Name: Amy
Title: I Remember Love
Rating: G
Spoilers: All stories with Mic and Renee
Disclaimer: They obviously don?t belong to me, or I would have had Harm 
and 
Mac together a long time ago.
Summery A chance meeting at the airport brings back some memories.

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I forgot how noisy airports were. I rubbed my tired eyes with my hands 
and 
sighed again. My flight has been delayed yet again, and I?m growing so 
tired 
of waiting. All I want to do is get the hell out of here and back home. 
My 
wife sits next to me, just as tired as I am, but she doesn?t complain.

That?s one of the things that I loved about her, that she always knows 
when 
to leave things well enough alone. She has her head leaning on my 
shoulder, 
trying to get comfortable for the long wait, and I hear laugh. I look 
in the 
direction she is, and watch as four kids wait impatiently for a plane 
to 
land.

?What?s so funny luv??

?Those kids; they are waiting for their parents and can?t seem to wait 
a 
minute longer. I bet their grandmother is having a hard enough time 
with the 
three older one?s then the little one on her lap.?

?How do you know they are waiting for their parents?? I ask her, 
studying 
the kids more closely.

?They keep saying it over and over again. ?When are mommy and daddy 
going to 
be here?? It is so funny.?

?We?ll have our own family soon enough luv.?

?I know Mic, I just can?t wait,? she said putting her hands on her 
growing 
belly. The best day of my life is when I found out that she was 
pregnant. 
Only seven months from now we were going to be parents.

We both sit there awhile and just watch those kids. The oldest seems to 
be 
no more then ten, with dark hair and the bluest eyes, waits impatiently 
on 
the chair next to her grandmother with his head in a book. The two 
younger 
ones look to be twin boys. Seemingly around seven or eight are fighting 
over 
some toy on the floor. The youngest, maybe four or five sits quietly on 
his 
grandmothers lap watching the people go by.

I don?t know why, but I become fascinated by these four kids. They look 
so 
familiar, but I just couldn?t place it. I glance down at my wife, and 
smile, 
when I notice that she has fallen asleep on my shoulder, I lean back, 
to try 
and make her more comfortable. Coming back to Washington has certainly 
been 
an emotional trip.

I look around and remember that this is the exact same airport that I 
left 
Sarah standing in. I knew I made a mistake leaving her there that 
night. And 
I have spent every night since then regretting it. I have even 
considered 
looking her up, or going to JAG to visit her, but I couldn?t bring 
myself to 
do it.

I knew this trip was an emotional one for her to, but she too has been 
brave 
and now we just can?t wait to go home and leave this place behind once 
and 
for all. But unfortunately we would have to wait another thirty minutes 
for 
the damn plane to be ready.

Ever since I left DC almost fourteen years ago, I couldn?t stop thing 
of the 
woman I left crying in the airport. Then, I though it was the right 
thing to 
do by leaving her, but as the days past I knew I made one of the 
biggest 
mistakes of my life. I knew she loved me, but I knew she couldn?t come 
to 
terms with her feelings for him. And back then I couldn?t deal with it. 
How 
come it was so clear to everyone else but them? Why couldn?t I accept 
it? I 
knew we would have eventually got married, and would probably have a 
few 
kids by now, but life, I know, is just unfair that way.

I turn my attention back to those kids and watch as the twin boys try 
and 
entertain their baby brother who is now crying. I laugh at their 
antics, but 
nothing seems to be working. Poor lad. The older sister just rolls her 
eyes, 
and turns another page in her book. There is something so familiar 
about 
her, and it?s driving me crazy.

I had turned my attention to something else, when I heard those kids 
yell 
out again. There were running towards the terminal, seeing their 
parents. 
The elderly lady slowly gets up, carrying the now calm child with her. 
My 
jaw drops to the floor as I see who the children are running to. It was 
no 
wonder those kids looked so familiar. Their parents were none other 
then 
Harm Rabb and Sarah Mackenzie; my Sarah. The reunion with the kids is 
an 
emotional one for the two. They hug all of the kids senseless, and Harm 
gives the elderly lady a kiss on the cheek, and took the little boy out 
of 
her arms.

Sarah looked as beautiful as ever, I noticed that she had even been 
promoted 
to General. Wait to go Marine. And even Harm had been promoted to 
Admiral. I 
suspected he is probably running JAG now. God help the Navy.

I try and keep still so as not too wake my wife, as I watch the family 
reunion. Harm picks up his daughter and spins her around like an 
airplane, 
as she squeals with laughter. That could have been my daughter. Those 
could 
have been my kids that looked so much like their mother.

Suddenly she wakes and stares opened moth at the family.

?Oh my God,? she whispered.

She grabs my hand and squeezes tightly as Harm and Sarah spot us, and 
walks 
over to us. They approach us unenthusiastically, and with half hearted 
smiles.

?Hello Mic; Renee.? Harm says while taking Sarah?s hand in his.

?Harm, Mac? she says while straightening up in her seat.

Suddenly the twin boys appear at Mac side and start tugging on her 
uniform 
shirt.

?Momma, can we go now??

?Please Momma,? the second boy adds.

She smiles at both of them and caresses the first boys face.

?Yes guys, just give us a minute, huh??

After we watched the boys walk back over to their grandmother, we stood 
their in an awkward silence, until Harm cleared his throat and sighed.

?So what brings you guys to DC??

?Renee had a business deal to close, so we decided to make a weekend of 
it,? 
I explained.

?I didn?t know you guys had gotten together,? Sarah said with a trace 
of 
bitterness in her voice.

?I divorced Cyrus about three and a half years ago. Soon after that I 
saw 
Mic in Australia while doing a movie shoot. We have been married almost 
three years now, and are expecting our first in June.?

?Congratulations,? they both seemed to mumble.

I wanted to ask her how long it took them to finally stop denying their 
feeling?s, but just as I was about to ask, our flight was finally 
called.

?We should get going,? Renee said and picked up her coat.

After some awkward good-byes, we boarded the plane. But I couldn?t get 
Sarah?s face out my head. The love I saw in her eyes when she looked at 
Harm. The love I knew that was always there. I know he would never hurt 
her, 
and that he would Heaven and earth to make her happy, and I know he 
has. I 
don?t know how they got beyond the regulations about fraternization, 
but 
they look really happy, and even worse, really in love.

I watch as Renee relives her own demons from breaking it off with Harm. 
She 
told me when we were still dating, that she knew it was a mistake to 
break 
her relationship off with Harm. But she couldn?t face him. I stare out 
at 
the passing clouds, knowing that we had both lost the two people that 
had 
really meant a lot to us. But I know one thing, that Sarah is happy. 
And 
maybe that is all that really matters.

END