SPOILERS: People vs Mac, Stalker, What If, Trojan Horse, Going after Webb.

I would just like to repeat, once again, that the events in this fic are just one of the many ways that life after the coin could've gone and this version of events is not for those devoted Harm/Mac shippers that can't stand Harm with anyone else, and is not for those of the Mac fan community who believe that Mac is pristine and would never do anything wrong, much less hurt Harm. If you are one of them, please stop reading this fic now, because you won't like it.

We have seen in "People vs Rabb" that Mac could never survive in the civilian world, is neither emotionally, nor mentally mature enough to survive in a world where there is no-one to tell her what to do, how to live, and no-one who would give structure and organize her life for her, as the military does/did for her and with so many years in the service since that failure and with other events, her dependancy on the Corps to give her life structure and order had become stronger, perhaps to the point of essential. And, as we have seen in "What If" and is in-character for her according to her profile and from everything we've seen over 9 years of her on the show, she would've come to resent the one for whom she would've given up her commission and her resentment and hate would ultimately end the marriage.

Also, some of you may believe that I'm bashing Mac with what she'll do in this part, so I'd like to ask those people to remember the eps "People vs Mac" and "What if", in which we have been given canon proof that Mac is that kind of person. As a very close friend of mine can confirm, that kind of person never changes and just continues this kind of behaviour.

I know this was long, but I feel it needs to be said and put out there before you start reading the rest of this fic. Thank you.

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Bree: thanks for your review, I fully agree with you on the love, London and show's ending aspects.

Carolfd: thanks for the review and catching the error. It has been corrected.

laura carr: thanks for the review.

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WARNING: because of the subject handled in this part I'm updating the rating of this fic to T, because of minor hints of violence and because of one non-explicit, non-descriptive adult theme.

Now, on to the story.

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Things came to a head one day when Harm broke his left arm after a suspect, that had escaped some MP's, had shoved him out of his way and down a flight of stairs.

Jen had quickly called the medics and they had transported Harm to the on-base infirmary where they'd ran the full batery of tests and set his arm after having discovered that it was the only thing injured in the fall. He'd been incredibly lucky and Jen was shaking from the revelation of just how easily she could've lost him that day.

She'd managed to calm herself down by the time he was released and had immediately volunteered for the duty to drive him home.

They'd just entered the apartment when they heard strange noises.

They followed them, Harm having armed himself with a weapon he'd had stashed near the front door, and entered the bedroom.

There they received the shock of their lifetimes and Harm such a blow to his heart that it would take Jen quite a while to pick up the pieces of his heart because of it.

Harm would never, for the rest of his life, forget the sight of his wife so enthusiastically taking another man into her body, screaming encouragements so enthusiastically in a filthy language, taking him into the body that only Harm should've had access to. Little things like a marriage certificate and rings confirming that theory.

Mac was cheating on him. How long? Was this man the only man? Were there others? How many?

With all in their MARRIAGE BED? He felt sick at the sight before him and at the notion of her cheating on him with other men in their bed, in the bed that he slept in, in the bed that he believed he'd made love to her, in the bed he'd believed they were trying to create their baby.

His first instict was to cock the Glock and remove the safety, the two sounds immediately freezing the two participants.

Jen was for a second terrified that Harm would just kill them both in cold blood, wouldn't have blamed him, but she'd calmed down as soon as she caught his eye for just a second. There was an immense amount of betrayal and hurt there, but no murder intent. He was hurt and wanted to scare the shit out of the two in the bed as a small retribution for what they'd done to him.

The next 15 minutes were surreal to Jen, as if something from a dream. A very bad dream.

Harm, with a voice and tone that had veteran Force Recon Marines and Navy SEALs shaking in their boots and peeing in their pants, ordered the man to stand up and get away from his wife, unless he wanted a bullet into his private parts, receiving another shock when he saw who it was.

Mac'd been cheating on him with someone he'd considered a friend of his, a high official in the MI-6 and, to boot, the guy was about 15 years older than Harm, in his late 50's. Harm's mind immediately remembered the huge age difference between her and Farrow, and her and Cheggwidden, between whom Harm had clearly seen lust once or twice, like during the Coster ordeal, and Mac and Webb, and Mac and Tanveer.

Seemed like Mac had a thing for older men, authority figures, probably because of her father who was a Marine Sergeant, a thing called Authority Figure Fixation or Electra Complex and some sick fascination with the world of spies, a fascination that had almost cost her being tortured and had almost cost her her life many times.

A fascination that had cost her a severe case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, because of which she had started a very damaging relationship with Webb and because of which she had on her permanent record a direct order of her Commanding Officer to seek psychiatric help. One could clearly see the connection between the age and the type of job the man she had been screwing had. Harm's nightmare, a hint of which he'd experienced in his daydream during Jen's wet-down, had come true.

To Jen's astonishment Mac had not reacted as expected of a woman caught cheating on her husband.

She had not been acting guilty, ashamed, scared or remorseful, she was actually aggressive towards Harm, blaming it (her cheating and the failure of their marriage) all on him, calling him ugly names. Even her lover was embarrassed by Mac's behaviour.

Harm stood as still as a block of granite, his expression stone-cold, the only thing betraying the storm of emotions inside him was the twitching of his jaw muscle.

His only words were. "Get dressed and get out. Both of you."

His words had finally cut through Mac's ranting, but another ranting about this being her apartment also was cut short when she saw the look in his eyes. She instantly paled and shut up, getting dressed in record time.

The two lovers were then gone in record time and the full realization of what had just happened dropped on Harm and Jen with the weight of the Schoenbrunn castle.

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AN: Sorry for the short part, but with the work College has dumped on me and restoring my bike, I have very little time to dedicate to fics, much less to beta-reading every part, which ususally takes me a while.

When I started writing this fic it didn't occur to me just how similar it is to the "What if" ep, except for a few things like it not ending with a Harm/Mac happy ending and with Harm finding happiness with another, in my eyes more suitable and deserving, woman. This fic is first and foremost a Harm/Jen fic.

Also, about the cheating thing... When we touched this topic in psych class in College, our professor told us that it is proven that cheaters are pathological creatures, they don't ever change, unless they cheated only because they were truly in love with their lover. And it's known that Mac had had a number of lovers while she was still married to Chris. Some of you may say that she would never cheat on Harm, that it would be different with him, but unfortunately that's not true. Mac is a regular cheater, which means she's a pathological and they never change and they never stop after having cheated once. The friend's father that I had mentioned, has cheated on his wife with another woman, while he and his wife had 3 children (the last of which he didn't even want), got that second woman with whom he cheated (she knew he was married) pregnant and dumped her after a few years. Now he's together with another woman, about 30 years younger and this all only in the space of a couple of years. THAT is what cheaters are like and that is Mac.