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Date Posted: 19:02:43 08/21/13 Wed
Author: Karen Joy (Grateful)
Subject: From Commander to CEO part 22 of ?

I am finally working on the story and have finally updated it. I have a question, should I re-post all the previous chapters or should I send people to fanfiction.net to see the story up to this point? If so it is at http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7370888/1/From-Commander-to-CEO


Chapter 35

The rest of the time he was away from his family went quickly, at least that was what he thought once he'd been home for a few days. The prison doctor did not clear him to fly for two days, as he seemed to have caught Mac's stomach bug.

Gibbs and team had taken care of Palmer and his bunch, and the younger members of the team had personally moved Bradford, Matt O'Hara's former cellmate, to their holding cells at headquarters while arrangements were made for him, it was decided because of his revealing of what was about to occur that Bradford would be released from the rest of his sentence. He would have to perform several hundred hours of community service, a condition that was easily agreed to by the younger man.

Harm had wanted to assist, but Gibbs strongly reminded him that the case against Palmer and associates was strong, and if Harm would just stay back and just assist from a legal point of view, there would be no fall out, but if he 'interfered', and the agent had actually used air quotes when he'd said this, the government's case would be contaminated.

After receiving clearance from the doctor, he did fly to Leesburg, and drove to DC where he met with several officials to wrap up the case against Palmer. He'd eventually have to testify, but his part in the event was now over.

August 2008

Harm had been home from his trip to Kansas and DC for a day, with the time zone playing against them, he'd spent most of the day traveling. Mac's food poisoning episode had apparently disappeared before he arrived home. Lilyana, a newly minted driver ended up getting him from the private airport.

When several at Mac's office had ordered food to be delivered when they were working on a time-critical case, and most of the group had suffered a mild case of food poisoning, she hadn't been immune. However, her case had seemed more severe than the others, and she'd finally gone to the doctor. She realized that she hadn't had her monthly period, and with her medical history she didn't immediately think that she was pregnant, but she'd felt 'off' for a few days before the food poisoning, so it was at least a possibility, The doctor did agree that she'd had food poisoning, and that the reason she'd been affected more than the others was not what she'd eaten but what she and Harm had done a few weeks earlier. Despite the odds against them she was pregnant once again. She'd initially wanted to tell Harm when he got back from his trip to help her uncle's Matt's friend but when she'd looked at the schedule and saw that all of the kids, except Joey, were going to be out for the evening, she decided to wait a few days. With a call to Galina to watch Joey for the evening she made plans to tell her husband of the news.

Deciding to stay in instead of going out for the evening, Harm had grilled chicken and veggies for them to eat, and with their favorite brand of sparkling drink chilling they soon sat down to eat. “You're obviously feeling better,” Harm said as she ate with gusto, for the first time in several days.

“That I am, and one of these days, you are going to tell me your secret ingredient for these veggies” Mac responded. “More kids would eat their veggies if they were prepared this way.”
“Well maybe I just will, one of MacLaren's subsidiaries is a publishing house, they do cookbooks and I understand that one of the Food Channel stars is one of their clients, maybe I'll get hold of them.”

“You should do that, I know I want Joey and the girls to eat healthy, even if I don't always practice what I preach. And since I'm eating for three, I need to watch what I'm eating.” Mac said with a smile.

Harm stopped mid chew when what Mac said registered. “Eating for three.” he replied, slightly stunned.

“The doctor said that as quickly as my urine test turned positive the chances of having a multiple pregnancy is fairly high, even though its early in the pregnancy he wants to confirm that I'm carrying more than a singleton, so I have an ultra-sound on Monday morning. If it is, he's strongly encouraging me to go on limited duty for the duration of the pregnancy, with my age and medical history, I'd be a high risk pregnancy to begin with, add in the factor of more than one in here” she pointed at her still flat stomach” and he wants to be cautious, and I completely agree.”

Harm was stunned, and happy, and worried, and several other emotions. He leaned over and kissed Mac on the mouth. Just then the house phone rang, and as they'd had programed dial tones for various people, they knew they needed to take the call, instead of letting it go to voice mail.

It was Amber, actually it was the physician on duty at West Point, telling them that she'd had an emergency appendectomy and that everything was fine. The cadet would be in the infirmary for a few days and expected to make a full recovery.

Both Harm and Mac breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the prognosis. “She's so far away, and I should have ran up and saw her when I was in DC Harm said.”

“You couldn't have known, Harm, and the doc said she'd do okay. I'll call AJ and see if he'll go up and see her if that makes you feel any better.” Mac soothed her husband. “You're a good father, worrying is one of the things you do no matter what their age is.”

“Thank you for that advice,” He leaned over to give her another kiss, and this time the phone didn't ring.

“You're welcome,” Mac said returning the kiss.

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[> So glad to see you're back. I've missed your stories. -- Debbi, 20:54:43 08/21/13 Wed [1]


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[> So happy to see an update. Love this story. Can't wait for more -- Beth, 22:18:09 08/21/13 Wed [1]


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[> Really glad to see you continuing Karen Joy, will have to either start back at the beginning or re-read last few chaps to bring all characters and plot back into focus, carry on! -- JoyZ, 23:00:07 08/21/13 Wed [1]


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[> sorry i forgot about this story but soon got back in to it a good up-date -- Bev uk, 14:31:59 08/22/13 Thu [1]


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