Chapter 108

"No, you were going to be MY maid of honor...wait! Sarah, have you gotten married?"

"Yes of course I have silly, and we have a baby already! But you said I was going to be your maid of honor? Who were you going marry?"

"Sarah, you know good and well I was going to marry, AJ. I don't think this call is one bit funny."

"Oh, god, Meredith! No, I have amnesia. I had no idea! I am SO sorry!" She hung up in tears...here was just another reason why she was an ass! She had broken AJ and Meredith up when she got pregnant! She was a horrible person!

Thursday, May 20, 2004

1500 EST

JAG Headquarters

Falls Church, Virginia

"Petty Officer, please tell AJ, I wish to speak to him," said Meredith, picking a piece of lint off her outfit.

"Um, Ma'am, I don't think that he wants to see you anymore..." Jen said tentatively.

"Just tell him it's concerning a strange phone call I received from Mac. See if that gets me in the door," she crossed her arms and tapped her foot on the floor waiting.

"From Col...I mean, Mrs. Chegwidden? Okay, Ma'am, I'll tell him," she buzzed in on the intercom, "Sir, Ms. Cavanaugh is here regarding a strange call from your wife."

"His wife? Did you say 'his wife', Petty Officer?" Meredith asked, going strangely pale.

"Yes, Ma'am," Jen answered, just as the office door flew open and AJ stood in his doorway.

"What are you doing here, Meredith? And what call from Sarah?"

"You married Mac, AJ? How soon after we broke up?" cried Meredith. "Did you use my engagement ring?"

"Come in, Meredith, I will not have a conversation here in front of everyone!" he sighed, and held the door open for her to enter his office.

Storming into his office, she demanded, "Why did Mac just call me and ask me if I was her maid of honor? What's she doing, rubbing my face in the fact that she married you and not me?"

"No, Meredith, she has amnesia and does not even remember that we were engaged. She has no memory of the last year at all."

"Why that's terrible. Poor Mac, she thinks she's married to you. You poor thing, how are you holding up, darling?" she asked placing her hand on his.

"Meredith, Sarah and I are married, we have a daughter, named Angela, and don't call me, 'darling'!"

"You married her because she had amnesia, AJ?" she asked with a look of incredulity on her face. "And a baby! AJ, there is no way the two of you could have had a baby this soon. Unless! No you wouldn't have cheated on me. Would you?"

"Meredith, this is really none of your business, I have no idea why you're here. Could you just tell me and then please leave," he sighed in frustration.

"Mac called me about what Shakespeare plays are being offered this summer and then the conversation drifted to weddings. She assumed I had been her maid of honor in her wedding to you. I thought she was trying to hurt me and told her that I didn't appreciate the call and it wasn't a bit funny. Then I hung up on her," she carelessly explained. "Darling, how was I supposed to know she had amnesia and you felt obligated to marry her?"

"Meredith, I told you not to call me 'darling'. Sarah is my wife and I love her, I will deal with this phone call. You can go now," he walked to the door and held it open for her.

"You think you can dismiss me just like that? My best friend calls me and has no clue when she married MY fiancé, and you think I will just walk out without an explanation?" Meredith practically screeched.

"I am NOT your fiancé, and as I said, the rest is none of your business. Now, please, leave."

"Fine! I will go and see Mac! Maybe I will get to the bottom of this that way!" she started to stalk out when AJ took hold of her arm and stopped her.

"You will not go to Sarah about this! She has amnesia and if you start giving her information of any kind it could be detrimental to her mental health."

"Then tell me what is going on, AJ."

To be continued….