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| Harriet was crying by the time everyone arrived. "What is it, honey?" Bud asked, rushing to her side. "I love you!" Bud smiled and kissed her. "I love you too, Harriet." She wiped her tears away. "I'm sorry for the way my mother treated you. I told her that if she couldn't accept you then she wouldn't be accepted in our home." "But, Harriet, what about AJ? He has a right to know his grandmother." She shook her head. "Not at the cost of his father. I love my mother, I always will, but she's gone too far." Bud sighed. "If that's how you want it, then all right." "Where is AJ?" "We dropped him off with his namesake," Mac replied with a grin. Harm felt as though he were in a tunnel while everyone else was on the outside. His head was really pounding now. *Damn, Bud must have had a lot of pent up anger inside of him.* "Commander, are you all right?" Mac caught him as he became dizzy. "Easy there, Flyboy," she said, helping him to a chair. Bud's eyes widened when he realized what was going on. "Oh, shit!" "Bud!" Harriet exclaimed. He hardly ever cursed. "I'm sorry, Commander! I didn't mean it!" "It's ok, Bud," Harm replied. "I'm just a little dizzy, nothing for you to worry about." Mac rolled her eyes at Harm and left the room to find a doctor. "What happened?" Harriet asked. "I-I got a little jealous of Commander Rabb after I spoke with your Mom and I kind of took it out on him." "I just wasn't prepared for it," Harm replied with a shrug. "He's got quite a punch." Mac arrived a few minutes later with a doctor in tow. "Harm, this is Doctor Meyers." "What do you feel, Mr. Rabb," the Doctor asked, checking his pupils. "A little dizzy and my head is pounding." "It was bleeding earlier as well," Mac said. Bud seemed to have become paler by the minute. He felt absolutely horrible that this had happened. He looked nervously at Harriet. She took his hand in hers and pulled him closer. "He's not angry with you, Bud. He understands. Don't worry so much about it." "You have a slight concussion, nothing too serious. I recommend you go home and get some rest. No excitement!" Harm nodded, but immediately regretted it. "Lets get you home," Mac said, helping him up. "Thank you, Doctor Meyers." "Anytime." After saying good bye to Bud and Harriet, Harm and Mac followed the doctor out. Harriet glanced over at her husband. He was quietly standing beside her. "Bud, please stop that!" she exclaimed. "Why won't you just realize that you are worth as much as the Commander Rabbs of this world!" Bud smiled. "Harriet, you are so beautiful. And you're right. You love me, my son loves me. I don't need to be worried about anything else because I know you'll both be there for me. Thank you." "Finally," she said, smiling back at him. "Now how about asking the doctor when I can get out of here?" |
