"You see this is the bit where he's showing off." Mac said. She had Abi propped up with one arm, a bowl of ice-cream in her lap and a spoon in the other hand. "Here's a little bit of advice for future reference. All Navy pilots are cocky and arrogant. They always think that their dress whites and gold wings will get them everywhere. But don't let that fool you."

"Top Gun?" Harm said when he came in the door a few minutes later.

"I'm giving her her first lesson about men."

"What kind of lesson?" Harm asked.

"Watch out for flyboys, they are too arrogant for their own good."

"I think I've just been insulted Abi."

"Harm, you know as well as I do you all think you're invincible until something happens to prove otherwise. Now Abi I'm sure Daddy will tell you everything wrong in this film, how he shoots the same missile all the time and how Top Gun isn't really like that. So enjoy it while you don't understand it, because Mommy is going to have a bath." Mac moved Abi into Harm's arms. "She'll probably want to eat in an hour or so." Mac headed for the stairs.

"Mac?" Harm called stopping her.

"Yes?"

"Did I do something?"

"No."

"Did someone else do something to annoy you?" He questioned.

"No, no more than usual."

"Then why..."

"Harm, you didn't do anything, I'm not mad at you and now I'm going to take a long hot bubble bath." Mac turned and ran up the stairs.

"So do you know what's wrong with Mommy?" Abi just looked at him. "Me either. So shall we watch Maverick crash and burn?"

Mac came back down dressed in her cowboy pyjamas two hours later. There was a large pizza box sat on the coffee table. Harm has changed into a pair of jeans and a t-shirt and was reading a file.

"That for me?" Mac asked.

"Half of it. I thought we'd share."

"Thank you." Mac sat hugging a cushion.

"So you feel like talking about it?" Harm said after a few minutes.

"About what?" Mac asked.

"About why Bud came out of court muttering that you were on the war path." Mac smiled and took a bite of her pizza. "Because when he told me about your moratorium I thought you had gone slightly mad."

"Did you now?" Mac said.

"When I told Harriet I thought you had gone mad. She said that's nice sir."

"Sounds like Harriet."

"When I asked her what she meant. She said I really didn't think you were mad, but it was sweet that I was worried about it."

"Do you think I'm mad?" Mac asked.

"No, but I'm a little concerned."

"I decided I'd had enough of stunts and manipulating the members."

"But..."

"I know I may have been a little rash; but my tolerance level is going to be lower from now on."

"So what prompted it?" Harm asked.

"PMS." Mac replied.

"Ah, explains the chocolate, pizza, ice-cream, bubble bath and chick flicks."

"It's also great for mood swings, so watch your six.2

"I'll take that under advisement."

"This is good pizza." Mac mumbled.

"By the way did you mean what you said about pilots?"

"Yes in the general context. You realised you weren't infallible or invincible after your ramp strike. It made you slightly less arrogant and cocky than most pilots, but anytime they let you near one it comes back. I've learned to live with it over the last eight years. You're sweet, funny, charming, you make me smile, you infuriate me at times and as long as you remember you're only human, you'll beat Tom Cruise any day of the week."

"So you think I'm sweet funny and charming?" He questioned.

"What I was saying was I love you and I can't live without you."

"I love you too and I can't live without you either." He leant over and kissed the tip of her nose. Mac looked slightly confused. "You had pizza sauce on her nose." He muttered before giving her a proper kiss. "Is this a ploy to get me to watch a movie with you?" He asked.

"You saw through my dastardly plot." Mac smiled.

"So what are we watching?" He asked.

"You get to pick High Society, My Fair Lady, Carousel, Pillow Talk, Calamity Jane."

"I'm sensing a theme here."

"Or Saving Private Ryan."

"Okay, since when did Saving Private Ryan fall into the musical set?"

"It doesn't but Matt Damon's pretty cute."

"But it's not really a chick flick."

"If you forget the first twenty minutes, it's a pretty sweet film about trying to get a last son home to his mother, and honour and values."

"Pick something other than that and put it in while I go and get us something to drink."

TBC