Don't Go Wasting Your Emotions

Disclaimers: DPB and so on...

Note: I haven't done this in a while so forgive me if I accidentally call em CD and Nate or something... set somewhere during season one, or later if Meg was still there... something like that. Dunno yet for sure, heard a song, got an idea... the usual... actually... after Smoked

DON'T GO WASTING YOUR EMOTIONS

by cat

"So, I heard you had a visitor over the weekend?" The young blonde Lieutenant looked up from the sub she was having for lunch and addressed her handsome partner.

"Huh?" Rather puzzled he looked up to gaze into her deep blue eyes. It was a nice day outside and their first day back at work after their latest assignment, in Cuba.

Taking a sip of her Dr. Pepper she tried not to chuckle while swallowing the drink. Since it was so sunny and warm they had decided to grab something for lunch and eat it in the park, so now they were sitting here with their subs and enjoying the sun and each others company. "Come on Harm! I already know there was a woman under your shower, so just admit it... who's the new chick? And approximately how long do you think she will be in your life until you get your belt ready for the next notch?"

Shaking his head Harmon Rabb had to laugh, this woman astonished him all over again. And what was puzzling him the most was the fact that he never knew what exactly to think about her. Sometimes she was so sweet, innocent and shy and hardly dared to say as much as 'hello' when a superior officer was around, but at other times she was sassy, spunky and had the biggest mouth he'd ever seen, speaking her mind no matter who was around to hear it. Right now the latter was her state of mind apparently. "Lieutenant..." He spoke up, hoping to throw her off the track with the formal approach, but she just raised her eyebrow slightly and smirked, completely unimpressed by his use of her rank. "...Meg," he continued since adressing her formally hadn't showed any kind of sign from her that she would let him off the hook again. "First of all, I don't collect notches on my belt, or marks in my bedpost or whatever else."

Of course she didn't quite buy that and just gave him a 'yeah, right' look before she took another bite.

"So who told you anyway?" Trying to change the topic he started to eat himself.

"Believe it or not, the dragon lady." She chuckled after using the nickname they had given the aide to their CO. "After we came back in from Cuba, she brought me home, and left again... half an hour later she showed up again and told me all about how you had a naked woman under your shower. Needless to say that she was piss... getting on my nerves..."

Harm had to laugh at the change of the expression she used. In moments like this it became even clearer to him that two worlds were colliding inside of his partner: The Texan bigmouth tomboy and the classy sophisticated lady Lieutenant, but that was exactly what made her so remarkable. "So she pissed you off?" He smirked.

"Big time." Rolling her eyes she nodded. "So I asked her why she was getting so worked up over that, because surely it couldn't be because she was sexually interested in you herself... of course she said no way but was gone within the next five seconds, suddenly remembering something-"

Now it was his turn to laugh. "Suddenly remembering that you could get her into trouble I bet."

"Most likely." She chuckled herself. "So tell me about the woman under your shower."

Sighing he realized that even though he had managed to get off that topic for a while, she hadn't forgotten about it. "She's an old friend..." He tried to shrug it off, not wanting her to know that he had been with another woman, though he didn't even know why that bothered him.

"Oh yeah of course" Laughing she nodded. "Shoulda known... I mean that happens to me all the time, like last week for example, I was making dinner and suddenly the door rings, I open and there's this dude I went to highschool with, we hadn't seen each other since we graduated and he goes 'Hey yo, Meg, you mind if I use your shower?' So of course I let him in and he took a shower...."

Slightly slugging her Harm laughed himself. "Shut up you! Okay, here's the story, she used to be Keeter's babe on this cruise way back then... and well I had run into her a few years later.... and we still see each other every now and then..." He explained.

"Ahhh." Nodding she grinned. "Gotcha. You two call each other up when the mood strikes and no one else is around."

Sighing he rolled his eyes. "And they say romace is dead..." He muttered.

"You must talk, I ain't the one screwing around a chick who used to be my best bud's one night stand... and scaring off my horny senior officer with that cause she has the hots for me so bad that she's on the verge of stalking me..." She continued to laugh.

"Yeah yeah, very funny." Again he rolled his eyes. "I bet you wouldn't laugh anymore if the dragon lady actually started to stalk you instead of me."

"That'll be the day." Instead of silencing her his comment cracked her up even more. But his annoyed look did shut her up in the end. "Oh come on, you gotta admit it is kinda funny"

"I'm not in the mood for funny." He muttered. "I can't believe Krennick is telling around that she saw her under my shower."

"Don't worry, she isn't telling it around. She knows exactly everybody else would ask why exactly she saw whatever was going on under your shower in the first place, and she wouldn't wanna answer that. She only told me because she thinks I'm too dense to notice an elephant stepping on my toes. But since I already know why she was there, I just keep her thinking I'm a blond bimbo, and she thinks she doesn't have to fear me, and that's good." Meg grinned mischeviously.

Yet again surprised Harm looked at her. "That is... damn wicked. So what exactly are you making ME believe what you are, while you're something else?"

"Hmmm...." Winking she smirked at him. "I'll make you think I'm meek while I'm a vixen?"

At that Harm had to laugh. "I think neither meek nor vixen describes you. You're neither a damsel in distress nor a bitch."

She just smirked at him. "There are a lot of shades of myself that you haven't see yet."

"I'm beginning to hope that I'll never see some of those..." He joked. "While I can't wait to see some others."

"Naughty, sir, naughty." She grinned back at him and got up. "We better head back to work."

"Yeah, we better." Sighing he got up himself and followed her back to their office.

to be continued...