AN: Thank you guy for the reviews! Anyways that chapter is a continuation of last chapter. Let's just say that things so far are not as they appear to be. So don't jump to conclusions!

Chapter 6 More Information

Harm and Mac's room

Friday Night

7:45pm

"Harm! Harm wake up!" Mac said coming out of the bathroom. "Can you scoot over so I can get in?"

"What?" Harm's eyes flashed open confused. "What's going on!" He asked sitting up alarmed.

"I would like my half of the bed but since you have taken it over, I guess I'm going to have to sleep on the floor."

"No…I'll move," Harm said still confused but more awake now. "When did you change?" He said noticing her blue matching pajamas.

"What are you talking about? I told you I was going to take a shower."

"I think I must have been dreaming," He said scratching his head.

"You must have been tired then. I've only been in the bathroom for half an hour," she told him.

"Yeah…I must have been."

"Find anything interesting on tv?"

"Uh…no, there's nothing good on."

"Then can I turn off the light?" She asked as a yawn creped upon her.

"Go ahead," he replied still wondering about his dream.

"So," Mac said a few minutes later, as she was unable to fall asleep. "What were you dreaming about?"

"Oh, it was nothing important," he lied, thankful the lights were off so Mac couldn't tell he was lying.

"It must have been a good dream," she said wanting to know more.

"Uh…why would you say that?"

"When I came out you had the weirdest smile on your face."

"You really want to know what I was dreaming about?"

"Yeah, of course I do."

"Well…there were these blue martians and-"

"Alright, I get it," Mac said, interrupting him. "If you don't want to tell me then I won't force you," she said, a little annoyed. 'Some day I'll find out what you were dreaming… some how.'

"Night, Mac," Harm said turning over in the dark.

'Fine, change the subject.' "Good night, Harm. Sweet dreams."

"Yeah, you too," he said falling asleep, but not before thinking back on that dream.

Saturday Morning

9:00am

"Oh man! Harm wake up! Mac said, shaking him awake. His eyes flashed open, and he sat up in a daze.

"What's wrong?"

"We're supposed to have breakfast with Nancy and her husband."

"Nancy who?" Harm asked still barely awake.

"I met her on the way to the pool and we're all having breakfast at 10:00!"

"Go along with out me," Harm said turning back over away from her.

"No…Harm, you have to get up and come with me. Come on. I'll owe you one."

He sat up hearing that. "Really?"

"Yep," Mac said pulling him up. "I'll owe you can beside we should socialize as a couple."

"I thought we did enough of that with Brumby and Renee yesterday."

"Not nearly enough. Nancy suggested it. How could I say no? Besides it will make our cover story more believable."

"Fine I'm coming, but I'm holding you to your word. Your are gonna owe me."

Hallway outside the room…..

Harm and Mac had changed in lighting fast speed and met outside the room to look each other over and make sure it didn't look like they had just woken up.

"Where did you say you met…"

"Nancy?" She asked brushing lint off of his shirt.

"Yeah."

"I met her on the way to the pool yesterday."

"So that's why you took longer than five minutes," he accused, as they headed down the hall.

"We'll at least I'm not the one that's late to work all the time," she shot back.

"Hey, I've gotten better. Besides if I can remember right you were late this whole past week."

"Mac rolled her eyes. "Let's get off this subject."

Harm saw the annoyed look on her face and decided to apologize.

"Mac, I'm sorry. I was just looking forward to sleeping in before we questioned some of the witnesses today."

"I know," Mac said. "I'm kind of having second thoughts myself," she yawned, as they entered the elevator. They headed down a few floors and the elevator stopped on the main floor and the doors slid open. They entered the food court and say Nancy and her husband waiting for them.

"Jessica, Jason, over here!" Nancy said, as she called them over to a table she and her husband reserved.

Nancy immediately hugged Mac and turned to Harm.

"You must be Jason," she said sticking out her hand.

Harm shook her hand. "It's nice to meet you."

"This is my husband, Richard." He was about as tall as Harm, maybe a little shorter with black hair and brown eyes.

"It's nice to meet you too," Richard said to the both of them.

Mac detected a hint of an accent in his voice and said, "It's nice to meet you," in Russian.

Richard was taken back but replied, "You can speak Russian?"

"I learned at a young age," Mac said.

"How did you know I could speak Russian?" He said in English.

"You have a slight accent," Mac admitted.

He smiled. "Your Russian is beautiful."

"Can you speak Russian also?" He asked turning to Harm.

"No, Jess here has been trying to teach me for years but I can't seem to learn," he said looking down at her.

"Oh, stop being modest. He's really getting better."

Nancy felt her stomach growl and looked up at them. "I don't know about you but I'm ready to eat."

There were many breakfast foods to choose from in the buffet. Every kind of breakfast food was there from traditional eggs, bacon, and hash browns, to crepes, and Belgium waffles. They stood in the line of people and glanced at all the food to choose from feeling their mouths start to water.

Richard piled hash browns onto his plate before turning to Harm. "Nancy tells me that you work for a business company."

"Yes, I work in marketing."

"I'm into business too."

"What do you do?"

"I travel in my line of work and I work with different groups."

"So have you been planning this cruise trip for a long time?" Nancy asked Mac.

Mac loaded up her plate with sausage, and hash browns before replying, "No, it was just a spur of the moment thing. Jason just felt like taking this trip to spend more time with me."

"That's nice," Nancy said, as they finished loading their plates with the steaming food.

"What kind of activities do you guys plan on doing while you're here?" Richard asked.

"We haven't really thought about it," Mac answered.

"What are you talking about, honey?" Harm said. "I showed you the brochure of the gym."

"You read about that state-of-the-art gym too?" Richard asked. "Now that is something worth checking out.

Nancy looked concerned. "Promise me you'll be careful."

Richard rolled his eyes. Mac and Harm looked at them confused, and Richard explained.

"Nancy's heard rumors of someone on the ship causing trouble."

"What have you heard?" Harm and Mac said in unison.

"I over heard one lady saying that she had heard that the cruise was unsafe and two people had died on the last cruise. Have you guys heard anything?"

"No," Harm lied.

"The reason we took this cruise was to go to Hawaii but also we heard that the money raise on the ship was going to help soldiers over seas."

"Oh yeah, we heard the same thing," Mac said.

"Don't get me wrong. Richard and I are having a good time, but if we had known of the possible danger, we might not have taken this cruise."

The rest of their breakfast went good with them making small talk. Soon breakfast was over and they headed back to their rooms.

"This is not good."

"What are you talking about?" Mac asked him.

"Nancy said that she was hearing rumors of someone on board. If these rumors are floating around then it's adding to the bad publicity for the ship."

"Let's start by questioning some of these witnesses and find out if there's anything else they can tell us," Mac told him when they got back to their room.

Harm, Mac, and the head chief on the ship sat in the conference room half an hour later.

"Don't you have the report I gave the last investigators?" The very annoyed chief asked them.

"Yes, but we want to hear for ourselves about what happened," Mac said.

Chief Bryan sighed, rolled his eyes, and thought back on what happened. "My team and I were making food for dinner on the last cruise. After we were done we laid the food out for people to come by and take. The next morning we heard that people who had eaten at the buffet last night were ill with food poisoning. But I swear to you both that we cooked the food right. We even tested it before we put it out there and none of us got sick."

"Don't worry your not being accused of food poisoning," Harm said.

Mac started pacing the back and forth deep in thought. "Could someone have tampered with the food?"

"That's the only explanation I can come up with," Bryan said. "I just don't see how though. I was there all the time."

"You're sure you were there the whole time?" Harm asked.

"Yes I was….wait how could that have slipped my mind?"

"What?" Mac asked.

"My team and I went to get the new menus for the buffet. We had just decided to try and serve other food besides the buffet and we had ordered new menus before the cruise. They had come but we had to go and get them from the main lobby."

"Could someone have tampered with the food you were preparing?"

"It's possible."

"We're going to need to question all of your cooking team," Harm said. "Maybe someone saw something."

Two hours had gone by and Harm and Mac felt frustrated.

"I can't believe that no one saw anything," Mac said. 'Investigating this is not as easy as I thought it would be. No leads, no case, no nothing.'

"Maybe we'll have better luck with the maid who was there when the last two investigators died," Harm said sensing her frustration and his.

Half an hour later they were able to locate the maid and question her about what happened.

"So you witnessed two men fall over board?" Harm asked the maid.

"Yes," the maid, whose name tag said Jenny, answered.

"Can you tell us in your own words what happened?" Mac asked.

"I...I was picking up some of the towels and drinks that people left over by the pool."

"What time was this?" Harm asked.

"I think it was a few minutes after 8:00. It was dark and I was the only one out there. I was about to go in when two men came out the doors and bumped into me. They knocked the towels out of my hands. I could tell they were drunk, because they were stumbling around on deck. I wasn't really paying very much attention, because I was concentrating on refolding the towels. I looked away only for a minute when I heard a splash."

"You didn't see anyone else on deck?" Mac asked.

"I……..didn't seek anyone else," Jenny said looking down.

"Are you telling us the truth?" Harm asked.

"Yes. Why…why do you ask?"

"What he meant was is there anything else you want to tell us," Mac asked.

Jenny thought for a second and then looked up at them. "I was told not to say anything."

"What do you mean?"

"I looked up when I heard the two guys fall over, and I saw a men standing in that very spot. I felt scared and tried to run inside. This guy grabbed me by the arm and slammed me against the wall. He told me that he would kill me if I told anyone what I had seen."

"Nothings going to happen to you," Harm said seeing the young women's hands shaking.

"What did this guy look like?" Mac asked.

"He was tall but that's about all I can tell you. It was dark and he had a dark sweatshirt and his face was covered with something."

"Thank you for confiding in us," Mac said. "We'll get a guard to stay with you until this person is found."

"Thank you," Jenny said.

Mac and Harm went back to their room after interviewing Jenny. I'm going to email Bud and see how things are going back at JAG," Harm said.

"I'll talk with Marks and see if he can get an officer to stay with Jenny," Mac told him.

There was an urgent knock on the door, and Mac went to open it.

"There's been a fire," Marks said out of breath. "I thought you two should come and see what happened."

End of chapter 6