"Look What We Made" Author: Hugo "Animal" Chikamori E-mail: hchikamori@yahoo.com Rating: PG-13 Classification: Harm/Mac R, Animal/Meg R Spoilers: None Summary: Meg and Mac are having a WHAT???????? Disclaimers: The characters Harm Rabb, Jr., Sarah Mackenzie, AJ Chegwidden, et al. belong in concept if not name) to CBS/ Bellisarius. No profit is being made from this story, nor is any infringement intended. Lee Greenwood's song "Look What We Made (When We Made Love)" is presented and is copyrighted to Mr. Greenwood himself. Just borrowed for some romantic nuances REQUEST: I WANT FEEDBACK!!!!!!! NOW!!!!!!! -cough-cough, ahem...please? Thank you? -------------------------------------------------------------- (6 months previous) MEG AND ANIMAL'S HOME VIRGINIA BEACH, VA 1945 EST "You're what?" Animal gaped. He knew that Meg had been sick in the mornings for about three months now, but she had thought that it had been a case of the flu that had been going around for a while. He had finally had to force her to go see a doctor. "Well, the doctor told me that I had to go for a few routine blood tests, and that's where they found out that we're going to have a family." Meg's eyes were blurry with tears of joy as she threw her arms around her husband who was still blink- ing in confusion. "You're going to be a daddy..." Just then the phone rang. Animal picked it up. It was Mac and Harm, who had just been married a couple of months earlier. When he had listened to the message, he said, grinning from ear to ear..."Sure...steal our thunder, why don't you? Haha... I'm happy for you. That's just great...Meg just told me some great news too..." The shrill joyous voice on the other end of the line told him that both Harm and Mac were overjoyed for them too. "What?" Meg asked. "What's going on over there?" she asked. "Mac's pregnant too." "Oh my God..." Meg held her left hand to her mouth..." Oh my god, that is so great. Harm, a daddy? Oh, that is just too funny." FAST FORWARD 6 MONTHS NAS OCEANA VIRGINIA BEACH, VA 1430 EST Animal picked up the phone from his desk. Meg was at home, since being pregnant, she had to take a 9 month leave of absence from her post for maternity leave. It was either that or resign her commission. She had worked too hard to become a Navy officer and she did not want to resign. Meg was due any day now and the phone had been set to ring in his office the second the yeoman saw on the call-display pad what number was ringing in. " Hi...Commander Chikamori's office..." Animal said plea- santly into the phone. " DAMNIT!!!!...can you can the...ungh...greeting...just get home, damn quick...I think my water broke." was Meg's slightly panicked voice on the other end. Animal slammed down the receiver really quickly and he had never made such an expeditious exit from that office. Metalman had just come in for his afternoon hop and his car keys were still in his hand. Animal snagged Metalman's car keys on his way out. "Thanks..." was all he said as he exited the door. "Hey?" Metalman said as he looked at his bare hand."Where's my car keys...I thought I had them in my hand just a second ago...?" The Petty Officer said."Baby..." "Oh..." Was Metalman's brief response as he nodded in compre- hension. "I'm gonna charge him $50.00 rental for that..." Speeding down the freeway back home, he made it in breakneck time, and screeched to a halt in front of his home. The ambulance was there, as Meg was hauled out in a stretcher. " What's going on?" Animal yelled out. " We're taking her to the hospital. You can ride with us or follow us by your vehicle. We're taking her to Mercy Hospital's maternity ward." Meg cried out " Where's my husband?!!!" Animal replied," I'm right here...I'm gonna go with her..." He said as he got into the ambulance beside her." Meg grasped his hand, hard. Her grip just about nearly dislocated a few bones in his hand. She was definitely in pain. The ambulance pulled out with sirens on. The paramedics gave her a few breaths of oxygen for her since she seemed to be hyperventilating from the stress. " Meg, baby, it's alright..." " Oh, geez, the baby's kicking...Ow!!!" Meg groaned as she gave Animal's hand another intense squeeze. Animal nearly bit his tongue. " Ow-chihuahua...Did I ever tell you that you must work your hand muscles really well?" he quipped. " Oh, shut up...I'm in pain...Jeeze, that's the last time I going to have sex with you, goddamnit..." she moaned. " God, this kid's gonna become a soccer player or something!!!" MAC'S OFFICE JAG HEADQUARTERS FALLS CHURCH, VA 1430 EST (SAME DAY) "Oh, god...My uniform's ruined..." Mac saw the sopping wet skirt that she was wearing. "Oh no...HARM!!!!" "What..." Harm rushed into the office. "I think the baby's coming..." "Oh...no..." Vice Admiral AJ Chegwidden called out to Harriet,"Harriet, call the ambulance...Where's the nearest hospital." "Mercy." Bud volunteered. "Well...get on it..." VADM Chegwidden growled as he told Mac to lie down. Harm was just about in pieces, he was so worried,"It's gonna be alright...Mac, It's gonna be alright..." "I know it's going to be alright...damnit...It's your kid ...pull yourself together..." Mac snapped."You're making me worried and I've got enough to worry about as is." When the medics arrived they had her in a stretcher and on the way to Mercy Hospital. THE AMBULANCE The ambulance screeched to a halt in front of the Emergency doors. The paramedics removed the stretcher from the ambulance and proceeded at breakneck speed to the delivery room. Animal was cautioned to wear a surgical outfit, The family doctor was in there with Meg. Dr. Diane Millar Ph.D, obstetrics, Mercy Hospital was a great physician. She had coached Meg through the birthing process. When Animal had entered the delivery room dressed in hospital greens, he saw Dr. Millar coax- ing Meg to breathe and push. " Alright, Meg, I need you to push." A nurse came into the room. "We have another arrival, coming very soon. It's another military family." Dr. Millar nodded. The doors opened as Mac was brought into the room. "Small world..." Mac groaned, as she looked over at Meg. "Yeah..." Meg replied, as they both grinned. "You too, huh?" "Yep..." "I'm considering getting Animal fixed." Mac laughed then groaned...just as she felt another contraction ...Harm hustled into the delivery room, in hospital greens."Gee...Hi Meg..." Animal came in and saw both Meg and Mac and Harm in there al- ready,"What is this? A reunion?" "Animal, Mac's water broke about half an hour ago..." Harm replied. "Hugo, Honey, you here..." Meg groaned...as she tried to push the little squirt out. "Aargh!!!" her right hand flailed out to reach for her husband. She grasped his hand and squeezed. Animal thought the circulation in his hand was about to cut out. "So...is...it...a ...he...or a she?!!!" Meg gasped as a twinge of pain shot up her spine. "Too far in to tell yet, but he's coming out. He doesn't want to, but he's comin'" Dr. Millar replied smiling at Meg. Animal winced as Meg squeezed down on his hand again. Harm was busy with his wife..."C'mon, Sarah, you can do it." "Will you shut up...please?" Mac growled then bit off a groan as the infant kicked in her stomach. Mac's obstetrician, Dr. Eve Lambert grinned as she looked over at Mac. "C'mon, Mac...push..." "He's stubborn...when he gets out I'm sending him to military school. This kid...OUCH...needs some...DAMNIT!!!...DISCIPLINE!!!!!" Mac yelled. "I think it's a little too early for military school." Harm grinned at Mac, "It's never too early for MILITARY SCHOOL!!!! If this kid is anything like you are...We should have trained him from the time he was developing in the womb...OUCH!!!!" Mac growled at Harm. ' Thank god, I don't have to write with this hand...' Animal thought as his hand was starting to become numb from the pressure that Meg was applying to it. The EKG meter was reading a good strong heartbeat on both the mother and the baby. " Oh, god, " Meg groaned as she pushed. " Push...baby...push..." Animal coaxed. " Shit...I'm trying...Damnit..." Meg snarled. She wasn't in a good mood with this pain. Animal winced " Sorry, honey..." "Maybe...I...should...get you neutered." Meg gasped out. Dr. Millar laughed and Animal crossed his legs protectively. Mac was having a rough time of it as well. The fact that another birth was taking place in the same room was difficult. Harm was rubbing his hand, trying to get the circulation back into it. Mac thought the only good thing to come out of this was that watching Animal in pain as Meg squeezed his hand was amusing. It also gave her ideas on what to do to Harm's hand. "How ya doing..." Harm asked Animal. Despite his jocular tone, they all knew how stressed out both husbands were. "I'm just hoping that I get my circulation coming back in my left hand. I think it's starting to turn a very interesting shade of mauve..." Animal quipped..."YEOWCH!!!" he yelled as Meg squeezed his hand again. "Was that a contraction?" he asked Meg. Meg surrepticiously winked at Mac,"I'll never tell..." Mac grinned back, then squeezed Harm's hand hard...as Harm was laughing at Animal. "OUCH!!!!" was Harm's response. After about an hour of coaxing the baby to come out. Dr. Millar said. " OK, I think we've got a head coming out. Oh, and good news, the body's attached..." She grinned. " Come on, laugh, we've been too serious lately..." Meg laughed weakly. " How much more shoving do I have to do? Were you as tough, honey, on your mom?" She looked over weakly at her husband, her hair damp from sweat as she exerted strength on her muscles to try and force the baby out. " I don't know..." Animal said..." but the last time they told me about it, they said, I was so reluctant to come out, they had to cut me out." " Takes after you...then..." She gasped. She pushed hard to push the baby out. " Yeah, I guess so..." Animal said with a sour expression. " Thanks a lot, honey..." he muttered acerbically. Mac was doing better, the kid was squalling as it stuck it's head out. It was a burbling cry as it still had fluid in it's mouth. It instantly shut up as a suction tube was stuck in its mouth to get the fluid out of its mouth, but started up again as the tube was removed. "We've got its head...we'll be able to see if it's a she or a he real soon..." Dr. Lambert said as she grinned at Dr. Millar..."So how are you doing, Diane?" "It's being stubborn." "Takes after my husband..." grunted Meg who was still pushing. Animal wisely kept his mouth shut and saved his hand from another painful squeeze. "Is it out yet?!!!!" yelled Mac as she glared at Dr. Lambert. "I'm getting tired..." "I thought Marines don't get tired..." Harm didn't keep his mouth shut...and nearly screamed when Mac neatly caused a few bones to pop out of joint in his left hand. Meg quipped as she gasped..."See what I mean, Harm...you don't joke with a woman in labor." "I'll remember that..." Harm said sighing...as he looked into Mac's self-satisfied face. He'd have to reset those bones back in their joints after Mac had given birth. Meg beat Mac by half an hour on giving birth. The baby's head was out and it started bawling. "Honey..." Meg's eyes teared up and she sobbed out half in pain and half in joy..." Is it?" " Yeah...hey, ensign..." Animal griped at the kid, " Shut your mouth and come on out of there. You're lally-gaggling too damn long and your mama's getting tired!!! Now move it!!! Ensign..." The baby came out inch by inch and finally, with one heaving push, the little tyke was in Dr. Millar's surgically clothed arms. It wailed it's protest. " Congratulations, Commander and Mrs. Chikamori, you have a baby boy. So what are you going to name him." " Matthew..." Meg said. "We're going to name him Matthew." she looked up at Animal,"After Mac's uncle..." " Matthew Todd Tatsuo Chikamori..." Animal said with a grin on his face. " My sons and daughters will have a Japanese middlename. Meg grinned at him as she weakly kissed him. Mac looked over at Meg with pleased surprise showing on her face..."Thanks..." "Don't mention it." Animal replied..."That way you can name yours after Harmon Rabb Sr." Harm looked over at Animal with an insulted look,"Why not after me?" "Because...I think your father should be remembered." Meg said. "And besides you already carry his name..." Mac was still pushing..."If I knew childbirth was so difficult, I would have told you to get your thing cut." she grumbled to Harm, who winced. Dr. Lambert said,"It's almost out...c'mon a few more pushes. His shoulders and chest are out..." "AAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!" Mac grunted..."Jeeze...next kid's gonna be a ceasarean section...That way he comes out period...none of this sight- seeing as he's coming out..." "Girls usually come out easier..." Dr. Lambert offered. Mac glared at her."So I've heard..." Dr. Lambert shrugged her shoulders. Harm this time wisely decided not to comment saving the circu- lation in his hand from being cut off. " I'm looking forward already to our next kid..." Animal grinned at his sweaty but beautiful wife. "Wanna get a head start on it when you get back home after this?" Meg gave him a look that would have killed him if it were lethal. " Hey!!! Who says...you're going to get sex after this...if the next bunch are as painful as this last one was...I think I might have to do the Lorena Bobbit-chop on you." she murmurred as she kissed his lips. " Um huh? You're a mommy now, you shouldn't be thinking such violent thoughts..." Animal teased her. Meg looked grouchily at him. Dr. Millar had been cleaning the baby off. All the blood and the uterial fluid, that came with childbirth. While Meg and Animal had been giving each other loving looks, Dr. Millar cut the umbilical cord and tied it off. Swabbing it with some ointment to promote heal- ing, she took the squalling baby over to the scale to weigh the baby. By this time, Mac had also ejected a now squalling Harmon Rabb III. Dr. Lambert also repeated the actions that Dr. Millar did on the Chikamoris' child and took the baby over to the scale to be weighed. " Ah, he's a big one..." Dr. Millar responded looking at the scale. " He's 7 pounds 8 ounces." " Yowza...what've you been feeding him?" Animal looked over at Meg who gave him another sour look. Meg muttered," I wonder who's going to be getting cold dinner and sleeping on the couch when I get home from the hospital. Hmmm?" Dr. Millar looked at Meg," Do you want to hold Matthew?" Animal looked over at Meg to see her brimming eyes take a won- derfully maternal gleam as she whispered," Yes...I would..." The baby cooed as he reached out for his mother. Animal grinned as he whispered," I can't believe it..." " Well, Commander. I would say that this is one lucky little tyke, considering that his father is a US Naval officer..." Dr. Millar responded giving him a good once-over with her eyes. " Matthew's mother is a naval officer too." Animal reminded her, looking over at his wife with their first-born. 'My wife...' he thought, the words sounding over and over in his mind as he watched as Meg naturally opened the buttons on her maternal shirt, exposed one of her breasts and letting the baby feed. The gift of a child was a won- drous thing. 'my wife...a mother...my wife and my son...' he thought as he watched Meg look lovingly at her son as she let him nurse. Dr. Lambert told the weight to Harm and Mac as they watched Meg, nurse her newborn. "Harm III is 8 pounds 2 ounces." "Oh my goodness..." Harm said."He's big..." "Think he'll grow to 6'4" like his father?" Mac asked tenderly of her husband. The doctor gave Harm III over to his mother, who gently cradled him. He happily played with his mother's damp hair. Mac had a motherly look to her eyes as she gently took her son's little fingers and watched her fingers get squeezed by her son's hands. Harm just grinned. 'Both Animal's child and mine are born just a half an hour apart and in the same room too. Is this a coincidence or what?' He watched Meg nurse...tenderly letting her son feed while Animal had this pie-eyed grin on his face as he looked over at Harm and Harm couldn't resist giving Animal a thumbs-up. This was better than scripted. "You always said... You never needed anyone else but me, Now something's come along To change your way about all that love should be? And I don't even mind, the way he takes up all your time, Even think it's kind of sweet that he reminds you of me, And it brings a tear to my eye, and a smile to my face... Cause I've never felt so much love as when you hold him and say..." " So, how is it like to be a father..." Animal was asked by Dr. Millar who gave him a conspiratorial wink. " Hmmm, pretty good..." He grinned, as he leaned over Meg and gave her a kiss. Matthew reached out his little newborn's hands and grasped for his father's face. Animal chuckled as a little hand brush- ed across his nose. Matthew yawned and stretched his little arms and gave a satisfied coo, and went to sleep, burbling happily. Meg said weakly..." God, what I would give for a shower and a rest." Dr. Millar grinned at Meg. "Same here too..." Mac chorused..."And our husbands can go deal with the viewing gallery and gloat." Both Animal and Harm looked insulted. Dr. Millar said," Well, Mrs. Chikamori, Mrs. Rabb. we can deal with that. But just let me put these little tags on your sons." She put a little bracelet with the time of birth and weight, name and name of parents as well as the hospital's name and wrapped it around little Matt's and Harm's wrists. "Would you like to hold him a little more or shall I take him to the nursery?" " I want to hold him a little more..." Meg said as she grinned happily at Animal who was the picture of a proud father. " Little Matthew Todd Tatsuo Chikamori...I like that name." Mac also gathered her son in her arms again. "Thank you, Harm." she said looking up at her husband with a loving look. "Thank you, Sarah, darling." Harm said as he kissed Mac's lips. "Oh, baby, look what we made, when we made love, All by ourselves, with some help from above. In the middle of the night, we really did somethin' right... Oh, look what we made...when we made love..." " Our son..." Animal repeated savoring the way that the endear- ment rolled off his lips. Meg was drenched in sweat and looked rather weak, as she cuddled Matt who had rolled over, burying his little face in Meg's breast, reaching out both tiny hands for his mother. Animal, normally stoic, teared up at this, wiping his eyes. Meg looked at him, her eyes brimming as well as the two of them laughed and cried at the same time at the joy that had come into both their lives. Harm and Mac joined in as the four of them looked at their respective sons in their wives' arms. Mac and Harm had joyful tears in their eyes as well. "From the first time we met, I knew I'd always... Give my love to you. And the love that you gave me...(in turn) Made all my dreams come true, And this new dream that we share, Has your eyes, my hair, So healthy, and strong, With a mind of his own... And I thank the Lord every day, For our brand new family, And to think it all started... With just you and me..." The two babies had been taken to the nursery and the two women had been taken to shower. Animal grinned at Harm. "I just can't believe that it would happen like this...huh?" "I would have said that those two had it scripted right from the start?" Harm said,"But I can't believe that Mac and I now have a family." "You too, huh?" Animal said,"Matt is such a cute little kid. And Harmon III is terrific. Geez, we're both fathers now. Scary. Well, I guess we have to go out and greet our friends." Animal indicated as the two now showered women were now wheeled in, in wheelchairs. Animal and Harm told their wives that they would be back shortly and went out to greet their friends. "So, what's the verdict, you two?" The Vice-Admiral asked as he looked over at both Harm and Animal. He looked over at Animal as he asked,"So, how is Lieutenant Commander Meg Austin-Chikamori?" as he grinned. Meg had been recently promoted. And Animal was in line for his Captain's eagles. "Boys." Animal grinned."When Meg is strong enough, we'll bring her along with our son, Matthew over to the JAG Headquarters." "Great." The admiral replied. "Harm...how's Mac?" "She's great...We named our son Harmon Rabb III after my father." Harriet and Bud grinned, as Harriet had one hand on her child to keep her child from scurrying away and getting into trouble. Metalman was there. "Congratulations, Animal...Give my regards to Meg." "Thanks..." Animal reached out to shake his hand. Metalman shook it and still kept his hand out. Animal looked quizzical. Metalman gave him his usual familiar annoying grin. "My keys?" Animal slapped his own forehead. "Oh...that" Too weak to yet greet their visitors, both Meg and Mac had been transferred back into their recovery beds of which new fresh sheets had been placed when Harm and Animal both returned. Animal looked at the glow in Meg's face as she looked over at him and smiled. Animal leaned over and gave her a tender kiss, deeply inhaling the scent of Meg's damp, freshly washed hair. Harm did likewise with his own wife. "Did we ever tell you how much we love you?" both Animal and Harm asked their wives. "You did..." Meg replied. "But we'd love to hear it again." replied Mac with a mis- chievous look in her eyes. "Oh baby, Look what we made, when we made love, All by ourselves, with some help from above. In the middle of the night, we really did somethin' right... Oh, look what we made...when we made love..." "We love you...more than words could ever express..." Animal said to Meg, as he gave her a passionate kiss which she returned hungrily...as she ran her fingers through his hair. Mac's lips met Harm's as Harm uttered his endearment. She kissed him with a fiery passion, then let him go..." Not so soon again..." she murmured as she gave him a wink."Maybe not for another couple of months. "Then we'll try again for our second." Animal could only grin, overhearing that. He grinned a wide grin at Meg who rolled her eyes. "Oh...no..." "Please???" "Not a chance..." "C'mon, Meg..." "Maybe in two years or so..." Animal's jaw dropped. Meg gave him a steamy sensual look as she looked over at him. "Or maybe sooner." "OH YEAH..." "Oh, look what we made... when we made love..." "DOWN...BOY!!!" ******THE END****** OK...FEEDBACK...LOVED IT, HATE IT...HATE THE AUTHOR...HATE THE CHARACTERS? I WANT FEEDBACK!!!!!!!!!