AN: Thank you guys for the wonderful reviews. I didn't think I was going to get so many. I hope all of you continue to read and enjoy my story. You guys will not believe how much I wanted to upload sooner but when it rained my phone line got messed up some how and that meant that the internet didn't work. Then the phone company couldn't fix it for a few days. I was soooooooo frustrated. It finally got fixed yesterday by then I had to send my chapter to be betaed. Now I'm able to upload and the good news is that I'm home all week. No school! That means that I can upload sooner! Yay!

Anyways on to important news: Ok, I don't know about the rest of you but I feel upset. How many of you heard that DJE wasn't coming back on JAG next season? Sorry if I spoiled that for any of you, but I'm sure you can understand my frustration. I would think that they would let Harm and Mac get together before he leaves or at least H and M would spend more time together, but no. It seems like Mac is going to be spending all of her time trying to train the new guy. Then that also brings up the question of how they are going to writeHarm out of the show. I really hope H and M get together, but I guess we'll see what happens.

Anyways on with the story….

Chapter 2 The Flight

American Airlines

Thursday 9:00am

"The plane will take off momentarily," said the flight attendant, as the passengers made last minute adjustments to their seats.

'This is it, Mac. Say good bye to the snow, bad food, and friends for a week and a half."

"Yep, Mac answered. "I'm going to enjoy the warm weather and cool ocean water."

"I heard that this liner has a state of the art gym and different sports activities."

"Harm, we're going there to find out if someone has been sabotaging the ship, not to play."

"Hey, we should be able to enjoy ourselves while we are there. Who says we can't do work and play?"

"Cresswell for one," Mac argued. "Don't you remember what he said?"

"Yeah, yeah, handle this with the up most professional manor or something like that."

"Exactly."

"Well," Harm said, refusing to argue about it any more. "I'm going to see if I can get a few hours of sleep."

"That's a good idea," Mac agreed. Then they soon fell asleep for the long flight.

Two and a half hours later…..

Harm yawned, stretched, and opened his eyes. He looked down and saw Mac's head resting on his shoulder. She looked so peaceful sound asleep. He smiled to himself, and then asked the flight attendant for a blanket. He covered her up and began looking through the enormous files of their aliases. He started to read his file. He was supposed to be undercover as Jason Mclay, but other than that he didn't know much about the character he was supposed to portray. He was a successful businessman who took this cruise to spend more time with his wife, Jennifer. Jason and Jennifer had been married for two years. She owned a small restaurant. Harm scanned through the rest of the information. As soon as he finished looking through the files, he felt Mac stirring next to him.

"Harm," she whispered sleepily. "How long have I been asleep?"

"I'm guessing a few hours. Isn't your internal clock working?"

She hit him on the arm and sat up to peer over his shoulders at the files.

"Oh, someone must have gotten up on the wrong side of the plane," he joked, ignoring the evil look Mac shot him.

"Read anything interesting?"

"Well, you're a restaurant owner, and I'm a businessman."

"Really?" I'd never thing of you as a businessman."

"And I'd never think of you as a restaurant owner. Besides I thing I like you better as a Marine."

"Why is that?"

"Well for one we work together, two you keep me in check, three I like to call you jar head."

She jabbed him in the side again. "I like you as a Commander, for the same reasons. Except I can call you a squid, or stick boy," she said, laughing at the memory. "Or maybe vegetarian-meatless-meatloaf-head," she laughed again.

"Yeah, yeah, laugh it up while you can, jarhead."

They spent the rest of the flight talking about their aliases, the cruise ship, and all the food they were going to find on the ship. Some time throughout their discussion Harm felt something in his jacket pocket, and pulled out a brown envelope. Mac watched curiously as he slid out a small jewelry box.

Two gold wedding bands lay inside the box.

"Are these real?" Mac asked, as she reached for the smaller ring.

"They must be," he answered equally shocked. He then took the ring from her. "Allow me." He slipped the ring on her left hand and she gazed at the ring then met his eyes. 'This is what it must feel like to get a ring from someone you really love,' she thought.

But the more she gazed at the ring she felt sad.

Harm slipped his own ring on. "Hey what do you know it fits," he laughed. "How did the SecNav knowour ring sizes?" he asked, puzzled by the thought.

She smiled but it was a strained smile. One he was used to seeing to often.

"Mac what's wrong?" he asked, as a look of concern appeared on his face.

Mac didn't say anything for a minute. She hated to admit it but once the ring was slipped onto her finger, memories of her almost husband Mic floated back to haunt her. She didn't know if it was the cool feel of the ring slipping onto her finger or the thought of marriage but the memories came back all the same.

"Mac?" He asked.

Mac sighed before replying. "It's just that I haven't worn a wedding ring since…" but her voice trailed off suddenly.

Harm took her hand comfortingly. "You shouldn't think of the past. Think of the future and it will make you feel better. A wise man once told me that if you don't let go of the past you can't move on with your life (AN: Wise man aka my English teacher. lol).

She looked back up at him. "Thanks Harm."

"Anytime," he said squeezing her hand. "Anytime."

End of chapter 2

AN: Ok, I know this was short and maybe slow, but hopefully next chapter will be longer. I have written the next chapter with all this time I had with my internet being down, so I'll get right on typing that. I might be a while before I get the next chapter up though. Anyways, hope you guys enjoyed this.

I still can't believe that DJE is leaving JAG! I would like to know what you JAG fans thought about last Friday's episode. What do you think of DJE leaving?