AN: I'm feeling nice tonight so I thought I'd give you another one. I wrote the two new chapters on Friday and sent them to my beta-reader, who has been kind enough to help me out. Any mistakes you find are my own and not her's.
I now have an outlien of the whole story and therefore I don't think it will take much longer until I have it finished.
Enjoy the chapter!
Early the next morning.
Harm and Mac's apartment
He was watching her sleeping. It had become something of a habit for him. The early sunshine was filtering through their bedroom window, making her look angelic as she slept. There was nothing more beautiful than that to him. Her hair was dark and felt like silk underneath his fingers as they moved its full length. It was longer now than the way she used to wear it. A lot had changed about her since the day a few months earlier when they professed their love for each other. She was more confident in herself and their love. Not that she had been lacking in confidence before, but she now seemed more relaxed and she seemed to trust her own emotions more than she used to.
She stirred at his touch. Her brown eyes opened to meet his and they stayed locked for what seemed like an eternity.
"I know..."
"You know what?" He asked the question even though he knew exactly what she meant.
"You feel you need to set a trap for her. I know you remember. I know how that stubborn head of yours work works. Also, I came to the same conclusion a couple of hours ago."
"You're okay with it?"
"Not really but there doesn't seem to be much of a choice. There is something you need to know though before you get too involved in this idea. First of all, I'm in this along with you whether you like it or not. Even if I could make myself stay away, I would get pulled in as soon as Johnson makes a move. She knows we're married, so it would be just as likely for her to come after me as it would be to come after you. Secondly..."
She paused, trying to find the right way to say what she had been suspecting for the last couple of weeks.
"Harm... I think I may be pregnant."
"You think...?"
"I haven't been to see a doctor yet, but the signs are all there. For one thing, my period is three weeks late. It's never late. I made an appointment to find out for sure on Thursday..."
"Wow... We're gonna have a baby..."
He slowly leaned forward and touched her hair again, a gesture he himself was not even aware of doing whenever he was close enough to touch his wife.
The gesture did not go unnoticed by Mac though.
"Yes Commander, we are... Are you all right with this? I know it isn't exactly what we had planned."
"All right... Mac... Sarah honey, I'm more than alright. We had a deal remember? Even though we actually both are in a serious relationship, I think we both want this child. What do you say? A boy with your looks and my brains?"
"What if she has your looks and my brains?" She asked him back, just as she had done that day a few years earlier when she had felt her biological clock start ticking.
"Then she'll be perfect too..."
"It doesn't change what I have to do though." Harm suddenly whispered in her ear.
"I know, but as I said, I will be with you whatever happens. I just hope we know what we're getting ourselves into."
With that Mac slid closer to her husband, neither of them knowing that their plan had already been set into play...
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