A/N: Thanks to all who have stuck with me this far. I seem to be on a roll so enjoy!

Harm's Hospital Room
0800 Hours
09/01/2004

"Hey, you ready to get out of here?" I ask as I walk into the room.

"Oh, yeah. What took you so long, Mac?"

"Had to stop and pick up our travel orders." I wave them in my hand.

"We're out of here?" His tone is unbelieving.

"Just as soon as we have your discharge papers." I smile.

"You mean these papers?" Harm waves them in my face.

"Yeah, those papers. So they're just gonna let you walk out of here?"

"Nope, we were just waiting for you to show up, Colonel." This from a nurse standing in the doorway with a wheelchair.

"I ..." Harm starts.

"Let's not have the argument, flyboy. I want to go home and we've only got 28 minutes and 7 seconds to catch our hop to Bahrain. If we miss that, it's 24 hours until the next one." At that Harm gets into the wheelchair.

"So when will we be home?" Harm asks.

"If everything goes according to plan we should land at Andrews at 1905 Washington time." I tell him.

"Are we flying commercial or military?"

"Military."

"So I shouldn't plan on us arriving on time." Harm remarks.

"Probably not." I laugh. We've both traveled enough to know the farther you're going on a military flight the less likely you are to get there on time.

We arrive at the airport just in time to catch our hop. Soon enough we're in Bahrain with at least an hour to kill so we find some coffee and have a seat.

"So, does my mom know we're headed back?"

"Yeah, but I told her I didn't know for sure when we'd arrive so no planning on meeting us." I tell him.

"She agree?"

"Actually, yeah, she did." I smile at him.

"I'm impressed. Can you tell me your secret?" Harm asks.

"I could, but we've already established that you don't speak Farsi." I respond and we share a laugh.

"So what exactly do my mom and the kids know?"

"AJ knows that you got hurt, and you have stitches in your side, and a cast on your wrist. Mattie knows the same, plus the fact it was a terrorist attack. Your mom knows about everything except the HIV tests. I didn't see the point in telling her since they all came back negative." It would have just scared Trish and I think I was scared enough for the both of us.

"Good, thanks for not scaring her. Are you sure it was a good idea to tell Mattie that it was a terrorist attack?" Harm asks.

"Harm, she's taking Current Issues this semester. Even if she didn't find out at home, she'd have found out at school." I tell him.

"Good point."

"Your mom offered to take the kids with her to California. I told her yes."

"Why?" Harm looks a little surprised.

"Well things will probably be nuts at work until the end of the week and if that's the case the kids would have more fun in California. Your mom's planning on keeping them until Sunday afternoon so that'll give us Saturday and Sunday morning to ourselves." I'm not going to tell him I have something planned for Saturday because it's a surprise.

"Okay, I guess that makes sense."

"I knew you'd see it my way!" I reach over and give his hand a discreet squeeze.

"Shall we go catch our flight?" Harm asks.

"Sounds good."