At the same time just outside the open apartment door

Having just gotten off the elevator, Admiral Chedwiggen was shocked to find the door to Harm's apartment standing wide open, that was when he heard the fighting and then the sound of a gun going off. Not wasting any time, he darted into the apartment.

Time stood still for Harm, he heard to gun go off, after that everything else was a blur to him, he didn't know how he end up across his apartment in record time, yet he had. Now all he felt was pain, bad pain in his shoulder, and fire, pain, and fire, he heard shouting, it sounded like Mac. He couldn't be sure everything was a blur to him, he could hear her telling him to stay with her, while she was screaming at Brumby. "You shot him! You ass, you shot him"

He felt Mac's hands applying pressure to his shoulder, he could hear another man's voice telling Brumby to stay still, the voice sounded like Admiral Chegwidden. Before he could say anything, he heard more voices in his apartment, these sounded like Police and EMTs. He kept trying to sit up, but the pain was stopping him, along with Mac.

"Harm just lay still. Please just lay still, Let the EMT do their job."

"Mac?"

"You're going to be fine; I promise, I love you."

When Brumby heard those words coming out of Mac's mouth, it fueled his rage. He tried to get up, but the cops along with Admiral Chegwidden were holding him down.

"Brumby stay still; that's an order!"

"I don't take bloody orders from you. I want to talk to my fiancée."

Hearing this made Mac look over toward him. "I'm not your fiancée anymore, we are over and done. I married Harm, he's my husband now."

When he heard her words, pure rage took hold of him. He tried with all his might to get away from the cops and Chegwidden. The harder he fought them, the more they pressed him to the ground. It took extraordinary force to get him cuffed. Once they did, 2 big cops jerked him upright and hauled him out of the apartment.

Mac finally breathed a small sigh of relief, now she could focus on her husband. "Harm he's gone." He gripped her tightly, and simply nodded his head.

"Ma'am; we are going to transfer him to George Town Medical."

"Okay; let me just grab my purse. I'm going with you." As Mac was saying that, one of the cops that had removed Brumby re-entered the apartment. "Ma'am we need your statement before you can leave."

"Do you absolutely need it now? I would like to accompany my husband to the ER."

"I'm afraid we do."

Hearing this made Admiral Chegwidden speak up, "As her attorney and CO I can assure you The Colonel is not a flight risk, she simply wishes to go be with her husband."

"Sir; we do understand that, however, this is still a crime scene, and we have to treat it as such. I can assure you both that this will not take long. And as soon as we are done she's free to leave."

Mac wiped the tears from her eyes and pulled herself together. "Fine let's just get this over with."

"Ma'am can you describe what took place."

"He showed up here and started pounding on the door demanding to be let in. Harm went to the door in hopes of defusing the situation. He asked him to leave, informing him that I didn't want to see him or talk to him. He got mad and pushed his way past Harm and into the apartment. After that was when Mic started screaming at both of us, he went after me, and Harm attempted to stop him, but he pushed him onto the floor, grabbing me by my wrists, I was screaming for him to let go of me. That's when Harm jumped him from behind, and they started fighting with each other, I know where Harm kept his service gun, so I went and retrieved it, I only wanted to get Mic to stop hurting Harm, ( Mac paused as the tears started pouring out of her eyes ) I begged him to stop when he heard me he turned and headed towards me, I backed up towards the bedroom I hit the stairwell, and fell to the ground, we..we started fighting for the gun, somehow the gun fell to the floor, At that same time Harm jumped him. Next thing I know the gun had fired and Harm was bleeding. I went straight to him, and the next voice I heard was Admiral Chegwidden."

The cop nodded his head, while he was looking back over Mac's statement, "I think this is all I need from you for right now, if I need anything else I'll be in touch." He turned towards The Admiral, "Sir is there anything else you care to add?"

"I can only tell you what I saw when I walked in, which is what Colonel MacKenzie already said,"

"Admiral, why were you here?"

"Checking on Cmder Rabb."

"I see Sir. Thank you, Sir. You're both free to go."

As soon as Mac heard the words she was out the doors and flying down the stairwell, she reached the alleyway, making her way past the cops to the Ambulance, she walked up to the open doors, and she was shocked to see Harm sitting upright on the gurney, she stepped inside moving next to him, reaching for his hand.

"Are you okay?"

"Yea; they say it's just a flesh wound, the bullet never entered me. Still hurts like hell though."

Mac wiped the tears from her eyes, "God Harm, I thought he'd shot you, all I could think about was how I couldn't lose another man like this. Especially you."

"Hey, it's going to take much more than Brumby to get rid of me."

"Don't even joke like that. You scared the crap out of me."

"Hey, there come here." He opened his good arm to her. She went over next to him, "I'm never going to leave you, got that, we've been through too much together, I'm in it for the long haul."

Mac managed a small smile, about that time an EMT walked up, "Ready to go Cmder?"

"Only if I have to?"

"It's for the best, we still think you should get this looked at."

"Sarah, what do you think?"

"As much as you tend to think you're bulletproof; you're not, so I think you should let them check you out. I'll follow you in the vette."

"You guys heard the wife."

"All right, we're gonna take you to George Town Medical."

Mac placed a kiss on his palm. "I'll see you there Flyboy." She stood up ducking as she walked out of the ambulance. The EMT inside closed the doors and the driver took off. Mac waited a few minutes before she headed over to her vette. In the meantime, Admiral Chegwidden had walked outside.

"Mac you need me to go with you?"

"No Sir that's not necessary, I'm fine, they say it's just a flesh wound. That he's going to be fine."

"He's damn lucky Mac."

"I know Sir, it could have been much worse."

"Are you both ready for the fallout from this?"

"Sir?"

"Brumby, he's probably going to make bail."

"Sir, how could he, he tried to murder Harm."

"I'm simply warning you. If I were you both I'd think about a restraining order."

Mac stood there thinking, she knew he was right. As soon as she got to the hospital, she'd talk with Harm about this.

Metropolitan Police Department

Washington Dc

Mic had been booked and charged, now he was being allowed to make his one phone call, at first he thought about calling his Aunt, but that would take too long, So he called his Uncle ( his mum's brother ) he listened to the phone ring, his uncle's voicemail came on, " Uncle Michael, I'm in jail and need your help. I need ya to come down to the downtown Washington Police Station."

"Alright Brumby, your 3 minutes are up," The cop took him back to the holding area, opened the door, and watched as Mic walked inside. Mic turned around looking at the bars. How the hell had his life changed so fast?

Georgetown Medical

After she arrived, she made her way to ER nurse's station, the duty nurse helped her find Harm, and escorted her back to his curtained-off cubicle, as she walked in he glanced up.

"God I'm happy to see you."

"Right back atcha." She said as she made her way over to him."I don't ever want to go through anything like this again."

"That makes two of us, sweetheart." He said as he pulled her onto the bed next to him.

"Are you sure this is okay?"

"I don't care if it's not, I just want to hold you, I came too close to losing you tonight, I just need to feel you." Both lay in each others arm's knowing the next few days would be hell on them both.