A Snowy Weekend – Part 18

Disclaimer - See part one for all important information

Mac's Apartment

The parking lot

3:34 PM

Harm whistled to himself, feeling happy that it was a much easier task to dig out his car than he'd feared just a few hours ago, thanks to it being covered with only a thin layer of snow. Even the fact that the blanket was a bit iced couldn't damper his happiness. Without that problem he would have been done about five minutes ago and already could have joined Mac and the boys to build their snowman, but still he knew it could have been much worse. There simply was no reason for him to complain or to mourn about it.

He once more turned his head to look at the giggling and laughing boys, seeing that they weren't working on a snowman yet, but rather got chased by a very happy sounding and even happier looking Sarah MacKenzie. Harm laughed out loud when he saw her suddenly get hit on her back by a snowball which Little AJ had thrown at her and then turned back to his car so he could take part of their game soon.

Harm was just getting the windshield freed from the snow blanket when suddenly something cold and wet hit is neck. "Aarrgh," he yelled out just as another flying object hit him at the exact same spot.

"Good shot, Auntie Mac," Little AJ said between giggles and took some more snow into his own hands to build another snowball he could throw at his godmother.

"Marine, did you just throw a snowball at me?" Harm yelled across the parking lot and slowly started to move forward to her.

"Nope, I didn't," Mac coolly answered while molding another wet and fluffy snowball in her glove-clad hands, knowing it couldn't hurt him. "I actually have thrown two snowballs at you, Harm," she explained with a smirk and then threw another one at him, this time hitting him right in the face.

"She hits, she scores," Mac triumphantly shouted, emphasizing her triumph with a little dance.

"Oh, you want it the hard way, Marine?" Harm asked, wiping the snow out of his face before he slowly bent forward.

Mac kept a hawk-eye on him, answering his move with one of her own. She took a step backwards, trying to get some distance between them.

"Uh oh, Auntie Mac," Little AJ whispered from her right side. "I think Uncle Harm plans an attack," he let her know and started to move out of his godfather's way.

"Ut O," Jimmy copied his bigger brother's words and giggled. He seemed to know what his uncle was planning, and just like AJ, he started to get out of his godfather's way.

Harm's first snowball was harmless and passed Mac's face with a whoosh. She just laughed at his miss and bent down to get snow for another snowball. However, Mac was too slow and the moment she was standing upright again, Harm already was standing way too close to her. He had a mischievous and satisfied smile on his face, and a made snowball in his right hand. "Anything you would like to tell me, Ms. MacKenzie?"

Mac kept her eye on the snowball he had in his hand. She shook her head and then turned around, trying to get away from him with a shriek.

Harm just chuckled at Mac's move and then threw the snowball at her, hitting her back. "You got your chance, MacKenzie. Now you'll have to suffer," he hollered and then started to run after her.

"Yay, Uncle Harm, you'll catch her," Little AJ cheered from the right side and his little brother completed it with clapping his hands. They had a blast watching their godparents chasing each other.

"Traitor," Mac called to Little AJ between her giggles. She could hear that Harm was already too close behind her, so she couldn't bend down to get more snow for another snowball. She just continued to giggle and tried to get out of his reach.

Suddenly she stopped dead in her tracks, knowing there was no way she could possibly hide from him. With a laugh she turned around, seeing that Harm already had caught up with her. His shining eyes told her that he was up to something and then there was his right arm, hidden behind his back. He obviously was ready for their battle.

"You surrender?" Harm asked with a raised eyebrow, sounding slightly out of breath.

"A marine surrendering to the Navy? Never," Mac let him know, sounding even more out of breath than he did.

"Your mistake, MacKenzie. Your mistake," Harm said and gave her one of his flyboy grins before catching her off guard with another one of his quick moves. In one swift motion he stepped forward and caught the surprised and giggling Mac, just to throw her over his shoulders.

Now it was clear to Mac that the arm he'd hidden behind his back was a ruse he'd set and that she'd fallen for it. "Harm, what are you doing?" She asked him, but couldn't stop laughing.

"Payback is hell, Marine. Never challenge the Navy. I thought I'd taught you that earlier," Harm said and looked around the parking lot, trying to find the right spot for his final move. Then he finally found it. "Ah ha, there it is," he muttered more to himself than to Mac and started to walk to the place he found.

"Harm?"

"Be quiet, Marine, Navy on a mission here," he commanded and suddenly came to a halt. "Enjoy it, MacKenzie."

"Enjoy wh…," Mac started to ask but couldn't finish the question when Harm suddenly threw her right into a huge snowdrift so that she landed on her back.

Before Mac was even able to make a move of her own, Harm already was on top of her, sitting on her hips with a wide grin on his face. He took both her hands into his and placed them above her head. At the same time he moved his head much closer to hers so that they were able to feel their hot breaths on each other's faces.

Harm was just on his way to close the final distance between their lips so that he could give her a kiss, when Mac abruptly turned her face away, as if she wanted to avoid his kiss.

He was surprised by her move and even slightly hurt when he suddenly saw a slow smile on Mac's face. "Harm, if I were you, I would let go of me."

Harm just raised his eyebrow. "Now why should I do that?"

"Well, there are two little boys standing right behind you and they have quite an amount of snow in their hands, waiting to make their move."

Harm laughed and shook his head. "Yeah, right, Marine. You actually want to tell me that the boy you called a traitor just a few seconds ago is now standing right behind me, waiting to attack me? Never! I won't fall for your trap, MacKenzie."

Mac shrugged her shoulders as much as it was possible in her position and moved her gaze so that she could look directly into Harm's still shining eyes. "If you don't believe me, Harm, it's your problem. But be aware, you should never underestimate a Roberts. Moreover, you should never underestimate two of them, right AJ?"

"Yup! That's right," Little AJ immediately answered his godmother from behind Harm and surprised his godfather with that.

Harm loosened his hold on Mac's hands and turned around just to be face to face with two smiling boys. Before he could say something, AJ and Jimmy threw the snow they were holding in their hands at him, covering his head and face with it. Then they jumped up and down in joy while clapping their hands in excitement.

"Damn," Harm murmured to himself and suddenly was flipped over by one grinning marine, who copied his earlier move and held his hands down above his head.

"And last but not least, Harm. Never EVER underestimate a marine," Mac added with a smirk before surprising him with her next move. One quick look behind her told Mac that the boys were gone to play somewhere else and she immediately turned her gaze back to the man underneath her and slowly started to moisten her lips. "And now this marine will collect what belongs to her."

"What would that be?" Harm whispered his question, not sure what she was talking about.

Mac moved her head closer to his and once more licked her lips. "You wanted to kiss me earlier, didn't you? Before I told you that the boys were standing behind you."

Harm just gave her a nod as answer.

"And you thought I was trying to avoid your kiss, didn't you? I could see the glimmer of hurt in your eyes. I'm right, aren't I?"

"Yeah, for a moment I thought you didn't want me to kiss you," Harm quietly admitted.

Mac moved her face even closer to Harm's so that her lips were barely touching his, her eyes never leaving his. "Never think that I wouldn't want you to kiss me, Harm. Hell would freeze over before that happens. Okay?" With each spoken word, her lips were softly brushing his.

"Okay."

"Good, and now I would very much like to collect that kiss. Is that okay with you?"

Harm gave her his flyboy grin she loved so much and then nodded his head. "Very okay," he softly answered.

He had hardly finished his answer when Mac's lips descended down on his to give him a long kiss full of love and tenderness.

"Wow," Harm said in a whisper as soon as they broke their kiss.

"Yeah. Wow indeed," Mac agreed and slowly got up from him before helping him stand up. "Come on, I bet you're freezing already down there."

"Nah, you have a very nice way to warm me up, Sarah."

They smiled at each other and without letting go of each other's hand they made their way to AJ and Jimmy, which were already trying to make the first part of their snowman. "Uncle Harm! Auntie Mac! Come on, you have to help us build the biggest snowman in the whole world," AJ called for them and continued to roll a little snowball in front of him, hoping it would pick up a lot of snow so that it would be one huge ball in the end.

"What do ya think, Sailor? Want to build a Mr. Snowman?"

"Can we build a Mrs. Snowman too?" Harm asked with a gleam of hope in his eyes. "This way Mr. Snowman doesn't have to be all alone each day and night."

Mac looked around the parking lot and shrugged her shoulders. "There's for sure enough snow around here."

"Great, then let's do it," Harm replied with a laugh and started to run to the boys, having a laughing Mac in tow since he never let go of her hand.

TBC