Disclaimers: I still don't own them, but occasionally, I take them out and make them play with each other..

A/N: This has gotten longer than my previous works... I am determined to finish it.. I have no idea how many chapters it's going to take to wrap this thing up... For all y'all shippers... this chapter is for you!

"Through Thick and Thin"

Part Ten

I wake up in his arms shaking... This man has a bad habit of stealing the covers...

"Harm, I'm cold.. Harm, wake up.." I whisper, shaking him slightly.

"Yeah, I'm going to ask her..." He says, and I stop shaking him. Who is he going to ask? And what's he going to ask her?

"Harm?" I whisper. There is no response. "Harm, who are you going to ask? What are you going to ask her?" I ask, hoping that he will hear me and answer me without waking up.

"Mac.. I'm asking her.." He mumbles, his face expressionless.

"What the? What are you talking about? Are you... Are you thinking about asking me THE question? When? Where? When?! Harm, what are you going to ask me?" I ask, hoping he'll say something that makes a little more sense than his previous statements.

"Mac, I'm going to ask you to marry me. I'm going to ask you... for future reference, what are you planning to say? Yes or no?" He asks, his eyes now open, a cute flyboy grin on his face.

"Wait a minute... You mean to tell me you were awake the whole time? How much of that was sleep talk and how much of it was talk talk?" I ask, not caring that what I just said made no sense at all.

"Well... I don't know.. I woke up to you asking me what I was talking about.. You suggested that I had been talking about asking... "the" question... then you badgered me, wanting to know when, where, and when again... I don't remember anything before that." He says, letting out a yawn. "So, what are you planning to say?" He asks, stretching.

"Ask me and find out..." I tell him, completely serious.

With that he sits up, gathers up his clothes, and crawls out of his SUV. The back hatch is still open and I watch him get dressed beneath the moonlight. He pulls he shirt over his head and I wrap the blanket around me.

"Harm? Harm, what are you doing?" I ask, watching him walk around the SUV and over to the passenger side.

He opens a compartment and pulls out a small black velvet box.

"You want to know what I'm doing?" He asks quietly, his voice filled with emotion.

"Uhhh.." I answer. How articulate...

"I can't wait any longer.. I was going to wait until the perfect time to ask you... but it just hit me... every moment I spend with you is perfect... I want to spend the rest of my life with you... I don't know if I can give you everything you need, but I know that I am willing to die trying.. I love you... I love you more than life itself... Mac... Sarah.." He says, getting down on one knee. "Will you marry me?" He asks, opening the tiny box.

A diamond is forever... This man has just offered me forever..

"Yes, yes... I'll marry you." I tell him, tears in my eyes. I look down at my hand as he smiles and slips a rather large rock onto my ring finger.

"I love you." He says standing up and reaching out to me.

I'm naked, and this blanket isn't really covering everything, but I could care less. I'm in his arms, clinging to him, eyeing the newly acquired token of his love for me.

"I love you too.." I say, looking up at him.

He is crying...

"Oh, flyboy... don't cry... I'm yours.. For forever, I'm yours.. I have always been yours." I tell him, wiping away his tears.

"And I'm forever yours.." He promises me, pulling me to him, kissing me passionately.

In 4 hours, 18 minutes, and 33 seconds, we will be walking into JAG headquarters...

It will take us 3 hours and 10 minutes to get back to my place... We'll take a shower together, grab something to eat, and help each other get into our uniforms..

Then, after eight hours of papers, words, and proceedings, we will head back to my place and help each other get out of our uniforms...

"We've got to get going, Harm... We need to get back to my place, shower, grab something to eat, get dressed..." I tell him.

He smiles.

"I forgot to mention the fact that we were given today off, didn't I?" He asks innocently. He most certainly did "forget to mention" that little fact.

"I believe you did, Navy." I say, raising an eyebrow, wondering how he pulled this off.. With the Admiral gone, things around JAG have been... unpleasant.

"Well, Marine, I somehow managed to, ah, convince a few friends of ours to cover our sixes.. Sturgis and Bud are catching the extra paperwork.. I told them we needed some alone time.." He says, smiling at me still.

"I love you, you know that? I mean, I really, really love you.." I tell him, wrapping my arms around laughing.

"Yeah, I think you might have mentioned something about it.." He teases, kissing me once again.

"Okay, so we are still leaving now.. I'm naked, cold, and I want real sleep..." I tell him.

I get dressed, he starts the SUV, and in 4 minutes and 15 seconds, we are headed back to my place...

I am going to marry Harm... All of my dreams are going to come true...

A diamond truly is forever..