…Till Death Does Us Part Chapter II – Part 24/26

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Sturgis' Apartment

10:12 PM

Sturgis walked out of his bedroom wearing a t-shirt and sweat pants.  He was about to walk into the kitchen when there was a knock at the door.  He looked through the peephole and couldn't believe his eyes. He unlocked the door.  "You have a death wish."

"No, but I do have a piece offering," Harm said holding up a six-pack of beer.

Sturgis looked at Harm's face.  "Get you're ugly mug in here."

"Thanks."  Harm walked into the apartment.

Both men walked into the living room. Sturgis sat down on the couch and Harm took the chair next to the couch.  He placed the beer on the coffee table and handed one to Sturgis and took one for himself.

They drank a little before Harm started the conversation.  "First off, I'm sorry for the things I said, they were out of line and I deserved to be hit."

"Good, because I wasn't going to apologize for hitting you. But you shouldn't apologize to me. You should apologize to Mac."  Sturgis took a long drink.

Harm looked at Sturgis for a good while, hoping he would help him.  "I know, and I will.  I have a question, and I need you to answer it."

"What's the question?"  Sturgis asked.

"Am I the father of Mac's baby?"  Harm asked.

Sturgis placed the beer bottle on the coffee table and leaned forward.  "I can't tell you."

Harm sighed.  "I know it isn't Webb, and Mac's not the type of person to get with someone for one night and not use anything."

"But isn't that what happened?"  Sturgis asked, knowing he fully didn't understand what happened between Harm and Mac.

"No.  Yes.  I don't know."  Harm stood up and started to pace the room.  "It was one night, but I didn't want it."

"You didn't want to have sex with her?"  Sturgis asked, trying not to get upset.

"No, not that.  But it wasn't supposed to be one night.  I wanted to wake up in her arms and tell her the truth."

"What's the truth?"

"I love her and I wanted to have a real marriage with her."

Sturgis smiled at his friend.  "You've got a hell of a way of doing things."

"I know."

"Why didn't you tell her?"

Harm sighed.  "The CIA called, so I left."

"You left because of the CIA?!"

"Yeah, but I left a note.  I realized I couldn't be married with her and work for the CIA.  It wasn't fair to her or to us.  So I wrote a note and signed the annulment papers," Harm explained then he sat back down.

"What did the note say?"  Sturgis asked, wondering what Harm wrote.

"I told her I wanted it to be real," Harm stated.

"You wanted what to be real?"

"A real marriage with her.  I wanted that to be real," Harm explained.

Sturgis exhaled loudly.  "Did you write that?"

"No."

"How the hell is she to know what you want when you don't tell her," Sturgis informed Harm. 

"She should have known what I meant?"  Harm stated.

"You two were still married when this happened?"

"Yeah, but she took care of the papers later."  Harm paused.  "And she is pregnant with my baby and she hates me."

Sturgis honestly looked at Harm.  "Could you blame her?  I think Mac isn't mad at you, she's more hurt and sad about the way your relationship is going."

"No, I can't blame her."  Harm leaned back in the chair.  "Is she going to be okay?"

"In a few days.  The hospital is keeping her over night.  Then tomorrow Harriet is picking her up and taking her home.  Where she will stay in bed for three days; during the day she'll be entertained by AJ, Jimmy, and Harriet.  And I get night duty."

"You?"

"One of the perks of being the guy she tells her secrets to.  Is her couch comfortable?"  Sturgis smiled.

"No, but the bed in the guestroom isn't too bad.  Once you get over the boy band posters and the pink blanket."  Harm grinned.

"Pink?"

"Chloe sleeps there when she stay's over," Harm explained.

The two fell silent again as Harm thought about the day and how his life had changed in one day.  His smile reached his ears.  He lifted his beer bottle to Sturgis.  "To my baby."

Sturgis chuckled as they tapped bottles.  "Congratulations, Dad."

They took a drink and Harm chuckled.  "Now I just need to get its mommy to talk to me."

"Good luck"

'Wow, I'm going to be a Daddy.' Harm thought

End Part 24

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