Disclaimer in chapter 1.

Thanks again to all who reviewed it encourages me to update more often!! As far as the rank, yes I believe Harm is captain already I think I just forgot. Italics are a dream sequence.

Chapter 3

Harm's Nightmare

Lucy hung off the side of her bed; her hair lying on the carpet she played with a loose piece of thread on her bedspread. Natalie sat in the wicker chair by the window she had her Spanish book laying open on her lap, she was trying desperately to memorize her numbers for the quiz on Wednesday they had to be able to count to 100 and spell it correctly.

"So what did you do?" Lucy finally asked after sitting in their room for twenty minutes in awkward silence.

"What? Me? I didn't do anything what did you do?" Natalie snapped back.

"The letter was in YOUR locker, therefore its your fault, I didn't do anything." Lucy defended herself; Natalie pouted at the fact that she was being accused of getting in trouble. As far as either of them could recall neither of them had done anything that deserved a letter sent home, and being sent to their rooms. There was the name calling incident between them and the school's own 'mean girl' Holly Williams but that was several weeks ago and Holly did not have the reputation of squealing. The girls would have spent the rest of the evening bickering over who was at fault when the door to their room they shared opened and their parents entered.

"Natalie get away from the window." Their father ordered, Natalie jumped up from her seat momentarily forgetting her Spanish book, which fell to the floor spilling the loose leaf pieces of paper and quizzes she had stuffed amongst the pages. She knelt down quickly collecting the papers before her parents caught her failing quiz grades.

"Will talk about those quiz grades later." Her mom commented, Natalie cringed she wasn't quick enough to escape her mother's well-trained eyes. Lucy sat up on the bed, she could tell by the tone in her dad's voice that something was seriously wrong.

"I just want to apologize." Lucy started, Harm was closing the wooden blinds on the window, he and Mac gave a confused look.

"For what?" Mac asked.

"For whatever that letter said that got us in so much trouble." Lucy added. Both Harm and Mac's eyes softened, they then realized that their daughters had no clue what was happening and believed that the letter was school related.

"Its not that type of letter." Harm assured.

'Oh." Both girls answered, relieved and at the same time puzzled.

"So why were we sent to our room then?" Natalie asked. Harm glanced over at Mac they had briefly discussed downstairs their course of action, they didn't want their daughters to be scared but at the same time they wanted them to be cautious.

"I needed to discuss something private and urgent with your mom." Harm explained, the girls nodded not exactly sure of what to make of the whole situation. Harm and Mac had been careful when it came to telling their daughters about their past cases, they had avoided cases that involved Singer, or Palmer or anybody who had a personal vendetta on them not wanting to scare them.

"It was a letter from someone your mom and I had not heard from in a long time." The twins both sat on their beds, studying their parents, Harm continued. "We don't exactly know who it is, but we know it's defiantly not a friend."

"Is it Brumby?" Natalie inquired Mac and Harm both turned to her.

"How do you know about Brumby." They demanded.

"I….I don't really know anything about him… I just heard Uncle Bud mention him once, but he stopped talking when he saw me and wouldn't tell me anything." Natalie explained.

"How much do you know about him?" Mac asked.

"Not much at all, only that after we were born he tried to hurt Dad." Mac sighed.

"It's not Brumby, we know that for sure. We don't want you two to be scared, we just want you to be careful. Always pay attention to your surroundings and who is around you avoid anyone who is suspicious or strange and if you ever feel threatened call your dad or me." The girls nodded, despite their parents' attempt at assuring them they still felt scared.

"So how about I make some of my vegetable lasagna?" Harm suggested, uncomfortable with the current scenario at hand.

Later that night after their homework was completed, and they both took their shower, the girls went to bed, but not before Harm checked their window for the 8th time and set the alarm for the entire house. Mac was sitting up in bed re-reading "To Kill A Mockingbird", when Harm entered after inspecting the house thoroughly, she put the book on her nightstand as Harm got under the sheets. Harm opened the drawer to his nightstand to check his gun again, Mac gave a slight smile she had already checked her gun three times herself.

"Harm." She reached out to touch him on the shoulder; she could feel the knots and the tension in his back. "Harm, please just try to get some sleep." Mac requested.

"How can I?" Harm replied not looking up from his gun.

"Harm you need your sleep, you need to be on top of your game, your need to be sharp and well rested in order to figure out who is behind this." Mac argued, Harm knew she was right so he placed his gun back in the drawer and turned off the lights.

"DAD! DADDY PLEASE! Daddy please help us!" Harm could hear his daughters cry, Harm was back in Virginia in his old JAG headquarters the office was abandon, and from somewhere in the building Harm could hear his daughters cry.

"NATALIE! LUCY!" Harm cried out climbing the steps two at a time. He heard a blood curdling scream he flung open the door to his old office and saw a black figure standing over his daughters limp bodies, the figure held a gun and before Harm could catch a glimpse of the person the figure disappeared out the door.

"NO!" Harm cried, rushing to his daughters' side, only to realize he was to late. He was too late and it was his entire fault, he couldn't protect his own daughters. "NO!" He screamed out.

Harm sat straight up in his bed a cold sweat soaking his body, Mac sat up in concern, after hearing Harm cry out. Harm found himself tangled in the bedsheets he flung them off his body and got up.

"Harm?" Mac asked.

"I have to check on the girls." He explained. Harm hastily walk down the hall to his daughters' room, he pushed the door open only enough so that he could slip in without causing too much light from the hallway to enter their room. Harm checked on both girls watching them breath, just like he use to do shortly after they were born, reassured they were alright he turned to leave.

"Daddy?" He heard Lucy whisper.

"It's me sweetheart I'm sorry to wake you up its ok just go back to bed." He assured, Lucy nodded satisfied enough, and easily feel back to sleep. Harm only wished he could be as easily assured himself that everything was going to be fine, one thing was for sure he was going to be going through he until he figured out and stopped who ever was behind this.

That's it for now. I made it longer just in case I don't get to update until this weekend. I am just swamped this week, but please review and I will be sure to update soon!