"I want to see him," Mac stubbornly argued.

"Mac...Sarah, he's gone," AJ tried. She wanted to see his body one last time. She wanted, no, she needed to say good-bye.

"I want to see him," she repeated.

The coroner sighed in frustration. Never argue with a female Marine Colonel.

"Fine, but only for a few minutes," he reluctantly agreed, opening the door behind him.

Sarah made her way in, clutching her jacket. Harm lay on the cold metal table, pale, his eyes closed. She would have given anything to see his beautiful sea-green eyes one last time, to see him with his flyboy smile. It had been a while since she had been graced with his patented flyboy smile. Things had been so tense between them since Paraguay. It wasn't supposed to be like this.

She reached out to run her fingers across his eyelids and then trailed them down his cold face to his lips. It was him, he was gone. He had died. The doctors had fed them some excuse about a heart attack but everyone knew what it was. He had died of a broken heart, and even she knew that.

She bent down and placed a gentle kiss on his soft, cold lips, still not saying a word.

With one last look at her partner of 9 years, her best friend, her soul mate, she turned and headed out. AJ reached out to help guide her out to his car. She had arrived in a taxi. It was a silent drive to her apartment. She neither spoke nor displayed any emotion. He grew more and more worried, she needed to release. Even tears would have helped but nothing came. He dropped her off at her apartment, gave her a hug, and told her to call him anytime, day or night.

She just nodded and then locked the door behind the retired NAVY SEAL/lawyer. It wasn't supposed to be like this.

She collapsed on her soft bed, still not giving in to any emotion though it threatened to overtake her.

He had been her everything. He had been through everything with her. He had saved her life countless times. They had been best friends for years. Butch and Sundance, Batman and Robin, Flyboy and Ninja Girl, Squid and Jarhead, Commander and Colonel, Harm and Mac.

It wasn't supposed to be like this.