OK Guys, sorry this part took so long to get up; and sorry I gave her amnesia -- I had to for it to work with my storyline. Anyway, I've been hell busy with uni, and wrote my last exam for this semester today, so hopefully I can get much more of this fic up in the next few weeks. This part ends a little weird I think, but it sorta fits with the Harm-Meg relationship

Past to Present

Disclaimer: I own none of these characters except Ryan

Part Five – Their First Meeting

Six years later, Meg sat in a COD as it flew over Washington Park. Commander Lindsey barked down her neck.

"Read that briefing Lieutenant!" He snapped as the COD was lowered down and Lindsey beckoned to a jogger in the park.

"Lieutenant Rabb!" he called out. Harm ran over, wiping sweat from his forehead.

"New assignment and partner," Lindsey said to him as Harm started putting a suit on as Lindsey outlined the assignment of the missing torpedo from the Tigershark.

"This is Lieutenant JG Austin…she's a computer weapons specialist."

Harm watched as Meg turned to face him and smiled.

"Hi, I'm Meg."

Harm shook her hand, looking at her strangely. Meg dropped his hand.

"Have we met?" She asked him, a smile on her face. Harm shook his head.

"No, lieutenant we haven't. My mistake," Harm withdrew his hand and finished getting into his orange jumpsuit.

"Do I remind you of someone?" Meg asked him softly. Harm contemplated this for a moment.

"Yeah, you kinda do. I don't know where we met though." Harm said, the words straining his heart as he looked into those innocent child-like eyes from years ago. He remembered the last time he'd seen her before the accident, when she hadn't understood that he was going away until he said it was to keep her safe. Then his mind flashed to when he'd seen her after the accident. The doctors had said she had amnesia, and that was why she couldn't remember him. It appeared that she remembered people she knew well and had seen a lot of, and pretty much everything else except him. Harm watched as Commander Lindsey barked at her.

"Get back to reading that briefing Lieutenant!"

Meg turned around without a word, reading the file silently. Harm watched her little mannerisms, tucking her hair behind her ear and biting her lip that he knew from all those years ago. He was soon involved in a conversation with Commander Lindsey as they neared the submarine.

"All right Lieutenant, you go first, if you need me to pull you back up, tug on the harness." Harm said to her. Meg rolled her eyes as she was lowered. Harm watched her miss several times as she swung to get into the forward escape hatch, and was about to pull her up when she undid the harness.

"Meg!" he jumped after her.

"Get off me!" Meg said angrily as they were received into the sub, and Meg looked down upon because she was 'a woman'. Harm kept at it.

"You're shivering, are you okay?"

"I'm just cold sir." Meg replied as they went to get changed and get some coffee. He watched as she broke out into a sweat, and as she shrugged it off again. Harm was growing suspicious, but let it slide until later.

A while later, Harm noticed Meg was struggling to breathe. He pulled her into the Officer's Lounge.

"Meg, you're claustrophobic,"

"It's never…b…been this bad before," Meg stammered, shaking as she walked around. Harm made her sit down.

"Meg…"

"You need me," Meg said, annoyed. "And it could put my career in jeopardy,"

"Better your career than 400 lives Lieutenant!" Harm stormed out the lounge, leaving Meg alone.

A week later

Meg was hunched over her desk doing paperwork, when Harm knocked on her door.

"You're going to wear yourself out!" he said kindly to her, taking her pen away. Meg snatched it back.

"I'm fine," she replied, but Harm knew better.

"Meg, come on, it's late."

Meg looked up at him, dark rings under her eyes.

"It hasn't stopped me before sir," she stifled a yawn.

"Whoa Meg," Harm said as she fell forward on her desk, her hair falling in her eyes. He shook her shoulder gently.

"Meg, wake up." Harm said, pulling her into his arms. Meg awoke with a grin on her face.

"Hey handsome," she said before her eyes dropped closed again. Harm sighed and tipped some cold water over her head. Meg shrieked.

"Harm!" she yelled at him. He gave her an innocent look.

"What?"