AN: one short part left, which still makes this fic the longest of the trilogy, others being 6 or 7 times shorter.

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Then came a few hard weeks for Harm and Jen.

Harm had to attend a high-level meeting in DC together with other Force Judge Advocates and it took him away from London for a whole week.

He was missing Jen something awful and his phone bill fully showed that.

This forced distance helped Harm come to a few truths.

He'd come to depend on Jen for so many things in his life that he couldn't even imagine his life without her in it and this realisation shook him to the core.

Even when living in DC he knew he was quite dependant on Jen, emotionally and mentally, as well as her being his friend, her taking care of Mattie when he had to go out of town on investigation, he was amazed and awed by her every time when she not only immediately said yes when he asked her if she could keep an eye on Mattie, but even volunteered to do so.

He had never, in all his life, met a more friendly, loving, generous and giving, selfless person than Jennifer Coates. She was a keeper, one of those rare pure people that one meets only once in a lifetime, and who a person should just grab (if they are fortunate enough to be loved by such a person), hold on and never let go.

Yet, in DC he was not as dependant on Jen as he was now. Now his world would stop existing if she disappeared from his life or if something happened to her. If he lost her, he knew there would be no way for him to recover, much less go on. The thought of him finding another woman with whom to share his life had Jen died or left was absolutely ridiculous. If Jen died, he'd die also, literally, plain and simple. And THAT was the realization that had made him take a seat on his chair, lest he fall down, since his legs were not able to hold him anymore.

He didn't know what he'd done to deserve her, but he wasn't foolish to look a gift horse in the mouth and was thanking every possible deity (from Persian to Roman gods) for having her in his life.

This longing to see her again and the realization of how much she meant to him also gave him quite something to think about. It was too big a longing to be fitting a friend, no matter how close, and it was the first time that he'd really thought about the possibility that he may be in love with Jen.

He decided to table that line of thought until he could get home and see Jen again.

Yet, when he came home she wasn't there.

She'd called him the day before and told him she'd be in Germany for 2 weeks helping a branch of Mercedes-Benz set up a new office and hire the optimal staff.

He thought he'd die when he heard 2 weeks.

He lasted barely a week.

A week after his return home he took a long weekend and decided to see a bit of Europe and his trip just accidentally happened to take him through the town where Jen was.

When she opened the door to her hotel room she dropped what she had in her hands from shock.

Which would've been dropped anyway since, when she recovered, she jumped into his arms and started hugging the life out of him between excited squeals (something she later denied ever doing).

The endorphins, adrenalin and their love for each other was ultimately the reason for what happened then.

Harm and Jen suddenly found themselves locked into a passionate kiss, one so wonderful that neither had any inclination to stop it.

So, they didn't.

That was the start of their romantic relationship.

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