They didn't stay like that for long. After a few minutes, Mac pulled away and made her way over to the phone.
"I umm need to call the police." She said quietly.
"I can do that for you." Harm quickly offered, but she shook her head. She picked up the phone and let out a breath before she entered the number. Harm could almost see the walls she was building up around herself while she waited for somebody to answer.
"Yes this is Sarah Mackenzie. I would like to report a break in."
She continued to give them her address, telephone number and Harm's address. They said they would be around in about half an hour. While she was making the call Harm walked around her apartment once more. He still couldn't believe that anybody could ever hurt Mac in any way. He went back out to find Mac sitting on one of the kitchen chairs.

"You know Mac, we are going to have to call the Admiral and let him know what's going on."
"Yeah, I know." She said rather emotionlessly.
Harm looked at her carefully. "Do you want me to?" He asked carefully.
She looked up at him quickly with a hard look in her eyes. "No, I'll do it." She stated quickly. With that she picked up the telephone and quickly punched in the number, as if she were afraid if she didn't do it immediately she would back down.
"Admiral Chegwidden" She heard a gruff voice at the end of the other line answer.
"Hello Admiral. Sorry to bother you." She quickly answered, trying to sound like there was nothing wrong.
The Admiral immediately recognized her voice and lessened the hardness in his own. "Good evening Colonel! What can I do for you?"
"I was just calling to let you know that my apartment was broken into and so I'll be staying at the Commander's for the moment."
"Are you alright, Colonel?" He carefully asked.
"Of course! I'm fine!" Mac answered a bit too quickly.
There was something in her voice that bothered him but he decided not to push the matter any further. He doubted she'd tell him anything anyway.
"Is Commander Rabb with you now?" He asked instead.
"Yes sir, he is."
"I'd like to speak with him quickly."
Mac hesitated slightly before handing Harm the phone. Chegwidden didn't wait for him to say anything before he started talking.
"Good evening Commander! Now I know you can't say anything because the Colonel is standing right behind you so I'll do all the talking."
"Yes sir"
"I got the feeling that the Colonel isn't telling me something. I don't know what it is but I want you to make sure she's okay and if she's not you are going to stay with her until she is. Both of you have plenty of personal days left so if you don't show up tomorrow or any other day for that matter I'll put you on leave. Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes sir!"
"Good. Now there is one more thing. Am I right in my assumption?"
Harm paused quickly before answering. He wanted to respect Mac's wishes but he also wanted to do what was best for her.
"Yes sir." Harm answered quietly. There was a silence over the phone before the Admiral continued.
"Well thank you for the call. And Harm, take care of her."
"I will sir. Good night."

"Well?" Mac asked impatiently. She had noticed how little Harm had said and was worried what the Admiral had found out.
"He told me that we have plenty of personal days left if we need them and he told me to look out for you."
Mac looked at him questioningly and then said quietly "You know I don't need any looking out for Harm."
Harm smiled at her. That was a typical Mac answer. "I'm fully aware of that, Marine. But I'm afraid you'll just have to put up with it Marine because there's no way you can prevent me from doing it."
Mac smiled back at him. Harm would always be Harm.

They waited in complete silence until the police arrived. Even though she was hiding her emotions very well, Harm knew how close she was to losing it at the moment and as much as he wanted to do nothing more than to out his arms around her and comfort her, he was afraid she would push him away.
There was a knock on the door and Mac jumped. Harm got up to answer the door. After about an hour and fifteen minutes, they were done and left saying they would contact Mac in a few days.
"What do you say to going back?" Harm asked gently.
"Sounds great to me. Just let me get some clothes. I might as well grab what I'll need for Monday, considering I'll probably still be staying with you." She said and then quickly added "Only if that's okay with you of course."
"You know you're welcome to stay as long as you want to, Mac." Harm answered.

Mac walked over to her bedroom and Harm followed her. It didn't look quite as bad as the living room, but it surely hadn't been spared. Some of her clothes had been taken out of the closet and were torn. There was still one of her uniforms hanging in the back of the closet. Mac grabbed it along with some other clothes and necessities and then proceeded to the bathroom to get some shampoo and makeup. Harm waited patiently by the bedroom door, not wanting her to feel pressured to hurry up. After ten minutes she returned with a bag and announced she had everything.
"Come on, Marine. We can clean this up some other time."
She didn't respond, just lead the way to the door and exited.

They didn't say much during the ride home. Mac just stared out the window, lost in her own thoughts. Harm parked the car in front of his flat and they got out. After they had gone inside, Harm found a note on the fridge saying that the rest had gone out to see a movie and that they wouldn't be back for a while. Mac came up behind him and read the note. I think I'm going to go lay down for a moment since Trish and Frank aren't here." Mac announced.
Harm just smiled at her and she headed off to the bedroom.