Author's Note: As I promised before I leave on Sunday, I would post I have this chapter and one more ready for you guys and I think it will finish off the story, I hope you have enjoyed the ride and will enjoy the next fic that I will write. Thanks again and forever more for your reviews. Now on with the story!

O' Connelly Residence

0825 Romeo

Mac awoke the phone ringing. She reached her hand out and searched the nightstand and found it on the forth ring.

"Umm hello, O'Connelly residence, can I help you? … Sir! Yes you woke us umm me up…" Harm woke up right about then and kissing her neck he asked huskily,

"Who is it Marine?" Mac paused and put her hand over the receiver.

"The Admiral." She then turned her attention back to the phone.

"I'm still here sir… yes Patrick is still asleep… Oh they are coming back early?" All the while Harm was kissing Mac adjusting the collar on her shirt so he could kiss her shoulders.

"Harm stop it! … What sir? Nothing sir… the Commander is trying… right no excuses… okay we will have Patrick ready. Yes sir… right sir… goodbye sir." Mac hung up and rolled over to look at Harm sourly.

"Harm! I was on the phone with the Admiral, you could have at least had the decency to wait before kissing me good morn…" Harm kissed Mac to silence her.

"Shut up Mac. I know I shouldn't have, now stop pestering me about it and go back to sleep."

"As much as I would like to, Maria and Peter will be here at 0930 and we need to have Patrick up and ready to meet them and we need to strip the bed and make sure everything was just as we found it."

"They weren't supposed to be here till 1700 at the earliest. Why did the Admiral call to tell us that?"

"I guess they wanted to get home sooner and the Admiral called because their car broke down and they called the Admiral to come pick them up."

"The Admiral is coming here? Why didn't you say so! All right then, let's get moving." Harm said sitting up and tossing the sheets back. Mac grabbed him and pulled him back down.

"Not so fast Sailor, you still owe me a proper good morning." Mac leaned in for a kiss and their lips almost met when they heard the distinct cry of Patrick. Mac fell back on the bed and groaned.

"Well he is certainly the most timely baby ever."

"You sure you still want one? I mean we won't ever get a moment to ourselves." Mac slammed a pillow in Harm's face and got up to attend to Patrick.

The next hour flew by in a rush. Harm and Mac hurried to feed Patrick, bathe him and dress him, as well as both of them trying to get themselves ready. Mac had stripped the sheets and had a fresh set on the bed with two minutes left to spare and she did a quick run through of the house. Harm and Patrick watched her whip past them, she then got her and Harm's bags to the foyer and she gasped.

"Wonderful with 10.6 seconds to spare."

"Mac you didn't have to rush so much, I mean they will surely be a couple minutes late."

"No not with the Admiral driving. Okay they will walk through that door in three… two… one."

"Hello, Harm, Mac we're back." Maria came through the door followed by the Admiral and then Peter lugging their suitcases. Maria immediately took Patrick from Harm. The little boy cooed at seeing his mother and began to play with her long black braid that was over her shoulder.

"He behaved well?" She asked. Harm answered for them,

"Well aside from the 2 am wake up calls everything went well."

"He woke up at 2am? He always sleeps through the night." Peter inquired, Maria slapped his arm playfully.

"Oh he wakes up alright, you're just so conked out that you don't hear him." Mac laughed at this.

"Harm is the exact same way."

"I am not! As I recall I was the one who was up for almost three hours trying to get him to sleep." Harm protested and Maria and Peter cocked an eyebrow.

"It only took three hours? Man you need to babysit for us more often." Maria smiled. Harm opened his mouth to decline when Mac laid a hand on his arm.

"We would be glad to. I hope you don't mind if we head on out, it was a long night and we have some cases to review."

"No we don't Mac." Mac gritted her teeth.

"Yes we do, now come on. Oh and Maria we put fresh sheets on the bed and the others are in the dyer and we washed all the linens that we used and I folded them and put them away." Mac added picking up her small duffel. Maria looked impressed.

"You're not getting away that easily you two." The Admiral stated calmly. Harm and Mac turned and straightened to attention.

"We will be talking on Monday I assume?"

"Umm yes sir." Harm and Mac chorused and then saying their good-byes they quickly took their leave. Outside Harm asked Mac.

"My place, 01115 sharp?"

"Yes and we can go over those files." Mac winked and Harm gave her a Flyboy grin before getting into his car and driving off.

Back in the house the Admiral, Maria and Peter looked at each other.

"They aren't really going to review files are they AJ?" Maria inquired.

"No unfortunately not, but you probably don't want to know what they will be doing instead. I bid you good day." The Admiral turned away.

"AJ why don't you stay for coffee."

"Sorry maybe another time. I need to go home and start pulling Admiral's privilege." AJ walked out leaving Peter and Maria with a very informed baby in her arms confused.

"Peter you don't think…"

"Now Maria…" Peter warned he really didn't want to listen to his wife's suspicions this early.

"Well I will go talk to Harriet then, I am sure she will listen." Maria turned and walked into the kitchen to go spread gossip, while Peter rolled his eyes and went up the stairs.