Author's Note: All right as you asked here is part four hope you like it. Our dynamic duo are really in for it now and I think that you will laugh and maybe cringe in pain in a least one part. Anyway thank you for your awesome reviews and thanks to one of my anonymous reviewers for correcting me on the spelling of Koi!
Piece of Heaven Day Spa
1430 Romeo
Sunday
Harm and Mac were standing in a hall with two other women that Mac seemed to know well.
"So you're here for the torture today too Sarah?" One asked.
"Unfortunately yes."
"Are you going back to Australia again?" The other asked.
"No I'm not Lucy, I brought Harm with me today who is shadowing so I have to do the whole nine yards, well except I didn't get the mineral wrap today I wasn't in the mood to be wrapped in saran wrap."
"That is understandable, I left Frank at home he seems to like the pedicures but it just isn't in my budget right now."
"So who just went in?" Mac asked Lucy.
"Oh a girl she couldn't have been a day older then 18 so I'm thinking it's going to be rather loud. Any minute now." They stood in silence. Harm was completely confused and then there was a high pitched scream and his eyes widened. Lucy looked at him.
"You've never been to a spa before have you Harm. Yes I know who you are I hear it from Sarah and Harriet all the time. I have to ask now that I have met you, did your whites really get switched with a strippers outfit?" Harm turned a light shade of red and nodded.
"Yes they did and would you like to hear something about Mac I mean Sarah?"
"Oh you have pet name for her? Wow! That is so sweet!" The other two women exclaimed together, and Mac smacked Harm's chest. They stopped chatting however when the girl came out of the room almost in tears, Harm looked shocked. The woman who was apparently in charge of whatever was going on in there came out.
"Alright who had the two thirty?" Mac reluctantly raised her hand.
"Ah, Sarah I haven't seen you in a while, going down under again?"
"Nope." Mac said leaving Harm and as the door shut behind her, he asked Lucy.
"Is she going to scream as well?" Lucy looked at him like he was crazy.
"Of course not she is a pro at this in fact she has everything done at the same time."
"What are they doing?" Harm asked still puzzled. This time the other lady spoke up.
"You don't know honey? They're going to wax her. Legs, bikini you know the drill." Harm looked surprised. Then another staff member walked into the room where Mac was.
"She in there getting a bikini wax? Oh man I should have sent her another dozen roses yesterday." Harm knew full and well what a bikini wax involved Renee had complained about it often enough and it would be painful but her legs and whatever else too. He was certainly proud of her.
"Okay they should be just about ready to pull everything there is the second staff member. Now listen real careful like." Lucy instructed and sure enough he heard Mac's muffled, 'go for it!' And there was a ripping noise and slight cheer from the other side of the door and a minute later there was another one and then a third one. Then Mac came out walking a little bowlegged and said softly,
"It's all yours Lucy." Lucy gulped and went in. Harm grabbed Mac into a quick embrace and fretted.
"Mac I really never want you to have to go through that again."
"Really it wasn't all that bad. I didn't have to suffer too much and men expect beauty remember?"
"Not if you have to go through that. That is just wrong!" Mac smiled.
"It's fine and I'm a Marine remember I can deal. It's just hurts more for others then for me. If you want I'm sure that you could get one if you can stand it." She teased.
"Mac are you nuts! There is no way I will ever…"
"Well if you don't then I just might tell everyone at JAG about our little adventure this weekend. I'm sure Sturgis would love it for blackmail. Maybe you can convince them to get rid of some of that hair on your chest too. Smooth skin has always turned me on. Or are you a chicken?" Harm's eyes widened and Mac smirked.
"Okay fine, just as long as no one and I mean ABSOLUTLY no one can find out about any of this got me?"
"Deal. I figured with that incentive you would do it so you will be after Candice." Mac continued to smile as she waited. Within ten minutes Lucy and Candice were on their merry little ways and the woman from earlier came out smiling.
"Well Mr. Rabb this highly unusual we don't have many gentleman that wear Speedos and get this done, but your next don't worry it will all be over in a matter of minutes, come on in." Harm groaned and followed the woman in and Mac waited outside. She waited the right amount of time that it took and she flinched when Harm yelled,
"HOLY F!" Then with the next ripping sound,
"MAC! YOU'RE DEAD!" Mac winced again at his curses, but she was relived when the other rips that followed didn't include them. When he came out he looked like he was either ready to pass out or kill something. He pointed a finger at her.
"If I could run you were going to wish you were never born. Sure it's only going to hurt a little! I thought you said that today we were relaxing not being tortured!" Mac came over to him and hugged him.
"Aww I'm so sorry! Don't worry though it won't hurt too much longer, now let's see that chest." Mac opened his robe a little ran her hand down his slightly red skin.
"Oh nice and smooth, just as it should be. Now that the worst is over let's go get your facial shall we?" Mac took Harm's hand and they walked back down the hall to another room, which had a few more people in it. They were sitting in comfy looking chairs with people massaging their feet or putting some cream or another on their faces, while they read the latest People magazine. Mac sat down in an empty chair and Harm sat in the one next to it. I lady came over to them, she was of Asian descent and very short.
"Hello Ling." Mac greeted the woman who exclaimed.
"Oh Sarah! How nice to see you! And who your friend?"
"This is Commander Harmon Rabb."
"Hello." Harm greeted her smiling.
"Oh it so nice to me you Commander, Sarah tell me all about you when she get nails done. You two are sweethearts yes?"
"Umm well…" Harm wasn't sure what to say and Mac covered,
"He is still lost for words about finally getting me to go out with him."
"Ah, yes I see, you two be so very happy. I tell Wong other day about you and he say that it never works that true love not happen anymore, but I argue with him. Oh my Commander you ever moisturize?"
"Uh no." Harm said as Ling looked at his face and clucked her tongue.
"You very naughty as I tell Sarah all time you wash face with soap warm water not hot then you must moisturize! Now let's get you all fix up." She then began furiously wash Harm's face with a cloth and then smeared a cold putty like substance all over his face.
"There we are now we wait ten minutes. I have Cho over to do your feet. CHO!" The woman chattered and another younger woman came over and sat at a stool at Harm's feet and began to chatter away in rapid Chinese. Harm could guess it was about how he had never had a pedicure before. Before he knew it a third woman started to file and clip and trim and scrub his nails. He could hear Mac laughing at his face. Ling snapped at her and pushed her back in the chair.
"You stop laughing, you next!" Ling began the same process with Mac and Harm was trying to hold back laughter at seeing Mac's face covered in the sea green stuff that was on his. A few minutes later the woman who was working on his hands then began on Mac's and Cho was massaging his feet, which he was surprised, felt very good.
"Okay, Commander now we take this stuff off then we pluck those eyebrows." Ling said and she peeled off the now slightly rubbery putty and washed his face again. Then she pulled out a pair of tweezers and reclined his chair. As she began plucking his eyebrows which Harm found hurt quite a bit she chattered on and on.
"…So I say to Wong other night, you get that caterpillar off your lip and I see about kissing you." Harm heard Mac giggle.
"He still has the Fu Man Chu then Ling?" She asked.
"Yes, but I no argue too much with him or else he turn to dragon and I don't like that. So then he say, ' You say you like my moustache, so why you complain now woman?' Then I says, 'I like it in Ming dynasty.' Then I walk out of room and he get all angry, but he a okay otherwise. There all done Commander." Ling sat the chair upright again and then Harm looked at Mac who was now getting the putty off her face.
"Oh Commander you not done! I forget to exfoliate. It clean out pores you know and let skin breath." She then put a clear layer of something on his face which was ice cold and turned her attention back to Mac, who was having her toes painted a crimson red.
"Oh Sarah that is new color we get in yesterday, very pretty, You like Commander?" Ling showed him the bottle and he nodded. He couldn't talk very well, the goo was getting hard and constricting his face movement. After what seemed like forever to Harm, Ling peeled off the clear goo and then she held up a small bottle.
"How much sleep you get Commander?"
"Not a whole lot, Sarah and I have been working late a lot so maybe a couple of hours max." Ling cocked an eyebrow and then said something loudly in Chinese which caused several of the women present to laugh and Mac to lean over and slap his arm.
"What did I say?" He asked and Mac whispered.
"I'll tell you later." Harm nodded and Ling then said to Harm.
"I can tell by bags under eyes, you no sleep much, now this will help get rid of that. You put on like this. Always rub in toward tear duct never out! It cause wrinkles." Ling rubbed the stuff in and then handed him the bottle.
"You take I have feeling you going to need it soon, Sarah is glowing." Harm looked at the woman confused as she commented again in Chinese and almost everyone laughed including Mac who also blushed a little. Harm continued to listen to the women chatter and Mac seemed right in the thick of things, she knew whose second cousins brother's sister was a having a baby or getting married or where the latest new shoe boutique was or where they could find the 'cutest' little French restaurant. Harm had never seen her act like this before, he had never seen her as a gossiping woman, but she seemed to know what was going on. Mac must be talking to Harriet too much. However upon seeing how extremely laid back like she was and how she got really giddy about the smallest girl kind of things, made Harm realize that she wasn't just a Marine or a sensitive woman, but she was also the buzzing little social butterfly. She was everything any man could want and she was his, as far as anyone else was concerned. He wasn't going to let some pompous businessman take her away.
"Harm? Harm, come on let's go! Earth to Harm!" Mac's voice penetrated his reverie and he looked up to see her standing over him.
"Oh time to move on already?"
"Yes Harm. I'm hungry and it's almost dinnertime so let's go." Mac pulled him out of the chair and they walked out and back to the rooms where they had started their day.
Harm was a little relieved to be back in his jeans and button down shirt. He felt very calm and at ease. When he met Mac however she wasn't in the same jeans and T-shirt but was in a very nice skirt and sleeveless blouse and some heels.
"Now I feel very inappropriately dressed. We going somewhere Mac?" Harm asked putting his hands in his pockets. Mac smiled.
"Well Michelle she was the red head I was talking to remember anyway she talked about that French restaurant and I thought maybe we would go to dinner there and I felt like dressing up a little. You like?" She did a full turn and Harm nodded.
"I like very much. Now shall we be on our way Ms. Mackenzie?" Harm said with his jacket over one arm and offering his other to Mac who gladly took it. They walked out to the counter where Brittany was still on duty.
"Did you two enjoy yourselves?"
"Yes very much so."
"That's good and the total for today's escapades is…" Brittany did a few calculations and when Harm saw the total for the day he just about fainted. Mac nodded and opened her purse then pulled out several gift cards. Harm looked at her amazed. Brittany scanned them and it only covered about half of it but she commented,
"I hope you will continue to seek us out. We enjoyed the squad you brought in last time they are continuing their business. Those Marines really get a kick out of the mud baths. You come back soon you hear?"
"Yes, will do you have a wonderful evening Brittany, I'll probably see you Wednesday after next." Mac then put her purse back on her shoulder and took Harm's arm again and they walked out. It was little windy but not too bad.
"So Mac I'm not the first to join you? A whole squad of Marines, man you have some really good negotiation techniques. How does that balance out for you?" Harm asked standing by the driver's side of her Corvette. Mac tossed him the keys and climbed in on the other side.
"Well, when I tell people about it and they do business there it helps pay for me to indulge, so it's kind of like a trade off. Then the gift cards tonight well those were from Webb, every time he skipped dinner for an operation or whatever he sent me one of those and those were the last of them. They had almost reached their expiration so I had to spend them. I hope you don't mind." She explained. It made complete sense to Harm and he made a mental note never to stand Mac up on a date. He would have some pretty high expectations to hold up too. They pulled out of the lot and Mac instructed him on which way to turn and where to go. They had only been driving ten minutes to Harm's watch when she told him to pull into a restaurant parking lot. They climbed out and went inside. Harm was surprised at how busy the restaurant was. The hostess seated them within a few minutes and Harm looked at the menu.
"Mac it's all meat."
"So?"
"I don't eat meat remember?"
"Just get a salad then they are supposed to be wonderful here." Mac waved him off and continued to ponder the menu. When the waitress arrived Mac was first to order,
"I think I will have the filet mingion and a mineral water please. Then he'll just have a salad, no dressing right Harm? Mineral water good for you too?" Harm nodded and the waitress scribbled it down and went on her way. They sat in an uncomfortable silence for a few minutes until Harm broke the silence.
"Well Mac I certainly enjoyed spending the day with you, any man would be sincerely jealous."
"Why Harm I do believe that is the nicest thing you have ever said, considering I did make you get a bikini wax." Harm glared at her.
"You watch it I'm going to get you back. Now that Ling woman, what exactly did she tell everyone about us and what have you told her exactly." Harm could see Mac blushing even in the dim lighting.
"I'm sure you know this by now that I might be a… uh I can't believe I'm saying this. I think, no I know I'm in love with you. Yes I know that is sounds very silly and all. I let it slip a few times when I was in there." Harm seemed to take this information in well so Mac continued,
"Then today, I'm not an expert in Mandarin I did dabble in it a bit, but after you made that comment about late hours and not getting much sleep. Well let's just say that she thinks that we weren't working um like actually working we were…" Mac stumbled as she continued to turn redder.
"She thought we were having sex. I can see how it could be interpreted that way." Harm said, he was about to continue when the waitress arrived with their dinner and they paused and ate for awhile. Harm kept stealing glances at Mac while she poked at her food, not eating much of it, just pushing it around her plate.
"What are you thinking about Marine?" He asked, and Mac sighed.
"Oh not too much." She took another bite of her steak and continued to look out the nearby window where they were little raindrops falling against it.
"Mac, something's bothering you come on you can tell me."
"No you'll just laugh or push me away again."
"Now why would I do that?" Harm took her other hand, which was sitting idly on the table, and she smiled.
"Okay fine. It's about the other thing Ling said today."
"What that whole glowing comment?" Harm guessed and Mac nodded.
"Yeah, you know what she meant by that didn't you?"
"No so please enlighten me would you?" Mac laughed nervously.
"Well you know how little AJ's birthday is in a month and…"
"Oh that glowing comment." Harm rolled his eyes and added.
"Don't worry about it. We will tackle that when we get to it."
"That's just it Harm, I don't want to wait until we get to it, I want to stop waiting and putting it all off. It' s been almost five years, I just… I just…"
"What? What to get it over with? You know what you're right. We have waited four years, eleven months, and twelve days, six hours and about fifteen minutes too long, so what do you say? You want to up the time table by thirty days?" Harm asked leaning back in his chair acting as if this was just something people usually talked about over their dinners.
"You mean it? Seriously? You aren't yanking my chain are you? If I told you I wanted to leave right now and go to my apartment. You would stand up and walk out with me?" Harm chuckled and gave her a flyboy grin.
"Yes, yes, no and you had better wait because I want to finish my dinner and I definitely want dessert. That crème bruliee looked wonderful and I know that you would be hungry later anyhow, so we'll eat now." Mac put her face in her hands.
"Just like a man always thinking with your health nut stomach. I can't believe that we are having this discussion in a restaurant of all places and this certainly is not how I expected it to happen."
"Well you never know what to expect with Harmon Rabb." Harm shrugged and continued to eat even though he wasn't really hungry anymore. For vegetables anyway.
They ate dinner and split a crème bruliee conversing lightly and when the check came they both reached for it.
"I'll pick it up." Mac said looking at the bill and then she pushed it to Harm.
"On second thought, you can." Harm looked at it and then shook his head and pulled out his wallet and Visa.
"It's almost everywhere I want to be." Harm said and gave Mac a wink.
"Harm! That was very inappropriate." Mac kicked him under the table and he pretended to be hurt. The waitress came and went and returned Harm's credit card, and they were about to go outside when Harm said,
"Mac give me your keys. It's raining, I'll bring the car around." Mac handed Harm her keys again and he went and did as he said. She dashed out and slid in next to Harm who was soaking wet.
"Harm! Your going to get my interior all mucked up!"
"So what do you want me to do drive back naked?"
"Yes…umm…No, no of course not! Can we go now please?" Mac demanded and Harm cocked an eyebrow at her.
"You anxious Ninja-girl?"
"Harm just drive." He nodded and hit the gas.
As they neared Mac's apartment she started to get a little nervous as did Harm. Both were wondering if it was going to be like they had thought or if it would be absolutely terrible and they wouldn't be able to look at each other again.
"Harm slow down! You're almost twenty miles over the speed limit! I thought I was anxious." Mac attempted to tease and Harm slowed down a little. Barely five minutes later they were sitting outside of her apartment it was pouring down rain now and they looked at each other.
"Well, we're here." Mac stated softly.
"Yeah, let's go inside shall we?" Harm replied and they quickly opened the doors locking them as they did so and they ran across to the inside of her building, it didn't help, they were still really wet. Mac smiled at Harm,
"I'll race you up."
"You're going to lose Marine." Harm challenged. Mac then took a running start.
"Not if I get a head start!" She called and dashed up the stairs. Harm raced after her and they reached her door at the exact same moment. Mac fumbled with the keys and when she got the right one they went inside both laughing and gasping for breath.
"I beat you!" Mac said breathlessly and leaned against the door closing her eyes.
"No you didn't." Harm protested putting a hand on either side of the door trapping her against it. Mac's breath was still heavy, but it wasn't from racing it was from being this close to Harm and being a little nervous.
"Let's say we tied then." Mac suggested and Harm smiled and agreed.
"Okay, we tied now come here." Harm said pulling her to him and locking their lips in a breath taking and passion hungry kiss. He could feel her body heat through their wet clothes as they kissed. Harm pulled away first for air.
"I think I just died and went to heaven." He remarked and Mac grabbed his collar, and pulled him to her bedroom and pushed him down on the bed.
"Sorry Flyboy, you're not in heaven yet, but it's on the way." Mac lay down on top of him and kissed him again.
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