Disclaimer: If they were mine - life would be really GOOD:)
A/N: Here's the next piece of the honeymoon puzzle! ;) I'll get to where they're actually going pretty soon, but I hope you enjoy the parts leading up to it. Oh yeah, this one's rated R...
See A/N at the end for some really interesting TV Guide info! (Warning - might be more of a spoiler than you're ready for, so if you don't want to have any real idea of what to expect for the finale, you might wanna skip it!)
Chapter 58:
"Looks like this is the place" said Harm as he pulled into the parking lot of a quaint little bed-and-breakfast.
"How cute!" exclaimed Mac. "Where are we anyway?"
"A little ways south of Mount Union" he replied, "little town called Avery Mills."
"Never heard of it" said Mac.
"It's not even on most maps" said Harm. "You remember Matt, my buddy who flew us out to California?"
"Mm-hmm" said Mac.
"He suggested it" said Harm. "Said his cousin used to work here."
"It looks really nice from the outside" said Mac. "I'm sure it's nice inside, too."
"We're about to find out" said Harm as he undid his seatbelt and opened the driver's door. "I'll be right back."
"OK, babe" said Mac. She watched as Harm walked up to the front door and stepped inside. "How did you get so lucky, Sarah Mackenzie?"
Within a few minutes, she saw Harm walking back out to the car with a couple papers and a key card in his hand.
"Obviously they didn't give our room away when we didn't get here on time" she said.
"Thankfully, they didn't" said Harm as he started the car. "We're around the back on the first floor, room 116."
He drove around back and found a vacant parking spot right in front of their room.
"Perfect" he said as he pulled in, then reached down and pulled the hatch release.
"Let's go see the room first" he said, "then I'll come back out and grab the bags."
"Alright" said Mac as she climbed out of the passenger seat and followed Harm up to their room door. He slid the key card into the slot and opened the door.
"Oh, wow…" he said as he stepped inside and flipped the light on. The room was beautifully decorated in different shades of pink, and everywhere you looked there were roses - in a vase on the table, another atop the armoire, in the stitching on the bedspread…
"This is gorgeous" said Mac as she followed behind Harm. "Very good choice in accommodations, my dear."
"Thank you" he replied, smiling warmly at her. "You can sit down and relax if you'd like, I'll go get our stuff."
"'Relax' - that sounds so nice!" said Mac as she flopped down into one of the two rose-colored overstuffed chairs and began taking her headpiece off.
Harm walked back outside to the SUV to retrieve their luggage. He grabbed the two suitcases, the duffle bag and the garment bag for Mac's dress before a frustrating realization hit him. Mumbling to himself, he returned inside.
"Guess what just dawned on me?" he asked Mac as he heaved the suitcases onto the luggage stand.
"What, babe?" she asked.
"This thing" he said, pointing to the tuxedo he was still wearing, "is due back to the store by 10:00 Monday morning."
"Oh my gosh" said Mac, "how did we forget about that?"
"Too many other things to take into account, I guess" answered Harm. "We should have changed clothes before we left Grams, and I never even thought about it."
"Well" said Mac, "what do you want to do? I guess we could call the store on Monday and tell them we'll get it back to them as soon as we get back to town?"
"Nah" said Harm, running his fingers through his hair in frustration, "we're not gonna pay for an entire weeks rental, that'd be silly."
"Hey" said Mac, "do you think if we left it here, someone could come down and get it tomorrow and take it back to the store for you on Monday?"
Harm looked at Mac and his face lit up.
"You're so smart" he said, grinning from ear-to-ear. "Yeah, I'm sure if I ask Sergei to come get it, he will. I'll no doubt have to make it up to him later, but he'll do it, no question."
"Great" said Mac, "problem solved, and let's hope that's the last problem of the whole trip!"
"I'm afraid that's not the case" said Harm, looking at Mac with a serious face.
"Wh-what do you mean 'that's not the case'?" asked Mac, her eyes wide with worry. "What else is wrong?"
"You, my dear" he answered as he stepped nearer to her, "are still wearing this gorgeous, yet extremely uncomfortable, dress."
Mac's expression went from one of worry to one of desire in an instant.
"Well" she said, standing up from the chair and looking into his amazing blue eyes, "do you have any thoughts on how to fix this problem?"
"Mm-hmm" answered Harm, his voice a sultry whisper. "I think we could start like this…" He stepped around behind her and unzipped the dress.
"Mmm…" said Mac as Harm kissed her bare neck and shoulders. "Then what?"
"Then" he replied, stepping around to the front of her "we go like this." He tugged at the waistline of the dress and let it fall to the floor.
She didn't say a word, she just looked at him, the passion between them as strong as ever.
"God, Mac, you're so beautiful…"
She reached up and pulled his face down to hers, their lips connecting in an electric exchange as she pulled the tuxedo jacket off his shoulders.
He let go of her body just long enough to get his arms out of the jacket and toss it behind himself.
She unhooked his tie and tossed it across the room, their lips still busily showing their intent to one another as Mac stepped out of the dress and kicked it aside.
He reached his hands around the middle of her back and unhooked the dozens of clasps on her bustier a fistful at a time, letting the wire-laden undergarment fall to his feet.
She fumbled with the button covers on his rented dress shirt until she was ready to simply rip it off his chiseled body and send the buttons flying. Sensing her frustration, he wrapped his arms around her, picked her up and laid her on the bed. He straddled her nearly bare body, breaking the kiss only long enough to undo the buttons on his shirt, pull off his undershirt and throw them both beside the bed.
"My God, I love you" whispered Mac, pulling him towards herself and resuming the kiss.
"These…need to…go" said Harm, running his hands over her nylons, his words punctuated and full of desire.
"Well then" said Mac, "get….rid….of them."
He climbed off of her and tucked his index and middle fingers beneath her waistband. In one swift motion, the nylons were removed from her body and added to the vast array of clothing gathering on the floor.
He climbed on top of her once more, their mouths reconnecting.
They were silent for a few moments, save the "mmm's" and "ohhhh's" their touches elicited from one another.
"Pants…off…now" said Mac as Harm had her pinned beneath himself, kissing the spot right behind her right ear, the spot that made her go almost wild and he knew it.
"Be my guest, baby" he whispered, purposely blowing his warm breath in her ear as he spoke.
He felt millions of goose bumps, compliments of his actions, creep up all over her body as she took a deep breath.
He picked himself up off of her just enough so she could reach her hands in between their sweaty bodies.
She unfastened his pants without difficulty, pulling them down below his backside before he pressed himself on top of her again.
He managed to kick them the rest of the way down his legs and onto the floor as she ran her fingernails across his back. He used his big toes to pull his socks off, a talent he'd mastered long ago and frequently put into practice.
He buried his arms underneath her body and held her close as he rolled onto his back, placing her on top of him.
"Oh" said Mac with a tease in her voice, clad in nothing but fiery red, bikini-cut panties. "I get to be on top, huh?"
Harm shrugged a little bit as he looked up at her and smiled.
"If you wanna be" he replied in as deep a voice as she'd ever heard him use in bed.
Her answer was spoken with action, not word.
She plunged her lips against his, her knees on either side of his waist, her hands bracing herself above him to where their chests barely brushed against one another.
His fingers tickled the small of her back, slowly trailing downward to the top of her panties.
She felt his fingers, then his hands, sneak beneath the elastic band and caress her behind.
"Mmmm…." she said, moving her lips to his collarbone. She kissed all along, from left to right, then back again.
He moved his hands back up to her waistband, slowly pulling it beneath the spots he'd just been. She rolled off of him and onto her back, allowing him to rid her body of the last remaining thread.
She sat back up on her knees beside him and leaned down to plant feather light kisses all across his chest.
"Mmm, God, Mac, that's…" was all he could manage to say as her kisses worked their magic on his resolve.
After some amount of time, she stopped the kisses and looked into his eyes as her fingers danced around the top of his royal blue silk boxers.
She put her thumbs inside the waistband and began to pull it down.
She stopped, choosing instead to massage the muscular legs that lay before her.
"Oh…" moaned Harm, loving every move she was making, in a frustrated, incredibly turned-on sense.
Slowly, she worked her way back to the blue waistband, this time, sliding her index fingers beneath it, pulling it down a couple inches before stopping.
"Take 'em off…" he begged, as he felt what little control he had over himself fading fast.
Mac obliged, and seconds later the final article that was keeping them apart joined those in various locales along the carpet.
He pulled her body down atop his and embraced her tightly as their mouths were once again in control of the show.
They ran their fingers through one another's hair, their hands frantically searching for a place to go.
"Mmmm…" moaned Mac, "now…".
He heard her, but decided to take his sweet time.
He ran his hands over her behind…along the sides of her torso...back towards her behind.
Slowly, he slid one hand in between their glistening bodies.
"Omigod!" she exclaimed as his fingers contacted her body in just the right place. "Now…please…"
Hearing her beg was almost enough in itself to finish him off… almost.
In a move not unlike something one would expect to see in the most well-choreographed Hollywood love scene, he threw all his momentum to his right side, a move which found him once again on top of her.
"Looks like I get to be on top after all" he said, a little short of breath as he concentrated on self-control.
"You gonna make me wait all night?" asked Mac, her heart pounding in her chest at the thought of what lay in store.
"Oh, no worries there, baby" he answered in perhaps the sexiest timbre ever spoken on planet earth.
As their bodies became one for the first time as husband and wife, they were reminded all over again of what they had together. As they explored one another in ways that until the previous couple of years had only been possible in their dreams, the reality that they were created for one another and one another alone became crystal clear once more.
A/N: Once again TV Guide has some interesting JAG news to share. In the April 24 - 30, 2005 issue, they cover the finales of many different shows including - of course - JAG. Here's what they have to say: "With 72 hours left before Harm goes to London and Mac leaves for San Diego, they get passionate and profess their love (A/N: to which I must say woohoo!). But if they do stay together, one of them has to ditch their career. They put their decision to the flip of a coin, with Mac calling the results before a final, playful twist. The last scene was written by creator Don Bellisario, who says he penned it 'before I knew it was really the last, last, last scene.'"
OK - here's my theory: we'll never find out who wins the coin toss because as Mac calls it, the screen will fade out and the show will end forever. I'm thinking they did it like this because at the time of filming, there was still a chance for season 11 (thank God that's gone!), and it needed to be left to interpretation as to what happened. What doesn't work with that theory, though, is if we were to end this season assuming that they get together and stay together, and there was going to be a season 11, there'd be an obvious problem there when she went to San Diego without him!
The other interesting tidbit in there is that Harm gets promoted to Captain, which is probably out there somewhere already and I've just been too out of the loop to catch it, but I didn't know that until I read it.
Only 9 days until we find out...