Author: Lace
Subject: HBX Challenge September 2007 Never can end in always

They are not mine, but I’ll borrow them for a while!!

Never can end in always

I can’t believe I’ll be flying for a living. I haven’t done that since I was a full time fighter pilot.
In some ways this is the best thing that ever happened to me. And in another way it is the worse thing that ever happened.
Sure I love to fly, but I love Mac more. She said never, and now all hope is out of ever having her. I totally screwed up the whole Paraguay incidence. I should have told her how I felt about her, but instead I got jealous and mean. No wonder she have given up on me, I’m a hopeless case.
So now I’m sitting in my apartment alone, playing sad songs on my guitar while I think about what I should have done. I’m pathetic, and I’ll be working for the CIA. I’ll become one of those men who live in the dark, and can’t have a normal life. And I’ll be without the one thing I care about more than anything. That really sucks!

Knock, knock.

I get up from the couch, and walk towards the door. What I see when I open the door make my day a little better.

“Hey Mac.” I give her a half smile, and step aside. God she is beautiful! She’s dressed in jeans, and an old Marine Corps sweater, her hair in a messy ponytail; and she has never looked better to me.
She walk passed me, without saying anything. I can see that she’s troubled.
I shut the door, and place my guitar up against the wall. I sit down, and wait for her to say something.

“So you’re flying for the company?” She stares at me.

“It looks that way.” I stare back.

She walks towards me, and kneels in front of me. “Don’t do that.” The tone in her voice is begging me.

I lean towards her, and touch her hair with my fingers. “You said never.”

“I wanted you to fight me. I wanted you to say that I was wrong.” A tear escapes her right eye, and I brush it away with my thumb.

“You were wrong, and I should have fought you.” I lean in and kiss her. She is responding, and soon the world is forgotten. There’s only her and me.

Much later we lie I bed. I’m holding her close to me, closer than I’ve ever held anyone.

“You want to talk about it?” I ask her.

“Not particularly. We’ll just ruin everything if we talk.” She mumbles in to my shoulder.

I laugh. “So we should never speak again?” I kiss her forehead.

She lifts her head to look at me. “I’m sorry I left you there.”

I look at her confused. “I don’t understand.”

”I mean that I’m sorry I left you without a opportunity to respond. I just said never, and got in to the cab. I know you usually need to think things thru before you respond, and I just didn’t hang around long enough to let you.” I swear at this moment I love her a little more.

“That’s okay, it’s not your problem that I’m slow.” I kiss her. ”I love you. Always know that.”

She gives me a big smile. “You have said that a lot the last hour. I like it.”

“I’ll keep doing it then.” I kiss her again, and after breaking the kiss we just smile at each other.

She gets a serious look on her face. “I’m glad you came after me. If you hadn’t we’d probably both be dead by now. I mean Webb and I would be dead. We owe you our lives.”

I get serious too. “I couldn’t let you die down there Mac. I would never have survived that.”

“Thank you.”

I need to light p the conversation a little, it’s just too serious for such a happy moment. “I made you steal a plane with me, crashed it in a three, and then I shot at you. I think we’re even.”

She laughs. God I love it when she laugh.

She wraps her arms around me. “I love you so much Harm.” And then we kiss. And after that there is no more talk for a while. It’s just love!