AN: Thanks again for the reviews. For anyone confused, Athena is a friend that I made up for Mac. They supposedly have known each other for a long time. They hadn't seen each other for a while until Athena called her one day asking for them to meet to catch up on things. Now on with the story!!!!!!

Chapter 3 Harm's Apartment

Thursday Afternoon

Mac's Car

1:30pm

Mac drove around in her car deep in thought. The sky had turned a pale shade of gray and droplets of rain were starting to fall from its merciless clouds. 'I need to go home,' she thought, 'and sort out my next plan of action.' She started driving towards her house. 'I need to call the police and check the disk and see what Athena was working on'. Every time she would think of her friend her eyes started to fill up with tears and she wiped her eyes with her sleeve as she continued down the road. She arrived on her street sooner than she thought she would. When she pulled over to the side of the road in disbelief, a shiver ran down her spine as she saw the van from the restaurant pull up to her apartment building, but no one got out of the van. 'My apartment's being watched? That means I can't go home. Where else could I go where it would be safe... Harm's apartment. He could help me.'

20 minutes later……

The weather had just gotten nastier in those last twenty minutes and it looked like their was no sign of it clearing up anytime soon. Huge drops of water splashed down on the roof of Mac's car as she pulled up to Harm's apartment. She quickly put on her coat and sloshed through the puddles of water and into the building. When she reached Harm's door she knocked on it silently praying that he was in. She was relieved when she heard his voice.

"Coming!" He answered rushing to the door. "Hey, Mac," Harm said, as he saw her standing at the door. Then even before she said anything he asked, "What's wrong?"

"I…I," Mac started to say, but then burst into uncontrollable tears.

"Hey it's alright," Harm said, not knowing why Mac was upset. He rapped his arms around her and led her inside then closed the door. She continued to sob in his shirt as he led her over to the couch. He had never seen Mac cry like this before and he was extremely worried. When Mac seemed to have settled down, he asked again, "What's wrong?"

Mac took a deep breath. "I was meeting one of my friends today at this restaurant and… and everything was going great until these people killed her andnowtheyareafterme!" She said without even pausing for a breath.
"Whoa, slow down, Mac," Harm said, as he softly rubbed her shoulders. "You witnessed a murder?"

"Yeah, she was my friend to."

"Why don't you start from the beginning and tell me what happened," Harm said trying to be calm but the realization was hitting him that he could have lost Mac if she had been the one shot.

Mac took the next fifteen minutes to explain to Harm about her friend, the escape for her life, and them watching her house.

Harm didn't know what to say. The first thing that came out of his mouth was, "I'm just glad that you're ok. I don't know what I would have done if you had been the one shot. I don't know what I would have done without you," he said comfortingly. Mac leaned against him. She felt the safest and most loved that she had felt in a long time. "You know what we are going to do?" He asked looking down at her. "We are going to call the police then talk about you staying here until this is resolved."

"You don't mind if I stay here?" She asked looking up into his eyes.

"You're always welcome here," he said handing her the phone.

She spent the next few minutes talking with the police. She was told that they had already visited the restaurant and they needed to speak with her immediately. Mac gave the officer, on the phone, Harm's address and hung up, snuggling back into Harm's safe arms, as she waited for the police to arrive.

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