Chapter 2:
The alarm clock went off promptly at 5:30 a.m. Harm reached out and turned it off, then reached over to embrace his sweetheart.
"Morning, beautiful" he said as she slowly came to.
"Is it really morning already?" asked Mac as she tried to keep her eyes open.
"It really is", said Harm as he planted a gentle kiss on her forehead, "did you sleep well"?
"Yeah I did, once we actually went to sleep", said Mac with a little smile on her face. She'd been so nervous in the beginning, but the night had been all she ever dreamed it could be.
With an equally ominous smile on his face, Harm replied "yeah, sleeping wasn't number one on our list last night, was it"?
"Indeed not" said Mac, "but it was so….nice. Who cares if we'll be tired all day?". The two snuggled up close to one another and laid there, still somewhat in disbelief that after so many years, they'd finally given themselves to each other.
"Actually", said Harm, "we'll probably be tired the rest of the week, won't we…"? He was right, the nurse who called with the blood test results said last night was the beginning of Mac's fertile window, which meant they still had 2 more nights this month to give nature a chance to come through.
"Yeah, I guess we will be", answered Mac, "but it's worth it." After exchanging a few more kisses, they got up and went about their morning routines.
The hours of the workday seemed to stand still. Harm and Mac both knew they had to be careful how they acted towards one another at JAG, but each time they happened to catch the other one looking their way, they couldn't help but smile.
As they knew they needed to, Harm and Mac "covered their bases" the following couple of nights. In the midst of the moment, they managed to forget about the fertility issues and lose themselves in each other, but lying there afterwards neither could help but wonder if there was a miracle in the making.
"Do you think we made it happen?" whispered Harm as he held Mac close.
"I don't know. I hope so, but I'm afraid to hope very much given our circumstances". Harm understood, in fact a part of him felt the same way.
"Guess we'll know in a couple weeks, huh"? said Harm.
"Yeah, a couple very long weeks" said Mac.
Next chapter coming soon!!