AN:Sorry it took so long school has started and it sucks what can I say?
Harm pulled up to Bobby's house and got out of the car. As he walked up to the door, Harm thought of how he would like to own a house like Bobby's one day. My house will be a lot like this. A house that is big enough for a couple of kids and maybe a dog. Of course my wife, hopefully Mac, would have to agree. Who are you kidding Rabb? You know that that is only a fantasy. Sarah MacKenzie would never marry you Rabb.
Harm rang the doorbell and waited for someone to answer the door. He listened to the footsteps of someone coming to answer the door.
The door opened wide to a smiling young red head girl with green eyes staring at Harm. "Hi," she said.
"Hey, I think I'm looking for your daddy. Is he here?" Harm asked the little girl.
"Yup, he's outside in the back I'll get him." The little girl walked through the house and to the back door, which could be clearly seen from the front door.
Robert came inside behind his young daughter and followed her to the front door. "Harm," he said. "Glad you could make it."
"Thanks for inviting me Bobby. This is a nice place you've got here." Harm said as he stepped over the threshold of the house and into the foyer.
"Thanks, Alex did all of the decorating. Thank God for her. Right now she is out picking up tickets for a theater production we are going to see next weekend. A friend of hers had four tickets but now she can't go so she offered them to us. Of course now we don't know of any other couple who would be willing to go, and we can't just let them go to waste." Bobby said as he led Harm outside to the back where his two children had resumed their playing.
"Sounds interesting. What kind of production is it?" Harm asked sitting down in one of the lawn chairs that had be put out earlier.
"I think it is a play, or maybe she said a ballet. Anyway I don't know. It will just be good to get away from the twins. They have been something lately." Bobby said as he flipped a hamburger on the grill.
"You know I think I know a couple who share your pain and would love to go out to a theater production." Harm said thinking fondly of his friends Bud and Harriet Roberts.
"Really, hmm. Will you talk to them about it for me and let me know."
"Sure I'll call them this afternoon I'm sure they will be ecstatic. If they want the tickets how will I get them before next weekend?" Harm asked.
"I'll come by your office and drop them off." Bobby said as he took the food off of the grill. He looked out into his yard and watched his children play for a little while before he called them in for lunch.
"You have beautiful children Bobby." Harm said as he too watched the children running around the yard, longing for the day when he would watch his own kids play outside.
"Thanks. They are a lot like their mother though." Bobby said as he put the plate of hamburgers on the table. "Lizzy, Tommy come and eat."
The two children ran to the table and sat down to plates that had been fixed for them.
Harm watched the two children devour the hamburgers. "Did you want something to eat Harm?" Bobby asked as he went back to the grill to take the chicken off.
"No thanks I'm a vegetarian." Harm stated.
Bobby brought the plate of chicken over to the table and sat down next to Harm. "So how's it been going lately? Told that friend of yours you love her yet?"
"No Bobby and she is just a friend nothing more than that. We have been through a lot but nothing will change the status of our friendship. So don't try." Harm said hoping that the words he was saying were not true.
"Yeah right and I own the Ritz Carlton in New York." Bobby said sarcastically.
"Really, can I stay there free a couple of nights?" Harm said.
"I'm serious Harm you need to tell her how you feel or you'll always be looking back and wondering what could have been." Bobby said.
At that moment Tommy decided to add to strike a conversation with Harm. "I know a marine." Tommy stated.
"Really?" Harm questioned. Thank God for children and their impulsive timing. Harm thought.
"Yup. She is soooooooooo cool." Tommy said as he put a chip in his mouth.
"And she is really pretty too. She said the girls can do anything boys can do." Lizzy interjected.
"She also said the marines rule and the Navy druels." Tommy said smiling.
Bobby looked at his son and thought He did not just say that.
"She did?" Harm asked fascinated by the woman that the two children were talking about.
"Yup," both children said.
"Well I think that you've been taught wrong." Harm told the two children. He watched as the little girls face changed.
"Why?" Tommy said, saying what his sister was thinking.
"Well because I'm in the Navy and I happen to know for a fact that the Navy rules." Harm said sinking down to the children's level of thought.
"You're in the Navy?" Tommy asked wide eyed.
"Yes I am. I also fly planes every now and then." Harm knew he had the boy hooked.
"Harm you are confusing my children." Bobby laughed as he watched the wheels turn in his daughter's head.
"Well they need to be taught the truth or they will grow up thinking that the Marines are better." Harm stated in a childish voice.
"Yes and that is why Navy men are so good at admitting their feelings." Bobby said hitting a nerve.
Harms face turned from one of playfulness to one of seriousness in less than a second. Bobby had taken it too far. "I think it is time for me to go home. I have some briefs I need to work on." Harm said standing up and heading out the gate. "I'll call you about the tickets tomorrow." Harm said as he looked back at the scene of a father and his two children sitting down for lunch. He then turned and walked out of the gate and to his car and drove home in silence.