Finding Mom
Danielle email-runner4ever11@yahoo.com
PG-13
Spoilers-well really not any, but it was written
before the season finale, (where Bud got his leg blown
off) so I guess that ep.....none others really.....
Disclaimer-I don't own them...although I really wish i
did-because I would be having lunch with DJE and
CB.....hehehe
Summery-Mac's past comes and haunts her again, but
this time it's not all for the worst.....and Faith
Hill and Tim McGraw aren't mine either...just keep
reading and you'll understand...also, thanks Abby-for
reading this one and telling me it was good and hoped
there was more....if you want more email me (it's up
above)


Sarah MacKenzie's Apartment
Washington D.C.
7:30 PM

Mac was just about to but the top down to the pot on
the back burner when the phone rang. 
"Hello?" Then to make it more complicating to talk on
the phone the doorbell rang-"It's open!" trusting it
was Harm. 
"Yes, is this Lt. Colonel Sarah MacKenzie?" the person
on the other end of the phone line asked. 
"Hi." Harm whispered as he creeped in the door and
took the pot top from her and put it on the steaming
lobster. 
"Yes, this is Sarah MacKenzie." 
"Hello, this is Dr. Fredrick Houston. I practice in
Nashville, Tennessee and I'm your mother's regular
physician. I always hate giving this kind of news,"
the doctor muttered under his breath, "your mother,
Deanne, has became ill, she had a serious case of
pneumonia and she has be asking for you and our
hospital has just been able to track you down. But we,
she would greatly appreciate it." 
"Exactly where is your hospital in Nashville," Mac
asked not really wanting to see her mother, but she
and some time on the books and needed a vacation. 
"If you decide to come see your mother, I will
personally see to it that there is a...person from the
hospital at the airport," the doctor replied not
really answering her question. Harm was in the back of
her picking at the garlic bread she had prepared.
"Stop that," she slapped his hand, he just laughed and
kissed her forehead,"Just tell me when to be there."
The line was quiet for a while, he must be discussing
it with someone. 
"Tomorrow at noon, if that's OK with you," he said
hastily.
"That's fine." She said and hung up the phone. "Well,
my mother is sick....in Nashville." She said and
turned to look at Harm.
"You don't sound to upset-" he was cut off by-
"You know the relationship between me and my mother,
if she even deserves to be called a mother."
"Now, Mac....", he said sarcastically and gave her a
hug. 

Mac realized that Harm had been extra nice to her
lately. Had Sturgis slipped and said something to him.
Remembering that day in her office where she first
said she loved Harm, but not to him, to Sturgis. No,
Sturgis is pretty tight lipped. Maybe.....now,
MacKenzie he's your partner-but....she let her
thoughts trail of to nowhere. Not realizing Harm was
still holding her. 
"The lobster!!!"she exclaimed.
"Whoa hold on I turned it off for ya jarhead." He said
jokingly. 
"Thanks stickboy." she said teasing him. He look into
her eyes. He realized that he couldn't take his eyes
off of her. She was just so beautiful and elegant even
in jeans and a T-shirt. 
"Harm?" Mac said "Wanna eat?"
"Sure!" He said watching her get the plates.
"Hey, will you fix some tea for me and whatever you
want, you can have.......to-" she stopped noticing him
starring at her. She fought off the urge to jump in
his arms and shower him in her kisses.

He wanted her, all of her, her faults, her
extraordinary ability to tell the exact time wherever
she may be, he body, her lips and then he couldn't
fight the urge any longer-"Sarah" startling himself
and her with the use of her first name he continued,
"I...I want to......"
"You wanna...what?" she asked carefully.
"I...wanna..." he hesitated, "eat now." AHHHHHH! he
screamed inside at himself-Rabb next time you get the
chance-kiss her! That's an order!
"OK..." she sounded disappointed. Mac turned away to
fix their plates and Harm grabbed her and didn't say
anything , Mac tried to speak but her words were
muffled, because their lips were pressed together. She
returned the kiss and she melted into his arms. She
never wanted to pull away but she had to. 
"Harm, I have to call the Admiral." She said
regretting.
"Now???" he wined. He knew she had to and released his
grip.
"Thank you," she said and flashed him a melting smile.
Mac picked up the phone and dialed the Admiral's home
phone number.
"Admiral, my mother has fallen ill and I need....."
There was a short pause. "Thank you, sir"
"Did you get leave." Harm asked. He wanted so
desperately to go with her. 
"Do you want me to go with you?" Harm asked very
carefully.
"I don't know if the Admiral could spare both of us
with gone and all." It wasn't a no or a yes. I guess
it up to me and the Admiral if I go or not.

Washington D.C. Airport
Washington D.C.
9:45 AM

"Ms. MacKenzie you can take you seat now." Mac nodded
her head and walked to the plane. There was a seat
next to a man reading a newspaper and she felt a
sensation that made her feel protected. She knew it
was Harm.
"Hey gorgeous!" Mac said teasing him. Harm, or the man
she thought was Harm, put down the newspaper and
looked at her like she was crazy. "Oh, I'm sorry, I
thought you were someone else."
"Apparently" the man said rudely. Mac heard a snicker
from behind her. She turned around quickly. She tried
giving him an icy glare but it was melted by his
hotshot smile. She quickly slid into the seat behind
her and punched him.
"Owww, what was that for?" he said teasing her.
"You....I....I knew you were going to be here, I just
made a mistake...." She paused and read his facial
_expression, "Of course, Harmon Rabb, Jr. wouldn't
know anything about making mistakes." She teased.
"You're right, he wouldn't!" Harm said smiling his
trademark flyboy grin.  She poked him in his side.
"OWWW!  What was that for?" he asked rubbing his side.
"Something you'll do later." Mac responed.

Warner Brothers Recording Studios
Nashville, Tennessee
11:30 am

Three women, Faith Hill, Martina McBride and Riley
Hill-McGraw, sat recording a song Riley had written
for her new album. The mixer on the other side of the
glass buzzed in-
"That was great!" Tim McGraw said, "Let's go-hold on
phone call!" The was a pause. Tim buzzed back in-
"Can y'all come out here for a minute." The three
women took off the headphones and Riley realized that
Martina and Faith were so much alike even though Faith
was only a little older than Martina and way older
than she was. Not that either one of them was old.
Riley was just kind of young, 20, she guessed is
pretty young comparing yourself to you mother. Then
Tim spoke softely and carefully.
"There's a doctor on the phone and he would like to
speak to Riles." Riley swallowed loudly and took the
phone from Tim.
"Yes, this is Riley
Hill-McGraw........Umm..yes........OK hold on
please.....Faith, Martina, Tim can we continue
tomorrow? There's something I have to do." They all
shook their heads 'yes' but Martina was the first to
answer-
"Sure, it sounds important and remember you can always
call." She winked, smiled and left. 
"Dr. Houston, I'm back and that's fine." Riley
replied. She hit the off button. Her parents shot out
questions such as- "Who was that?" "What did they
want?" "Is something wrong?" "How can I help?"

Riley calmly answered, "That was Dr. Fredrick Houston,
he works at the local hospital and he has a patient
that would like to see me," she swallowed loudly and
continued, "the patient is on their death bed and
isn't contagious," then slowly," may I go?" Faith and
Tim looked at each other and in unison-
"Yes."
"Thank you" she said and grabbed her car keys and
left. Riley was confused and was really nervous. She
had gone distances for fans, but she'd never gone to a
hospital before.

In the Air Over Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee
11:45

"This is your captain speaking, we will be landing at
the airport soon, so please fasten your seat belt and
securer all loose items." Then the flight attendant
came over the loud speaker.
"Lt. Colonel Sarah MacKenzie please listen up," Mac
sat up in her seat,"When we land and you get off the
plane look for a man with a, "she started laughing," a
big, funny, bald man with a sign that says 'your
name.'" The whole plane burst into laughter. Harm
looked at Mac and kissed her forehead.

Nashville Airport-Baggage Claim
Nashville, Tennessee
12:03 PM (According to Mac)

"Well, where's the big, funny, bald man?" Mac looked
back at Harm as she picked up her bags.
"Here I am-Sarah MacKenzie?" he asked, she started
laughing when she saw his sign-it said 'Your Name'
like the flight attendant said it would.
"Yes, that's me and this is my partner-Lt. Commander
Harmon Rabb Jr.-"
"Or Harm for short." Harm finished her sentence.
"Well, let's get you over to the hospital." The funny
man said. "I'm Dr. Lieman." he walked them to his car
and they sat in the back seat. The radio was playing a
country station and Mac figured almost everybody in
Nashville listens to country.
"Dr. Lieman," Harm started,"What exactly is wrong with
Deanne?"
"I don't know, I'm not assigned to her case." Dr.
Lieman replied briefly. When they arrived at the
hospital the doctor took them up to the third floor
and to the nurses station and they asked what room
Mac's mother was in and just as they were walking off,
Harm turned around and saw a young girl walk quickly
up and ask for the same room.
"Are you family?" One of the nurse's asked her, just
as the had Mac and him before. The woman answered-
"No, but-" the nurse cut her off. Then a doctor walked
up to the nurse's station and looked at the young
woman. Then he did a double take-
"Riley Hill-McGraw?" the doctor asked the young woman.
"Yes, that's me," sounding frustrated she continued, "
Ms. Deanne MacKenzie requested me to see her." Then
Mac had started listening. 
"Excuse me, how do you know my mother?" Mac asked a
little curious.
"I don't know her, ma'am" Riley said looking at her
with respect. Riley felt a home with this woman, even
though she didn't know her name. Little did she know,
Mac felt an ease when she called her ma'am and she
felt like she knew her. Even though she only new her
first name-correction, marine-first and last name. 
"Are you going down there now?" Mac asked.
"Ummm....yeah," she turned to the doctor and the
nurse," Is that OK?" The doctor smiled and started to
introduce himself-
"I'm Dr. Fredrick Houston, I spoke with both of you on
the phone."
"Doctor, I hope you don't mind I brought my
partner-Lt. Commander Harmon Rabb Jr. or Harm for
short." Mac introduce her "partner."
"Name sure roles off your tongue" the nurse said.
Riley snickered, she tried to hide, she failed. They
looked at her and all busted out laughing.
"Let's go to Deanne's room." Dr. Houston said still
giggling. Riley, Harm, and Mac walked down the hall
with the doctor to room 387.
"We're a 44 minute late." Riley said. Mac and Harm
turned around and looked at her wrist-no watch. At he
same time Harm and Mac's jaws dropped!!!!
"How did you do that?" The doctor asked. 
"It's my secert..." she let him wonder.
"Riley, whoa....." Mac was speechless for the first
time ever. Harm helped her loss of language.
"Did you know that Mac, Sarah can also do that time
thing?" They had arrived at Room 387.
"Wow, what a coincidence," she said to Harm, and to
Mac, "You're the only person I know that can do that.
But I'm still not sure you can do it. " She said
suspiciously.
"Time on three...ready" Mac said. Three seconds later.
"12:51:06 Eastern Standard Time" The said in unison.
"Hold on...you didn't even count-"The doctor said.
"It's in my head-" Riles said
"and mine." Mac continued. They went into the room.
Deanne was lying there awake.
"I thought I heard voices." Deanne's first words to
her daughter. "Sarah, I've missed you and you to
Riley." Deanne said confusing everyone in the room.
"Mom, what are you talking about?" Mac asked, speaking
for everyone.
"Let me explain-take a seat please," she said taking
and deep breath and motioning to the three chairs in
the room.
"I'll leave you to yourselves." Dr. Houston said. Mac
took a seat and Riley did the same. Harm just stood
there feeling out of place.
"Sarah, I left you when you were 13 and I've regretted
that ever since. We talked about that when Joel died.
But there was something I didn't tell you when we
talked. I traveled for a while and you know that. But
the thing that I didn't tell you was that I got
remarried and he was in the Marines, too. He was
killed in Desert Storm, but we had a child-" she was
cut off by Riley as she stood up-
"I don't mean to be rude, but do you want me to sing
for you or..."she let her sentence trail off.
"Please, sit down and listen," Riley sat down and
smiled, "we had a child and.........," she paused and
a tear ran down her cheek and Mac took a deep breath.
Mac reached over and wiped it off. As she was, Deanne
looked Mac in her eyes then quickly looked at Riley.
Riley and Mac gasped, she was speechless, when she
tried to talk she just stumbled over her words-
"Momma," Mac started crying. Harm ran over to her and
took her hand. "Momma is she....?" She didn't finish,
Deanne's head nodded right before her eyes closed and
she took her last breath. Riley looked at the lifeless
body and hit the nurse call button, then broke down
and cried. Mac looked over at her she looked so alone,
through her tears she reached out her hand and smiled-
"My sister..." Riley took her hand and the nurse that
had questioned them and Dr. Houston came in.
"She's gone," he said taking her vital signs.
"They know," Harm said, "we know."
"I have to pronounce her dead-time?" He replied.
"1:17:24," Riley and Mac said in together. "Now I know
why we both can keep up with time so well." Riley
said.
"Harm, can you get me a...." she didn't finish, he was
already out of the door. The doctors left wheeling
their Mom out of Room 387. Mac and Riley stood up as
they went by them. 
"Can we talk?" Riley asked, "We can go to my house."
Riley said as they were walking out of the door. Harm
was coming back with three sodas. Mac and Riley took
one each and Harm walked with them silently. As they
walked by the nurse's station, a nurse asked them what
to do with her body.
"Should we sent it to a crematory or a morgue?  She
didn't have it specific in her will..." Riley and Mac
looked at each other and said at the same time
different things.
"Cremate her." Mac said.
"Bury her." Riley said. They looked at each other and
then Mac said-
"I don't have enough money to pay for a funeral." 
"I can pay for it." Riley offered.
"You don't know her that well and I would want to-"
"She's my mom and I have lots of money-I want to use
if for something good and this is it." 
"OK" Mac excepted. Harm's jaw dropped, she just beat
Mac with no effort at all. Stop it Rabb-she's
mourning.
"Sent her to the county morgue." Her voice shook. Harm
looked at her and they embraced. Riley could see the
sparks between them. Just then as Riley was passing
that thought through her head Tim and Faith walked up
behind her. 
"What happened?" Faith asked holding Riles's chin then
she saw the tears and gave her a hug. "Oh, honey..."
Tim rubbed her back.
"I love you." he sang. Riley and Sarah stood in their
loved one's arms and sobbed. Riley finally looked into
Faith's eyes and said-
"She....she...she was my mother." Then she started
crying all over again. She looked over at Mac. Mac
felt someone looking at her and she let go of Harm. 
"Riley..."Mac tried to start but she was to weak. They
embraced for the first time as sisters. Tim and Faith
suddenly understood. They were sisters, she had found
her real family. Her heart beats differently now,
Faith thought.