"Keeter I need to change and take a shower." Harm said pulling at his sweaty t-shirt. "I'll be five minutes." When Harm didn't make a move to take Abi with him.

"You're leaving me with the baby?"

"She's asleep, she'll be fine."

"You're leaving me with the baby?" Keeter repeated.

"I'll be five minutes and if she wakes up Mac's only through there. You'll be fine."

"You're leaving me with the baby."

"I'll be back soon." Harm smiled and ran up the stairs.

Two minutes later Abi started crying. Keeter turned to the dinning room, but Mac had made no move to come to his rescue, probably presuming Harm was there taking care of it.

"Er... it's okay baby don't cry." When that didn't work. He hesitantly unbuckled the restraints of the stroller and picked Abi up, gripping her under the arms. "Don't cry." He held her at arms lengths and walked to the dinning room. "Er... Mac..."

Mac looked and smiled. She grabbed the digital camera which had been on the sideboard and took a quick picture.

"That's not helping." Keeter said.

"Come here sweetheart." Mac said taking Abi from him. "Did the nasty man scare you?"

"I did no such thing." Keeter adamantly said.

"Don't worry she's just hungry."

"How can you tell?"

"She cries differently when she needs her diaper changed. By the way where are you serving at the moment so I can send them a copy of the photo?"

"You're evil Sarah Rabb."

"That's nothing." Sturgis added. "She apparently once threatened to throw a couple of Petty Officers out the forward escape hatch and feed their sixes to the crabs."

"You don't want to mess with a Marine. Sturgis here be her godfather and watch her while I go and warm her bottle." Mac handed Abi to him.

"Hey Abigail." Sturgis said she settled down slightly. Mac left him to it and went into the kitchen. "What's all this crying about? Sailors don't cry."

"I heard that." Mac called from the kitchen.

"Sorry." Sturgis replied.

"No sailor talk?" Keeter questioned.

"They made a deal not to influence her one way or the other. If she wants to join the Navy or the Marines that's fine or if she wants to do something else that's fine too." Sturgis explained. "I'm drafted in to help Harm keep her from dating until she's fifty."

"Harm will be pushing 90 by then."

"I didn't say we were going to be successful. Mac will intervene before then." Keeter chuckled. Abi reached out a tried to grab Sturgis's collar.

"No trying to strangle Uncle Sturgis Abi." Mac said as she came in. "Here you go." She handed Sturgis the bottle.

"You want me to feed her?" Sturgis questioned.

"Just put it in her mouth, she'll do the rest." Mac encouraged.

"Go ahead." Keeter egged him on.

"And you can change her diaper, if you're staying for lunch." Mac stated.

"What is for lunch?" Keeter asked.

"Whatever Harm makes."

"Who said I was making lunch?" Harm asked entering drying his hair with a towel.

"You were just volunteered." Mac smiled.

"And what criteria did you come to that decision under?"

"See who you left our kid with." Mac slid the camera across the table. "Last picture."

"Okay, I'm making lunch."

"Hey I'm not that bad." Keeter said.

"Keeter she's not a bomb, the worst she would do is throw up on you." Harm patted him on the back. "Sturgis you doing okay there?"

"Yeah. But I think going up against the Admiral is easier. Coates would probably be better at this."

"Jen is probably in bed asleep, she's got jetlag too on top of that she's a little intimidated by the Pentagon so she hasn't been sleeping. Tiner's probably still trying to figure out how to propose."

"Coates? Tiner?" Keeter questioned.

"You met them at the wedding. Petty Officer Jennifer Coates who's my clerk of court and aid, and Petty Officer Jason Tiner who is the Admiral's yeoman." Mac explained.

"And you all know he's planning on proposing?" Keeter questioned.

"Harriet and I went along to help him pick the ring."

"And got it out of him last a couple weeks ago and promised to help him think of a way to propose, I asked Sturgis if he had any suggestions. Harriet now knows that we know, so she probably told Bud."

"So pretty much everyone apart from Jen knows."

"Never trust a lawyer to keep a secret."

TBC