What's Next? Part 2
After having a quick lunch with his parents they met with Bud Roberts to head to the airport. Once on the plane they started reviewing the file they had on Matt O'Hara. Mac had become very quite. Bud was so excited he just kept talking. Harm was wondering why the CIA needed Jag on this. The guy was an ex marine not like they would be involved in this as lawyers.
"Okay Bud I want you to stay with Webb, Mac and I are going to look for Col. O'Hara".
Harm said as he was looking at Mac making sure she was going to agree with him.
"Bud you know more about satellites and electronics then either of us. And I know Col. O'Hara. We will make a great team". Mac stated just wait and see.
They finalized all their plans. Bud was to be the spy, Mac the tracker, and Harm was to make sure Mac stayed inside the law. There was something between the Col. And the Major, and he was going to find out.
Harm and Mac headed to the Marine base after meeting with Webb. Mac was driving so she chose to go the wrong way.
"Mac this is not the way to base, I thought you knew your way around Arizona?"
"Harm I am not lost I just know where to find him" keeping her eyes on the road.
"So is he an old boy friend?"
"No! He just happens to be the best adult I ever knew. And he has helped me in the past." The tears in her eyes told him more than anything she could say.
In silence they drove the last 40 miles Harm kept looking at Mac at times seeing Diane and at other times seeing someone who was in a lot of pain. He knew that Mac was someone special.
"Harm wake up we are here! Red Rock Mesa. We will wait till morning then we will hike up and find him."
"Well Mac let's see if we can't get him here sooner" As he started signaling with the head lights.
Later that night Harm, Mac, and Uncle Matt sat next to the camp fire telling stories. Harm learned why Matt was so important to Mac. Her child hood, the drinking, an early marriage, and the twin boys she had at 18. And how he raised the boys so Mac could support the boys, and she could become an attorney and a proud marine. Things were going so well for everyone. The boys loved their mom, and she loved them. And he loved them all. Harm now understood why Mac always seemed so lost in thought. He told them how he lost his own dad on Christmas Eve as a child, and his dream of finding him one day.
The next morning Harm learned about dinosaur tracks. They were going home and Uncle Matt was going to go with them. And Harm was going to help him out.
Mac thanked Harm for his helping her. Uncle Matt is in prison but he is not going to die as a trader to his country. Mac realized that Harm was going to be a very special friend. It had been a long time that she felt she could trust any one with information on her past.
"Mac when we get home do you think you could show me pictures of Russell and Robert? And tell me some stories about them?" he asked with a smile.
Later that night at Mac's apartment while eating pizza she told him stories of her boys, she even showed him the photo albums she had. There were pictures on the wall of Matt and the boys, Mac and the boys, and just the boys. As the night went on Harm showed Mac a picture of Diane, and they talked about their past loves and the life's that were taken from them way too soon. Both agreed that it was time to start a life time of new memories. Tomorrow they would go on their first date.
The next day Mac learned about the other Sarah's in Harms life. And for the first time in her life she felt truly loved. Harm realized that what he was feeling for Mac was something he never felt before. This must be what everyone calls love. He knew that it was time to get his family together; it was time for them to bond. Mac was going to be around for a very long time.
The next day Mac was sent to Afghanistan, some how she had managed to get a big case. This left him time to make plans for his family to meet and set up a family get-together. Everyone was going to meet at grams for the week end. And Mac was going to be the topic of conversation. Plus plans were going to be made for the Christmas holiday. Harm was going to have his first happy Christmas in a long time, and it was going to be at his home. Nothing was going to hold him back, things could only get better.
That weekend he met his family at the farm. He told them about Mac, her boys, and how they died. And that he had met her uncle who was now in prison. His Sarah had a hard life getting drunk, and married before she was out of high school. Her Uncle Matt and twin boys saved her from a life of a drunken woman that let people use her as well as abuse her. She fought hard and yet it was all taken from her. He told them it was Sarah Mackenzie that made him realize. Life is too short to live in the past, that the future is where happiness is waiting. Trish and Sarah looked at each other and agreed their little boy was finely in love, and happy for the first time, Harm was home.