Author's Note: This part is in Margaret's point of view.

"Happily Ever After: Part II"

By: Corka

There he is. The man that I've loved ever since we were sent to an aid station when one of their surgeons was killed. Then he supported me so much, more than anyone, when I got the divorce from Donald. How am I going to say goodbye? I should tell him how I feel about him, but what if he's not the same with his feelings for me as mine are with him?

I started saying goodbye to everyone. Then it was time to say goodbye to Hawkeye. I took a step towards him and he took a step towards me. The next thing I knew, I flew into his arms and he wrapped his arms around me. We kissed for a long time and I didn't ever want it to end. Finally, I knew it would have to be over and evidentially he thought the same because we both let go at the same time. I was reluctant and I could tell he was too because he kept his hand on my arm for a minute. I stepped away from him and hurried to turn around and scurried into he Jeep so he wouldn't see my tears. The Jeep started going out of what was my home for the longest. Being an Army brat, I moved a lot. So many things had happened to me at the 4077th. I fell in love there. Twice actually, even though one was a lipless wonder that was a huge jerk. Stupid Ferret Face. I got married there, to the wrong man, and I changed into a fun loving, not so worried about regulation, woman. I'm gonna miss that place. I turned around in my seat to get one last look at the 4077th, but all I could see was Hawkeye. Now I was on my way to the 8063rd.

I didn't say a word for the entire ride. I was too wrapped up in thought. 'How am I going to live without Hawkeye?' I thought. He was my strength through the whole war. I know that now. I heard a chopper above me. A MASH chopper. I wondered who was in it and weather it was from the 4077th or another one of the MASH units. There were five in Korea and some of them used the same choppers. Another second passed and I forgot about the chopper passing over. I started thinking about the time Hawkeye and I got sent to the 8063rd to demonstrate an arterial transplant and how we ended up staying in an abandoned hut together. We turned to each other that night when the hut was receiving shell after shell. I couldn't help but think about that night and wish that it was Hawkeye sitting in the seat next to me driving the Jeep again. About forty minutes later, we pulled into the 8063rd. I hadn't been there for thirty seconds before Kellye Nakahara came over and kept asking me kind of pointless questions. "Kellye, I kind of have something else on my mind right now." I told her before I turned around to get my bag. But, it wasn't there. I turned back around and saw him. Hawkeye was standing next to the Jeep.

"Looking for this?" He had my bag.

"Hawkeye? What…how…why?" I couldn't believe it. He was right there! He dropped my bag and caught me as I jumped into his arms. We kissed and hugged and didn't let go for a while. When we did leg go, Hawkeye knelt down to one knee. "Oh my God." My hand went to my mouth and tears of joy welled up in my eyes. Did he feel the same way I did about him for me? He took a box out of his shirt pocket and opened it towards me. Inside was a gold ring with a single stone. A diamond. My hand dropped and my smile was from ear to ear.

"Margaret, during the last few years, you have been my strength and one of my greatest friends. You might not know it, but for about a year and a half now, you've also been the love of my life. Will you marry me and make me the happiest man alive?" He was proposing to me! He did feel the same way about me that I felt about him.

"Oh my God, YES!" Hawkeye stood up and we kissed and hugged again while my nurses that came from the 4077th hoop-ed and hollered. After a little while, I went to talk to the CO and got out of having to help at the 8063rd and was able to leave with Hawkeye. We went up to the chopper pad and tied my stuff to the litters and climbed into the waiting chopper. It was a tight fit, but Hawkeye and I were oblivious to what was happening around us. We were just too absorbed in each other's eyes. We rode away in the sunset, just like in the movies. It was the perfect end to what had been a horrible war.

The End