"Admiral. Captain Rabb is here to see you." Tiner announced.

"Send him in." AJ said. "Any luck locating her?"

"Not yet sir." Tiner stepped out and told Harm he could go in."

"Admiral." Harm said.

"Come and take a seat Harm." Harm did as he was instructed. "So what can I do for you?"

"I was wondering if you'd heard anything. It's been a couple of days."

"Gibbs questioned Krennick; he's still sceptical about her knowledge and involvement. He'll question her more once the hearing is over, but Admiral Morris says it's looking to go into next week. They are still trying to locate Shaw. But for now there is nothing else I can tell you."

"I've been trying to get a hold of Webb but he's been unreachable for the last 36 hours." Harm added.

"I'm sure everything is okay Captain."

"It better be." Harm muttered. "Sorry sir."

"If you didn't react that way then I would be concerned."

"This is turning into a nightmare." Harm rubbed his head.

"It'll be over soon. For now concentrate on your cases. I'd give you the time off but I'm presuming you'll want to take that once Mac has the twins and for doctors appointments and so forth."

"Yes sir."

"About the case at Norfolk?" AJ prompted.

"The NCIS agent and I both concur it was an accident and no charges need to be brought. I'll have the paperwork for you as soon as possible."

"Good. Since I presume you don't want to be out of town, I don't have anything major to occupy you but there is a lot of general legal work backlogged. If you could take care of some of that, it would be appreciated."

"Yes sir."

"Coates appears to be at a loose end at the moment so have her assist you."

"Yes sir." Harm repeated.

"I'll let you know if I hear anything else."

"Yes sir."

"Good. Dismissed."

"Aye aye sir."

"Let me get that for you ma'am." A Cpl said opening the door to the Army corpsman's office.

"Thank you Cpl." Mac smiled.

"You're welcome ma'am. I have a four month old son, I know how difficult it to manoeuvre those buggies around."

"And how you need to take more stuff than you'd need a whole three week military exercise." Mac added.

"Yes ma'am." He agreed. "I should get back to work. Have a nice day."

"You too." Mac walked inside.

"Mrs Burns." The woman at the desk said. "Take a seat we're running a little behind today. Potential outbreak of food poisoning from some dodgy food at the NCOs club."

"That's okay Abi and I didn't have any plans for today anyway."

"Any word when your husband gets here?" She asked.

"He's going to be stuck in Washington for a few more days." Mac replied.

"I'm sure it won't take long." She paused. "How are you settling in other than that?"

"Pretty well, but I keep getting lost."

"Don't worry I've only just mastered getting around the base without getting lost and I've been here almost a year." She replied.

"I was a Captain, I should be able to find my way around a base. They are all pretty much laid out the same." Mac sighed.

"Blame it on the hormones. Blame everything on the hormones while you have the chance."

"Sounds like a good plan." Mac agreed.

"So have you picked any names yet?"

"Not yet. We haven't had chance to sit down and talk about it in between moving and cases and everything else." Mac replied.

"When we were naming the kids we put a list on names we liked in a hat and had someone else pull one out. That way if they didn't like them when they grew up they couldn't blame us entirely."

"That's a thought. It's got to be easier than when we named Abi."

"What happened there?"

"I went into labour a couple of weeks early; we thought we still had time to choose something. So I insisted that we had to pick something on the way to the hospital. So he was shouting any name he could think of until I found something I liked."

"That's another way to do it I suppose."

"Mrs Burns." The corpsman came out. "Let's get that blood pressure taken."

"It was nice to see you again." Mac said to the woman.

"You too."

TBC