AN – Okay, for this story let's pretend that there's a parking lot in the backyard of Mac's apartment building and that she can overlook it while glancing out of her windows. We always got to see the front of the building, but that doesn't mean Mac's apartment has to be out to the front, right? Thought so… ;-)

A Snowy Weekend – Part 11

Disclaimer - See part one for all important information

8:23 AM

Harm was in the kitchen preparing the dinosaur pancakes, while Little AJ and Jimmy kept him company. They were both seated on the little kitchen table, still wearing their nightclothes and anxiously awaited their breakfast. Mac hadn't joined them yet, since she was still in the bathroom to freshen up and getting dressed.

"Okay, guys. Here's your breakfast," Harm said and served each of them one pancake and got himself one too. Then he filled one of Mac's mugs with coffee and took a place right next to Jimmy, so that he could help him with his breakfast.

"Hmmm, this is yummy, Uncle Harm," Little AJ told him and took another bite of his with maple syrup covered pancake.

"Morning, boys," Mac greeted from the doorway and determined made her way to the coffee machine to get herself a mug of coffee. She took a long gulp and sighed in relief.

"Want some pancakes, Mac?" Harm asked and held his fork with a piece of pancake to her. "Here, taste it."

Mac raised her eyebrow and grinned. "Do you want me to open my hangar again, Harm?"

Harm laughed, remembering their little feeding party yesterday. "Yes, please. I could even do the airplane noises again," he offered and chuckled.

"Nah, that won't be necessary." Mac obeyed and ate the piece of pancake Harm offered her. "Hmmm, very good." Then she got closer to him and whispered into his ear. "I think you're a keeper, Harm. You for sure know how to make pancakes."

Harm looked at her with a raised eyebrow and smirked. "That's it? That's the way to your heart, MacKenzie? Pancakes?" He asked astonished. "You should have told me that years ago."

"Nope, there are still two or three more things you need to know how to do, but I think you can handle it," Mac joked but then got serious again.

Harm immediately saw the change in Mac and knew that something was wrong. "What?"

Mac looked at Little AJ and could see that he was still engaged with his breakfast and didn't care about his surroundings. Then she turned her gaze back to her partner. "Do you have a minute? I would like to show you something."

"Sure, lead the way," he answered and followed Mac into the living room. "What's wrong, Mac?" He asked worriedly once more as soon as they were out of the boys' earshot.

Mac just nodded at the muted TV before pointing to the window.

"Uh oh," Harm commented after watching the news for a moment. Then he followed Mac and joined her at the window. "Oh my." Harm let his gaze wander as if he was searching for something and shook his head. "Ummm, Mac?"

"Yeah?"

"Ummm, where's my car?" Harm once more overlooked the backyard of Mac's apartment building, but he couldn't find his car.

"I think it's there," Mac answered him and pointed to a wall on the left side. "At least the antenna looks familiar to me."

"I don't see anything, Mac. Wait, let me re-phrase that. I can see a lot of snow out there, but not my car."

"Can you see the snowdrift over there?" Mac asked and got a nod as response. "There's an antenna sticking out of it and if I'm not mistaken, that's where you parked the car yesterday."

"In other words… my car is under this nice blanket of snow?"

"Yup, that would be my guess."

"That's… lovely. Really… impressive."

"Yeah, it is, isn't it?" Mac replied and turned around to take another look at the news of ZNN. "I'm not sure what's more impressive though. Seeing your car totally covered with a blanket of snow or the fact that a snowstorm raged last night and we all totally slept through it."

"I take it that you've watched the news for a while before you came into the kitchen. How're the prognoses? We're stuck, aren't we?"

"Yes. They gave out the advice not to leave the house if it isn't necessary. The weather report says that the worst is behind us and that everything should be calmed down by tomorrow."

"And that means going sledding is no longer an option," Harm concluded and took a deep breath.

"Yeah, that's a given."

Harm saw the sadness in Mac's eyes and took her face into his hands to give her a short but sweet kiss. "Come on; let's go back to the boys. I think we need to have a talk with Little AJ."

Mac just nodded her head and followed Harm back into the kitchen. She still felt taken aback about what happened between them in these past twenty-four hours. It was such an amazing feeling she felt deep in her heart and she couldn't stop the nearly goofy looking grin that took place on her face.

However, as soon as she entered the kitchen and saw the grinning AJ in front of her, she felt the pang of sadness coming back again. Mac knew how much AJ wanted to go sledding and that he would be disappointed about the change of their plan.

Harm took one of her hands into his and tenderly squeezed it. He knew what she was feeling right now, since he felt the same. Something needed to be done and he had to come up with it.

"I'm stuffed," Little AJ said as his godparents entered the kitchen. "Can we go now?" He asked with a glimmer in his eyes and Harm and Mac knew what he meant.

Mac sat down on the stool right next to him and ruffled his hair. "I'm sorry, AJ, but we can't go sledding today."

"Why not?" The glimmer in his eyes was gone and the disappointment on his face was clearly visible now. "You said that if there's enough snow we would go sledding and there is enough snow. I checked it this morning. Come look." Little AJ jumped from the stool and wanted to run into the living room but Mac gently held him back.

"AJ, there was a snowstorm last night, and it simply isn't safe for us at the moment to go out of this building," Harm tried to explain but saw that by now the disappointment on his godson's face was mixed with sadness and even a little bit of anger.

"That's not fair," Little AJ cried and offended ran out of the kitchen, in response knocking off his plate from the kitchen table.

Mac sighed and closed her eyes for a moment. "That went well," she said while the loud bang of Mac's bedroom door was heard in the otherwise quiet apartment.

Jimmy started to cry as soon as his brother ran out of the kitchen and the plate hit the kitchen floor. The banging of Mac's bedroom door made him cry even more.

Harm took his younger godson out of the highchair and cradled him in his arms, kissing his forehead. "Sssshh, it's okay, Jimmy." Then he looked at Mac and gave her an encouraging smile. "Tell you what. Why don't you go and try to talk with him, while Jimmy and I clean up this mess and try to come up with a plan B."

"Yeah, I better go and try to talk to him," Mac answered and suddenly realized what he'd said a few seconds ago. "A plan B?"

Harm nodded his head. "Yeah, there's always a plan B. You just have to try and find it," Harm explained and sat the now calmed Jimmy back into his highchair.

Mac, being now deep in her thoughts, only nodded her head before leaving the kitchen while Harm got the broken dish up from the floor. He was just dumping the broken plate into the trashcan when he saw that Mac remained standing at the doorway, having an intense look on her face.

"Everything okay?" he asked worried.

Mac didn't answer him, nor had she heard him. Too important was the thought she had on her mind. Was it possible?

"Always?" She only asked in a whisper so that Harm nearly hadn't heard her.

"Yes, Sarah. Always," Harm immediately answered her without thinking twice, knowing exactly what she was asking about. They were still talking about children, just not about Little AJ and Jimmy anymore.

They smiled at each other before Mac nodded her head and walked away to have a talk with AJ.

Harm took a deep breath, looked at Jimmy and shook his head. "It's not even much later than nine o'clock and I already feel like I've lived an entire workday," he told him with a chuckle.

Jimmy responded with a giggle and started to babble. Harm laughed and nodded. "Yeah, you're right, sport. Family life is a lot of fun, isn't it? But now we better come up with a good plan B, or else this day may end in a disaster."

TBC…