If Only the Dead Could Talk

rooster dawn

Disclaimer: The characters of JAG are the property of Donald Bellisario and Bellisarius Production, Inc. Used without permission. No copyright infringement intended. May be reproduce if unchanged, author given full credit, and no financial transaction is involved.

Spoiler: None

Pairing: Harm/Mac, Victoria/Henry

Alternate Universe

Summary: When the future meets the past, strange things happen. The son of a lost love of Harm meets Mac's daughter at Annapolis with interesting results.

Author's note: This is a continuing story of an "A Special Child" Mac's daughter, given up at birth, reunited with Mac, is now attending Annapolis.

Author's note: The double posting of chapter three has been corrected. Chapter four is in it's rightful place. Sorry for the mistake.

part six

1600 hours

Saturday

24 Dec 2005

A couple of hours later Henry and Tory came banging through the door. They had a few packages with them that they were going to put under the tree. Mac went to greet them.

"Did you have a good time?" she asked.

"It was nice Mac. Tory took me down to the mall where we walked around looking at some of the historical sites that I've read about. Then she dragged me into a couple of stores to do some last minute shopping. Finally he saw an action packed adventure movie." he replied.

"Did she feed you Henry?" she laughed. Tory had kept him occupied.

"Mom!" Tory whined. "You know someone as large as Henry can't go more than a few hours without eating. We ate before we went shopping and while we watched the movie."

"I could go for some cookies and milk Mac." he smiled. He could smell the fresh aroma of baked cookies.

Mac pulled a plate of cookies from where she stored them out of Tommy Frank's reach. She poured a couple glasses of milk as they sat down to talk some more.

"Where's Dad, Mom?" asked Tory. She had seen his car in the driveway besides Henry's.

"He was playing with Tommy. He doesn't like being away from him for more than a few days." she replied.

"That's a real beauty Mac, his car I mean. You don't see too many vintage cars in excellent condition." he commented.

"I think it's his security blanket. He had it stolen a few years ago. It was stripped down to the frame. It cost him over a hundred thousand to restore it." Mac answered shaking her head.

"Wasn't that about the time you bought your corvette?" smiled Tory. She wanted Mac to tell Henry the story of how she came to buy her car.

"You have a corvette?" he asked in surprise.

"Best one they ever made. It's a red 99 corvette convertible." she replied.

"No wonder why Tory wasn't impress when I picked her up in mine." he replied.

"Tell him Mom!" Tory demanded.

Mac smiled. It was an amusing story.

"I used to drive an old jeep. To me, a car was a means to get from point A to point B. How I got there wasn't important. Anyways after Harm's corvette was stolen ... he needed to go get a new car.

He wanted me to go with him. I was surprised that he asked me to go with him. He was dating another woman at the time. I thought he would want to take her, you know ... to get her opinion.

But he told me that if he took his girlfriend, he might as well give her a ring. I asked him if that meant that he was going to give me a ring instead of her. He looked stunned and couldn't talk for a few minutes.

Finally he said 'just grab your purse and cover Mac.' I think he was so shaken for the rest of the day. He bought a SUV. That's when I bought the corvette. All I could think of when I go back to work was 'WOW!'

It was a such a great driving experience. I never knew driving could be so fun. Harm had a despondent look on his face for the next month every time he saw me driving my corvette." smiled Mac.

She felt his nearness before she heard him. "Did I hear my name being used in vain." Harm bent over and started nibbling on her neck before taking her mouth with his own. They shared a short passionate kiss.

Henry was a little shocked to see a kiss like that. He didn't think older people kiss like that. Tory smiled with satisfaction to see the love demonstrated between them. She hoped to have that kind of love some day.

"We have company Harm." smiled Mac after Harm pulled away.

Henry was taken aback when he saw Harm. It was like looking at an older version of himself. He looked at Tory as if to ask is he?

Tory whispered back "Maybe."

"Harm, I would like you to meet Tory's friend ... Henry Shonke." Mac introduced solemnly.

It was all becoming very clear to Harm the discussion he had with Mac earlier. He now knew why Mac wanted to know about his sexual history with Diane and why Tory would want to talk to him about Diane.

Could it be that Henry was his son? He did look like him. There were some differences, his nose was shaped differently. His lips were thinner. But overall they had the same look.

Henry stood up to shake Harm's hand. Harm almost whistled at the size of him. Henry was a couple of inches taller and a good twenty pounds heavier. What have they been feeding this kid?

"So you must be Diane's kid." stated Harm. It was more a statement rather than a question. "I knew your mother."

"I guess you did Sir." Henry replied. Had he finally met his father? Tory had told him Harm had been an aviator. His father was supposed to have been an aviator.