A/N- I would like to apologize to my readers and followers. And I would like to thank you all for standing by me while I worked at getting my muse back.
Thank you all, Here we go...
The morning sunlight danced threw the small window in the corner of the bedroom, causing Harm to blink his eyes, he opened them attempting to get them to focus; as he did he glanced over at his sleeping wife, He propped himself up on his hand and elbow, while he gently lowed the bed sheet down below her abdomen
He used his left hand to trace small circles over it, imagining what she would look like once their baby started growing, he remembered noticing the changes in Harriett when she was carrying baby A.J. More than once he had found himself daydreaming about Mac, and how she would look carrying his child, their child, and now she is.
He laid his head down on her, still rubbing her. "I know you're in there, I can feel you. It's strange to think that I might have gone my entire life, and never gotten the chance to meet you or hold you in my arms, Thank god, he had other plans in mind for your daddy, I promise you I will never leave you or your mommy on my own. I will always be here for you both."
Mac opened her eyes when she heard her husband's sweet voice talking to their baby, their baby, the one that in a blink of an eye he promised her, now that promise was safe and sound growing inside of her. She just lay there listening to his sweet words, hearing them made her fall deeper in love with him, he was going to make a fantastic daddy.
"You are going to make a fantastic daddy."
Hearing his wife; made him look up towards her, "You think so?"
"There's no thinking to it, I know so. I can just tell. You've already given up a part of yourself for our baby."
"I didn't give up anything that matters..." Mac reached down and silenced his lips.
"All your life you dreamed of being just like your dad, a Naval aviator." He removed her hand.
"I overlooked the part of him that was a husband and father, so I'm still just like him, I guess you can say."
"All I want is for you to be happy."
"Everything I need to be happy is right here in this bed. I don't need anything more." He pulled her tighter to him, placing lite kisses on her abdomen.
She just laid there watching him, deep down she knew this was what they both wanted, she only hoped that once they were both back at JAG everything would be okay.
Later on in the day, Harm had walked out to the side of his apartment, ( the space he uses as a storage area ) with a plan in mind he'd started to clean it out, and as he was going through boxes, he ran across a box of his old childhood stuff, at some point his mom must have sent the box to him, he ended up just standing there looking, he was so lost in thought he never heard Mac walk in.
"Whatcha looking at there Sailor?"
Her voice startled him, "Geez Mac, warn a guy next time."
"Oh Really; Why are you looking at porn?"
"You think you're funny!!"
"I'm a funny lady... So what's in the box?"
"Just some stuff from the past."
"Anything interesting?"
"Definite interesting?"
"Oh, I don't know, old high school photos?"
Harm thought for a minute, then he stepped aside giving Mac room to come stand next to him, she started looking inside, "Go ahead; dig away."
"Alright." She went about rummaging through the box, shocked at what she was finding, Harm are all these your old..."
"Yeah; mom sent me most of this stuff, a while ago, I had no idea she was. She called one day and said she was sending some items from my childhood. A few days later a big box show up,"
"Why haven't you put out some of these photos? Especially this one of you and your dad, how old are you here?"
Harm looked at the photo; it was of him and his father, Harm sr was standing humped over behind Harm, holding up his hands and showing him how to walk. "I dunno; maybe a year or less."
"I love this, it's going into the apartment, now let's what else I can find in here."
Harm just stood there smiling as he watched his wife, he knew she was enjoying herself, and now he was glad his mom had sent him this stuff. "You know maybe we should think about making a trip to see Grandma Sarah, she might have some more stuff you could look through."
Hearing this made her look up, "You honestly what me to meet her?"
"Sure why not, especially now since we're having a new little Rabb, plus it'd be a good idea for you two to meet."
Mac froze at the thought of meeting the one woman that means more to Harm than his mother, this is the woman he named his beloved bi-plane after, the woman he compared all women to.
Harm picked up on the sudden change in Mac, "Sweetheart are you okay?"
"I'm not sure, do you honestly think she'll like me?"
He walked over and took his wife into his arms, "She'll love you; but not as much as I love you."
"Harmon Rabb, are you trying to charm me?"
Grabbing his heart, "Who me; I'd never do that."
"All you Flyboy types are alike."
"Oh!"
"You think whites and wings will get you any woman you want."
"I know that they don't work on you, plus I've got the only woman I want right here, and she's giving me the best gift any man can ask for."
"Are you trying to make me cry!!!"
"No; I'm just saying the truth."
Mac brushed the tears away, and changed the subject. "So what made you start cleaning in here?"
"I thought I might knock out part of the wall between my place and here, and make this into the baby's room. Unless you want to just move into your place."
Mac stood there thinking for a few minutes, as much as she liked her place, it doesn't have the same homey feel to it that Harm's does, plus working on the baby's room would be a project they could do together."I love it; I think it's great, this way we can pant it up any way we want to."
"So it's settled this will be baby Rabb's room." Harm pulled Mac into his side, and they stood there looking around.
Later on in the evening, ( after they had finished cleaning out most of the storage unit ) Harm started sketching out some basic ideas for the baby's room. He had most of the layout done and had come up with a price range. If he did most of the work himself, they would have more to spend on decorating the baby's room.
Feeling pleased with himself, he sat there looking over the design.In the meantime Mac walked back downstairs from the bedroom area, seeing her husband hard at work , she walked over to him, she glanced over his shoulder.
"Whatcha working on."
"Jus some basic plans for baby Rabb's room." He said as he turned around taking her into his arms and sitting her in his lap. "What do ya think?"
Mac looked over the plans he'd drawn up, "This looks like a lot of work? Do you think you'll have enough time? Especially once you start back at JAG, you know how the case load there can get at times."
"Well I did my whole apartment on my own, I think I can mange our baby's room."
"Yes that's true you did, but you weren't up against a time frame either."
"You don't think I can get it done on my own?"
"No that's not what I'm saying. I guess I don't really know what I'm trying to say." She started to try and stand up,but Harm held her in place.
"Honey; what's really got you upset?"
"I just don't won't you to get overwhelmed by trying to get the room done. I won't us to enjoy this time in our lives, savor the moment all the firsts we get experience together. Especially now that you're back for good. I won't us just be normal, I won't us to be a real couple and real family finally."
As he listened to his wife's words, he understood were she was coming from, so he made a decision that would be better for both of them. "How about I hire a contractor to make the changes that I came up with. This way we both win, the baby's room gets done, and I will have been the one to design it. Plus we can make changes to it together."
Mac smiled, "I think that's just perfect." She said wrapping her arms around his neck, as she started nibbling at the base of his ear.
