Title – Through The Eye Of A Shipper – S02 E06 Trinity
Authors' Names - Carol and Michi
Rating – GS
Paring – Harm & Mac
Spoilers – Season 2 Episode 6: Trinity
Disclaimer – JAG belongs to DPB, CBS, and Paramount.
Summary- How 'Trinity' (Airdate: 02/07/97) should've been continued when you saw it through the eye of a shipper… 'Trinity' is the episode where Harm and Mac are sent to Belfast, Ireland, to represent the legal interests of a Navy Lieutenant whose infant son has seemingly been abducted by the child's father, a known IRA terrorist.
Author's Notes-
1. 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. We promise to give our best to work with the right dateline.
2. 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.
3. A huge thanks goes to our beta reader Vered. However, any left mistakes are ours.
The rest of the 'Through The Eye Of A Shipper'-series you can either find at Carol's or Michi's website
Plane en route to DC
1630 zulu
"Really, it's no problem. Go ahead and sleep," Mac muttered to herself as she passed back and forth in the back of the plane, patting the back of the mildly fussy baby of Lieutenant Linda Nivens.
Mac carefully looked over her shoulder and saw the lieutenant passed out in her seat. "I guess the sleeping meds worked a bit too well." Mac lifted the baby, so she could see his sweet little face. "Oh, it's okay. Your momma needs the rest." She placed the boy back to his original position and started rubbing his back this time.
Harm turned around in his seat and saw Mac still pacing. He looked at his watch. "Fifteen minutes. He wasn't this fussy last time." He then looked over at Mac's seat and saw the little teddy bear that Jimmy had been holding earlier. "I wonder…," Harm muttered before he picked up the bear and headed towards Mac and Jimmy.
As he approached, Mac had turned around to start pacing back towards the seat. She smiled at Harm and he held the bear up for her to see. "Think this might help?" He asked.
Mac lifted an eyebrow. "It just might." She turned the baby around, so he was able to see Harm.
Harm wiggled the bear in front of Jimmy, who immediately started to giggle at his friend. Harm handed the bear to him and Jimmy quickly took it in his small hands. Mac smiled at the bundle in her arms.
"Shall we go back to our seats?" Harm asked and Mac quickly nodded her head. He let her pass by first before following her back to their seats. Harm sat down in the seat by the window. As soon as he was seated, Mac handed him Jimmy and then settled herself in the seat at end of their row, saving the one in the middle for the baby's things. Once she was settled, she took the little boy back from Harm, who hadn't mind at all holding the baby.
They sat in silence; both hoping the baby would quickly fall asleep. After ten minutes their prayers were answered as the little one fell into dreamland. Mac ran her hand over the top of Jimmy's head and chuckled softly. "Some mom I'll be. I didn't even think about his teddy bear."
Harm smiled at her. "It was nothing big. I saw the bear and thought that might have been the reason why he wasn't calming down."
"Well, it was good thinking. He's fast asleep, having good baby dreams," Mac commented, tucking the soft blue blanket around the little baby.
Harm thought about Mac's words. "How do you know he's dreaming about good things?"
Mac smiled softly. "He's a baby. All he knows are good things." She paused and thought about the last few days. This small child had already been separated from his mother and would probably grow up never knowing his father. "All he knows is that his blanket is warm, his mother loves him, and his teddy bear is his best friend."
"Is that all he needs to know, Mac?" Harm asked.
"Wouldn't it be nice to have our lives be this uncomplicated?" Mac asked in return.
Harm nodded his head. "It would be very nice. Too bad we are adults and know what the world holds."
Mac closed her eyes for a second. "But wouldn't it be nice to forget for one moment?"
"It would."
"That's what I want to give my kids. Hope that everything will be alright and nothing can ever hurt them," Mac told Harm with a glint of hope in her eye.
Harm smiled at her. "How many kids do you want?"
"I don't know. Two… three…. I know I want more than one. I hated being an only child."
"I know I always wanted a younger brother or sister." Harm remembered his childhood. Even though his mom was there, it would have been nice to have someone to talk to who knew what you were going through.
"How about you, Harm? Do you want kids?"
He chuckled. "I think I would settle for having the wife first."
"Well, in that case I'm going to need to have the husband."
Harm smiled at her. "I hear that the significant other helps the relationship. But yeah, I think I want two kids." He paused. "Several of my friends from the Academy are already married and have a few kids. At times I think that I should be just like them. You know… having kids to worry about and driving to soccer games in the mini van."
"I know. I have friends who say they could never have my job and be away from their kids all the time."
"Would you give up the Marines if you had kids?"
Mac didn't answer right away and took a moment to think about her answer. "I don't know. It's something that my husband and I would have to talk about. What about you? Would you want your wife to work?"
"It's something we would have to talk about. My mom was a single mom and she worked. I think I turned out relativity well." Harm looked at Jimmy. "But that's something I don't need to worry about right now. Maybe in the future, but not right now."
"Yeah," Mac agreed with a yawn. "Sorry, guess I'm pretty tired."
Harm softly smiled at her. "It's been a long few days."
"Yeah. I just hate sleeping on planes."
"I know. It's hard to get comfortable," Harm said before looking around them. "I got an idea."
Mac gave him an odd look. But he quickly reclined his seat and the one next to him before asking Mac to do the same to hers and so she did. The three reclined seats gave them a few more inches. Not many but it was, by all means, helpful. Harm leaned against his seat at an angle.
"Here. You can sit right here." He patted the seat next to him. "And put your legs across both seats. We can both watch the baby and maybe try to get some sleep ourselves."
"We should probably put him in his carrier and not worry about adjusting everything."
"Lt. Nivens has been asleep and if we put Jimmy by her, he'll just wake her up. I think this is the best idea," Harm told Mac and gave her a convincing look.
Mac conceded. "Okay, but if you complain about anything, like your back hurting in the morning or a stiff shoulder…."
Harm chuckled. "I promise not to complain."
Mac grinned and quickly got into her new position. Her back was resting against Harm, the baby safely tucked on her lap and her legs stretched out across the seats. Suddenly, Harm wrapped his arms around Mac and she gave him an odd and questioning look in response.
"To make sure the baby stays safe." Harm let her know.
Within a few minutes, both Harm and Mac fell asleep with a strange sense of being safe and that something felt very right in the world they had created among themselves.
A few hours later
Harm slowly started waking up. The first sensation he felt was a sharp pain in his back and a crick in his neck. However, all those pains floated away when he looked down at the sweet angel in his arms and the little baby-boy in her lap. Part of him thought that this was right and that it should happen again, only with another constellation.
Mac slowly woke up to a warm sensation throughout her body. She blinked her eyes and saw that Jimmy was fast asleep with his blanket wrapped around him. She felt Harm giving her a little squeeze. Mac looked up and Harm smiled at her. Then something came over both of them. Without a second thought they arched their lips and softly kissed each other.
"Morning," they both softly said to each other as soon as they parted.
Then something broke their attention and they looked at the end of their row where an elderly woman stood. "Oh, I'm sorry. But you three just caught my attention. You're a beautiful family." She smiled at them.
"Thank you," Harm and Mac said to the woman before she quickly walked to the restroom, which was her destination.
Then they looked at each other and started to smile while leaving their common thoughts unspoken between them. Only their eyes spoke volumes.
'One day we might be one. We just might be.'
THE END
Hey All-
We would just like to take the time and let everyone know that we are sorry that it is taking so long to get these season 2 versions of TTEOAS out, but it's proving to be a big task. Plus RL is starting to kick our butts again. We do promise to keep working at them; it's just going to be a while.
Thanks for reading and sending us your comments. It means a lot to the both of us when things get tough in RL.
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-Michi and Carol