Author's Note: As requested here is the next installment I hope you find this one funny and you will review. I am having a fabulous time thinking of ways for them to get at the Admiral so I will say that after this chapter the screws will begin to loosen! Now read and enjoy.

Harm's Apartment

North of Union Station

0700 Romeo

"AHHH!" Harm heard Mac's scream and rushed to her side. She was sitting upright in his bed, in her undergarments.

"Harm? What am I doing here and not…not dressed!" She exclaimed horrified and she grabbed the blankets up around her. Harm sat down next to her and took her in his arms.

"You fell asleep in my car last night and I didn't feel like sleeping alone so I carried you up here and let you sleep here."

"Did you undress me too?" Harm looked at her embarrassed.

"Well I wouldn't call it that. I was getting you out of…OUCH!" Mac had just slapped him across the face and it really hurt not only physically, but emotionally as well. He stood up and Mac glared at him.

"Harm why on Earth would you do that? You're my best friend I would have thought that you would have and the decency to wake me up!" She snarled and Harm snapped back rather loudly as he walked out to the kitchen.

"Well in case you don't remember our relationship status changed yesterday in the library."

"Oh really and what are we now, sleeping buddies?" Mac snarled standing and taking the blankets with her.

"Actually you and I are engaged, I'll have you know." Mac laughed sourly.

"Dream on Flyboy! The day I get engaged to you is the day the Admiral doesn't court martial us for whoppeeing on a conference table." Harm turned and smiled at her.

"Well then you had better give me my ring back Mac because we haven't soiled Navy property yet." Harm held out his hand to her. She looked down at her left hand and when she saw the diamond sparkling there on her finger she almost burst into tears as yesterday's events came rushing back. She walked over and met Harm at the kitchen counter.

"Oh Harm I'm soo sorry I guess I just forgot and it was really sudden I suppose. I mean it's not everyday you wake up in your best friend/fiancée's apartment with nothing on hardly at all. Forgive me?" Harm pulled her blankets and all into his arms and replied.

"As always, but it really does make me wonder a little what our honeymoon will be like. I am praying that it doesn't involve more slapping." Mac gave him a small sigh.

"Don't worry you won't get slapped again, unless you really deserve it. Now can I get a good morning kiss? It will be my first one from you so…" Mac could talk anymore because Harm was kissing her. She let the blankets fall from around her she wrapped her arms around his neck. As the kiss continued to deepen Harm laid Mac on the counter causing the several papers and such to fall to the floor. There was a knock at the door and in walked the one person who really didn't need to see something like that this early in the morning. Mattie blinked once then twice and gasped. Harm and Mac hadn't heard her come in, but they did hear her gasp. They broke apart and Mac instantly jumped down and pulled Harm in front of her so all Mattie could see was her head, but too late the damage was done. Harm was about to explain when Mattie squeaked,

"I REALLY didn't need that this morning! Holy cow! That will be permanently scarred on my retinas forever. Can't you guys get a room or something? I come in here to ask you to stop yelling so I can sleep and I find… counter…umm." Mattie looked like she was going to pass out. Harm then in a slightly sharp tone said.

"Well Mattie you should have knocked, and last time I checked this is my apartment and a kitchen is a room and you need to respect the fact that I may be doing some things that in here that you need not know about." Harm and Mac flinched. That had come out all wrong.

"Eww! You know what I think I'm going to go back to my apartment now and try and go back to sleep. Eww I'll never be able to look at that counter again." Mattie shuddered and turned on her heel. Mac grabbed the blankets off the floor and wrapped them around her again.

"Mattie wait just a minute. Harm and I have something we would like to tell you. Have a seat." Mac gestured to the table and Mattie sat down nervously in her pjs. Harm and Mac sat across from her.

"Mattie while you were gone some things changed around here," Mac started and Mattie rolled her eyes.

"Well duh!" Harm looked at her disapprovingly.

"Mattie when you were gone Mac and I…" Harm told the story of their prank and it's results except for their engagement and they had Mattie laughing like there was no tomorrow. She stopped however when they weren't laughing along with her.

"What?" She looked at both of them.

"Mattie, we just want you to know that as of yesterday Harm and I are engaged." Mac said Mattie fell out of her chair.

"Ouch! What? No way this is totally crazy I mean it's great but wow this is so awesome! I mean I knew it was going to happen eventually but I mean I thought you two were going to have to get engaged when Harriet and I… oops!" Mattie had just revealed too much and Harm pried,

"Go on, continue."

"No, no I don't think it is a good idea…" Mattie assured him and then changed the subject.

"So since you two are gonna' get married does that mean that the papers will go through when you submit them, because if I have a mom and a dad to come home to then…" Harm bit his lip.

"I don't know Mattie but I suppose that it does increase the chances, but don't get your hopes too high okay? It's still in the air." Mattie nodded that she understood and changed the subject again.

"So where's the ring. I want to see it. You have no idea Mac how many times I have come into Harm's apartment in the mornings and seen him fiddling with it and humming some catchy little love song, before he puts it in his uniform pocket." Mattie spoke the truth and Mac stifled a laugh and held out her hand for Mattie to examine it.

"Hmm I looks like an antique diamond, maybe the one that belonged to your mom Harm."

"Actually it was my grandmother's I just had them put the diamond on a different mount." He corrected and Mac beamed at the fact that she was wearing something that had been passed down through the generations of Rabbs. Mattie stood up.

"Well I don't think I can go back to sleep now what with all this juicy information and by the way Harm are you sure this isn't because Mac is going to have a baby?"

"WHAT?" Mac squeaked and looked at Harm who slapped his hand to his forehead.

"Mac, you missed that conversation last night. Mattie thought that you and I had umm never mind and Mattie what did I tell you last night about that not being it at all. In fact Mac and I haven't even had enough time by ourselves where we weren't being watched or sleeping to… to interact in that sense of the word." Harm then groaned. That hadn't come out right either and Mattie snickered.

"Yeah sure whatever." Mattie then walked out shaking her head. She had to call Harriet and tell her about what she and seen this morning but it was early yet so she would just have to tell Jen or maybe she would write it down in her notebook. The one that said,

"Daily behavior and Almost Romance of Harmon Rabb Jr. and Sarah Mackenzie." Maybe one day she would get it typed up and find some pictures somewhere to show some of it at a wedding reception. She went into her apartment and closing her bedroom door reached under her mattress for her notebook and began to furiously scribble away in it.

Back at Harm's apartment Harm was starting to fix breakfast and Mac was getting ready to shower. They both were silent as they went about their business and getting ready for the day. Mattie was out of school for the summer and so Harm didn't have to take her and she would be more then happy to stay home and be lazy. He was looking out the windows in the kitchen when Mac grabbed him from behind.

"Let's start the day over shall we?" She asked and Harm turned around so he could wrap her in his arms, and smiled when he saw she wasn't in her uniform but in one of his Navy shirts and shorts which were too big for her.

"Well good morning Marine. You slept well I assume?"

"Oh yes very your bed is extremely comfortable. The only problem is that I will smell like you for the rest of the day, I don't mind but knowing some other people they might."

"Oh so you say I smell bad?" Harm countered. Mac shook her head.

"No, it's just that take for instance Harriet if I walk up to her today and talk to her she would be able to tell that I'm not wearing my perfume and she would say something like,

'Ma'am did the Commander hug you today because you smell like him.' Then I would have to tell her the whole story and you know the rest." Harm laughed,

"Well I apologize for any inconvenience I may have caused you now if you don't mind I think I'm going to get ready."

"Did you shower already?"

"Yes Mac I did while you were still asleep. Now help yourself to some eggs, toast, coffee whatever suits you before it gets cold." Harm instructed and went to get ready for the day.

1hr later

"No Mac you can't take me out of it. I need to keep it on so I can go to work today." Harm argued as he continued to iron out Mac's uniform. She didn't think it needed it but if Harm wanted to she wasn't going to argue. I mean how often does a man want to iron your clothes for you?

"Well then maybe tonight?" She asked him and he set down the iron and held up her uniform jacket.

"We'll see, I don't mean to sound disagreeable but just the same. Better?" Mac rolled her eyes and went over to him.

"Look that is the second time that the crease isn't right, like this." Mac repositioned the jacket and did the creases right.

"You know Flyboy if you're going to iron, do it right." Mac then supervised him while he finished and then she put it on and groaned.

"Oh look, there is that stain from yesterday, oh well looks like I'll be making a trip to the cleaners."

"Sorry I can't help it that you are a sloppy coffee drinker, but we are in a time crunch we got to go or we will be late. Now you do remember what we did to the Admiral's chair yesterday do you not?"

"Yes and we need to be the first in his office which means we need to get there before he does. Which means before nine thirty." Mac stated slipping into her heels one wouldn't go on so she asked,

"Harm come here and help me with this would you?"

"Sure," Harm kneeled down in front of the bed where she was sitting and lifted her foot onto his knee.

"Okay now with the heel of your hand please hit the bottom of the heel. My feet are a little swollen and the shoes are a tad small but the next size up was too big so… ouch!" She exclaimed as Harm did like she said and the heel went on but didn't feel very good. Mac stood up.

"You okay Mac?"

"Yeah, it just hurts a little. Let's go say goodbye to Mattie and be on our way." Mac said and they walked out of Harm's apartment and over to Mattie's where she let them in quickly. Jen was sitting at the table eating cereal and reading the paper

"Hey guys. Umm you didn't come to try our counter did you?" She joked nervously and Jen snorted into her cereal.

"No Mattie, I just wanted to let you know that Mac and I are leaving for work. I'll be in court most of the day so please if you need something call my cell and I don't mean like you need more gummy worms, I mean an emergency, gushing blood, unconscious, severed limbs…"

"I know what an emergency is Harm, now go!" Mattie cried and then pushed him back out the door and slammed it behind them.

"Well she certainly didn't want us in there." Mac observed and then Harm and Mac headed down the lift. Both were wondering one what Mattie had up her sleeve and how funny it was going to see the Admiral and his downfall so to speak.

What did you think? Was it good or was it bad? Or do you just want me to shut my mouth so you can hurry and submit a review and begin to read the Admiral's downfall too?