hair out of her eyes and touched her cheek and forehead where she had been hit. One thought came to her, and she had to smile, even as Sue spoke out about the bomb. 'The thought: at least she and Sue would have matching black eyes now!'

Sue turned to look at Mac, caught the quick smile, and then the look of determination in the older woman's eyes. Mac pulled herself to her full height and faced the man seated again at her dining table. His hand now holding a detonator handle, almost caressing it in his fingers.

"So, is this how I am to meet my fate, Sadiq?" she asked. "I thought you said you were going to make my partner's life hell after my death. How can you do that if you are dead also?"

"Perhaps I was bluffing, Sarah. I have no further purpose here after tonight. The new arms purchase will go ahead without me, and my brothers will continue the fight against the US in my name." The words were almost as though rehearsed, and Mac had a moment of misgiving, that perhaps Sadiq was insane enough to want to take his life with hers. One factor remained. Sue was an innocent bystander to their past actions. If it was to be her last request, now was the time.

"I want you to let Sue go. Whatever you want to do to me doesn't involve her."

"Of course it involves her. Anyone who is involved with you, I want them to know pain and suffering."

"Then how will she know pain and suffering if she is dead also? Let her go, Sadiq."

"Are you begging me, Sarah?" Sadiq's tone was questioning, unsure.

"If I have to. Please, let Sue go."

"No. She will alert the authorities."

"It will be over long before she can get them here. You hold the detonator, Sadiq. The control is with you."

"Sarah, no!" Sue protested, putting a hand out to hold Mac's arm.

"You see, your young friend wishes to stay. So she will. Go, get our drinks. I will allow you to do this one thing before I end this, for all of us."

Sue made a move to follow Mac into the kitchen and was stopped by Sadiq, who held onto her arm. To Mac he waved the hand that held the detonator, dismissing her to the kitchen without a word. Mac paused, and then turned, leaving Sue alone with Sadiq.

"You are an intriguing woman, Miss Thomas. I did not realise tonight that your hearing is impaired, your talent in lip reading is indeed a gift."

"If that is what you choose to call it." Sue looked at Sadiq, and then down at his hand still holding her arm. "Do you mind? I would like to help Sarah."

"And you think I should release you?"

"You haven't restrained either of us so far. Why would you do so now? You have the control, as Sarah said. We know that neither of us could make it out of here before you pressed the trigger."

"Beautiful, and smart. You are a suitable friend for Sarah. Your abilities complement each other. Very well," Sadiq spoke as he released his grip on Sue's arm. "Go to Sarah, let her tend to your wound. I am not such a monster that I would allow you to go untended. My reward for my generosity will come later."

"Your generosity is great, so your reward shall be without limit."

"Indeed. It is the will of Allah."

Sue smiled to herself, and then walked into the kitchen. Mac looked up as Sue entered the room, and raised her eyebrow in question as Sue pulled something from her pocket. A cell-phone! Mac looked at the text on the screen. 'Get ready,' it read. Mac realised it was an open line, and that Jack could hear what was happening. As she nodded and preceded Sue out of the kitchen carrying a tray with two cups, and a can of soda, her mind was busy trying to figure out how Harm and Jack intended to rescue them.

"What is that?" Sadiq had got to his feet, and caught Sue trying to slip the cell-phone back into her pocket. "Show me!" he demanded, almost screaming in Sue's face. Of course, it was only his expression that told her he was beyond anger, and she suddenly realised that this was it. Sadiq had passed the point of sanity, and his hand raised in the air, the trigger under his finger.

The sound of a shot fired came through Mac's lounge window, and Sadiq's hand flew back on an animalistic howl of pain, the detonator dropping to land on the carpet near Sue's feet. As he drew a hidden gun with his uninjured hand and fired at Mac a second shot came through the window.

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To be continued