Chapter 4
"No, but all women should have a yearly checkup and it has been a couple of years since I had my last one."
"Okay, you can go in with Mattie and see what you think about this doctor and let me know when you come back out," nodded Harm satisfied with the arrangement. "That way if he's a quack we'll take her somewhere else."
"Sounds fine, Harm."
Harm got up early the next day to go to work. He hoped to catch Harriett in the parking lot and explain his need for an OBGYN. Seeing Bud pull up and get out alone, Harm ran over catching him before he got inside the building. "Bud, where's Harriett today?" Harm asked with a look of panic on his face.
"Sir, she stayed home today. She was having a bad time with morning sickness and just couldn't make it in," explained Bud. "It seems the twins are going to give her a rough time."
"Can I be of some help to you, Commander?" Bud asked, hoping to help Harm.
"No, Bud, it wasn't important anyway. I just wanted her advise on Mattie. Harriett's such a wonderful mother, I hoped she could help," smiled Harm walking into the building with Bud.
'Now who do I ask? I guess it'll have to be Mac. After all it's for Mattie, she should understand that,' he thought. Going to Mac's office he found her with her head laying on her desk. She looked asleep. Harm shut the door and pulled the blinds. "Mac, honey wake up. If the Admiral catches you sleeping he'll raise hell," whispered Harm placing his hand on Mac's shoulder.
"I'm not asleep, Harm. I'm just not feeling well. What do you want so early?"
"Mac, I need the name of your OBGYN," he told her taking a seat on the other side of the desk.
"Harm, why do you want to talk to my OBGYN?" asked Mac with a gleam in her eyes.
"Would you believe, I think there's a need to run a pregnancy test?" he asked glancing up at her.
"I'm one up on you, Flyboy, I had one yesterday. Congratulations, daddy Rabb," grinned Mac.
"Mac! Is it really true? We made a baby? We're going to be parents?" he asked grinning from ear to ear.
"Yes, Harm, in about seven and a half months, you'll be holding our baby in your arms," she replied walking around and kissing him.
"Whoopee! Mac, sweetheart, I love you, please say you'll marry me. Lets bring this baby up together," Harm proposed.
"You seemed to have changed, Harm, but let me think about it for a few days," Mac said cuddling down in his lap.
Someone knocked on the door and they quickly jumped apart. Mac opened the door and the Admiral came in. "What's all the noise going on in here?" AJ demanded to know.
"Nothing, really, Sir, just received some good news," grinned Mac.
"Care to share it, Colonel?" he asked.
"Not just yet, Sir, it needs to be confirmed," replied Mac.
"Very well then, carry on. Only try to do so a little more quietly," he ordered
"Yes, Sir, you can be sure things will be quiet, Sir," assured Mac.
Harm kissed her again and walked dazed to his office. He never gave another thought to Mattie or her problem until just after lunch when Jen asked him what he had found out.
"I'm still trying. Harriett is home with morning sickness and Mac was…ah to busy to see me. I will try back with her later. Give me a break Jen, I'm doing the best I can," replied Harm heading off to the bathroom. The only place he was safe.
"Yeah well he doesn't know that it's not just Mattie that needs a doctor's pregnancy test!" Jen muttered out loud as she watched Harm walk off.
Jen did not know that the Admiral had come out of his office and was standing right behind her when she said this, he asked, "Jen, are you in trouble?" he was concerned. "Is there any way I can be of help?"
"Sir!" she spun around with a guilty look on her face. "Um, no, Sir, there is nothing you can do."
"If you need to talk my door is always door, Petty Officer," he nodded before going to Bud's office to check on Harriett.
Thinking he was out of earshot she muttered, "Oh, yeah like I would come to you and say, 'one of your officers got me pregnant and his ward thinks she is too!' Yeah like that is going to happen!"
Whirling about AJ came back to her, "In my office now, Petty Officer! I think we do have something to talk about."
To be continued…..