Title – Through The Eye Of A Shipper – S02 E04 Heroes

Authors' Names - Carol and Michi or Michi and Carol

Paring – Harm & Mac

Spoilers – Season 2 Episode 4: Heroes

Disclaimer – JAG belongs to DPB, CBS, and Paramount.

Summary - How 'Heroes' (Airdate: 01/24/97) should've been continued when you saw it through the eye of a shipper… 'Heroes' is the famous episode where Harm fired the gun in the courtroom.

Author's Notes-

Since this series will deal with an episode, which aired many years ago, it means that we risk having a FF storyline that might seem somehow familiar. There's hope that our ideas are unique, but should that not be the case we apologize and swear to our god and chocolate that we did not know it and we did not do it on purpose. It's also possible that we somehow 'screw-up' a little with the dateline, in case we're using one. We promise to give our best to work with the right one.

Please don't forget that the episode we're working on is the 'actual aired episode'. This means, nothing after said episode happened. Also know that each TTEOAS story is a 'Stand Alone Story' in this series.

A huge thanks goes to our beta reader team Vered, Shoe and Gum! However, any mistakes left are ours. Also, a special thanks goes out to Sharon for her great idea about the summary.

5. The rest of the 'Through The Eye Of A Shipper'-series you can either find at Carol's website or Michi's website.

Harm'sApartment

North of Union Station

Washington D.C.

1:05 PM

Mac once more knocked on the door, but the only sound coming out of her partner's apartment was some loud Latin music. She shook her head, tried the knob of the door and was surprised to find it unlocked.

She stepped into the apartment and immediately saw Harm sitting on the floor, trying to repair what looked like a floor-sander. "Harm," she called but still got no reaction from him. Mac smiled and started to step toward him.

As soon as she was near enough, she got down on her knees and once more called his name. This time she got a reaction from a surprised looking Harm.

"Peace offering," she said and showed him the two bags she was holding in her left hand.

Harm read the label of the first bag. "Beltway Burgers?" He asked disgusted with a smile on his face. "I don't think so."

"Nah, that's for me. I got you a couscous grilled shrimp and arugula salad."

"I accept," Harm told her and then looked to the direction of his bedroom. "The only place that isn't torn up is the… eehh… bedroom."

"Works for me," Mac said and made her way to his bedroom while Harm stood up to get some drinks for them.

He opened his fridge and took a bottle of white wine out of it. "I take it we're friends again," he called behind her and started to shut the refrigerator door again while watching her.

"Until we face off in the courtroom," Mac told him and turned down the music a bit.

Harm looked down at the bottle of wine he was holding in his hand and remembered that Mac didn't drink anything with alcohol in it. He placed the bottle back into the fridge and took two bottles of fruit juice instead. Then he got two wine glasses from the shelf and followed Mac into his bedroom.

"What made you change your mind?" Harm wanted to know.

"What made you?" Mac returned his question and took of her jacket.

"I didn't stop being your friend. You stopped being mine," Harm answered her and pointed with the bottles in his left hand at her.

"Oh, what did you expect me to do after when you sandbagged me in court?" Mac wanted to know and placed her jacket on the bed before she sat down on one side of it.

Harm followed her suit. "You mean I out-lawyered you?"

"Out-lawyered me? Oh, I fell for it because I thought you were a friend, and a friend doesn't sandbag a friend."

"Where were you raised?"

"Where friends don't sandbag friends."

"That's somewhere in Ohio, isn't it?" Harm asked and took a piece of broccoli into his mouth.

Mac smiled at him. "Haha, cute does not work with me, Harm."

"I wasn't being cute, I was being funny."

"Yeah, like when you fired that HNK in court?"

"Well, I thought it was pretty funny when you ducked under the table."

"I'm a Marine, Harm. Marines don't duck," Mac told him as a matter of fact and ate another French fry.

"Well, what do Marines do?" Harm wanted to know and took a gulp of his drink.

"They take cover, but they never duck."

Harm just smiled, gave her a 'yeah, right'- look and took another sip of his drink. "Is that so?"

"Yes, it is," Mac confirmed her statement and gave him a smile of her own.

Harm carefully looked at Mac and found her to have a very off sense of humor. He took some bites of his salad and couldn't resist the urge to talk about her food. "I can't believe you eat that stuff."

"What's wrong with my lunch?" Mac asked before she took a very large bite of her burger.

"There are enough calories in that to kill a small cow," Harm stated.

Mac sighed. "I tend to use up a lot of calories every day, so I need to eat food with a lot of calories in it."

Harm looked at his grilled shrimp and then her fries. "This would give you the same amount of energy as that and it's better for you."

"It might, but it's missing one of the basic four food groups," Mac stated with a grin.

Harm looked at his salad and thought of the four food groups. "And which one is it missing?"

"Ketchup." Mac grinned as she took another bite of her burger, nearly finishing it off.

Harm laughed and turned back to his salad to finish it. His thoughts turned back to Mac's comment about Marines. "So, Marines don't duck."

"No, we don't." Mac placed her garbage in the bag and took a last drink of her juice.

Harm was deep in his thoughts for a moment before very slowly a mischievously grin took place on his face. "I bet I can make you duck," he suddenly challenged her.

"Really?"

"Yup, really."

Mac only laughed and shook her head. "No way, Harm."

Harm just smirked at her and without any warning he moved closer to her. Before Mac knew what happened, he was kissing her. It was a slow and gentle kiss. At first she was stunned but after a short while she started to return the kiss.

A few seconds later they broke their kiss and Harm looked at Mac with a raised eyebrow. "You didn't duck," he concluded.

This time Mac was the one who had a smirk on her face. "No, I guess I didn't."

"Are you going to throw a 'red light'-comment at me now, Major?"

Mac just laughed and got up from the bed, took her jacket and made her way to the kitchen, where she was throwing her garbage into the trashcan. "Haven't decided yet, Commander!" She called behind her, getting Harm's laughter in response.

He walked into the kitchen to put their used glasses into the dishwasher. Then his gaze followed Mac, watching her examining the floor-sander. "You can fix this?" She asked him and pointed at the machine.

Harm nodded his head. "Yeah, shouldn't be a problem," he answered and quickly added. "At least I hope."

"If you have any trouble, go ahead and give me a call. I've had to repair one in my old apartment." Mac suddenly got a curious look on her face as she noticed a certain spot on the sanded floor. "What happened to that spot?" She asked Harm and once again looked at the weird looking space.

Harm looked at the spot and noticed the weirdly sanded mark. "Bud," Harm only answered with a chuckle and got a nod from Mac in response.

"Got ya," she replied and had to chuckle as well.

Mac put on her jacket and looked up at her partner. "I better go now. It's been a long week."

"Okay."

Together they walked to the apartment door.

"Oh, and before I forget," Mac started to say and turned around so that she stood toe to toe with Harm.

"Yeah?"

"A 'red light'-comment won't be necessary, Commander," she notified him and quickly gave him a kiss on his lips before she walked out of the door, leaving an astonished looking Harm, with a goofy grin on his face, behind.

The End