Never Say Never
Chapter 7
Thursday, December 7, 2000
0830 Local Time
JAG Headquarters
Falls Church, VA
For the next couple of days of the hearings, Mac endured witness after witness that shared the same agenda as Latham. On Thursday, when Mac arrived on the hill Congressman Feltzer asked for her assistance on the committee.
"Roberta brought in her own hired gun William Markey, a civilian weapons analyst. He has debunked or attempted to debunk every weapons system as it came down the pipe." Feltzer told her.
"Would you like me to prepare some questions you can ask him sir?" Mac asked.
"Yes, I would colonel, but I want you to ask them," he replied.
He saw the inquisitive look on Mac's face, and he stepped in to say, "If you ask the questions, there will not be any question that you are rebutting Markey's claims. We need to hear from someone who is on the military's side of the question. With that in mind, your rebuttal will have more weight."
Mac couldn't agree more. Inwardly she thought that this was the perfect way to battle Congresswoman Latham.
When it came time for Markey to testify, Latham gave him softball questions to build up his reputation.
When Markey finished, Latham recognized Feltzer as the next to speak. "Madam Chairwoman because she has done the work for this part of the investigation, I request that Colonel Rabb ask the next set of questions."
"The chair will allow Colonel Rabb to ask the next set of questions." Latham intoned.
Feltzer moved his chair aside so that Mac could sit at the table. "Thank you, Congresswoman." Mac said.
She set about asking Markey very pointed questions.
"Mr. Markey didn't the Bell H-1 Helicopter have many fatal accidents during its initial phase of development?" Mac asked.
"Yes, it did..." Markey said before Mac interrupted him.
"Isn't it now a proven vehicle of troop transport, serving admirably in the Vietnam War and elsewhere?" Mac asked.
"Yes, it is, and…" Markey said, and he was interrupted again.
"And what about the B-1 Bomber, didn't that crash many times before they got that right?" Mac asked.
"Yes, it did colonel." Markey said.
"In fact, isn't that true of any weapons system and aren't those same systems working with very positive results?"
"Yes, that's true colonel." Markey answered subdued.
"Thank you, Mr. Markey. I have no more questions.
Mac knew she blew away the entire foundation of Markey's objections. She looked over to where Latham was sitting. She was satisfied to see that the congresswoman was in fact squirming in her seat.
1200 Local Time
NCIS Forensics Lab
During lunch time she went to the NCIS lab. She had Bud Roberts bring the tape from the data recorder. With the technical representative from the NTSB and Bud looking on NCIS lab technician Abby Sciutto restored the data that was recorded over when Asher flew to Portsmouth. It proved that Asher was honest.
Later that afternoon when it was time for them to testify, Harm and Asher laid out the mishap timeline.
"On the day of the mishap, we were scheduled to take off at 1300. We couldn't take off until 1500. It took us about 1 hour to reach the drop zone. The winds were steady at 20 knots from the west, so we aligned the aircraft into the prevailing winds and set into a hover. We were twenty feet above the swells. We dropped all but two jumpers before the jumpmaster called a halt. He did so because Congressman Feltzer stood up. As we waited for the word to continue, I continued to hover over the aircraft. The sun was setting low at that time. I was unable to judge the height of the aircraft in relation to the waves because I could not see the water due to the glare. A rogue swell struck the aircraft. I immediately pulled up to get away from the water. I was immediately alerted to Mr. Feltzer's injury. I flew immediately to Portsmouth so that the congressman could receive aid. The flight time there was about 45 minutes."
"Are you saying that the military only fights when the sun is right?" Latham asked indignantly.
Harm replied to that. "Congresswoman, throughout history the military has always chosen when to fight based on the weather and the time of day. The D-Day Invasion was delayed many times due to storm activity in the English Channel. So, when we fly an operation with the OSPREY or any other aircraft, we always pick the optimal time to go on a mission. The only one to blame for this mishap is you, Congresswoman Latham as well as Congressman Feltzer. Your arriving 2 hours late and Congressman Feltzer's standing when he wasn't supposed to, were the contributing factors for the cascade of events that made the mishap possible. The OSPREY is a good aircraft. It has proven itself to be a reliable aircraft for what it is designed." Harm intoned.
Seeing that she was trapped, Latham flippantly asked, "Is there anyone else you would like to blame?"
Harm answered, "Yes ma'am, the Critics; who expect hardware to be perfect out of the box; the Media for sensationalism, exaggerating everything to the dimension of tragedy; and Congress for not listening to those who know the aircraft best, pilots, who are telling you they are willing to risk their lives because they believe it's important to the defense of our country."
Harm also saw that Latham was still squirming. As Latham looked away, he caught Mac's eye and winked. Mac winked back at her husband with a satisfied grin plastered to her face.
Later that evening
1830 Local Time
Rabb Apartment
Mac and Harm invited Loren and Sergei over to celebrate the successful ending to their case. Major Asher was exonerated of any blame because of Latham's and Feltzer's derelict actions.
When Harm saw Loren at the door, he went to give her a hug. She said, "Lower altitude cousin." She held her hand and landed a kiss on his cheek. She held up her grocery bag saying, "I got the ice cream, Irish Cream chocolate Cooke & cookies and cream.
Mac got her hug saying, "Oh my favorite. Since I found out I'm pregnant, I've been craving that."
Harm asked, "Did you bring the butter pecan?"
"Right here cousin," Loren said holding up the pint.
"Ah Loren you're the best," Harm said taking the ice cream pints and putting them in the freezer. Just then the doorbell rang again.
Loren went to answer. When she opened the door she squealed, "Sergei!" She wrapped her arms around him and laid a long, deep kiss on him. Sergei returned the kiss with the same enthusiasm, going as far as to dip her. They came up for air, Loren's breasts were heaving. She whispered, "Just wait until we get home."
Sergei whispered back, "I can't wait. Let's have dinner with our brother and sister first."
Mac and Harm looked on with much amusement. Mac said, "They remind me of us azizam."
"Yes, they do Imzadi."
The two couples sat down to eat. Mac made one of her grandmother's traditional Persian dishes, chicken breast with spiced yogurt. She made it in olive oil and had ground cinnamon, turmeric, cumin, clear honey, Greek yogurt lemon zest and lemon juice. She served it on a platter over white rice. Harm put a bottle of black cherry seltzer in front of everyone's setting.
Harm asked, "Sergei, how's the citizenship verification going?"
"Fine, the ICE case worker I'm dealing with told me that everything looks good. She's saying the DNA your mother supplied was a big help. She should have the case wrapped up by the new year."
"That'll be a nice way to celebrate," Loren said.
"Once everything is verified, it'll be easier to join the military."
"What about you joining the Marines to fly helicopters?"
"Well, I don't need flight lessons, but I do need a college degree. My case worker is helping me get my university records from Russia that I can apply toward to my degree. With a few more months, I can achieve my bachelor's degree and join the Marine Corps OCS."
"Oh, my goodness a Rabb in the Marines. How will they survive?" Mac said with a chuckle.
Harm added, "At least we'll be even."
Everyone shared a laugh. They all sat on the couch to watch a movie and enjoy the ice cream.
Later that Evening
Sergei's Loft
North of Union Station
Because Sergei had no real income yet. He didn't own a car. So, he rode home with Loren in her Cabriolet.
When they got into the car Loren asked, "Your place or mine?"
"Mine," Sergei replied.
As they sat, he placed his hand on Loren's thigh. She moved it up higher so that she laid it at the junction of her thighs.
She glanced at him and said, "Just a preview. Wait until we get to your place, and I'll let your hand go further.
"Yes ma'am." Sergei readily replied.
When they got to the loft building Loren and Sergei were clinching and smooching all the way up in the elevator and into the hallway. Loren let Sergei go only long enough for him to unlock and open the door. They were barely in the door when Sergei kicked it closed. They made their way to the couch as they were pealing each other's clothing off. They took their shirts off as they lay down. Loren unbuttoned and unzipped her jeans. She took his hand and placed it down the front and under the waist band of her panties. Loren kept her hand on top of his and guided it down to her silky folds. She pressed his fingers where she wanted them. She said, ooh, right there. Sergei took the hint as he started to give her pleasure. As they kissed, she said against his lips, "All for you darling. Make love with me." She then unzipped his jeans. She started pulling them and his briefs down to set his erection free. She looked on in satisfaction at the size as it sprang free. She grasped it and started stroking it. Without stopping her hand, she pleaded, "I want you inside me, moy lyubimaya."
Sergei recognized her Russian for "my love." He said, "Lorenshka this will be my first time and what about a baby?"
"I have an IUD to prevent getting pregnant. Also, it will be my first time as well. We'll both learn how to love each other. Just lie back, I know what to do."
"If you insist moy lyubimaya." At that he gave himself over to her.
Loren let him go and sat up to straddle his stomach. She reached back and unclasped her bra and set her well-endowed breasts free. She was delighted to see Sergei's eyes darken and his pupils dilate. She scooched back to take his jeans and briefs down his legs. He just managed to toe off his sneakers as Loren pulled his pants and socks off completely. She toed her own sneakers off to completely shed her jeans and panties. She stood for him to admire her beauty.
Sergei sat up and elevatored his eyes up and down her all-natural grade-A feminine form. He took in the lusciousness of her gorgeous 38"-D breasts, the nip of her, 26" waist and her full 36" hips. He whispered, "You are so beautiful."
"All for you, moy lyubimaya."
She went over to the couch and lay with him. She kissed him as their bodies aligned. They both reached to give each other pleasure. Loren was the first to break their embrace as she sat up and shimmied down his legs. She took hold of him and bent her head down to him. She licked at the first drop of pre-cum at the tip. Then she took him fully into her mouth. Sergei held his head back and gasped. He had the wherewithal to say, "This feels like nothing I have ever felt. How do you know how to do that?"
Loren stopped her oral ministrations. She still held onto him to lightly stroke him and said, "Rumspringa. When I was eighteen, I had a few Amish friends in Ohio. They wanted to explore all the, as they say, wicked things in the world. We went to a video store and got some porn tapes. We watched them for hours. I also had a boyfriend and he wanted to try what we saw on the TV. This is as far as we wanted to go. Do you like it?" She kissed his tip to punctuate the question.
"It feels so wonderful, don't stop."
"As you wish," she said just before her mouth engulfed him again. He threw his head back again to enjoy her work.
After a while of giving him fellatio, Loren knew he was approaching his climax as she felt his cock swell and fill her mouth. "Oh, Loren I am cumming!"
With that Sergei jerked his hips up. Loren took a breath and brought her mouth to completely engulf his cock and bring it to the back of her throat. His pubic hair tickled her nose as she clamped her lips closed around his cock. She swirled her tongue around the pulsing object in her mouth as she sucked and swallowed his seed. After he finished pumping, she withdrew her mouth with a pop. She went to lay alongside him, wrapped her arms around his neck and laid a deep kiss on him. She ran her tongue along his teeth, and he opened up to allow her entry. She indulged herself as she explored the hardness of his mouth, enjoying his virginity as his body reacted instantly to her touch.
When they broke their kiss, she said got up, took his hand, and said, "Come with me to the bedroom. I will teach you what I like."
They walked hand-in-hand into the bedroom and turned the bed down. They got onto and met in the middle of the bed. They knelt, embraced, and shared a long kiss. Loren went to lie back and brought Sergei with her. She held him up from her and spread her legs to allow him to kneel in the triangle of her thighs.
Loren took his hand and laid it to her pubis. She manipulated his index finger until it rested on her swollen clitoris. She breathlessly said, "This is the essence of every woman. I will teach you how your mouth can give me pleasure. Give me your other hand. Bend your two fingers up."
As Sergei did that, Loren moved them to penetrate her, she moaned and said, "Press them up. OOH! Th-that's the spot. Put that thumb where your other fingers are. Now press downnnn. Ooh that's it. Just like thaaaat."
At that Loren felt that he got the hang of it and lay back to enjoy his exploration. She took his free hand and brought it to her breast. She had him knead and squeeze one, then the other. She showed him how she wanted him to pinch her nipples.
Without Loren asking, Sergei brought his mouth down on her to engulf her mound. He diddled his tongue on her clit and dove it into her cave. Loren writhed and moaned in the ecstasy of his first time giving her cunnilingual pleasure. As Sergei diligently went about his oral task, Loren writhed under him, combing her fingers through his hair, pressing her sex into his face. She manipulated his head where she wanted it saying, "Yeees, that's it. Just like that."
Eventually Loren had enough and wanted him inside her. She lifted his head to look at her and said, "Come up here."
Sergei obliged and crawled up to lie on top of her. She brought his lips to hers and kissed him deeply. She reached for and got a hold of his cock and started stroking it to tumescence. When she felt it was erect, she guided his cock into her. She cried "OH!" as her maidenhead was ripped asunder. The pain was far outweighed by the fact that she would love Sergei until the end of time as he had finally made her a woman.
She stared up at him as he sank deeper and deeper into her virgin channel, filling her womb with male cock for the first time in her life. She moaned as his hips settled fully into her saddle his cock buried to the hilt inside her. She pumped her hips up for him and started to undulate under him. Sergei got the signal, and his hips began to move. It was like everything Loren had ever imagined. She was filled with pleasure and desire. Their pounding began building in strength as he plunged harder and deeper, pounding her as she gladly submitted blissfully to his power.
Now they were making all the sounds of love. Each of them contributes their voices to the sexual cacophony. As they moved energetically and passionately, their movements were shaking the bed, causing it to hit against the wall. Neither of them cared as they shared in their first time. Loren was just too incoherent to even register anything else past her ecstasy. She was moaning constantly, "OH Sergei, that's it, sweetie, that's it, right there, oh Sergei don't stop."
Sergei listened to her encouragement, repeating every move that brought her pleasure. Soon he threw his head back, his jaw clenching from the exquisite pleasure he was feeling for the first time in his young life, and he started thrusting even harder and added his own encouragement, "Come on Lorenshka that's it, sing for me."
Loren's moans and groans and cries were continuous now, never-ending, one moan continuing in another. He'd never heard a song sweeter, a symphony more pleasing than this.
She wailed, "OOH SERGEIII! I'm so close, SOOO CLOOOOSE. Just a little more bring me all the way home MUY LYUBIMAYA."
Meanwhile he was grunting in unison with her, barely holding back his surrender to what was their first time.
"OH, OH, OOOOOOH HERE I COME, SERGEIII."
Loren's cry turned into a savage, primal scream that tore out of her throat. A scream so high-pitched, loud, and piercing that it almost burst her new lover's eardrums at the same time as she tumbled over the edge into her own oblivion.
Sergei joined her in ecstasy a second later, his triumphant yell echoing inside the bedroom. They both pumped their bodies again and again against the other as they spent themselves.
Sergei collapsed down on top of Loren's limp body. As he went to move out of her, she said, "No stay in me. I want to feel it as long as I can." She moved herself so that she could settle him deeper into her and wrapped her legs around him. He wrapped his arms around her to cradle her head and prop himself above her as she also wrapped her arms around him. She reached one hand to stroke the back of his head as it settled onto her shoulder.
Sergei picked his head up to ask, "So how was your first time Lorenshka?"
"It was wonderful muy lyubimaya. How about you?"
"Just as wonderful. We have to do this more often."
Sergei had another thought and asked, "Tell me about Ohio and Rumspringa and how are you related to Sarahshka."
"Well just so you know, my birth surname is O'Hara. My dad, Michael, is Sarah's mom's brother. Her mom is named Deanne. Their brother is Matthew O'Hara. Daddy was a police officer in Dayton. When I was in eighth grade, he died in a hostage shooting. Sarah and Diane's family came to the funeral. We became close with them after that.
After mourning for an appropriate amount of time my mom married Daddy's partner Tom Singer, whose wife passed away from breast cancer. My sister Meghan stayed with O'Hara to honor Daddy and I took his name because he was so kind to take my mother and us in. I went through high school and the Naval Academy as Loren Singer. I attended the academy the first year after Harm and Diane graduated."
"What about Rumspringa?"
"The Rumspringa time was during spring break in my senior year of high school. I was eighteen since December the year before. My boyfriend at that time and I realized that I couldn't get pregnant going into the academy. So, during the time with our Amish friends and their Rumspringa, we only had non-intercourse sex. My boyfriend broke up with me because I said no to intercourse. He called me a tease and other nasty things. I wasn't interested in any other boys in the academy, after graduation and going through law school. I was celibate and happy to be so. Then I met you and here we are."
"Who is older, you or Meghan?"
"I am. We're twins. But here's the thing, we have different birthdays."
"How is that?"
"I was born ten minutes before midnight; she was born fifteen minutes after midnight."
"Nice story. Do you want to continue our first time?"
"Why yes I do."
Loren crashed her lips onto his and started squeezing her kegel muscles around his cock. She could feel him get harder. She broke the kiss and said, "Hold on. I'm rolling us over."
Sergei held onto her and helped her rollover so that she could sit on top of him. As she settled down onto him, his cocked sank deeper into her. She moaned, "Oh I love how you fill me."
As Loren straddled Sergei, she took his hands and put them to her breasts. She let them go and he started to squeeze, pinch, and knead them just as Loren wanted. She started to undulate on top of him. Sergei enjoyed the sight of her on top of him, her breasts shaking a bouncing in time with her rhythm and his cock going in and out of her. After a while, he was getting close to his climax. He remembered what she said about where her essence was. He pressed his thumb onto her clitoris. Instantly Loren slammed herself down on to him. Her walls tightened around his cock. She threw her head back and yelled, "OH MY GOOOOOD!" as her climax hit her. Sergei wasn't far behind her as he rammed his cock up into her and pumped his seed into her womb.
They lay still connected for a time. Loren was the first to come back to earth as she rolled off him. She groaned as she felt him leave her. She saw some blood on his cock and her groin as the sign of her willingly lost virginity. She smiled as she cuddled into him. Sergei reached and pulled the bedcovers up over them. He snuggled down and brought Loren into his embrace. She brought her head up so that they could share a smooch. Then she rested her head onto his chest and yawned. She said, "I love you Sergei."
Sergei smiled as he replied, "I love you Lorenshka."
At that, the two lovers fell into a deep restful sleep.