Summary: From beginning to end in song. Mac and Harm's past, present and future accompanied by various artists.
Pairing: Um… duh! Mac/Harm
Distribution: If you want it, take it but please warn me and tell me where its going (hhakahyperhappyhotmail.com)
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I swear I don't own the people you recognize. I only like to play around with them and make things go my way. DPB owns them along with Paramount and CBS.
Spoilers: Just about everything basically. Some of the cases won't be covered, of course but a lot of the major moments in the lives of Mac and Harm will be.
Author's Note: I'm doing my research for this one but there's no guarantee that I'll get everything right. Please correct me if I make a mistake. Thanks!
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Mac
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1985
Amazing grace
How sweet the sound
That save a wretch like me
I once was lost
But now am found
Was blind but now
I see
The man stood at the woman's bedside looking at the nasty gash on her forehead. It hadn't been a pretty crash and Sarah would be torn up about losing Eddie. It was during the time he sat by her bedside he decided that this was the last straw. She was going to get her life back into her hands completely, not in the hands of her so-called husband and not in the hands of alcohol. Sarah Mackenzie would really start doing things her way.
A groan from the young woman brought him back from his reverie. She blinked bloodshot brown eyes up at him, taking a moment to register exactly who was there.
"Uncle Matt?"
"Hey, Sarah." She moved to sit up.
"No, no. You need to stay lying down. There's a few things we need to discuss." She reluctantly settled back against the pillows.
"Sarah, you and Eddie were driving last night…"
"I know that."
"You crashed, Sarah. Eddie didn't make it." Her eyes widened as she took it all in.
"He… He's…"
"I'm sorry Sarah."
'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear
And grace that fear relived
How precious did that grace appear?
The hour I first believed
She broke down into tears and within that collapse, his heart broke for her too. Broke for the pain she'd already endured, broke for the pain she was about to endure and the consequences her actions would bring in the future. He sat on the side of the bed, hugging her to him as she cried and as tears soaked his uniform, he vowed to help her as best he could.
"Sarah? I have an idea." She look up at him with those brown eyes and he smiled slightly, a sad smile.
"Do you want to do something with your life? To move on?" She looked down at the white hospital sheets, tracing abstract patterns on them.
"I don't know Uncle Matt…" That's when the Marine in him kicked in.
"We'll you're going to." Her surprised look told him the statement came out as a command and he saw her heart harden.
"I'm sorry, Sarah. We're going to dry you out, okay? Get you addicted to life instead of alcohol, okay?" Once again she looked down at the bed sheets, finding the suddenly very interesting.
When we've been there
10 thousand years
Bright shining as the sun
We've endless days
To sing God's praise
Then when we first begun
"Come out to Red Rock Mesa with me Sarah. We'll work on getting you dried out, work on getting your life back on track." When she lifted her head to protest, he threw down the card he had hoped he wouldn't have to use.
"Its either that or jail, Sarah. Eddie's dead." That brought tears back to her eyes again.
"I promised I'd take you and dry you out as long as you didn't have to do brig time. You're in this for the long haul, Sarah. So we're going to get all of the alcohol out of your system and then we're going to head to Red Rock, okay?" She didn't have a choice but to nod, regardless of how much she needed the bottle right now. She'd killed her best friend because… because of her father. That's who it all came back to anyway, didn't it?
Amazing grace
How sweet the sound?
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost
But now am found
Was blind but now
I see
Red Rock Mesa
"Uncle Matt? How do you feel about me joining the Marines?"
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That one worked better and I didn't have such a hard time writing it. Anyway, There's one more Mac chapter, then a Harm chapter (I know, finally) then another Mac chapter and we're done all of this past stuff. Then we get to play around with their past together instead of apart!!
This version of Amazing Grace is Leann Rimes
Kavi Leighanna