December 1997
Mac is now five months pregnant and has a nine month old daughter who is permanently active and exhausts both Mac and Harm. She still has crampes every day and is at ease when Harm can ease the pain or when she is with Rose. Harm gets the feeling that Rose is Mac´s best medicine and that the two have a very special bond. Rose gives Mac the strength she needs and also gives her hope and love. He also knew that she would not exsist very much without his stron hand to hold her when she is crying out of pain and fear.
They were a happy family until Sarah´s ex-boyfriend David comes by. He by now has seperated from his girlfriend. Sarah is home alone waiting for Harm and Rose to return from running errands. She lets David in and as soon as they are in the livingroom David says "I want you to leave Harm Sarah. He made you sick." "What in the world makes you think I would leave Harm. I love him and we are expecting our second child. He did not make me sick." Harm and Rose arrive. Mac sees Harm and runs towars him. She takes Rose from him and says. "Thank God your home Harm. David says you made me sick. I know it is not true. So please make sure he leaves. "David I think it is better if you go now and stop bothering Sarah." David leaves and says he would be back. After David left the house Harm pulls Sarah into a hug and tells Sarah that David left Melissa because he still loves her. Harm calls Admiral Chegwidden and tells him what happened and the Admiral sents two people to arrest David under some kind of charges. After that Harm says "Sarah lets get you to bed. You look really exhausted." "OK."
The next day Harm buys bulletproof glas for the windows in the house and two bulletproof doors. He wants Mac to be safe. He walso installs an Alarm-System. He just hopes that David would never come back to hurt Mac or Rose or to even just scare Mac to death.