Chapter 44

"Mac, I can't confirm or deny that I was the one sending the emails, but I need to ask a favor of you. I don't know if you are aware that AJ and I have been dating, but I have been trying to find the right time and place to tell him about this ability of mine. I'm asking you to give me just a few more days to find a way to tell him on my own. He's going to Italy this weekend to see his daughter, and that should give me some time to come up with a way to break the news to him."

Patting Miranda's hand, Mac said, "You might be surprised by how he takes it. The Admiral knows about my hunches and has never ridiculed me in anyway about them."

"He knows about your gift?"

"Yes, but I don't know that I would call it a gift. It happens rarely and only when someone I care for deeply is in danger. I'm guessing your ability is a much higher level?"

"I don't know about that, but I do get these feelings regularly. Sometimes several a day and most of the time they aren't about anyone I know personally."

"Like the Ensign Navakolf case? Did you hear that he was caught in the act of raping a cadet last night?"

"Yes, I heard, and yes I'd had a very bad feeling about him."

"I know….your emails were persistent."

Still not openly admitting anything, Miranda said, "I just wish I could have done more to stop it from happening."

"You did everything you could. There was just nothing more we could have done legally to hold him any longer. But we have him this time the Good Samaritan that stopped him and the victim both gave positive ID's on him. He'll go away for a long time. I just wish Cadet Johansson would come out of her coma and ID him too so we can pin that one on him as well."

"Don't give up on that hope, I have as good a feeling about that happening as I have a bad one about AJ's trip this weekend."

"What kind of bad feeling?" Mac asked.

"That's just it, sometimes I get more details than I could ever want and sometimes it's just vague impressions or bad feelings. I don't have any detail on this one, just a feeling that he shouldn't go."

"Could it be because his ex-wife lives close to his daughter and he might see her as well?"

"AJ thought the same thing when I asked him not to go. But it's not jealousy, it's a feeling of danger."

"Will you see him again before he leaves?"

"Yes we have a date tonight. Why?"

"Just that it will give you a chance to tell him about your gift. It would be a perfect way to keep him from going."

"Thank you Mac, I will keep that in mind," Miranda told her as they finished up their meal and headed back to JAG Headquarters. Both of them had a full afternoon ahead of them, and both had a lot on their minds as well.

Later that afternoon when the file for the new Navakolf case came across his desk, AJ knew that Miranda was more involved than he had even begun to imagine. When he saw the name of the man that had come upon the rape and attempted murder happening in the park, AJ knew that somehow Miranda had been instrumental in the rescue. The Good Samaritan that had saved Cadet Lowman's life was none other that Josh Boone, Miranda's son-in-law.

Because of Harm and Mac's involvement in the previous case against Navakolf, AJ asked that they sit second chair to Bud and Sturgis respectively on this new case. Bud would defend, and Sturgis would prosecute the case.

With her son-in-law as a witness in the case, AJ knew that Miranda could not sit the bench in this one, so checking the dockets, placed this new case before Admiral Morris.

He knew that Miranda and he were going to have a long talk that night at dinner, and he intended to get to the bottom of her involvement.

To Be Continued….