Chapter 120

When the flowers arrived, Chloe took the delivery and walked into Mac's bedroom. "Mac, wake up, there was a delivery for you."

Mac opened her eyes to a sea of white roses. There were dozens! They had to be from AJ. No one else would send her something like this, not even Webb…and no one else, but Harriett and Chloe knew she wasn't still in McLean. She took the card and read it: 'To my beloved Sarah, I love you more than you can know. Forgive me for hurting you. Please, come back home to me. Forever yours, AJ'. It was so beautiful! If only it were true!

The knock at the door forced her to get out of bed, and Chloe saw her pocket the card that came with the flowers as Mac told her, "Throw the flowers in the trash." At the door, there were two deliverymen from Toys R Us, one asked her to sign for the items as the other man placed them in her living room. "What is all this stuff?" she asked.

He handed her an itemized list, and going over it Mac realized that it was all baby things for Angela. AJ's name was on the receipt. Signing for it, Mac headed for the phone as soon as the men were gone. As Chloe looked on, she placed a call to Western Union, and had a money order billed to her credit card for the exact amount of the things he had sent her. It would be delivered to Admiral AJ Chegwidden at JAG Headquarters within the hour, she was told.

Tuesday, May 25, 2004

1645 EST

JAG Headquarters

Falls Church, Virginia

When the Western Union man stopped at Harriett's desk asking for Admiral Chegwidden, Harriett knew there was trouble brewing. She directed him to PO Coates, who buzzed the Admiral.

"What is it, Coates?"

"Sir, there is a delivery here from Western Union."

"What? Send him in." AJ came out from behind his desk to meet the man at the door, while Commander Rabb, who had been in the office for a meeting with the Admiral, looked on.

"Sir, if you will sign here," the deliveryman said.

"Who is this from?" AJ asked.

"It is a money order, from," he consulted his notes, "Sarah Mackenzie."

AJ signed for it, determined to return the money to her as soon as he could get away from the office that night. He had a right to provide for Angel and Mac needed to accept that. His thoughts were interrupted by Harm asking, "Is there something wrong, Sir?"

"No. Let's get back to the Jeffery's case, how is it progressing?" AJ sat behind his desk again. They talked about the case for a few minutes and then the Admiral dismissed Harm.

Once he was back in his own office, Harm picked up his phone and dialed the Admiral's house in McLean. Getting the answering machine he hung up and tried Mac's apartment, where Chloe answered the phone. "Chloe?" he asked.

"Yeah," she answered.

"Is Mac there?"

"She's in the shower."

"Oh, how is she?"

"If you were any kind of a friend, you would already know that!" Chloe snapped.

"I'm on my way over now!" he snapped back and hung up.

Chloe wondered how Mac would react to that!

Mac felt a bit more human once she got out of the shower and was even able to smile when she saw Chloe lying on the floor with Angel playing with her plastic ring of keys with the baby. "What would you say to pizza for dinner?" Mac asked.

"I'd say, 'how soon can it be here?'" Chloe smirked. Mac grinned at her and picked up the phone to call in the order. Twenty minutes later when there was a knock on the door, Mac thought that her favorite delivery place had gotten a lot faster, and went to the door to find Harm standing there.

"Hey, Ninja-girl!" he smiled at her.

"Harm, what are you doing here?"

"Well, I heard you got your memory back, and had moved back home, so, I thought I'd drop by and see what's up."

To be continued….