There you'll be
By: rainydays9
Summary:Just my mind taking the lead without my knowledge. Gonna be shipper at the end.
Disclaimer: Not mine, never will be. JAG belongs to CBS and DPB and Paramount too.
Rating: T
Timeline: season four
A/N: someone who wants to beta?
Harm's apartment, North of Union Station 6:59 PM
Mac arrived feeling uneasy. Something was bugging her, telling her to turn around and run away, but she declined. She hoped he wanted to have their talk.
Harm was doing the last touches to his dinner when he heard knocking at his door. He smiled, because he knew perfectly well who is on the other side. He opened the door.
„Always right on time, come in".
„Hi, it smells wonderful in here".
„Thanks". They smiled at each other till she looked and saw the table set for three.
„I thougt you wanted to talk? You invited someone else?".
„Yeah, that's why I wanted to talk, Mac, I… I have got... um…"
„What he probably wants to say is that he's got a girlfriend", said a person standing at the doorway.
She's got a key to Harm's apartment. A long-legged blonde, blue eyes, beautiful.
Mac wanted to escape. Run as fast as possible, but she would not. Her legs refused to make only one step, stood perfectly in place on the ground. Unable to move at all.
Confusion, fear, shock, hurt. Her heart screamed in pain. It broke into million pieces, fell on the ground. However her eyes mirrored nothing. Her expression was blank. She automaticaly regreted coming here, but what could she do now?
When Mac kept staring at Harm, the blonde got into action.
„Hello, my name is Mandy Wilson and I'm Harm's girlfriend. Nice to finally meet you. Harm told me a lot about you."
Mac quickly recovered and answered. „Oh, nice to meet you too". Then she turned to Harm. „So, what's about this dinner you promised me?"
Harm couldn't believe it. Mac looked shocked at first, but then- nothing. He had seen the walls around her. She was engrossed in conversation with Mandy, but alerted, careful at what she was saying. To a stranger, she would seem fine, but he knew, she was protecting herself…from him.
After the dinner, they were seatedon the couch, Mandy stuck at Harm's side and talking mostly about her.
„So, how long are you two together?" asked Mac
„Oh, about two months now", said Mandy.
That's exactly when Harm wanted to shoot himself. He knew he betrayed her, had lied to her and now he has to face the consequences.
Mac felt dead, but now it was even worse if it was possible. Harm didn't just broke her heart into tiny pieces, he even trampled over it and what was left from her heart was only dust. Nothing but dust.
„I think now is time for me to left", said Mac
Before Mandy could react Harm answered
„You don't have to, you know."
„Thanks, but I better go." And she left…
The next weeks were for Mac a complete blur. She worked hard, even won a few cases against Harm. She was mad at him at first, but then she just felt disapointed, tired of the fighting and walking in circles. So she gave up. She was trying so hard not to avoid him, from time to time asking how's Mandy. Other co-workers know about Mandy now too.
Everything was bearable, till the day the admiral gave Harm and Mac a case to work on together.
TBC