Admiration and Love – 11/11

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Mac and Chloe's House

Friday June 12

7:15am

"School is finally out, this is so cool," Chloe said as she and Hannah ate their breakfast.

"I know! A whole three months of freedom." Hannah smiled.

Mac walked into the room. "Good morning, girls."

"Morning." The two girls gave her very large smiles.

"When do we leave?" Chloe asked.

"Harm just called, and he's on his way," Mac told her as she started to pour some coffee into two travel mugs. "Now Hannah, you're sure your parents don't have a problem with Harm coming along?"

"No, they think it's cool. Dad was concerned about us going alone, but now that he knows Harm's coming along, he's fine with it," Hannah said as she finished her cereal.

"Okay." Mac looked at the two girls. "You two are all packed?"

"All packed and ready to go," Chloe reported.

"Room clean?" Mac asked, knowing the answer would be no.

"Of course not," Chloe grinned.

Mac crossed her arms as she heard the front door open. "Why don't you go clean it before we leave?"

"Come on Hannah, it will go faster if the two of us work together," Chloe said as Harm walked into the kitchen.

"Okay," Hannah agreed.

Chloe and Hannah walked towards the entryway, but Chloe stopped and gave Harm a hug. "Good morning."

"Morning Kiddo," Harm said, returning the hug. Then he looked at Hannah. "Good morning, Hannah."

Hannah smiled at Harm. "Good morning, Harm." The two girls left the room with smiles and ran upstairs.

Harm walked over to Mac and wrapped her into his arms. "Good morning."

"It is now," Mac said to him as they started to kiss.

Harm slowly moved his lips down her neck. "I could have spent the night."

"I know." Mac moved her head to give him better access to her neck. "But I feel weird having you sleep over when Chloe has friends over."

Harm stopped kissing her neck and looked her in the eyes. "I know, plus it's getting really hard to just sleep together and not do anything else."

"I know, but we'll have a tent to ourselves."

Harm smiled seductively at Mac. "Not much sound protection in a tent."

"True, but at least we have a very logical reason for sleeping together."

Harm was about to respond when Chloe walked back into the room. "Can you two save it for later?"

Mac and Harm broke apart. "How long have you been there?" Mac asked.

"Long enough to know you two can't keep your hands off of each other," Chloe replied.

"Room clean?" Mac asked as she ignored her daughter's comment.

"Yes. Hannah's in the bathroom, but we brought our bags down."

"Okay, lets get the car packed," Harm said when Hannah walked into the room.

Maryland State Park Camping Ground

Saturday, June 13

11:04pm

Chloe, Hannah, Mac, and Harm were sitting by their campfire roasting marshmallows. "Five more minutes, girls," Mac told the girls.

"Okay, Mom," Chloe said as her marshmallow caught on fire. She and Hannah laughed as they tried to blow the flaming goo out.

Harm watched and smiled before he kissed Mac on the cheek. The five minutes passed and the two girls reluctantly got up and walk into their tent. "Tell us when you're ready," Harm called to them.

"Okay," Chloe said.

A few minutes later Chloe called, "All ready."

Harm and Mac stood up, walked over to the tent, and saw the two girls in their sleeping bags. Harm leaned in first and gave Chloe a kiss on her forehead and hug. "Goodnight, Chloe."

"Goodnight, Harm."

He looked at Hannah and gave her a hug. "Goodnight, Hannah."

Hannah smiled at Harm thoughtfully. "Goodnight, Harm."

Harm let Mac into the tent. She gave Hannah a hug first then turned to Chloe who had a mile-wide smile on her face. "What's that smile for?"

"I'm just happy," Chloe said as she and hugged and kissed Mac goodnight.

"Sweet dreams and no nightmares," Mac instructed her daughter.

"Goodnight Mom. I love you," Chloe said as Mac stood up and left the tent.

"I love you too, daughter. Goodnight," she whispered from the mesh doorway as she zipped the tent close.

Mac turned around and looked at Harm, who was standing back watching her. He offered her his hand and she took it as he led them back to the camp fire. He sat down and pulled her into the spot between his legs. Mac smiled as he rested his arms around her. "I love you."

"I love you." Mac leaned her back against his chest and let him hold her close.

They are quite for a while before Harm started to move around, causing Mac to face him. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing," Harm said as he moved her so she was sitting across his lap. "Just felt like moving you, that's all."

Mac smiled and wrapped her arms around his neck. "Really?"

"Really." They slowly started to lightly kiss each other.

"Thank you for coming this weekend."

"My pleasure. I'm having a great time."

"So am I." Mac rested her head on his shoulder.

"But you know what would make this better?"

"What?"

"If we can do this next year."

Mac lifted her head and looked in his eyes. "You mean it?"

"Sure do. But we're going to need a larger tent."

"Why?" Mac asked him, not fully understanding what he meant.

"Yeah, we'll need more room for the baby."

Mac looked at him oddly, "What baby?"

"Our baby."

"Our baby?" Mac repeated as she got a very odd feeling. "Something you need to tell me, Sailor?"

"No, I don't need to tell you anything." He paused for a second. "I need to ask you something."

"Ask me what?"

Harm reached into his shirt pocket and pulled out the diamond ring he had been carrying around for the past month. He gazed into her eyes. "Will you marry me?"

Mac stared at him and smiled as tears fell from her eyes. "Yes."

Harm smiled and slipped the ring onto her finger. "I love you."

"I love you," she said before they shared a passionate kiss.

About ten feet away from them stood Chloe and Hannah with matching smiles on their faces and a video camera in Chloe's hands.

The End