"Settling The Score" prologue
By Rita Widmer
Disclaimer: I don't own JAG nor do I own or believe in all perspectives given in this story. Sadly we do have racists in this world who group the bad people with the good.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: What happens on the anniversary of 9/11 to one of our favorite JAGs? Will someone take revenge for the deaths?
Author's Note: This story started with the simple want to write a Mac action/hero story, but I couldn't figure out how she would do it. It was a process to get to this story idea, and with the anniversary of 9/11, and my own remembrances of that day and the days after with the attacks on Muslim/Middle Eastern individuals throughout America this is what I came up with to write. Feedback is welcomed, but not necessary.
"I stand before what looks like what could be a bombed out building in Iraq, but today I'm on home ground in front of what was once a community center for local Muslims. The building lies in ruins at my feet.
Children were out here on the small playground while they watched horrified as the center blew up. Amazingly they all survived, but inside havoc before and after the bomb went off one person stood up and helped other survivors.
Her name Lt. Colonel Sarah MacKenzie of the Judge Advocate General corps. She is now at the local hospital getting treatment for her own injuries. No word yet on how serious her condition, but for those that survived she is being named a hero.
With today being the anniversary of 9/11, is this another terrorist attack or revenge? After the break, I will be interviewing Michael Powell from the sheriff's office on what happened here today."
Harmon Rabb Jr. quickly shut the television off. He couldn't stand to listen to the news anymore. He turned and looked down at the woman he loved, and knew he was the proudest person on earth to know today's hero. Inside his heart, he grieved for what she experienced and the fear that she won't be one of the survivors.
TBC…