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Chapter 4

The Invisible Man?

Harm did not get much sleep, after tossing and turning in his bed for two hours he finally got up; he didn't want to wake Mac. He got dressed and went for a run, he loved running down the beach, and at this hour there were no tourist or patrons sun bathing, just a few devoted surfers catching some early morning waves. After running for two miles Harm stopped at a local market that dotted the highway that ran along the beach, he pulled out a five-dollar bill and bought himself a bottle of water. As he stepped out into the parking lot he had the funniest feeling that someone was watching him he was looking around but couldn't find anything suspicious. The feeling remained though, he heard a set of footprints coming up from behind him, he whipped around preparing to defend himself only to find a woman in her early 20s jogging up pushing a stroller with a sleeping toddler.

"Relax Harm, you're becoming paranoid, soon you'll jump at your own shadow." Harm thought to himself. He finished off the water bottle and tossed it into the nearest trashcan and took off in a run back to his house, he knew that Mac would be awake soon, and would be worried if he wasn't there.

Harm entered his house, he heard a noise coming from the kitchen he glanced over at the clock on the wall, it was too early to be any member of his family to be up. He slowly made his way to the kitchen arming himself with an iron candle tray that he removed from the table in the hall. As he entered the kitchen he heard a noise from behind him, he jumped out of the way narrowly missing a sauté pan. He swirled around raising the iron candle tray above his head, but stopped when he saw his 'attacker'.

"MAC!"

"HARM!" They exclaimed lowering their weapons.

"This is insane were becoming paranoid! If were not careful were going to hurt each other, or worse our own daughters." Mac snapped, returning the sauté pan to the hanger above the stove, she returned to the breakfast she had been making.

"I know." Harm agreed walking over to the island where Mac was adding the finishing touches to their breakfast. "How long have you been up?"

"You weren't the only one who couldn't sleep." Mac grumbled, Harm winced he wasn't sure why he didn't think that Mac would not be affected as deeply as him. "They're my daughters too, I carried them for nine months. Just because the letter wasn't addressed to me doesn't me I'm not scared too." Mac snapped she looked into Harm's eyes and felt guilty instantly. "I'm sorry, like I said I didn't get much sleep." She apologized.

"I need to apologize too, I'm so sorry." Harm confessed. "While running I thought someone was following me turned out to be a mom pushing her child." Mac shock her head.

"This is horrible, not knowing who to watch out for makes me more agitated, I feel like I'm chasing after the invisible man."

"Or women." Harm added. Mac just sighed. "We should get ready that way we can take the girls to school."

Junior High

"Dad do you really have to walk us in?" Lucy whined, on the drive to school Harm announced that he and Mac were going to walk the twins in.

"Are you embarrassed by us?" Mac teased. The girls didn't respond, they were to busy thinking about what they were going to tell their friends. Mac took their silence as a yes, she understood the girls were entering that age where their parents could do nothing but embarrassed them, but it would put both her and Harm at ease to escort their daughters in. Once the car was parked the twins jumped out of the car, Mac and Harm raced to catch up.

"They'll make good marines someday." Mac whispered to Harm.

"Or navy pilots." Harm whispered back, they both laughed for the first time since last night. Once inside the school the twins picked up speed in order to ditch their parents. "Hold up!" Harm called after them, the girls came to a halt, reluctantly turning to face their parents.

"Now remember what we told you, if you feel at all threatened go to the principal or one of your teachers, or an adult in this school then call us. Don't approach anyone you don't know, and just be careful." Mac reminded.

"Yes ma'am." The girls answered.

"Ok get to class." Harm dismissed them; the girls turned around and quickly raced down the hall. "They couldn't wait to get rid of us could they?" He commented.

"No they couldn't, but at least they aren't afraid to leave us." They went into the front office and explained to the principal, after being reassured by the principal that everything was going to be fine, they then turned to leave.

JAG Island Circuit Office

Harm stared at his computer each case he had ever worked on, now had a file on his computer. He had no clue where to start, the letter was addressed to him, but did that mean this person was from a case before Mac even became his partner? Or was it a motive to deceive him, he scrolled through the list of all the cases he had ever worked since he joined JAG over twenty years ago. Harm opened the drawer to his desk and pulled out the note, rereading it for the millionth time, just then an idea hit him. Harm placed the letter down on his desk and opened up his bottom drawer, he still had a box of gallon size ziploc bags in his desk, why he originally put them there he couldn't remember but he was extremely grateful now. He opened up one of the ziploc bags and pushed the letter into the bag. He was hoping that whoever this was, was stupid enough or might have just slipped up and handled the note without gloves. He rushed out of his office with the ziploc bag and note in hand.

"TINER!" He called, Harm had to act quickly, he had a horrible feeling in the pit of his stomach.

Junior High

Lucy was leaning back in her chair, which was teetering on only two legs, she had a habit of this, she couldn't exactly explain why. She had completed her math test before the rest of the class, and the teacher had instructed them to remain quiet while the rest of the class completed the test. She was perfecting her technique of balancing her pencil on her nose when something out of the corner of her eye caught her attention. She looked out the window for a brief second she could of sworn she saw someone standing outside looking in, she dropped her pencil she looked down for only a second and when she looked back up the figure was gone. She put her chair back down, and strained her neck to get a good look out of the window.

'Get a hold of yourself Luc your seeing things.' She tried to convince herself, but she wasn't buying it, she was getting a funny feeling in her stomach, she had remembered what her mom told her earlier.

"Is something alright Lucy?" Lucy looked up and into the eyes of her math teacher, who was probably curious of Lucy's sudden fascination with the outside.

"Not really…can I go to the restroom?" Lucy didn't want to explain what she thought she saw to Ms. Sanders, she just wanted to get to her sister.

"Very well." Ms. Sanders agreed handing her the restroom pass from off her desk, Lucy grabbed her purse and ran out the door.

Natalie handed her quiz over to Ms. Lopez, her Spanish teacher, time was up and Natalie had left many of the blanks empty, after last nights ordeal she found it hard to concentration on the last twenty numbers.

"Natalie did you study?" Ms. Lopez asked.

"Si, ma'am I tried, but I had a …family…emergency…come up last night and I kind of got distracted." Natalie tried to explain, Ms. Lopez sighed.

"The test is next week Natalie make sure you study hard this weekend."

"Si, ma'am." As Natalie turned around she glanced out the window, she could of sworn for a second she saw someone standing right outside the window, but whoever or whatever it was, was gone before Natalie got a better look. As she turned back towards her desk she heard a light taping at the door, she looked up and in the small window in the door she could see her sister, gesturing eagerly for her to come out. Lucy was a devoted student, and Natalie knew it had to be serious if she was trying to get Lucy to come out of the classroom.

"Ms. Lopez I'm not feeling really good." Natalie turned to look back at her teacher; Ms. Lopez looked up from the quiz she was grading.

"Can it wait until the end of class, the bell is about to ring?"

"No, no I don't feel very good ma'am I need to go to the bathroom." Ms. Lopez sighed and handed her the pass.

"Thank you." Natalie thanked as she took the pass, grabbed her purse and ran out the door. Lucy had darted around the corner, in order not to be spotted by Ms. Lopez she stepped out when she heard the door open and close. "What's the matter?" Natalie hissed, as Lucy pulled her into the nearest bathroom.

"I don't know what to do…I was done with my math test and I was sitting at my desk and I looked out the window and I could of sworn someone was looking back at me." Lucy explained in a hushed voice so no one passing by the restroom could here.

"That's weird because after I turned in my Spanish quiz I could have sworn I saw something out of my classroom window too." Natalie confirmed.

"So what do we do? Call Dad?" Lucy asked.

"And have him freak out? With our luck he will have us being babysat by some marine." Natalie argued, not exactly thrilled at the thought of being babysat.

"Alright lets make a pack…if either one of use sees something even remotely suspicious we call Dad." Lucy proposed.

"Alright deal…now I have to get back before Ms. Lopez starts to get suspicious."

"Me too, I bet Ms. Sanders is starting to wonder what's taking me so long." The twins departed.

Palmer silently cursed himself, he did not want the twins to spot him, but he was comforted by the thought that with his disguise, and the fact that neither of the girls really got a good look at him, they would not be able to identify him. Palmer retreated back to his car; he was suppose to meet a contact in twenty minutes, he knew if he was going to do something he would have to do it soon. Palmer smirked it wouldn't be long before he set his plan in action, and had Harm right where he wanted him.

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