Out to Sea Part II
By: Comm. Butler
See part I for disclaimer
Author's Note
Here's part Two I hope you enjoy it even though it is a little boring I needed some detial before I got to the juciy stuff. Please send me feedback and I will get the next part up as soon as posible.
Harm's Apartment
North of Union Station
1925 Romeo
Harm opened the door before Mac could knock. As soon as he saw her he wanted to pull her into his arms just hold her, despite the things she had said today.
She looked miserable, her hair was wet as well as her uniform and he wasn't quite sure but it looked like she had been crying.
"Hello Harm, are you going to let me in or am I going to freeze?" She offered almost timidly. Yet her voice had a hint of iciness to it. She was going to try and not get Harm any angrier than he already was, but she was going to be very friendly with him either. Harm without saying a word opened the door to let her in. Mac could see where she had slapped him earlier, his cheek was swollen and there were a couple of bruised spots from her fingers.
"Here your all wet come in and dry off your can borrow some of my clothes if you need to." Harm offered and Mac nodded and padded off to change.
By the time Mac had returned Harm was already beginning on the briefs and didn't hear Mac come up.
"Okay Harm what have we got?" She asked sitting on the couch. Harm looked up and looked at her for a moment taking in the sight of her in one of his Navy sweatshirts before he answered levelly,
"Not much, just the usual drunk and disorderly, disobeying an order and the ever so popular sexual harassment charges. So basically nothing we haven't seen before."
"Well then it shouldn't take long so let's eat." Mac said and walked over to the table and began laying out the Chinese Harm had bought on his way home. She was surprised that it was still warm. Harm sauntered over and sat down at the opposite end of the table and began to eat silently.
Over dinner their conversation was strained and at one point was standing on the edge of being an argument. They had both decided based on the cold shoulder they received from the other that they would not forgive each other, not yet anyway.
They had been working for hours and the pile of cases on Harm's coffee table was now down to nothing and Mac was ready to go home and get just a few precious hours of sleep when there was a knock on the door. Mac stood to answer it when Bud entered carrying a huge file in his hand.
"Ma'am your still here?"
"Yes Bud unfortunately, now what is it that you need?"
"Well Ma'am this one got mixed up with my files and it was actually your guy's so I figured I would bring it over to the Commander's and let you two get working on it." Bud stated handing Mac the file. Mac thanked him and ushered him out. Closing the door she tossed the file onto the table and walked into Harm's kitchen. She was hungry again the Chinese hadn't been enough. She hadn't eaten lunch because she was being yelled at by the Admiral for slapping Harm earlier that day. Standing there she decided she would look in the fridge, when Harm cursed "Oh crap not another one and it's due in court on," HE checked the file "On Wednesday!" Mac didn't hear him she was too busy now digging through the freezer. "Ah-Ha! I found you!" She said pulling her hand out of the freezer.
" Didn't know I was lost." Harm joked.
"Not you Harm, the ice cream I left here from the last time I was over." She then opened it and grabbing a spoon began to eat it right out of the carton. Then she sat back down right next to Harm on the couch to read the file along with him. She was half way down the page when Harm took his pen and pointed at a paragraph on the bottom of the page.
" It seems among his list of charges Lt. Whiidakas decided to take his fiancée on an all expenses paid trip to Hawaii via the Navy."
"It would seem that way." Mac stated taking the file from Harm and looking at the copies of receipts.
"Oh this would have been fun, the dining the shopping and not to mention all the beach time. I would be having so much fun the Marines would discharge me for it! How about you Harm?" Mac asked. She was almost giddy and she temporarily forgot she was supposed to be angry at Harm.
"I guess it would be fun, considering tat the Navy was picking up the tab and we… I mean I could certainly use a vacation." Harm said carefully. He didn't want Mac to assume anything.
They worked through it and had a primary outline drawn within two hours and they had managed to keep their bickering at a minimal. Mac quickly left Harm's apartment and managed to make it home and crash on the couch until she fell asleep to a midnight movie.
